I never understood the logic 'the world is running out of resources... let's use a shit loads of resources to put these cities on wheels and drive them around'.
No ressources? Green fields full of green plants waiting to be cultivated... and still - the cities oh wheels are smashing all the food when driving over the...
@@milenmilen3201 i know right, the naration tell us the world running out of source but yet the world is so green, make it more doesnt make sense ha ha, i know its fantasy but what really bugging me that its not really necessary making huge city that moving around ..., if the world is so advance, they have new power technology like tony stark orb then its still make sense to make moving city even floating city ....
@@chambassexy5714 of course i know, but what ever it is that they meant about resource its still doesnt make sense to make moving city, coz they said they running out of it ...
Same. When I watch this review the first time, I commented afterwards about Howl's. The day they'd make it a live-action movie is the day I will physically go watch it in a cinema, tbh. I haven't gone to watch a movie in the cinemas for years now, & is wondering how they'd pull Howl's for real.
agreed! its sad to see how they threw out the main storyline in the movie when really it didnt need much trimming to fit into a movie (or two movies for book one)
Ye, I think if anyone wants to adapt this series of books, it’ll be best done as a tv series, I bet the BBC could do amazingly, given their track record with His Dark Materials
You never say you're over adult or "kids" media (well unless you think you're too old for it, which is silly since the fear of being childish is one of the most childish things of all), so why would you say you're over young adult media? You could say you're over young adult dystopias, which would make me agree with you.
Well they're overused, and the public has grown tired of them. Just like Westerns back in the day, just like edgy remakes. People flood the market with what's popular and soon enough everyone gets tired of it.
@@snaketooth0943 Dude learn to listen he said YOUNG ADULT ADAPTATIONS because in the video it was about dumbing down adult themes to adapt it for teens So if you could stop newmanning people, that would be great
Lol, that's actually a great point because I saw so many trailers for this film and for the life of me I could not remember the release date. I didn't know it was out already.
I dont understand why people not interested with this movie, i think its quite good to say about how bad is WOW3, and the end they insist to go east cause of resource, it same at here in indonesia, europe and america always trying to get uranium, gold, nickle, from us, to dominating the world, so its relate so much about the character
Movie were old guy is in dystopian future but he's basically doomguy and he slaughters a fuckton of people in badass ways and then he dies but the bad guys die with him. I would watch it even if it was poorly written
I loved the movie but where was all the marketing your talking about the marketing team needs to be sacked they did a terrible job representing the movie
They constantly used the same fucking trailer at the beginning of TH-cam videos. The same short annoying shit in an unimpressive scene with meh cgi for the city they showed. And it was like that for a few months. I don't think I saw any other ads about it. So yeah bombardment of ads but only a single one is a terrible job at marketing.
At least where I live, the mareting for this movie was huge. Also bad. For about 1 to 1,5 years, some kind of trailer or teaser of this came before every movie in cinema. Also about 30% of youtube-ads were trailers of this movie. And some banners at train staitions.
zach_code depression the people that did get hit wits ads for it saw ‘made by the director of Lord of The Rings and the Hobbit’ and that’s all you saw so it’s like they were like ‘hey, new Lotr movie comin, but it’s not lotr, and what we do have is executed bad’
The concept put me off. I squirmed at the ridiculous idea during every trailer for this movie. Then when I ran out of syfy to watch, I was weak and put this on. I couldn't finish it. I hated it. I really, really hated it. It's not just bad marketing. The plot is bad, the movie is bad, the story is really bad.
Lets be honest the movie looked terrible in the trailers anyway and they knew that by getting famous actors advertise it telling you to watch in imax The story just looked incomplete and with a lot of holes they won’t fill
you should read the book. the film was seriously shit because they changed it so much. the biggest plot hole in the book is "how did valentine get into batmunkh gompa without being spotted"
@@jaromor8808 well strong waman doesn't mean it's bad you can do them well but sjws constantly suck at writing them. Like goblin slayer with the swordmaster who killed the demon lord yet she was raped by the lowly goblins and she as powerful and beautiful as she is she is in eternal fear of this goblins giving her the strong female warrior, and yet she's still grounded as a human so yes strong women can be a thing you just don't have to push it so hard. The city would be a good concept for an animated movie as the over the top nature wouldn't been held down by the realism of real humans around and these gay trans things. The female protagonists is getting over done and kind of annoying. Nearly every teen novel is a woman fighting a corrupt government or something. The genre needs a revamp or a more serious treatment.
True but Hollywood seems to think that one movie getting big from the idea means that all of them will.... wonder if they ever heard of the Law of Diminishing Returns?
@@IncognitoSprax pffft just stop watching seasonal anime and go and watch the series that have aged like fine wine, i'm getting sick of the teen shounen dystopia too.
I thought it's teen dystopia but actually it's not. Main heroes aren't teens, there is no any love drama and love triangles, and surprisingly I quite enjoyed movie.
The ways he's explaining it is exactly what happens in the movie like, there is nothing more. there are no backstories or anything sensible everything just... happens.
The movie needed more bankable stars, a tighter budget and a better release date. Illumination is sitting on a giant wad of Grinch cash laughing at these movies duking it out in December.
I think the stars were fine, but the story needed to be better told. You shouldn't have to read the books to understand the movie. A good movie will make you want to go out and read the books. Releasing this in late Feb or March might have been helpful. But perhaps they should have planned it with a smaller budget, more time spent on human interactions than big screaming moving machines and quirkly tech. Hindsight is always 20/20.
@@Appox7 She meant spend less on the sets and special effects. Most of the budget seemed to have been spent on that instead of the story and the actors.
I still remember walking out of the theatre after seeing this train wreck and literally just screamed. Mortal Engines was my favourite book as a teen and this movie watched like someone had skimmed the book 20 years ago and then wrote the script without so much as looking at a sparknotes of the plot. I'd gone with a friend who'd quickly skimmed through the book before we went to the cinema and even she hated it, even with none of the history or love that I had she could still recognise that the book was infinitely better and that this movie just didn't even try as an adaptation.
Same for me, I read all the books and the prequels a while back and it's just sad to see how much they left out and changed the plot. I think it would go better as something like a Netflix series where they can fit in every last detail from the books.
Man, this is weird. For whatever reason, probably something with the way my brain is wired. I can't enjoy books, fictional stories of course. I can read books for information just fine. But if I'm trying to read to get immersed in a story, I can't. I don't know why, I used to be able to. I used to read books all the damn time. Then literally over the course of about a week, I lost that ability. It makes no sense to me, I don't get it. When I try to read a book now I just kinda can't get into it, can't feel the characters, the story, nothing. It's like trying to sleep but you can't fall asleep. Literally lost the ability to read fictional books And because of that, I don't read books anymore at all. So every time a movie comes out that's based on a book, it fails. Usually. Sometimes not. Anyway, I see people like you all the time talking about how the book was so much better, and that the movie was trash because it didn't follow the books. And here I am, a guy who actually enjoyed this movie. I love Sci-fi and this one was absolutely amazing. It's just strange, enjoying a movie and then seeing random people angry saying the book was better
I watched this movie with my sister cause she was a huge fan of the book and she deeply understand the lore and backstory of it but after we watch it she looks so disappointed and as of this moment she asked me to donate the books she work so hard to have(FYI our parents didn't gave us money for book fairs so she does save up her lunch allowance for that book) it's kinda heartbreaking to see someone get discouraged about a franchise they love
I understand this. My favorite series of books (The Dark is Rising by Susan Cooper) was sent to film as well. I was there opening day, and left the theater literally sobbing they butchered it so badly. But, I published an online review and was contacted by the author (she had nothing to do with the script in the movie & was just as upset), so.... there's that.
I understand how you feel, I felt the same way with the Percy Jackson franchise as well, but always keep the books, because even though the movies are a flop the books will always have a place in their hearts, also books are expensive so I wouldn't donate them
Sad really, I felt the same way when they tried to translate The Sword of Truth series and again with the Eragon movie. Great reads ruined by poor movie/show making. It's like, why are they trying to make a quick buck off something they clearly didn't care to take time to understand? Show some respect!
This is the problem of such movies. They build a world which has very awkward art style and they want you to love it just based on trailer. But you have no connection to such worlds, there is no relationship development and if you've seen Howls Moving Castle, it's even worse for you, cause its a ripoff from "your" franchise. So there is basically nothing why you would go and see it, cause everything seems distant, grotesque and unknown. You just don't connect. When it's transformers, Aquaman, regular sci-fi in space, you always have something to follow, something you already know. But this is completely different weird universe you need to learn about and the trailer doesn't do any job in that for you. You are more like "wtf". Yeah, it can be fun, but do you want to risk it? Especially when the only part of the plot which is familiar (a bad guy, mother revenge, strong female character, red scarf...) seems so bad and cliché? Nah. Skip it, steal it.
I watched it last year and enjoyed it, maybe I have bad taste in movies, I never heard of the books but I'm a sucker for stampunk things and Hugo Weaving was in it
There is also something to be said about film advertising. Flooding the airways with Ads is the worst thing you can do, and the reason is very very simple. too many ads causes us to eventually subconsciously ignore them. As such people dont even know when the film will debut, missing the release date messages.
Not to mention some of these trailers are really long. After i watch some of these trailers I feel like I just watched the whole movie. Give us teases but dont show EVERYTHING the movie has to offer in 1 trailer lol.
Yikes you're right. At first I thought that this was interesting but after a few ads, I started to just skip them and the forgot about it all together. It took a while for it to dawn on me that this video was about that film.
I thought this movie was a spin-off from a Monty Python short film called “The Crimson Permanent Assurance”. In the film, office workers rebel and turn their office building into a pirate ship. These “pirates” then attack and pillage other corporate buildings. Anybody else make that connection?
@Phillip Scott England has no standards, never did. Scotland at least is trying to better itself. England keeps importing modern slaves from third world countries to do its dirty work. And your name is a reminder of this fact. Back to the stables with you, boy.
@@snaketooth0943 it sounds like the movie had a cool idea, but there's just so much potential lore and background and explanation and world building in their idea. Cramming all of that into one movie just doesn't work, obviously, but if they could draw out all that content over a bunch of episodes, then maybe it could be more satisfying to watch. IDK though
@@micahmosse3876 they could have made the whole first book into one movie just fine, they added in big fight scenes and explosions and cut out all the emotional and storytelling scenes to make room for it. this movie felt like a 5 year old had the book described to them and wasn't paying much attention.
