I just watched this on Netflix. I haven’t read the books and can say the movie sort of had the feel of “would make more sense if you read the books” a lot of it was confusing.
But that’s besides my point. Are the minion historical artifacts actually in the book? The movie nearly lost me at that lol
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shareAre you in the US because my Netflix doesn't list it for me, even after searching for it or under the cast members' names
shareI’m Canadian I should have said sorry!
shareOkay. It's still weird that Netflix limits its releases to selective regions.
shareIt's rights contracts. It's X many dollars to buy the rights to distribute films in Canada, another Y dollars for the US, Z for the UK, and so on. So, Netflix is probably constantly figuring out contracts like, "Okay, so many people in Canada want to see Mortal Engines but almost nobody in the US is asking for it, so we'll buy the rights for Canadian distribution," and so forth. It might even have to do with Netflix vs. Netflix Canada. Even though it's the same company, all the money is going to the same place, they probably have different budgets, so Netflix Canada can only buy such-and-such a movie, but not others, and on and on it goes into legal BS...
shareMy Netflix USA seems to be favoring original content series (most I have no interest in) as well as played-out documentaries about food and people I have no interest in. There seems to be less and less releases of movies that have come out over the past 20 years as well.
They use to have all the Alien movies, all of the big box office 90s hits and so on, but not anymore.
I know exactly what you mean. The stuff about the wall came up very late, the idea that all these mobile cities were attacking this ultimate barrier. I'd have liked to know more about that. I'd have liked to know more about the Southie villages, too; the slave city/ raider culture that they got briefly caught up in. The Lazarus Brigade - that could bear with some more info...
Yeah, it definitely seems like those elements could be more developed in a book, and would have helped the story a lot. It felt overstuffed.