Pacific Rim (film)

"[narrating] When I was a kid, whenever I'd feel small or lonely, I'd look up at the stars. Wondered if there was life up there. Turns out I was looking in the wrong direction. When alien life entered our world, it was from deep beneath the Pacific Ocean. A fissure between two tectonic plates. A portal between dimensions. The Breach. I was fifteen when the first Kaiju made land in San Francisco. By the time tanks, jets and missiles took it down, six days and 35 miles later, three cities were destroyed. Tens of thousands of lives were lost. We mourned our dead, memorialized the event, and moved on. And then, only six months later, the second attack hit Manila. Then the third one hit Cabo. And then the fourth. And then we learned, that this was not gonna stop. This was just the beginning. We needed a new weapon. The world came together, pooling its resources and throwing aside old rivalries for the sake of the greater good. To fight monsters, we created monsters of our own. The Jaeger program was born. There were setbacks at first - the neural load to interface with the Jaeger proved too much for a single pilot. A two pilot system was implemented, left hemisphere, right hemisphere, pilot-controlled. We started winning, Jaegers stopping Kaijus everywhere. But the Jaegers were only as good as their pilots. So Jaeger pilots turned into rock stars, danger turned into propaganda, Kaijus into toys. We got really good at it... winning. Then... then it all changed."

"Years before, you wouldn't have picked my brother Yancy and I for heroes. No chance. We were never star athletes, never at the head of the class. But we could hold our own in a fight. And it turned out we had a unique skill - we were drift compatible. [we see the two brothers being suited up and then boarding onto their Jaeger]"

"[we see the brothers initiating a neural handshake, effectively stepping into each other's minds] The drift. Jaeger tech. Based on DARPA jet fighter neural systems. Two pilots, mind-melding through memories, with the body of a giant machine. The deeper the bond, the better you fight."

"There are things you can't fight - acts of God. You see a hurricane coming, you have to get out of the way. But when you're in a Jaeger, suddenly you can fight the hurricane. You can win."

"[to Chuck] Apologize to her. I said Apologize to her."

"Empty the clip, EMPTY THE CLIP!!"

"Come on! Let's do this! Together!"

"Haven't you heard, Mr. Becket? The world is coming to an end. So where would you rather die? Here, or in a Jaeger?"

"[to Hermann] YOU! SHUT UP! [to Newt] You. Keep talking."

"That Kajiu is still alive!"

"Do not let my calm demeanor fool you, RANGER! Now is not a good moment for your insubordination! Mako is too inexperienced to reign in her memories during combat."

"This conversation is over."

"One: don't you ever touch me again. Two: don't you ever touch me again. Now, you have no idea who the hell I am or where I've come from, and I'm not about to tell you my whole life story. All I need to be to you and everybody on this dome is a fixed point. The last man standing. I do not need your sympathy or your admiration. All I need is your compliance and your fighting skills. And if I can't get that, then you can go back to the wall that I found you crawling on. Do I make myself clear?"

"Today. Today– at the edge of our hope, at the end of our time, we have chosen not only to believe in ourselves, but in each other. Today there is not a man nor woman in here that shall stand alone. Not today. Today we face the monsters that are at our door, and bring the fight to them. Today, we are cancelling the apocalypse!"

"Mako! You can finish this! I'll always be there for you! You can always find me in the drift!"

"[at Hong Kong Shatterdome] Things have changed. We're not an army anymore, Mr. Becket. We're the resistance. Welcome to the Shatterdome."

"War clock. We reset it after every Kaiju attack. Keeps everyone focused. The frequency of attacks is accelerating."

"A week, if we're lucky. My experts believe there'll be a Kaiju attack– even before that. This complex used to lodge– 30 Jaegers in five bays just like this one. Now we only have four Jaegers left."

