In our series "Have You Seen?" we discuss a movie that some of us know well and others have just now seen for the first time. Our conversation focuses on the experience of someone watching the movie for the first time today and their reaction.
This week we discover Guillermo del Toro's science fiction kaiju movie Pacific Rim from 2013 starring Rinko Kikuchi as Mako Mori and Idris Elba as Stacker Pentecost, about a washed up jaeger pilot teaming up with a rookie as part of one last effort to defeat the kaiju threatening the world through a dimensional rift at the bottom of the Pacific ocean.
We talk about why Pacific Rim's excellent worldbuilding, why a proper action movie shouldn't ask you to turn your brain off in order to enjoy it, the importance of taking a ridiculous premise seriously, and much more.
