the island
Posted: Fri Aug 12, 2005 8:31 am
is one of the worst movies i have ever seen. hollywood, i am sad to say, is sick.
this movie sounds good: it has mcgregor, buscemi, scarlett johansson in a plot that you could describe as gattaca-goes-action-movie. but it is full of logical inconsistencies, melodramatic music and horribly stilted visual cliches.
there are the pod people from matrix 1, the product-placement cadillac-car chases from matrix 2, the weird giant-rusty-turbine effects from alien 3, the world-rebirth effects from total recall. name the impressive special effect from the last three decades, and you got it, albeit in a diet version.
but it gets even uglier: there is a scene in which the clone people are sent into a gas chamber! these movie business folks sure got a nerve -- what were they thinking when they decided to use auschwitz aesthetics to make a visual point?
actually, the only point it made on me is to make sure i never, never see another movie made by this asshole director (michael bay, of amargeddon and other boring blockbusters).
this movie sounds good: it has mcgregor, buscemi, scarlett johansson in a plot that you could describe as gattaca-goes-action-movie. but it is full of logical inconsistencies, melodramatic music and horribly stilted visual cliches.
there are the pod people from matrix 1, the product-placement cadillac-car chases from matrix 2, the weird giant-rusty-turbine effects from alien 3, the world-rebirth effects from total recall. name the impressive special effect from the last three decades, and you got it, albeit in a diet version.
but it gets even uglier: there is a scene in which the clone people are sent into a gas chamber! these movie business folks sure got a nerve -- what were they thinking when they decided to use auschwitz aesthetics to make a visual point?
actually, the only point it made on me is to make sure i never, never see another movie made by this asshole director (michael bay, of amargeddon and other boring blockbusters).