You can really tell this story probably did way better in book form. The amount of plot twists and world expansion feels like it compressed at least 10 novels in two hours.
@@chuchu5946 As someone who actually really enjoyed the premise as a book and was really surprised to see it get a movie I have to agree with you it was really hard to read that book because of the writing
Imagine building entire motorized cities, but the best minds who build these amazing feats of engineering, can’t build anything that can sustain the already declining human population in this movie’s universe
I remember desperately wanting to see this movie, even though it had relatively negative reviews. I really did love it and my desire to see it was not in vain, but I also understand why it had a generally bad reception: It's actually a lot like the Michael Bay Transformers movies--the selling point is the amazing visuals and CGI, of which most will agree Mortal Engines demonstrated spectacularly well. But of course, these scenes are very difficult, time consuming, and expensive to make. That being said, most of the movie consists of person-to-person drama, and scenes that are not quite so interesting to watch. That is why this movie fell apart. I've only watched it in its entirety once, but I'd definitely be willing to watch it again just for the sake of seeing the colossal, mobile, steampunk monstrosities rolling across the screen.
It's a cool idea but I didn't make it through 20 minutes of the movie. This recap is the first time I've known what happened beyond the first portion of the story.
I’ve never heard anyone describe transformers as a movie with amazing visuals and cgi. It’s more like shoving acids and razor blades into your eyes tbh.
I remember reading the entire book series of this and seeing the movie. I ended up hating it because they changed the ending so it can’t have a working sequel. Not just that, but Shrike had a more proper character arc and survived longer and even was revived, Valentine got redeemed before he died, and all of London was destroyed which was a big part of the series, and Anna’s death was much more emotional
Random inference: Shan Guo (山国->Mountain Country) we are not only against traction cities, we rebuilt the Great Wall for the ultimate city and somehow have cannons
Valentine: "So I want to use the thing that quite literally destroyed the world, I swear it won't go wrong, I'm just going to use it on the city with full supplies and it definitely will not go wrong " Everyone: ...
Yeah.. In the book it's the other head guy that is actually the main villain, and he's portrayed as a lunatic by the end basically and that's why the use of the weapon makes no sense
I actually like that Crome was against Medusa. You would think someone like lord Crome would approve the use of Medusa but actually he himself even disapprove of Valentines madness and order him to be arrested.
If anyone doesn’t know, this is actually based on a book series of the same name, by Philip Reeve, and I strongly suggest reading it, as it is way better than the movie.
Shrike's and hester"s father and daughter type of relationship was actually really heartwarming.. All he ever wanted is to see her find happiness and someone to love.. On the surface lvl he seemed pretty scary but it turned out he cared a lot about her..
I’m actually reading Mortal Engines rn, and I can tell you this, they changed pretty much how the entire movie plays out. The premise is the same, but the movie plays out differently.
Pandora is a girl in greek mythology who was given a box. She was told not to open the box but eventually did on curiosity. The box released many bad spirits. The name pandora in the story and along with the box makes me think this has something to do with it.
well the fact is that even now london does not include its colonial history in school syl and quite a few brits feel happy abt how "great" their kingdom was
@@deviljho4260 Churchill is still their hero buddy! "greatest Briton of all time" I have worked in Britain for over 4 years and none of my colleagues knew abt his evil deeds, he is all glorious and charismatic for them all.
My feeling towards this movie is exactly my feeling towards steampunk in general: aesthetically interesting but it falls apart quickly under any kind of logical examination.
I dont care for logical examination, generally, retrofuturism does not aims for that. But what infuriates me in the majority of steampunk works is that they only aim for the steam and victorian part, and forgot the punk, like, where is my dystopian futuristic first revolution world? Basically that. If you do not understand something, tell me, because english isnt my mother language so sometimes I can not articulate words too well.
@@Palguim i agree Basically not many people complains that science in star wars makes no sense, so why they complain at steampunk? And about punk part. I would love to see a movie about french revolution, or Soviet, or any revolution with high steampunk technology. How it would affect daily love and stuff
@@drghost_9739 I have no idea how you got that idea but you should definitely read it. One of the best book series out there and its criminally underrated
@@drghost_9739 You're reading it wrong, "I can't recommend this enough" means that they've recommended it so much that they can't anymore because they've hit the limit.
@@t2hk_ That is not quite true. More like the opposite actually. It means more something like there is no limit to how much you can recommend it. So you would always be able to recommend it, but it would never be enough.
