Mortal Engines | The City of London Devours Bavaria for Fuel

[@derknilch7233]

Fuel wasted : 99% Fuel stolen : 1% VICTORY

[@boxtrolls6144]

They still have more inside london

[@conner983]

I’ve never seen this episode of top gear

[@4trightcitizen895]

At least they recycle...

[@samtaylor7279]

Phyrric victory

[@eliteexpression]

@@samtaylor7279 one more victory like this and we are undone

[@eliwatson7936]

Fast as furious 23: Tokyo itself finally learns to drift

[@wanderer_87]

😂😂😂

[@ST0AT]

I would pay every price to see that

[@syrrath8096]

Here's another one. Even thoug it's not Fast and Furious: Mad Max: Fury Homes

[@aronhegedus]

such a good comment

[@thememeguy2195]

Tokyo is a big ass mech that will learn how to air drift in the new F&F installments.

[@BlitzedNostradamus]

This is one of those movies that can best be described as "bad, but with a really cool idea behind it."

[@alleghanyonce]

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.

[@wafflestcattash4818]

@@alleghanyonce agreed

[@Jack-cr6iw]

@@alleghanyonce I thought the books were for kids

[@anatoldenevers237]

@@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.

[@jethrogiak3292]

Potential?

[@somni6756]

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.

[@emperorjames]

😆 Lmaooo

[@DanielAppleton-lr9eq]

They should've gotten VIN DESEL. He could race a traction city until everybody was puking from motion sickness ! 🤣🤣🤣😆😆😆

[@0megacron]

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.

[@233lynx]

Specialized seismic sensors would have detected its movement a day away....

[@rvnx]

They could've also just moved sideways and drove past it. I imagine it would've taken London ages to turn

[@RennieAsh]

He's like the "Troll! In the dungeons" guy

[@trainfan-ks5hk]

Well apparently London is way more agile than it looks

[@trainfan-ks5hk]

Gap I don’t fucking understand it either

[@octamaster5000]

"enough fuel to last us a week" Jesus, with that fuel efficiency they could probably launch their entire city to the moon

[@bee5440]

Specific impulse 1.5 million + seconds at least, what the hell is that city made of, antimatter?

[@AngelEmfrbl]

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.

[@eliH2233]

That's basically what they were planning to do in the books.

[@forloop7713]

Pretty sure boats can go for months without refueling

[@bee5440]

@@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

[@Ixions]

*Producer reads script* Producer: "How high are you?" Writer: "Yes"

[@MrAresxy07]

I think this movie is based in a video game

[@Assassin199410]

@@MrAresxy07 Novels.

[@dannyshawn2352]

Ixions Writer: "i'm doing very well, thanks for asking"

[@dairypig]

It’s based on a book series. But by the looks of this, they messed up badly. Very badly

[@williamworth2746]

My thoughts exactly we truly have run out of original ideas that are worth the green light

[@DKZK21]

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

[@georgehenderson7783]

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?

[@jammin5563]

I remember somone eating a twinki lol

[@BigBroKuma]

Me too bro 😂

[@The_SSSlopper]

@@georgehenderson7783Because it’s very forgettable, as with basically all scenes in this very forgettable film.

[@hesamsafari801]

Glad i was not alone in this Watched the movie, can't remember a single thing. Blank

[@straightorade4918]

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

[@yobrodontshoot1130]

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.

[@schneecoraxx8689]

@@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

[@laughsinmisogyny8827]

Very steampunk of them

[@yobrodontshoot1130]

@@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

[@toddkes5890]

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

[@corbanbausch9049]

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.

[@droporooshop317]

They got the out country quite wrong tbh. Loved the way they put Saint Pauls cathedral at the top of london though

[@Visingeniero]

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

[@สับติดต่อ]

😊😊

[@Allegiancy]

Far from a garbage plot lol

[@corbanbausch9049]

@@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.

[@kingarthur5110]

'We need to ingest that small town for fuel' *proceed to use 1000,000,000,000 gallons of fuel chasing it

[@byambadorjotgonbaatar155]

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...

[@cyberspino6277]

@@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

[@boiboiboi1419]

They use fuel?

[@gunleaner1924]

Or nuclear power a lot more powerful

[@sam23696]

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.

[@angelapolinar5343]

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!"

[@Brainflayer]

"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?"

[@Hope-Truth-Light]

Lol, I like fiction too but this premise is ridiculous

[@kennethfharkin]

Agreed, you can sell something in fantasy or science fiction but this is some phenomenal BS.

[@garethharold3600]

@@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.