Actually star power hasn't been a factor in contributing to movie success for the recent years, moviegoers have been getting more and more savvy, if a movie is crap, word of mouth spreads and people are less likely to watch it despite it having star power. Look at Robin Hood for example with Taron Egerton and Jamie Foxx, a Wrinkle in Time with Oprah Winfrey and Reese Witherspoon, Skyscrapper with the Rock, The Nutcracker and the Four Realms with Keira Knightley. All had super stars, all flops. If a movie sucks, people won't go to see it, regardless if it has stars or not. This isn't the 50s or the 90s, movie stars won't save your crappy movie anymore.
Well, I actually wanted to see it. My son and his friends did and thought it was okay. But it was out of the theaters *just* before the Christmas holidays and I'm pretty busy before that. Like many folks. So... timing.
I remember reading this when I was like 12 and the series as a whole. I think the main issue is it was a story meant for kids, that they tried to translate into a more adult film. It made a great book for a younger audience. Not a good movie for a wider audience. Plus there were a lot of important plot details they missed, because it was a rather complex plot that would be impossible to condense into a 2 hour film. Reading the book again after I saw this movie, now 26 I also realized I mostly didn't care for it as much because I wasn't a kid any more. It was mostly nostolgia that made me like it as one of the first real books I ever read. Not that it was a particularly good book.
SPOLER ALERT!!! I mean. It was made for everyone, probably more mature. The books, I mean. But I read it at 12 as well. The ending isn’t the happiest, but it is so right. Mortal Engines is an amazing book because it doesn’t care about what the reader wants to happen, it does what would realistically happen. The ending of the series is so sad, but it fits. Mortal Engines isn’t a series about 1-dimensional villains fighting the Mary Sue with a love triangle. It actually makes sense, the villains are some of the best characters in fact. Pennyroyal is a bit of a stereotype, but he’s written well. I love the revenge in the series, as it’s not made to seem amazing. It just seems... like another death. Important characters die just like the unnamed ones. The books have characters who have clear, yet logical motivations. Shrike, who is the villain at first, becomes a hero. Hester is never made out to be a good person and she kills people without care. She doesn’t kill much when Tom is around, however, because she wants him to still love her. The books are better than the movies could ever be. Edit: I also mainly watched the movie because I wanted to see the books given form. But it was pretty bad as a book adaptation. Amazing movie, bad book adaptation.
Okay but why are there so many archaeologists in this? I’d think engineers would be more useful (I say this as someone studying to be an archaeologist)
This is post-apocalypse where they no longer have engineering knowledge of electronics, so they rely on archeologists finding things that still work and repurposing them
Well in the movie they mention the engineer corps... Wich helped building the Medusa thingy... Maybe that's why people don't trust them? They manage to build a mass-murder weapon... Twice
@@signeaarejrgensen61 The books are great, make sure to read all 4 of them. The movie butchered it but is still fun to watch if you don't know the books.
Yeah. Happened to me with The Great Wall. Had a shitty review from the critics but decided to give it a try since the monsters seem interesting, and I just enjoyed the hell out of it
Opposite for me, but to be honest that's mainly because I get to stare at that work of art that's Sheehan's face for basically two hours straight. Apart from that the errant cities made me think of howls moving castle and since I fucking adore that film anything that remotely reminds me of it it's good in my book.
I was excited during the first trailer. A bunch of cities on wheels duking it out against another? I’m in. When the other trailers dropped and they started focusing on this girl and her mom, I was out. I’m not gonna watch another YA movie.
Did they use the entire budget on the CGI? I saw the movie and it wasn’t that great. It looked good, but the story telling was pure garbage. The problem with these big budget movies is that they usually go over and they forget about the actual movie. They forget they actually need a script and great story telling. They bank on their CGI and big budget sets to make up for it. When you look at LoTRs and Harry Potter, they use up their budget without forgetting that they need to tell us wtf is going on lol
I haven't read the source material, but I mostly dislike the forced march of character development throughout. I did think London looked amazing on the screen (especially those huge lions), but the characters were flat and the motivations just boring.
I think it's because movies like Transformers made so much money just because they looked good and had lots of explosions but had awful stories. This is where the movie and games industries are similar. They see a formulae that worked once, and then it's a gold rush.
The books are amazing, and I'm not surprised Hollywood fucked the pooch with this. It would've been better as a miniseries instead of the cliffnotes/fanfiction version of the story this movie gives people. The one thing I will say is that they did do a great job of showing what the book describes. :/ It cost a ton of money, but it is a decent enough visual guide. Although Hester's face is supposed to be more jacked than it is. Like one half of it is basically supposed to be so gnarled and unsightly that she always covers it.
I'm thinking they are pocketing the money to go on vacation cause _nothing_ should ever cost 7 million dollars. Movies like that leave no room for mistakes and sometimes you need to make mistakes in order to make a better movie.
They should have released this in January. It would have had at least a fighting chance, despite the fact that the movie is ass. It's a shame though, because I loved the world.
you should read the books. this movie was a massive disappointment because they changed so much from a brilliant book and made starwars on wheels with brainless characters. It was heartbreaking to see tom and hester turned into angsty hero types
I just watched the movie, I loved it, watching it for the second time now, but I am definitely going to real the novels. In my opinion, an underrated movie, I love it! My imagination is running wild now! And the CHARACTERS are amazing, I can only guess that the novels flushes them out more, cannot wait to read them!
I was never a major fan of the books, but I will say that this definitely captured the visuals of the series. Everything else was terrible, but the designs were amazing.
I actually saw it bc of that! This epic artist called Ian McQue did a lot of the concept art/art direction and i liked it but everything else was pretty bad
I'm actually kind of amazing how badly Mortal engines did, I really didn't think it was that bad, especially considering all the other garbage that makes it big these days
I couldn't stand the advertising for this movie, the line delivery on display was highschool drama club level awful, and maybe the actual movie wasn't that bad, but the marketing made it seem so shit that I sure as hell wasn't going to see it
It just doesnt make sense, the fuel theme is so wrong and in comparison to the books the sizes dont make sense (thats why the fuel also doesnt make sense)
Same with Mad Max Fury Road, didn't end up even watching the movie but my brother, the janitor and I were cheering on the young couple going down on each other in the bottom row.
Saw the trailers and realized it was just another YA "teens the movie" so I didn't see it. I'm tired of mediocre movies telling me all adults are bad and only teens can save the world.
In the book hester and Tom are not the heroes, they are just dragged along for the ride. Ana fang(that airship pilot) is more hero material. London is their own undoing
@@kruum I had 0 expectations going into that movie and I just watched it for the cgi and world building. With that mindset the movie was actually pretty decent.
@@Daniel-pn4qs I know. Based upon the premise. And it being something new, didn't know it was based upon a book, I gave it a chance. The world and CGI were on point. It was just that the 1-dimensional characters, and the stupidity of the guy dragged it all down. But again, the CGI kept me watching. I wonder though, if they will proceed with that sequel. After watching this video, I kinda get the feeling they shot everything they got, storywise. Instead of introducing various characters in minor plot points, while focusing on this personal journey to which eveyrbody can get introduced.
It is because the trailer is stupid, like why would she use a scope just to see a supergigantic city of London moving towards her. It's not cheap, i see a good CGI, but they made it stupid, and peoples eyes hate it when they see something stupid in the trailers, remember trailers are the one that pulls people to watch the movie but when people hates something in the trailer then people will decide not to watch it and just laugh at it.
he's amazing in Misfits.. but yeah he flopped in movies.. poor Mortal Instruments now Mortal Engines are far worse.. glad that Mortal Instruments franchise got remade into Shadowhunters
@lwandile dube I literally thought it was based on a Cassandra Clare book. I thought to myself "they're still trying to make that a thing?". The vibe in the trailer is very early 2000s and not in a good way.
No it's because December was already stacked. You had Aquaman, Bumblebee, and Spider-Man. It should have been released somtime in February it would've done alot better had it not released in December
@@Dgbygvg Yea I know the film isn't great or exciting. Am just saying it would have done a bit better if it wasn't released on December. Not saying it would have saved the film but it would made a bit more money at box office.
The concept isn't that dumb, but it is inherently silly. The problem is they didn't treat it like the silly over the top concept that it was and tried to make the movie dark and gritty.
I'd like to imagine they checked their advertising budget and saw themselves 20 million in debt, so they sat around a table scratching their heads at what their suppose to do with the fact they let the world know about their movie but not be able to tell anyone it's in the theaters.
I just respect him so much for his acting and work ethic and gorgeous sense of self and his views on the world and film.. but other than that yes his is very 'finee'
Man, i enjoyed the crap out of this movie. it felt pretty complete by the end so it doesn't need a sequel, but i'll definitely say i loved the giant sized mad max feel and would definitely watch again.
Thank you for saying the same I would have! I loved the movie and I’m reading the books too, and I feel that people didn’t give it as much love as it might have deserved.
Kevin Lentz People who liked the books and want to see the giant cities. Shame it’s so shit. They couldn’t even make the cities accurate to their description, and most of them aren’t even in the book!
My husband, curiously. He really wanted to see it. He thought it looked really cool. Important to note that my husband is super down-to-earth and not actually a fantasy/ sci-fi fan. His reading is usually confined to textbooks. He likes building cars for fun. He does watch anime. Not the demographic they were probably aiming at. I'm the fantasy/ sci-fi fan. I even read YA occasionally and this movie's trailer did absolutely nothing to get me interested enough to buy tickets.
@@pienkunicorn And that's exactly the problem. If you can't get general SciFi/Fantasy-Fans interested, and change it enough from the source material that the people who loved the books aren't interested either, then who is left to watch it? The rare occasional random person. And that is not gonna bring back an investment of over 150 million.
Tbh, I would have preferred the more adult take of including politics, etc. etc.; and maybe preferred this as a series. The trailer just made it seem like another Hunger Games or Maze Runner; and though I liked those series (as books, and films to a certain extent) I don't think I could stand another one as a film....
I didn't realize they'd COMPLETELY changed the ending. In the book, the weapon backfires and destroys the entire city, with Tom and Hester just barely making it out before the nuclear explosion that kills (almost) everyone else. But I guess an ending that bleak wouldn't make moviegoers eager to see a sequel.
They changed way too much, it would have been nice to see tunbridge wheels in the movie, never understood why they removed that entire section of the story. Plus didnt fang die in the final fight and not at the great wall? like the book.
Incorrect. Cities on wheels are tight lol It's cool idea.looks nice. Stop wanting it to be super realistic just cause it has real people. Just enjoy the fantasy. The visuals are fine. The problem really is that movies are becoming way too childish now. But the creator of this recording was more correct that a miniseries would've been great.
