The movie was 'eh.'
Some glaring problems:
- How did the 3 and 4 year olds learn guile so quickly in order to evade professional mercenaries?
- I really, really don't think the name of a boat is going to be a genetic memory.
- The mercs get orders to eliminate Logan...errr, the runners... err, the clones by "any means necessary." So they begin firing without regard to civilian casualties, and it looks like they kill at least 100 people. Then, 10 seconds later, they are faced with the conundrum of which guy is the client, and which is his clone, so which one do we shoot? After killing half the city, they stop to worry about 1 more guy? Kill them both, already.
The movie was a good idea with shitty execution.
The Island - maybe spoilers
I couldn've sworn I reviewed this a while back.
I agree with your review.
Although, I'm pretty sure The Island is a remake, so the question becomes, which came first: the Island original or Logan's Run?
I agree with your review.
Although, I'm pretty sure The Island is a remake, so the question becomes, which came first: the Island original or Logan's Run?
“Every record been destroyed or falsified, books rewritten, pictures repainted, statues, street building renamed, every date altered. The process is continuing day by day. History stops. Nothing exists except endless present in which the Party is right.”
I can find no original "Island." I did, however, find a flick that brought legal action against it for swiping ideas. This movie sucked badly. I remember reading in some magazine about how it'd kick ass cos Michael Bay had never made a flick that didn't turn X millions of dollars as profit. Then this sumbitch became partially responsible for the dismemberment of Dreamworks.
Diogenes of Sinope: "It is not that I am mad, it is only that my head is different from yours."
Arnold Judas Rimmer, BSC, SSC: "Better dead than smeg."
Arnold Judas Rimmer, BSC, SSC: "Better dead than smeg."
I can find no original "Island."
It was based on something with a different name: Clonus.
Read the story at that link and you'll discover that it's more theft than remake.
I found that while googling to discover what The Island was a remake of as I remember a more mainstream review saying it was a remake of a 70s film, but I couldn't remember where I saw that review.
“Every record been destroyed or falsified, books rewritten, pictures repainted, statues, street building renamed, every date altered. The process is continuing day by day. History stops. Nothing exists except endless present in which the Party is right.”