Honestly, the end was disappointing. And the relationship between the cyborg and Heter was useless and emotionless. I hype every movie, serie, anime and TV show, even the most hated ones by the major public, but this ones was not It, chief :/
If you have ever played the game borderlands, and the mining exovator base at the end of the game, this is esentially what a "major city" would be, and likely would have to be built off of one of these masive towers. Keep in mind though, that this machine is a MINING DEVICE, along with most of the other massive trucks and automobiles, with refining equipment and facilities taking up massive amounts of space, and typically being incredibly slow moving. All of this means that the big cities would constantly be being attacked by -THE SUBERBS, wich is an exactly acurate depiction of real life urban darwinism. All of this
I remember reading the trilogy back when I was younger (4-6 years ago), I saw that they were going to make a movie based off the first book. Even though I remember being really excited about it and wanted to watch it when it would come out- I completely forgot about the whole series and the movie-in the making. Learning that it came out quite a while ago, I'm surprised that I never heard anything about it earlier. But seeing clips and this summary of the movie, I'm glad that it majorly looks exactly what was being described in the book!! Everything looks just the same from what I imagined, it makes me happy ^^
Oh my god I loved this series HBO’s miniseries are amazing (Edit): I’d love to see them recap Chernobyl too, that series is probably one of my all time favorites
This has to be the most all over the place plot I’ve ever seen in my entire life, it’s like they took a hundred books and summarized it into a 2 hour movie!
Which is exactly why it's one of the most disappointing movies ever. Awsome concept, utter failure to execute said concept. Why on earth make a movie about 'cities on wheels warring each other', to have the opening scene with one city attacking a smal village, being the only such battle in the entire friggin movie.
Its not explained in the movies but the smaller cities basically scrap and destroy smaller stuff, and slave trade. Basically all the traction cities are evil
Thank you for your channel because it saves me a lot of time and helps me avoid movies that would irk me at best. The comment section is very helpful for I was able to know that a book of this exists.
I remember watching this in cinemas, and the 'decent' reviews I think are totally justified, I feel it had awkward character writing, with not much character development, and storyline is also meh, but the visuals, war scenes and premise are AMAZING imo
Sadly, I thought the trailers made this movie look way cooler than it actually was and convinced my brother to go with me to see it in theaters. One of only two times in my entire life I regret going to see a movie in theaters.
Fun fact: fictional works can contain facts but your fact is based on something that is fiction within a fictiona work, so its not a fact. It's shit an author made up.
The Mortal Engines series is my favorite of all time. The movie wasn't great, but I'm glad is captured what I loved about the books: The image of huge mechanical cities. The writer of Mortal Engines really had this way of describing them. If you found this movie interesting then read the books, they are a lot better and some of the best parts of the books were cut out for the movie (more dialogue with Shrike, etc)
@Troodon they're not slightly better trust me, they're FAR better. As in major aspects are changed, not to mention that there's 4 amazing novels rather than just 1 shitty film
I see this as Agario and the wall is just a giant camper that stays near a virus except without the weakness of smaller people being able to attack it.
@The Emperor Protects probably because it doesn't have any "cool superheroes" A pity, as the world is great imo. Leaves more of a lasting impression than all the Avengers movies anyway
@@RennieAsh probably the movie was terrible (imho) beacuse it wasnt close to the book and the usual movie tropes which is there is alot of plot holes and stupid decisions
@@supreet6331 I think he meant the storyline, the plot and the overall background of the entire movie, the steampunk concept is super awesome NGL, and every bit of it looks amazing! it's just that, the story had some plot holes i guess. JS
something people dont understand in this movie is that if all cities are on wheels now then that means that tokyo is to meaning now tokyo itself can drift
I watched this movie some time ago and I have got to say the MEDUSA is one of the coolest looking Mega Weapon things I’ve seen in movies Also where’s Adam at the start😭
I loved this movie, it was so cool when it came out and we rented it! I love that you’re reviewing it, so I can practically watch it for a second time. Thank you!
@this is a really long yet creative name do u agree more likely a "normal" city like Shan Guo. Iirc, based on the book, it was mentioned that there were multiple "regular" cities behind the wall, and Shan Guo was but one of them
Your thumbnails and titles absolute kill me. Sometimes you're talking about a movie that I know very well and I don't know what movie it is till you start showing footage from it. Btw I've got some good movie recommendations for you to do. Two movies that are terrible, but they'd be great for recap videos. Lawnmower Man 1 and 2. They're hilariously bad, but perfect for recaps. Also, Hollow Man would be a good one to do, too.
Read the books the first one is just plain great the second one focuses on the relationship between Tom and Hester, the third on introduces a larger set of characters and the forth has a great ending, there is also a spin-off series that has some great lore but I don’t think the author highered an editor as there are many plot holes
Mystery recapped, 'mortal engines' What a coincidence that China, one country, is now a nation with heels, and remaining survivor. Great summary, and for being a science fiction film, not too bad.
I actually remember watching a pretty similar concept, not that alike, in Kino's Journey, where a whole modern country never stops moving and stomp everything on its way, including other countries. Is a really cool anime, about a person visiting strange countries.
Really not sure why they didn't just follow the books, the storyline and world building is mind blowing. But Hollywood just had to changing something perfect and ended up losing $100 million in this dumpster fire.
I love these kind of stuff like the idea of humanity rise again after a massive disaster and keep living is just horrifying and wonderful at the same time
Am convinced the author took his inspiration from the 90s CGI show War Planets: Shadow Raiders. He just scaled it back from a giant planet chasing and consuming other planets to a big city on wheels chasing smaller ones.
I never heard of this movie, and I love apocalyptic movies and stories and I must say though this looks freaking awesome and wholly original by the looks of it. So thankfully. I only watched 2 minutes of the recap, so I'll shall return to this after I watch this movie.
