i'm not familiar with logan's run?
is the storyline the exact same as the island?

As I watched this preview, I thought the film looked great. McGregor and Johannson are awesome, as well as the supporting cast and the visuals looked sweet. Then the screen flashed, "directed the Michael Bay" and I was instantly not interested anymore. With the exception of The Rock, I do not admire this man's films at all and am sure that he cannot deliver a real original or thought-provoking film. Even the image of all the people dressed in white running down the desert hill reminded me of THX 1138. Bay's recent films include Bad Boys II and Pearl Harbor. How good could it be?
By the way, I enjoyed Minority Report and I, Robot to a somewhat lesser extent but the Sixth Day is more what this film will probably come to resemble. The Sixth Day does not suck but it is pretty average and not worth repeated viewings.
Logan's Run is a great film. I highly reccomend it.

I'm surprised to see IGN's review give it a 4 out of 5.

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I caugh the sneak preivew the other night. Most people who know me know my HUGE contempt for Michael Bay, who claimed he really wanted to make a true summer popcorn film with this movie (does he do anything else that I'm not aware of?). I went in with VERY low expectations and although it's not nearly as bad as Pearl Harbor it's still pretty bad. There are moments where the action seems like it's going to elevate itself over the usual trifle he comes up with, sadly it never does. Nor do plot elements quite gel together as they should. A lot of great opportunites are missed with this one.

I'm still trying to figure out why I went to this one... oh yeah Scarlett Johanson yummy.8)

Just a little side-note, the reason why the advertisements in Minority Report work so well is becuase they do sell their product, but they are meant to show you the world within the characters live. The inhabit a realm with so little privacy that they can indeed by selectively targeted through retinal scans to have ads played especially for them! The fact that they simply are desensitized to this lack of privacy is a statement on the future of mankind, that eventually we will have a camera in every room making sure we do or say nothing bad. The same applies to the spider scene.

Anyways, back to The Island...

Spielberg did it to a much lesser degree in "Minority Report". To be quite honest, the only one I can remember in "Minority Report" was a GAP reference, with the great Duke Ellington song, "Solitude" playing in the background (which by the way is the second time Spielberg has used that song, the first time was in "Saving Private Ryan", with Mellish faintly singing the lyrics "I sit in my chair, filled with despair..."). I excuse him for the GAP advertisement though, because the film was quite well done, but all of Bay's work is crap. NO PARDON FOR BAY!

I haven't seen the film, but I think it's interesting that yellowjacket621 was able to remember all of those advertisements, given the nature of the story. Ironic. For all I know, Bay may have put them into the film to make the story better, although I highly doubt it.

But you remembered the companies advertised, and so the goal of the marketing trick was fulfilled.

I'd give the movie a 6/10. I saw one of those "sneak previews" of it a few days ago. It's a decent action flick that doesn't do anything new (THX 1138/Equilibrium/Logan's Run). One huge flaw is how the movie is a 2 hour commercial. These are the companies being blatantly advertised:

American Express
Amtrak
Apple
Aquafina
Ben and Jerry's
Cadillac
Ford
GMC
Mack Trucks
Michelob Light
MSN
Nokia
Reebok
Sisco
Xbox

It was either that or Fantastic Four...[:.(]

Willingly attending a premiere for a Michael Bay film is grounds for dismissal, buddy.