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Ewan McGregor being blamed for failure of "The Island" by producers (along with the Johanasson girl) — Page 2

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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."

That's TOO funny! I was *just* talking about this movie the other day in our X0 forum. It's so bad, that there's a "Mystery Science Theater 2000" version of it. You guys should look for it. It's one of my favorites.

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No he meant the short-lived 1966 version of the show, called Mystery Science Theater 2000, in which the 3000 show was based on. It featured two wood puppets riffing old silent movies shown with rear projection.



Anyway, I'll look for this MST3k version of Clonus Horror, should be fun to watch.
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Originally posted by: ricarleite
No he meant the short-lived 1966 version of the show, called Mystery Science Theater 2000, in which the 3000 show was based on. It featured two wood puppets riffing old silent movies shown with rear projection.



Anyway, I'll look for this MST3k version of Clonus Horror, should be fun to watch.


Well, then he must have meant 3000 since you say the show was in 1966, yet the movie came out in 1979

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I saw the movie and McGregor and Johanson are not to blame. I didn't think The Island was a bad movie, but it did have a few script problems. The budget apparently was over $100 million dollars, but it doesn't look like it on screen. I don't know why people are not going. There are plenty of other even more brainless action movies making money, Dukes of Hazard made $30 million dollars last week.
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Originally posted by: GlopOfGrease
I saw the movie and McGregor and Johanson are not to blame. I didn't think The Island was a bad movie, but it did have a few script problems. The budget apparently was over $100 million dollars, but it doesn't look like it on screen. I don't know why people are not going. There are plenty of other even more brainless action movies making money, Dukes of Hazard made $30 million dollars last week.


Maybe Johanson should have been in a music video of her wearing a bikini and washing a car.
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Everyone wants to blame somebody for a bomb, but the truth is, it all comes down to the producers, the director, the screenwriter(s) and the studio. The studio is to blame for greenlighting the thing. The screenwriter is to blame for failing to produce a decent script (don't get me started on originality). The director is to blame for failing to interpret the script properly (or failing to realise that it was a piece of shite and should never have been made in the first place). Finally, the producers are to blame for failing to keep a tighter rein on production and not saying no to the egotistical director often enough.


Finally, if the actors are actually to blame, they can usually be sacked, right?

*Gets off soapbox.*

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Originally posted by: GundarkHunter
Everyone wants to blame somebody for a bomb, but the truth is, it all comes down to the producers, the director, the screenwriter(s) and the studio. The studio is to blame for greenlighting the thing. The screenwriter is to blame for failing to produce a decent script (don't get me started on originality). The director is to blame for failing to interpret the script properly (or failing to realise that it was a piece of shite and should never have been made in the first place). Finally, the producers are to blame for failing to keep a tighter rein on production and not saying no to the egotistical director often enough.


Finally, if the actors are actually to blame, they can usually be sacked, right?

*Gets off soapbox.*


Exactly. Couldn't of said it better myself.
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It's an okay movie. Not really original, but it is entertaining. I felt that a lot more could have been done with it, but it failed to meet its potential. It's true that most of the movie, or at least the highlights, were shown in the trailers. Not much else really happened that was exciting. Unless....of course you're also a fan of Star Trek and you got a kick out of seeing Neelix sans makeup as one of the inhabitants of their utopian society .

You know a movie that did surprise me by being fairly good was Stealth. I thought it was going to be another one of those "man makes machine, machine rebels and kills man, man destroys machine," stories. While that was certainly what the trailers made it out to be, I was delightfully surprised to see there was more to it than that. I wouldn't say the movie is for everybody, but at least I didn't mind killing $19.50 (for my wife, dad, and myself) to go see it.
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Personally, I think everyone should share the blame for a film's box office and/or aesthetic failure(s) - actors, producers, writers, director, etc.
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