Of course, even when the world basically ends and goes apocalyptic, the British national museum survives
Rule Britannia
Britannia rules the _fields_
The Britons never-ever shall be slaves!
And Britain attacks China
It always would
Why miss the opportunity of bringing the museum with you to the artifacts you're planning on nicking?
@@cooldownboi3890 already slaves to your queen soooooo...
You can really tell this story probably did way better in book form. The amount of plot twists and world expansion feels like it compressed at least 10 novels in two hours.
@@chuchu5946 As someone who actually really enjoyed the premise as a book and was really surprised to see it get a movie I have to agree with you it was really hard to read that book because of the writing
@@bonesy98 I think he means bad writing for the movie, not the book
Yh the books are actually rlly good compared to this lol
But the cgi? My man thats awesome
Some ideas just don't adapt well. Some just aren't very good in the first place.
Imagine sitting on a hill eating ice cream when suddenly you see the entire of London come at you at full speed
At least you would be on a hill. They tend to stay on flatter ground ;p
@@RennieAsh well you're not safe as there are people from the south east lol
You will feel the full might of London
That would be scary
I’d sh*t myself.
Everybody gangsta until you saw Tokyo accelerating towards your hometown in the distance
drifties
Banzai
Oh no
*Tokyo drift starts playing*
@@venoxedits9691
funny 😂
Imagine building entire motorized cities, but the best minds who build these amazing feats of engineering, can’t build anything that can sustain the already declining human population in this movie’s universe
Like a goddamned garden
@@kamikeserpentail3778 what’s your comment a reference to?
@@HarshithPranesh I think it literally means “build a garden and grow food instead of making Technodromes from TMNT”
@@Sanches7557 ahh i get it now lol
The amount of energy it must require to move one city could have powered 10 static ones. Hell... make it 10 very large hydroponic farms
Looks like a game that'll never leave steam early access.
🤣 the funny part is that you are absolutely correct
Look up something called 'dragonmech'. This idea is was already over a decade old when this released rofl.
Are we talking about Last Oasis?
@@Daxmacloi no that would require people to know what Last Oasis is :p
@@Folsomdsf2 you know it's based on a book right lol
Tom: "Innocent Londoners should not die."
Kwan: "I missed the part where that's my problem."
Cyborg fed up with Hester being sad: “Gonna cry?”
Fires Medusa first anyway
Remember when the "innocent Londoners" were cheering at the destruction of another city? Just how innocent are they, really?
They made a religion about minions. I can't let them die.
@@Casteray Me neither
I remember desperately wanting to see this movie, even though it had relatively negative reviews.
I really did love it and my desire to see it was not in vain, but I also understand why it had a generally bad reception:
It's actually a lot like the Michael Bay Transformers movies--the selling point is the amazing visuals and CGI, of which most will agree Mortal Engines demonstrated spectacularly well.
But of course, these scenes are very difficult, time consuming, and expensive to make. That being said, most of the movie consists of person-to-person drama, and scenes that are not quite so interesting to watch. That is why this movie fell apart.
I've only watched it in its entirety once, but I'd definitely be willing to watch it again just for the sake of seeing the colossal, mobile, steampunk monstrosities rolling across the screen.
yeah but with city's instead of robots
More city action would be great, though I guess people need people to keep interested.
It's a cool idea but I didn't make it through 20 minutes of the movie. This recap is the first time I've known what happened beyond the first portion of the story.
I’ve never heard anyone describe transformers as a movie with amazing visuals and cgi. It’s more like shoving acids and razor blades into your eyes tbh.
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This is exactly what Patrick had in mind when he said to just move bikini bottom somewhere else
Imagine if they actually referenced the movie though.
@@rest1585 lmao a beach called bikini bottom would be a hilarious reference in Mortal Engines
666 LIKES ???
I may be not patrick but I feel him
Lol
sick movie. The horsepower of the engines that carry the cities must be insane
Torque
@NoodleKDoodle at least
Are you not intelligent thoes monsters are moved by hamsters runing in a spinning wheel thing .
Torque*
Oh the pollution must be insane
"Salzhaken is being attacked by the larger predator city of London"
Basically how every countryman up to 30 km away from London feels like.
Hahaha east india trading company
Basically how the rest of the former colonies having ptsd watching this movie
Any towns near a Large city, really
@eqw alle edgy. feel like a big man for hundreds of years ago?
@eqw alle pot
I remember reading the entire book series of this and seeing the movie. I ended up hating it because they changed the ending so it can’t have a working sequel. Not just that, but Shrike had a more proper character arc and survived longer and even was revived, Valentine got redeemed before he died, and all of London was destroyed which was a big part of the series, and Anna’s death was much more emotional
Yeah, they really ruined things for the film.
Expectations kill enjoyment...
Like Stat wars, trek, marvel dc fans.
