@@Jack-cr6iw It's a young adult series, but it's very good, very cool world, the characters are amazing, one in particular is one of my favorite characters in any fiction.
The movie may have had a garbage plot, but the aesthetics are like 100% accurate to the books and very well executed. To bad they didn’t write the movie as well as it looks. Because this is one of the best and most unique-looking live action movie I’ve seen.
I doubt they got that much fuel, its estimated that they had spent more fuel then they could possibly gain from chasing it down due to size, weight and tank holdage.
@@forloop7713 yeah, but boats use high energy oil/coal fuel and also are 1. Not burning fuel very often, and usually kinda drifting slowly 2. Much much more efficient than a ground based car thing
The other day there was a moment when I wasn't sure if this movie actually existed or in the early morning state of hypnagogia i deluded myself into thinking that there was a movie made about moving cities that fight each other. Imagine my relief when I discovered my mind was still yet incapable of coming up with such brilliance.
The fact that this is completely unsustainable is actually a significant plot point in the books. Universal did do a really bad job adapting this book (I use the singular in the hopes that they won't make a sequel) but as I recall, the unsustainable nature of Municipal Darwinism doesn't actually become plot-relevant until the last book, and I don't think the issue is expressly discussed at all in the first book, just mentioned in passing during a conversation at most. So leaving out any discussion of the logical flaws in this society was actually an accurate move by Universal, but I'm hesitant to give them credit for it because they probably didn't leave it out on purpose, just like I'm sure they didn't deliberately use Pennyroyal's version of Hester's appearance, they just happened to do as bad of a job as the fictional fraud adventurer. Which is pretty funny in a disappointing and frustrating sort of way. Tokyo also hasn't been specifically mentioned, but pretty much everything east of India is a part of the Anti-Traction League, and I expect that would include Japan, unless amphibious cities hit it from the ocean.
It took London approximately ninety seven seconds to travel six miles. That puts the citys speed at over two hundred twenty miles per hour, meaning its just a touch faster than a Lamborghini Aventador.
This movie had the kind of unapologetically bonkers premise that had an enormous potential. It's sad that the movie wasn't able to bring it all together.
It's a real shame because the books are really really good, I've read them all and from what I can remember they have a great plot and bring up a lot of excellent themes. Just a shame that the film was so soulless and completely missed everything that made the books great, and completely changed the ending to ruin it.
@@TheCrazyCapMaster to be honest, I'll defend these types of movies all the way. I'm sick and tired of "Realism=Good", since when was that a rule? Ironically enough the most iconic movies aren't realistic, so might as well go full bonkers and create some ridiculous but amazing shit along the way
I went to the theater to watch this movie entirely by myself and I don't remember a single thing about it. Literally watched this clip and re-experienced it as if it were completely new to me knowing full well that it is not lol
I love how they have the technology to build freaking tanks with cities on top of them but they still have a dude at the top watching with a freaking 1700s telescope
Figured out how stop a city sized vehicle from vibrating violently during transit, had the engineering prowess to make a 10,000,000 ton city drive across a continent.... Couldnt figure out radar.
@@yobrodontshoot1130 diesel tech and engineering and electronics do not mix...they aren't even close to the same field. It's like asking your computer programmer to weld an exhaust on your caur
@@schneecoraxx8689 Haha whhhaaat? You're aware they literally use radio frequencies and have a blatant system of electronics... You're telling me that they knew all this engineeering knowledge but couldnt find *Anything* on frequencies? They know about air travel and had the prowess to beat our current technological superiority to them... but dont know the primary function of which we've used to track said air vehicles... Weve established they know about the past. If you can make a literally a city on tracks, 150 stories high, you should be able to figure out Radar. We did it in the 40s when we were still making planes out of plywood. You insulted so many engineers by assuming that engineering is just the metal bits. And acting like thats all yhe capacity to learn
The cities are recovered technology not newly-developed technology, while the telescope can still be made. Think of the Toyota technicals, where the high-performance Toyota engines cannot be made but the basic bullets and weapons still can
Yeah but then they probably would have gunned it down out of spite.. also love how they probably used more fuel chasing the thing then what it probably carries lol
well. just like in Star Wars, everything could just be remote controlled: the ties, xwings. then, no casualties; everybody's happy. But then, the movie be boring as hell.
"The world has gone through a massive fuel crisis and we barely have enough to power anything anymore, what do we do?" "Ok...Listen...I just had a great idea, How about we put our cities on wheels and drive them around?....." ".........Ok does *anyone else* have any ideas on what to do?"
@@kennethfharkin Eh, in the books at least the fact that it's ridiculous and unsustainable is kind of the point. It's all metaphorical and stuff. Like Snowpiercer.
In Mortal Engines the book, it's stated that cities were put on wheels to escape the earthquakes, volcanoes and other natural disasters caused by the 60 Minute War. But I think in Fever Crumb (a prequel trilogy) they give the real reason which I won't want to spoil.
The problem is there is only one moving city in the movie. It would be interesting to see other moving cities also. I read from one of the comments that in the book, a larger German city chased London and almost run it down.
One of those things is This movie wanted to be a trilogy in one whole package It bit off more than it could chew while it could easily be very good on it's own Also side-note Logic doesn't exist in Hollywood, I know that and you know that
@@chayimweinstock443 There is a game similar to this kind of things called Last Oasis, played it myself, it's pretty fun and if you have a group of people with you it get's a lot easier lol
More accurately: a mmo that would have the first players sweating profousely to build one giant city and then proceed to dominate the entire game as they crush everyone else the following week
Be an interesting mix of town-building, resource gathering, industrial development, trade agreements, and making sure you have enough speed to run away from Predator cities. You could start with a small town that can only mine resources or make basic industrial items, and have to trade for the resources or manufactured goods to slowly expand. The larger you upgrade your town, the more industry you can make or materials you can mine, but the slower you go. Predator cities would have to specialize in capturing smaller towns, meaning they won't have as much mining/industry for their size, plus have to make sure their speed is good (though capturing another city gives them a decent amount of high-tech supplies). You then need a reason for the cities to be mobile, so earthquakes/meteor impacts would be a good idea. Even better, these earthquakes could expose veins of materials that could be mined, so if a city has mining equipment it will head towards a disaster location, while an industrial city will call for a mining city and trade the resources for finished goods. Pebble bed reactors would allow for a lot of fuel energy in a relatively safe storage method
@@byambadorjotgonbaatar155 u need a shit ton of space to move a city with solar energy not to mention it doesn't even make enough energy to move it self.however a thorium recator would make a great choice insted of small citys and makes more then enough to move itself
Just a random guess based on literally nothing but the video. They are talking about the resources, brick, coal, iron and salt, then proceeds to note that is barely enough fuel for a week. Perhaps it is some kind of direct mass to energy generator. They literally burn the mass of the city they consume. This has far more energy potential then fission, fusion, antimatter or what ever else you can come up with. This is the kind of shit I would come up with while watching these movies, instead of just suspending my disbelief.
Honestly it makes no sense for such a large rig to give chase to a smaller one. The writers should have looked at some nature doumentaries, where big predators leave small prey alone because they're not worth the cost to get. Larger predators would chase medium-large prey, rather than microscopic prey... :/
1:22 Does anyone else love how the other Traction Cities move aside to reveal London with its giant Union Jack getting closer and closer? It's like saying "Prepare to GET COLONIZED!"
Ah the classic run in a straight line maneuver. That tiny town could have totally driven right past London and that hulking monster would have just kept goin, that thing couldn’t possibly turn for shit.
I was thinking that too til I saw those grappling spear things being used. Pretty sure if they did as you told theyd just lose speed and would have been caught way earlier.
Yeah but they had to follow the "roads", or else if they went in a different direction, like how they went alongside ditch, the ground is bumpy and would do more harm to the vehicle. London can traverse anything with those massive treads
@@PullingEnterprises this one specifically is the equivalent of the "dragons are all thomas the tank engine", "bears all play shredding guitar solos", and "horses are tommy wiseau" mod combinations
@@deepfreeze202 What, I just explained how the joke would be better. And plebiscite dosen't make water dry or any of your self indulgent fantasy come true. It just makes you exploitable.
Was always confused how a mobile city, especially a predator city, had a museum that didn’t think to like…shock-proof it’s displays or something…still love the mobile city concept
It’s a moving city I think there will be more vibrations than there isn’t at every single moment. Also fun fact a moment is 90 seconds, at least it was originally.
