Thoughts on The Island

Without spoilers, I'll say that The Island is a solid C+. It neither really shines nor becomes screamingly offensively bad. It has some cute little character scenes featuring some good character actors. I *liked* Ewan McGregor in this, though Scarlett Johanssen isn't given a lot to work with, sadly, given the girl *can* act.
This movie borrows from a lot of very classic sci-fi, including slightly more obscure stuff (e.g. Capricorn One's 'space suits in the desert' scene).

That said, please, someone, make a Paranoia movie. That's the Paranoia RPG from West End Games. Yep, you heard, correctly, Citizen. Please please please. Lets see a movie skewer dystopias, the War On Terror (for 'Communists', read 'Terrorists'), mad computers, cloning, and all the movies that have come out lately and hooked into these threads in the community conciousness in a straight-faced and, frankly, predictable and depressing way.

I would LOVE to see that.

Times like this, you need laughter.