Hell.. fans of bands hate if they do new stuff, hate if they do the same ol
Statues of minions are praised as American deities
I literally cannot stop laughing
In the book they were statues of Mickey and Donald or Goofy (I don't remember)
@@tdpuuhailee8222 that would have been more plausible
I need jokessssssss in ur videos like you did i that no electricity japan video
@@tdpuuhailee8222 copyright is why
It should of been hamburgers
Cool concept. Wish they’d get a metaphorical flat tire just to see if the future still got AAA
AA ay?
@@Scarletraven87 no
AAA
Read the books, they are way better if you like the concept. There are 4 of them too
What is this movie name
Mortal Engines
*"Where statues of minions are praised as American deities"*
That one guy: *Finally people who understand the culture!*
Hahaha it's probably a kid or some adult that is still inlove with the minions hahahaha
Random inference: Shan Guo (山国->Mountain Country) we are not only against traction cities, we rebuilt the Great Wall for the ultimate city and somehow have cannons
I love how London is portrayed as minion worshipping city while Shan Guo is literally portrayed as a WW1 style fort
@@chocylachy1 ye
@Repent to Jesus Christ sus
This was neat. I liked the concept. The city eating city thing would be a cool game mechanic
imagine a cannon on the small city how that would change things a little bit🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
@@raven4k998imagine city battles
Valentine:
"So I want to use the thing that quite literally destroyed the world, I swear it won't go wrong, I'm just going to use it on the city with full supplies and it definitely will not go wrong "
Everyone: ...
Being honest, it seemed to have like a fraction of the power the weapon actually had. Remember it was a Quantum Weapon, it needed much more energy.
To his point, it probably did destroy some of the supplies. I weapon I mean
Yeah.. In the book it's the other head guy that is actually the main villain, and he's portrayed as a lunatic by the end basically and that's why the use of the weapon makes no sense
it wasn’t just medusa that destroyed the world. a bigger part was the odin weapons platform
Yeah and when he uses the world ending weapon, it barely breaks the wall down.
Idc what you say he is the best recap channel like the way he explains and the jokes he makes are worth pure gold
Hell the fuck yes.
Imo minute movies is better, but I like this one second best.
@@ale.6195 same 😀
@@ale.6195 bruh yea and he makes a lot of pop culture references
No one has said otherwise 😁
I actually like that Crome was against Medusa. You would think someone like lord Crome would approve the use of Medusa but actually he himself even disapprove of Valentines madness and order him to be arrested.
Though in the book Crome is the bad guy and valentine eventually realises that medusa is bad
@@kingomnom8317 yeah, I can see why they might change it for the film but I do prefer the way the book handles it
@@kingomnom8317 a book?!
@@lonestarr9759 yep there's a book a few books that the movie is based on there by Phillip reevee
The books are so good
I can’t believe the minions being gods was an actual prediction
If London is this big, just imagine what kind of monstrosity Tokyo would be....
New York maybe? Not really sure not from America
@@okayboomer7546 the New York traction city would be kitted out with all of the guns it could carry
@@alem1655 america was destroyed and left as a radioactive wasteland
Just imagine this : the whole of China with wheels
@@ImNotThatGuyFr oh god
If anyone doesn’t know, this is actually based on a book series of the same name, by Philip Reeve, and I strongly suggest reading it, as it is way better than the movie.
I read the books before the movie released, and was really exited to watch it until I did and realized that I should have just stayed with the books.
@@appl7781 same
Agreed
Kind of lame premise tbh
books are 99% always better than movies
Shrike's and hester"s father and daughter type of relationship was actually really heartwarming..
All he ever wanted is to see her find happiness and someone to love..
On the surface lvl he seemed pretty scary but it turned out he cared a lot about her..
Oh yeah for sure, trying to kill Hester cause she's unhappy is a very heartwarming father-daughter relationship 😂
I love my daughter.
Hence, in order to help her overcome his sadness I will make her like me and if she refuses I must kill her.
Yup sounds great. 😃
@@MaxAethon i think thats just because he was made that way, as a killing machine. He tried to supress that feeling to help Hester
It's trying to kill her and turn her into a cyborg. That's the best way to protect her in his eyes
As only a cyborg can... 😋
I’m actually reading Mortal Engines rn, and I can tell you this, they changed pretty much how the entire movie plays out. The premise is the same, but the movie plays out differently.
Just imagine vatican city coming toward you saying "Sir, would you like to know about our lord and savior".
Carries the same vibes as "HaveyouacceptedJesusasyourpersonalsaviour?"
@FEGELEIN imagine what Germany would do to the rest of the countries
@@janemaria8912 the balkans have started way more wars than germany my dear
@@Evelyn_Noname but Germany started the largest blitzkrieg on France so what would happen if they did the same to the rest of the countries
@@janemaria8912germany hasn‘t started any wars in like 80 years while other european countries have so I find that country to be a bad example
They killed pandora for her box? Makes sense to me.
Damn bro
*there's a subtle schroeder's cat comment/reference buried several layers deep in that one*
Pandora’s Box😂
@@scottmantooth8785 It might be dancing
@@starwolfcyberlight4546 *talented cat*
The stupid Minion thing was like one of the only times I've laughed at the Minions, and I love it
In the book it was Mickey Mouse. But you know, Disney
@@dustojnikhummer Honestly that does make more sense
The despicable me series made an insane amount of money so in a weird way, the deity angle checks out
Pandora is a girl in greek mythology who was given a box. She was told not to open the box but eventually did on curiosity. The box released many bad spirits. The name pandora in the story and along with the box makes me think this has something to do with it.
