The Spoileriffic Pacific Rim Open Thread

[jhameia]

BECAUSE I REALLY WANT TO TALK ABOUT IT!!!

Please do not click and read if you don't want to get spoilers for the movie.

Please DO click and read and reply if you want to talk about ERRTHING in the movie.

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Comments

[nyarlathotep]

The one moment that irritates me still about Pacific Rim was that final scene where Mako swims towards an unconscious and apparently-dead Raleigh?

She's apparently in radio contact with Tendo and he's saying he ain't getting a pulse, and she's all omg pls don't leave me and and and...

Hello. Priorities sikit. Tendo, Hansen, get Mako to run the checklist please. They're clearly out of Danger, confirm got no Response? Okay, he really is out? Okay. Clear his Airway and confirm if he's Breathing? Not breathing? OK, do the Chest Compressions until someone can get to you, this is important, you're keeping his brain oxygenated until help can arrive...

What do you mean they weren't trained? You spend 14 hours a day on beating up each other with sticks and you can't spare the two days every year doing a refresher course on CPR? Come on. Come on!

Otherwise, great movie tho.

[jhameia]

YYYYYYYYY! I really thought the script was gonna go with CPR, and I'm glad it didn't because it would've been all kissy-kissy eeww, but yah, she could've been doing a lot more.... I would like to say losing a parent AND potentially losing a partner in a short period of time can frazzle one's nerves but still.

[shoomlah]

Gotta admit, was really excited to see they didn't automatically go in for a kiss at the end at the least! Like there's enough tension in that film that you can read it however you want, but you could still buy Raleigh and Mako as just really close/soul-bonded buddies.

[nyarlathotep]

Oh yes. It felt odd — mostly because it's been conditioned to me by other vastly inferior movies — but it felt right.

[jhameia]

YESSSSSS! This is one of my favourite things about the movie! I LOVE that last shot where their foreheads are pressed together, rather than in a kiss. It's a really well-framed shot (they gave Mako a lot of well-framed shots in this movie, I thought). I also like that it's a buddy movie without the slapstick ridiculousness, and all the deepness that a friendship could have, esp given those circumstances.

Goddamned, posting comments on a phone is *hard*

[nyarlathotep]

Fun fact: CPR doesn't need mouth-to-mouth — you can omit it, or use mouth-to-nose. Seriously — if memory serves me well the point is to get the circulation going.

Or, if you want, de-emphasize on the mouth-to-mouth part. The emotional tension will be at Mako, exhaustion and near tears, keeping up the chest compressions until Raleigh comes to, not when she has to pinch Raleigh's nostrils to blow air into his lungs.

And to be honest, I don't blame Mako at all. Or Hansen, who lost his son and has a new leadership role to take up.

I blame Tendo. Way to drop the ball, telemetry dude. What happened to providing support?