The Island

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JoeMan05

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Has anyone seen "The Island" yet? I went and saw it a couple days ago. I thought it was really good! I thought it was going to be about some treasure hunters on an island or something because I saw previews for a movie that was like that and I though The Island was that movie, but it was totally different. The special effects were awesome. Great story also, very original.
 
Mainly Scarlett Johanssen was just mindblowingly gorgeous.
 
Heck yeah, she is frickin hawt, the movie was pretty mediocre though.
 
Man, i loved that movie! I hate how all the religious wackos bashed it because it had cloning in it. "0mgz! that mov1e lik suxxed! only god can make human! rofl rofl!!11!"
 
I'm not gonna bother seeing it in theatres. I most certainly won't go out of my way because of the people behind it. If it just happens to cross my eyes at some point, I'll give it a shot, but whatever. I've become quite fed up with the stupid Bruckheimer/Bay/Schumacher/whatever bullcrap.
 
The first part of the movie was ok, from thereon everything just blew up... and I mean everything!
 
Why is there a "S" in Island? One of the many mysteries of life... :p
 
Because the S changes the pronunciation ever so slightly. An it probably came from a word in another language.
 
Yeah i've seen it, thought it was really cool...typical Micheal Bay, the car chase is even pretty damm similar to the one in Bad Boys 2, and some of the actors are in both films, it seems like Bad Boys 3 in parts but thats not a bad thing by any means. It was quite funny in places too ("He's taking a dump in a can? Taking it where?")
 
A lot of movies have been dying lately at the US box office? Why? I think it's because most of them spend $100m on special effects, stunts and actor's salariers while the other remaining money (Approx. $2.50) is spent on the script itself.
 
I thought it was pretty retarded actually, but it wasn't as retarded as I felt watching it. It was a Michael Bay movie and I actually expected it to be good?
 
Crisis King said:
A lot of movies have been dying lately at the US box office? Why?
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I think people are beginning to wake up and smell the bullshit. Time for Hollywood to jump on some new fad, I guess.

Comic book adaptations are still popular...
 
It was entertaining but you could see what was going to happen in the movie from watching the first 20 minutes.
 
Yeah, I don't expect much from a Michael Bay film.

You know why movies are dying so fast? Because they're all the same. Hollywood can't come up with original ideas so they shell out either

A) Comic book movies

B) Remakes of old movies/TV shows

C) Action movies

And besides A and B, C has been around since the dawn of film so...who knows when we'll see much of anything original in hollywood.

Independant film ftw.
 
hollywoods needs to stop focusing on what sells and focus on what is good
 
The one part that I thought was pretty cheesy and out of place was that flying motorcycle. That was to far fetched, kinda turned into star wars for a second. Other than that I thought it was a good show. The car chase with the train wheels was awesome though.
 
<RJMC> said:
hollywoods needs to stop focusing on what sells and focus on what is good
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There have been a number of movies this year that have taken a step in the right direction. One of them being Batman Begins.
 
FYI: The Island is a ripoff of a movie called: Parts - the clonus horror (1979). Michael Bay did not contact the makers, or give them any royalties, he just blatantly copied the story and changed "America" to the "Island", added explosions, but he kept the sub-par acting true to the original.
 
Absinthe said:
Hollywood needs more Lynch.
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and Christoper Nolan, David Fincher, Tarantino, Zach Braff, Guy Ritchie, that dude that wrote Adaptation and those other crazy movies, etc etc etc etc.

Most importantly though, Hollywood needs less Uwe Boll and Michael Bay.
 
It started off quite good but turned into another mindless action flick then.
I just dont understand why Michael Bay keeps pumping out the same material ("crap", if you will) over and over again.
That chase scene was basically a duplicate of the Bad Boys 2 highway chase scene.
Bad Boys and The Rock are among my favorite and two of the best action flicks of the 90's.Enough, is enough though.
He and the bitching producers are about to get sued by some another whiny assholes.
Oh well,lets hope that this whole ordeal might change the way that Bay approach his next project.If it doesn't **** up his whole "career" that is.
 
what about Edgar wright(shaun of the dead, spaced) he kicks arse.
 
Sparta said:
and Christoper Nolan, David Fincher, Tarantino, Zach Braff, Guy Ritchie, that dude that wrote Adaptation and those other crazy movies, etc etc etc etc.

Most importantly though, Hollywood needs less Uwe Boll and Michael Bay.
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I agree - Less Jerry Bruckheimer, Michael Bay, the dude behind XXX, torque, stealth, fast and furious and more people like Kubrick, Hitchcock, David Lynch, Martin Scorsese, Joel and Ethan Coen etc...

But then again $$$ is what Hollywood is all about, Film is art but it's entertainment that sells. :(
 
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