[@brandonchan5387]

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.

[@bigpigeon2384]

@@brandonchan5387 please spoil I don’t care about this series at all

[@fieldmarshal7298]

The camera cuts to the masked girl every so often to show her staring and doing absolutely nothing.

[@coll912]

Desert Crusader The mark of a great director

[@lucintafatah4134]

LMFAO..🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@uncoiledfish2561]

She’s the main character you idiot. We’re following her story. Her reaction to everything is necessary

[@archimagirus27]

@@uncoiledfish2561 thing is, there is no reaction

[@besnikzogaj9887]

@@uncoiledfish2561 Stay on course!

[@ZarHakkar]

All complaints about the movie aside, the moving cities themselves do actually look pretty fucking cool.

[@halojeff1]

This is one of the very few scenes it shows some cool bad assert like this.

[@s.f.2480]

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.

[@windows7504]

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

[@yeet12937]

Yee it's aight but still Where is the big scar on the girls face

[@toastyeditz]

@Javier Mayo Damn bro is that an incel?

[@omarbaba9892]

Tbh the driver here did a better acting job then most of the main cast😂

[@GrayCatbird1]

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.

[@TheCrazyCapMaster]

“Yes, this is ridiculous. No, we aren’t going to apologize or stop.” 🤣

[@randomdude189]

If only it had been a better movie

[@aaronlandry3934]

Honestly, since it’s a book series, why not a tv show instead? Make each book one season

[@viothesheikah1018]

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.

[@lollllolll.]

@@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

[@cheemsdoge]

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.

[@ZinXlX]

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.

[@carboneticmarshmellovv3622]

@@ZinXlX Fair point. So I guess slowly leaning to the side would fair nicely.🤔

[@obisvanainobis9950]

I am sure London could manage slowly turning to the side considering it made it so far

[@thegooseking818]

Other than the harpoons they would also need the speed to go around London without it catching up due to its width

[@YourCaptain00]

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

[@statelyelms]

I love how the Bavarian town could've just run perpendicular to London and gotten away with absolutely no issue

[@TheGreatThicc]

If I recall correctly London had big ass cannons on its sides and rear

[@ultimatedestroyer338darkwi5]

If you look closely it has battleship turrets on the front too, above the trads.

[@makoshark40]

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

[@kelvin7019]

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.

[@umbraemilitos]

It's a pretty common trope in movies for those being chased to not change direction. It's pretty silly.

[@matthewhoey6450]

Probably one of the coolest opening scenes to a movie I've ever seen.....then the rest of the movie happened.

[@RealCodreX]

So, like private ryan?

[@Jpc.films43]

@@RealCodreX any movie cant beat it

[@EXMachina.]

Cool and dumb

[@emers_n5623]

The plot itself was a mess but the visuals in this movie were outfuckingstanding. By far some of the most detailed CGI I’ve seen in a movie.

[@Pawn-God]

😂😂😂

[@lordhughmungus]

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.

[@marlonvanegas7598]

imagine the quarter miles on these things lol

[@alanwatts8239]

When you use bullshit as fuel only the sky is the limit.

[@mort7987]

Also 220 Offroad. Off. Road.

[@jb_4563]

Can you imagine the MPG on these things lmao

[@alanwatts8239]

@@jb_4563 I know it's a joke but i think they run on coal.

[@chiar0scur0]

Everybody in the comments: "it doesn't make any sense" Peter Jackson: yes.

[@TheUniversalRocker]

Peter jackson didnt really direct this one tho, merely a producer.

[@Fray2221]

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.

[@Outside85]

Peter Jackson: Shut up, it looks cool!

[@atas2561]

It’s based on the books if the same name

[@mayakovski]

The books make sense, unfortunately the director of this did not read the book. This could have been amazing.

[@ihaveseenthings0]

I like how the main character does LITERALLY nothing during the entirety of the clip. Just Runs around, stands still, and watches shit happen

[@anomilumiimulimona2924]

Quota hire

[@baronvonjo1929]

What should she do? I don't think she could do anything

[@يمانيماركه-س3ت]

ما اسم الفلم هذا

[@ihaveseenthings0]

​@@يمانيماركه-س3ت محركات مميتة

[@roccotaco1843]

@@baronvonjo1929 Then don’t cut to see her reaction especially when she has a god damn bandana on

[@MattDawgGaming]

I love the idea of a giant city sneaking up on you like a cheetah stalking a gazelle before it suddenly pounces

[@zwojack7285]

I see they learned their escape patterns from the Promethean School of Running Away from Things

[@s.rob.5482]

Little city drive behind big city or to the side

[@Lord_Cardboard]

This is an underrated comment

[@starwarsroo2448]

First thought Python then twigged yes of course Charlize Theron

[@Yeahbuddy-yf2cv]

You stole this comment from CinemaSins

[@zwojack7285]

@@Yeahbuddy-yf2cv *ping*

[@ricosuave6898]

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.

[@maestroaxeman]

The worst "novel adaptation" to date is Battlefield Earth🙄😒 This is a close 2nd🤔

[@ricosuave6898]

@@maestroaxeman Fair enough, but I was thinking movies based on actually good books.

[@Flyingboots1]

@@ricosuave6898 lmao!

[@malikthemadman]

@@maestroaxeman Percy Jackson movies are the worst

[@troll2637]

@@malikthemadman Harry Potter movies too.

[@swagsterog9670]

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.

[@blankblank8424]

Yeah that completely takes me out of the movie and series. Something that blatantly stupid is hard for me to overlook.

[@Xenoniuss_]

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... :/

[@vashman01]

@@Xenoniuss_ I think you are forgetting that it makes no sense to build a roaming city to begin with. The whole plot is ridiculous.

[@cactusman1771]

@@Xenoniuss_ Meanwhile whales ignore this.

[@velnirian2291]

@@cactusman1771 thats because they eat alot of small fish bois

[@AJ-xc4nm]

God this could have genuinely been one of the greatest movies of modern time and they dropped the ball hard.

[@flyingintervation4188]

With a dumbass idea of moving cities on wheels, yeah not a chance.

[@kingcamelot1395]

​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.

[@SwyndolVA]

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

[@parkertitle1923]

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.

[@alastairamos]

They complain in the book about needing better shock absorbers.

[@joelvanwinkle5976]

They complain in book 4 that the shock absorbers for the museum were lousy

[@TheBlueGrinchofSurgery]

Philip Reeve explained them very well. Just read the books and ignore the movie

[@fastertrackcreative]

Maybe wasn't given enough funding.

[@Ninjablade88]

Looks like an mmo that would never leave early access on steam.

[@chayimweinstock443]

This would make a better game than movie if you ask me.

[@thalthanar3384]

​@@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

[@eageraurora879]

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

[@toddkes5890]

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

[@BDtetra]

it's pretty similar to Last Oasis, other than the landscape

[@natebit8130]

“Our American deities” What I expected to see was Columbia and a bald eagle. What I saw surprised me.

[@pacer1705]

NateBit8 Minions one day will be recognised as deities. One can look forward to that.

[@nobilesnovushomo58]

Not that innacurate though...

[@masonsykes2240]

BRING US THE GIRL AND WIPE AWAY THE DEBT

[@Ghost26968]

@@masonsykes2240 MR. DEWITT!

[@commandergoblin4896]

In the book it was Micky mouse and goofy. I almost stopped watching the movie after I saw the minions instead.

[@lukasmendevi2242]

Everyone talking about how bad the logic is, I’m just over here wondering what kind of monstrosity Tokyo is in this world

[@y.cuevas9933]

Would it drift tho?

[@michealdrake3421]

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.

[@CJTower.]

Imagine New York or Hong Kong

[@leehongjin6884]

If I remember correctly, Asian cities are still regular cities, unlike the giant moving landship that London is.

[@vb1194]

It's a Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann at this point

[@Trades46]

There's a British Empire colonization joke here somewhere.

[@WeaponOfMyDestructio]

Well luckily it wasn't Mumbai they was chasing.

[@Nativemetalfreak]

Huh

[@johnvanegmond1812]

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.

[@sirpuffball6366]

I think this entire thing is a British Empire colonization joke

[@TheCulturedMan34]

I suppose Germany or US would work too

[@creativeworkshopguy523]

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

[@chittasticchitta1164]

Did this movie make sense at all? NO. Was it really fun to watch? YES. and thats all that matteres to me

[@royaltiii]

I like to imagine some southern U.S city just being carried around in the bed of some gargantuan pickup truck

[@calcium1823]

You’re probably right about this

[@Jonnyg325]

Oh please, it's a rat rod

[@Squidly3005]

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

[@detectif1061]

lmao

[@smoothpoon86]

We call it “Texas”

[@Depleted-Uranium]

this is what happens when you install too many mods on the matrix

[@smoketinytom]

Uranium-238 This is so underrated.

