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Granted its a Michael Bay film but I think it looks kinda good.
http://images.apple.com/trailers/dreamworks/the_island/

 

[Drexon]

Looks good. But everytime I hear something like Steve said "The life you think you had..." I think about Ghost in the Shell, when the cop explains to a hacked guy that he never had a wife or child. It probably me, but probably not.

 

[temp]

Stupid misleading trailer. This is going to suck; It has to.

 

[peedi]

Stupid misleading trailer. This is going to suck; It has to.

If the trailer is any indication of how the movie will pan out, it will.

 

[Zelda-Bitch]

I thought the trailer looked awesome. My interest is peeked.

 

[Bristow]

Scarlett looks hot, atleast.

 

[demon]

I thought the trailer looked awesome. My interest is peeked.

Piqued.

Watching now...

 

[hXc_thugg]

Scarlett looks hot, atleast.

And Ewan.

 

[demon]

I have no fucking idea what this movie is about. An island where you live forever.....and....explosions and stuff in a city...and................what?

 

[Mifune]

As much as I don't like Michael Bay, that movie looks pretty fuckin' awesome.

 

[SteveMeister]

It has a cool premise and a great cast.

But then you see helicopters flying inches apart and suddenly veering away from each other.

And then you see "From the director of Pearl Harbor and Armageddon."

The flying motorcycle looks pretty cool.

 

[COCKLES]

As much as I don't like Michael Bay, that movie looks pretty fuckin' awesome.

Ditto.

Scarlett in white catsuit.

+1 ticket sale right there.

 

[SKluck]

Do not be fooled, fellow forumgoers! Michael Bay ALWAYS does this, he puts some extremely atmospheric emotional music on his trailers and then people think it is intriguing and want to see it. Watch it without sound and you will see its true suckage.

 

[Foreign Jackass]

Looks boring. Michael Bay should lay off the dutch angles and slo-mo shots, all his movies look the same. Looks pretentious and way too glossy for the subject matter. Reminds me of the TCM remake in some shots.

 

[ManaByte]

Looks like a modern update of THX-1138 or even Logan's Run, only with clones.

 

[Escape Goat]

It felt very generic to me.

 

[suaveric]

I remember when they called this movie The Matrix

 

[nfreakct]

The truth is, The Island is a rip of The Clonus Horror, an infamous MST3k film.

Don't believe me? IMDB has the plot summary right here.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0078062/plotsummary

A young man escapes from a govenment run project called Clonus only to find out that Peter Graves (Jeff Knight) a candidate for Presidency is a conspirator to keep Clonus a secret. Top government officials are aware of it and support the super secret project, because they are cloning themselves to live longer and better lives, at the expense of their clone counter-part, who is no more than a "slave" as far as human rights are concerned. The ethical and moral values are explored as the escapee (Tim Donnelly) known as Richard returns full circle back to Clonus, only to find his girlfriend lobotimized for government security purposes.

 

[jett]

The truth is, The Island is a rip of The Clonus Horror, an infamous MST3k film.

Don't believe me? IMDB has the plot summary right here.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0078062/plotsummary

I believe you just spoiled The Island. Oh well, not like anybody's going to care.

Looks boring. Michael Bay should lay off the dutch angles and slo-mo shots, all his movies look the same. Looks pretentious and way too glossy for the subject matter. Reminds me of the TCM remake in some shots.

Yeah, he shoots all his films the exact same way, I don't like the oversaturation of colors in his movies, either. He should try something different next time.

 

[SpeedingUptoStop]

Doesn't look all that good. Plus, in combination with the description at imdb, the movie is either really spoiled for me, or it just complicated things further. And :lol at Michael Clark Duncan running with all that crap attached to him. I need a .gif of that.

 

[Substance]

That's quite the cast, and also, the trailer is well done. But I have no confidence in Micheal Bay.

 

[ManaByte]

Doesn't look all that good. Plus, in combination with the description at imdb, the movie is either really spoiled for me, or it just complicated things further. And :lol at Michael Clark Duncan running with all that crap attached to him. I need a .gif of that.

 

[Zelda-Bitch]

Piqued.

I'm grammatically retarded. heh.

 

[SpeedingUptoStop]

:lol thanks manabyte

 

[Funky Papa]

Scarlett Johansson is a goddess. Man, that's a RACK.

