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I agree. I highly doubt that punching Godzilla is the only way to go.

Armor piercing missiles or even shells like a battleship might do the job. Though I would think the size of Godzilla would require a lot to bring them down.

One of those penetrating bombs dropped from high altitude would probably be simpler. The GBU-57 can penetrate something like 60 feet of solid concrete before detonating two tons of explosives. I can't see even a 200 foot high monster surviving that. The hardest part of killing them would be cleaning up afterwards...

Giant rubber monster or not, wouldn't a simple hyperbaric warhead do the job nicely?

I suppose, given that they are from a different dimension and all, that they might be made of some sort of super strong organic exoskeleton thing that bombs can't damage.

But then if that's so, being hit with a bit metal fist probably wouldn't do any damage either.

All I can think of now is the tagline from this comic book cover:

"He will hit you with his fist!"

Gee I thought he was going to dry hump everyone.

Bright lights, radiation, high sounds. You can assume these monsters have some senses we can mess with, blind em, deafen them, then trip them over.

I thought he was gonna hit you with his ear. *Shrug*

So it turns out the many page argument was for naught, as the duel pilot had nothing to do with efficiency. Also, they explain in the intro (I don't consider this a spoiler as its covered in about 5 minutes) that they did use conventional weapons, but they simply couldn't kill the things fast enough before they reached cities. So they needed something big enough to intercept and actually slow them down (for all the good that does them).

Meh, it's a giant robot punching the hell out of a giant kaiju. That's all I need. 8)

So I bought it today and I just found out, it didn't bomb. It made a lot of money.

Something I realized but never mentioned was the Wall they were talking about. Unless they were filling it with concrete or something, there was no way those beams we saw could hold back a giant monster 250 feet tall. Take a close look at the construction when you get the chance.

I transversed an inter-dimensional portal, survived the crushing depth of the trench, swam the ocean.... but foiled by this... wall. Blast you humans!!!

Yeah, Pac Rim didn't hit it big here but it blew things up overseas so it made plenty of money. Guillermo is already writing the sequel. Picking up my copy this afternoon.

The wall was just monumentally stupid. If they'd lined the top of it with kaiju killing weapons like Gipsy's plasma cannon then maybe but just a wall?

Oh, yeah. Wall was plenty stupid.