[@PullingEnterprises]

any movie could be The Matrix with too many mods

[@Blaster-Rat]

@@PullingEnterprises But not every movie has agent smith

[@karyehhunter3751]

I for some reason see this as some kind of anime or something, is that weird 🤔

[@Depleted-Uranium]

@@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

[@shadowwwq]

Alternatively: The small bavarian city turns 90 degrees at the start, the City of London cant follow since they take longer to turn.

[@HokageG]

turning fast doesn't help if you've got no where to go after you've turned; just ask this fish: kzbin.info/www/bejne/aGnKiZKbmr2XY7M

[@reddragon2k6]

Big brain.

[@Randulaith]

@@HokageG nice chase

[@HokageG]

@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

[@Allenthedude]

sssshhhhhh stop that thinking, it doesn't belong in the movie industry

[@federationstickmenTWOS]

This concept of predator and prey as cities got to be the coolest idea I’ve ever seen

[@FatYokel]

From my memory the books were great, very cool concept indeed.

[@wladislawshamin5447]

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

[@somerandomguy4240]

There's trees all over.

[@adynamos]

@@somerandomguy4240 he said “tracks” my dude

[@somerandomguy4240]

@@adynamos "i love the little detail that there are no trees" Did you read the comment backwards and decided to stop halfway?

[@Kallax2]

​@@somerandomguy4240 the middle finger PFP make your reply hilarious

[@munip346]

@@adynamos this dude said he sad about the tracks stolen by his dude

[@lugialover09]

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.

[@deeznoots6241]

Read the books, they are amazing

[@kris0375]

Yeah I think people are being too harsh with the franchise

[@s.f.2480]

Japan should make an anime with this kind of theme.

[@raymundomuzones4533]

@@s.f.2480 They have. Look up Chrome Shelled Regios.

[@koreanjesus738]

Chrome shelled regios

[@vespelian5769]

So there is a Brexit master plan after all. I was wondering.

[@Joe-mz6ez]

And it's look real (by current world craziness) after all

[@slitor]

nonono, this is the result of Brexit, but it is because of London will Exit from England.

[@Moop747]

@@slitor thank god

[@slitor]

@@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.

[@slitor]

Why should "Remoaners" stop moaning because you brought up "Democracy"? You know its not a football game right?

[@KeenanAxolotl]

Plot: 1% Music & CG: 99%

[@romanrat5613]

the music was shit

[@Skaratak]

@@romanrat5613 No it wasn't.

[@M0vingSaturn523]

@@romanrat5613 Unpopular opinion detected

[@hellothere9167]

This is what happens when you watch Howl's moving castle and mad max while on acid

[@ericward8459]

Never thought about it that way, but now I can't unsee that

[@iamgregprice1]

You've never taken acid have you...

[@iamgregprice1]

@Jai Rey ah yea. A genius play on words as it was.

[@GaunteroDimmm]

Straight upz

[@imapilotwhale4239]

nah those are actually good movies. this shit was hot garbage.

[@karlgerat2731]

Legend has it Sir Isaac Newton came to the producer’s house with a shotgun

[@martinbudinsky8912]

Wouldnt be surprised after such "rape of gravity". :D

[@rorybrett4340]

Did this movie not come out like 2 years ago

[@thejetttrek]

@Raheem Stalin he's just that good

[@theyoutubepoet7428]

Isaac: *BREAKS DOWN DOOR* You've gone *TOO FUCKING FAR*

[@saadbodla3092]

You finding logic in Hollywood movies?

[@jeremyc4811]

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]

Yeah, but at the expense of the most important thing: SCRIPT.

[@amadeux5471]

@@LautaroTessi two things can be true at the same time

[@mifiwi3438]

@@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.

[@andrewyoonhobai8453]

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"

[@b1r2y3n]

@@andrewyoonhobai8453This is known as “maxxing”.

[@lawrencerutherford4260]

if anyone is wondering the Bavarian town is called salt-hook its not just one town for all of bavaria

[@patrickk5287]

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.

[@MajorCoolD]

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.

[@rebinregi1990]

Ive never read the books why are there moving cities

[@flax9999lp]

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...

[@nczioox1116]

Consuming cities for resources isn't sustainable anyways as coal is still finite and dwindling

[@jerrys1923]

@@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

[@fifervonpiper6707]

I was hoping Queen Elizabeth II would literally by driving the thing like a tank driver. EDIT: while laughing maniacally*

[@philippelestrat3276]

"Come get some"

[@Sprottel_SFM]

"Blo'dy wankas"

[@iscreamsandbitch-_-3774]

Admiral Lizzy the ll

[@rumenstoianov9200]

But it was me, DIO!!!!

