When you watch two movies in one weekend, and the one with multi-dimensional Spider Man is more plausible, you’ve watched some pretty ridiculous stuff!
@Leucrotta It was far better than it had any right to be, though, wasn't it! Peg and I were quite impressed.
@Leucrotta Really! I had blown off Mortal Engines because, yeah, the premise seemed so outrageous-- the sort of thing you'd expect to work far better in a novel than a film. I might have to go see that too, now! Loved Spider-Verse, though. Felt like it kinda gave us the thumbs-up for a lot of crazy stuff we wanted to do with Parallax but were too timid...
@zebratron2084 it’s off the charts ridiculous. There’s really no character development whatsoever but it’s gorgeous and non-stop.
Mortal Engines /was/ in fact a novel! I just finished it. It's YA, which explains the silliness of the premise without having to have too many in-world explanations. It's not actually that bad either? Lots of adventure, the only real moral pressuring is "hey that sort of Darwinism which says the strong prey on the weak? That's bad."
@emanate @zebratron2084 okay, thanks! Seriously, my alternative take on what could have created this story was "WETA employees get increasingly hammered/stoned while making models with every Studio Ghibli film ever made playing in the background." It's a fantastic movie, just it's... it's supremely goofy.
wait, Mortal Engines outdoes Nova Seed in "everything pre-teen me ever wanted in a movie"? The movie about a mostly-mute lion dude who gets to fight a giant fucking skeleton to save a creepy girl floating in a tank of light? That Nova Seed? Sheeeiiit I'm sold now.
But first I gotta give my visual cortex some time to recover from Spider-Verse, holy crap
@anthracite @zebratron2084 it's entirely possible - right now I'm just so taken with the airships and the WWII aerial combat chunk of the movie. "Redline" might be another candidate for "everything preteen me wanted in a movie."
oh man Redline is so perfectly honed to ONLY contain things preteen boys want and NOTHING ELSE, it's kind of amazing. Visually stunning on a moment-to-moment basis but...
@zebratron2084 Mortal Engines or Spiderverse? I truly enjoyed Into the Spiderverse, but Mortal Engines has replaced Nova Seed as “everything I wanted in a movie when I was 10.” Pretty much the only thing it didn’t have was dinosaurs.