Honest Trailers Commentary | Mortal Engines

[@fandomentertainment]

What did Mortal Engines make you feel? POOL RULES One: Speak up and join the conversation- we encourage respectful debate. Two: Respect your community- racism, misogyny, homophobia and hate speech aren’t tolerated. Three: Don’t go looking for fights. Four: “Be nice.” - Dalton from Roadhouse

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ScreenJunkies News I feel as if this movie should of been titled. Exposition: the movie , the ride , the game . I honestly haven’t seen it yet , but I know the plot

[@blackkcinamacritic]

Do Vox Lux

[@elementsarethekey9019]

Hay guys! I love your channel! Also i loved the movie and went to theaters and met stephen lang

[@asherkahtan3914]

Have u read the books?

[@nickshane9314]

I think Mortal Engines should have been a t.v show or like four or five movies because its got several good ideals but way to cramed with way to much stuff

[@danj8048]

Joe's always talking about the weird stuff they make him take out...release the Starr cut!

[@andrewfeistner3384]

The Snyder Cut of the Screen Junkies fandom

[@LaurenTheorist]

I want this!!!

[@Towkeeyoh]

Release it!!!!!

[@starcraftfavsongs]

+1 vote for a Starr Cut

[@Evelyn_Okay]

When you bought the rights to a popular YA series 10 years ago and forget about it and the contract expires in 6 months

[@TheCrayonMaster]

😂🤣

[@thecatmeowsalot6791]

I bet more people are going to watch this trailer than saw the actual movie

[@grapefruitswithsalt]

I didn't know this movie even existed until about a month ago, when I was looking up Robert Sheehan stuff to watch.

[@JonSaul]

This is the Honest Trailer Way

[@alexmott507]

10/10 Dan face in the thumbnail

[@multiverse_media2023]

He’s all like: “You for real Hollywood?”

[@tionnecarson3729]

The best Honest Trailers are about movies that are dumb and fun lol definitely keep doing movies like this guys

[@charlesajones77]

I wish they were doing these commentaries back when the Honest Trailer for Jupiter Ascending came out.

[@TheCrayonMaster]

Maybe they can look back at some older ones?

[@emmal2932]

Nerf balls were introduced to the world in 1970, before Star Wars. They were called Nerf because it's a slang term for the foam padding that's used in off road racing. So the Nerf toys existed before Star Wars used Nerf Herder in Empire. I hope this is interesting, I don't want to bore you or jump on an unimportant detail, just thought it might be interesting. Loved the trailer, the ones for stupid movies always make me laugh :)

[@adamten1192]

Emma L NERF like the darts stands for Non Expanding Recreational Foam

[@haggus71]

Yup. I owned a NERF football two years before Empire came out.

[@rozafrrozafr]

The op is correct. Nerf isn't an acronym for anything. That "non expanding recreational foam" thing was made up after the word was already being used

[@drmattconrad77]

I think every creative writing degree should require a semester of Honest Trailer Commentary before graduation.

[@JShaggy]

12:32 Only those who read all four books of the Mortal Engines Quartet (including A Darkling Plain) would understand why Shrike narrated the beginning of the film.

[@boytechnichian]

Yeah, he saw the whole thing from before the traction cities were built till many years after they dissapeared. Unfortunately without sequels this will be something that is never explained in the film, a movie needs to be able to stand on its own two legs and not rely on people knowing the source material. That said, his character had a beautiful end in the books, and the way he witnessed the end Tom and Hester's journey was just heartbreaking. If I were ever to cry at the end of a book/ series, it would be then.

[@kaylinanne9315]

Why does Joe saying “Danithon” make me laugh so much?!

[@julietrc15]

I loved it so much!

[@pieter_kok]

I loved that mini Bumblebee trailer snippet. You could do a 20 minute compilation of improvised Honest Trailers for movies that you don't think warrant a full trailer. I'd definitely watch that.

[@michalandavimandelbaum7194]

NERF is an acronym for "non-expanding recreational foam"

[@fandomentertainment]

Welp, you learn something new every day!

[@michalandavimandelbaum7194]

@@fandomentertainment That means you get to go back to sleep since you only need to learn something new once a day.

[@Fawkes2574]

@@fandomentertainment Did you just call him a welp? lol

[@bryanbarajas5499]

Nerd!

[@reggiethelion]

"Mortal Engines" comes from a line in Shakespeare's Othello III.iii.352.

[@captaincrunch784]

The GIANT exposition dump during the crust shatter scene made me laugh so hard because as a geologist it made no sense.

[@benabramowitz18]

I hope you guys are working on an Avengers (1998) Honest Trailer in time for Endgame!

[@thevfxmancolorizationvfxex4051]

They should do Bohemian Rhapsody first. Or if you really want them to do another stupid comic book related thing, then how about the 60s Marvel cartoons? There is a lot material from that to go from

[@poposterous236]

Bohemian Rhapsody might work if they have enough material, but they shouldn't do it just because it's popular. Whatever works best for their style. Your comparison to "just another stupid comic book related thing," is equal to, "just another stupid musical biopic thing". Try not to disrespect when, seriously, none of this matters. Whatever works for them and their style is what's important. I was also dead sure that they already did an honest trailer for the '98 Avengers, but I can't find it. Must have been a hell of a dream.

[@benabramowitz18]

@@poposterous236 Maybe if they *sang* their Honest opinion on Bohemian Rhapsody to the tune of the titular song, it could work.

[@thevfxmancolorizationvfxex4051]

@@poposterous236 I am someone who usually never gives up on something completely irrelevent and pointless. I would also like to see an honest trailer for The Sixth Sense and the 60s Marvel Cartoons

[@benabramowitz18]

@@thevfxmancolorizationvfxex4051 Imagine how hilarious it would be when the writers/viewers/Epic Voice Guy discovered that The Avengers (1998) exists, has nothing to do with Marvel, and makes no sense at all.

[@381916aa]

For YEARS I used to think Leia called Han a "nerve-hurter" rather than a "nerf-herder"

[@jedimoonkitty3747]

Damn dan’s getting sassier by the minute

[@FestArc]

Honest Trailer Bumblebee Snippets "Is this a remake of E.T.?" "I was told Jon Cena was in this movie.... but I can't see him anywhere!" "What is the fascination with Transformers hanging out in junkyards?" "Hey Hollywood, you know the first ten mins of this movie, make that an hour longer and you got yourself a great Transformers film."

[@paradisecity0406able]

Is 'Mortal Engines' in need of a *CAR MECHANIC* ? All this and more on Honest Trailer Commentaries, NOW!

[@boytechnichian]

You know the worst thing about this? Being one of the much fewer people who read the books to death and knowing all about these plots and subplots and not being able to explain why so much of this works in the books. These guys are absolutely right, the film should stand on its own legs but it's painful for people not to know how awesome this series really is. (EDIT Absolutely nothing in the books that I know of that describes why it's called mortal engines)

[@GoldZephonian]

It is such a good book series! And the movie is perfect for fans like us, but terrible for every one else

[@boytechnichian]

@@PacMonster0 just read a comment that says it's called Mortal Engines because the whole system of Municipal Darwinism is unsustainable and dying, hence the "mortal" part.

[@METALUNICORNLTD]

After watching the film, I had to know what the books were like. They are amazing. I feel like they lost their nerve when making the film.

[@alastairamos]

My feelings exactly.

[@geeksontapshow]

Me, Five years later: "ESTER!!!"

[@michaels4917]

They don't know about Minions. The apocalypse dosen't sound so bad.

[@DerekJohnsonMuses]

Great commentary! I enjoy when you break down a bad-to-mediocre movie, like the Robin Hood commentary. Lon is very good in this commentary, keep him on!

[@rubitard]

You say "it's cool" to just watch the commentary show, but we all know you judge us.

[@daniellemhall1358]

I know right

[@ieatgremlins]

I feel judged.

[@stiimuli]

I found that creepy undead dad robot a really interesting concept but, I agree, he made no sense in this movie's plot. Would have worked better as an end credits reveal (sequel tease) or a mysterious background stalker that is never really explained fully.

[@EFZUBIAGA]

I did think Danielle put in the Mortal Kombat joke

[@SilverAlaunt]

Snorlax Used Rest does she mention Mortal Kombat a lot? I can’t say that I’ve ever heard her make a reference, so that moment was very confusing to listen to.