You'd be surprised on how many popular stories and franchises sound absolutely stupid when you put them on paper. It's all about good execution and story telling.
If I remember right the book described that the environment was more akin to mad max style wasteland, so it was more along the lines of the last stable biomes raiding each other for resources as the clock ran out. Yet this movie has them rolling over green grass. Seems like the core metaphor/concept was misunderstood.
I agree, I often times DM various RPGs often in fantasy and Sci-fi settings and the idea of a 'literal moving city' is hardly new as such. However the big point is how to make it BELIEVABLE. How to make this seem like a logical course of action. I mean with any movie, game etc. there's a certain suspension of disbelief, but if it seems just non-sensical in it's very nature you need a LOT of good will from your audience/players for it to work. What I figured would be a planet laid waste to by geo-thermal activities with fractured crusts, earthquakes would be common and so having any larger permanent settlement would make little sense due to neigh unpredictable vulcanic and tectonical activitiy. Naturally you have 2 basic survival tactics: Go fast, small and numerous or go big, overpowering and long-ranged. Both have their own advantages and disadvantages, depending on what overall starting situation and strategy you follow. Naturally there's a couple of resources that are in high demand and relatively rare. Water being one of the most essential ones, followed by food directly and the means of protection and fuel (depending on the setting). Direct confrontations betwen larger Cities would be rare but truely terrifyingly awe-inspiring and devastating in their very nature. Scouting parties, either with small tracked vehicles or a variety of flying machines, would try to scour whatever scraps and smaller moving cities they could come across and reasonably raid, while occassionally temporary mining stations, wells and whatnot would be established whenever the tumultous earth would surrender some of it's precious treasures to the surface. While still far-fetched it'd make some sense. I'd say the 'literal' devouring of the City, while cool looking... seems a bit silly. More reasonably to send out a large raiding party/assault team to take over control of the enemy City with smaller vehicles or flying machines, or simply shoot at it with cannons from long range to fuck up their wheels, tracks, whathaveyou. Following one City or even just a few characters in a city or a couple of cities could have made quite for a very interessting movie.
Never read the books but it would indeed seem kinda pointless to go through all of the effort to build moving cities if the land looks noicly fertile. Like you can see remnants of old tracks n shit in the dirt already overgrown again, nature doesnt appear to be struggling here at all...
@@flax9999lp if i remember the ground was relatively radioactive so couldnt be farmed - not enough to kill you outright but not liveable similare so the outskirts of Chernobyl- also the citys were just way way bigger in the books and diddnt need fuel as such but did attach eachother now and then for resources
But it's a dark joke. City of London is it's own country in real life. 1.12 square miles. Home to the Bank of England. The idea that it's trying to gobble up another society to feed itself is chillingly real.
The only real problem that I see in this scene is that they made London WAY too big. In the book, London was nowhere near as large, making it very manoeuvrable and fast, and the cities it devoured actually useful to it. Edit: Watching this again, it looks to me like "Salthook" is also too small. Basically, size discrepancy is the problem. Also, in the book, the large cities are described as "dragging" themselves along, like some kind of mechanical monstrosity. Here they're super speedy race cars that look like they're going 100km/hr.
@@ronanchristiana.belleza9270 Height-wise, about half a mile high. I'm a bad judge of height, though, so maybe movie London city is the right height and is just too long. Or maybe Salthook (not sure what It's called in the movie) is too small.
i love the little detail that there are no trees and that there are giant trenches from all the tracks of the cities everywhere. Makes the world feel alive
@@liamfraser6202 thats completely false, things can be stupid and illogical, it happens all the time, like the force in Star Wars. Even more so when the whole thing is a metaphor
Love how this movie spent one third of its runtime creating a unique and interesting world and them immediately threw it out the window to be star wars
@@kirgan1000 then have her sabotage them or something. Do literally anything. Don't just stand there and feel like an extra who the director has an affair with
Yeah I couldn’t figure what the hell she was up to, whips out the dagger and sheaths it really cool into her boot. All for nothing? Then runs around aimlessly. Guess she wanted London to catch them but then why not just sabotage it somehow.
Looks like the way it is set up, some components are external only, and others are internal. External-only items can only be used when the town is at rest, and has extended supports outwards, as when the town is in motion the items are brought in and compacted (like the interior of an RV). Internal items are always available, but there would be a penalty to using them
He had the right idea when he began driving perpendicular to London. That thing probably takes forever to turn... He definitely went to the Prometheus School of Running Away From Things
Finally, a script-writer who understands what CG is good for. And a costume designer who knows that a bonkers premise is no reason for your actors not to look fly as hell.
@@LautaroTessi They _could_ have done both a bonkers concept _and_ a good story, but then they tried to wrangle the original story of several books into one lousy written script, while removing all the good parts. The CGI and costume departments delivered though.
so basically cities are converted into moving machines and they just consume eachother for fuel. how many drugs was the writer on when he taught about this ?
COD Boss well, the moving cities were made because the surface was destroyed by orbital weaponry, so they mechanised their cities and the trend stuck, so London has been that way for several hundred years, and the people on board now, almost religiously believe that their lifestyle on the city is superior to how it would be on the ground, and they have massive wars with those that live on the ground
@@samal3196 yeah makes sense, this is fictional and the logic of this story is to consume that city for fuel, well if they spend much more chasing it down then theyd ever get consuming it, NOT A SINGLE THING MAKES ANY SENCE ABOUT IT.
Honestly i could see the cg animators using this on their respective resumes with incredible success so long as the person looking at them aren't biased
Honestly, I really like the aesthetic of this movie. Whether or not it's illogical, that concept of whole cities/nations moving around in giant structures is really interesting to me.
London is running out of fuel. I know, lets put London on some giant tank tracks, then we can have the city drive around Europe looking for fuel to steal.
@DEFCON ZERO I dont think idolising a Disney character in a film produced by Comcast would go down well with the owners.... Minions are from Despicable Me, which is a Comcast film.
I can't really be the only one who thinks that the completely over-the-top, hilariously inefficient insanity of these cities was both fully intentional and kind of the whole point, can I?
I need a better name the reason given in the books is this: The f**king world ended in a catastrophic war between super-advanced nations, which basically destroyed the climate and geology of the old world. In the beginning the survivors of that horror show packed up and lived in giant roving bands of camper vans ect. To stay ahead of the giant horribly unpredictable weather events and occasional volcano. This was the First Age of Traction. Eventually this mostly ended when the world settled down, but a few techno-wizard empires still used what would be the prototypes of later Traction cities. And entire book series about the first traction city then happens, which I will not bore you with, wherein they put London on wheels partially to stop people invading it. London then bops around for a while, eating static towns, as it’s movement technology is disseminated and most places are presented with a choice: turn your city into a vehicle to run away, or get eaten by someone who did the former. Thus was the Second Age of Traction born! This was also where we get another really important idea, that of Municipal Darwinism, basically applying natural law to these Traction Cities Which is why London is chasing the smaller one here. The books are good The movie is pretty crap. I recommend reading the books
I like the idea, the setting is very unique and interesting as are the concepts. The movie just had the worst writing, casting, and pushed more God awful real world politics into the narrative.
@@ArnoldleZolid A society that maintains it's technological knowledge through a disaster by forming that knowledge into mysticism and dogma is a common enough trope in sci fi.
These ME's run on tread or tread and wheel systems. All they need to do would be full stop and turn and continue the chase, they have the higher speed, higher mass and size (to break terrain or pass over large gaps). Bavaria's captain was aiming for the pass in the cliffs, elliminating both speed and size from the equation. Height played the factor in being smaller they didnt see the Tracks from another Predetor City (i would guess), while London could see this clearly, allowing an informed decision. Not to mention to perform a turn that sharp Bavaria would be under immense centrifugal force, the intial turn at the start already puts degrees of drift on the top of the ME. As for why he charged at the start, he needed to get the pistons to raise pressure to gain speed. Another comment calculated this chase to take place at around 200+ MPH, that initial charge is only maybe 50 MPH and caused that much C-force to tip it multiple degrees. If he tried to continue the turn to drive past London, London would have stopped, turned in place (due to the tread system) much like a tank would, at this point Bavaria is in firing range of the harpoons, they would just bring it in sideways or slanted, rather than from the back. Its very well thought out, and whats makes Predetor Cities so dangerous in this peice. They might be bigger, but like with most things in the hunting world, bigger usually means alot more powerful. (Adendum, look at how a Lynx chases a Hare, you would think the Hare would win being faster, smaller and quicker by mass.)
