That Pacific Rim video was gorgeous!

One thing I wondered about the movie: How did they expect the wall thing to work? The kaiju seemed pretty mobile. Wouldn't they have been able to just go around them? Or did they plan to put walls all around every inhabited continent on the planet? And wouldn't that have done a number on food, trade, etc? It seems like an impractical plan on several levels.

No shit, right? About the time I started thinking about it, there was an action sequence and the thought left my head.

My interpretation is that the walls are there to protect the coastal cities only. If the kaiju move inland then they would be out in the open, and more vulnerable to conventional arms. The film mentioned something about people who are able to moving at least 300 miles inland.

Hmmm. OK. I think my understanding of current warfare tech is tripping me up. I'm having trouble picturing things that land- and air-based forces could do that some well equipped submarines and battleships couldn't. But most of my battle tech info comes from WWII and Iron Man/Avengers movies, which probably aren't the best resources.

My explaination comes with lots and lots of handwaving. My guess is that kaiju are hard to shoot when they're underwater, and jaegers are better at close-quarter fighting than heavy artillery is.

I saw Way, Way Back last night and liked it a lot. It made me tear up a couple of times, even. While being a fairly standard coming-of-age drama, it did a lot of things right with fantastic small character moments. I particularly loved Allison Janney, who played the boozy neighbor and who turned what could have been a shrill, obnoxious caricature into someone funny and sympathetic.

More Forgotten Films of the '90s:

Forgotten Films From the 90s: Vol. 3 (1997-1999) - Hammervision

I've actually seen one of these, Sphere, which I kind of liked.

Well, it's no Cube.

I'm really waiting for Cone to come out.

Pacific Rim big in China, likely to get a sequel.