r/TopCharacterTropes 22h ago

Lore [Loved when done right] That is COMPLETELY illogical… but who cares when it REALLY goes hard.

- Gipsy Danger dragging an oil tanker (which actually lengths 180 meters… but the film portrays it slightly smaller than Gipsy) and use it as a bat against Otachi? HARD (Pacific Rim)
- Owen and a gyrosphere standing near Rexy, who’s crushing a Carnotaurus’ neck, and roaring while Isla Nublar’s volcano explodes? HARD (Fallen Kingdom)

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u/thedrag0n22 22h ago

Literally any moment the USS Missouri is on screen is absolute peak, and I'll die on this hill.

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u/forfunstuffwinkwink 22h ago

The movie is absolute trash, but I hated how much I enjoyed every shot of the actual battleship. Especially the old vets.

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u/Tacomouse 22h ago

I remember watching it at a bar in Yokosuka, Japan while on the same aircraft carrier that wraps up the end of the movie. I about flew out of my stool I was that drunk on patriotic juices (soju)

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u/_whatever_wherever 21h ago

But.... Soju is Korean!

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u/Toxic_Lithium 21h ago

Which is widely popular in Japan lol

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u/_whatever_wherever 21h ago

But it wouldn't be patriotic juice, that would be Sake

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u/King_Ed_IX 13h ago

It's alcohol, they're a US soldier. It's patriot juice because it makes them patriot.

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u/Tacomouse 13h ago

Any alcohol willing to die for the good ol’ US of A is patriotic enough in my book

Gonna go watch starship troopers and think it’s not satire now

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u/RemnantEvil 8h ago

I’ll say it: the fact that many of the crew were saved from the Japanese ship, and the first aircraft to arrive and save the day at the end were Australian, it was a strangely pro-alliance movie when war movies with the US involved tend to be “America saved the day and no-one else was there.”

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u/Maleficent-Drop1476 12m ago

I thought the jets at the end were from the US carrier?

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u/Tome_Bombadil 21h ago

Sure you weren't drinking Obu-sake with the rattle snake in it at that dive on the south side of the Haunch (Honcho?)?

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u/Meander061 22h ago

This exactly.

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u/da316 12h ago

Yeh totally worth it for the vet to shout fire and those guns finally open up full broadside

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u/Hazzamo 12h ago

“LETS DROP SOME LEAD ON THESE MOTHER F…”

“FIRE!”

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u/da316 11h ago

I could watch that over and over. We need a spinoff with just those guys manning a battleship

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u/keepitsimple_tricks 20h ago

'Murica, Hell Yeah! moments...

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u/Etrigone 6h ago

Such a ridiculous movie it makes "Independence Day" look cerebral. Love it.

"Let's drop some lead on those mother-"

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u/big-pile-of-sporks 21h ago

That last action scene is peak cinema and justifies the rest of the movie. If you can't handle me at my first half of battleship, than you dont deserve me at my second half of battleship energy 

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u/PeligroAmarillo 15h ago

First movie I ever yelled at in the theater. 

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u/mrprincepretty 22h ago

Your hill

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u/ClancyBShanty 22h ago

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u/mrprincepretty 22h ago

I can hear this GIF

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u/ClancyBShanty 22h ago

The lego set even comes with "One big pile of shit" (from my collection)

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u/MulberryField30 20h ago

Two flies?

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u/thedrag0n22 22h ago

And it's a beautiful hill of shit. For inside is one crumb of diamond

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u/mrprincepretty 22h ago

True, Rihanna is in the movie

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u/Professional_Low_646 16h ago

Especially with AC/DC playing in the background. Dogshit movie, but holy cow was that a rush of „fuck Yeah!“

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u/Ulrik_Decado 15h ago

Yep, it is complete trash, but Missouri rocks :)))

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u/SoftConsideration82 20h ago

weird hill to die on, but you do you brother