@@ulyssesdamon3408 that's a lot of maths and analytics. I do admit that these are cities on wheels with massive amounts of forces at play. My comment was simply, do a 90 degree turn, wait untill the enemy is close enough where they cannot commit to a sharp turn and accelerate away.
@Jai Rey Not the first nor the last, no sweat. But it's just basic logic from every day physics, turning under weight caused a vehicle to tip, it happens in trains and lorries quite often. Sometimes people criticize films for not having real enough physics, and some complain for having too real physics in sci fi. Just explanation of a possible reason based on observation and a slight understanding of physics and momentum. I like to be learned, and show others a different way of thinking about a problem. But yeah, I'm a nerd by admission, definattly. With the internet, it's hard not be these days. :D
@@eliasgerlin609 Paris is still around, though more of a luxury, wheeled, humongous holiday resort than a proper city. I actually think Berlin is the one that doesn't exist. Either that or it's been renamed over the centuries. I mean no offense, I'm just a huge Mortal Engines fan.
Berlin probably wandered off to the east and was never heard of again - only to resurface after it literally ate all of Poland and Ukraine. Leaves me wondering who left that giant trackmark even London has to evade though.
That was not Peter Jackson's (or whoever else was in charge) idea, Philip Reeves included a scene in his book where they were making sure statues of Mickey Mouse and Pluto were safe. I have a feeling they used minions in the movie because Disney would have something to say if they used their property. In my opinion the idea of calling these characters gods is pretty great, because it shows that it's been so long since our modern day (a few thousand years in fact) that information has become cluttered and misinterpreted.
"there is ample greenery , fertile grounds for agriculture , we could settle down and build our civilisation here .. " " Nah.. let's just put our city on wheels and drive around "
@@apassionatenerd.3564 Originally, there were lots of disasters, but those disasters had a lead time. If you remained in one location, your city was likely to be destroyed, so it was either move or die. After the disasters died down, the mobile cities remained, and people are greedy
I’m just fascinated by how every western movie makes their running target run in a straight path ahead of the enemy. Never away from the path like a logical person.
Seeing a city the size of well London I guess arranged in such an order that it appears as a mountain and then crushes hills in its wake is something beyond terrifying.
Isn't this a little like a Neanderthal chasing down one ant for the sweet sweet milligrams of protein? You'd think once a city gets to a certain size, it would be more of a net waste of energy to chase down so small a town.
I love how there are various tread marks across the landscape in different sizes, with some appearing overgrown with flora(and fauna) and others looking fresh. It’s a beautiful subtle display of the grand scale of this world.
With the technology to put an entire city on wheels you think they'd also have the technology to, you know, find novel new ways to extract and refine fuel from the ground.
@@Bit01 it was rice. And yeah they were after fuel, but I agree with Lukas they definitely would have burned more than they gained. What an idiotic movie haha.
Fun fact: with the budget for this movie you could buy all the tickets to go see this movie, and still have 20 million left over to make the sequel that "The Room" deserves.
Pretty sure she was intending to get on London < for spoilerful reasons>. It would be even more clever if she chose the town with the broken engines (or maybe she sabotaged them herself, who knows?)
@@irfansyahril8511 I was thinking that myself that she might have sabotaged the engines. But then I think she could have only done that is she knew ahead of time that London was heading her way.
@@campkira if the lack of physics in this movie bothers you, then you sure must hate all star wars movies and pretty much every other sci-fi and action movie out there.
"We need to combine Harry Potter, Transformers, Star Wars, Pirates of the Caribbean, and Fast and Furious..... and Lord of the Rings... put Elrond in there..."
"Devours Bavaria for fuel" losing so much freaking fuel from chasing little city with gigantic one in the process. So freaking ridiculous. No wonder it flopped so bad.
Bro its a kids movie. I dont think your meant to worry about the science. Besides the fuel consumption would be the least of their worries, the city would be too big to support itself according to the square cubed law
The books are much better - they have a lot more detail! They didn’t eat the city for fuel, it was more of an appetiser, whilst the real plan was to get to the Hunting Ground where bigger cities chased each other.
There were a couple more chases in the book. Its so sad. The sequel books have even better chases. They skipped out on the chases in place of the terrible story.
The story may have been terrible, but you can't deny how amazing the visual are. I don't care how it's 99.99% CGI, watch it like it's a cartoon. But damn scenes like 2:45 where you have a town on wheels swerving a pile of rocks with a wall of steel chasing it. Basically 3/10 to the writing, but 10/10 to the people responsible for the CGI.
I think the biggest issue for this movie is that the pacing is freakishly fast. There's never a real moment for everyone to just sit, breathe, and talk. As a result, the characters don't really get developed beyond their broad architypes, and we never really learn much about the world or story beyond its basic premise. This movie really could've benefited from a few scenes for the characters to just sit, talk, and chill for a short span.
I think this could've benefitted from being a tv series instead of a movie. Getting kicked off London would've made for a good first episode, and their adventures would allow them to see other mobile towns and explore the world a bit more.
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This is one of those movies that can best be described as "bad, but with a really cool idea behind it."
If you like the idea you should really read the books. They made an absolute mess of the story trying to fit it into a movie like this.
@@alleghanyonce agreed
@@alleghanyonce I thought the books were for kids
@@Jack-cr6iw It's a young adult series, but it's very good, very cool world, the characters are amazing, one in particular is one of my favorite characters in any fiction.
Potential?
Fuel wasted : 99%
Fuel stolen : 1%
VICTORY
They still have more inside london
I’ve never seen this episode of top gear
At least they recycle...
Phyrric victory
@@samtaylor7279 one more victory like this and we are undone
That lookout on Bavaria absolutely SUCKED at his job. London would've been visible on the horizon for 30 minutes by the time it got that close.
Specialized seismic sensors would have detected its movement a day away....
They could've also just moved sideways and drove past it. I imagine it would've taken London ages to turn
He's like the "Troll! In the dungeons" guy
Well apparently London is way more agile than it looks
Gap
I don’t fucking understand it either
The movie may have had a garbage plot, but the aesthetics are like 100% accurate to the books and very well executed. To bad they didn’t write the movie as well as it looks. Because this is one of the best and most unique-looking live action movie I’ve seen.
They got the out country quite wrong tbh.
Loved the way they put Saint Pauls cathedral at the top of london though
Es más para juego de mundo abierto con gran mapa y tu vallas creciendo de a poco eres debredado primero y después tu comes después
😊😊
Far from a garbage plot lol
@@Allegiancy I don’t know, if you hadn’t read the book, I feel like it would be really hard to follow. It was very rushed and disorganized.
Fast as furious 23: Tokyo itself finally learns to drift
😂😂😂
I would pay every price to see that
Here's another one. Even thoug it's not Fast and Furious:
Mad Max: Fury Homes
such a good comment
Tokyo is a big ass mech that will learn how to air drift in the new F&F installments.
"enough fuel to last us a week"
Jesus, with that fuel efficiency they could probably launch their entire city to the moon
Specific impulse 1.5 million + seconds at least, what the hell is that city made of, antimatter?
I doubt they got that much fuel, its estimated that they had spent more fuel then they could possibly gain from chasing it down due to size, weight and tank holdage.
That's basically what they were planning to do in the books.
Pretty sure boats can go for months without refueling
@@forloop7713 yeah, but boats use high energy oil/coal fuel and also are 1. Not burning fuel very often, and usually kinda drifting slowly 2. Much much more efficient than a ground based car thing
The camera cuts to the masked girl every so often to show her staring and doing absolutely nothing.
Desert Crusader The mark of a great director
LMFAO..🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
She’s the main character you idiot. We’re following her story. Her reaction to everything is necessary
@@uncoiledfish2561 thing is, there is no reaction
@@uncoiledfish2561 Stay on course!
The other day there was a moment when I wasn't sure if this movie actually existed or in the early morning state of hypnagogia i deluded myself into thinking that there was a movie made about moving cities that fight each other. Imagine my relief when I discovered my mind was still yet incapable of coming up with such brilliance.
😆 Lmaooo
They should've gotten VIN DESEL. He could race a traction city until everybody was puking from motion sickness ! 🤣🤣🤣😆😆😆
Everyone talking about how bad the logic is, I’m just over here wondering what kind of monstrosity Tokyo is in this world
Would it drift tho?
