In other movie news, I watched "The Island" last night. I wanted to watch this movie because Ewan McGregor was in it and he's always in good films. He has that thing with not doing typical Hollywood films. But the thing that threw me for a loop was that it was a Michael Bay film. Michael Bay films are usually stupid, non-stop action, very predictable movie with just ridiculous, really unneccessary action scenes. The movies just go on and on and just really bugs the hell out of me (although, no matter what, I will watch the live-action Transformers movie he's directing). So at this point of my movie watching moral dilemma, I'm in sort of a big bind. I walk by it at the video store everytime and look towards it.
I read that it was one of the first movies that Michael Bay did without Jerry Bruckheimer, so that's an added reason to give it a try. Jerry Bruckheimer also only does stupid movies that fit the Michael Bay description with movies like "The Rock," "Armageddon," & "Con Air." All those type of movies. I read a Jerry quote that said, "If I made movies for critics and people, I'd be living in a small apartment in Los Angeles." Basically, if he made a good movie, with an actual, believable story, that flowed really well and had great believable characters that don't save the Earth or takes down an entire plane full of hardened criminals, he wouldn't be successful. Respectable, yes. But not successful. Fuck you, Jerry. Formulaic asshole.
Here's Jerry's movie checklist:
1. Huge action star, who's a regular guy in the movie, but has to go up against ridiculous odds to save someone/something he loves very dearly.
2. Someone who has a problem following rules, whose problem following rules will come back later in the movie to help out the situation.
3. Funny guy.
4. Hot girl.
5. 80 kajillion dollars worth of explosives.
6. 80 million cars that will be destroyed.
7. Shitty soundtrack.
8.
The movie was really good. I think I'm going to watch it again tonight. I first thought that it was going to be something like "the Prisoner" because I thought it was an island they were trying to escape. And although they weren't trying to escape the island, the underlying message of this was very similar.
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A three-legged dog walks into a bar. The bartender says "What do you want?" The dog says, "I'm looking for the guy who shot my paw."
A scientist is doing tests with a frog. He sets the frog down and says "JUMP!" The frog jumps four feet. The scientist cuts off one of its legs and yells "JUMP!" again. The frog jumps three feet. The scientist writes in his notebook "4 limbs, jumps 4 feet. 3 limbs, jumps 3 feet." He cuts off another of the frog's legs and tells it to jump again. It jumps two feet, which the scientist marks in his notebook. He cuts off the third leg and tells the frog to jump again, and it jumps one foot. Scientist writes "2 limbs, jumps 2 feet. 1 limb, jumps 1 foot." He cuts off the last leg and tells the frog to jump again, which of course it can't. The scientist writes in his notebook "0 limbs, goes deaf."
ROFL!!!!
"That's a bus. Let me get some change."
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