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Originally posted by: Darth Chaltab
Fricken wonderful. I hate it when someone randomly pops in and tells me a movie that's gotten good reviews and that I'm planning to see is bad. Now I don't know if I should or not. Yeesh.

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Producers of the 1979 independent SF movie Parts: The Clonus Horror filed suit in federal court on Aug. 8 in New York alleging that Warner Brothers/DreamWorks' The Island was based on their film, Variety reported. In addition to a request for unspecified damages and part of the proceeds from Michael Bay's SF movie The Island, the suit asks the court to order the studios to withdraw it from theaters and block further release, the trade paper reported.

Since The Island was released on July 22, several reviewers have noted the similarities between the two films. Premiere magazine wrote: "The first hour of The Island plays like a much more expensive, albeit scene-for-scene, remake." The New York Daily News and Memphis' Commercial-Appeal, as well as plenty of online critics, agreed, the trade paper reported.

Clonus, produced by Myrl A. Schreibman and Robert S. Fiveson, who also helmed, tells the story of a secret colony of clones who are told they will one day go to a utopian place called "America." They're actually being raised in case their human counterparts need spare organs. One of the clones escapes into Southern California and is chased as he tries to expose the facility.

In The Island, the clones are similarly raised as a source of spare parts for humans, and two clones escape into the real world, a futuristic Los Angeles, and try to shut down the cloning facility.

DreamWorks said in a statement: "The Island was independently created and does not infringe anyone's copyrights."

Made for $120 million, The Island has done poor business at the box office, grossing just $55 million worldwide to date, the trade paper reported.

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