City of Ember

[Susan]

i rented "City of Ember", and never heard of it. I liked the concept although it fell somewhat flat because it was too focused on tweens, so i'm not sure who exactly the target audience is here. But I get frustrated when i see a good concept and it could be SO much better

People are chosen to live down below because of doomsday, and hundreds of years pass. Nobody is allowed to escape and a generator is starting to break down that keeps the city lit. We've got giant moles and insects (not enough IMO) and bill murrey as the gluttonous mayor (love that), Tim Robbins as the boys father who seems to know more than he let's on and is always building inventions. I would have been more interested if he were the main character trying to escape. Nobody is allowed to pick what job they want, when they are teens they draw a job out of a hat. Two teens work together to unsolve the mystery of how to escape to the world outside - and what is outside, darkness forever and ever?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kkSFsbv6eUg

I love a movie with a good concept, and I'm completely obsessed with post apocaplyptic type films. IN fact i'd love for them to do something called "The Lottery" where they pick a lage group of random names within age groups races and genders because of an impending doomsday. Then they screen those and select certain candidates who qualify, if you are of child bearing age you have to be able to have kids because they'd want the human race to go on. Kinda like that asteroid movie that "impact" where life didn't end after all. It would be controversial too, because would they allow gays in, would they try to conceal their secret? They would screen you for diseases and predisposition to diseases. And then it would be a forced lottery, if they pick you after the battery of tests and background checks then you have to go, you have no choice.

I think it would be a great movie, then at the end the doors close and darkness, and you get a sequel with life down below after 'doomsday with the power struggle and people coping with survival'. And eventually hundreds of years later when earth is inhabitable again when they go back up ;-) 

[Javakoala]

I take you have seen "Chosen Survivors" (1974)?

[Susan]

minus vampire bats ;-)

Plus i'm kind of over the nuclear holocaust thing, i'd like to see destruction of life on earth in other forms like the asteroid, maybe a polar shift or supervolcano or virus.
the first movie would be all about the lottery, the sequel can be about chaos down below