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Mr. Beaks Takes The CITY OF EMBER Train To Comic Con!!

looks decemt by mefrog	Aug 5th, 2008 09:37:05 PM
never read the book but the film looks nicely atmospheric
Was a Great book by Mr. N	Aug 5th, 2008 09:37:33 PM
And sounds like a great movie. Maybe one of the few things that'll work in both mediums. Smart people make smart movies.
pretty cold interview by Crow3711	Aug 5th, 2008 10:02:32 PM
talking about lacking any interest or personality in the questions. not to talk shit, but seriously, it seemed mean
Mean? by mrbeaks	Aug 5th, 2008 10:09:48 PM
It was a group of journalists lobbing quick questions because we had a limited amount of time with Gil. It was far from "mean". Gil was in very good spirits, and we all liked the footage.
I'll give it a look by Dataset	Aug 5th, 2008 11:32:22 PM
It reminds me of "Lost Children" and "Mirrormask" a little.
For some reason the trailer made me think of BIOSHOCK by Zeke25:17	Aug 6th, 2008 02:39:54 AM
which isn't a film yet, but dammit it should be!
Zeke... by TheRealMoriarty	Aug 6th, 2008 03:31:09 AM
... it will be. Gore Verbinski's developing it for Universal now.
the trailer looks awful by Mr Gorilla	Aug 6th, 2008 04:07:07 AM
Someone who has watched loads of Gilliam and Burton. The two most over-rated directors on this site. (Did you guys actually sit through The Brothers Grimm, Tideland, Planet of the Apes, Willy Wonka?) Unless you include Ridley Scott, a man with a commercials background who is still making commercials. (Hence the lack of any intelligent sensibility behind Hannibal and Black Hawk Down - the latter, particularly, is like a commercial for killing Africans.) Bitch bitch bitch - sorry, it's a horrible morning here.
Mr Gorilla, by raw_bean	Aug 6th, 2008 05:22:31 AM
I like the way you rag on those directors by mentioning a very select subset of their bodies of work. If those were the best of their films, then yes they would be undeserving of all the praise they get. But if, say, those were their worst films, by a significant margin, and yet still being a cut above the average empty, passionless Hollywood fare, then that would be a different story.
"Like a commercial for killing Africans" by half vader	Aug 6th, 2008 08:42:55 AM
Wow, this thread's going to have to be something special to top the stupidity of that post!
The world is wrong. TIDELAND was genius... by FlickaPoo	Aug 6th, 2008 09:19:17 AM
...completely unique and captured the inside of a little kid's head like nothing I've seen before. Sort of a Gormenghast On The Prairie.......Brothers Grimm sucked three different kinds of fairy tale ass though.....sigh....
Gilliam and Burton by filmcoyote	Aug 6th, 2008 10:22:47 AM
I'm with raw bean here, Gilliam and Burton over-rated Mr Gorilla? Did YOU sit through Edward Scissorhands, Ed Wood, Brazil, Time Bandits, 12 Monkeys? I'm not sure the marketing department is getting City Of Ember right but i think it looks interesting and i loved Monster House, only good 3D movie so far of the new wave.
Dark City?????? by picardsucks	Aug 6th, 2008 10:54:28 AM

The book was good, but The Giver was better by Freakemovie	Aug 6th, 2008 12:07:28 PM
Many similarities between the two stories, but hopefully different enough that they won't keep The Giver on hold after Ember comes out. With some luck they'll finally get off their asses and make that one, but City of Ember will do in the meantime.
I'm just worried about the adaptation. by TheNoirPirate	Aug 6th, 2008 01:00:33 PM
I swear I saw a monster tail in the trailer. It could have been someone dressed as one to scare the kids, just to add a bit of suspense to the film, but then it'd just taste like The Village and that's not good. But I just hope it still carries on the main themes of the book and events. Other than that tail, I really enjoyed the trailer.
There's A Big Monster Mole In The Film by mrbeaks	Aug 6th, 2008 01:49:17 PM
It was in the footage Kenan showed us. Pretty standard-issue CG monster attack, and by far the least interesting element of the movie.
Bah! by VictorVonDoom	Aug 6th, 2008 01:55:25 PM
DOOM often dreams of trains when DOOM is alone. DOOM rides on them into another zone. DOOM dreams of them constantly, Heading for that fool Richards, Or his accursed wife, Or that idiot Johnny Storm, Or at least the infernal H.E.R.B.I.E.!
Even more important... by Heckles	Aug 6th, 2008 05:29:31 PM
Tropic Thunder co-writer to work on Iron Man 2.
Viva Robyn! by Balcony Fool	Aug 6th, 2008 11:49:50 PM
Nice pull, Beaks.
Filmcoyote by Mr Gorilla	Aug 7th, 2008 06:57:06 AM
You are completely right - those films are brilliant, brilliant films. But why I sounded off (a bit too agressively, I'll agree) is that Burton and Gilliam are often lauded as visionary geniuses, and, quite simply, they are not. Carl Theodor Dreyer was a visionary. Stanley Kubrick was one. I think Terence Malik too. (And of course many others.) But having a sense for amazing production design- which Burton and Gilliam do - does not make them visionaries. Oh, and rawbean, if Burton's Apes 'reimagining' was a cut ABOVE standard passionless Hollywood fare, I'd hate to ever, EVER, see anything a cut BELOW it. I'll add one more thing: I think Johnny Depp is a wonderful actor, and I hate to see him pissing his talent away playing Jack Sparrow and Willy Wonka.
"Head in the say"? by LargoJr	Aug 7th, 2008 09:45:31 AM
I believe that's 'Head in the SAND'... spellcheck is not the same as proof-reading :). In any case, I'm looking forward to this one.
Mr. Beaks is a soft boy... by seppukudkurosawa	Aug 8th, 2008 09:57:16 AM
Way to quote one of my fave singer-songwriters, Clarence! I saw him perform the whole of I Often Dream of Trains live a couple of months back, and it's definitely been one of the highlights of the year for me; ain't no one makes with the between song banter as well as Robyn. Sterling stuff as ever, Beaksy.
Xyzzy80 by seppukudkurosawa	Aug 9th, 2008 05:31:11 AM
Not sure you caught it, but that was a pretty smart way of crediting the article's opening quote to Robyn Hitchcock. Though with The Lady Vanishes, Strangers on a Train, North by Northwest and Crom knows what else, the other 'cock wasn't adverse to trains either.
Trains are... by sherlock_junior	Aug 10th, 2008 12:45:28 PM
Very Keatonesque!

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