Pacific Rim is without a doubt my favorite movie of all time, and I loved your write-up on it, especially "[...] it's a movie that knows exactly which clichés it wants to honor unashamedly and which ones it wants to subvert or entirely ignore." For all the WWII nods in it, I had never connected Hermann with Bletchey Park!

(I wrote my own thing about it here, several years and so many re-watches that I've literally lost track later, if you're so interested!)