The fact that this is completely unsustainable is actually a significant plot point in the books. Universal did do a really bad job adapting this book (I use the singular in the hopes that they won't make a sequel) but as I recall, the unsustainable nature of Municipal Darwinism doesn't actually become plot-relevant until the last book, and I don't think the issue is expressly discussed at all in the first book, just mentioned in passing during a conversation at most. So leaving out any discussion of the logical flaws in this society was actually an accurate move by Universal, but I'm hesitant to give them credit for it because they probably didn't leave it out on purpose, just like I'm sure they didn't deliberately use Pennyroyal's version of Hester's appearance, they just happened to do as bad of a job as the fictional fraud adventurer. Which is pretty funny in a disappointing and frustrating sort of way.
Tokyo also hasn't been specifically mentioned, but pretty much everything east of India is a part of the Anti-Traction League, and I expect that would include Japan, unless amphibious cities hit it from the ocean.
Imagine New York or Hong Kong
If I remember correctly, Asian cities are still regular cities, unlike the giant moving landship that London is.
It's a Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann at this point
It took London approximately ninety seven seconds to travel six miles. That puts the citys speed at over two hundred twenty miles per hour, meaning its just a touch faster than a Lamborghini Aventador.
imagine the quarter miles on these things lol
When you use bullshit as fuel only the sky is the limit.
Also 220 Offroad. Off. Road.
Can you imagine the MPG on these things lmao
@@jb_4563 I know it's a joke but i think they run on coal.
This movie had the kind of unapologetically bonkers premise that had an enormous potential. It's sad that the movie wasn't able to bring it all together.
“Yes, this is ridiculous. No, we aren’t going to apologize or stop.” 🤣
If only it had been a better movie
Honestly, since it’s a book series, why not a tv show instead? Make each book one season
It's a real shame because the books are really really good, I've read them all and from what I can remember they have a great plot and bring up a lot of excellent themes. Just a shame that the film was so soulless and completely missed everything that made the books great, and completely changed the ending to ruin it.
@@TheCrazyCapMaster to be honest, I'll defend these types of movies all the way.
I'm sick and tired of "Realism=Good", since when was that a rule? Ironically enough the most iconic movies aren't realistic, so might as well go full bonkers and create some ridiculous but amazing shit along the way
I went to the theater to watch this movie entirely by myself and I don't remember a single thing about it. Literally watched this clip and re-experienced it as if it were completely new to me knowing full well that it is not lol
You positive you went to the theater to see it? Maybe you never did and just thought you did? How could you not remember this scene?
I remember somone eating a twinki lol
Me too bro 😂
@@georgehenderson7783Because it’s very forgettable, as with basically all scenes in this very forgettable film.
Glad i was not alone in this
Watched the movie, can't remember a single thing. Blank
I love how they have the technology to build freaking tanks with cities on top of them but they still have a dude at the top watching with a freaking 1700s telescope
Figured out how stop a city sized vehicle from vibrating violently during transit, had the engineering prowess to make a 10,000,000 ton city drive across a continent....
Couldnt figure out radar.
@@yobrodontshoot1130 diesel tech and engineering and electronics do not mix...they aren't even close to the same field. It's like asking your computer programmer to weld an exhaust on your caur
Very steampunk of them
@@schneecoraxx8689 Haha whhhaaat? You're aware they literally use radio frequencies and have a blatant system of electronics...
You're telling me that they knew all this engineeering knowledge but couldnt find *Anything* on frequencies? They know about air travel and had the prowess to beat our current technological superiority to them... but dont know the primary function of which we've used to track said air vehicles...
Weve established they know about the past. If you can make a literally a city on tracks, 150 stories high, you should be able to figure out Radar. We did it in the 40s when we were still making planes out of plywood.
You insulted so many engineers by assuming that engineering is just the metal bits. And acting like thats all yhe capacity to learn
The cities are recovered technology not newly-developed technology, while the telescope can still be made. Think of the Toyota technicals, where the high-performance Toyota engines cannot be made but the basic bullets and weapons still can
I love how the Bavarian town could've just run perpendicular to London and gotten away with absolutely no issue
If I recall correctly London had big ass cannons on its sides and rear
If you look closely it has battleship turrets on the front too, above the trads.
Yeah but then they probably would have gunned it down out of spite.. also love how they probably used more fuel chasing the thing then what it probably carries lol
well. just like in Star Wars, everything could just be remote controlled: the ties, xwings. then, no casualties; everybody's happy. But then, the movie be boring as hell.
It's a pretty common trope in movies for those being chased to not change direction. It's pretty silly.
"The world has gone through a massive fuel crisis and we barely have enough to power anything anymore, what do we do?"
"Ok...Listen...I just had a great idea, How about we put our cities on wheels and drive them around?....."
".........Ok does *anyone else* have any ideas on what to do?"
Lol, I like fiction too but this premise is ridiculous
Agreed, you can sell something in fantasy or science fiction but this is some phenomenal BS.
@@kennethfharkin Eh, in the books at least the fact that it's ridiculous and unsustainable is kind of the point. It's all metaphorical and stuff. Like Snowpiercer.
In Mortal Engines the book, it's stated that cities were put on wheels to escape the earthquakes, volcanoes and other natural disasters caused by the 60 Minute War. But I think in Fever Crumb (a prequel trilogy) they give the real reason which I won't want to spoil.
@@brandonchan5387 please spoil I don’t care about this series at all
Probably one of the coolest opening scenes to a movie I've ever seen.....then the rest of the movie happened.
So, like private ryan?
@@RealCodreX any movie cant beat it
All complaints about the movie aside, the moving cities themselves do actually look pretty fucking cool.
This is one of the very few scenes it shows some cool bad assert like this.
The problem is there is only one moving city in the movie. It would be interesting to see other moving cities also. I read from one of the comments that in the book, a larger German city chased London and almost run it down.
One of those things is
This movie wanted to be a trilogy in one whole package
It bit off more than it could chew while it could easily be very good on it's own
Also side-note
Logic doesn't exist in Hollywood, I know that and you know that
Yee it's aight but still
Where is the big scar on the girls face
@Javier Mayo Damn bro is that an incel?
Looks like an mmo that would never leave early access on steam.
This would make a better game than movie if you ask me.
@@chayimweinstock443 There is a game similar to this kind of things called Last Oasis, played it myself, it's pretty fun and if you have a group of people with you it get's a lot easier lol
More accurately: a mmo that would have the first players sweating profousely to build one giant city and then proceed to dominate the entire game as they crush everyone else the following week
Be an interesting mix of town-building, resource gathering, industrial development, trade agreements, and making sure you have enough speed to run away from Predator cities.
You could start with a small town that can only mine resources or make basic industrial items, and have to trade for the resources or manufactured goods to slowly expand. The larger you upgrade your town, the more industry you can make or materials you can mine, but the slower you go. Predator cities would have to specialize in capturing smaller towns, meaning they won't have as much mining/industry for their size, plus have to make sure their speed is good (though capturing another city gives them a decent amount of high-tech supplies).
You then need a reason for the cities to be mobile, so earthquakes/meteor impacts would be a good idea. Even better, these earthquakes could expose veins of materials that could be mined, so if a city has mining equipment it will head towards a disaster location, while an industrial city will call for a mining city and trade the resources for finished goods. Pebble bed reactors would allow for a lot of fuel energy in a relatively safe storage method
it's pretty similar to Last Oasis, other than the landscape
'We need to ingest that small town for fuel'
*proceed to use 1000,000,000,000 gallons of fuel chasing it
Why just they don't use solar energy anymore?? If they has a technology to build entire moving city. Instead of using 10^12 gallons of fuel...
@@byambadorjotgonbaatar155 u need a shit ton of space to move a city with solar energy not to mention it doesn't even make enough energy to move it self.however a thorium recator would make a great choice insted of small citys and makes more then enough to move itself
They use fuel?
Or nuclear power a lot more powerful
Just a random guess based on literally nothing but the video. They are talking about the resources, brick, coal, iron and salt, then proceeds to note that is barely enough fuel for a week. Perhaps it is some kind of direct mass to energy generator. They literally burn the mass of the city they consume. This has far more energy potential then fission, fusion, antimatter or what ever else you can come up with.
