Mortal Engines (2018, D: Rivers, P: Jackson/Walsh) S: Hilmar, Sheehan, Weaving, Lang
 

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The trailer is supposed to be attached to The Last Jedi.

Re: Mortal Engines (2018, D: Rivers, P: Jackson/Walsh) S: Hilmar, Sheehan, Weaving, L
 

Not familiar with this, but it sounds interesting.

Re: Mortal Engines (2018, D: Rivers, P: Jackson/Walsh) S: Hilmar, Sheehan, Weaving, L
 

Yep'. Sounds interesting. And I'm really curious to see how the design of everything looks. Motorized cities sounds complex to show on screen.

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It was. At first I thought someone did a live-action Howl's Moving Castle. Looked pretty damn good.

Re: Mortal Engines (2018, D: Rivers, P: Jackson/Walsh) S: Hilmar, Sheehan, Weaving, L
 

Sooo disappointed this wasn't in my Last Jedi's trailers (Harkins Theaters). :(

Re: Mortal Engines (2018, D: Rivers, P: Jackson/Walsh) S: Hilmar, Sheehan, Weaving, L
 

I figured once the trailer played in the theater, it would get officially released but I can't find it. Guess I'll have to watch The Last Jedi again to see it.

Re: Mortal Engines (2018, D: Rivers, P: Jackson/Walsh) S: Hilmar, Sheehan, Weaving, L
 

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Re: Mortal Engines (2018, D: Rivers, P: Jackson/Walsh) S: Hilmar, Sheehan, Weaving, L
 

Visually it reminds me a bit of Now and Then Here and There ... if it were shot as a Mad Max movie.

Re: Mortal Engines (2018, D: Rivers, P: Jackson/Walsh) S: Hilmar, Sheehan, Weaving, L
 

Of course they release the trailer a few hours after I bitch about not having a trailer :)

Re: Mortal Engines (2018, D: Rivers, P: Jackson/Walsh) S: Hilmar, Sheehan, Weaving, L
 

Well there it is. I was curious how it'd look. Neat designs. Looking forward to seeing more.

Re: Mortal Engines (2018, D: Rivers, P: Jackson/Walsh) S: Hilmar, Sheehan, Weaving, L
 

Looking forward to seeing this even more than I am to seeing Bright.

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Re: Mortal Engines (2018, D: Rivers, P: Jackson/Walsh) S: Hilmar, Sheehan, Weaving, L
 

Ehhh. I can't say that trailer did much for me. Felt a little too Sky Captain.

Re: Mortal Engines (2018, D: Rivers, P: Jackson/Walsh) S: Hilmar, Sheehan, Weaving, L
 

Looks great!

Re: Mortal Engines (2018, D: Rivers, P: Jackson/Walsh) S: Hilmar, Sheehan, Weaving, L
 

Looks very Bioshock: Infinite. I’m in!

Re: Mortal Engines (2018, D: Rivers, P: Jackson/Walsh) S: Hilmar, Sheehan, Weaving, L
 

Unless I miss it, I didn't see Stephen Lang in the trailer. I presume it a minor role?

Re: Mortal Engines (2018, D: Rivers, P: Jackson/Walsh) S: Hilmar, Sheehan, Weaving, L
 

Im so in... looks great.

Mortal Engines (2018, D: Christian Rivers) S: Hilmar, Sheehan, Weaving, Raftery, Lang
 

An upcoming Dystopian movie Mortal Engines is to be released in US at December 14th 2018.

Synopsis : Set in a world many thousands of years in the future. Earth’s cities now roam the globe on huge wheels, devouring each other in a struggle for ever diminishing resources. On one of these massive Traction Cities, Tom Natsworthy has an unexpected encounter with a mysterious young woman from the Outlands who will change the course of his life forever.

Director : Christian Rivers

Screenplay : Philippa Boyens, Peter Jackson, Fran Walsh.

Starring : Hera Hilmar, Robert Sheehan, Hugo Weaving, Ronan Raftery, Stephen Lang.

The movie's based on a YA dystopian novel with the same title by Philip Reeve.

Are you interested in watching dystopian movie adaptations after The Hunger Games, Divergent, and Maze Runner ? I think the craze have die down lately.

Re: Mortal Engines (2018, D: Rivers, P: Jackson/Walsh) S: Hilmar, Sheehan, Weaving, L
 

Reviews coming in: https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/mortal_engines

Not looking good.

I may still check it out. But with all the new releases coming out it’s a low priority.

Re: Mortal Engines (2018, D: Rivers, P: Jackson/Walsh) S: Hilmar, Sheehan, Weaving, L
 

:up:

Re: Mortal Engines (2018, D: Rivers, P: Jackson/Walsh) S: Hilmar, Sheehan, Weaving, L
 

This came out and nobody noticed? I’ll check it out this weekend.

Re: Mortal Engines (2018, D: Christian Rivers) S: Hilmar, Sheehan, Weaving, Raftery,
 

Hmm, I guess I haven’t been paying close enough attention to this. Based on all the “From the creators of the Lord of the Rings films” stuff in the tv spots for this, I just assumed Peter Jackson was the director.

