The Island
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Michael Bay (“Armageddon,” “Pearl Harbor”) directs the futuristic action thriller “The Island,” starring Ewan McGregor (“Star Wars: Episodes I and II,” “Moulin Rouge!”) and Scarlett Johansson (“Lost in Translation,” “Girl With a Pearl Earring”).
Lincoln Six-Echo (McGregor) is a resident of a seemingly utopian but contained facility in the mid-21st century. Like all of the inhabitants of this carefully controlled environment, Lincoln hopes to be chosen to go to the “The Island”—reportedly the last uncontaminated spot on the planet.
But Lincoln soon discovers that everything about his existence is a lie. He and all of the other inhabitants of the facility are actually human clones whose only purpose is to provide “spare parts” for their original human counterparts. Realizing it is only a matter of time before he is “harvested,” Lincoln makes a daring escape with a beautiful fellow resident named Jordan Two-Delta (Johansson).
Relentlessly pursued by the forces of the sinister institute that once housed them, Lincoln and Jordan engage in a race for their lives to literally meet their makers. -
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movie opens 21th July.
offical web here.
http://www.theisland-themovie.com/
trailer here. http://www.apple.com/trailers/dreamworks/the_island/ -
"The 6th Day" meets "The Fugitive"?
Bay has always made entertaining action-packed movies, but this time round he is working with Spielberg's Dreamworks instead of his usual collaborator Bruckheimer to direct his first futuristic science-fiction movie (considering "Armageddon" as contemporary). It also marks indie favourite Johansson's debut in the science-fiction genre.
Hope this new partnership would produce another hit for Dreamworks, and encourage Bay to make the new live-action "Transformers" movie. That shall be a dream come true for many boys who grew up with the animated series. -
u know? looking at the 2 teaser posters and their tag lines, kinda reminds me of another island in the easten part of singapore.
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Originally posted by Gordonator:
No chicks, though.
u know? looking at the 2 teaser posters and their tag lines, kinda reminds me of another island in the easten part of singapore. 
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the girl is a babe.
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i watched. the movie so so only but the ger is a babe
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Originally posted by stellazio:
Lookin' good here...
the girl is a babe.
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Bay is good at directing crowd-pleasing blockbusters with mega-scale loud explosive action sets, and once again he sticks to what he does best. Most of his previous work were mindless popcorn flicks, but this one actually set some audience questioning the ethical issues surrounding human cloning to provide healthy low-rejection-risk organs and surrogate pregnancy.
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just watched this movie.
quite good i must say,
loads of action, babes, and hot cars!!!
i find Ewan's acting abit silly...and SJ acts rather well in this movie. plus her style in the movie makes her damn hot.
i find this movie drawing hints from the matrix,(humans breeding, realisation waht u see isnt the truth -
quite a lengthy movie i heard.
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gonna give this a miss.. watched the trailer.. it gave away the whole movie..
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at least 2 hrs.Originally posted by Gordonator:quite a lengthy movie i heard. -
hahahahaOriginally posted by Gordonator:u know? looking at the 2 teaser posters and their tag lines, kinda reminds me of another island in the easten part of singapore. -
Nice movie.....but a part quite kua zhang...
Both lead werel in a billboard sign hanging on the building.....billboard sign fall over 2gather wif dem....yet they managed to caught on a net n nt fallin to death.....Go watchg it n u noe wad I'm tokin abt.... -
love the babe
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Originally posted by progene:
Didn't the construction worker say to them, "Jesus must love you! You know Jesus loves you!" ? That was probably Bay's way to tell the audience that it was supposed to be a miracle.
Nice movie.....but a part quite kua zhang...
Both lead werel in a billboard sign hanging on the building.....billboard sign fall over 2gather wif dem....yet they managed to caught on a net n nt fallin to death.....Go watchg it n u noe wad I'm tokin abt....
If Bay were to make his movies realistic, most of his leads probably wouldn't have made it halfway through the movie.
Suspend your disbelief.
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But too kua zhang le lah...even Jackie chan can't do dat leh....let alone a guy n a ger....Originally posted by Tuatau:Didn't the construction worker say to them, "Jesus must love you! You know Jesus loves you!" ? That was probably Bay's way to tell the audience that it was supposed to be a miracle.
If Bay were to make his movies realistic, most of his leads probably wouldn't have made it halfway through the movie.
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but this show is great! the story, characters, its ending and action. RECOMMENDABLE!
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Or maybe just plain lazy script writing? Its the director's job to make the audience suspend disbelief.Originally posted by Tuatau:Didn't the construction worker say to them, "Jesus must love you! You know Jesus loves you!" ? That was probably Bay's way to tell the audience that it was supposed to be a miracle.
If Bay were to make his movies realistic, most of his leads probably wouldn't have made it halfway through the movie.
Suspend your disbelief.
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Originally posted by lwflee:
Possible, though it is unlikely Bay would direct any movie with Charlie Kaufman's script soon.
Or maybe just plain lazy script writing? Its the director's job to make the audience suspend disbelief.
Many people watch movies just to be entertained -- they don't really care whether it is realistic and believeable. Besides, not everybody likes watching movies which are too true to life and remind them of the pain in their real lives.
So most movie studios make a balanced mix of money-churning popcorn flicks and critically-acclaimed arthouse movies to cater to different tastes. And directors of the popcorn flicks are usually too busy thinking up ideas that would entertain the audience to bother about realism. Not to mention different people have different acceptance levels of realism as well, thus it is virtually impossible to make a movie, especially of the action or science-fiction genre, that could convince everybody of its realism.
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she will always be Charlotte in Lost in Translation to me
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A lot of cheesy lines in the movie.. but this has gotta be the best:
"Just becos you like Hamburgers, doesn't mean you have to meet the cow?!"