[@tobeannounced...8995]

Oh my god 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@jchea1764]

"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 "

[@toddkes5890]

The cities that settled down were eaten by the ones that kept on moving

[@apassionatenerd.3564]

@@toddkes5890 WHY THE FUCK WOULD THEY MOVE AROUND TO BEGIN WITH???? ITS SO POINTLESS.

[@alfredohumberto2222]

Thats dumb. What will they do when there's no more cities?

[@toddkes5890]

@@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

[@toddkes5890]

@@alfredohumberto2222 Starve/Rust/leave it for the next person

[@crcoghill]

5:04 Oh, come on now! Funny gag aside, it had me till this part.

[@jokerssjokess4857]

This movie was visually stunning, but the story made 0 sense.

[@andhika5991]

wouldve been better if they made it into a series instead of cramming 8 books worth of story into a single 2 hour movie

[@Blasti1987]

@@andhika5991 indeed, this could have been a memorable trilogy at the least, but meh

[@aaronlandry3934]

@@andhika5991 8 books worth of content would make better sense as four seasons of a show rather than one single movie

[@Traumachu]

The books were so good

[@dinnerboons1504]

Imagine the whole Harry Potter series in a single 3 hour movie.

[@ZybakTV]

I've never heard of this movie at all. Certainly I can't be the only one?

[@westerngoldmine1725]

I didn't even know this movie existed

[@franciscofranco5739]

@KamiEuKiTo evidently not crappy looking films

[@rockruff7203]

I saw this on netflix

[@franciscofranco5739]

@@rockruff7203 it’s on Netflix? Lol what region?

[@rockruff7203]

@@franciscofranco5739 phillipines

[@JustinY.]

POV: You are a level 20 player in GTA Online and you see a level 500 red blip beelining towards you on the GPS

[@mintyvole]

Jeez, fancy seeing you here, hello again Justin

[@prakrititzborah9032]

🤣🤣

[@Rayhand117]

K

[@kingkumquat5234]

lol I thought it wasn’t you at first because of the amount of likes you have

[@humongousballs]

whatsup Justin. Why only 19 likes after 22 hours?

[@JasonVidaEnt]

I didn't watch the film but I love that scene. Mortal Engines would've been more successful in the box office.

[@neptunium2378]

Me: does nothing KZbin recommendations: here’s *london eating bavaria*

[@Nanatajaa]

Ｇｒａｎｄａｄ？

[@Nanatajaa]

ＯｕｈｈｈＧｒａｎ？Ｄａｄ？？！

[@motta_math_]

FOR FUEL!

[@Bad_Yam]

Imagine saying this scene is unrealistic. There's cities on fucking wheels.

[@sonnyburgess2510]

I just love the minions

[@rogue]

They’re cities*?

[@johnnyringo5777]

That's why it's unrealistic

[@liamfraser6202]

Just because it's fantastical doesn't mean it can't be logical as well. This is just bad writing

[@rafotrarran6888]

@@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

[@rylanc3602]

“We’re about to loose our American deities!!” *camera casually pans over to a couple of minions*

[@akumaking1]

In the books it was Mickey Mouse

[@dcallies527]

LMFAO!! I thought this was a random comment, when I saw it in the video it was surreal 😅

[@cbonde101]

@@akumaking1 Oh, that makes sense. There’s no goddamn way they could get Mickey Mouse to appear in a non-Disney movie.

[@Mr-Ad-196]

@@akumaking1 sooo if they put Mickey mouse in the movie they gonna get sue or wat?

[@dava8058]

@@Mr-Ad-196 yes

[@TrizzyD14]

No matter how silly and unrealistic this is too damn cool to hate on

[@Blind_German_Main]

Yep

[@FarseerOfCearath]

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?

[@LeafseasonMagbag]

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

[@Peglegkickboxer]

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]

@@LeafseasonMagbag "Techno-wizard"

[@LeafseasonMagbag]

@@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.

[@nosoy3than]

Leafseason Magbag is this just some grand stupid metaphor for imperialism?

[@bigoz1734]

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

[@ulyssesdamon3408]

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.)

[@NnaelYTTA]

Jai Rey really bro ? thats the best joke u can come up with

[@Something.amiss5401]

@Jai Rey A compliment or insult?

[@bigoz1734]

@@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.

[@ulyssesdamon3408]

@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

[@VRBroadcasting]

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.

