DISQUS

Mikael Jelveby · 4 years ago

It feels like this movie is "a bit" matrix-inspired.
People live their lives and think that they have found this opportunity to live forever. When in fact, they have just been hooked up to a nice little machine that keeps their body working.

Pretty straighforward to me. :wink:

We'll just have to wait and see what the movie really is about.

Vic · 4 years ago

Mikael, I guess you're just brighter than I am. :P

Vic

Brian · 4 years ago

I agree with Mikael; it looks like a Matrix rip-off (as if we haven't had enough of those already). Whether it is or not, the trailer needed to be done better. It was very confusing, and it didn't clarify what the movie was really about. But, I suppose, should I expect any better from a movie directed by Michael Bay?

Brian

Tyler · 4 years ago

Um, the trailer isn't confusing at all. And it's not a Matrix rip off at all. "The Island" is set in the not so distant future, where clones are made so that the original people can have 'spare parts.' The thing is, the clones don't know that they are clones. They also don't know that the 'island' is a fictitious place that the clones are told about. When the clones are told they are going to the 'island', they believe that they are gaining freedom from the lives theyve been living. But really, they are being taking away so their organs etc can be harvested for the owners. Watch the international trailer too, it explains this a little more clearly than the teaser you have watched.

Vic · 4 years ago

Tyler,

Yeah, thanks. I didn't get that at ALL from the US trailer but the international version was much clearer on the plot and much better to boot.

You can catch the international version here.

Vic

Jenn · 4 years ago

wow...You need to stop over analyzing these movie trailers and movies in general!

Vic · 4 years ago

Hey Jenn, feel free to create a website where you spend time not analyzing movies. :P

Vic

Derek · 4 years ago

a)i thought the trailer looked pretty good despite seeming a matrix rip-off. the ambuity it left as to the plot was a nice effect, i was going to see it when it came out, but now that i know the general idea of the plot i might not...

b)you complain about matrix rip-offs, but the matrix was a rip-off of dark city. People have to get inspiration from someplace--its called a "genre"-- still admitting of course that originality is a good thing

Screen Rant · 4 years ago

Derek,

There's a difference between movies in the same genre and movies that rip-off other movies. I find it difficult to believe that The Matrix is a "rip-off" of (the excellent) Dark City considering the former came out in 1999 and the latter in 1998. I'm sure that when Dark City was released The Matrix was quite far into production.

Vic