This is the kind of shit I would come up with while watching these movies, instead of just suspending my disbelief.
Tbh the driver here did a better acting job then most of the main cast😂
This movie was visually stunning, but the story made 0 sense.
wouldve been better if they made it into a series instead of cramming 8 books worth of story into a single 2 hour movie
@@andhika5991 indeed, this could have been a memorable trilogy at the least, but meh
@@andhika5991 8 books worth of content would make better sense as four seasons of a show rather than one single movie
The books were so good
Imagine the whole Harry Potter series in a single 3 hour movie.
I'm gonna be honest, there can't be NEARLY enough fuel on that tiny ass rig to power the big machine for even a few minutes.
Yeah that completely takes me out of the movie and series. Something that blatantly stupid is hard for me to overlook.
Honestly it makes no sense for such a large rig to give chase to a smaller one.
The writers should have looked at some nature doumentaries, where big predators leave small prey alone because they're not worth the cost to get. Larger predators would chase medium-large prey, rather than microscopic prey... :/
@@Xenoniuss_ I think you are forgetting that it makes no sense to build a roaming city to begin with. The whole plot is ridiculous.
@@Xenoniuss_ Meanwhile whales ignore this.
@@cactusman1771 thats because they eat alot of small fish bois
I like to imagine some southern U.S city just being carried around in the bed of some gargantuan pickup truck
You’re probably right about this
Oh please, it's a rat rod
I think that NA is an radioactive wasteland according to the books but I don't doubt that there's a few scavengers here and there
lmao
We call it “Texas”
1:22 Does anyone else love how the other Traction Cities move aside to reveal London with its giant Union Jack getting closer and closer? It's like saying "Prepare to GET COLONIZED!"
Ah the classic run in a straight line maneuver. That tiny town could have totally driven right past London and that hulking monster would have just kept goin, that thing couldn’t possibly turn for shit.
I was thinking that too til I saw those grappling spear things being used. Pretty sure if they did as you told theyd just lose speed and would have been caught way earlier.
@@ZinXlX Fair point. So I guess slowly leaning to the side would fair nicely.🤔
I am sure London could manage slowly turning to the side considering it made it so far
Other than the harpoons they would also need the speed to go around London without it catching up due to its width
Yeah but they had to follow the "roads", or else if they went in a different direction, like how they went alongside ditch, the ground is bumpy and would do more harm to the vehicle. London can traverse anything with those massive treads
I see they learned their escape patterns from the Promethean School of Running Away from Things
Little city drive behind big city or to the side
This is an underrated comment
First thought Python then twigged yes of course Charlize Theron
You stole this comment from CinemaSins
@@Yeahbuddy-yf2cv *ping*
I like how the main character does LITERALLY nothing during the entirety of the clip. Just Runs around, stands still, and watches shit happen
Quota hire
What should she do? I don't think she could do anything
ما اسم الفلم هذا
@@يمانيماركه-س3ت محركات مميتة
@@baronvonjo1929 Then don’t cut to see her reaction especially when she has a god damn bandana on
I love the idea of a giant city sneaking up on you like a cheetah stalking a gazelle before it suddenly pounces
this is what happens when you install too many mods on the matrix
Uranium-238 This is so underrated.
any movie could be The Matrix with too many mods
@@PullingEnterprises But not every movie has agent smith
I for some reason see this as some kind of anime or something, is that weird 🤔
@@PullingEnterprises this one specifically is the equivalent of the "dragons are all thomas the tank engine", "bears all play shredding guitar solos", and "horses are tommy wiseau" mod combinations
So there is a Brexit master plan after all. I was wondering.
And it's look real (by current world craziness) after all
nonono, this is the result of Brexit, but it is because of London will Exit from England.
@@slitor thank god
@@deepfreeze202 What, I just explained how the joke would be better.
And plebiscite dosen't make water dry or any of your self indulgent fantasy come true.
It just makes you exploitable.
Why should "Remoaners" stop moaning because you brought up "Democracy"? You know its not a football game right?
This was based on an unbelievably unique and entertaining novel. I don't think I've ever been as disappointed with a novel adaptation before.
The worst "novel adaptation" to date is Battlefield Earth🙄😒
This is a close 2nd🤔
@@maestroaxeman Fair enough, but I was thinking movies based on actually good books.
@@ricosuave6898 lmao!
@@maestroaxeman Percy Jackson movies are the worst
@@malikthemadman Harry Potter movies too.
Did this movie make sense at all? NO.
Was it really fun to watch? YES.
and thats all that matteres to me
This is what happens when you watch Howl's moving castle and mad max while on acid
Never thought about it that way, but now I can't unsee that
You've never taken acid have you...
@Jai Rey ah yea. A genius play on words as it was.
Straight upz
nah those are actually good movies. this shit was hot garbage.
Alternatively:
The small bavarian city turns 90 degrees at the start, the City of London cant follow since they take longer to turn.
turning fast doesn't help if you've got no where to go after you've turned; just ask this fish: ruclips.net/video/28gX_eeXd-Q/видео.html
Big brain.
@@HokageG nice chase
@opop opop tiny brain lol, much smaller city = much smaller fuel reserves, making constant turns will run them out eventually just like the poor fishy
sssshhhhhh stop that thinking, it doesn't belong in the movie industry
Was always confused how a mobile city, especially a predator city, had a museum that didn’t think to like…shock-proof it’s displays or something…still love the mobile city concept
It’s a moving city I think there will be more vibrations than there isn’t at every single moment. Also fun fact a moment is 90 seconds, at least it was originally.
They complain in the book about needing better shock absorbers.
They complain in book 4 that the shock absorbers for the museum were lousy
Philip Reeve explained them very well. Just read the books and ignore the movie
Maybe wasn't given enough funding.
God this could have genuinely been one of the greatest movies of modern time and they dropped the ball hard.
With a dumbass idea of moving cities on wheels, yeah not a chance.
You'd be surprised on how many popular stories and franchises sound absolutely stupid when you put them on paper. It's all about good execution and story telling.
“Our American deities”
What I expected to see was Columbia and a bald eagle. What I saw surprised me.
NateBit8 Minions one day will be recognised as deities. One can look forward to that.
Not that innacurate though...
BRING US THE GIRL AND WIPE AWAY THE DEBT
@@masonsykes2240 MR. DEWITT!
In the book it was Micky mouse and goofy. I almost stopped watching the movie after I saw the minions instead.
Legend has it Sir Isaac Newton came to the producer’s house with a shotgun
Wouldnt be surprised after such "rape of gravity". :D
Did this movie not come out like 2 years ago
@Raheem Stalin he's just that good
Isaac: *BREAKS DOWN DOOR*
You've gone *TOO FUCKING FAR*
You finding logic in Hollywood movies?
If I remember right the book described that the environment was more akin to mad max style wasteland, so it was more along the lines of the last stable biomes raiding each other for resources as the clock ran out. Yet this movie has them rolling over green grass. Seems like the core metaphor/concept was misunderstood.
I agree, I often times DM various RPGs often in fantasy and Sci-fi settings and the idea of a 'literal moving city' is hardly new as such. However the big point is how to make it BELIEVABLE. How to make this seem like a logical course of action.
I mean with any movie, game etc. there's a certain suspension of disbelief, but if it seems just non-sensical in it's very nature you need a LOT of good will from your audience/players for it to work.
What I figured would be a planet laid waste to by geo-thermal activities with fractured crusts, earthquakes would be common and so having any larger permanent settlement would make little sense due to neigh unpredictable vulcanic and tectonical activitiy.
Naturally you have 2 basic survival tactics: Go fast, small and numerous or go big, overpowering and long-ranged. Both have their own advantages and disadvantages, depending on what overall starting situation and strategy you follow.
Naturally there's a couple of resources that are in high demand and relatively rare. Water being one of the most essential ones, followed by food directly and the means of protection and fuel (depending on the setting). Direct confrontations betwen larger Cities would be rare but truely terrifyingly awe-inspiring and devastating in their very nature.
Scouting parties, either with small tracked vehicles or a variety of flying machines, would try to scour whatever scraps and smaller moving cities they could come across and reasonably raid, while occassionally temporary mining stations, wells and whatnot would be established whenever the tumultous earth would surrender some of it's precious treasures to the surface.
While still far-fetched it'd make some sense. I'd say the 'literal' devouring of the City, while cool looking... seems a bit silly.