I don’t know Jack shit about Christian Rivers.

Re: Mortal Engines (2018, D: Rivers, P: Jackson/Walsh) S: Hilmar, Sheehan, Weaving, L
 

From what some friends said, it's gorgeous-looking but bland.

Re: Mortal Engines (2018, D: Rivers, P: Jackson/Walsh) S: Hilmar, Sheehan, Weaving, L
 

My sister asked if this was in any way part of the Mortal Instruments series. So yeah, this is pretty much DOA.

Re: Mortal Engines (2018, D: Rivers, P: Jackson/Walsh) S: Hilmar, Sheehan, Weaving, L
 

I was tired and distracted during the movie, and I don't think I can give it an honest assessment right now. I am actually considering seeing it again, because I lost track of what was going on. The special effects were great, though.

Re: Mortal Engines (2018, D: Christian Rivers) S: Hilmar, Sheehan, Weaving, Raftery,
 

He's Peter's storyboard and pre-vis guy from LOTR.

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Re: Mortal Engines (2018, D: Rivers, P: Jackson/Walsh) S: Hilmar, Sheehan, Weaving, L
 

:lol:

Re: Mortal Engines (2018, D: Rivers, P: Jackson/Walsh) S: Hilmar, Sheehan, Weaving, L
 

Seeing this tomorrow morning.

Re: Mortal Engines (2018, D: Rivers, P: Jackson/Walsh) S: Hilmar, Sheehan, Weaving, L
 

My review of Mortal Engines
Star wars set on earth in future with rolling cities . The ending

Re: Mortal Engines (2018, D: Rivers, P: Jackson/Walsh) S: Hilmar, Sheehan, Weaving, L
 

I’m glad mhg83 thinks of it the same way I did ... sort of a steampunk Star Wars. Saw it in 3D IMAX and had a good time with it. I almost wish it was entirely about the airships as I really enjoyed the feel of the ... band of rebels.

Nothing that will break the box office, but an enjoyable couple of hours. Unfortunately the YA source material shows through a little too much (they could have made the story more politically intriguing). Visually enthralling, particularly in 3D.

mhg83 didn’t mention the biggest SW rip-off at the end ... it was telegraphed a mile away, but just in case ...

Re: Mortal Engines (2018, D: Rivers, P: Jackson/Walsh) S: Hilmar, Sheehan, Weaving, L
 

This was visually spectacular. Cliche as hell, though. I did enjoy "Shrike" and would have loved to have seen more of his origins and how he actually came to be. I'm not familiar with the books.

Re: Mortal Engines (2018, D: Rivers, P: Jackson/Walsh) S: Hilmar, Sheehan, Weaving, L
 

Thought the ending was odd...



By the way, in real life the blonde daughter is apparently Vincent D'Onofrio's daughter with Greta Scacchi

Re: Mortal Engines (2018, D: Rivers, P: Jackson/Walsh) S: Hilmar, Sheehan, Weaving, L
 

Agreed mwbmis ... that is part of where I thought the YA appeal was too much of an influence. All in all, they tried to oversimplify and then squeeze too much in at the same time. The third act didn't come together properly.

I'm not familiar with the books at all, but this was something that could have made a damn good limited series on a streaming channel. The world building was done pretty well, but it felt a lot like Hunger Games where there is a deeper political story that is excised so we can show pretty people.

Edited to add: I looked at the Wikipedia articles for the movie and the books. Per the books article, this was originally written as a straight science fiction series for adults, but the publisher thought it would work better as YA novels. The author then stripped out a lot of the political and world building mechanisms of the story. This is where I also draw a Star Wars comparison. There are some interesting political stories in the Star Wars world, but they don't play well for audiences (or under Lucas's direction).

Re: Mortal Engines (2018, D: Rivers, P: Jackson/Walsh) S: Hilmar, Sheehan, Weaving, L
 

She's hot.

Re: Mortal Engines (2018, D: Rivers, P: Jackson/Walsh) S: Hilmar, Sheehan, Weaving, L
 

Well, so was Greta Scacchi.

Re: Mortal Engines (2018, D: Rivers, P: Jackson/Walsh) S: Hilmar, Sheehan, Weaving, L
 

Given how this performed, I think we've seen the end of Mortal Engines. Honestly, I always thought the whole thing was weird. The first time I saw the trailer I assumed it was somehow related to the Mortal Instruments which also had a villain named Valentine.

Re: Mortal Engines (2018, D: Rivers, P: Jackson/Walsh) S: Hilmar, Sheehan, Weaving, L
 

I hate these premises of stories where the world is "destroyed" yet they have better technology than before.

Re: Mortal Engines (2018, D: Rivers, P: Jackson/Walsh) S: Hilmar, Sheehan, Weaving, L
 

They only mentioned the timeline once and Mortal Engines takes place in like 3123 or something. Being 1,000 years in the future. They would have awesome technology.

Re: Mortal Engines (2018, D: Rivers, P: Jackson/Walsh) S: Hilmar, Sheehan, Weaving, L
 

Posters in this thread make up 70% of the film's audience.