I saw it back in December with my kids, it was fun action. I don't know, it didn't really 'get' me. But Ewan McGregor is HOT!

A book I read right after that was Never Let Me Go, by Kazuo Ishiguro, who wrote Remains of the Day, written along a somewhat similar theme as the Island, as in cloned persons for the sake of medicine and organ transplants, but the book was more eerie along the cultish lines, and some parts of it really 'got' me, reminding me of my past and some of the confusion I went through and still go through in regards to it.

> Just saw a great movie, 'The Island' with
> Ewan Macgregor (I think) recently released.
> PIcture this: all these happy people in a
> controlled environment with guards telling
> them what to do all the time and what to
> think, yet all the time they are kept
> perfectly happy with the (false) promise of
> a future utopia. They are kept in submission
> because of the fear of a contaminated
> outside world. Sound familiar? Great
> parallels with TF.
> Go see it!
> Lots of [unnecessary & unbelieveable]
> action which could be a + or a - depending
> on your point of view.

> Next night we watched 'Stepford Wives'
> (original version, not the recent idiotised
> version) and what a great illustration that
> was of all these happy people conditioned to
> do what they're told. Also very familiar
> scenario.