>>7928620>>7928426My guess is that everyone just smiled and nodded because Boyega was already a big name celebrity by that time. Either that or they did explain it to him, but his desires overrode the logic of realistic giant robots.
Anyway, yeah, I was really bummed about the movement, but let's be honest, even if they still had the sense of weight and scale, it still would have been a terrible movie. Terribly dull Jaeger designs, boring plot, boring characters. I almost prefer things the way they happened (with the shitty fast Jeager movement) cause now there's no redeeming light in it whatsoever, I can just pretend that it didn't happen.