More reasonably to send out a large raiding party/assault team to take over control of the enemy City with smaller vehicles or flying machines, or simply shoot at it with cannons from long range to fuck up their wheels, tracks, whathaveyou.
Following one City or even just a few characters in a city or a couple of cities could have made quite for a very interessting movie.
Ive never read the books why are there moving cities
Never read the books but it would indeed seem kinda pointless to go through all of the effort to build moving cities if the land looks noicly fertile. Like you can see remnants of old tracks n shit in the dirt already overgrown again, nature doesnt appear to be struggling here at all...
Consuming cities for resources isn't sustainable anyways as coal is still finite and dwindling
@@flax9999lp if i remember the ground was relatively radioactive so couldnt be farmed - not enough to kill you outright but not liveable similare so the outskirts of Chernobyl- also the citys were just way way bigger in the books and diddnt need fuel as such but did attach eachother now and then for resources
if anyone is wondering the Bavarian town is called salt-hook its not just one town for all of bavaria
*Producer reads script*
Producer: "How high are you?"
Writer: "Yes"
I think this movie is based in a video game
@@MrAresxy07 Novels.
Ixions Writer: "i'm doing very well, thanks for asking"
It’s based on a book series. But by the looks of this, they messed up badly.
Very badly
My thoughts exactly we truly have run out of original ideas that are worth the green light
There's a British Empire colonization joke here somewhere.
Well luckily it wasn't Mumbai they was chasing.
Huh
But it's a dark joke. City of London is it's own country in real life. 1.12 square miles. Home to the Bank of England. The idea that it's trying to gobble up another society to feed itself is chillingly real.
I think this entire thing is a British Empire colonization joke
I suppose Germany or US would work too
The only real problem that I see in this scene is that they made London WAY too big. In the book, London was nowhere near as large, making it very manoeuvrable and fast, and the cities it devoured actually useful to it.
Edit: Watching this again, it looks to me like "Salthook" is also too small. Basically, size discrepancy is the problem. Also, in the book, the large cities are described as "dragging" themselves along, like some kind of mechanical monstrosity. Here they're super speedy race cars that look like they're going 100km/hr.
That’s what I was thinking, there’s no way that small city would provide a week of fuel for that monster.
How big is the London in the Book?
Find nearest library.
@@michaelweigley1667 Not sure what you mean? I just finished reading Mortal Engines.
@@ronanchristiana.belleza9270 Height-wise, about half a mile high. I'm a bad judge of height, though, so maybe movie London city is the right height and is just too long. Or maybe Salthook (not sure what It's called in the movie) is too small.
i love the little detail that there are no trees and that there are giant trenches from all the tracks of the cities everywhere. Makes the world feel alive
There's trees all over.
@@somerandomguy4240 he said “tracks” my dude
@@adynamos "i love the little detail that there are no trees"
Did you read the comment backwards and decided to stop halfway?
@@somerandomguy4240 the middle finger PFP make your reply hilarious
@@adynamos this dude said he sad about the tracks stolen by his dude
Imagine saying this scene is unrealistic.
There's cities on fucking wheels.
I just love the minions
They’re cities*?
That's why it's unrealistic
Just because it's fantastical doesn't mean it can't be logical as well. This is just bad writing
@@liamfraser6202 thats completely false, things can be stupid and illogical, it happens all the time, like the force in Star Wars. Even more so when the whole thing is a metaphor
POV: You are a level 20 player in GTA Online and you see a level 500 red blip beelining towards you on the GPS
Jeez, fancy seeing you here, hello again Justin
🤣🤣
K
lol I thought it wasn’t you at first because of the amount of likes you have
whatsup Justin. Why only 19 likes after 22 hours?
No matter how silly and unrealistic this is too damn cool to hate on
Love how this movie spent one third of its runtime creating a unique and interesting world and them immediately threw it out the window to be star wars
Gotta love how the “main character” does literally nothing this whole scene
She want London to catch them.
@@kirgan1000 then have her sabotage them or something. Do literally anything. Don't just stand there and feel like an extra who the director has an affair with
@@Zkeleton969 did you read the book?
@@petrichor001 it doesn't matter. She does nothing in the movie and moreover this scene. It is pointless to show her more then once
Yeah I couldn’t figure what the hell she was up to, whips out the dagger and sheaths it really cool into her boot. All for nothing? Then runs around aimlessly. Guess she wanted London to catch them but then why not just sabotage it somehow.
Every time the city packs up, 100 people die. A safety nightmare.
@cgao5.0 look at the beginning
😂
Looks like the way it is set up, some components are external only, and others are internal. External-only items can only be used when the town is at rest, and has extended supports outwards, as when the town is in motion the items are brought in and compacted (like the interior of an RV). Internal items are always available, but there would be a penalty to using them
Presumably a *non-emergency* pack-up is slower and safer.
Yup
He had the right idea when he began driving perpendicular to London. That thing probably takes forever to turn...
He definitely went to the Prometheus School of Running Away From Things
Finally, a script-writer who understands what CG is good for. And a costume designer who knows that a bonkers premise is no reason for your actors not to look fly as hell.
Yeah, but at the expense of the most important thing: SCRIPT.
@@LautaroTessi two things can be true at the same time
@@LautaroTessi They _could_ have done both a bonkers concept _and_ a good story, but then they tried to wrangle the original story of several books into one lousy written script, while removing all the good parts. The CGI and costume departments delivered though.
this is funny it's exactly like the modern museum, "and this was used for star circle # square and looks like a statue of some sorts"
@@andrewyoonhobai8453This is known as “maxxing”.
Such a unique and interesting concept, too bad it was soiled by an unisteresting plot with dull characters. Such a shame to see good ideas go to waste
I'd suggest just reading the books then
The books have FANTASTIC characters and are really moving
Same thing happened with that 1000 planet city movie, fucking sucked
@@417Owsy valerian?
Play "BioShock Infinite..."
They could've outrun them if they've just turned right.
Exacly
yeeeeeeeeees!!.....................................................................
@GetGood Bruh I guess that's true. Movies are meant for entertainment anyways, and not to be technical about it...
@@ihnrehkhu778 yeah, bad movies.
LOL, that's movie lore, they never dodge left or right, they ALWAYS run directly ahead of the pursuer.
This whole movie runs on Rule of Cool and I'm all for it.
so basically cities are converted into moving machines and they just consume eachother for fuel.
how many drugs was the writer on when he taught about this ?
He probably just wanted to make Mad Max in Europe
It's actually based on a novel by Phillip Reeve. He was the one to came up with the idea. In the books it actually makes a lot of sense
Yeah because nobody's ever had a creative thought without taking drugs, have they, "COD Boss".
Read more books, you illiterate moron.
COD Boss well, the moving cities were made because the surface was destroyed by orbital weaponry, so they mechanised their cities and the trend stuck, so London has been that way for several hundred years, and the people on board now, almost religiously believe that their lifestyle on the city is superior to how it would be on the ground, and they have massive wars with those that live on the ground
"COD Boss" but has a BF profile pic lol
They would have unquestionably lost more fuel there than they would have gained
*That's* your problem with this?
@@samal3196 yeah makes sense, this is fictional and the logic of this story is to consume that city for fuel, well if they spend much more chasing it down then theyd ever get consuming it,
NOT A SINGLE THING MAKES ANY SENCE ABOUT IT.
Maybe it was magic diesel. Higher energy density than your diesel. And the morale boost for your citizens - incalculable.
@@hellosammy4105 I love your username. Magic diesel works for me
@@sveinungj they be magic citys
I've never heard of this movie at all. Certainly I can't be the only one?
I didn't even know this movie existed
@KamiEuKiTo evidently not crappy looking films
I saw this on netflix
@@rockruff7203 it’s on Netflix? Lol what region?
@@franciscofranco5739 phillipines
Plot: 1%
Music & CG: 99%
the music was shit
@@romanrat5613 No it wasn't.
@@romanrat5613 Unpopular opinion detected
A minute of silence for all the CGI artists who lost their live while animating this ...
They did a fine job. Same goes for costume and set designers.
Lost their lives, or lost their will to live?
@@Mandarin9900 Lost their will to live. Maybe.
This CGI was so good like wtf- the scene where they pan around London felt really immersive
Honestly i could see the cg animators using this on their respective resumes with incredible success so long as the person looking at them aren't biased
Honestly, I really like the aesthetic of this movie. Whether or not it's illogical, that concept of whole cities/nations moving around in giant structures is really interesting to me.
