Very cool concept and designs and I was so hyped for its theater release. The movie felt joyless though. That kind of setting should have been so fun, but it was just "this character meets this character, then they do a thing and meet these other characters. The end."

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Suspension of disbelief*

If you suspend belief, you are not believing. If you suspend disbelief, you are now able to believe.

> Do you think it’s an underrated gem or a piece of crap that was judged fairly upon its release?

It was and is a steaming pile of hot garbage and I struggled to finish it. It was judged fairly.

> Mortal Engines (2018) is a movie that came and went that I feel like nobody went and saw.

That would be because no one did go see it.

Wasn’t that the movie where they hired a good looking actress and added a little makeup and everyone in the movie acted like this good looking person was hideous?

I might liked it more if I hadn't read the novel, so I couldn't stop nitpicking all the confusing changes. Like Hester Shaw was a different person, Shrike got more to do and the finale wasn't remotely similair, instead it was a blatant rip-off from Star Wars with the turrets and flying inside the London to attack it's weakpoint.

I read the books after seeing the movie, and they also fizzle out. The first one is really solid, great world-building, characters are a little derivative but fine, it’s YA. But then the subsequent ones (4 in total) get hopelessly tropey.

Barry Levinson's film Diner. Mostly set in a diner. Great film.

Why would any studio give themselves the headache?

Any change that a studio would do would cause fans to bitch incessantly about how the white actresses weren't accurate to the show. Never mind that all of the girls were coded as Caucasian in the Manga and both TV shows, anyone that isn't Asian is not accurate to the source.

The fanboys think adaptation means exactly like they remembered.

City go brrr

As with most of these movies, I'd rather see what came before than the post-apocalyptic events. Reading into it, there was some kind of large scale wars between cities in the past. Instead, we watch a few people run around in a barren wasteland.

The robot guy subplot made no sense at all - everyone said that he's a cold, unfeeling machine; yet he's the most emotional character of them all, all the time angry and yelling and screaming. Many good ideas there and nicely designed, but overall, eh, it didn't pull me in, everything felt too scripted.

My husband has been trying to show me dogma for years. I think I should just rent it, he loves that movie

Definitely a cool premise and world building I’d have liked to see expanded

Very forgettable.

Insane the trailers saying it was from so and so from lord of the rings and was like dope, this looks tight.

Then I totally forgot about it and it randomly popped up on my streaming site a while later and I finally checked it out.

I usually have a pretty good memory even for things I don't care about, but I can barely remember anything from this movie. I don't even really remember the central plot struggle.

So I'd say this movie was a 4-5/10 for me. It wasn't glaringly bad which would put it lower. I didn't hate it while it was on. But at the same time there was no takeaway from it. Nothing from that movie stayed with me after.

Visually it was interesting, and there was definitely something original and different about it.. but the plot itself felt thin, dragged on, and maybe miscast? I dunno, didn't resonate with me and felt like 2 movies worth of story edited into 1 (and poorly edited).

• Edge of Tomorrow
• Cowboy Bebop
• Alita: Battle Angel
• Ghost In The Shell
• Hell even Black Swan is a good example being clearly based on Perfect Blue
• Even Detective Pikachu shows that Hollywood are starting to understand the genre more. They keep getting better at it. As bad as the Death Note film was, Ryuuk was perfect.

It honestly wouldn't be that hard to make Sailor Moon if it had the right budget and the right people attached to it, people who are passionate about the source material which all the above had.

The diner scene from Diner. Solid

There's just an easy and simple aesthetic change required to make that work haha. As long as you've got the core of the characters and story right, the aesthetic can be flexible, they're not as important.

Hereditary

I loved the books and we were waiting for a film for decades, but this just didn't do it justice. The set pieces were great and the art style was on the right track, they just changed too much of the plot for it to be enjoyable for someone who read the books beforehand (they also made it nigh-impossible to follow up with the sequels, but that's another matter).

The only truly enjoyable part was the first 5-10 minutes of London chasing the tiny Bavarian town.

Loved the books. Movie was ok.

I liked the movie... was hoping for a part 2 but not sure that's gonna happen.

Not a movie but

Locke and Key to Jackie Chan Adventures.

Joker to King of Comedy, Taxi Driver etc though I'm more inclined to call it a spiritual ripoff.