It was actually one of the small things that the original author put in and I’m surprised people actually thought about this.
This Pandora had a bad spirit stopper. Kept all the bad boom boom spirits inside the box.
When you realise the "innocent" London survivors were cheering for the destruction of another city in the beginning
Good
well the fact is that even now london does not include its colonial history in school syl and quite a few brits feel happy abt how "great" their kingdom was
Because it was
@@ophelia4823 not true, been to school in Britain. Everyone I know including the younger generation knows of Britain’s history.
@@deviljho4260 Churchill is still their hero buddy! "greatest Briton of all time" I have worked in Britain for over 4 years and none of my colleagues knew abt his evil deeds, he is all glorious and charismatic for them all.
My feeling towards this movie is exactly my feeling towards steampunk in general: aesthetically interesting but it falls apart quickly under any kind of logical examination.
I dont care for logical examination, generally, retrofuturism does not aims for that. But what infuriates me in the majority of steampunk works is that they only aim for the steam and victorian part, and forgot the punk, like, where is my dystopian futuristic first revolution world? Basically that.
If you do not understand something, tell me, because english isnt my mother language so sometimes I can not articulate words too well.
@@Palguim i agree
Basically not many people complains that science in star wars makes no sense, so why they complain at steampunk?
And about punk part. I would love to see a movie about french revolution, or Soviet, or any revolution with high steampunk technology. How it would affect daily love and stuff
It is a fictional story
@@Palguim Frostpunk
so.... fantasy?
The book series was absolutely brilliant with a much deeper plot I can’t recommend it enough
So i shouldnt read it.....?
@@drghost_9739 I have no idea how you got that idea but you should definitely read it. One of the best book series out there and its criminally underrated
@@t2hk_ "i cant recommend this enough" doesnt that imply that you wouldnt recommend this enough for someone to read. Or am i reading that wrong.
@@drghost_9739 You're reading it wrong, "I can't recommend this enough" means that they've recommended it so much that they can't anymore because they've hit the limit.
@@t2hk_ That is not quite true. More like the opposite actually. It means more something like there is no limit to how much you can recommend it. So you would always be able to recommend it, but it would never be enough.
"Sixty Minute War"
*ten seconds later*
"Sixty Second War"
Well damn, they retconned their own war. Props to humanity.
I’ve already seen this movie but his narrations just magically make it better by a mile
so true
Is it as cringe and god awful as it looks
@@obiwankenobi687 no
@@obiwankenobi687 cap
Honestly, the end was disappointing. And the relationship between the cyborg and Heter was useless and emotionless. I hype every movie, serie, anime and TV show, even the most hated ones by the major public, but this ones was not It, chief :/
“Statues of minions are praised”
I’m laughing too hard at this 💀
Z
If minions are praised imagine what they do with the fart gun
@@tiktok_content9505 "behold THE WEAPON OF MASS NOSE DESTRUCTION ONLY USABLE BY GODS *shows fart gun*"
@@tiktok_content9505 or imagine if they have bald guys dressed up like gru
Shrike be like: Aight i'm out
after finding out that the twitch streamer has a boyfriend
GOLD COMMENT
A real stalker won't quit , no matter what...
If you have ever played the game borderlands, and the mining exovator base at the end of the game, this is esentially what a "major city" would be, and likely would have to be built off of one of these masive towers.
Keep in mind though, that this machine is a MINING DEVICE, along with most of the other massive trucks and automobiles, with refining equipment and facilities taking up massive amounts of space, and typically being incredibly slow moving.
All of this means that the big cities would constantly be being attacked by -THE SUBERBS, wich is an exactly acurate depiction of real life urban darwinism.
All of this
imagine the small city having a cannon on it turning and firing on the bigger city that would be a game changer then🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Suburbs. As in sub-urban
"Minions are praised as American deities"
My prp: I AM THE GOD OF DEATH
@Kazumaf brooooooo
@Kazumaf probably dio and they all follow dio’s plan
Tokyo yasss
But seoul:(
@Kazumaf holy shit
*Statues of minions are praised as American deities*
I've never laughed so hard in my life.
I had to pause the video to recollect myself after that.
In the book it was Mickey Mouse. But you know, Disney
This concept can make one really good seinen manga.
Chrome Shelled Regios
Its a book serie
@@doom3166 That has both an anime and manga adaptation
Manga dis dik
Howels moving castle
I remember reading the trilogy back when I was younger (4-6 years ago), I saw that they were going to make a movie based off the first book. Even though I remember being really excited about it and wanted to watch it when it would come out- I completely forgot about the whole series and the movie-in the making.
