Comments on: City of Ember DVD Review

By: HAZMAT

HAZMAT — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 23:41:43 +0000

marc/bert/angela

rodney DID make a review! dont believe anything he says! and he said “the island” so we have to lynch him!

and he said, i quote “the island and city of ember are the same exact thing, fuck obama”

any previous life success will be canceled out because of this post.

like angela, i am disappointed!

rodney= fail.

hazmat is unimpressed ‘_’

By: Jeremy K.

Jeremy K. — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 18:39:10 +0000

Interesting, I watched this the other day and never once thought of The Island. I enjoyed both movies, but it is amazing how dissimilar they are. It is like comparing Curious Case of Benjamin Buttons to Forest Gump. Similar in the most vague and simplest of plot, but presentation totally different. Because it is about a secluded group of people discovering an outside, City of Ember is similar to The Island? Then The Island must be like The Village? Not trying to be a naysayer, but though the simplest bare boned plot of the stories are similar, these movies could not be any more different. It is like comparing water as liquid and ice. Same substance, different presentation that makes them unique and different.

By: Rodney

Rodney — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 13:05:37 +0000

Well considering I wasn’t the one who reviewed this, I would be remiss to start saying how much I liked it.

Its a DVD review. A review based on the release of the DVD (its features, extras etc)

Your presumptions over what this post was about is the problem. Not the post itself.

By: Bert

Bert — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 13:01:10 +0000

I have to agree with Marc – How is this a review? Based on this websites precedent for a review, there is generally in depth look at the Good and the Bad aspects of the movie, decent descriptions of the overall acting, direction etc.

Oh yeah, you should usually put whether or not you liked the film that generally helps.

By: Jeremy

Jeremy — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 09:31:14 +0000

City of Ember was certainly not inspired as a story or really moving in any way, but it was entertaining and certainly worth a watch purely for the amazing visuals.

By: Richie

Richie — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 07:10:36 +0000

While there are similar themes it’s comparing oranges to apples. The City of Ember wasn’t amazing but charming and the very least, safe for kids. Both Tim Robins and Bill Murray were excellent.

By: Macon

Macon — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 03:19:19 +0000

Are you kidding me? Saying this ripped off the Island? Please tell me that you know that the Island was a cut and paste of THX1138. If anything, say it was a ripoff of that. That was actually an original thought, as opposed to that Island trash.

By: Elizabeth

Elizabeth — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 03:02:12 +0000

Every plot has some superficial similarity with some other plot. Especially when you’re boiling them down to log lines and one paragraph summaries and you take out everything that makes the movie worth watching. Heck, in my screenwriting class we’re all required to find another movie that explores a similar theme and write a paper about it because it can help strengthen our own work and help us figure out what works and what doesn’t. Not to mention that the most powerful and provoking themes are universal ones that have been done time and time again. Discovering that your world isn’t what you thought is a universal theme that a lot of people can identify with.

While I haven’t seen Ember yet, I’ve read the book and it’s one of my favorites. There’s only a bare minimum of similarity with The Island. Extremely bare minimum.

I could probably pick two movies at random and find a way to make them as similar in theme if I boiled them down to a single log line or premise.

By: karmicmonk

karmicmonk — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 00:30:10 +0000

This was a great flick, for the main reason of production design. The world created for this film was very artistic. It successfully blended the setting and characters together to really pull you into the story.

*Spoiler*

My only gripe is the ending. The whole system is setup so when the time comes the entire city gets to migrate to the surface, but the kids find the way out and make it, granted they were on the run and shit wasn’t working right, but still the rest of the genepool is stuck underground, you might want to expell a little more effort freeing humanity than dropping a friggin rock with a note on it.

By: Rodney

Rodney — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 22:27:21 +0000

All that so you can prove the meaning of the word “similar”

I explained the similarities and why the premise sounded familiar to me.

I know what the movies are about and as many before you, I am well aware that its based on a kids book.

Tom Hanks might be one of the coolest people on the planet but I don’t know why you mention he produced it. Not everything he does is gold.