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Harry visits the CITY OF EMBER and recommends it to the tourists!

first! hurrah? by ilander66	Oct 10th, 2008 04:00:23 AM

nice review harry cant wait for this one by ilander66	Oct 10th, 2008 04:02:30 AM
they have really downplayed the marketing on this maybe after the over saturation of the summer it will be nice going into a film not having seen the money shots a dozen times or all the best one liners (which for me ruined tropic thunder by the time i saw it i was just checking off incidents from the trailer as it went along.)
omg by BurgerKing	Oct 10th, 2008 04:03:36 AM
its actually good?
Monster House was great by Evil Hobbit	Oct 10th, 2008 04:08:56 AM
I like that it was genuinely scary at times, and thus a true horror film for kids.
2012 is power ranger time! by kingoflight	Oct 10th, 2008 04:24:54 AM
remember the pink one she was hot ! No one tell zorgon that his hideout was made up of loo rolls or he'll get hella mad and beat up on nerdy one again!
Martin lawerence - I woke up this moring with a power ranger in by barnaby jones	Oct 10th, 2008 05:08:41 AM

arse by barnaby jones	Oct 10th, 2008 05:09:02 AM

Monster House was Class by FILMFUNK	Oct 10th, 2008 05:11:57 AM
This looks well nice. Hope wild Bill Murray doesn't spoil it with his deadpan face!
Dark City for kids by theycallmemrglass	Oct 10th, 2008 05:39:23 AM
I'm booking my ticket, and yeah Monster House fucking rocked. I wont raise my expectations too much though as Wall-E was dissapointing, inevitably, given the big fucking hype it got.
Sounds like Bio Shock by Itchy	Oct 10th, 2008 06:01:45 AM
Go buy an Xbox360 and play this game ... it's absolutely awesome, and set in a world that sounds like a freaked out version of Ember.
So, no Avatar trailer then? by moody by nature	Oct 10th, 2008 06:57:43 AM
Damn the cock-teasing...
So this is like the Matrix sequels... by Kid Z	Oct 10th, 2008 07:38:11 AM
...for kids???
2012... the year we... by gotilk	Oct 10th, 2008 07:50:05 AM
..call a few million people friggen idiots again. You know, like year 2000.
December 21, 2012: I will be hungover in a post coital trance. by Stereotypical Evil Archer	Oct 10th, 2008 09:49:52 AM

there are worse films you could take your kid to by bingo the clown	Oct 10th, 2008 09:58:35 AM
But if you don't have kids, there's not much to recommend. I felt intensely apathetic watching it.
2nd vote on playing Bioshock by ArcadianDS	Oct 10th, 2008 10:42:54 AM
Some have said that playing Bioshock is like watching an interactive movie. To some extent this is untrue. Much of the meat of its story consists of discovering audio recordings all over the place (the whole city had an obsession with what I suppose we might call 'audio-blogging'). If you skip these, you dont get much in the way of a 'movie-quality experience' - so if you're not into video games, but after hearing that this game is an 'interactive movie experience', be sure to indulge and enjoy these audio blogs that you discover. dont get me wrong - the story itself is fantastic. It takes some great, classic Hollywood twists and turns, and as for the ending, I played 'savior' and rescued kids (you're given a moral choice to rescue children or destroy them. sounds like an easy choice, but in many ways, its as if you stumbled upon a pack of vampire 8 year olds. Do you attempt to save and cure them, or put them out of their misery. The game affords a measure of mercy in either decision, so you can peacefully choose your own path). ANYWAY - I chose to 'cure' them, and I dont know if the ending is the same, but the ending I got from that was just breath-taking. I cried, and then I put down the controller and went over to where my 3 year old daughter was playing with some stuffed animals, and I just hugged her tight. for a very long time. What a tremendous game.
They emerge into the real world and discover... by zacdilone	Oct 10th, 2008 10:43:48 AM
...Randy Newman singing, "Red-headed lady, reachin' for an apple. Gonna take a bite, nope, nope. She's gonna breathe on it first. Wipes it on her blouse... She takes a bite, chews it once, twice, three times, four times, stops. Saliva workin'. She takes a long hard look at Randy. Five times. Fat old husband walkin over...
yeah the ending is painfully obvious by Holodigm	Oct 10th, 2008 11:27:57 AM
the world never ended, they escape and everything is bright sunshine. hurrah.
the people of Ember knew nothing of the outside world, by emeraldboy	Oct 10th, 2008 12:28:11 PM
John McCain would love this film....and I am sure palin thinks that the City of Ember exists. and that its lead by Bono, the king of ireland.
My daughter and I read this book last year by BiggusDickus	Oct 10th, 2008 12:55:13 PM
Great stuff! If you're not familiar with the story, think 'Logan's Run' for the 9-12 bracket. Hope the film does the biz - it sounds like it will! Cheers, Big H!
I taught on of the actors in the movie by Maximus Prime	Oct 10th, 2008 01:34:03 PM
A young lad called Myles Thompson, a good, down to earth and friendly kid, hope he goes far... would love to chat with him about working with Bill Murray, instead of having to do some actual teaching work...hope the movie does well
So do they escape the City at the end of the movie and find by Johnny Smith	Oct 10th, 2008 01:53:59 PM
Robert Duvall on the surface, also wondering what the hell is going on as he watches the sunset?
this looks fucking horrible......Monster House was dull..... by DANNYGLOVERS_DICKBLOOD	Oct 10th, 2008 03:03:24 PM

