After wanting to see this movie for a long time, I finally watched Pacific Rim this weekend. Others had told me mixed things about the movie. It didn’t live up to a lot of expectations. I’m not sure what anyone else was expecting, because I watched an amazing two hours of giants robot suits fighting giant monsters.

There were subplots and character development that might not have been deep enough for some people, but honestly, they were just there to justify fight scenes, and they did a good job. I jokingly told my friend after the movie that my favorite scene was the one where the jaeger (German for hunter) punches the kaiju (Japanese for monster) a bunch. I couldn’t really pick a distinct favorite scene. I can say that there was a lot more humor than I expected. Multiple characters served as comic relief. And if you haven’t seen the movie, stay for a scene midway through the credits.

As an immense Portal fan, how could I not like Pacific Rim? It even features Ellen McLain, the voice of GLaDOS, as the jaeger AI. Guillermo Del Toro got permission from Valve to use her voice as an homage, using Valve’s filter at first. After finding it too distracting, he created his own for the final version of the film that’s a little different.

I’m ready for a sequel now or perhaps a simple game. I’d like a “bad” game, but I’d like an old-fashioned bad game. A simple fighting game with jaegers and kaiju would be cool, but the trend currently would likely be for the game to try to be amazing, making it bad in a bad way. Something like the old Godzilla video games would be fun!