[Daikaijuman54]

Pacific Rim is a rip-off of Evangelion? That's news to me, shockingly.

I mean, I get they're both near the end of humanity stories with people building robots to fight back, but even after actually watching Evangelion, I don't see it at all, and just like you said, it feels more like Mazinger Z or other Mecha shows than it does Evangelion (for one thing Shinji's not here and there are no scumbag dads, or silver haired bringers of doom).

If I had to compare it in modern terms, it's like Demon Slayer: Kimetsu No Yaiba, it's simple, nothing genre bending, groundbreaking, or even particularly influential, as there are things that have pulled it off better, and yet, it pulls off simple, marvelously. It's all in execution!

The thing that's such I love in this movie is the sense of scale here, which is something, oddly enough I don't consider much when I watch giant monster movies, but there was just something beautiful about how heavy the mechs felt, like every time they moved it felt like that scene in Jurassic Park when we first see the Brachiosauruses, just this majestic feeling of awe. Or, as someone who grew up on the Showa Era Godzilla films, it was almost like watching those again in a completely new way, it carried that spirit of old Tokusatsu with it, and that's how I've come to understand why that made this move so good.

And you know what? I actually have nothing against you enjoying Uprising. In fact, I'm almost glad that there are people who can find it in themselves to enjoy things commonly seen in negative light (look at me, I like the 1998 Godzilla and the Star Wars Prequels).

My issue with Uprising happens to be the tone, where the first felt like a true love letter to Kaiju and Mecha fans, keeping a somewhat serious tone and adding interesting flair to this kind of story, and some really great cinematography. While Uprising feels like a parody of said things, unable to really understand why Kaiju and Mecha are so beloved. Sure, there's the lack of weight to the Jaegers, sure, the plot feels like what people think the genre is about, and sure it is very much a Hollywood Franchise Bait movie, and there are things I can appreciate, like the Kaiju and Jeager designs, or the one that looks based off Ultraman, and the Kaiju Drones are a neat concept, but it just didn't work out for me. And yet despite how much I'm not a fan of this movie, there are movies that are lower on my list of bad movies, and also because I don't hold grudges that often.

The only thing I can truly say I despised about Uprising was this one song they used in every trailer, TV spot, and advertisement, it got old fast, and just became annoying. It's a meme now, moreso than the Trolololo song they used in the movie.

For something wholesome, though I'm afraid I can't find a video of it, there was an interview Guiellermo Del Torro did in Japan, and Pigmon shows up and he got really excited and was asking the interviewer to take a picture of him and Pigmon, saying "He's my favorite!" it's really sweet, and funny how he's also a huge Ultraman fan.