"Crimson Typhoon, China. One of the greatest. Assembled in Changzhou. Full titanium core, no alloys. Fifty diesel engines per muscle strand. Deadly, precise fighter. She's piloted by the Wei Tang brothers. Triplets. Local lads. They've successfully defended Hong Kong port seven times. They use the Thundercloud formation."

"Very effective. That tank, last of the T-90s. Chemo Alpha. First generation Mark 1. The heaviest and oldest Jaeger in the service. But make no mistake, Mr. Becket, it's a brutal war machine. And those two: Sasha and Aleksis Kaidanovsky."

"On their watch it stayed unbreached for six years. Six years."

"[in Japanese] I imagined him differently."

"[in Japanese] I apologize, Mr. Becket, I've heard a lot about you."

"It's not their performance, it's yours. Your gambit. You could've taken all of them 2 moves earlier."

"It's not obedience, Mr. Becket. It's respect."

"[in Japanese] For the sake of my family!"

"Yeah, he remembers how to turn it on."

"Come on, Gipsy! Kick his ass!"

"[last words] Well, my father always said– he said "if you have a shot, you take it". So let's do this! It was a pleasure, sir."

"Suits and ties and flashing smiles. That's all they are, Stacker."

"Oi, show some respect. When his brother died, he got the Jaeger back to shore on his own. I've known one other pilot that's been able to do that."

"You and I are the only thing standing between that ugly beast and a city of two million people! Now we have a choice here: we either sit and wait, or we take these flare guns and do something really stupid!"

"This is Marshall Hercules Hansen. The Breach is sealed. Stop the clock!"

"Fortune favours the brave, dude."

"2,500 tons of awesome– Or awful. You know, whatever you wanna call it."

"These beings, these masters... they're colonists. They overtake worlds, they just consume them and then they move on to the next. And they've been here before, as sort of a trial run. It was the dinosaurs! But the atmosphere wasn't conducive, right? So they waited it out, and they waited it out... and now, you know, with the ozone depletion, the carbon monoxide, polluted waters, well, we practically terraformed it for them! 'Cause now they're coming back, and it's perfect! See, the first wave, that was just the hounds! Categories 1 to 4, it was nothing! Their sole purpose was to aim for the populated areas and take out the vermin: us! The second wave, that is the exterminators, and they will finish the job! And then, the new tenants will take possession!"

"Please excuse him. He's a Kaiju groupie, he loves them."

"No Kaiju entrails over my side of the room, you know the rules! Every bloody day! It's incessant!"

"Numbers do not lie. Politics and poetry, promises – these are lies! Numbers are as close as we get to the handwriting of God."

"I have asked you not to refer to me by my first name in front of others. I have more than 10 years–"

"Now tell me what you want before I gut you like a pig and feed you to the skin louse."

"Look at them. They believe the Kaiju were sent from heaven. That the gods are expressing their displeasure with our behavior. The silly bastards."

"Both ways! [shoves Newt] "A hive mentality", you said! Maybe those Kaijus are tryna find you."

"[inspecting the stillborn Kaiju] I knew it. Gone. His lungs weren't fully formed. Umbilical cord tied around his neck. No way he could survive outside the womb for more than a minute. [snaps his fingers] One look, that's all I needed. I knew he wouldn't make it. [throws his balisong at its nose]"

"Where is my goddamn shoe?"

"[to Raleigh] Hey, kid, don't get cocky."

"[last words] Raleigh, listen to me! You need– [gets dragged out by Knifehead]"

"Charlie Hunnam as Raleigh Becket, a Jaeger pilot in the PPDC who quit after his brother's death."

"Idris Elba as Marshal Stacker Pentecost, Mako's adoptive father, Raleigh's commanding officer, and the marshal of the PPDC who is suffering from radiation poisoning as a result of piloting the Jaeger Coyote Tango."

"Rinko Kikuchi as Mako Mori, Stacker's adoptive daughter and Raleigh's co-pilot who lost her family in a Kaiju attack and who was adopted by Stacker."