…Yeah. I never actually finished the book that this is based off of, because the premise was, to me, ridiculously absurd. How absurd? Let me put it this way: what you’re about to watch is fairly accurate, in terms of the world and situation.
Pretty much: predatory cities driving around a post-apocalyptic Eurasia hunting each other for parts, buildings, and inhabitants. I’m not saying that Mortal Engines was a bad book. I just couldn’t suspend this particular disbelief for long enough. And Peter Jackson’s directing, which should make it both interesting, and an excuse to revisit familiar old complaints about the Hobbit trilogy. That’s always nice.
But, hey! If it’s a movie, that’s all right. I am happy to believe all sorts of ridiculous things in movies.
Huh. Kind of like “Cities in Flight”, only without the flight.
I thought that it said, as it flashed by, that Christian Rivers was directing, but I could be mistaken.
Final reaction: this is what Jackson is doing instead of remaking “The Dam Busters”?
The trailer looked interesting. For a second, I thought it was the opening of Episode VIII.
When I got home I tried to look up the trailer on Youtube to show my son. For some reason I couldn’t find it–page after page of fake videos claiming to be the movie, or people’s reactions to the trailer, but not the actual trailer. Never seen that happen before.
I read the wikipedia one-sentence summary and will probably give it a miss, because “a few survivors of a world destroyed by man fight each other for the last few scraps” is so played out, parents have stopped trying to force their kids to put down their cell phones and spend time outdoors.