It's one of the only original movies the film industry has made in a while, please go well
I was initiall excited then all recent trailers look like generic tween film shite so let it burn
Is it failing because it's bad, or because it came out at a bad time?
I remember seeing the trailer for this ages ago.
There's two theaters in my city. One of them isn't showing this at all, and the other one only has one showing this week.
Guess I'll have to wait until it comes out on a physical release until I can watch it.
Visually, it's pretty good.
Story-wise, it's nothing you haven't seen before. It's basically "Steampunk Star Wars".
28% according to Rotten Tomatoes.
https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/mortal_engines
Apparently it has amazing effects but boring story, timing probably affected it too.
I wouldn't call the story boring, but the story is a bit like the wheel: It works, but it's not at all new.
I watched it last week. The whole film is incredibly tropey. The writing and dialogue is cringy. It ends up feeling much more like a tween story when it had so much potential with the unique world.
The film paints obvious bad guys and obvious good guys but never really explains why they're good or bad. I left the film being a bit confused about why we're supposed to support the main characters actions throughout most of it.
I think if it targeted a slightly older audience and had some genuine good debates about good and evil in their world it could have been interesting. Instead you have a cringey tween fantasy that has no depth to the story.
Haven't seen the film yet but the world design and visuals really did intrigued me. Shame it's bogged down with a generic tween story and lazy writing. Would had love to see this sort of film as a success since I'm a sucker for its grand scale steampunk aesthetic.
Honestly one of the most off-putting things about watching the film is that everytime I saw Valentine my first thought was "Is that fucking Kevin Costner?!"
It looks cool, but even for a tween/young adult sci-fi adventure setting, the premise seems completely absurd.
Absurd settings can work great if the characters act like real people would
I'm starting to feel like Peter Jackson is a lot like George Lucas in that, he's super famous for making and credited for making some of the best movies of all time, but everything else he's thrown his hat into afterwards has
been shit.
I mean, if I recall correctly, the central premise is basically "there's extreme resource scarcity, so mankind had to make giant moving cities that most likely consume more energy in a few seconds than a normal one would in a year."
I take it you aren't a fan of Mad Max then
It's a shame I really liked the books and visually this film was astounding but they dropped the ball a bit in the story made it have a much more family friendly theme especially the ending whereas the book was quite a bit darker.
For example in the book at the endeveryone in London dies.
I quite liked it. The story was simple and unremarkable, but the world was great.
I think the willing suspension of disbelief line might be somewhere between "no infrastructure, but gas everywhere" and "resource scarcity, but also using energy on level of Kardashev scale civilization"
The opening scene of this movie was amazing. One of the better opening scenes in a long time and sound design was great. I saw it in iMAX and was blown away. After that opening scene it does falter a bit. The story was meh and the character development was almost non-existent for some of the characters. The special effects were great though.
All in all, I did enjoy it. It wasn't great, but it defiantly is not bad. Its worth a watch if it remotely seems interesting to you.
The concept of it all sounds really good
But that's about it.
I remember the books fondly. They're typical YAF hot garbage, but I love them so much. Trashy YAF, Especially scifi or steampunk is my jam. The books have such neat ideas and concepts, but the execution falls so flat. Now I kinda want a Leviathan adaptation.
I dunno, District 9 was pretty good, and he did produce Tintin, so at least he’s got some good things in his post LOTR/King Kong track record.
I dunno, kids just aren't into the philosophy of the State like they used to be.
He didn't have much of an actual role in this film at all.
I leaned that this movie exists by finding the novel it's based on in the bargain-bin of my local supermarket, with a sticker announcing the movie on it. That's not exactly a great way to advertise your movie
This is such a shame. The book has such a great concept and executes it really well, sucks the film couldn't do it justice. If only Jackson wasn't too busy to direct.
Might watch it just for Hugo Weaving, though I'll probably just wait until it's out on streaming services.
I can't see how the last 6 months have been a bad time, there's been nothing out this year and not much till practically next summer.
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