Trailer: City of Ember
Saw the trailer on myspace of all places (bleh) and the only reason I checked it out was because of the frozen image of Bill Murray on the trailers thumbnail. (link is to City of Ember website, not myspace - I will never purposefully send anyone there) First thing I thought of while watching this trailer was the Fallout series.
What I gathered from the trailer is this: there’s an underground Vault, excuse me, City (of Ember, oooh aaah) that was sealed off from the rest of the world for some reason or another. But their water purification chip power generator is going critical and some kids find a way out of Ember because the City was only build to last for 200 years, and the adults don’t believe them… If that wasn’t contrived enough throw in Bill Murray looking like an eccentric Mayoral figure and Tim Robbins (I really do dislike that man, probably because I sat in a damn airport for 12 hours while waiting to get called as an extra on The Return, which I didn’t. But that’s just showbiz. I heard he was an asshole though) as the father of one of the main characters, oh goodie.
It looks like the movie is based on a series of childrens books, so no matter how bad the movie is there’ll be cause for a sequel. Also looks like the books came out close to 10 years after Fallout and I’m not surprised there, just the visual similarities alone made me think Fallout, then you throw in the story, which let’s be honest here, isn’t exactly like Fallout but it’s almost a spitting image of… less the mutants, rat eating, copious amounts of blood & violence, Mad Max references and sex jokes. Okay, so it’s not so much like Fallout afterall.
-Tyler