Read the books, they are amazing
Yeah I think people are being too harsh with the franchise
Japan should make an anime with this kind of theme.
@@s.f.2480 They have. Look up Chrome Shelled Regios.
Chrome shelled regios
Everybody in the comments: "it doesn't make any sense"
Peter Jackson: yes.
Peter jackson didnt really direct this one tho, merely a producer.
London is running out of fuel. I know, lets put London on some giant tank tracks, then we can have the city drive around Europe looking for fuel to steal.
Peter Jackson: Shut up, it looks cool!
It’s based on the books if the same name
The books make sense, unfortunately the director of this did not read the book. This could have been amazing.
This concept of predator and prey as cities got to be the coolest idea I’ve ever seen
From my memory the books were great, very cool concept indeed.
When 'Minions' are considered treasured American culture, you know it's a dark future setting...
I think it is an easter egg, maybe same studio or writer?...also when the guy walks in and says "this is madness'...300 nod
@@bbranco01 It was in the book, except the book had a Mickey Mouse statue as the idol
@Sylvester Quinn What are you talking about?
@DEFCON ZERO wait so this takes place in the future and america is gone?
@DEFCON ZERO I dont think idolising a Disney character in a film produced by Comcast would go down well with the owners.... Minions are from Despicable Me, which is a Comcast film.
I can't really be the only one who thinks that the completely over-the-top, hilariously inefficient insanity of these cities was both fully intentional and kind of the whole point, can I?
I need a better name the reason given in the books is this:
The f**king world ended in a catastrophic war between super-advanced nations, which basically destroyed the climate and geology of the old world.
In the beginning the survivors of that horror show packed up and lived in giant roving bands of camper vans ect. To stay ahead of the giant horribly unpredictable weather events and occasional volcano.
This was the First Age of Traction.
Eventually this mostly ended when the world settled down, but a few techno-wizard empires still used what would be the prototypes of later Traction cities.
And entire book series about the first traction city then happens, which I will not bore you with, wherein they put London on wheels partially to stop people invading it.
London then bops around for a while, eating static towns, as it’s movement technology is disseminated and most places are presented with a choice: turn your city into a vehicle to run away, or get eaten by someone who did the former.
Thus was the Second Age of Traction born!
This was also where we get another really important idea, that of Municipal Darwinism, basically applying natural law to these Traction Cities
Which is why London is chasing the smaller one here.
The books are good
The movie is pretty crap.
I recommend reading the books
I like the idea, the setting is very unique and interesting as are the concepts. The movie just had the worst writing, casting, and pushed more God awful real world politics into the narrative.
@@LeafseasonMagbag "Techno-wizard"
@@ArnoldleZolid A society that maintains it's technological knowledge through a disaster by forming that knowledge into mysticism and dogma is a common enough trope in sci fi.
Leafseason Magbag is this just some grand stupid metaphor for imperialism?
All they had to do was turn and they'd escape. The turning circle of the larger vessel would be a massive disadvantage. Trying to outrun it was dumb
These ME's run on tread or tread and wheel systems. All they need to do would be full stop and turn and continue the chase, they have the higher speed, higher mass and size (to break terrain or pass over large gaps). Bavaria's captain was aiming for the pass in the cliffs, elliminating both speed and size from the equation. Height played the factor in being smaller they didnt see the Tracks from another Predetor City (i would guess), while London could see this clearly, allowing an informed decision. Not to mention to perform a turn that sharp Bavaria would be under immense centrifugal force, the intial turn at the start already puts degrees of drift on the top of the ME. As for why he charged at the start, he needed to get the pistons to raise pressure to gain speed. Another comment calculated this chase to take place at around 200+ MPH, that initial charge is only maybe 50 MPH and caused that much C-force to tip it multiple degrees. If he tried to continue the turn to drive past London, London would have stopped, turned in place (due to the tread system) much like a tank would, at this point Bavaria is in firing range of the harpoons, they would just bring it in sideways or slanted, rather than from the back. Its very well thought out, and whats makes Predetor Cities so dangerous in this peice. They might be bigger, but like with most things in the hunting world, bigger usually means alot more powerful. (Adendum, look at how a Lynx chases a Hare, you would think the Hare would win being faster, smaller and quicker by mass.)
Jai Rey really bro ? thats the best joke u can come up with
@Jai Rey A compliment or insult?
@@ulyssesdamon3408 that's a lot of maths and analytics. I do admit that these are cities on wheels with massive amounts of forces at play. My comment was simply, do a 90 degree turn, wait untill the enemy is close enough where they cannot commit to a sharp turn and accelerate away.
@Jai Rey Not the first nor the last, no sweat. But it's just basic logic from every day physics, turning under weight caused a vehicle to tip, it happens in trains and lorries quite often. Sometimes people criticize films for not having real enough physics, and some complain for having too real physics in sci fi. Just explanation of a possible reason based on observation and a slight understanding of physics and momentum. I like to be learned, and show others a different way of thinking about a problem. But yeah, I'm a nerd by admission, definattly. With the internet, it's hard not be these days. :D
The driver was honestly the best actor in this scene, he really gave off the desperation that was probably supposed to be felt in this scene
Next up: berlin devours paris because "force of habit"
Not Sure, but i think Paris is Long fallen at this time
Soviet Moscow devours whole of Eastern Europe to Berlin...!
@@eliasgerlin609 Paris is still around, though more of a luxury, wheeled, humongous holiday resort than a proper city.
I actually think Berlin is the one that doesn't exist. Either that or it's been renamed over the centuries.
I mean no offense, I'm just a huge Mortal Engines fan.
Berlin probably wandered off to the east and was never heard of again - only to resurface after it literally ate all of Poland and Ukraine. Leaves me wondering who left that giant trackmark even London has to evade though.
Lmao
I was taking this seriously until they called minion statues “American deities”
Iron Dragon aren’t they?
That actually made me keep watching.
It was more clever than everything else that happened up to that point.
Actually Mickey Mouse and Goofy in the books. But yes, Minions are appropiate.
That was not Peter Jackson's (or whoever else was in charge) idea, Philip Reeves included a scene in his book where they were making sure statues of Mickey Mouse and Pluto were safe. I have a feeling they used minions in the movie because Disney would have something to say if they used their property.
In my opinion the idea of calling these characters gods is pretty great, because it shows that it's been so long since our modern day (a few thousand years in fact) that information has become cluttered and misinterpreted.
🤣🤣
Wtf is this movie it feels like a fever dream
Omg yes, like that strange feel of giant things you control idk
Idk, i read the book and it was about as weird as this
I once had a fever dream where I had to carry Australia on my back to Eurasia
@@dominic_decocco i had a dream where i dreamed that i Thought i was dreaming but was actually awake.
@@dartmoorcat1074 lucid dream?
Average warhammer 40k car
"there is ample greenery , fertile grounds for agriculture , we could settle down and build our civilisation here .. "
" Nah.. let's just put our city on wheels and drive around "
The cities that settled down were eaten by the ones that kept on moving
@@toddkes5890 WHY THE FUCK WOULD THEY MOVE AROUND TO BEGIN WITH???? ITS SO POINTLESS.
Thats dumb. What will they do when there's no more cities?
@@apassionatenerd.3564 Originally, there were lots of disasters, but those disasters had a lead time. If you remained in one location, your city was likely to be destroyed, so it was either move or die. After the disasters died down, the mobile cities remained, and people are greedy
@@alfredohumberto2222 Starve/Rust/leave it for the next person
Me: does nothing
RUclips recommendations:
here’s *london eating bavaria*
Ｇｒａｎｄａｄ？
ＯｕｈｈｈＧｒａｎ？Ｄａｄ？？！
FOR FUEL!
I’m just fascinated by how every western movie makes their running target run in a straight path ahead of the enemy. Never away from the path like a logical person.
Yeah an entire massive city turned into a moving vehicle probably doesnt have a very good turn radius
@@crunchu2361 okay, explain in promethius, shaw runs in the path of the rolling space ship? I mean.... ruclips.net/video/hdZXlMl1xG4/видео.html
@@generalx5220 looks like they never learned about diagonals
@@crunchu2361 yeah.
@84 LXGrit ..... are you serious?
Not sure how this movie flopped it looks so good
pretty accurate movie on how the United Kindom will waste alot of resources just to obtain a speck of sand in the pacific
it is actually a euphemism for capitalism and how economy's swallow each other to survive, london is just the obvious historical reference.
