2013’s ‘Pacific Rim’: Tribute to Japan’s Monster Movies, but Also Perhaps a U.S.-Japan Robotics Battle
America may have already pillaged “Godzilla” from Japan once in a highly maligned film adaptation. But when you have Guillermo del Toro come up with an original homage to Japan’s monster epics, it becomes something else entirely. Include the irony of giant robots fighting off aliens in the Pacific Ocean that have a very Japanese ...