Learning that it came out quite a while ago, I'm surprised that I never heard anything about it earlier. But seeing clips and this summary of the movie, I'm glad that it majorly looks exactly what was being described in the book!! Everything looks just the same from what I imagined, it makes me happy ^^
I wish they made a TV series based on the books like "His dark materials"
Oh my god I loved this series
HBO’s miniseries are amazing
(Edit): I’d love to see them recap Chernobyl too, that series is probably one of my all time favorites
Same, I love the books
Isn't it a thing?
@@Clodical sad ending, it broke me :'(
There is a his dark materials series
This has to be the most all over the place plot I’ve ever seen in my entire life, it’s like they took a hundred books and summarized it into a 2 hour movie!
Um I think it was like 5 books all together it's been quite a while but YES
@@mysticfire5850 one book, actually, just the original
@@yhorm685 it’s been a while since I read the books but I’m almost certain that it was more than 1 book
no
@@zane557 is the book any good
“Firmly protected by the shield wall”
What if you just pull a Germany and go around the wall?
I'm assuming it's a walled mountain range. Those things don't like they can go up steep surfaces.
He guys I have an idea when nepolion attacks. When he attacks we drift away
That’s so racist or something like that but also very funny
@@alidhyt6591 its historically accurate
@@alidhyt6591 bruh, not knowing shit and by that assuming everything is racist. Damn that's sad
This film isn't actually that bad.
A really fun concept with some great actors.
It’s decent compared to the book (which is superior)
Which is exactly why it's one of the most disappointing movies ever. Awsome concept, utter failure to execute said concept. Why on earth make a movie about 'cities on wheels warring each other', to have the opening scene with one city attacking a smal village, being the only such battle in the entire friggin movie.
If London is already that big then imagine Tokyo's size
Tokyo would just be a giant robot
Imagine america, although we probably went airborne
@@kingfloridaman5274 America is a country not a city
@@kingfloridaman5274 lol american is country
@@kingfloridaman5274 Russia
Themain: There are Inocent people in london.
Me: those inocent cheering when smaller city get obliterate and destroy....
To be fair, capture means Resources & the citizens are assimilated into their ranks
@@Crimson-1997 so it's basically post-apocalyptic colonial UK
@@RSpracticalshooting yea pretty much, but this version seems less corrupt
Yeah only the city though. The people were completely fine. The process is just forced immigration lmao
Its not explained in the movies but the smaller cities basically scrap and destroy smaller stuff, and slave trade. Basically all the traction cities are evil
shan guo has one of the coolest designs ive ever seen
It’s literally ba sing se
sick movie. The horsepower of the engines that carry the cities must be insane
@@epicgamers2114 yes but with guns
Ba sing se LOR has guns m8 its litterally ba sing se
I seen this movie and forgot the name and I been looking everywhere for it! Ahhh! Tyyy! ❤️😩
The books better than the film ngl
Also is it a tradition that people reviewing mortal engines refer to the sixty minute war the ‘sixty second war’?
Still mad how disappointing the movie was after reading the books. Peter Jackson (who I am a huge fan of) deserves most of the blame for this.
@@jamesrawlins735 any major stuff left out of the movie?
Creator of King Kong? Nonsense!
Too true
loved the books aswell, the movie left a bad image
“Where statues of Minions are praised as deities”
I’m sorry what???
This kinda reminds me of the book: Worldshaker. Where entire countries existed on Juggernauts like this
Mortal engines was based by book
this reminds me of the book mortal engines
Thank you for your channel because it saves me a lot of time and helps me avoid movies that would irk me at best. The comment section is very helpful for I was able to know that a book of this exists.
My brain trying to understand how they consume:
*he- -yo* *insert loading sound*
I know right
@zackles febryen it should be easy.....like seriously its sad you don't....its him trying to think SMH
How they consume what ?
@@solarose7820 Consume these nuts lmao
@@solarose7820 cities
I remember watching this in cinemas, and the 'decent' reviews I think are totally justified, I feel it had awkward character writing, with not much character development, and storyline is also meh, but the visuals, war scenes and premise are AMAZING imo
My father filmed a lot of it!
True. The story itself wasn't all that good but the visuals within the film made up for it.
Yeah, currently reading the second book and I wish they had made more of these
I watched it in cinema with my friends who just dont give sh¡t about character, plot etc.. and we enjoyed it a lot. Its fun that way.
Yeah they had this at the 3$ theater a couple years ago
2:24
“Katherine showed interest in the 60 second war”
Wasn’t it the 60 minute war?
Guess not
Sike
yeah but it was glossed over so it might as well be the 60 second war
Sadly, I thought the trailers made this movie look way cooler than it actually was and convinced my brother to go with me to see it in theaters.
One of only two times in my entire life I regret going to see a movie in theaters.
"She is furious at tom for ruining the plan she had been working on for the past six months"
You had six months to plan and you came up with that?
Maybe, I mean what do most people "come up with" in 6 months? Not much
@@RennieAsh Not much, yeah but the plan could've been thought through better
I could ahvw sworn when watching it, that it took 6 months to get there, but wither way, that's still 6 months to come up with a better plan...
@@nwiiho you pfp... you must be a man of culture as well
6 months to plan to shank up thaddeus and then run away
Fun fact: they use Marine Ship Engine and geared steam turbines to power that giant beasts
Well I knew
Now THIS surpasses Metal Gear.