 

[speedpop]

Mmmm

 

[ManaByte]

Updated the GIF for future use:

 

[Warm Machine]

Michael Bay is a brilliant flashy commercial director. His few problems are that his taste isn't always very good such as when he uses dead bodies for comical value as in Bad Boys 2 and that his movies tend to have too much bloat and too much pandering to the percieved audience.

Other than that he is a master photographer and his editing style pushed the limits. Each of his films have at least one great sequence in them. The attack on Pearl Harbour was really an amazing piece of film making but that could have been more the movie as opposed to the excessive surrounding tissue that took away from that scene.

Compare him to established and older commercial director contemporaries like Ridley and Tony Scott or Adrian Lyne and his work doesn't hold up as well but at least the boy has a style. Just watch one of his films and try counting the amount of gorgeously photographed and well composed shots there are in it.

This time Bruckheimer isn't producing so perhaps the requirements for that type of a film won't exist this time around.

 

[pho_sho]

I remember when they called this movie The Matrix

 

[FoneBone]

Nobody's posted this yet? I'll have to rectify that.

I miss you more than Michael Bay missed the mark,
When he made Pearl Harbor.
I miss you more then that movie missed the point,
And that’s an awful lot girl.
And now, now you've gone away,
And all I'm trying to say,
Is Pearl Harbor sucked and I miss you

I need you like Ben Affleck needs acting school,
He was terrible in that film.
I need you like Cuba Gooding needed a bigger part,
He's way better then Ben Affleck.
And now all I can think about is your smile,
And that shitty movie too,
Pearl Harbor sucked and I miss you

(Interlude)

Why does Michael Bay get to keep on making movies?
I guess Pearl Harbor sucked,
Just a little bit more then I miss you.

The bizarre thing is that my college has a pretty renowned film program... and yet Michael Bay, of all people, is probably its most successful graduate. Ugh. Well, except for Joss Whedon, maybe.

 

[Foreign Jackass]

The attack on Pearl Harbour was really an amazing piece of film making but that could have been more the movie as opposed to the excessive surrounding tissue that took away from that scene.

Compare him to established and older commercial director contemporaries like Ridley and Tony Scott or Adrian Lyne and his work doesn't hold up as well but at least the boy has a style. Just watch one of his films and try counting the amount of gorgeously photographed and well composed shots there are in it.

I beg to differ. The attack on Pearl Harbor was completely dumb and boring, way too flashy for its own good, and looked like a videogame. Gorgeously photographed? Who couldn't shoot a Michael Bay movie? Use slo-mo, put the camera on the floor looking up, change the color in post-production. His shots have no MEANING behind them. It's like he's always thinking "this shot has to be the "coolest" way to shoot it", instead of trying to tell a freaking story. He isn't paid to design posters, he's paid to direct a freaking movie! I'm not paying full price ever again to see one of his movies.

 

[Dan]

The international trailer is now up.

This one shows a ton more, perhaps even too much at this point. Unless the reviews are horrible, I'll probably give this one a shot.

 

[FoneBone]

The international trailer is now up.

This one shows a ton more, perhaps even too much at this point.

Yeah, that's so disappointing, given how his movies are renowned for their intricate plotting.

Well, I hope that wasn't what you meant.

 

[Iceman]

Ah.. PARTS: The Clonus Horror.

Well, in its defense, as an MST3K target, PARTS had one of the more complex and interesting scifi plots going for it... of course, that's not saying much.

Oh, and it has a great name.

 

[Dan]

Yeah, that's so disappointing, given how his movies are renowned for their intricate plotting.

Well, I hope that wasn't what you meant.

Michael Bay is not the screenwriter.

I'm not going to bash the story just because he's involved with the project, so yes, I'm inclined to say too much of the story has been revealed thus far. What he does with that story is a completely different matter, but regardless, nothing good comes from revealing too much too early.

 

[Iceman]

Okay, Djimon Hounsou makes this a must watch film. He doesn't sign on to 2nd rate crap. (ignoring 2nd rate crap he was in)

 

[SteveMeister]

Okay, Djimon Hounsou makes this a must watch film. He doesn't sign on to 2nd rate crap. (ignoring 2nd rate crap he was in)

No, this makes this a must watch film: