Pacific Rim

[chris_gerrib]

Over the weekend, I went to my local dinner-and-a-show theater to watch the new-ish movie Pacific Rim. I have to say I was a bit "meh" about going - it looked like the stupid comic book movies I'm not a fan of.

To a certain extent, I was right. In a kaiju-vs-Apache gunship fight, my money's on the gunship. Speaking of helicopters, the movie-makers had optimistic views of their lifting capacity and range, and the movie confused nuclear reactors with nuclear bombs. But....

Damn was the movie enjoyable! Science fiction is romance (in the 19th century meaning of "grand story") and Pacific Rim was a grand story. There was sensawunder by the gallon, served with a nice side of chop socky, and stuff got blown up real good. Character development was above-average, at least for the somewhat relaxed standards of summer blockbusters. All in all, it was an enjoyable evening.

Comments

[chris-gerrib.livejournal.com]

To get an explosion, you need to compress the nuclear material. Reactors are designed so you can't generate the compression needed.

[j-cheney.livejournal.com]

Ooooh...I see. (I suspect that's a super-simplified version, which helps. I only had six weeks of high school pyhsics. But I -did- take Aerospace Science, which is why I know about the helos)