[@AndrewPasq]

OK, I hate to pull the "well actually," but the Movie/Novels is called "Mortal Engines" because the civilization of Municipal Darwinism is dying. It is an unsustainable existence. They have to blow up the Wall (Death Star style) & move to new hunting grounds, because there is less and less "prey/cities" where they are. That is what Red Scull keeps harping on. It's that thing the characters keep looking at the audience about. The premise is purposefully ridiculous, because why would you be so wasteful and stubborn when all evidence points to the fact that your way of life is unsustainable & will destroy everything? There are countless better/obvious ways to approach any of their problems to everyone not brainwashed by their culture. Changing their way of life is simply not an option to these people, no matter how small or reasonable the change. :: cough:: Climate Change :: cough :: Also, the fact that refusing to adapt is pretty much their civilizations' driving principle, while literally calling their society "Darwinism" is supposed to be Ironic... (if i know what irony means) You can learn about this and other horrible books turned into movies on our Pod Cast "The Book Club Was Better" where we literally got an anthropologist to examine the movie/book. thebookclubwasbetter.simplecast.com/episodes/tbcwb-book-50-introduction-to-mortal-9b012e05

[@williestyle35]

Good work. Nice deep dive on the lore of a book series. Danielle said it best.

[@RobertoMatos01]

When you guys do “The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones” I’m gonna feel so sorry for Joe Starr 😂😂😂😂

[@Phelie315]

Honestly I only just realized those are apparently two different IPs 😂

[@benzaiten933]

young adult stuff sound all so much alike, engines, instruments, throw in some 'dark' and be done with it.

[@KINGPINm22]

SJ should have an illusion-ruin jar where they have to put a dollar in everytime they screw up the day of filming vs upload.

[@billiamafton6528]

Review Howard the Duck before Avenger's Endgame comes out. Please.

[@benzaiten933]

Joe hasn't said "show" nearly enough times!

[@serenityriver2701]

Honest Trailers Commentaries are my favorite. Thank you!

[@kashiewm]

The visuals are incredible. I suggest just watching it with the sound off. This is how I made it through Terminator 3. This way you can sort of imagine your own story since the actual screenplays are sooo crap but there is some good spectacle up there on the screen.

[@michaelcampbell8843]

🚨New Dan thumbnail photo alert🚨

[@kriskringle3662]

I think Lon missed it a little, Cyborg dad was created before the disaster and survived the apocalypse. And he was an honest trailer fan.

[@SyntheticDivine]

We all know that Spencer saw Mortal Engines. He just didn't appear in this video because he's presently negotiating with a galactic alien empire not to feed us all to an unknowable evil that thinks we taste like cheese. You do you, Spencer.

[@Thermalions]

Wait, so Colony is real?

[@toxicgaming003]

The positioning of Lon’s Coke gives me anxiety lol how do you not knock that off?

[@poposterous236]

the dramatic tension is so thick you could cut it with scissors

[@ChristinaWoodall]

Calling Minions, deities, is a punch in the face. Thanks Danielle, Lon, Joe, and Dan for watching this "movie", so we don't have to. I truly enjoyed the Honest Trailer and definitely the Commentary as usual. Y'all killed it 🤘❤🤘❤🤘

[@keyveehill]

The worst movies make the best Honest trailer. Please do Freejack, Bio-Dome, Vertical Limit, or Sphere

[@kriskringle3662]

Omg, freejack spittle be epic. The thing is, they are all too young for the cyberpunk thing, their bladerunner one killed me. They entirely missed the concept of "more human than human" and were calling replicatants robots.

[@JonSaul]

Wing Commander

[@ItsKimOlson]

When Joe said "lets watch this trailer" a WEIRD commercial for Rockstar @ AM/PM started. 😂😂😂

[@katesometimeslate158]

12:52 the fact that this gave me goosebumps just confirms how fucking crazy good LOTR is. (off topic)

[@athegreat9970]

Screen junkies knows MK11 is 3 weeks away I love the reference, also I love Dan but everyone does so that’s nothing new

[@thatdamnbradley]

It's been six weeks, and Joe still starts with "What's up, party people."

[@ShaytheFae]

Favorite line: "Is it though???"

[@TheLowBrassDude]

So basically we have the Peter Jackson equivalent of Jupiter Ascending?

[@acousticnoisemachine]

I just want to point out that "Nerf Herder" and "Nerfs" could both be animals. We have the dogs often referred to as "shepherds".

