Every Giant Robot Movie Gets This Wrong (Except Pacific Rim)

Aaaalright, let's settle this!!!! If you've seen Transformers, or honestly any giant mech movie, you know the drill. The robots are just big humans. Backflips, karate, sprinting around like they weigh nothing. Looks cool, makes zero sense. Pacific Rim looked at all of that and did the exact opposite. They built the thing like it actually had to stand up in the real world and somehow that made it way cooler. So we grabbed a wrench and took one apart to see how. Chapters 0:00 The Dumbest Genius Idea in Sci-Fi 1:05 The Rap Sheet: Every Giant Robot Before It 2:54 Exhibit A: The Ship Swing 3:49 Problem 01: The Square-Cube Law 6:24 The Real Jaegers Already Exist 8:41 The Three Rules 11:08 Problem 02: Chekhov's Reactor 13:17 The Drift 15:07 The Control Group: Uprising 16:50 The Kaiju Coda Narrated by: Victor Voss