Mortal Engines (2018)

Ha I thought it was decent. The story was very milquetoast but dammit I'm a huge sucker for steampunk settings so that and the action sequences carried it enough for me to not regret going. It's not great by any means but it was ok.

I thought it was ok - the plot and characters weren't great, but the setting was very original. The set pieces with the cities were great.

The central premise was ludicrous nonsense ( the mining city being a week of fuel for london ? haha, maybe if it was converted directly to energy ) but it sure looked pretty.

Saw this cuz Peter Jackson. This movie is all eye candy and poor plot. Definitely worth a watch once but dont expect much. Its Star Wars in Steampunk without lightsabers and the force. By the way. Anyone else notice the action song sounded very similar to the theme song from Mad Max Fury Road? It was driving me nuts.

Stave said:

By the way. Anyone else notice the action song sounded very similar to the theme song from Mad Max Fury Road? It was driving me nuts.

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Same composer: Junkie XL

Also, you (and probably others) need to realize that when a big name director has his name attached to a movie he is not directing, it's futile to presume the movie will explore similar themes or have the level or even type of direction you come to expect from said big name director. Jackson did just enough to land one of the four writing credit and his company is producing, landing him a producer credit. The film is directed by Christian Rivers, a long time co-worker of Jackson who worked up the food chain from storyboard artist to special effect supervisor to second unit director to now full-fledged director.

That being said, they do their marketing right, because I also thought this was directed by Jackson before checking the music credit made me look for the full credits.

Szlia said:

Same composer: Junkie XL

Also, you (and probably others) need to realize that when a big name director has his name attached to a movie he is not directing, it's futile to presume the movie will explore similar themes or have the level or even type of direction you come to expect from said big name director. Jackson did just enough to land one of the four writing credit and his company is producing, landing him a producer credit. The film is directed by Christian Rivers, a long time co-worker of Jackson who worked up the food chain from storyboard artist to special effect supervisor to second unit director to now full-fledged director.

That being said, they do their marketing right, because I also thought this was directed by Jackson before checking the music credit made me look for the full credits.

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Interesting. After LOTR and The Hobbit, I figured this would be an epic start to a series. I was disappointed.

That does not shock me at all. My family of 4 made up 90% of the attendance. I was one of those who fell for the marketing until I saw the run time. Jackson is incapable of doing anything less than 3 hours.

Also it was nice to see a movie that wasn't superhero_movie_5423 but oh well.

TheNozz said:

No one is going to care about this film

I’ll be amazed if it gets a sequel

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God I fucking love being right!

‘Mortal Engines’ to Lose More Than $100 Million at Box Office

I still wanna see this, but it is far too high concept for the Hunger Games loving audience

Qhue said:

I still wanna see this, but it is far too high concept for the Hunger Games loving audience

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Edgy.

reavor said:

Agree, lots of plot holes, too many over-used tropes, basically no jokes or humor, too many characters they try to you care for but feel flat.

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My biggest complaint was that it was just super fucking lazy. They didn't explain shit. For instance, introducing random ass characters that are super important to the plot like 30 minutes from the conclusion.

It was also all over the place. That may have worked for books, but stuff like undead guy just felt like an afterthought for additional tension that wasn't needed. And worse, it fizzled out majorly (they introduced and wrapped it up way too quickly).

The only positive about this was that it was pretty and the setting was unique and interesting. The actual movie and characters though were horrendous.