[@nailsaberov4962]

I feel that Shrike (Zombie Dad) is the most memorable part of the movie

[@geneburnsed6958]

Yesss a BioShock reference. Thanks Joe.

[@Xperian13]

Great show talking about their show talking about someone else show.

[@ItsKimOlson]

"Hester" 😂😂😂😂😂 "Call me Nimrod" 😂😂😂😂😂

[@craigfarnham268]

I enjoyed your commentary SO MUCH that in some strange way it makes me want to watch the movie!!!

[@Geoffery_of_Monmouth]

It was mortal engines in the book because the cities are doomed by their very nature to fail, like, teleologically.

[@Randomluck]

Thanks for introducing me to a new word.

[@bethperforms6191]

Someone in the comments on the honest trailer itself said that you should have gone with MOTOR KOMBAT for the title. I do agree :)

[@Markusmoose603]

from wikipedia: Explanation of the novel's title The title is a quotation from Act III, Scene iii of William Shakespeare's play Othello ("Othello: And O you mortal engines whose rude throats/Th'immortal Jove's dread clamors counterfeit..." - Line 352). It refers to the fact that the society of Municipal Darwinism is not sustainable living and that the cities' engines are indeed mortal. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mortal_Engines

[@fredrikgranath7154]

I wonder if Lon knew it’s the 56th anniversary of the first appearance of Doctor Strange today (April 9)

[@TommyTheCat83]

Yes please release the full undead dad take!

[@GoldZephonian]

I was listening to this commentary at the gym...I had to stop myself from bursting into laughter at HESTAAAAAA

[@AHulbertArtist]

Hearing everyone talk in Shrike voice will kill me from laughter.

[@raidenxthunder8151]

Hey, that Mortal Kombat one was great.

[@arceuslordofcreation8824]

There are clearly lush green fields and full forest in the background, so like why are we in mobile cities? You don't need to eat smaller cities and towns to get resources The environment has recovered so you can just start farms and such

[@Jehty_]

And then be eaten by another city... I don't know if it was mentioned in the movie or only in the books, but you can't just stop with Municial Darwinism. If you don't move you are easy pray.

[@Jehty_]

And on top of that Municipal Darwinism is their ideology. It's like saying you want to stop capitalism in the US. You would be hard pressed to get approval of the majority of the people.

[@gallaghim]

It's a real shame this movie wasn't better. One of the main reasons I went to the cinema to see it was that it was doing so badly and I felt bad for the director. I've read the books too and was curious about adaptation. It felt muddled to me, that too much was fitted in and at least in the movie Shrike seemed irrelevant. I'd encourage ppl to read the books, they're better, but overall they're not that ground breaking either.

[@iriandia]

Wait till these guys find out cyborg dad is the only one alive at the end of the fourth book.

[@boytechnichian]

I almost cried at the ending to that book. Can't believe I spotted it in Poundland though 😂

[@CommanderJaneShepard]

Hester! He's like the boogeyman in a horror film. Why is he in mortal engines?

[@arceuslordofcreation8824]

To yell HESTER

[@voodoomoss]

LOL! I was in Dan's pocket universe for a second there, too. Like, wait, is a Nerfherder like a German Shepard? An animal, unto itself?! Wait ........ Did Leia call Han a scruffy bitch?!

[@sauravsaha7465]

Just to clarify: Weren't the Death Star & Techno-Zombie created pre-apocalypse? Kinda like "The Star of Sorrow" & "The Iblis" from Trinity Blood?

[@SethVivianBarker]

Can you do a commentary for the older honest trailers?

[@grutarg2938]

I always assumed a nerf herder was a human, like a shepherd. But you’re right, it could be an animal, like a sheepdog.

[@studentfilmed]

I had no idea that this was even a movie before this Honest Trailer lmao

[@pretends2know]

Please post the Shrike Super Cut.

[@TheAgentPi]

I loved this movie. Granted I was like the perfect target audience. I read all the books and prequel books. Luckily it was long enough that I don't remember the details. But I know the basic plot points and background.

[@allgas6692]

I don’t blame it on the adaption. This book series is the Transformers of Fantasy novel series

[@boytechnichian]

You take that back! The book series is bloody brilliant.