In the book he’s absolutely unhinged, thinking London will conquer the world, then eat the world, then planets then stars and in the movie he’s just like there
I'm in Canada and I only ever saw the trailer for this movie ONCE at the drive-in one summer and I was STOKED for it but then I literally never heard another thing about it until right now watching this. This whole time I thought the damn thing fell through and never got made lmao
I think it was shitty marketing. I wanted to see it based on the trailer I saw 6 months back. But I had no idea it was out. I think I only ever saw a trailer for it last time I saw a movie . I have TH-cam premium, netflix and adblocker. I don't have a cable.. so commercials are pretty limited for me these days cop6ared to the past.
Well, i use adblocker too and seldom use mobile yt or watch tv, but when i did id get ass blasted with trailers for this movie And each time i thought it looked like garbage lmao
I love the books for this series because I read them when I was really young, and one day I decided I’d go to the cinema for a day out seeing as I had done barely anything that particular few months. I looked at the showing times and, lo and behold, this film was showing. I hadn’t seen any marketing for it so I looked up a trailer and decided to watch it. The trailer was god-awful, but I knew that didn’t always mean that the entire film would be shit so I gave the film a go anyways, partially because of my love of the books and partially because nothing else caught my eye on the showing times. The film all together is pretty forgetful, however visually stunning, and I don’t really have much to say about it, but the marketing was probably a giant put-off for the few who actually saw it
Seeing the trailers (indeed many times), I was excited to see this movie. It looked like a fun, interesting new fantasy world to dive into. Seeing it was kinda disappointing though. I still like the world the movie took place in, but the story was bland and predictable. It was all very by the books. Besides that, I felt like we didn't get enough worldbuilding. Every time people moved around in London, I wished they would slow down and actually show us how a city on wheels works, but they never did. An extra half hour to explore the world in more detail and more risk in the script might have fixed this movie for me, but now it's just.. one of those movies. Oh yeah, I watched that, I forgot.
The book was not like that, Valentine may be a bastard but what he was doing was for his daughter and he actualy said to the mayor of London that they could just stop and make the city a stationary setlement, Anna fang has an unglorious death before the finale, Hester is actualy ugly and the heroes aren't much of heroes.
@Daniel Price So, they wanted to sell an addaption that only has the looks and none of the essense of the book?? What could go wrong, ah yeah EVERYTHING, it becomes bland especialy if the souce material was unconventional.
This movie was done as much "by the books" as the life of brian is done by the bible. Imagine watching the fellowship of the ring, but once the hobbits get to rivendell, arogorn dies in a laser-gun fight and they give the ring to boromir. everything that happens after tom and hester are rescued by anna feels like it was directed by a five year old who had the book loosely summarized to them and didn't pay much attention.
@@renskedunnewold1995 Sorry, i knew what you meant really but i love the books so much. i just want to make it clear to as many people as possible how far removed this piece of crap film is from my all time favourite book series.
The minute I saw the trailer, I thought it looked like an idiotically stupid concept, trying to come across as dramaticaly serious. It looked like Transformers if made by Peter Jackson, only dafter. Which is exactly what it is. Everyone, except the film makers and studio, called this out as going to flop hard from the very beginning.
WallKenshiro The film is shit, yeah. The books are really good though. The concept is madness, but that’s what makes it so cool when it’s really well explained and developed and actually makes a surprising amount of sense when you have all the information the books provide.
@@justanotheryoutubechannel these movies could have been done right, but not by peter jackson, give that shit to netflix and some young person with an open mind and raving imagination with a hint of madness. thats what this project needed
Your explanation of the plot was only less than 10 minutes long, but I got distracted and stopped watching three separate times throughout the video, which pretty much explains why no one went to see this movie...
I remember those trailers - they were on like every other youtube video for a few months. Even those made the movie seem hamfisted and bland, with nothing other than the basic premise of "action movie with moving cities" on display. All that "From the creators of the LotR" bs just made the movie seem like an over-inflated piece of hot garbage. Though, after watching your video, I am interested in giving the books a try. From the way you speak of them, they don't seem quite as bad.
Blackbird Please read the books. I found them when I was 11, reread them recently now that I am much older, and it’s just as good as I remembered. They are really good, trust me.
Alright, so at the good word of everybody replying, I am going to give the books a shot. I'll try to update with my opinion once I'm decently into the series, but I am going to be fairly busy and I'm not sure when that will be.
Honestly if you read the books this movie is an absolute disappointment, they changed alot of the story that just made it really confusing. Like half way through they just change everything, originally airhaven is attacked, Tom and Hester make it into a balloon and are followed by Grike or Shrike from the movie, they trick him and find them selfs in the rustwaters, where the mud is so bad towns usually dont make it back. They get into a fight with Grike and a suburb goes by and they just barely make it on to the suburb. Now this is called Tunbridge Wheels and it is a pirate suburb, the mayor wants to raid airhaven that has landed on black island and basically they fail horribly and grike gets killed here. Obviously in the movie this never happens and it would've helped the movie so much.
No its kindda like mad max. Its set on a post war earth after a devastating nuclear/biological/conventional war where a lot of the advance technologies have been lost so you get a lot of scavengers pocking around the "old world" hence why London found a devastating piece of pre war technology a lot of the plot from the other books actually revolves around pre war super weapons or STALKERS. Also in the book the whole city went boom killing basically the whole population but you know they can't do that :/
@@noname-wo9yy It would have been a lot better if it was Mad Max, tbh. A "stupid premise" can work really well, but you have to embrace the insanity. Mortal Engines wanted to be taken seriously on the wrong fronts and made light of the elements that they really should have been more serious about. Fuckin minions...
movie is shit. more propaganda- evil male patriarchy based on exploitation gets overthrown by woke feminists and male "ally" while people would not necessarily know why they did not want to see this film your brain subconsciously realized its the same trash propaganda that makes up half the films being made these days.
I'm not sure anymore after watching the "Goblin Slayer" anime. I'm still a little mind F***** over how they managed to make that into an anime and somehow managed to strip it of almost everything that actually made the comic half way decent. That Anime was hilariously bad because they skipped like 2/3rds of the source material but the funny thing is that almost everything they chose to cut out where actually like some of the best parts of the comic.
I never read these comics, but but I'm pretty sure I'd have the same reaction if I had. Actually the worst anime I can think of is "Dance in the Vampire Bund" which don't get me wrong. It's a great Show in it's own right. UNLESS you've read the comics and realize that the Anime is missing like 90+% of the storyline. =/
@@auraeldodge And yet it is one of the most loved animes of this season. Who knew. Honestly, if you haven't realized by now that the Anime are just advertisements for the light novels and probably manga then you haven't been paying attention to the anime community. Unless the series is finished or so well loved that it becomes super popular in the west, it won't be a good anime series. That is why Fullmetal got a redo since it was so popular that they actually remade it to fit the actual manga. That is why One-punch man sticks true to the story, the west fucking loved it. That is why Death Note became so popular and actually finished. And that is why shit like Berserk or Goblin Slayer will never get a true anime adaptation, it is too shocking and not really popular for a lot of people. Money always talks.
Eh screw the rape, which was actually a key plot point that's somehow missing. I'm More disappointed in the fact that they got rid of most of the funny as hell blatant references to 'Advanced Dungeon's and dragons' which where actually some of the more funny moments in that comic.Though actually When I watched that I kind of though it was missing some plot points when it came to the rape thing. Those where -actually- mostly plot related things. Like missing the scene where his mother and sister are being raped and tortured while he was watching is kind of a stepping stone of the storyline. Actually the rape thing was kind of secondary though.
I watched it in the cinema, it was impressive, stupid, confusing and incomprehensible all at once. I actually watched it on my birthday, and chose it largely BECAUSE the trailers made so little sense. The screening I went to was actually relatively busy given the nature of the cinema I went to (it's in a small town with 8000 inhabitants) But, yeah. I mean, I don't regret seeing it, but it was seriously weird.
Ya, my kids loved it. I thought it was a great Steampunk movie, that is of course what it was, after all, easily the best Steam Punk movie ever made. So what Steampunk movie doesn't have issues?
When PLoT LoGiC takes a massive brain fart, they showed absolutely no reason why a land locked city would be more dangerous other than "just because it is".
Uriah Siner that actually makes sense to suggest that land locked cities are most dangerous. It’s based on the real world history. For example the country Russia has historically been dangerous and expansionist precisely because it was land locked and always wanted to expand access to the sea and oceans. They have incentive to be warlike and expansionist.
The in canon reason in the books for the floating cities not being dangerous is because they are highly flammable. The gas they use inside them lights up, so no electronics, no flames, and nothing that can emit sparks are allowed into the floating cities to avoid sending everything up in flames. They touch on that in the movie... In a very hamfisted way. The world that existed before this saga, in canon, is briefly mentioned in Fever Crumb. You sort of have this weird race of ultra modified humans with feline aspects to them who had altered carbon like mind transference hardware. They ruled the world like nobility and there was some pretty high science. @_@ The weapons they had would be more than enough to take out the air balloons.
Another forgettable film because it has no character development. The moving cities looked nice but are not believable in any future situation. It's just like films based on videogames - writers and director go in with waaaaaaayyyy too many preconcieved notions.
Many things in movies arent believable such as transformers which even in the future would be impossible but still is popular so I dont get your reasoning
It is actually an architectual concept, made after the project The Walking City by Archigram. Look them up, they had lots of concepts about futuristic moving cities or just cities who look nothing like what we know today.
I cannot agree more. I feel like we really would’ve loved this story and the characters if it was given more screen time to develop. Like this is a four book series so it can’t just be squeezed into one movie. I man you can if you can pull off writing it well, but it’s still risky.
Edgy misanthropy, wonky diversity casting (you could do the right thing in a better way), a clunky plot that makes no sense, edgy rebellions and cries of rights with no thought of the responsibilities they have to take on, copy paste stories we've heard before. Uninspired, worn out crap. Edit: this comment got more traction than I thought wtf
In the book everyone dies and the whole star wars bit was just one scene that also was different in the book So maybe stop taking a huge crap on this franchise
lmao you clearly havent read the book if youre calling it "wonky diversity" if a book takes place in china theres gonna be chinese people fam get over it
Great summation of all Hollywood products these days. It's a good thing I don't read fiction books anymore, I would hate to be a fan of any of the material that gets desecrated like this.
I had no idea this movie was a thing till someone pointed it out to me several months after it was released and was no longer in cinemas; they also only knew about it as they used to read the books and were really into it and noticed it on reddit. I don’t know what ads you were talking about, but to be explicitent clear, this movie failed because no one knew it was a thing.
