{"title": "The Island 2005 is Michael Bay's Minority Report", "timestamp": 1758140634.069002, "description": "As far as my speculation goes, I think, it is safe to assume, the following happened: In 1994 ( before doing [Bad Boys](/reviews/bad_boys_1995_is_a_tarantino_picture_gone_bayhem_) ) [Michael Bay]() signed a 10 year contract with [Jerry Bruckheimer]() which expired in 2004 ( after [Bad Boys 2](/reviews/bad_boys_2_is_michael_bay_s_magnum_opus) ). Knowing that the contract is about to expire, 2 years prior ( in 2002 ) [Steven Spielberg](), in an attempt to get on good terms with Michael Bay, added a small reference to Bad Boys into his film [Minority Report](/reviews/Minority_Report). And then took Bay under his supervision for the next 10 years. Starting with the 2005 film *The Island*. And through the [Transformers]() franchise. Bay returned the favor by showing a concept car designed for *Minority Report* ( Lexus 2054 aka Lexus Minority ) multiple times in the background of *The Island*. Still that's just a theory. I don't actually know what happened. But it seems plausible.", "author": {"avatar": "https://blenderdumbass.org/pictures/favicon.png", "bio": "Aka: J.Y. Amihud. A Jewish by blood, multifaceted artist with experience in film-making, visual effects, programming, game development, music and more. A philosopher at heart. An activist for freedom and privacy. Anti-Paternalist. A user of Libre Software. Speaking at least 3 human languages. 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Y. Amihud.\r\n\r\nJ. Y. Amihud is pitching \"The 8 year olds\" to Israel film studios.\r\n\r\n\"The 8 year olds\" includes a sex scene.\r\n\r\n\"The island\" includes a sex scene. \r\n\r\nMonkeypox is transmitted through sex.\r\n\r\nA pattern is unfolding.", "username": "Troler", "id": 0}, {"text": "> In the both films we have a group of under-privileged people, the rest of the world uses for something they want. In Minority Report those are the precogs. In The Island those are the clones. In both films, the public that benefits from their existence is being lied to about their conditions. Though funny enough, the lie is reversed. In Minority Report the lie is that the precogs live a peaceful life with all the comforts in the world. And that this is their work environment to see the future, while in reality they are in constant drug induced vegetative state, hooked 24 / 7 to a computer. In The Island the clones live a rather nice life ( minus the big brother and the fact that all of them will be murdered at some point to harvest their organs ), yet the public is told that they never reach contentiousness and are constantly in a vegetative state ( making it more \"okay\" to harvest their organs I suppose ). In both films the under-privilege group is freed, after a portion of the group experiences the world, and witnesses the existence of Lexus 2054.\r\n\r\nEXPOSITION!!!!!", "username": "Troler", "id": 1, "timestamp": 1774725476.2584205}, {"text": "> Michael Bay being Michael Bay opens the movie on the most amazing landscape he could find, with some of the coolest score Jablonsky ever wrote for Bay. \r\n\r\nThere is a Lithuanian by the name Jablonskis who died in Kaunas. There is a sign with Kaunas in the *The Island*", "username": "Troler", "id": 2, "timestamp": 1774725658.2125282}, {"text": "> Only in the Michael Bay version they actually end up having sex. And Michael Bay just about avoided jail time by shooting said sex in a very round about impressionistic way, where the most you can see them do is kiss. Earlier the film confirms that in fact Lincoln six Echo is a 3 year old. And Jordan 2 Delta is a 4 year old. Both artificially cognitively enhanced to be 15 year olds. And the law clearly states that using adult actors as children substitutes is not enough, for it not to be considered \"child pornography\".\r\n\r\nThat's stupid. Japanese have it better. Say the character is 200 years old, but they are a god with a child's body, so it is okay to show them naked and having sex. \r\n", "username": "Troler", "id": 3, "timestamp": 1774726047.8739853}]}, "languages": {}, "hashtags": ["theIsland", "MichaelBay", "film", "review", "movies", "cinemastodon"], "not_ai_proof": "", "tab": "reviews", "url": "https://blenderdumbass.org/reviews/the_island_2005_is_michael_bay_s_minority_report", "collections": ["michael_bay_reviews"], "warning": ""}