That literally makes zero sense
Fun fact: fictional works can contain facts but your fact is based on something that is fiction within a fictiona work, so its not a fact. It's shit an author made up.
@@spinnanz Wrong, a fact is something that’s true, fiction or not.
Example: Thanos lived on a planet called titan. That’s a fact.
The Mortal Engines series is my favorite of all time. The movie wasn't great, but I'm glad is captured what I loved about the books: The image of huge mechanical cities. The writer of Mortal Engines really had this way of describing them. If you found this movie interesting then read the books, they are a lot better and some of the best parts of the books were cut out for the movie (more dialogue with Shrike, etc)
Another great series bye the same author that I would reccomend is larklight
The whole thing looks like a mess and while the books might be slightly better, I find it hard to develop enough interest to check.
I'm still mad about Hester's scar and I can't get past it to enjoy everything else
@Troodon they're not slightly better trust me, they're FAR better. As in major aspects are changed, not to mention that there's 4 amazing novels rather than just 1 shitty film
Usa???
This video of yours is my new favorite mystery recapped video
I see this as Agario and the wall is just a giant camper that stays near a virus except without the weakness of smaller people being able to attack it.
@@TinNguyen-rl2xr what does this have to do with china
I love mortal engines I'm so glad you did this!!
Eh mortal engines is not that good
@@rockettheracoon85 OK it's your opinion I guess
Ik it's your opinion, but that movie sucks for me. Just saying buddy.
@The Emperor Protects probably because it doesn't have any "cool superheroes"
A pity, as the world is great imo. Leaves more of a lasting impression than all the Avengers movies anyway
@@RennieAsh probably the movie was terrible (imho) beacuse it wasnt close to the book and the usual movie tropes which is there is alot of plot holes and stupid decisions
Imagine London just crusin then the song: "red sun" starts playing.
London:feuck
or royal Brittania
@@dimitrypetrenko3470 "China rules the waves land and sky." not the not so united kingdom.
London think there are the largest city
Russia: 50x bigger
@@808_trumpet nice
@@CHRŌMVS its a Chinese propaganda song.
Thanks for saving my time. Great job.
Mortal Engines was a terrible movie. Yet, I enjoyed every minute of it.
yup the Steampunk vibe it has was amazing,Steampunk is the most underrated Branch in the Scifi universe
Why it's terrible? I found the concept to be super cool.
@@supreet6331 I think he meant the storyline, the plot and the overall background of the entire movie, the steampunk concept is super awesome NGL, and every bit of it looks amazing! it's just that, the story had some plot holes i guess. JS
@@dimitrypetrenko3470 Because it's almost always used with some alien beings (like a black market of sorts) or mythical beings.
@@supreet6331 Concept was good, execution was terrible.
This film accurately portrays why there will never be a true Utopia. Perfection is simply an unreachable goal.
It's an asymptote we are a logarithmic function
From what got from the movie is that it can't be achieved as long as British people exist
@@garpogods8323 Perfidious Albion is the bane of humankind.
There are too many people. We need a new plague!
No it does not. The movie is horrible with zero meaning.
This NEEDED a tue in video game where you built your own settlement
I need that in my life
that was planned but the movie was so unbelievably terrible and not relating to the books that it was just scrapped sadly
Don't play yourself you need me in your life not this..
@@lobsteronitunes8555 Yh idk how the sequels would’ve worked, especially darkling plain
Ask Preston Garvey he could probably need a hand for this settlements
something people dont understand in this movie is that if all cities are on wheels now then that means that tokyo is to meaning now tokyo itself can drift
The concept and CGI was 10/10. The storyline could be better, like a thousand times better. Still worth a watch. 7.5/10
I just wish they adapter all 4 books.
this was my absolutly most favorite movie, i hope we get more of these
It was a MASSIVE flop
@@2kool4u_mac67 why tho ._.
movies that are coinsidered "the best" sux imo and something i finaly like is coinsidered a fail...
Same - after watching the movie, I decided to read the books. Having the second book adapted in a movie would be so cool.
@@zajlord2930 it's a sad society we live in ain't it
If I love a movie, I just love it. I don't care if it did well in theaters or with critics. It's okay you love this!!
I watched this movie some time ago and I have got to say the MEDUSA is one of the coolest looking Mega Weapon things I’ve seen in movies
Also where’s Adam at the start😭
Adam will be back soon, don't worry! 😂😉
I deleted the file before the editing team could pull it to their machines 😵 tis my mistake
@@mysteryrecappedofficial yayy
@@DeepDarkBoys Aw don’t worry Adam
Ya still got the more important part, the narration!
Also bruh your jokes add so much life to the whole thing lol
@@mysteryrecappedofficial who's Adam?
Finally, a review that isn’t 14 hours long
The sheer strength of the shield wall is amazing. Even a quantum nuke couldn't even fully destroy it while it shattered the earth's crust
Probably made out of diamond.
Yeah... I would say it was because the weapon was old but at the end of the day, its still a stone wall..
