OK. So I really liked the trailer to this film. It looks like a pretty interesting, if somewhat derivative scifi film. The cast is chock full of excellent actors:
Ewan McGregor .... Lincoln Six Echo/Tom Lincoln
Scarlett Johansson .... Jordan Two Delta/Sarah Jordan
Steve Buscemi .... McCord
But so I got to looking a bit deeper at it after Sam and Adam said they think it'll be a dog. I visited the website and looked at this trailer:
http://www.theisland-themovie.com/trailer/international_1.htmlNote that at 1:17 through this thing, the trailer says in big bold letters:
DIRECTOR OF
PEARL HARBOR
AND
ARMAGEDDON
Um... This is supposed to sell me on the film? And then a light bulb goes off in my head. Hey--
wait a minute!--I've been duped by this Michael Bay character not once, but TWICE before. Armageddon was quite possibly the worst movie that I've ever seen. Pearl Harbor made me empathize with the frickin' Imperial Japanese--I mean who wouldn't want to kill Ben Afleck in that turkey? And this guy can make a trailer that gets me to go see the movie. What do they say... Fool me once shame on you, fool me twice shame on me, fool me three times and you're Michael Bay.
And so, I went to IMDB to do a bit more detective work. If I were to go to this film here is a sampling of the dialogue I'd be subjected to:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0399201/quotesI just want to live. I don't care how.
I'm sorry, I'm not ready to die!
I wanna live! I don't wanna die!
That tongue thing is amazing!
The screenplay seems to come from some unknown Germans and a guy whose main film credit is
The Goonies II. Anyhow here is the credit:
Caspian Tredwell-Owen (story) Alex Kurtzman (screenplay) & Roberto Orci (screenplay) and Caspian Tredwell-Owen (screenplay),
So I go to look at this Michael Bay character:
Untitled Transformers Film (2007) (pre-production)
The Island (2005)
Bad Boys II (2003)
... aka Good Cops: Bad Boys II (Malaysia: English title)
Pearl Harbor (2001)
... aka Pearl Harbour (UK: promotional title)
Armageddon (1998)
The Rock (1996)
Bad Boys (1995)
The Transformers? The Bad Boys franchise? With that resume, something tells me that Michael Bay is to good film as Fox News is to good journalism.
Um. OK guys, I admit it--I voted for this turkey in your poll on the front page. It seems that you know better than I do what I want to see.
Thank you!