[@franzstrip]

you mean flora

[@VRBroadcasting]

@@franzstrip Yes, I thought it meant animals AND plants. My mistake

[@gc6096]

Indeed

[@AJ-rc5lr]

That's probably China

[@peacockgames4364]

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

[@voihanviineri6402]

Wtf is this movie it feels like a fever dream

[@Stonebrush]

Omg yes, like that strange feel of giant things you control idk

[@bakescake1254]

Idk, i read the book and it was about as weird as this

[@dominic_decocco]

I once had a fever dream where I had to carry Australia on my back to Eurasia

[@dartmoorcat1074]

@@dominic_decocco i had a dream where i dreamed that i Thought i was dreaming but was actually awake.

[@dominic_decocco]

@@dartmoorcat1074 lucid dream?

[@failtolawl]

"Predator City!" **goes rolly polly and crushes half of population**

[@xe5375]

XD

[@OnlyTwoShoes]

When 'Minions' are considered treasured American culture, you know it's a dark future setting...

[@bbranco01]

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

[@OnlyTwoShoes]

@@bbranco01 It was in the book, except the book had a Mickey Mouse statue as the idol

[@OnlyTwoShoes]

@Sylvester Quinn What are you talking about?

[@thatonerotom8999]

@DEFCON ZERO wait so this takes place in the future and america is gone?

[@Debbiebabe69]

@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.

[@adriangaliver]

Well, I'm a grown man now. My childhood was in the '90s. I watched many classic sci-fi movies and read a lot of books... Then friends took me to watch this movie when it came out. And of course, it's silly and all, but I kinda liked some aspects of it. After that, I read all four books of the Mortal Engines Quartet - just to relax my brain, you know, after finishing a far more complex and adult book series. And it was fun. I love the aesthetics and the imagination. It was only six years ago, but it already feels nostalgic. And by the way, the movie version of Hester Shaw is gorgeous, but I prefer the one from the books.

[@ternovnik257]

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.

[@Macapta]

That’s what I was thinking, there’s no way that small city would provide a week of fuel for that monster.

[@ronanchristiana.belleza9270]

How big is the London in the Book?

[@michaelweigley1667]

Find nearest library.

[@ternovnik257]

@@michaelweigley1667 Not sure what you mean? I just finished reading Mortal Engines.

[@ternovnik257]

​@@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.

[@Sirbron1]

They would have unquestionably lost more fuel there than they would have gained

[@samal3196]

*That's* your problem with this?

[@sveinungj]

@@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.

[@hellosammy4105]

Maybe it was magic diesel. Higher energy density than your diesel. And the morale boost for your citizens - incalculable.

[@samal3196]

@@hellosammy4105 I love your username. Magic diesel works for me

[@raccoon681]

@@sveinungj they be magic citys

[@xdecimal6470]

Trees: trying to fucking grow Predator city’s: I’m have to stop you right there

[@G1antPurpleHipp0]

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

[@roxxedk9897]

Every time the city packs up, 100 people die. A safety nightmare.

[@gipsy_3o3]

@cgao5.0 look at the beginning

[@prakrititzborah9032]

😂

[@toddkes5890]

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

[@macdjord]

Presumably a *non-emergency* pack-up is slower and safer.

[@lardlover3730]

Yup

[@nuclear_mech_wizard]

"Okay, so it's gonna be like Mad Max" "Yeah?" "And the vehicles are the size of cities, right, like the entirety of London, hunting and eating other cities" "YEAH???" "And there's gonna be a moment where the Minions are referred to as 'American deities!!!'" "you lost me"

[@notablezeke1071]

i don't know if i just didn't understand it correctly, but the movie is actually based on a book series by philipp reeves. the reason they call them ancient gods is because humanity almost extincted itself in a war, causing cities to be mobile. i can actually recommend you the books, they are way way better than the movie and are actually fun to read

[@DirtPerson]

In the books, it was Micky Mouse.

[@notablezeke1071]

@@Sea-qv4sd so what? every second you read is being used well

[@jlthiess]

@@Sea-qv4sd That's absurd. Good fiction can be thought of as hyper-true, in that it's a distillation of learned experience and collected wisdom. There are at least as many non-fiction books as fiction out there that are utter trash and a complete waste of time.

[@Fishcrab]

@@Sea-qv4sd ah yes, you are telling someone not to read fiction yet have lego general grievous as your profile picture.

[@generalx5220]

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.

[@crunchu2361]

Yeah an entire massive city turned into a moving vehicle probably doesnt have a very good turn radius

[@generalx5220]

​@@crunchu2361 okay, explain in promethius, shaw runs in the path of the rolling space ship? I mean.... kzbin.info/www/bejne/npW9iZ-DoZarfZY

[@crunchu2361]

@@generalx5220 looks like they never learned about diagonals

[@Cooldude-ko7ps]

@@crunchu2361 yeah.

