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Dan: On this episode we discuss Mortal Engines! Elliott: The movie that will make you realise cities that roll around on tank treads and harpoon other cities and then eat those cities, are kinda boring
Official Show Notes[]
Enough about small failures like Slender Man, let’s talk about massive, hubristic failures like Mortal Engines! Meanwhile Stuart discourses on other evil Valentines in fiction, Elliott’s got Morgan Spurlock’s reciepts, Dan doesn’t understand how a single goddamn thing in this movie works, and we’re joined by Brendan Hay, executive producer for Harvey Girls Forever!
Movie Summary[]
Premise[]
In a post-apocalyptic world where cities ride on wheels and consume each other to survive, two people meet in London and try to stop a conspiracy.
Story[]
Hundreds of years after a cataclysmic event destroyed civilization, mysterious young Hester Shaw emerges as the only one who can stop the city of London–now a giant predator on wheels–from devouring everything in its path. Feral and fiercely driven by the memory of her mother, Hester joins forces with Tom Natsworthy, an outcast from London, and Anna Fang, a dangerous outlaw with a bounty on her head.
Final Judgments[]
Before they started Dan did forget the names of the categories
- Bad-bad (Dan) @50:54
- Bad-bad (Stuart) @51:33
- Bad-bad (Elliott) @52:31
- Bad-bad (Brendan) @52:43
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Recommendations[]
- Pieces (1982) by Juan Piquer Simón (Dan) @1:17:51
- Centipede Horror (1982) by Keith Li (Dan) @1:18:42
- Bones (2001) by Ernest R. Dickerson (Dan) @1:19:38
- Crawl (2019) by Alexandre Aja (Dan) @1:20:53
- Ashes and Embers (1982) by Haile Gerima (Elliott) @1:21:21
- Ready or Not (2019) by Matt Bettinelli-Olpin, Tyler Gillett (Brendan) @1:22:55
- The Nightingale (2018) by Jennifer Kent (Stuart) @1:24:06
Stinger[]
Stuart: I think William Shakespeare said– Dan: uh huh Elliott: Love the one you're with? Stuart: Wait I gotta look it up Brendan: Just chill bro Elliott: Yeah I think William Shakespeare said "Just chill bro"