I'm from Wellington, where this film was made, and I saw it with my mates, sitting through it because one of them, who I've known my whole life, was an extra. This film was 2 hours long. His brief cameo was less than two seconds. Guess which of those I turned around in the other direction from and missed.
I saw it in theater, the prologue might be one of the most exciting action scene. Then after that, the movie happened...... It actually hurts seeing the movie full of potential and actually great in world building, made me cringe so hard for the entire movie because of cheesy one liner dialogue, bad writing and acting overall. It's a real shame.
I never understood the logic 'the world is running out of resources... let's use a shit loads of resources to put these cities on wheels and drive them around'.
exactly my thought in first five minutes in this movie ...
No ressources? Green fields full of green plants waiting to be cultivated... and still - the cities oh wheels are smashing all the food when driving over the...
@@milenmilen3201 i know right, the naration tell us the world running out of source but yet the world is so green, make it more doesnt make sense ha ha, i know its fantasy but what really bugging me that its not really necessary making huge city that moving around ..., if the world is so advance, they have new power technology like tony stark orb then its still make sense to make moving city even floating city ....
@@clyde24skywalker you guys know that resources aren't just moist dirt and grass right?
@@chambassexy5714 of course i know, but what ever it is that they meant about resource its still doesnt make sense to make moving city, coz they said they running out of it ...
They promoted this? This is my first time hearing about this movie.
E M. Exactly!! Never saw a trailer or poster or even a mention anywhere!
I saw this a bit awhile ago,they advertised wayyy to far from release I forgot about it
I've heard of it but I've never seen any advertising for it. I didn't know they were making a movie of it
Wow I’m at the other end of the spectrum. This was non stop advertised to be on TH-cam
They promoted the hell out of this
Howl's Moving Castle is still the best mobile castle!
Same. When I watch this review the first time, I commented afterwards about Howl's. The day they'd make it a live-action movie is the day I will physically go watch it in a cinema, tbh. I haven't gone to watch a movie in the cinemas for years now, & is wondering how they'd pull Howl's for real.
The house of mystery gets no love.
Yes
Nah Eminem's trailer is the best moving castle
Imperitor Titan: HERESY!
The books are much more interesting. My imagination used to run wild when I was reading this book.
agreed! its sad to see how they threw out the main storyline in the movie when really it didnt need much trimming to fit into a movie (or two movies for book one)
Ye, I think if anyone wants to adapt this series of books, it’ll be best done as a tv series, I bet the BBC could do amazingly, given their track record with His Dark Materials
It makes sense for me who haven't heard of the books or anything that relates to this, thinks it's fine XD
I get to enjoy it as it is 🤣
Loved the books, but the movie was so bland and boring
I never get when people throw out a books plot, might as well make your own movie without the books name being tarnished at that point.
Young Adult adaptations are six feet under at this point. Let them rest in peace
You never say you're over adult or "kids" media (well unless you think you're too old for it, which is silly since the fear of being childish is one of the most childish things of all), so why would you say you're over young adult media? You could say you're over young adult dystopias, which would make me agree with you.
Well they're overused, and the public has grown tired of them. Just like Westerns back in the day, just like edgy remakes. People flood the market with what's popular and soon enough everyone gets tired of it.
@@snaketooth0943 Dude learn to listen he said YOUNG ADULT ADAPTATIONS because in the video it was about dumbing down adult themes to adapt it for teens
So if you could stop newmanning people, that would be great
@@rolandfeussner1892 Sorry
Harry Potter made it so Hollywood will just keep trying until they make a great movie
Good video. Did anyone actually know that this film came out. Because honestly I didn't
It was advertised like crazy on TH-cam but it seemed blah even in the trailers
Lol, that's actually a great point because I saw so many trailers for this film and for the life of me I could not remember the release date. I didn't know it was out already.
I saw a trailer for it twice, but I didn't even know it was in theaters now. Looked boring.
Noah Hampton Movies I didn’t remember it came out. I wanted to see it but thought it came out next year
I did but I only saw one trailer
I heard Detroit couldnt be in the movie. Its wheels got stolen
Detroit got out of the car industry a long time ago...
Detroit was on two giant cinder blocks
The movie premise is, in the future, cities r on wheels. So it's a pretty funny joke.
Ok this is racist
Lolololololol
Whenever I saw the trailer for this movie, I was just like: “meh”
John Smith the whole concept sounded so dumb to me lol
John Smith I saw million ads for this movie and then I just never heard of it again, I honestly thought they just canceled it
sej1895 read the books. Just read the books and it’ll make sense.
I dont understand why people not interested with this movie, i think its quite good to say about how bad is WOW3, and the end they insist to go east cause of resource, it same at here in indonesia, europe and america always trying to get uranium, gold, nickle, from us, to dominating the world, so its relate so much about the character
@@stefanie3652 yes the movie is rlly good in my opinion 100/10 :3
too much dystopian future saved by tweens movies
Completely agree, tweens barley know the words they speak let alone save anything
@David-James Ferguson Nonsense! There's no way writers could do that!
Movie were old guy is in dystopian future but he's basically doomguy and he slaughters a fuckton of people in badass ways and then he dies but the bad guys die with him.
I would watch it even if it was poorly written
@Tactical Exosuit Oh fuck off. Furry hating hick.
@@macrofurry5741 what?
I loved the movie but where was all the marketing your talking about the marketing team needs to be sacked they did a terrible job representing the movie
They constantly used the same fucking trailer at the beginning of TH-cam videos. The same short annoying shit in an unimpressive scene with meh cgi for the city they showed. And it was like that for a few months. I don't think I saw any other ads about it. So yeah bombardment of ads but only a single one is a terrible job at marketing.
At least where I live, the mareting for this movie was huge. Also bad. For about 1 to 1,5 years, some kind of trailer or teaser of this came before every movie in cinema. Also about 30% of youtube-ads were trailers of this movie. And some banners at train staitions.
zach_code depression the people that did get hit wits ads for it saw ‘made by the director of Lord of The Rings and the Hobbit’ and that’s all you saw so it’s like they were like ‘hey, new Lotr movie comin, but it’s not lotr, and what we do have is executed bad’
Bad movie...story was unoriginal. ...unbelievable. ...car chases and nudity wouldn't have saved it.
The concept put me off. I squirmed at the ridiculous idea during every trailer for this movie. Then when I ran out of syfy to watch, I was weak and put this on. I couldn't finish it. I hated it. I really, really hated it. It's not just bad marketing. The plot is bad, the movie is bad, the story is really bad.
Lets be honest the movie looked terrible in the trailers anyway and they knew that by getting famous actors advertise it telling you to watch in imax
The story just looked incomplete and with a lot of holes they won’t fill
Famous Actors? More like your average deoderant model!!
The look (world building/set design/cgi) is probably the only good part of this film, the diologue and story is.... ehh.
you should read the book. the film was seriously shit because they changed it so much. the biggest plot hole in the book is "how did valentine get into batmunkh gompa without being spotted"
All I saw was *WHEELS*
Can't believe Klaus from umbrella academy was in this trainwreck
I came here wondering that
I just noticed!
You mean Nathan from misfits ?
Well mortal engines came first so it's the other way around haha, still a good movie, I liked it
He was also in Mortal Instruments as Simon.
Teen dystopian is probably the worst genre.
Yes!!! I hate ya dystopian books and movies
It can be done just everyone tries to make it stupid and dumb down for teens cause they think teens are stupid
@@greatgallade the whole idea is stupid af... let alone this crap with stronk wamen... if the system collapsed women would become objects again
@@jaromor8808 well strong waman doesn't mean it's bad you can do them well but sjws constantly suck at writing them. Like goblin slayer with the swordmaster who killed the demon lord yet she was raped by the lowly goblins and she as powerful and beautiful as she is she is in eternal fear of this goblins giving her the strong female warrior, and yet she's still grounded as a human so yes strong women can be a thing you just don't have to push it so hard.
The city would be a good concept for an animated movie as the over the top nature wouldn't been held down by the realism of real humans around and these gay trans things.
The female protagonists is getting over done and kind of annoying. Nearly every teen novel is a woman fighting a corrupt government or something. The genre needs a revamp or a more serious treatment.
@@jaromor8808
Hence why the Handmaid's Tale is the most realistic outlook of what will happen if the system collapses.
Really fun concept, however I don't want to watch another teen hero dystopia. I don't think many people do.
True but Hollywood seems to think that one movie getting big from the idea means that all of them will.... wonder if they ever heard of the Law of Diminishing Returns?
You are correct.
Now if you could only tell anime studios that
@@IncognitoSprax pffft just stop watching seasonal anime and go and watch the series that have aged like fine wine, i'm getting sick of the teen shounen dystopia too.
I thought it's teen dystopia but actually it's not. Main heroes aren't teens, there is no any love drama and love triangles, and surprisingly I quite enjoyed movie.
I was dragged to this in the theatres. Never had heard of it. I thought it was AMAZING. I don't understand the hate.
I started but didn't finisj yet but i think it was a good movie too from ehat ive seen. The city on wheels thing seems cool. Lile howls moving castle
i would not say hate but movie kinda felt like a TRAP
teenage drama.. love story with bad guy u almost can see eating a green apple
it's an SJW wreck. Only ignorant teens don't get that it's Marxist brainwashing propaganda.
I enjoyed the movie too. Reminded me of my experience with Waterworld
BigSmartArmed How even?
The ways he's explaining it is exactly what happens in the movie like, there is nothing more. there are no backstories or anything sensible everything just... happens.
The books explain everything in detail.
The worst crime of this film is Robert Sheehan not using his fabulous curls.
Moxen Remon burn the studio to the ground.
Righttt
But i love his hair
Moxen Remon exactly! No wonder it lost so much money , people were mad!
I think he looks even more handsome :c
The movie needed more bankable stars, a tighter budget and a better release date. Illumination is sitting on a giant wad of Grinch cash laughing at these movies duking it out in December.
I think the stars were fine, but the story needed to be better told. You shouldn't have to read the books to understand the movie. A good movie will make you want to go out and read the books. Releasing this in late Feb or March might have been helpful. But perhaps they should have planned it with a smaller budget, more time spent on human interactions than big screaming moving machines and quirkly tech. Hindsight is always 20/20.
Grinch sucked and no one could of saved it
@@couchgamingnews9379
I couldn't agree more...
But we can't deny that film earned a lot of 💰 💰
You can't have a tighter budget and spend more on actors...
@@Appox7 She meant spend less on the sets and special effects. Most of the budget seemed to have been spent on that instead of the story and the actors.
