Nothing about this would work every under any circumstances. Maybe if they were giant oceangoing vessels like cruise ships, but not on land for so many reasons. I saw the trailer and had to laugh.
share It looks like Urban mad max.
Didnt Monty Python cover this idea at the start of the film "The meaning of life" (1983)
see here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aSO9OFJNMBA
The corporate buildings as pirate ships?
shareExactly what came to mind for me too.
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Seemed to work for the book series fine.
shareYeah, so did Winnie the Pooh, but that doesn't make it realistic or interesting for a grown up.
shareYeah, well, I suppose it'd be easier to sell as a vague idea that young readers probably don't fully visualize, than as something you can see. Because once you can see it, you realize it's a totally silly idea.
sharehasnt dummest got a B in it? never mind ....
I agree, I cant offhand think of a dumber premise, but some that might come a close second are
Snowpiercer - similalry pointless premise scifi
The Purge - premise entirely nonsensical and just made up to show violence
SAW - see 'the purge'
Maybe OP's a bit of a dummy.
shareThere are a few sci-fi masterpieces with humongous and roving metropoli. From sci-fi writers with day jobs as physisists. It's quite possible, I assure you. Whether or not this particular movie merits positive ratings is another matter.
shareI liked it. If you can accept the cities in motion idea (eg Cities in Flight by James Blish - a personal favourite) the rest of the film is OK. I think so many people ridiculed the basic idea the film was handicapped from the start but if they's made an anime (perhaps they have?) it would have been a hit.
sharePlease reference those physicist/writers, because I think thats pure bullshit. They can only build skyscrapers in certain places, because they need certain geological support underneath them. Hard to anticipate that with a mobile machine, not to mention a hundred other problems.
shareAlastair Reynolds- Revelation Space. Redemption Ark. Ben Bova -Saturn's Rings. Megastructures are a staple of space opera sci fi.
shareWait, that in no way supports the notion that these people are claiming the physics would actually work in this or those situations. Come on...
shareTell it to the scientists that never believed sending a man to the moon would work. Physics and math keep evolving, whether or not it makes sense to you intuitively. Now go read a book or something.
shareYou are absolutely full of nonsense and ignorance.🤣 Math and physics don't evolve, they are quantifiable you dingbat.
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You're trying to sound scientific but you miss the mark severely.You should have at least googled "qualitative physics" before you wrote that silly comment. LMAO. This is no longer worth my time.. Have a good night.
shareit's not just about REALISM... it just seems SO FAR OUT THERE, it's hard to even fully suspend disbelief.
maybe the book was interesting (not to me, sounds stupid), but I was bored 10 minutes in to the movie.... seemed to be another yawner, effects laden (IE computer cartoon) ...well... YAWNER. Stopped watching.
steampunk cities EATING cities, gah, whatever