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[jedishampoo]

sharpeslass and I saw The Island today. It was much better than we thought it would be. Why isn't this movie doing more business?



Wow, for a Michael Bey film it really was pretty darn good. I am not a fan at all of his other movies. Didn't he direct the travesty that was Armageddon?

But from the very beginning you were really involved with the characters. I am still disturbed by the images of Michael Clarke Duncan's character waking up during surgery, and running down the hall crying that he wanted to live and he wanted to go to the island. Wow, I feel all meepy thinking about it now. ::phew:: Really, some upsetting imagery both visually and emotionally, but effective.

I liked how they showed the clones living in their little world-- eating, hanging out, etc.-- and Lincoln Six Echo (Ewan) wanting something more, and not knowing how to express it at first other than wanting different colored clothing or bacon for breakfast. "I'm missing a shoe." Nice.

Steve Buscemi was less annoying than usual in MB's movies, but maybe that's because he was somewhat sympathetic and died quickly. Though I did get a deja vu when he was explaining to Jordan (Scarlett J) how her memories were implanted. Uh, Blade Runner, anyone?

Lincoln the Sponsor meeting Lincoln the Clone was cool, too. Ewan McGregor pretending to be an American doing a bad Scottish accent! LOL. (I will say that Ewan still needs to do some work on his American accent, but it's getting better than it was in Black Hawk Down. Ioan does a much better American.) Not a fan of Scarlett Johansen, but her character was sorta sweet and didn't bother me at all.

Some suspension of disbelief was required during the whole escape scene and the run through L.A.-- I do believe that 90% of the car chase/falling off the building inside the giant letter "R", YET LIVING, could have been cut and it would have made it almost a perfect movie. At least on DVD you can fast-forward the whole middle action sequence-- it was the only time in the theater that I felt fidgety.

For girlish squeeing and hormone, Sean Bean and ODAE of course were ALL tehhottness. Mrowr. Oh, and cannot forget Djimon Honsou, yum. sharpeslass says, and I agree, that Lincoln (Ewan) and Merrick (Sean) should have had their shirts off during the end fight. When you have two men that attractive grappling with each other, then they should at least be shirtless and/or wet.



Overall definitely worth seeing. And buying when it comes out. Hot men. Decent sci-fi story. Good acting from all concerned, Sean, Ewan, Scarlett, Djimon. Touching in several places. I mean emotionally!

Comments

[lexsara.livejournal.com]

I, um, suppose I shouldn't steer you toward the LJ community for Lincoln/Tom slash--someone got the bright idea for that one and it apparently took off according to the Ewan/Hayden list. Nothing like sex with...yourself...that's not alone. :)

I agree with you, I liked the Island, more so because it made me think rather than just blew things up. (Not that I didn't love and adore Ewan, Sean, and the lot) I'm guessing it's that factor that made it less appealing at the box office. Sadly, most of society today seems to want action with no emotion/thinking films. More's the pity.

But yet, I will be owning it too. :)

[jedishampoo.livejournal.com]

Girl! Been there, done that, read the slash. LOL. (It was the curiosity factor more than anything.) We are evil, are we not?

Thanks, though... Glad you felt the same way about it we did. ::hugs::

[psu-jedi.livejournal.com]

I agree with you! Why isn't this doing more business??

RE: Ewan's American accent--during the movie, I was a bit disappointed with the number of times his Scottish came through, but after the movie, I said, "You know, that was clever how they had the accent of the 'donor' come through occasionally, like he was getting those memories back but didn't realize it!"

Wow. Years of rationalizing the prequels helps with other movies, doesn't it? ;-)

[jedishampoo.livejournal.com]

Wow. Nice point. You win at Rationalizing! :) sharpeslass says that her hat is off to you. And she is queen of rationalization.

I guess I hadn't realized that what I was doing with the prequels was just that... but really, I love SW so much that I'm willing to put up with just about anything. Even Jar-Jar. I finally reached a point where I was like, I must accept Jar-Jar. That's really all it took to start moving to a point where I actually liked Jar-Jar. He's sweet. He's innocent. He just wants to help. Try it, it works! :)