5. Giant Punching Robots Are Vindicated As The Best Hope For Humanity
There was a time in my life, very long ago, when I thought that there wasnt a problem that couldnt be fixed by throwing a giant robot at it. A war on? Robots. Cat in a tree? Robots. School bully took your lunch money? You see where this is going. I suppose that logical part of your brain kicks in eventually and points out that a towering, tromping 60 ft., two-legged humanoid machine is probably not the most efficient, safest or elegant method to deal with serious issues. You gravitate towards stories where more realistic and plausible (read: boring) methods win the day. Well, Pacific Rim says bolts and barnacles to that kind of thinking. If giant inter-dimensional beasties start squeezing out of a crack in the ocean, you better believe that giant, human-piloted robots are gonna help kick these unwanted squatters back to whatever Podunk reality they came from. Faster than you can say Voltron, the entire world bands together to build the Jaegers, and the movie never flags from the idea that these bad boys are the only ones who can save our Earthling bacon.