[@EduardoGrassoTV]

For the first time in 34+ years I fell a sleep on a movie theater

[@elijahtaylor4698]

After reading the book, the fact that Hester only has a small facial scar annoys me.

[@betts3985]

This honest trailer was so on point! I tried watching the movie and I got so confused and didn't understand or care who people were and then it ended. But it had action...so I guess it was okay?! Glad I didn't see it in theaters though. No way I was spending my money on that.

[@darkhawk4863]

So... There's a few schools of thoughts on using future-sounding terminology to make your world feel lived-in... The referenced good version, Star Wars, where you drop the new words in piecemeal and we can figure it out from context because we recognize the rest of the words; the bad version, The Force Awakens, which just starts talking without even trying to explain why anything is happening, so you're lost the whole time; or the Jupiter Ascending school - which it sounds like this movie does - where there's made-up words for things we have real words for, but we use the made-up words for everything, so people have to pause and have lengthy scenes of exposition so the audience can know literally *any* of these words... so we're not only lost, but also bored.

[@Wolvesarechasingme]

Ok. I read the books as I was curious with why this earth looks ok. First the books are darker but skew younger. Like 8 year olds. After the war tectonics plates shattered so for 100s of years you got surprise mega volcanoes; tsunamis, mega earthquakes, posioned water, new massive mountain ranges so they moved the cities on to tracks to move quickly away from these problems. So cities started to join together; people get used to living on machines; don't want to change their lifestyle; eat other cities to keep going. Secondly, so much slavery. City get eaten; people get stuck in the toilets - which gets very Fury Road for a tiny bit - or leave to go walk and get taken as slaves again. Life is very cheap. Also, there is more of a Terry Gilliam Brazil feel to the planet in the book. Hester is a lot crazier in the books. Spoilers!!!! ----- Schike is the narrator because by the end, he can remember his past; is found 1000s of years later and is telling these future people THIS story. Ta dah.

[@francobaggage]

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[@AnimalLover101195]

This is amazing!

[@guitaraholic]

The fun you had with this makes me wanna watch mortal engines .... is it just me?

[@Betta66]

Honest Trailer for Glass, eh?

[@poppyseed1987]

Sometimes I watch the Honest Trailer so that I can watch this show and have it make sense.

[@Ladykyra101]

Do: Big Trouble In Little China, Dr. Detroit, Flight of The Navigator.

[@j.erinquist9751]

Cant believe you didn't do a Howels Moving Castle reference

[@Vlandrik92]

The Anti-Traction League sounds like a slippery slope to me.

[@boytechnichian]

Think of them like Greenpeace. In the series they actually get replaced by a hardcore faction that's way more aggressive.

[@Vlandrik92]

While I appreciate the info, the comment was for the pun.

[@boytechnichian]

Ah yes, how did I miss that 🤦

[@jenanncreates1262]

17:35 We need to coin the term “living in the mouth of a flerken.”

[@MM-714m]

I kind of want to watch this movie now... you sold me on it

[@outrageous-alex]

I mean I don't mean to be that guy, but "the book explains it" and it does. But for me it's just a companion for the book to me, brings my mind's eye to life.

[@AngelA-mk5ty]

Not the first time Hugo was a bad guy in a steampowered world, remember Steamboy.

[@MrShaunhunter]

I'm sorry but I haven't watched a honest trailer since you guys came out with the commentary 😂

[@corvus2512]

I agree with everything they said, the story was such a mess. Yet i liked the film, i really like the world, the cities, the airships... idk id like to see a sequel if the story can match the coolness of the setting

[@sneggleblech]

0:45 There was never an illusion.😜

[@jclebourdais10]

"mortal engines" is a Shakespeare quote

[@azop]

"mortal engines" is Shakespeare reference

[@Carollnn]

I watch the commentary without watching the trailer first because you see the trailer anyway during the commentary.

[@TheLowBrassDude]

Lon was right about the name Mortal Engines, specifically it comes from a quote from Act III of Othello

[@beatjunkybg]

At certain points I predicted a couple of their lines just before the characters said them... Do I win something, writers of Mortal Engines? LOL

[@BNOBNO14]

Again, you got me Joe. I'm here and not watching the actual honest trailer.

[@carlytto25]

I finally saw this movie and enjoyed it enough to want a sequel.

[@SilverBack_Props]

Exposition: the movie , the ride , the game