How I Know Pacific Rim Wasn't An RPG

Pacific Rim came out this weekend. If you like giant robots you really should go and see it. The movie is large and glorious and had me on an eye-candy sugar rush for about 2-3 hours after I'd seen it. The special effects are amazing and it's just super fun seeing a 50 meter tall (probably bigger actually...) robot use a shipping vessel as a sword/stick to fight a giant monster in downtown Hong Kong. That said, there were some issues with the movie - mostly in a "thinking the premise through" - sort of way. Some of those issues made me sure the movie couldn't be an RPG. Here are some of them.

As a note, this is as much to critique the movie as it is to be humorous. Tomorrow I'll break down either here, or at the other blog, why some of these matters are important to consider when making a story. Also, as a note, slight spoilers.