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Buffista Movies 4: Straight to Video

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Gris - Jul 18, 2005 5:52:51 pm PDT #5853 of 10002

Hey. New board.

I saw The Island tonight.

Ewan and Scarlett and Sean and Djimon are very pretty.

I am very glad I saw it for free.

Sigh. I knew this was coming ever since I read this line in the EW feature this week:

Then Scarlett Johansson read the Tredwell-Owen version of the script, loved it, and agreed to do the movie without even meeting Bay. ''I had just come back from London,'' says Johansson, who became the first person in history to go straight from working with Woody Allen to working with Michael Bay. ''I went into Michael's office in Santa Monica and he said, 'Hi! I'm Michael. We're working together! I want you to know that we made a couple of character changes. You're not pregnant, you never meet your clone, and your name is changed from Esther to Jordan.' I was, 'Oh! Ooookkkayyy.'

The fact that the original script was apparently very dark, edgy, different, and interesting was mentioned several times. Also, the fact that Michael Bay completely changed it. After firing the original screenwriters. My guess? They didn't want to screw up their baby with too many explosions and a super-long chase scene.

Come on! Ewan! Scarlett! Djimon! Clones! This could've been one of the most interesting sci-fi movies of the last few years, perhaps, given proper handling! So why give it to Michael Bay, Mr. Spielberg? Why?

Gandalfe - Jul 18, 2005 6:00:02 pm PDT #5854 of 10002

The generation that could change the world is still looking for its car keys.

Unless you watch a lot of trashy Euro-horror movies. Then? There are tons of them.

Are any of them sexier than Catherine Denueve?

erikaj - Jul 18, 2005 6:07:17 pm PDT #5855 of 10002

Always Anti-fascist!

Dude, is anything? Really?

Cashmere - Jul 18, 2005 6:20:26 pm PDT #5856 of 10002

Now tagless for your comfort.

I am very glad I saw it for free.

I'm sad. But I can't say I'm surprised by Michael Bay.

Scrappy - Jul 18, 2005 6:35:33 pm PDT #5857 of 10002

Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.

So why give it to Michael Bay, Mr. Spielberg? Why?

Because Bay makes The Summer Movie--pretty, loud, mindless, exciting, cool-looking, non-challenging. That's what he does. The guy is a money machine.

Jessica - Jul 18, 2005 6:45:36 pm PDT #5858 of 10002

And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset

So why give it to Michael Bay, Mr. Spielberg? Why?

He wanted to make sure it didn't outshine Minority Report?

Beverly - Jul 18, 2005 7:13:25 pm PDT #5859 of 10002

Days shrink and grow cold, sunlight through leaves is my song. Winter is long.

I think Louis Jordan absolutely nailed the role in the BBC Dracula,

Matt beat me to it. And it was a miniseries, so they had more time to be faithful to the text and to develop the characters. Jack Shepherd's Renfield was memorable, too.

Volans - Jul 18, 2005 9:52:46 pm PDT #5860 of 10002

move out and draw fire

Daughters of Darkness

This movie goes down in history as the first vampire movie I turned off and left halfway through. Bo.Ring.

Well, okay, I did try to walk out of the theater during Coppola's Dracula, but couldn't get around the sleeping fat man.

alienprayer - Jul 19, 2005 2:39:46 am PDT #5861 of 10002

Conservative, n. A statesman who is enamored of existing evils, as distinguished from the Liberal, who wishes to replace them with others. -Bierce

Coppola himself was at the screening and you still tried to walk out?

DXMachina - Jul 19, 2005 3:40:12 am PDT #5862 of 10002

You always do this. We get tipsy, and you take advantage of my love of the scientific method.

And Anne Parillaud in "Innocent Blood." sexay.

Oh yes.

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