City of Ember - Game|Gravity

CycloneZ · 11-04-2008, 08:27 AM

City of Ember

YouTube - City of Ember Trailer
Plot-Two teenagers, Lina Mayfleet (Saoirse Ronan) and Doon Harrow (Harry Treadaway), live in the City of Ember, an underground city built to house a human community for 200 years as a shelter from an unspecified disaster. Having long since passed the 200-year mark, Ember's food supplies are becoming depleted and blackouts are increasingly frequent and longer lasting, as the hydroelectric generator that powers the city has deteriorated. Much of the knowledge and technology from the city's near-mythic Builders and earlier generations has been lost.When Lina and Doon graduate from school, they begin their assigned jobs with Lina as one of the messengers who deliver communications around the city following the collapse of the telephone system and Doon as a technician in the pipe works of the hydroelectric generator. Lina witnesses the city's decay as she relays messages, and Doon learns that the pipe works are held together with increasing amounts of patchwork and that nobody knows in detail how the system works. After a major malfunction of the generator during the city's primary annual celebration, Lina and Doon conclude that Ember is in danger of imminent collapse. With the city's adult population either largely apathetic toward their plight or cowed by the corrupt Mayor Cole (Bill Murray), Lina and Doon search for the clues left by the Builders to show the citizens of Ember how to save themselves.The mayor, who knows the gravity of the city's situation, has been stockpiling food in a secret bunker to guarantee his own survival. He suspects that Lina, a descendant of an earlier mayor who died in office, and Doon may be in possession of lost secrets about Ember and orders them arrested. The pair escapes and embarks on a journey towards the surface with instructions left by the Builders. They discover a means of evacuation from the city hidden in plain sight. With the assistance of Doon's elderly mentor from the pipe works, they escape Ember and travel to the surface. Initially they despair at the enveloping darkness described in Ember's folklore, but when the sun rises they discover that light has returned to the skies and the planet has recovered. They also see the lights of Ember deep below the surface. Lina and Doon drop a message tied to a rock through a crevasse down to Ember telling the other citizens how to leave the city, where it is found by Doon's father (Tim Robbins), one of the few adults cognizant of the city's plight.

Richard · 11-04-2008, 09:54 AM

Well... After watching the trailer it feels like this movie can either be really good.. Or really bad. But I guess it maybe depends on if you have read the book or not.

CycloneZ · 11-04-2008, 11:08 AM

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Originally Posted by Richard

Well... After watching the trailer it feels like this movie can either be really good.. Or really bad. But I guess it maybe depends on if you have read the book or not.

yeah your right. I finished reading the book a book before it came to theaters. I want to see it but i heard movies aren't good if you read the book first. Also that if you see the movie first, the book won't be good either.

Richard · 11-04-2008, 12:58 PM

Well I guess it all depends on your expectations. If you think the book/movie will be just as the movie/book then you might get disappointed.

Alex · 11-04-2008, 04:43 PM

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Originally Posted by Richard

Well... After watching the trailer it feels like this movie can either be really good.. Or really bad.

I completely agree. I thought the same thing when I watched the trailer. I may go see it some time.

AnatolyKarpov · 01-16-2009, 03:38 AM

this reminds me of a certain anime... just can't remember what it was... ><

oh well... another to add on my list of movie dl's ^^

dt1984 · 01-17-2009, 12:44 AM

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Originally Posted by Richard

Well I guess it all depends on your expectations. If you think the book/movie will be just as the movie/book then you might get disappointed.

True enough. The sad part is that movies just can't add all the things that happen in their book version but at least it is still good to watch. I have watched this one and i can say that it is a good movie still worth watching.

AnatolyKarpov · 01-21-2009, 05:16 PM

i never seen a famous book that turned into a movie that did justice to it.

11-04-2008, 08:27 AM	#1 (permalink)
CycloneZ The One Join Date: Oct 2008 Location: Rhode Island Posts: 150	City of Ember City of Ember YouTube - City of Ember Trailer Plot-Two teenagers, Lina Mayfleet (Saoirse Ronan) and Doon Harrow (Harry Treadaway), live in the City of Ember, an underground city built to house a human community for 200 years as a shelter from an unspecified disaster. Having long since passed the 200-year mark, Ember's food supplies are becoming depleted and blackouts are increasingly frequent and longer lasting, as the hydroelectric generator that powers the city has deteriorated. Much of the knowledge and technology from the city's near-mythic Builders and earlier generations has been lost.When Lina and Doon graduate from school, they begin their assigned jobs with Lina as one of the messengers who deliver communications around the city following the collapse of the telephone system and Doon as a technician in the pipe works of the hydroelectric generator. Lina witnesses the city's decay as she relays messages, and Doon learns that the pipe works are held together with increasing amounts of patchwork and that nobody knows in detail how the system works. After a major malfunction of the generator during the city's primary annual celebration, Lina and Doon conclude that Ember is in danger of imminent collapse. With the city's adult population either largely apathetic toward their plight or cowed by the corrupt Mayor Cole (Bill Murray), Lina and Doon search for the clues left by the Builders to show the citizens of Ember how to save themselves.The mayor, who knows the gravity of the city's situation, has been stockpiling food in a secret bunker to guarantee his own survival. He suspects that Lina, a descendant of an earlier mayor who died in office, and Doon may be in possession of lost secrets about Ember and orders them arrested. The pair escapes and embarks on a journey towards the surface with instructions left by the Builders. They discover a means of evacuation from the city hidden in plain sight. With the assistance of Doon's elderly mentor from the pipe works, they escape Ember and travel to the surface. Initially they despair at the enveloping darkness described in Ember's folklore, but when the sun rises they discover that light has returned to the skies and the planet has recovered. They also see the lights of Ember deep below the surface. Lina and Doon drop a message tied to a rock through a crevasse down to Ember telling the other citizens how to leave the city, where it is found by Doon's father (Tim Robbins), one of the few adults cognizant of the city's plight. __________________ “Seek peace, and pursue it."

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11-04-2008, 09:54 AM	#2 (permalink)
Richard . Join Date: Oct 2008 Location: Sweden Posts: 56	Well... After watching the trailer it feels like this movie can either be really good.. Or really bad. But I guess it maybe depends on if you have read the book or not.

11-04-2008, 12:58 PM	#4 (permalink)
Richard . Join Date: Oct 2008 Location: Sweden Posts: 56	Well I guess it all depends on your expectations. If you think the book/movie will be just as the movie/book then you might get disappointed.

01-16-2009, 03:38 AM	#6 (permalink)
AnatolyKarpov Inertia Join Date: Jan 2009 Posts: 146	this reminds me of a certain anime... just can't remember what it was... >< oh well... another to add on my list of movie dl's ^^

01-21-2009, 05:16 PM	#8 (permalink)
AnatolyKarpov Inertia Join Date: Jan 2009 Posts: 146	i never seen a famous book that turned into a movie that did justice to it.