[@Cooldude-ko7ps]

@84 LXGrit ..... are you serious?

[@skittlemastergrimm750]

4:56 the fact that he kinda looks like Gru and the fact that they have 2 minion statues

[@Zkeleton969]

Gotta love how the “main character” does literally nothing this whole scene

[@kirgan1000]

She want London to catch them.

[@Zkeleton969]

@@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

[@petrichor001]

@@Zkeleton969 did you read the book?

[@xenopath8069]

@@petrichor001 it doesn't matter. She does nothing in the movie and moreover this scene. It is pointless to show her more then once

[@kdfrogg1632]

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.

[@barrels1346]

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

[@mickys8065]

I'd suggest just reading the books then

[@theodenking169]

The books have FANTASTIC characters and are really moving

[@417Owsy]

Same thing happened with that 1000 planet city movie, fucking sucked

[@mugammadbenjamin2597]

@@417Owsy valerian?

[@sonofzyon7470]

Play "BioShock Infinite..."

[@timothyrussell1179]

The movie started out so strong with this and then there were no other good chases like this for the rest of it.

[@krapeevids6992]

Thank You for letting me know because I was considering watching it but never mind

[@carpediem9750]

So like homer, I dont need to watch it full, I've already seen de the best part?

[@undead475]

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.

[@allanmaina873]

9

[@M0butu]

good chase? you call this good?

[@anoleyn]

Ah yes, "The Prometheus school of running away from things"...

[@ihnrehkhu778]

They could've outrun them if they've just turned right.

[@Boekoe12]

Exacly

[@mdzora3231]

yeeeeeeeeees!!.....................................................................

[@ihnrehkhu778]

@GetGood Bruh I guess that's true. Movies are meant for entertainment anyways, and not to be technical about it...

[@apassionatenerd.3564]

@@ihnrehkhu778 yeah, bad movies.

[@ppt_eal433]

LOL, that's movie lore, they never dodge left or right, they ALWAYS run directly ahead of the pursuer.

[@dr.bright5670]

I dont know why but I love everything about this sequence. The movement is so lively and energetic that I can't stop watching.

[@TheBlueGrinchofSurgery]

If u read the books, u will never put them down. Trust me, if u enjoy this, u will definitely enjoy the books, which are far bettet

[@suad01]

The movie functions as sort of trailer for the books

[@dr.nilescrane3670]

So this is that major movie nobody went to see! I can see why.

[@dogodoge9657]

people went to see it, and it was pretty good.

[@LibertyDino]

A lot of ppl will watch it now.

[@coldblowcode]

This film is an absolute travesty compared to the books

[@North_Of_Nowhere]

I saw it and i enjoyed it but it definitely had issues and the script was all over the place at times

[@HabibUSA1]

I'm genuinely confused about the hate. What was so bad about this scene??

[@gio-f7l]

I really wish the movie had followed the book more. In the books, the large predator cities were slower and relied more on smaller towns and airships to sabotage and take control of prey.

[@Wrenvibin]

I like how you can see stories with just the ground, the tire tracks of massive cities long since passed

[@herrdoctor2895]

100% its Paris

[@codboss7092]

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 ?

[@KRYMauL]

He probably just wanted to make Mad Max in Europe

[@jert1100]

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

[@hotelmario510]

Yeah because nobody's ever had a creative thought without taking drugs, have they, "COD Boss". Read more books, you illiterate moron.

[@thisaccountnameiscompletel8949]

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

[@mariog4674]

"COD Boss" but has a BF profile pic lol

[@Sprottel_SFM]

Next up: berlin devours paris because "force of habit"

[@eliasgerlin609]

Not Sure, but i think Paris is Long fallen at this time

[@kursk_kuku141]

Soviet Moscow devours whole of Eastern Europe to Berlin...!

[@legoeth1739]

@@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.

[@Exodon2020]

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.

[@diejagers4636]

Lmao

[@DeathLazorX]

This whole movie runs on Rule of Cool and I'm all for it.

[@M0vingSaturn523]

And there is plenty more in the Books!

[@RandoniumTJ]

A minute of silence for all the CGI artists who lost their live while animating this ...

[@Tpoleful]

They did a fine job. Same goes for costume and set designers.

[@Mandarin9900]

Lost their lives, or lost their will to live?

[@odd-ysseusdoesstuff6347]

@@Mandarin9900 Lost their will to live. Maybe.