I felt that the advertising was too cliche. They shouldve focused more on the world.
Joshua Neff I think the word you‘re looking for is cliché lmfao
Good grief... Does anyone know how to spell anymore?
@@SAFTH0DEN thanks
J K Good grief, does anyone know that you don’t capitalise the first letter after an ellipsis?
@@LoverBoy-ks9qh not everyone is pirfect.
😂
I still remember walking out of the theatre after seeing this train wreck and literally just screamed. Mortal Engines was my favourite book as a teen and this movie watched like someone had skimmed the book 20 years ago and then wrote the script without so much as looking at a sparknotes of the plot. I'd gone with a friend who'd quickly skimmed through the book before we went to the cinema and even she hated it, even with none of the history or love that I had she could still recognise that the book was infinitely better and that this movie just didn't even try as an adaptation.
Same for me, I read all the books and the prequels a while back and it's just sad to see how much they left out and changed the plot. I think it would go better as something like a Netflix series where they can fit in every last detail from the books.
@@idiotsurvey6006 I think my favorite part of the movie was Shrike, by far. I didn't really like how they changed his death scene though.
@@anatoldenevers237 Yeah the death scene was made final
Man, this is weird.
For whatever reason, probably something with the way my brain is wired. I can't enjoy books, fictional stories of course. I can read books for information just fine. But if I'm trying to read to get immersed in a story, I can't. I don't know why, I used to be able to. I used to read books all the damn time. Then literally over the course of about a week, I lost that ability. It makes no sense to me, I don't get it. When I try to read a book now I just kinda can't get into it, can't feel the characters, the story, nothing. It's like trying to sleep but you can't fall asleep.
Literally lost the ability to read fictional books
And because of that, I don't read books anymore at all. So every time a movie comes out that's based on a book, it fails. Usually. Sometimes not.
Anyway, I see people like you all the time talking about how the book was so much better, and that the movie was trash because it didn't follow the books. And here I am, a guy who actually enjoyed this movie. I love Sci-fi and this one was absolutely amazing.
It's just strange, enjoying a movie and then seeing random people angry saying the book was better
@@whiteboy4045Can you imagine the world when reading a book? Or is it just words when you're reading?
I watched this movie with my sister cause she was a huge fan of the book and she deeply understand the lore and backstory of it but after we watch it she looks so disappointed and as of this moment she asked me to donate the books she work so hard to have(FYI our parents didn't gave us money for book fairs so she does save up her lunch allowance for that book) it's kinda heartbreaking to see someone get discouraged about a franchise they love
I understand this. My favorite series of books (The Dark is Rising by Susan Cooper) was sent to film as well. I was there opening day, and left the theater literally sobbing they butchered it so badly. But, I published an online review and was contacted by the author (she had nothing to do with the script in the movie & was just as upset), so.... there's that.
Noooo let her keep the books it probably holds alot of good memories for her
I understand how you feel, I felt the same way with the Percy Jackson franchise as well, but always keep the books, because even though the movies are a flop the books will always have a place in their hearts, also books are expensive so I wouldn't donate them
Sad really, I felt the same way when they tried to translate The Sword of Truth series and again with the Eragon movie. Great reads ruined by poor movie/show making. It's like, why are they trying to make a quick buck off something they clearly didn't care to take time to understand? Show some respect!
I know exactly how your sister feels. Look at star wars now.
Listen.... I saw the trailer and it didn’t look that- oH CAPTAIN UNDERPANTS!!
lol, best comment
I saw the trailer and actually consider watching but realized that I may not like it.
Wait when did it come out
This is the problem of such movies. They build a world which has very awkward art style and they want you to love it just based on trailer. But you have no connection to such worlds, there is no relationship development and if you've seen Howls Moving Castle, it's even worse for you, cause its a ripoff from "your" franchise. So there is basically nothing why you would go and see it, cause everything seems distant, grotesque and unknown. You just don't connect. When it's transformers, Aquaman, regular sci-fi in space, you always have something to follow, something you already know. But this is completely different weird universe you need to learn about and the trailer doesn't do any job in that for you. You are more like "wtf". Yeah, it can be fun, but do you want to risk it? Especially when the only part of the plot which is familiar (a bad guy, mother revenge, strong female character, red scarf...) seems so bad and cliché? Nah. Skip it, steal it.
@@orcusdei steampuk, steampuk, steampuk, steampuk, steampuk, steampuk, steampuk
*T A X R I G H T O F F*
You are actually everywhere wtf
Love you dad. Could you come back yet?
Fuck me plz
A D well he’s a ninja
I just saw you on the last video I was watching 😂
I watched it last year and enjoyed it, maybe I have bad taste in movies, I never heard of the books but I'm a sucker for stampunk things and Hugo Weaving was in it
Same, I liked the movie too
yea me too
yesss... and anna fang😍😂
Me too :/
Exactly
That's not Justin Long it's Robert Sheehan an irish actor. You'll see him in The Umbrella Academy.
Or even better, misfits ;)
I thought he looked familiar!
Brilliant actor
I love the umbrella academy!!! And the fact that he didnt know who he was makes me laugh
That's what muh brain was just saying !
There is also something to be said about film advertising. Flooding the airways with Ads is the worst thing you can do, and the reason is very very simple. too many ads causes us to eventually subconsciously ignore them. As such people dont even know when the film will debut, missing the release date messages.
@@kaleidescopeeyes same dude those ads really bugged me and ignored then dispite wanting to see the movie
Not to mention some of these trailers are really long. After i watch some of these trailers I feel like I just watched the whole movie. Give us teases but dont show EVERYTHING the movie has to offer in 1 trailer lol.
Me too, I saw the trailers and decided I wanted to see this. Then forgot about the movie.
Happening to me with Captain Marvel. Release date is March but I thought it was coming out on Christmas?!
Yikes you're right. At first I thought that this was interesting but after a few ads, I started to just skip them and the forgot about it all together. It took a while for it to dawn on me that this video was about that film.
I thought this movie was a spin-off from a Monty Python short film called “The Crimson Permanent Assurance”. In the film, office workers rebel and turn their office building into a pirate ship. These “pirates” then attack and pillage other corporate buildings.
Anybody else make that connection?
That's exactly what it reminded me of as well, even though that is an obscure little sketch before "Monty Python's The Meaning of Life".
Oh my God, I thought I was the only one 🤣👌
That's my favorite sketch in Monty Python the meaning of life
It's a remake of a seiries of novels
i only watched this movie for Robert Sheehan lmao
"England has the most powerful city on wheels"
USA: Doubt
Russia: Doubt
England, the part you remove from UK to make EU great again. Utter shithole, much love from Scotland! ❤
Ironic that your name is Scott.
@Phillip Scott England has no standards, never did. Scotland at least is trying to better itself. England keeps importing modern slaves from third world countries to do its dirty work. And your name is a reminder of this fact. Back to the stables with you, boy.
Levy Roth damn you sound ignorant asf.
Phillip Scott you sound like your 17
This franchise would have been better as a TV show
How so?
Snaketooth 09 think of the original stories you could make with such a rich universe even if it’s not in the books. Like game of thrones
@@snaketooth0943 it sounds like the movie had a cool idea, but there's just so much potential lore and background and explanation and world building in their idea. Cramming all of that into one movie just doesn't work, obviously, but if they could draw out all that content over a bunch of episodes, then maybe it could be more satisfying to watch. IDK though
@@micahmosse3876 Seems like a cool idea, but it'd probably be expensive.
@@micahmosse3876 they could have made the whole first book into one movie just fine, they added in big fight scenes and explosions and cut out all the emotional and storytelling scenes to make room for it. this movie felt like a 5 year old had the book described to them and wasn't paying much attention.
Nobody knows the Source Material, the reviews were terrible, and no one has heard of anyone in the film...that was what killed this!
Mister Anderson
Apart from Hugo weaving.... yeah the rest are pretty much unknowns
Actually star power hasn't been a factor in contributing to movie success for the recent years, moviegoers have been getting more and more savvy, if a movie is crap, word of mouth spreads and people are less likely to watch it despite it having star power. Look at Robin Hood for example with Taron Egerton and Jamie Foxx, a Wrinkle in Time with Oprah Winfrey and Reese Witherspoon, Skyscrapper with the Rock, The Nutcracker and the Four Realms with Keira Knightley.
All had super stars, all flops.
If a movie sucks, people won't go to see it, regardless if it has stars or not. This isn't the 50s or the 90s, movie stars won't save your crappy movie anymore.
It has cities on wheels. Cities.On.Wheels.
Dumbest idea ever.
Well, I actually wanted to see it. My son and his friends did and thought it was okay. But it was out of the theaters *just* before the Christmas holidays and I'm pretty busy before that. Like many folks. So... timing.
I remember reading this when I was like 12 and the series as a whole.
I think the main issue is it was a story meant for kids, that they tried to translate into a more adult film.
It made a great book for a younger audience. Not a good movie for a wider audience.
Plus there were a lot of important plot details they missed, because it was a rather complex plot that would be impossible to condense into a 2 hour film.
Reading the book again after I saw this movie, now 26 I also realized I mostly didn't care for it as much because I wasn't a kid any more.
It was mostly nostolgia that made me like it as one of the first real books I ever read. Not that it was a particularly good book.
SPOLER ALERT!!!
I mean. It was made for everyone, probably more mature. The books, I mean. But I read it at 12 as well. The ending isn’t the happiest, but it is so right. Mortal Engines is an amazing book because it doesn’t care about what the reader wants to happen, it does what would realistically happen. The ending of the series is so sad, but it fits. Mortal Engines isn’t a series about 1-dimensional villains fighting the Mary Sue with a love triangle. It actually makes sense, the villains are some of the best characters in fact. Pennyroyal is a bit of a stereotype, but he’s written well. I love the revenge in the series, as it’s not made to seem amazing. It just seems... like another death. Important characters die just like the unnamed ones. The books have characters who have clear, yet logical motivations. Shrike, who is the villain at first, becomes a hero. Hester is never made out to be a good person and she kills people without care. She doesn’t kill much when Tom is around, however, because she wants him to still love her. The books are better than the movies could ever be.
Edit: I also mainly watched the movie because I wanted to see the books given form. But it was pretty bad as a book adaptation. Amazing movie, bad book adaptation.
@@robopope7584 yeah, those books are incredible, and Shrike is my favorite
Okay but why are there so many archaeologists in this? I’d think engineers would be more useful (I say this as someone studying to be an archaeologist)
My take would be archeologists can kind of play the roles of engineers in a steam-punk universe, mingling with that ancient technology.
