Pacific Rim

[durendal]

I don't think NGE and PR are even close to comparison.  The only thing they have similar is giant humanoids fighting giant monsters.  NGE uses religious themes very heavily.

Who said that PR is an NGE ripoff anyway?  Those who say this obviously have never seen both.  I just saw it the other week and it was an enjoyable movie.   and with giant robots fighting giant monsters, who needs a plot?

[*Jess♥]

I think what may have happened was, pacific rim arose out of a plot outline or some industry talks or some ting that involved a possible movie for NGE.

this may make it a somewhat spiritual successor to NGE in a way.

there is some things which can be linked. the neural link of the pilot to the mech, the monsters appearing in the ocean and making their way to land to attack, one monster after the other coming in sequence.

[Larz Zahn]

As much as i like this movie, my brother won't watch it just because it takes two to pilot.

[LordSpleach]

That's silly. It is just Robot Jox: Double Dash!

[Matt Bellamy]

I think what may have happened was, pacific rim arose out of a plot outline or some industry talks or some ting that involved a possible movie for NGE.

this may make it a somewhat spiritual successor to NGE in a way.

there is some things which can be linked. the neural link of the pilot to the mech, the monsters appearing in the ocean and making their way to land to attack, one monster after the other coming in sequence.

Those are still pretty big stretches.

 

The neural link, moving things with your body, and feeling damage are all from G Gundam too. They also wore fancy suits with sensors, and the mechs actually moved with their bodies. They didn't in Evangelion.

 

Oh and don't forget about Robot Jox. Did it ages before.

 

In Evangelion they never explained where all the Angels were coming from. But it definitely wasn't the ocean since more than one were from space. This if anything is probably borrowed from the fact Godzilla came out from the Ocean in the majority of the films.

 

And the one monster after another? That was taken from old Super Robot and Kaiju shows of the 70's. It's a trope called " Monster of the Week"

 

See? You can find parallels in anything.

 

I've always hated when people choose to point fingers at anything and claim they copied/stole/borrowed something, UNLESS the creators themselves acknowledged the link. While the original writer was aware of Evangelion, Del Toro was not. Del Toro is a Kaiju fan, not an anime fan. The movie would not have been made if Del Toro didn't feel that an updated Kaiju movie could be done. In the most basic sense, you could compare Pacific Rim to a big budget "Mecha Godzilla vs Godzilla" movie, with some fancy tech ideas thrown in.

 

People tend to use Evangelion because it was so popular... But Pacific Rim was not based on Evangelion at all. Especially since Evangelion at is core is about religion and such. Pacific Rim had none of that. Most of the other concepts people use Evangelion to compare it to Pacific Rim, were used before Evangelion was ever a thought in Anno's mind.