Yeah, that's one of my main complaints about the visuals of the movie. In the books most of Eurasia was reduced to mud. It's even specifically pointed out by a character in book 3 "we claim we're doing this to save the world but all we're doing is turning it into mud" (not the exact quote, I can't remember it)

They talk about the desperate need for fuel, while running over more than enough trees to fuel their contraption indefinitely.

On one side its because theyre in territory close by the Anti Traction league where no city likes to be. But yeah, it's so much *post* apocalyptic, that the earth has mostly regenerated.

Oil copper iron coal not trees. DUH

"they see me rollin,they hatin"

Nope, doggerland has canceled brexit forever

“Aight Germany i’m bouta head out”

literally

@@ruphite9521 Panzerstadt is armed and ready for ya!

@@Exodon2020 have you read the book?

kewltony It’s based off a book, actually.

I just don’t find it funny.

Toasted Productions Humor is subjective.

"Landworld"

@@thekagawalife2081 then shoo

No, they literally knocked theirs

Not ironic

Ironic is something like a water park burning down it would maybe be ironic if China declared war on a wall since they are known for building walls

So is Berlin.

@@StaySafeStaySoggy You mean America right? MAGA!

@Owen Yin Rockslides, right! Those treads shouldn't be able to climb anything without breaking, not with that impossible mass on top... Let alone push aside a mountain's mass in rocks. If the ground is made uneven, the internal stresses generated should rip this impossible vehicle apart.

@Owen Yin same.

Breach a river and turn the whole area into a swamp so hostile cities can't move easily? Use explosives to make the entire rock approach into anti-tank blocks of incredible scale? Put artillery guns and spotters further forward so they have better range? As for the city, it allows for specialists that service the weapons on the wall to be immediately available. Think of it as a military base with lots of civilian support.

This is over 1000 years in the future they probably have some new technology to allow the cities to work. They even say in the book that Medusa (the laser) is powered by energy from other dimensions. The reason the area is so flat is from hundreds of years of cities moving through, shan guoh was not there for large amount of the time cities have moved. The books show that the anti traction league only attacked cities that attacked them. Even if they wanted to they didn't have the resources to do what you are suggesting. The wall is made from the combined effort of all anti tractionist and a large portion is made from small cities that attacked it. The guns only need to take out the tracks of cities and most cities don't see attacking the wall worth it because of the loss of life. So large cities never really attacked it. Also the airships in the books were taken out by valentine making it impossible to bomb it or destroy the cliffs. Also in later books the antitractionest do dig trenches and stuff like that to stop them. The last 2 books sees a full blown war were they do tactics like you suggest. But shan gwoh is mostly civilians with a few agents to go on missions to bomb threatening cities, which valentine stops be destroying the airships.

Just use a fucking nuke

The other side didn't have the best tactics either, putting all the flying vehicles in one place above the wall so they could all be killed at the exact same time.

@@marcusdevonish5097 In the book all the airships were sabotaged because they were left in one place, and reinforcements would take over a day to get there by airship. Not everyone is a military genius.

Robert Nelson Being a military genius and utilizing common sense are two different things. If you live in an apocalypse realm that expects to see constant warfare you should at least know basic military tactics. It’s pretty simple stuff.

Wielding a weapon of mass destruction tend to make people over confident.

Great Cornholio Good idea.

That happens

Apparently they did that at first in the book, but those stationary cities got devoured by moving cities, so stationary cities were faced with the choice of staying or turning into a moving city to run away

The wall is the last stronghold for stationary cities iirc, and eventually the traction cities are phased out cuz they are finally decided to be stupid

That's what the wall they're about to attack is. Heavily fortified and defended, with normal stationary settlements behind.

@@MalevolentFiber hear me out, but you'd only need a hand full of high powered shaped charge land mines, and boom no more tracks, and your moving city is a normal one

Read the books of the same name

@@atas2561 do you mean the Mortal Engines books? Because I have read them many times and they are brilliant

Stolen joke

@@Death_Sweet Have you ever considered the fact that more than one person could've thought of the same joke? It's a pretty obvious joke to make, so I'm not surprised if there's someone else who wrote this.

@@mrtom2854 don’t try to lie, that comment had like 2k likes

Luizifer Behel It’s based off a book, actually.

legs on high heels? I'm cool with that he he.