I really enjoyed it... by Sakurai	Oct 10th, 2008 04:55:04 PM
It was too short though. I wanted a bit more meaningful buildup to the climax.
Bill Murray did say on Letterman last night by skimn	Oct 10th, 2008 04:55:20 PM
that this is one of his favorite projects ever. Wow. Too bad this will die at the box office. In the past few weeks I've been bombarded with ads for Body Of Lies, and have seen just one ad for this THIS week. I thought "Oh, this is coming out THIS weekend.." I was totally unaware, and try to keep up with movies and release dates. And geez Danny, you are a hard man to please. My daughter and I both enjoyed Monster House. Thought it moved at a great pace (the opening tricycle sequence is an animation tour-de-force), and was an original twist on the haunted house gimmick. Finally, if Gore Verbinski wasn't working on BioShock, Kenan looks like he would be a natural.
closing night film at fantastic fest by birdy birdman	Oct 11th, 2008 07:59:49 PM
what a slap in the face. this movie is absolute garbage, mindless recycled shit. to run something this abysmally MEDIOCRE even by kid's film standards as the fucking CLOSING FEATURE was confusing, disheartening and depressing. it seemed like Fantastic Fest was gaining so much momentum but the sellout/mediocrity factor this year was an outright betrayal to dedicated genre fans. die.
Wall-E - Vastly more entertaining....? by jazzdownunder	Oct 12th, 2008 04:09:33 AM
I wanted to enjoy Wall-E, I really did. But frankly it was a movie built around a set of toys, with a story just barely flimsy enough to prop the painfully predictable plot points up to the damp squib ending. I just know that CITY OF EMBER will be vastly more entertaining than Wall-E because it has the confidence to put a story outline in the trailers, something that was - in retrospect - entirely missing from the Wall-E build up, and now we know why.
just saw it tonight by drave117	Oct 13th, 2008 04:06:45 AM
Tremendously entertaining. It's the love child of Logan's Run and Goonies.
Loved it... by IamZardoz	Oct 21st, 2008 10:45:26 PM
Good sci-fi is when the filmaker creates a world you want to explore and know more about; Logans Run, Blade Runner and the like. City of Embaer is like that and they dont dumb it down, I like they never explain everything at the beginning. Two things did suck though, the "monster" and the ending. Why do they spoil good movies with monsters, they did the same damn thing to Sunshine or whatever it was called, a good movie ruined by a monster.

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