The engineers were a huge part of the book series but were cut from the movie
This is post-apocalypse where they no longer have engineering knowledge of electronics, so they rely on archeologists finding things that still work and repurposing them
Well in the movie they mention the engineer corps... Wich helped building the Medusa thingy... Maybe that's why people don't trust them? They manage to build a mass-murder weapon... Twice
@Emoti723 ME yeah, as a mecatronics engineering student, I can confirm some of my professors could definitely be the bad guys
this has more views than the movie
ouch
r/murderedbywords
Daaaaaamnn
I never even heard of this movie until this video. It looks interesting.
It's fun, but there are bog holes in the lore and plot, so I starter reading the books🙂
@@signeaarejrgensen61 The books are great, make sure to read all 4 of them. The movie butchered it but is still fun to watch if you don't know the books.
See it
I thought it was good. I never read the books so...keep that in mind.
Wait what? NFC? Aren't you in the wrong place?
It's one of my favorite movies. I love it :(
Am i the only one who didn't know this film came out lol
Kk Black How? Ads everywhere, all the time
No idea until I saw this video.
i've seen shit ton of the trailers since it was showing up all over youtube but i never seen the release date for the movie
Ive heard about the movie but i dont think i ever saw a trailer
dont trust critic reviews trust your melon and your gut to see if the movie is bad or not
_-Actually my dad_
Vecret .M, same thing happened with captain marvel, I saw the reviews were bad but I actually enjoyed the movie 🤷🏾♀️
Yeah. Happened to me with The Great Wall. Had a shitty review from the critics but decided to give it a try since the monsters seem interesting, and I just enjoyed the hell out of it
Same happened to me with Girlboss, the ratings were low but I enjoyed the hell out of it.
King of the monster and Joker are few examples . (in my opinion of course ) .
@@mymidgetbae184 awesome movie - loved it
Is it bad that from the moment I saw this trailer, I wanted it to be a massive flop? It just looked incredibly stupid to me.
Same here, it looks like The golden compass, this kind of movie almost always fail.
Opposite for me, but to be honest that's mainly because I get to stare at that work of art that's Sheehan's face for basically two hours straight. Apart from that the errant cities made me think of howls moving castle and since I fucking adore that film anything that remotely reminds me of it it's good in my book.
I was excited during the first trailer. A bunch of cities on wheels duking it out against another? I’m in.
When the other trailers dropped and they started focusing on this girl and her mom, I was out. I’m not gonna watch another YA movie.
Same
Shad0whawk me too, i prayed it flopped
it’s so sad that the movie and the book’s never took off; it’s such a cool idea
Did they use the entire budget on the CGI? I saw the movie and it wasn’t that great. It looked good, but the story telling was pure garbage. The problem with these big budget movies is that they usually go over and they forget about the actual movie. They forget they actually need a script and great story telling. They bank on their CGI and big budget sets to make up for it.
When you look at LoTRs and Harry Potter, they use up their budget without forgetting that they need to tell us wtf is going on lol
I haven't read the source material, but I mostly dislike the forced march of character development throughout. I did think London looked amazing on the screen (especially those huge lions), but the characters were flat and the motivations just boring.
I think it's because movies like Transformers made so much money just because they looked good and had lots of explosions but had awful stories. This is where the movie and games industries are similar. They see a formulae that worked once, and then it's a gold rush.
The books are amazing, and I'm not surprised Hollywood fucked the pooch with this. It would've been better as a miniseries instead of the cliffnotes/fanfiction version of the story this movie gives people. The one thing I will say is that they did do a great job of showing what the book describes. :/ It cost a ton of money, but it is a decent enough visual guide. Although Hester's face is supposed to be more jacked than it is. Like one half of it is basically supposed to be so gnarled and unsightly that she always covers it.
Charles Lindeman i would say only the first 3 of transformer film, after that i cant watch till the end because its full of cringe, just bad
after the witwicky boi is done thats when i was done alto mark was decent
$7million dollars
Aww that's hot that's hot
I'm thinking they are pocketing the money to go on vacation cause _nothing_ should ever cost 7 million dollars.
Movies like that leave no room for mistakes and sometimes you need to make mistakes in order to make a better movie.
I understand that reference...
@@Meocross they spent around $150 million before marketing expenses. They made $7.
@@MoarCheeseBirb: *$150million*
Excuse me i think may have lost connection to reality after hearing that number.
MarASS Brownie and fotnite
They should have released this in January. It would have had at least a fighting chance, despite the fact that the movie is ass. It's a shame though, because I loved the world.
Glass. January 18.
And the same studio is behind both movies.
It would’ve had to fight big movies like Creed 2
eon001 Anime Fans would be eating up dragon ball
you should read the books. this movie was a massive disappointment because they changed so much from a brilliant book and made starwars on wheels with brainless characters.
It was heartbreaking to see tom and hester turned into angsty hero types
I just watched the movie, I loved it, watching it for the second time now, but I am definitely going to real the novels. In my opinion, an underrated movie, I love it! My imagination is running wild now! And the CHARACTERS are amazing, I can only guess that the novels flushes them out more, cannot wait to read them!
I found the movie rather disappointing compared to the books, which are incredible
I take it you've probably read the books by now. What do you think of the movie after having done so?
Jut finished book two, you'll see by the end of book 1 why the movies were such a pass.
I was never a major fan of the books, but I will say that this definitely captured the visuals of the series. Everything else was terrible, but the designs were amazing.
I actually saw it bc of that! This epic artist called Ian McQue did a lot of the concept art/art direction and i liked it but everything else was pretty bad
I wish I could congratulate people for failure, what do you think will happen with the wheel of time, should be on amazon soon I think?
I agree 🙃
I'm actually kind of amazing how badly Mortal engines did, I really didn't think it was that bad, especially considering all the other garbage that makes it big these days
25 dollars to go see a movie?? What theater you go to? I have to pay 11 dollars at my local theater place and that hurts me!!!
Alli Herrera lol so true
Alli Herrera he saw the movie in IMAX, so that’s probably why
Gabriel G imax in my theater is 13 bucks
It was probably expensive because AMC has recliner seats (they charge for the experience) and the movie was in IMAX.
imax 3d in big cities is really expensive. just a basic 2d evening ticket in nyc is $17
I couldn't stand the advertising for this movie, the line delivery on display was highschool drama club level awful, and maybe the actual movie wasn't that bad, but the marketing made it seem so shit that I sure as hell wasn't going to see it
It was that bad.
Movie was shit
dude this movie was beyond shitty. poorly directed.
i didnt see it, but i could tell it was a plot driven movie, not a character driven one. Great for kids but nobody else cares
It's really not bad, it's a shame this is so underrated
It just doesnt make sense, the fuel theme is so wrong and in comparison to the books the sizes dont make sense (thats why the fuel also doesnt make sense)
"He didn't get to kill her.
The box office did."
That was mean.
And true.
was looking for this comment
This was a great movie to go watch if you wanted a theater with just you and your significant other
Someones gonna get fingered on the back seats
no kidding, exactly how it was for me. thankfully the tickets were free from Fandango
@@nialls2142 i dont want to get fingered!
Same with Mad Max Fury Road, didn't end up even watching the movie but my brother, the janitor and I were cheering on the young couple going down on each other in the bottom row.
Or you could just use a bed. Probably more comfortable than the seats in the theater. Just a suggestion.
Saw the trailers and realized it was just another YA "teens the movie" so I didn't see it. I'm tired of mediocre movies telling me all adults are bad and only teens can save the world.
In the book hester and Tom are not the heroes, they are just dragged along for the ride. Ana fang(that airship pilot) is more hero material. London is their own undoing
Amen to this fucking comment
Yeah because everything has to pander to your pretentious ass, fuck the new generations that want their movies, right?
Only intersectional marxists teens traitors to western civilization
F T L bad movie is bad movie. I’m a teen and I hate these YA movies too, I don’t think it pandering to give someone a good movie.
4:13 ummmm that's Robert Sheehan, not Justin whoever you said.
That’s what I was thinking. I had to rewind it to listen again because I was so confused, lol.
To be fair, Robert does look a bit like Justin Long in this film
I was just as confused, even rechecked the cast list...
that was the joke, hence why he called him Justin Longer and not Long
You missed the joke.
This is a movie i saw all the marketing for but didnt even know that it even released
It's because i saw so much marketing for it that i just started to skip it or just not pay attention
@Molly Perkins not suspicious at all
So true, there's heaps of movies I see marketing for ages before and nothing just before it's released
Well having seen the movie, theres 2 different ratings
CGI: 10~
Story: -1
Thank you! I went with a friend and we both had similar numbers about halfway into it! ^^
I think this is what the gaming community call, Graphics aren't everything
World building was amazing too. A shame that the story does not do it justice. And just goes stupid.
@@kruum I had 0 expectations going into that movie and I just watched it for the cgi and world building. With that mindset the movie was actually pretty decent.
@@Daniel-pn4qs I know. Based upon the premise. And it being something new, didn't know it was based upon a book, I gave it a chance. The world and CGI were on point. It was just that the 1-dimensional characters, and the stupidity of the guy dragged it all down. But again, the CGI kept me watching.
I wonder though, if they will proceed with that sequel. After watching this video, I kinda get the feeling they shot everything they got, storywise. Instead of introducing various characters in minor plot points, while focusing on this personal journey to which eveyrbody can get introduced.
Something about the trailers made me not want to go see it.
Maybe an issue with suspension of disbelieve or an (ironically) cheap feel?
It is because the trailer is stupid, like why would she use a scope just to see a supergigantic city of London moving towards her. It's not cheap, i see a good CGI, but they made it stupid, and peoples eyes hate it when they see something stupid in the trailers, remember trailers are the one that pulls people to watch the movie but when people hates something in the trailer then people will decide not to watch it and just laugh at it.
For me it was the cliché dialogue
Yes same here
@@strider029 this what occurred to me. The first time I saw the trailer I found it to be so stupid.
My family literally only went to see this for Robert Sheehan
Phat mood XD
Poor Robert Sheehan :( Any franchise he gets into goddamn fails. Lets hope Umbrella Academy will be an exception :)
He's an amazing actor but for some reason only get noticed and casted for trash, Umbrella Acedamy looks nice though.
he's amazing in Misfits.. but yeah he flopped in movies.. poor Mortal Instruments now Mortal Engines are far worse.. glad that Mortal Instruments franchise got remade into Shadowhunters
I love him from misfits so much ...he need to get away from all the big franchise and go back into his indie or series route instead.