John Carter of Mars

A nice pair of cities

Basically 40k titans

They botched it. The source material had so much more depth.

True. This should've been a trilogy or a series of films of sorts. Instead they cramped a lot of materials all at once in one single movie without proper development and context.

Can you provide an example? I'm really curious. The moving cities in the movies were really fascinating.

@@al6243 The traction citys was created to avoid the glacier after the 60min war. They developed a religion/philosophy, of "Municipal Darwinism" then big citys have to eat smaler one to become stronger. Hence they do not use heavy artillery in there hunt. Further creed is "to stand still is to die" Not there are no need for traction citys at the time of the movie, its all about the religion/philosophy/lifestyle. India who was mostly spared from the 60 min war have normal stationary citys and build the wall to keep the traction citys out. They also discuse the problme of there are to few smale traction citys left to pray on, hence the need to attack India....

@@al6243 After the 60 minute war, the earth's tectonic activity became highly unstable, and so moving cities were invented which then began hunting each other for resources

A ridiculous fantasy with no basis in real world?

Again, doggerland exists, brexit is cancelled

seems more like BRENTER cause they want to get in lol

@@jonathanredacted3245 oh shush with that rubbish

@@johnbanks4761 no i mean srsly for some reason the doggerland land bridge came back. As for the rest, well all of the settlements that weren't devoured by London in those first few years later buggered off by land or sea.

And cause a Wasteland

The thing is, even a early cold War weapon, like the czar bomba, could be delivered anywhere on earth withing like 15 hours, and destroy multiple cities with one blast... An right now, there are hypersonic missiles that can ne activated and fly circles around the earth, and/or hit anything, anywhere within like 2hours

W80 warhead says: "traction cities? sheesh! - all ado for nothing."

Yeah but Death Stars are quite expensive and they require a lot of resources

@@maxim6088 actually no, ballistic missiles are still very experimental even today. There are no reliable figures yet.

Oh no

Bruh Warsaw tried to ram that wall, it falls apart after the first ram

I hope so. Just like they do for His Dark Materials. The show is amazing eventhough the movie, Golden Compass failed

The book was better, you should read it to love the trash movie even more.

@@robertnelson9599 I don't read books but I keep it in mind.

This movie dosnt make sense unless u read the book. Most the explanation about the story is mising unlike the book.

@@lagend3 so why are there moving cities then

@@Aalju looks like the book doesn't explain everything since the dude didn't even respond lmao

Yes, yes it is and apparently the girl with the red Scarf is Hot Rod

Unicron at least made more sense.

XD

and Even more Guns to protect it

Steampunk has become a pretty trash genre, though, NGL. A damn waste, too, since it has so much potential.

Technically this is dieselpunk not steampunk, but that’s an easy mistake

@@thekingofcarcosa6408 I always thought dieselpunk was based on world war technology

Scout's Bane Nope, Dieselpunk is just a speculative punk future where our further inventions were made using diesel fuel, where steampunk is the same thing but using steam power. Same story goes with Cyberpunk, however, that focuses on the cybernetic future. This is a very watered down explanation, as a lot of the focus of these genres are based on a time period more than anything.

@@thekingofcarcosa6408 and raypunk is based on sci-fi of the early 20th century and biopunk is similar to cyberpunk but instead of cybernetic technology, they focused on biometrics. I'm quite a fan of the "punks" but thanks for the clarification

LOL

I hate that movie.

It isn't similar to hunger games in any conceivable way.

@@shadowninja958 or is it?

Do you know the plot of hunger games or this movie?

No one ever expects the Spanish Inquisition.

Dude you send an entire month notice, the Jews already left

Moscau Moscow throw your glasses at the wall

Tokyo would turn into a giant mech and step over it.

Tokyo is just a normal city in the movie Moscow is pretty much the biggest city yet and now is destroyed

Tristan Sudarto thats the only good thing lol

The rest of the movie was just a flaw.

The only good thing out of this movie

this movie was just some work for Peter Jackson's WETA crew.

Yeah... every clip and preview further cements my decision to never watch this ridiculous POS.

Books are way better.

@@ML-lx4su The movie is the problem, the books are quite good. Something being ridiculous is no way diminishes it's quality, especially when it's crucial to the themes of the book

@@ML-lx4su The concept is super dumb but very imaginative and loads of fun. I mean, what kind of boring person turns down a fantasy worlds where rolling cities duke it out? But sadly the overall direction/acting/story of the movie was very hit and miss.