[@user-ml8pu]

This CGI was so good like wtf- the scene where they pan around London felt really immersive

[@pyrotech7986]

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

[@Fan_Made_Videos]

This whole movie reminded me of that Monty Python skit at the beginning of "The Meaning of Life" when the old guard London stock brokers had a corporate building that was a moving pirate ship and they attacked a a modern corporate conglomerate building and killed all of the younger smug yuppies. LOL

[@IntrusiveThot420]

Fan Made Videos "the crimson Permanent Assurance", what a classic

[@Fan_Made_Videos]

@@IntrusiveThot420 Yes!

[@conanbrodie6670]

Fan Made Videos i always got confused by that scenes until my dad told me its Monty python always expect the unexpected like the SPANISH INQUISITION

[@bigvicious7317]

"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..."

[@TheGameware]

Aaaand despicable me

[@bigvicious7317]

@@TheGameware Yup🤣

[@ayanbanerjee6161]

How does Harry Potter fit in there?

[@bigvicious7317]

@@ayanbanerjee6161 Accents, big buildings, style of shots and the style of architecture

[@bigvicious7317]

And Hunger Games

[@absolutefoot4594]

Even as strangely written as it is, this has literally got to be the coolest cgi sequence I’ve ever seen. Fucken awesome.

[@M0vingSaturn523]

The books were 100 times better but the visuals are at least 1 good thing with the movie.

[@largol33t1]

I love how the museum director rushes to save his Minion statues. Clearly, Universal funded and produced this movie.

[@dragonweezle4876]

It's Mickey mouse and Pluto in the book

[@suad01]

It's fine, it works

[@DanielAppleton-lr9eq]

@@suad01 " American deities ". Bwahahahahahahaaaaaaa.

[@IronDragon1337]

I was taking this seriously until they called minion statues “American deities”

[@Dantick09]

Iron Dragon aren’t they?

[@robrick9361]

That actually made me keep watching. It was more clever than everything else that happened up to that point.

[@syrrath8096]

Actually Mickey Mouse and Goofy in the books. But yes, Minions are appropiate.

[@brandonchan5387]

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.

[@AnkurGurungtrendsetter]

🤣🤣

[@skribaful]

"prepare to ingest" pretty much sums up the British Empire.

[@colebrandt9302]

Don't forget a crumpet and a spot of tea while ingesting

[@ppt_eal433]

...and does it not also sum up the Roman Empire, the Ottoman Empire, the Mongol Empire, the Spanish Empire, the Austrian Empire etc. etc.?

[@ppt_eal433]

@@James-xn1oe- then you have no appreciation or understanding of history, because, to paraphrase what MA clearly thought was a witty little observation (but was in fact born of ignorance and bigotry), "it pretty much sums up all empires"

[@ppt_eal433]

@@James-xn1oe I think I am safe in ignoring you. You are clearly a child (or of a childish intellectual capacity), incapable of making any valid point, just blind, stubborn contradiction.

[@justabeardedguythatisahero9848]

@@ppt_eal433 nazi has been detected

[@modtrex5344]

Average warhammer 40k car

[@matttthewcheng]

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.

[@BahadurSingh-ip9rd]

*city on wheels*

[@rice8965]

Well, they could just destroy them with some big ass cannon, but; *city on wheels*

[@Gnagniel]

They mention that it could be carrying a week's worth of fuel

[@johnpauljonesisabadass8134]

@@Gnagniel i'm pretty sure they wasted at least a month's worth of fuel for chasing that thing.

[@okramoffacebook1381]

Slaaaaaaves

[@GuardianAngle93]

I love how the second the city was sighted as a blip on the horizon it was ignored until it was practically on them.

[@nekrataali]

How do you not fucking hear it coming? The amount of energy to move something that big would make a ton of noise, especially if they're using steam power (IDK if that's exactly what they're using, I haven't seen this movie). The thing would be louder than a train yard.

[@GuardianAngle93]

@@nekrataali yep. Seismic activity should've been noticed too.

[@zdravdacyka5634]

"Prepare to ingest" Imma use that one with my kids

[@Mjdecker1234]

Amazing detail i never realized is the old tread marks of the other cities moving across the land. Love that detail

[@worldwideview6974]

Imagine driving down the highway and you see the whole of the USA on this one truck

[@Xenomorthian]

Its definitely going to be a food truck

[@lardlover3730]

@@Xenomorthian LMAOOOO

[@chizhang2765]

it'll be an united states of smashu

[@chris7285]

Ford F-150

[@Random_Person.-.]

It would just be a giant gun on wheels