Although diamond is the strongest, it's somewhat like very strong glass, easily shatterable
@@minxyms2748 false, diamond can dent steel hammers when hit by them, glass and diamond aren't even remotely close in durability.
@@XHachimanX people have cracked diamonds with a hammer y'know?
Adam should start doing Anime recaps that would be sick!
Live action anime? Yes since Adam can fix terrible storyline.
yep agreed
No
RIP his life though, only 24/7 anime :D
No dear God. No anime
I loved this movie, it was so cool when it came out and we rented it! I love that you’re reviewing it, so I can practically watch it for a second time. Thank you!
THANK YOU I WAS LOOKING FOR THIS MOVIE
Londons logic: well we kinda blew up their wall and probably killed hundreds of them, lets see if they'll take us in
I'm starting to wonder what kind of a monstrosity Tokyo would be in this world
@this is a really long yet creative name do u agree more likely a "normal" city like Shan Guo. Iirc, based on the book, it was mentioned that there were multiple "regular" cities behind the wall, and Shan Guo was but one of them
probably a giant robot
Just imagine China chasing taiwan
It could bring “Tokyo Drift” to a whole nother level
Imagine New York 😨
Your thumbnails and titles absolute kill me. Sometimes you're talking about a movie that I know very well and I don't know what movie it is till you start showing footage from it.
Btw I've got some good movie recommendations for you to do. Two movies that are terrible, but they'd be great for recap videos. Lawnmower Man 1 and 2. They're hilariously bad, but perfect for recaps. Also, Hollow Man would be a good one to do, too.
He’s done Hollow Man before and probably lawnmower man.
London: is big
Russia: hold my vodka (continent turns into car)
I LITERALLY LOVE THIS MOVIE SO MUCH OMGGGGGGGTHIS IS LIKE MY TOP 3
Read the books the first one is just plain great the second one focuses on the relationship between Tom and Hester, the third on introduces a larger set of characters and the forth has a great ending, there is also a spin-off series that has some great lore but I don’t think the author highered an editor as there are many plot holes
Ugh
@@Caercutta30 ??
You’re like a whole narrator this channel is great at explaining these movies 💯
Bro mortal engines is literally my favourite book series. And ngl, the movie did not disappoint
These short breakdowns are much better then the actual movies
Mystery recapped, 'mortal engines'
What a coincidence that China, one country, is now a nation with heels, and remaining survivor.
Great summary, and for being a science fiction film, not too bad.
The Anti-tractionist were asian as to sell more tickets there
@@timewaster0123 tbf, that was how it was in the books as well.
I love the commentary during these videos; but, let’s be real for a moment, the best part, BY FAR, are the movie descriptions he puts in the titles! 😂
I actually remember watching a pretty similar concept, not that alike, in Kino's Journey, where a whole modern country never stops moving and stomp everything on its way, including other countries. Is a really cool anime, about a person visiting strange countries.
although at the same time the city commits property damage...
Floating castle!
Great anime both the old and new
_"When you travel, leave nothing but footprints"_
check out the anime called chrome shelled regios it is also very similar to this movie and was released in 2009
Really not sure why they didn't just follow the books, the storyline and world building is mind blowing. But Hollywood just had to changing something perfect and ended up losing $100 million in this dumpster fire.
I wished they had made a sequel, so much potential esp with the books
Congratulations to everyone who comes in every single seconds 💥
thanks first time im this early
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Thanks
Old way to get likes.
This movie was great, glad you made a video about it!
if you’ve read the books, the movie is kinda.... ehh
true
I have to read the book for school so thankyou. My favourite channel giving me a full plot summary of a book I need to read. What more coud I ask for
I love these kind of stuff like the idea of humanity rise again after a massive disaster and keep living is just horrifying and wonderful at the same time
I could recommend you Arknights.
They also have Giant Moving Cities.
@@XenoflareBahamut Have started playing since 2 months ago haha. Played Genshin Impact and some other games with similar story too
@@thh1226 Nice!!!!
with this being a future "POST APOCALYPTIC" movie the aircrafts are more developed than a jet they can hover and go about as fast as a small twin jet
Twelve inch scar, pretty clothing, dead mom...
This is literally the meme of a new writers MC minus the cat ears.
Am convinced the author took his inspiration from the 90s CGI show War Planets: Shadow Raiders. He just scaled it back from a giant planet chasing and consuming other planets to a big city on wheels chasing smaller ones.
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I read all 5 of the Mortal Engines novels, but never really watched the movie. This actually helped me out!
I never heard of this movie, and I love apocalyptic movies and stories and I must say though this looks freaking awesome and wholly original by the looks of it. So thankfully. I only watched 2 minutes of the recap, so I'll shall return to this after I watch this movie.
hopefully you were not too disappointed by the movie, which was a huge failure
You want even more? It’s a book series.
This reminds me of Moving castle of Howl but more advanced.
Howl’s moving castle gone wrong
@@PastelShadow Howls moving castle, mad max cut
@@user-mp8wy8lp4y howls moving castle with rtx
this channel is like 4% commentary and like 96% other peoples work lol but im addicted anyway..