This is WW2 reference
It's actually about social darwinism@@123Andersonev
This is a 'Merica reference. No but seriously this could be just about any civilization at one time or another.
@@akhandbharat1593 yeeeeeees, WW2 reference, where London was chasing Bavaria around the plains of northern France.
So this is that major movie nobody went to see!
I can see why.
people went to see it, and it was pretty good.
A lot of ppl will watch it now.
This film is an absolute travesty compared to the books
I saw it and i enjoyed it but it definitely had issues and the script was all over the place at times
I'm genuinely confused about the hate. What was so bad about this scene??
Imagine driving down the highway and you see the whole of the USA on this one truck
Its definitely going to be a food truck
@@Xenomorthian LMAOOOO
it'll be an united states of smashu
Ford F-150
It would just be a giant gun on wheels
Seeing a city the size of well London I guess arranged in such an order that it appears as a mountain and then crushes hills in its wake is something beyond terrifying.
When being chased by something that has terrible manoeuvrability, instead of turning, keep running straight.
And get hooked back, lol. Great idea mate
"Zun tsu, the art of war"
Theres something called harpoons and worst case scenario you will get crushed by the wheels
People always forget what strafing is
@@AnNguyen-es4kx two cities do exactly that in the exact same video that youre replying on mate
“We’re about to loose our American deities!!”
*camera casually pans over to a couple of minions*
In the books it was Mickey Mouse
LMFAO!! I thought this was a random comment, when I saw it in the video it was surreal 😅
@@akumaking1 Oh, that makes sense. There’s no goddamn way they could get Mickey Mouse to appear in a non-Disney movie.
@@akumaking1 sooo if they put Mickey mouse in the movie they gonna get sue or wat?
@@Mr-Ad-196 yes
Isn't this a little like a Neanderthal chasing down one ant for the sweet sweet milligrams of protein? You'd think once a city gets to a certain size, it would be more of a net waste of energy to chase down so small a town.
*city on wheels*
Well, they could just destroy them with some big ass cannon, but; *city on wheels*
They mention that it could be carrying a week's worth of fuel
@@Gnagniel i'm pretty sure they wasted at least a month's worth of fuel for chasing that thing.
Slaaaaaaves
Even as strangely written as it is, this has literally got to be the coolest cgi sequence I’ve ever seen.
Fucken awesome.
I was hoping Queen Elizabeth II would literally by driving the thing like a tank driver.
EDIT: while laughing maniacally*
"Come get some"
"Blo'dy wankas"
Admiral Lizzy the ll
But it was me, DIO!!!!
Oh my god 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
I love how there are various tread marks across the landscape in different sizes, with some appearing overgrown with flora(and fauna) and others looking fresh.
It’s a beautiful subtle display of the grand scale of this world.
you mean flora
@@rubentongiani6198 Yes, I thought it meant animals AND plants. My mistake
Indeed
That's probably China
When a scene in youtube has more viewers than the actually movie
I like the concept for moving citues tbh
The movie is great i just watched it and its a masterpiece
@@aspact_peakz7701 Glad u enjoyed it. But the majority including myself think it was garbage
@@mustard4762
" ... moving cities."
In a sci-fi novel series by James Blish the cities became spaceships!
@@jabberwocky1707 Thats boring imo
With the technology to put an entire city on wheels you think they'd also have the technology to, you know, find novel new ways to extract and refine fuel from the ground.
Of course the British are taking everyone else’s shit in this movie
Nigga Bean sounds like history tbf
@Nigga Bean 😂🤣🇬🇧
Why so triggered about a movie, weakking?
top gear on wheels
Nigga Bean well they didn’t take America so I’m sure they’ve learned to deal with 2nd as usual
They probably burned more coal by chasing them than they would loot from them
What did they even loot from them ? The guy literally tells them to drop all their resources so they can move faster
Looked like they dropped all the salt. The city itself serves as fuel.
@@Bit01 it was rice. And yeah they were after fuel, but I agree with Lukas they definitely would have burned more than they gained. What an idiotic movie haha.
Legion Zero Ratte was never build because its a retarded concept
I guess magic?
this film felt weirdly low budget given that it actually had a huge budget
Yeah the script wasn't very good
yeah the visuals seem to lack a sense of style to the cinematography. definitely something felt lacking in the shots.
Fun fact: with the budget for this movie you could buy all the tickets to go see this movie, and still have 20 million left over to make the sequel that "The Room" deserves.
@@brosnan this movie isn't directed by peter jackson ya goon
C
Idk why, i've always thought the premise of this movie would perfectlly fit a Bioshock game
What did the girl accomplish by being a lookout? Didn’t warn anyone, didn’t even prepare herself smh
Pretty sure she was intending to get on London < for spoilerful reasons>. It would be even more clever if she chose the town with the broken engines (or maybe she sabotaged them herself, who knows?)
Irfan Syahril shit film may as well spoil it
the fucking idea made no sense..... the weight of the city never going to keep up on first place.. this is oppostie of last jedi
@@irfansyahril8511 I was thinking that myself that she might have sabotaged the engines. But then I think she could have only done that is she knew ahead of time that London was heading her way.
@@campkira if the lack of physics in this movie bothers you, then you sure must hate all star wars movies and pretty much every other sci-fi and action movie out there.
"We need to combine Harry Potter, Transformers, Star Wars, Pirates of the Caribbean, and Fast and Furious..... and Lord of the Rings... put Elrond in there..."
Aaaand despicable me
@@TheGameware Yup🤣
How does Harry Potter fit in there?
@@ayanbanerjee6161 Accents, big buildings, style of shots and the style of architecture
And Hunger Games
I love how the museum director rushes to save his Minion statues. Clearly, Universal funded and produced this movie.
It's Mickey mouse and Pluto in the book
It's fine, it works
@@suad01 " American deities ". Bwahahahahahahaaaaaaa.
4:56 the fact that he kinda looks like Gru and the fact that they have 2 minion statues
"Devours Bavaria for fuel" losing so much freaking fuel from chasing little city with gigantic one in the process. So freaking ridiculous. No wonder it flopped so bad.
pikaboö nu visuals were pretty cool. Story and writing was awful tho lol
UK don't think, typical.
Bro its a kids movie. I dont think your meant to worry about the science. Besides the fuel consumption would be the least of their worries, the city would be too big to support itself according to the square cubed law
The books are much better - they have a lot more detail! They didn’t eat the city for fuel, it was more of an appetiser, whilst the real plan was to get to the Hunting Ground where bigger cities chased each other.
@@mrcrabbymustache3067 Would you say reading the book is worth it? While the movie doesn't inspire me the premise seems very interesting.
The movie started out so strong with this and then there were no other good chases like this for the rest of it.
Thank You for letting me know because I was considering watching it but never mind
So like homer, I dont need to watch it full, I've already seen de the best part?
There were a couple more chases in the book. Its so sad. The sequel books have even better chases. They skipped out on the chases in place of the terrible story.
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good chase? you call this good?
I like how you can see stories with just the ground, the tire tracks of massive cities long since passed
100% its Paris
The story may have been terrible, but you can't deny how amazing the visual are. I don't care how it's 99.99% CGI, watch it like it's a cartoon. But damn scenes like 2:45 where you have a town on wheels swerving a pile of rocks with a wall of steel chasing it.
Basically 3/10 to the writing, but 10/10 to the people responsible for the CGI.
It was WETA, same people who made the visual effects for Avatar and Lord of the rings
I think the biggest issue for this movie is that the pacing is freakishly fast. There's never a real moment for everyone to just sit, breathe, and talk. As a result, the characters don't really get developed beyond their broad architypes, and we never really learn much about the world or story beyond its basic premise. This movie really could've benefited from a few scenes for the characters to just sit, talk, and chill for a short span.
I think this could've benefitted from being a tv series instead of a movie. Getting kicked off London would've made for a good first episode, and their adventures would allow them to see other mobile towns and explore the world a bit more.
"The pacing is too fast! Dislike!!!"
"The pacing is too slow! Dislike!!!"
*Make up yo damn mind!*
Alot of movies lately have been suffering the fast pacing. I don't know why. It's been quite bothersome.
Yes I think Reeves writing lends itself to a scene by scene tv adaptation. Basically the screen play = the novel
@@TheRandom1631pacing is too fast