@lwandile dube I literally thought it was based on a Cassandra Clare book. I thought to myself "they're still trying to make that a thing?".
The vibe in the trailer is very early 2000s and not in a good way.
It’s not Roberts fault he’s a dope actor I loved mortal instruments!! I forgot why they couldn’t continue the movies.
I think the movie did so bad because the concept of this movie is so dumb no one wanted to see it
No it's because December was already stacked. You had Aquaman, Bumblebee, and Spider-Man. It should have been released somtime in February it would've done alot better had it not released in December
@@KobaTheGreat. Nah, it's really shit. It looks like a bland watered down basic star wars movie with steam punk.
@@Dgbygvg Yea I know the film isn't great or exciting. Am just saying it would have done a bit better if it wasn't released on December. Not saying it would have saved the film but it would made a bit more money at box office.
The concept isn't that dumb, but it is inherently silly. The problem is they didn't treat it like the silly over the top concept that it was and tried to make the movie dark and gritty.
There's nothing as dumb as Thanos's snap. It's fiction, Get over it
I always got trailers for this but I never got an ad that showed when it came out.
BonesToPick same. I saw the trailer and I was interested in it but I never knew it came out until I saw this video
True . I saw the ads in the cinema and no release day
same
I'd like to imagine they checked their advertising budget and saw themselves 20 million in debt, so they sat around a table scratching their heads at what their suppose to do with the fact they let the world know about their movie but not be able to tell anyone it's in the theaters.
Just the date of the movie cost them millions HAHAHAHA 🤣
I remember going to the theatre and my friends were so fucking bored, me too. We left at the interval part. They never allow me to pick movies now 😔
sad💔
Can we just talk about Robert Sheehan for a moment tho?
Rightttt 😍
Best part of it 👌
He looks so fine jsjsjskak
I just respect him so much for his acting and work ethic and gorgeous sense of self and his views on the world and film.. but other than that yes his is very 'finee'
😍 he’s sooo Cute
Image being invaded by America and they roll in on a big ass monster truck
kickback gamez I just had “John Cena” being played on loud speaker as the monster truck is rolling in lol
That is a beautiful image, A++ comment.
President Dwayne Elizondo Mountain Dew Herbert Camacho's voice comes over the loudspeaker demanding your surrender.
Yep! Sounds about right!!
@@jameslyddall I would 100% pay to see any movie with that scene.
Man, i enjoyed the crap out of this movie. it felt pretty complete by the end so it doesn't need a sequel, but i'll definitely say i loved the giant sized mad max feel and would definitely watch again.
thank u....someone that actually likes the movie....
Thank you for saying the same I would have! I loved the movie and I’m reading the books too, and I feel that people didn’t give it as much love as it might have deserved.
Read the books, I guarantee that you will have a better time with them.
I like the movie too... It's awsome cool and it's dope😍😎
Must be seen in 3D ❤️
It failed because they straightened Robert sheehans hair, and the curl gods said NOT TODAY STRAIGHTENER NOT TODAY
Every time I saw a trailer for that my only question was “who is this movie made for?”
Kevin Lentz People who liked the books and want to see the giant cities. Shame it’s so shit. They couldn’t even make the cities accurate to their description, and most of them aren’t even in the book!
@@justanotheryoutubechannel after asking around, I know more people who read twilight than these books.
The concept was too outrageous.
My husband, curiously. He really wanted to see it. He thought it looked really cool. Important to note that my husband is super down-to-earth and not actually a fantasy/ sci-fi fan. His reading is usually confined to textbooks. He likes building cars for fun. He does watch anime. Not the demographic they were probably aiming at. I'm the fantasy/ sci-fi fan. I even read YA occasionally and this movie's trailer did absolutely nothing to get me interested enough to buy tickets.
@@pienkunicorn And that's exactly the problem. If you can't get general SciFi/Fantasy-Fans interested, and change it enough from the source material that the people who loved the books aren't interested either, then who is left to watch it? The rare occasional random person. And that is not gonna bring back an investment of over 150 million.
Tbh, I would have preferred the more adult take of including politics, etc. etc.; and maybe preferred this as a series. The trailer just made it seem like another Hunger Games or Maze Runner; and though I liked those series (as books, and films to a certain extent) I don't think I could stand another one as a film....
More adult take on mobile predator cities? Ok..
The Maze runner books where worse than the movies, though. At least the movies knew where they were going.
I didn't realize they'd COMPLETELY changed the ending. In the book, the weapon backfires and destroys the entire city, with Tom and Hester just barely making it out before the nuclear explosion that kills (almost) everyone else.
But I guess an ending that bleak wouldn't make moviegoers eager to see a sequel.
They changed so many things in the movie. The book was great. I wished they talked more about Katherine in the movie
Did she die in the movie
They changed way too much, it would have been nice to see tunbridge wheels in the movie, never understood why they removed that entire section of the story. Plus didnt fang die in the final fight and not at the great wall? like the book.
@@YourBestBudd55 Really late but, Anna was killed by Valentine at Batmunkh Gompa, not during the final fight.
It would be more interesting that way
I'm curious as to how they thought this movie WOULDN'T loose money.
Cities on wheels look stupid in live action but it can work in an animated format.
yeah like Howl's moving castle but cities
Incorrect. Cities on wheels are tight lol
It's cool idea.looks nice. Stop wanting it to be super realistic just cause it has real people. Just enjoy the fantasy.
The visuals are fine.
The problem really is that movies are becoming way too childish now.
But the creator of this recording was more correct that a miniseries would've been great.
Kino's adventure.
It exists. Chrome Shelled Regios.
@@silentraven9792 Exactly what I came to say!
“I’ve seen 8 Mile” lmao
“You’re a relic of a dying age, a dinosaur.”
“Then what does that make you?”
“Me? I’m the meteor”
In the book he’s absolutely unhinged, thinking London will conquer the world, then eat the world, then planets then stars and in the movie he’s just like there
@@Jeeps-ye5ct And in the books Valentine is actually a more complicated character and not a one dimensional villain.
I'm in Canada and I only ever saw the trailer for this movie ONCE at the drive-in one summer and I was STOKED for it but then I literally never heard another thing about it until right now watching this. This whole time I thought the damn thing fell through and never got made lmao
"The first in a triliogy"
I laughed as soon as I saw that in the trailer.
oh look its my debt
edit: dang had a higher likes than justin for a sec there
Justin for some reason can't be stopped. We need to give up.
Justin Y
I think it was shitty marketing. I wanted to see it based on the trailer I saw 6 months back. But I had no idea it was out. I think I only ever saw a trailer for it last time I saw a movie .
I have TH-cam premium, netflix and adblocker. I don't have a cable.. so commercials are pretty limited for me these days cop6ared to the past.
Well, i use adblocker too and seldom use mobile yt or watch tv, but when i did id get ass blasted with trailers for this movie
And each time i thought it looked like garbage lmao
I love the books for this series because I read them when I was really young, and one day I decided I’d go to the cinema for a day out seeing as I had done barely anything that particular few months. I looked at the showing times and, lo and behold, this film was showing. I hadn’t seen any marketing for it so I looked up a trailer and decided to watch it. The trailer was god-awful, but I knew that didn’t always mean that the entire film would be shit so I gave the film a go anyways, partially because of my love of the books and partially because nothing else caught my eye on the showing times. The film all together is pretty forgetful, however visually stunning, and I don’t really have much to say about it, but the marketing was probably a giant put-off for the few who actually saw it
Seeing the trailers (indeed many times), I was excited to see this movie. It looked like a fun, interesting new fantasy world to dive into. Seeing it was kinda disappointing though. I still like the world the movie took place in, but the story was bland and predictable. It was all very by the books. Besides that, I felt like we didn't get enough worldbuilding. Every time people moved around in London, I wished they would slow down and actually show us how a city on wheels works, but they never did. An extra half hour to explore the world in more detail and more risk in the script might have fixed this movie for me, but now it's just.. one of those movies. Oh yeah, I watched that, I forgot.
The book was not like that, Valentine may be a bastard but what he was doing was for his daughter and he actualy said to the mayor of London that they could just stop and make the city a stationary setlement, Anna fang has an unglorious death before the finale, Hester is actualy ugly and the heroes aren't much of heroes.
@Daniel Price
So, they wanted to sell an addaption that only has the looks and none of the essense of the book?? What could go wrong, ah yeah EVERYTHING, it becomes bland especialy if the souce material was unconventional.
This movie was done as much "by the books" as the life of brian is done by the bible.
Imagine watching the fellowship of the ring, but once the hobbits get to rivendell, arogorn dies in a laser-gun fight and they give the ring to boromir.
everything that happens after tom and hester are rescued by anna feels like it was directed by a five year old who had the book loosely summarized to them and didn't pay much attention.
Ah pardon me, I meant “by the book”, like the expression. It was very formulaic, is what I meant. Sorry for the confusion.
@@renskedunnewold1995 Sorry, i knew what you meant really but i love the books so much. i just want to make it clear to as many people as possible how far removed this piece of crap film is from my all time favourite book series.
The minute I saw the trailer, I thought it looked like an idiotically stupid concept, trying to come across as dramaticaly serious. It looked like Transformers if made by Peter Jackson, only dafter. Which is exactly what it is. Everyone, except the film makers and studio, called this out as going to flop hard from the very beginning.
WallKenshiro The film is shit, yeah. The books are really good though. The concept is madness, but that’s what makes it so cool when it’s really well explained and developed and actually makes a surprising amount of sense when you have all the information the books provide.
@@justanotheryoutubechannel Some books are not ment to be movies. End of story. Just because you can doesn't mean you should.
Tbh, the book is not that better either. Better sure but not that much better
@@justanotheryoutubechannel these movies could have been done right, but not by peter jackson, give that shit to netflix and some young person with an open mind and raving imagination with a hint of madness. thats what this project needed
@@hajarmdn4883 0 likes in your comment
Your explanation of the plot was only less than 10 minutes long, but I got distracted and stopped watching three separate times throughout the video, which pretty much explains why no one went to see this movie...
Lmao
Right!😂😂
I've just watched this movie. I think it was a great blockbuster.
When you watch the movie : London is huge
When you read the book: London like somewhere in top ten biggest city's
I wanted to see Panzerstadt, this fucker must be huge if it could swallow London
@@peterteddy3367 -should be named Germania-
@@peterteddy3367 I was looking forward to that scene through the whole movie, fuckin' bummer
Not to mention arkangel
I remember those trailers - they were on like every other youtube video for a few months. Even those made the movie seem hamfisted and bland, with nothing other than the basic premise of "action movie with moving cities" on display. All that "From the creators of the LotR" bs just made the movie seem like an over-inflated piece of hot garbage.
