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Case ([personal profile] case) wrote in [community profile] fandomsecrets2014-06-24 06:41 pm

[ SECRET POST #2730 ]


⌈ Secret Post #2730 ⌋

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(Anonymous) 2014-06-24 10:50 pm (UTC)(link)
Yeah, everyone can stop creaming themselves over Pacific Rim now. In the end, it's still a movie that claimed to be about all nations uniting to fight monsters but nope, we still get a generic white male lead. He's actually just about as interesting as Aaron Johnson in Godzilla.

(Anonymous) 2014-06-24 11:00 pm (UTC)(link)
Is it still 2013 where you are?
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[personal profile] mekkio 2014-06-24 11:04 pm (UTC)(link)
You can argue that Beckett wasn't even really the lead in that there were no defined leads. Mako's story held just as much depth and details as Beckett's. Becket was a one note cliche co-lead. Mako's story was another cliche.

No one's story stood out. No one's story was original.

The movie was just a show case for mecha and monsters.

(Anonymous) 2014-06-24 11:24 pm (UTC)(link)
I think he is the lead, given that his finding a partner is supposed to be such a big deal in the movie.

(Anonymous) 2014-06-25 03:30 am (UTC)(link)
I'd still say Beckett's the lead. It's his POV we follow around most of the time and like the other comment said, one of the main conflicts is him finding a partner, not Mako finding a partner. I'd agree that both their storylines were a bit shallow, but that's just the movie as a whole.

(Anonymous) 2014-06-25 11:05 pm (UTC)(link)
Mako's story held just as much depth and details as Beckett's. No.

(Anonymous) 2014-06-24 11:05 pm (UTC)(link)
That's what gets me. This was supposed to be about the whole world banding together to fight kaiju, but the majority of the people are still white even though they're in Hong Kong? The Chinese team don't even get individual names OR any dialogue in English? WTF...

(Anonymous) 2014-06-25 12:07 am (UTC)(link)
If you read the novel (or the wiki, or the artbook), their names are Cheung, Hu and Jin. It's speculated that one of them actually survived the destruction of their Jager as well.

(Anonymous) 2014-06-25 03:32 am (UTC)(link)
I don't really care for arguments that such-and-such movie isn't as crappy if only you'd read all the supplementary material that most people aren't ever going to see. It's a very weak argument.