Advanced Sci-fi Civilisations Too Stupid To Really Exist Ep.20 - The United Nations (Pacific Rim)

The issue with the governments of the Pacific Rim world not putting money into developing any other tech to fight the Kaiju was simply a political one. The way they slowly fizzled out the Jaeger Program's funding was intentional and only built 30 of them (instead of replacing any that were destroyed). The World's governments created just enough Jaeger's to allow them time to create their walls, as they never cared about protecting anything other than themselves and created their "Safe Zones". They used the Pacific Rim countries as canon fodder so they can hide assets and plan for their own salvation in secret. They never intended to build any weaponry to successfully fight against the Kaiju invasion, just slow it down enough to save themselves.

Who wrote this script, Michael Bay?

Kaiju #8 one year later:

"Oh yeah? Freezing bullets, giant weapons and fucking AXES my boi!"

Suggestion for another episode: Human civilization from real life.

in the Kaiju No. 8 series they literally made weapons out of the dead Kaiju why could they have not done that.

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If there is only one portal... why not drop Nuke-torpedos from Subs everytime it becomes active???

The wall program is so obviously pointless and nonsensical, that I
A: totally believe that this could be engineered as a good idea within the general populace
and B: was used to funnel funds/workforce into the construction of long-term bunkers for the elite.

AWESOME!!! The UN!!! There wasn't going to be another "League of Nations 2.0" unless the U.S. and/or Stalin was in control of it

Bruh the un is the gayest organisatiom in the world they have no real power

Why do you keep using bits of Star Trek Voyager in you reviews? That was a stupid dumbed down spinoff of ST

15 smaller titans wouod be easier and cheaper than 1 massive one

suits would be remote driven there are teens playing more complicated video games right now

You make a lot of good points but I counter with giant robots. Your points are invalid.

Real UN is also too stupid but it exists.

As a military and military tech enjoyer, I was screaming in my head the entire movie how they could have just developed the weaponry and put it on modern military platforms, like the only thing that makes jaegers strong is the custom kaiju weapons, their size is a disadvantage if anything making them a bigger target, just imagine F-35 jets flying at the speed of sound and being able to launch rockets miles before the kaiju is even visible, or intercontinental missiles launched from silos which can reach speeds of up to ten times the speed of sound, like the kaiju would be blasted with firepower before they could even properly get out of the water 😂.

Honestly I feel like if they made the premise more about humanity and its military vs kaiju instead of robots vs kaiju it would be much more interesting to see, for me personally, obvs ik the reason why the movie is so loved is because of the robots, but it’s just an idea.

A shitload of F-111s and A-6s would do a much better job of cleaning up those Kaiju (those airframes have been retired for almost 30 years and they'd still be better)

Basically what would be the worst possible playthrough of Xcom? Bad investments, no loot, total ignorance.

I love this Movie 🎉🎉🎉🎉😂

Indeed. The missile platforms in suicide drones could probably slay slattern before he even gets to the land

I agree, the United Nations are too stupid to exist. Unfortunately for us....

No mention of Kaiju Blue in the comments? Really? o-O

Well, the UN actually does have scientists working on Kaiju biology. Problem is, the entire team seems to consist of......2 people. Neither of whom seem all that organized and its questionable whether these 2 lone scientists even respect, let alone like each other all that much. But yea, it is pretty funny how organized crime, is more organized than the UN. Hannibl mentions that a ton of Kaiju poop is worth its weight in gold......as fertilizer. Again, one has to wonder, why either the UN, or even sketchy uS based agri-corps dont have control over that particular market niche. I can only imagine that global agriculture is under a lot of stress too and selling potent fertilizers would help off-set the cost of killing the poopers. But nope, somehow organized crime is in charge of that too.......

Movie characters can only be as smart as the person writing them

I think the UN was going for the Wall for 2 reasons. 1 It's cheap, 2 the UN nations don't think that the threat is going to escalate. They don't think that more Kiju are coming though so they are putting their head in the sand and the problem goes away.

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When Sci-Fi matches real life, does it just become... Sci? Atleast on this topic.

Just get rid of ‘Advanced Sci Fi’ and you have a good premise.

Like in the real world the UN is useless

It would have been interesting to see the battleships brought back and upgraded with rail guns.

Still less stupid than the real-life U.N.
Anti-human billionaire cult

lol i had same tought when u first saw the movie😂.. but movie is about spctic so didnt bother much

Loved this movie too lol

Why not just send in 'Karl F*cking Tanner'? He's right there.

the UN would squander the global money on elaborate headquarters and sexual harassments judgements...

I still love the first movie, but I don't think it'll ever stop coming off as utterly absurd that they actually thought a wall - not even a wall extensively armed with anti-kaiju armaments, just really big wall - would be enough to stop this insanely advanced extra-dimensional alien species that constantly adapts to face humanity's technology from just...learning to climb. Something that human children regularly do just for fun, and that countless animals that AREN'T unnaturally quick to adapt are often able to figure out pretty easily. Even if that thing was made with a nigh-indestructible material, there are so many ways to just render it completely useless without having to actually break through it.

I agree with you on the whole satellite idea, but Shrieker Reekers missiles are gigantic they could not fit on a fighter plane they possibly could fit on a bomber but at this party stinks get the tax stuff so we won’t need that. We just need a big ass plane we just have to turn the spyplane into a bomber and congratulations with 18 of those we can Nelson oh I thought you back to hell

sure, you could nuke the trench, but where's the fun in that 😂?

They are just as dumb as the real life cult.

After watching Pacific Rim: The Black, Kaiju can either be summoned or controlled by a cult of human/alien Aussies. If normal people can control these weapons of mass destruction, then that's the fifth point of why the UN in Pacific Rim's world are too stupid to exist

In real life they could use a thermobaric bomb. The real life version of the oxygen destroyer bomb.theres so many weapons to choose from that eventually something would work. One of our missiles will do enough damage wether it be a thermobaric ,bunker buster or patriot missile. In real life the kaijus wouldn’t make it out of the water. A fleet of submarines would be tasked to babysit the rip in the ocean and launch missiles the minute they start to emerge.

Okay, then what else are we supposed to throw at the Trespasser if it just shrugged off all conventional weaponry?

Humanity will never unite against monsters or aliens or whatever. We haven't been able to unite for thousands of years against every other of the things that kill and abuse us either.

There will be def some people trying to benefit from monster attacks 100% Humanity be like that. For better or for worse.

sorry the un is too busy telling everyone theyre not allowed to eat meat anymore they dont have time to fund the anti-kaiju weapons program

Imagine if they figured our a way to use the reactor tech and the plasma weapons on aircraft.

A airframe that like a modern nuclear submarine does not need to be fueled and that has powerful plasma weapons that can injure the kaiju.

The only limiting factor would be pilot crew rest and that could be motivated by having the airframe lands briefe and our a fresh pilot in.

How about the imperium of man from Warhammer 40,000?

I dunno man, politican's not using their resources to save humanity seems pretty realistic to me.

Why couldnt they just bait the kaiju into an open territory that is uninhabited and detonate the nukes there?