Though, after watching your video, I am interested in giving the books a try. From the way you speak of them, they don't seem quite as bad.
I read thru the books. Good series. If you want a brief history of everything consider also reading "illustrated world of mortal engines"
They were my favourite series as a teen
I remember them being really good. I want to check them out again now and see if they hold up to my memory.
Blackbird Please read the books. I found them when I was 11, reread them recently now that I am much older, and it’s just as good as I remembered. They are really good, trust me.
Alright, so at the good word of everybody replying, I am going to give the books a shot. I'll try to update with my opinion once I'm decently into the series, but I am going to be fairly busy and I'm not sure when that will be.
Saw the movie, loved it, suprised not alot of people wanted to see it.
i know right
Cormac MacSuibhne same it’s pretty sad
I didn’t even know this movie existed. I think promotion part wasn’t done right.
Honestly if you read the books this movie is an absolute disappointment, they changed alot of the story that just made it really confusing.
Like half way through they just change everything, originally airhaven is attacked, Tom and Hester make it into a balloon and are followed by Grike or Shrike from the movie, they trick him and find them selfs in the rustwaters, where the mud is so bad towns usually dont make it back. They get into a fight with Grike and a suburb goes by and they just barely make it on to the suburb. Now this is called Tunbridge Wheels and it is a pirate suburb, the mayor wants to raid airhaven that has landed on black island and basically they fail horribly and grike gets killed here. Obviously in the movie this never happens and it would've helped the movie so much.
same
I actually enjoyed this movie
Make actress no one knows to lead 100 million movie blockbuster man thats crazy
Not as crazy as thinking that being famous makes people good actors.
@@HereComesPopoBawa what's even crazier is not knowing that big name would of brung more interest to the film.
@@liont3250 Theres plenty of bombs with great actors. It makes no difference. It's all about the hype/social media or superheroes.
@@thegombie I'm sure to the people who didnt know about movie,it would of made a difference,and that's the point I'm trying to make
Worked for Hunger Games, and Twilight.
I knew this was going to suck because of how heavily advertised it was
yeah you can always tell when they over advertise
The fact that it was released dec. made it even worse.
Really? I've seen 0 advertisements for this movie. I didn't even know it existed
So it's steampunk Star Wars then?
No its kindda like mad max. Its set on a post war earth after a devastating nuclear/biological/conventional war where a lot of the advance technologies have been lost so you get a lot of scavengers pocking around the "old world" hence why London found a devastating piece of pre war technology a lot of the plot from the other books actually revolves around pre war super weapons or STALKERS. Also in the book the whole city went boom killing basically the whole population but you know they can't do that :/
Yeah. Good stuff
@@noname-wo9yy It would have been a lot better if it was Mad Max, tbh. A "stupid premise" can work really well, but you have to embrace the insanity. Mortal Engines wanted to be taken seriously on the wrong fronts and made light of the elements that they really should have been more serious about. Fuckin minions...
@@arachnofiend2859 yeah that's the dumbing down for the general audience for you.
movie is shit. more propaganda- evil male patriarchy based on exploitation gets overthrown by woke feminists and male "ally" while people would not necessarily know why they did not want to see this film your brain subconsciously realized its the same trash propaganda that makes up half the films being made these days.
So basically they made Agar. io mixed with Howl’s moving castle, but atleast those two were popular this was the complete polar opposite.
No they didn't. They took a meh book and made a meh movie.
Movies based on YA books could actually be good if the effort is there and not just crap all over it.
I'm not sure anymore after watching the "Goblin Slayer" anime. I'm still a little mind F***** over how they managed to make that into an anime and somehow managed to strip it of almost everything that actually made the comic half way decent. That Anime was hilariously bad because they skipped like 2/3rds of the source material but the funny thing is that almost everything they chose to cut out where actually like some of the best parts of the comic.
I never read these comics, but but I'm pretty sure I'd have the same reaction if I had. Actually the worst anime I can think of is "Dance in the Vampire Bund" which don't get me wrong. It's a great Show in it's own right. UNLESS you've read the comics and realize that the Anime is missing like 90+% of the storyline. =/
O you like the books? Let me fuck it up for you *directors logic who probably never read the book*
@@auraeldodge
And yet it is one of the most loved animes of this season. Who knew. Honestly, if you haven't realized by now that the Anime are just advertisements for the light novels and probably manga then you haven't been paying attention to the anime community.
Unless the series is finished or so well loved that it becomes super popular in the west, it won't be a good anime series. That is why Fullmetal got a redo since it was so popular that they actually remade it to fit the actual manga. That is why One-punch man sticks true to the story, the west fucking loved it. That is why Death Note became so popular and actually finished.
And that is why shit like Berserk or Goblin Slayer will never get a true anime adaptation, it is too shocking and not really popular for a lot of people. Money always talks.
Eh screw the rape, which was actually a key plot point that's somehow missing. I'm More disappointed in the fact that they got rid of most of the funny as hell blatant references to 'Advanced Dungeon's and dragons' which where actually some of the more funny moments in that comic.Though actually When I watched that I kind of though it was missing some plot points when it came to the rape thing. Those where -actually- mostly plot related things. Like missing the scene where his mother and sister are being raped and tortured while he was watching is kind of a stepping stone of the storyline. Actually the rape thing was kind of secondary though.
I watched it in the cinema, it was impressive, stupid, confusing and incomprehensible all at once.
I actually watched it on my birthday, and chose it largely BECAUSE the trailers made so little sense.
The screening I went to was actually relatively busy given the nature of the cinema I went to (it's in a small town with 8000 inhabitants)
But, yeah. I mean, I don't regret seeing it, but it was seriously weird.
I still regret Cloud Atlas.
@@BungieStudios both still a better love story than the entire Twilight saga...
KuraIthys Read the books, they are way better.
@@BungieStudios I regret Valerian and the city of a thousand planets.
Ya, my kids loved it. I thought it was a great Steampunk movie, that is of course what it was, after all, easily the best Steam Punk movie ever made. So what Steampunk movie doesn't have issues?
I immediately lost interest when the trailer said that the LAND-LOCKED cities were the dangerous ones and not the floating or FLYING ones lol
When PLoT LoGiC takes a massive brain fart, they showed absolutely no reason why a land locked city would be more dangerous other than "just because it is".
Uriah Siner that actually makes sense to suggest that land locked cities are most dangerous. It’s based on the real world history. For example the country Russia has historically been dangerous and expansionist precisely because it was land locked and always wanted to expand access to the sea and oceans. They have incentive to be warlike and expansionist.
@@StopFear and Germany exploding like crazy in WW2. Like some pent-up guy just had to release all the bottled anger and frustration
@@ayuchanayuko Germany did have the Luftwaffe though
The in canon reason in the books for the floating cities not being dangerous is because they are highly flammable. The gas they use inside them lights up, so no electronics, no flames, and nothing that can emit sparks are allowed into the floating cities to avoid sending everything up in flames. They touch on that in the movie... In a very hamfisted way.
The world that existed before this saga, in canon, is briefly mentioned in Fever Crumb. You sort of have this weird race of ultra modified humans with feline aspects to them who had altered carbon like mind transference hardware. They ruled the world like nobility and there was some pretty high science. @_@ The weapons they had would be more than enough to take out the air balloons.
The movie was great, I wish more people had gone to the cinema so that we could have gotten the sequels
Another forgettable film because it has no character development. The moving cities looked nice but are not believable in any future situation. It's just like films based on videogames - writers and director go in with waaaaaaayyyy too many preconcieved notions.
Many things in movies arent believable such as transformers which even in the future would be impossible but still is popular so I dont get your reasoning
Yh but the books had much more depth
It is actually an architectual concept, made after the project The Walking City by Archigram. Look them up, they had lots of concepts about futuristic moving cities or just cities who look nothing like what we know today.
It's based on a SCIFI you fucking clod
I cannot agree more. I feel like we really would’ve loved this story and the characters if it was given more screen time to develop. Like this is a four book series so it can’t just be squeezed into one movie. I man you can if you can pull off writing it well, but it’s still risky.
I never saw a commercial abt this lol
Really, it was everywhere
I saw it and I chose to let it die
MiguelHrdz2 let the past die. Kill it if you have to
Edgy misanthropy, wonky diversity casting (you could do the right thing in a better way), a clunky plot that makes no sense, edgy rebellions and cries of rights with no thought of the responsibilities they have to take on, copy paste stories we've heard before. Uninspired, worn out crap.
Edit: this comment got more traction than I thought wtf
Are you talking about The Last Jedi? lol
In the book everyone dies and the whole star wars bit was just one scene that also was different in the book
So maybe stop taking a huge crap on this franchise
lmao you clearly havent read the book if youre calling it "wonky diversity"
if a book takes place in china theres gonna be chinese people fam get over it
@@freddiecrook7788 Since when was this video about the book??
Great summation of all Hollywood products these days. It's a good thing I don't read fiction books anymore, I would hate to be a fan of any of the material that gets desecrated like this.
I had no idea this movie was a thing till someone pointed it out to me several months after it was released and was no longer in cinemas; they also only knew about it as they used to read the books and were really into it and noticed it on reddit. I don’t know what ads you were talking about, but to be explicitent clear, this movie failed because no one knew it was a thing.
I'm from Wellington, where this film was made, and I saw it with my mates, sitting through it because one of them, who I've known my whole life, was an extra. This film was 2 hours long. His brief cameo was less than two seconds. Guess which of those I turned around in the other direction from and missed.
I'm from Wellington too, loved the books as a kid and my sister who never read them got cast as an extra and I didn't. :((((((((((((( SO SAD
@Vision Tube what lmao
Vision Tube sheesh dude, try to not let your charming personality overflow and choke us to death
Has peter Jackson been involved with a good movie since lord of the rings?
Yes. They Shall Not Grow Old.
D.A.Z. Haven’t seen it I’ll check it out
Thon Maker
King kong wasn't that bad. A little long, but still.
tintin was good
Hosanna Pwasanga forgot about that. I loved that movie
I don't know... i found this film really good and i would love to see a 2nd one
RihardsUK , you love the accent perhaps thats what ur saying
I fell asleep halfway through the movie.
You should read the books then!
Yeah the second film will most likely not exist
Yea but that would never happen
I saw it in theater, the prologue might be one of the most exciting action scene. Then after that, the movie happened......
It actually hurts seeing the movie full of potential and actually great in world building, made me cringe so hard for the entire movie because of cheesy one liner dialogue, bad writing and acting overall. It's a real shame.