Ya know that movie The Island with Ewan McGregor and Scarlett Johansson about escaped clones who exist only to supply their genetic counterparts with spare organs. I heard it sucked. (The days of me seeing every movie remotely resembling sci-fi are long over.) Something was bugging me about it. I kept thinking wasn't this an episode of The Outer Limits or something like it.
Well after some heavy research (google.) I got my answer. Strangely enough I had seen the entire story laid out in episode 811 of Mystery Science Theater 3000. Ya know the show where a guy named Joel and two robots rip bad movies a new set of sprocket holes. This particular edition made sport of Parts: The Clonus Horror with Peter Graves.
Is it Ironic that a clone movie spawned a clone or is it that they both SUCK?
"Parts: The Clonus Horror" cost $257 thousand.
"The Island" cost $120 million.
The only thing actually worth watching is the MST3K episode. Probably available here.
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not to mention it's title closely resembling a fantastic book by Aldous Huxley called "Island"
Now if they made a movie about that - it'd kill!
Anyway, check it out if ya get a chance - it's a really quick read full of "why aren't we doing that!?" scenarios and involves youths taking mushrooms as a mandatory rite of passage.
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