Imma go ahead and eat crow here.

I completely doubted this movie and was completely blown away.

Hexagons everywhere, man.

At least for hexagons and other geometric shapes I think it has to do with the fact that it's something that exists in nature (honeycomb) yet seems so constructed that it would require intelligence, thus seeming futuristic or alien.

The line with circle I think is taken from real world targeting systems on jets.

Some films should try to re-imagine the future, some shouldn't.

I think this was the right call.

Well hexagonal honeycomb carbon lattices are the main form of carbon nanotubes and graphene which will likely be the foundation for a large number of future technologies, so they may be onto something.

Lines terminating in circles not so much, though I'll admit to have used both for adding a cheap thoughtless future look to UI and drawings. And now that it's in the artist lexicon it's now a self fulfilling prophecy.

Also this movie was tits awesome.

Yea, but Rinko, Idris, and Gypsy Danger...

White boy and Asian Girl are easily outshined by the world and cast around them, and I am okay with that.

The scale of the story would be wrong if the movie would have been more about them, and less about the world.

A great theme in Pacific Rim is the idea of humanity uniting for a common cause, Del Toro wrote an essay about how this separates it from so many other big action disaster movies that all tend to push an idea of nationalism or paternalism.

There wasn't room in this movie for a character piece, and what's more, this is consistent with the genre: the robots and monsters are the stars.

That is a valid definition of a great film.

Genre is important, preserving genre is important. Preserving genre while every other genre blockbuster angles itself to subvert, contort and confuse genre

Simply being a perfect genre film with a budget like this in 2013 absolutely makes this a great film. I'd even say that being these things during Lindelof's and Nolan's debutante ball makes this film art, of a sort. Performance art, maybe. It certainly makes a statement about the state of the blockbuster.

This movie shows that fantastic ideas can be simply awesome. They don't need to be fraught with a realist uncertainty that laughably scrapes up the very premise of the story (batman). They don't need to be full of vague, meaningless ambiguity in a fraudulent trade of character and story for the promise of a philosophical message that is incomplete or incoherent pawned off to the audience as real by score, design and incredible effects: the hallmarks of the genre these cynical pretenses were designed to subvert (lindelof: prometheus, star trek) .

Del Toro made a perfect genre film at a time when only novelty reboots were being financed.

And it's awesome.

I was most surprised by the human interactions. I was pissed off that these were the people who had to save humanity, and felt really good when they accidentally got their shit together and did. Somehow, a Summer movie had a script written by someone that had interacted with humans before and it showed.

And Grown Ups 2 kicked its ass. Yay America. Luckily we have the rest of the world to save this movie from us.

Fitting.

adam sandler and his audience will die, and there will be no one to take their place.

optimism is healthy.

Yeah, I thought the credits were the cheapest looking part of the movie too. These robots and monsters look so much better without the generic startup Blender shader on them.

You've chosen wisely. Saw Iron Man 3, Man of Steel and Star Trek and this was the most enjoyable for sure.