#pacrim 2013

[driftwithme]

I love that Guillermo del Toro didn't want Pacific Rim to be all about the military, so he ended up giving the PPDC ranks based on cowboy imagery: ranger, marshall, etc.

It makes me think about some of the most beloved characters by the narrative are the ones who rebel agonist the military way of doing stuff: characters like Newt and Raleigh for example. Because well, characters like Mako and Hermann are rebellious but only due the influence of Newt and Raleigh -- and characters like Herc and Chuck seem to be rebellious in parallel to Raleigh too, like some contagious virtue on the loose.

It's palpable in two of their most famous lines on the movie: when Newton talks about how fortune favors the brave and when Raleigh tells Mako that in real life you make decisions and you have to learn to keep living with the consequences. Everyone around them looks down at them at some point for being what they'd call reckless, but Raleigh and Newt are aware of the risks, they are not kids. Which is funny because in contrast, they even do that to each other: the perception of the other as a fool of some sort.

And yet, without Newt and Raleigh tendency of disobeying, they'd all be dead and gone.

Without Raleigh insitance on having Mako as his co-pilot and his demand to get G. Danger deployed, the Double Event would had been the catastrophe that ended their last run to the Breach before it started. Without Newt's crazy plan of drifting with a kaiju, they would had perish due the lack or information.

Twice Raleigh piloted solo and twice Newt drifted with a kaiju. In one of those ocassion they had to give a part of themselves that they would never get back (a part of Newt's sanity, Yancy's life). After the first time, both emphasize to Pentecost that they can't do it again. They can, technically, but now they've done it once and it hurt.

Still they do it and it saves the world.

The man who was good for nothing except to hold his own on a fight and the guy who was destined to love fictitious monsters in every universe except that one. In any other world or timeline, Newtom and Raleigh would have been the losers. They were still somehow the losers on Pacrim, a has-been pilot turnes into a builder and a scientist perceive as another sick kaiju groupie. They weren't disciplined like the others yet they were a bit obsessive, they were the sort of ambitious that makes people doubt, stubborn and arrogant in their convictions, totally unapologetic in knowing themselves.

Sure, they have to pay the price in double, but at the end of the day, they are champs of fortune: they do the impossible and survive to tell their stories, breaking every rule and winning the faith of those around them.

[skellabelle]

hermann is no longer amused by newts shenanigans

[pacrim-drift-swap]

PACIFIC RIM BIG BANG INTEREST CHECK!

Hello Pacific Rim Community!

Are you interested in a Big Bang event for our beloved film?

Have you thought about joining one yourself?

Let us know if you'd be interested here!

This is the PacRim Drift Swap event; Available for anyone & everyone to join and participate in!

We'll post more information as we continue, and we look forward to keeping this event going!

[bitmeddler]

And so Pacific Rim passes from futuristic sci-fi to alternate historical fiction...

[hydravns]

PACIFIC RIM (2013) Dir. Guillermo Del Toro

[kathrahender]

Is there any Pacific Rim fan in this site???? I need someone to talk to about Pacific Rim :(

[elijah-loyal]

happy b day hermann, you funky lil guy

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ft. their matching bloody wedding ring eyes <33

[eeriedragone]

Be gay, do science (and crime)

Studies based on some screenshots from the film

[lastdaysofwar]

Last Days of War 2025: The Official Prompt Calendar

It's here! The official prompt list for the Pacific Rim Last Days of War challenge is out! A reminder: the challenge itself doesn't begin until January 1st, the calendar has been released now (November 11th) in order to facilitate prepping! This post will be reblogged soon with a typed-up list of the prompts for the sake of accessibility. A tremendous thank you to everyone who submitted prompt suggestions to the google form, and to everyone who's interacted with the blog so far.

Once more, you can find the event discord server here, where you can meet the mod team and others who are participating. Any and all updates will be cross-posted, though, so don't worry too much about missing out if discord's not your thing.

[k-scinerd]

T- Minus 0 days until the end of the Kaiju War

STOP THE CLOCK!

Unfortunately, Chuck Hansen and Marshal Stacker Pentecost, as well as the Jaeger Striker Eureka, were all lost while closing the breach

Gipsy Danger was also destroyed, but her pilots, Mako Mori and Raleigh Becket, were retrieved safely.

[lonely-saylor]

IT'S PACRIM DAY!

[driftwithme]

Pacific Rim was great because they showed the government representatives for like two seconds and then the rest of the movie was about the common people becoming extraordinary in the face of extinction.

Selfish rich people build walls to keep the world out, but the ones with the courage to go out there to fight, reclaim and perish for their lands are the orphans who lost everything to war, the fathers that want their children to have a future, the kids that want their parents to get old, the soldiers that won't abandon the people and would disobey any orders demanding them to do so, the lovers who would rather die fighting beside each other, the siblings who won't dishonor their home, the weirdos, the outcasts, the has-beens, the broken, the obsessed. The ones who know that the planet and its people are worth dying for and are not afraid to lose all they have to keep humanity safe.

Pacific Rim completely erases the ones in power in favor of bowing to the courage of the people in the streets...

[skellabelle]

newt thought it would be funny to swap hermann’s favorite puffy coat out with a bigger size without telling him…

hermann rocks it anyways

[pacrim-drift-swap]

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[drrav3nb]

CHARLIE HUNNAM and RINKO KIKUCHI | The Making of Pacific Rim (dir. Guillermo del Toro)

[hydravns]

PACIFIC RIM (2013) Dir. Guillermo Del Toro