Comments on: The City of Ember, by Jeanne DuPrau (2003) E http://theblackletters.net/the-city-of-ember-by-jeanne-duprau-2003-e/ a literary blog Fri, 03 Feb 2012 13:01:32 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: Emera http://theblackletters.net/the-city-of-ember-by-jeanne-duprau-2003-e/comment-page-1/#comment-2146 Emera Sat, 30 Jan 2010 22:38:34 +0000 http://theblackletters.net/?p=2581#comment-2146 Video-gameish is a good word for it. Climb here! Decipher this! Find that! Run from them! Except in this case, you just wish the actual gameplay had been better. :P <i>I was also watching it with a viz effects major- they take ALL the fun out of watching pop-corn movies.</i> I can only imagine. It's like trying to shop for graphic novels with my illustrator friend! That's too bad, though, I would have expected that the visuals at least would be fun. Video-gameish is a good word for it. Climb here! Decipher this! Find that! Run from them! Except in this case, you just wish the actual gameplay had been better. :P

I was also watching it with a viz effects major- they take ALL the fun out of watching pop-corn movies.
I can only imagine. It’s like trying to shop for graphic novels with my illustrator friend!

That’s too bad, though, I would have expected that the visuals at least would be fun.

]]> By: Anda http://theblackletters.net/the-city-of-ember-by-jeanne-duprau-2003-e/comment-page-1/#comment-2141 Anda Sat, 30 Jan 2010 20:45:07 +0000 http://theblackletters.net/?p=2581#comment-2141 I read the book and had a similar reaction, essentially I wished I'd read it 5 years earlier. The book felt a bit like a video game to me due to the clunky writing and formulaic plot. The movie is ....a few steps below mediocre. Then again my main reason for hating it so much is because I can see the seams in the viz effects*. Other than that, it's a so-so tween action pop-corn flick. * I was also watching it with a viz effects major- they take ALL the fun out of watching pop-corn movies. I read the book and had a similar reaction, essentially I wished I’d read it 5 years earlier. The book felt a bit like a video game to me due to the clunky writing and formulaic plot.

The movie is ….a few steps below mediocre. Then again my main reason for hating it so much is because I can see the seams in the viz effects*. Other than that, it’s a so-so tween action pop-corn flick.

* I was also watching it with a viz effects major- they take ALL the fun out of watching pop-corn movies.

]]> By: Emera http://theblackletters.net/the-city-of-ember-by-jeanne-duprau-2003-e/comment-page-1/#comment-2136 Emera Sat, 30 Jan 2010 19:19:38 +0000 http://theblackletters.net/?p=2581#comment-2136 Yeah, I freely admit to Wikipedia-ing the plot of the sequels, because I wanted to know what happened, but didn't care enough to actually read. The movie version (didn't even know one had come out until I was poking around after finishing the book!) looks like it could be fun, except that reviews say it's rather slow... Yeah, I freely admit to Wikipedia-ing the plot of the sequels, because I wanted to know what happened, but didn’t care enough to actually read.

The movie version (didn’t even know one had come out until I was poking around after finishing the book!) looks like it could be fun, except that reviews say it’s rather slow…

]]> By: Maureen E http://theblackletters.net/the-city-of-ember-by-jeanne-duprau-2003-e/comment-page-1/#comment-2135 Maureen E Sat, 30 Jan 2010 19:16:16 +0000 http://theblackletters.net/?p=2581#comment-2135 I agree...it's one that I liked and finished but didn't love. And I didn't finish the series either. It felt too clunky and not entirely thought out. I agree…it’s one that I liked and finished but didn’t love. And I didn’t finish the series either. It felt too clunky and not entirely thought out.

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