Probably the only good things about the movie are how well they made the traction cities look. Luckily they didn't look like cartoon metal boxes chugging around. The soundtrack is epic as well! But the plot is garbage. The book's plot was way better.

Hello

People get bored for the exact reasons you quoted. It's visually impressive and good for watching "bits" of it. Other than that, it lacks cohesion, has way too many characters and not enough time to develop them, many scenes like the chase of Bavaria makes no sense amongst other things. People are not as basic as wanting bombastic characters shoved on their faces all the time to enjoy things, on the contrary. You would be surprised. The entire concept is screaming for a TV show, where it would have the time it needs to tell it's story, as a movie, it's a nice visual experience, but a good film needs more than just looking pretty.

@@richardsantosgarcia8972 It would have been nice to have a bit more extended story. A TV series, maybe, as long as it didn't extend itself into a tense drama the whole time. Personally, I get as emotionally involved in the scenery and design of elements in the film as I do with "people". Hence why I don't mind that there isn't some super complex relationship between everyone. I don't think it's as bad as everyone makes it out to be. Like, people are fine with Avengers but this film for some reason "defies physics, doesn't make sense!"

@@RennieAsh that's because in Avengers they at least explain why things can and cant happen in that world Not only that but this film is based on a book in which it goes much more in depth about the world and lore etc basically in the book they explain the rules of that world why things are what they are In the movie they dont do that at all yeah it visually looks fantastic but that doesnt make a movie great You need good storytelling and characters This movie didnt have that So yeah it's bad

@@casper6405 Avengers and it's ilk are also bogged down with quippy dialogue replacing character development and bad visuals.

Sometimes it's great to have real fiction. Does it really matter if it doesn't exactly follow the laws of physics or isn't another brown wasteland?

Or even Metroplex

xc5647321 xc5647321 he was the actor from the movie Hugo.

@xc5647321 xc5647321 that can happen when you are the favourite actor of movie makers obsessed with these kind of stories.

Fellow weeb i see you

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Holy fuck

my best theory yet

@@todaysoxygenisokay1315 oh no, that's not what happened, China and america went to war and they both anaialited eachother

Ah shit they finally used the atomic bombs

The books are awesome!!! Beside the "Lost Boys" parts.

In the books it was supposed to but i think the stupid ass movie director didnt even bother to read the source material

The books/movie take place thousands of years after the war

Either they don't read the book Or they just intentionally change the ending

That Sounds Terrifying...But Well there are Innocent Civilians On the City They Had to Change the Ending tho.

@@MeinGoobbyXValorant Not really, they probably did it for the same reason they gave Hester two eyes.

*Nukes allow us to introduce ourselves*

Lol i was reading the comments while the video had no connection and I saw this and I didnt get it until it connected again xd

I dont like they only show london and a small village of germany and no other countries

In the books New York gets destroyed during the and Tokyo never gets mentioned but most likely destroyed or Lost to time. The biggest city in the real world mentioned in the books but never gets destroyed is Paris I think Cities like Rome, Berlin, Moscow, Cape Town are never mentioned but still could exist. No one knows what the biggest city in mortal engines is

Religion for predator cities like London. They've been in them for so long they forgot why they needed them to begin with and the idea of settling is literally heresy. And the predator cities for everybody else like Salthook. If you settle a predator city will role over your town eventually and you die.

I remember in the book it was said that America became dead continent while cities of Europe have to mobilize due to threat from earthquakes as result of the weapon used during the war

@@ucLe-wg2wp But, it also stated that the earthquakes died down, so there was no point in living the mobile city lifestyle anymore. But, since they've been living that kind of lifestyle so long, they continued it and saw settling as crazy thinking.

One of the inacurasies of the movie is that the whole world is supposed to look like a wasteland (i think)

@@duddude321 No, the want to eat your city and add its material to make their city bigger, that include the peopel (who have to start as over as the lowerst social cast) to kill peopel are waist of resources.

Never seen it only clips but the love people give it I think I will give it a watch.

You're talking about the book, right?

Awesome Books, Terrible Movie

@Billy West now I kinda want to watch it

@@Tattletale97 Yeah, book are just fantastic but they ruined the movie

I would guess that Phillip Reeve, author of the young adult fiction series "Mortal Engines" was a fan of Michael Moorecock...