Comments on: The Island http://www.ayavaron.com/wordpress/index.php/2006/the-island/ Tales from the life of a Geek Tue, 07 Feb 2012 09:32:26 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.1 by: ayavaron http://www.ayavaron.com/wordpress/index.php/2006/the-island/#comment-125 Sun, 06 Aug 2006 01:48:52 +0000 http://www.ayavaron.com/wordpress/index.php/2006/the-island/#comment-125 On First Point, I guess it's jsut that I liked him for some reason. On Second Point, it's just a bothersome thing. I wish I could shut my brain off more selectively but when a movie is meant to start making you think, then you start to see all of the flaws within the plot and premise. I agree it's a dumb thing to criticize a movie for but it did bother me. On Third Point, Absolutely agreed. I just wish that they didn't spoil the totalitarian thing right on the back of the DVD box. I'm sorry if I poorly articulated myself earlier and that didn't come clear. It's a flawed movie that pisses me off because it had much greater potential. On First Point,
I guess it’s jsut that I liked him for some reason.

On Second Point,
it’s just a bothersome thing. I wish I could shut my brain off more selectively but when a movie is meant to start making you think, then you start to see all of the flaws within the plot and premise. I agree it’s a dumb thing to criticize a movie for but it did bother me.

On Third Point,
Absolutely agreed. I just wish that they didn’t spoil the totalitarian thing right on the back of the DVD box. I’m sorry if I poorly articulated myself earlier and that didn’t come clear. It’s a flawed movie that pisses me off because it had much greater potential.

]]> by: nicolas from argentina http://www.ayavaron.com/wordpress/index.php/2006/the-island/#comment-124 Sat, 05 Aug 2006 18:34:23 +0000 http://www.ayavaron.com/wordpress/index.php/2006/the-island/#comment-124 I disagree, I think the movie was fine. The scene you mention is actually well done, and I think the viewer already dislikes the original, when he finds out that his clone is an actual person, he doesn't gives a fuck, and lies to him, pretending to help when he only wants his organs. He didn't deserve to die, though. if the premise of the clones doesn't makes much sense from a biological standpoint, who cares? is just a start point for telling a story. If you really wanna know, most "time paradox" in time travelling movies don't make much sense either. the metamorphosis in the classic kafka novel? why, he never explains why samsa becomes a bug! damn, that kafka sure sucked, right? I liked the movie because the story begun like a totalitarism kinda of movie, but then revealed to be something else altogether. the action movies were boring, and the whole "I have memories from my original being" seemed to me like a dumbass excuse to put boring action scenes in the movie. So yeah, I'm not going to argue the movie was perfect, far from it, but far from absolute suckiness, too. I disagree, I think the movie was fine. The scene you mention is actually well done, and I think the viewer already dislikes the original, when he finds out that his clone is an actual person, he doesn’t gives a fuck, and lies to him, pretending to help when he only wants his organs. He didn’t deserve to die, though.
if the premise of the clones doesn’t makes much sense from a biological standpoint, who cares? is just a start point for telling a story. If you really wanna know, most “time paradox” in time travelling movies don’t make much sense either. the metamorphosis in the classic kafka novel? why, he never explains why samsa becomes a bug! damn, that kafka sure sucked, right?
I liked the movie because the story begun like a totalitarism kinda of movie, but then revealed to be something else altogether. the action movies were boring, and the whole “I have memories from my original being” seemed to me like a dumbass excuse to put boring action scenes in the movie. So yeah, I’m not going to argue the movie was perfect, far from it, but far from absolute suckiness, too.

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