Honest Trailers Commentary | Mortal Engines 

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

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

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

10/10 Dan face in the thumbnail

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

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 :)

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

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

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

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

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

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.

Damn dan’s getting sassier by the minute

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

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

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

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.

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

I did think Danielle put in the Mortal Kombat joke

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."

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

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.

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.

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)

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

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

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!

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

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

🚨New Dan thumbnail photo alert🚨

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

Favorite line: "Is it though???"

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

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

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

Yesss a BioShock reference. Thanks Joe.

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 🤘❤🤘❤🤘

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

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

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

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

Yes please release the full undead dad take!

Honest Trailers Commentaries are my favorite. Thank you!

Hey, that Mortal Kombat one was great.

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

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

"Hester" 😂😂😂😂😂 "Call me Nimrod" 😂😂😂😂😂

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.

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

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?!

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.

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.

I love it when you do trash movies like this one😍 this is what Honest Trailers are all about (?) I feel kinda guilty because I now wanna see this movie based solely on the fact that Robert Sheehan’a in it 😳dammit number four!

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

0:45 There was never an illusion.😜

Please post the Shrike Super Cut.

#Hessssterrrrrr

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

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.

Yes please give us the shrike cut

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

Honest Trailer for Glass, eh?

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

"Southie Scabs" are people who cross the picket line in South Boston.

Alright, I might actually watch the movie now.

Can you do a commentary for the older honest trailers?

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

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

I am one of those wildlings that never watched the movie nor the honest trailer version of it - before I watch the commentary of it. OOooOOooOOooo

I've never seen this movie. I just wanted to watch this because I love these people.

You guys made a great point. It's not my job to read the book. It's their job to make a movie I can follow without a fucking index or wiki. You can enjoy The Lord of the Rings movies without reading the books. The same goes for Harry Potter. I don't give a fuck what character that is in the book. He or she is boring as fuck in the movie, and that's all that matters. And I don't care if they cut out someone's favorite character in the movie. As an example, yeah, Tom Bombadil was great. Did having him not in the movie make any difference? Yes. It shaved 30 minutes off the film. That's it.

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

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

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

"mortal engines" is Shakespeare reference

I'm glad Spencer is done being a dad

I always thought "Mortal Engines" was coming from "Mortal Enemies" so the traction cities are engines that bring death to each other?

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