The really embarrassing thing about The Island is that it was deemed too stupid for a major studio way back in the 1970's, when it was produced as a B-movie with Peter Graves called Parts:  The Clonus Horror.  MST3K busted it all up in one of their later seasons.  The Island came out a few years later and the producers of Clonus sued Dreamworks for infringement.  Dreamworks setted for something in the range of seven figures.  When Hollywood settles, you know someone's kicking themselves really hard in their own ass.  And I hope it's Michael Bay.

People watched that movie for reason's other than scarlett johansson??

I don't know, she has that stupid look in her eyes that keeps me from being attracted to her.

I think this is one of those movies that has an interesting premise that resides on a slippery slope argument being, "If science allows mankind to play God by recreating Man for his own purposes, won't that devolve into dehumanization of the clones?"

Obviously, to put things like this into play means that most of the people involved in any facet of this plant are devoid of any ethical concerns(assuming they stay fairly constant in the time gap from the current ethical environment the future environment). Movies like this, the 6th day, and Blade Runner always fundamentally disregard any concern to the construct of consciousness/self awareness in the beings they create until this ludicrous epiphany of "this is wrong" near the end of the movie occurs as a direct result of the manmade characters telling them that in fact what they are doing is wrong. The plausibility of these plotlines require an inordinate suspension of disbelief with regard to the ethical foundations of the world they have themselves created.

All I know about it is I'm glad we got it on DVD because after 20minutes everyone was lot and we stopped watching.

Plot holes so big you can drive a truck through em...

My favorite, "The Bone Collector" in which we must believe that a serial killer, who has no trouble killing multiple health adults, is in the end killed by a quadroplegic...

LC >;-}>

Dammit, I enjoyed the film, and even though I thought the idea that the clones had to experience life in order for the organs to work was a bit weak, none of the other points occured to me. I guess I'm just too easily entertained. I've enjoyed some fairly shitty films in my time.

Oh, and Scarlett Johansen is one of the sexiest women on earth

Did you not even pay attention to the story?  These clones were insurance policies, meaning they were kept alive until they were needed.  They were not allowed to grow into full adults, in fact, they made it clear that they all had the minds of little children.  If what you meant by this is that they wanted them full grown, in terms of physical specifications, well, thats because an infant liver wouldn't really help and adult liver.

There is a big difference between evolutionary behavior becoming genetic and flat out copying 99.9999999999 % of a human brain verbatum.  I am not saying the Island is accurate in this, but the premise its working with is that these clones are the closest one can get to an exact duplicate.  SO if everything is exact, that means the memories, according to this premise, would also be there even if the cloner made sure to input inhibitors to keep the memories from being accessed (which either a) was explained in the movie or b) should have been easy to figure out if you watch bad science fiction or good science fiction since even Total Recall had this as one of its premises).  In fact, the whole idea of Ewan Mecgrogor's clone character having these memories is what the whole movie is about since it is suggesting that we, as human beings, cannot do anything with absolute certainty and that all it takes is one little crack in the system for it to be brought down by the very things it is creating. 

1) Nice to know the whole subplot with Steve Buscemi's character totally went over your head 2) Since when are welders or sewage workers known for going public against a huge corporation?  And, again, within the framework of the story, it makes perfect sense that no one has gone public since the suggestion is that any worker who shows any sign of doing so will be killed.  Why do you think they had mercenaries at their beck and call?  Because they get lonely?

This point i have to concede.  Even granting all horrible science fiction and seemingly implausibly omnipotent power structure of the company, in fact because of this, it makes no sense that two individuals with the minds of children could last more than 10 minutes outside of their clone facility since they would either get caught very quickly and "treated" or get killed by something else.  Their best bet would be to get arrested because then they would garner public attention for having the same exact identity of other individuals.  Going this route, however, would also go against all the other set ups since another one was that this corporation bought off the police force, not to mention, that they were shooting to kill.  So the one major fault is that these two characters are, quite possibly the luckiest characters in cinema history since they survived purely by blind chance and luck alone.  The other major fault is that it was too schiztoid.  One half of the movie was trying to be a meditation on living in a future in which everyone must be inside because of pollution slowly revealing that things are not as they seem (which the trailer pretty much ruined) whereas the second half is typical awesome Michael Bay nonsense with rediculously over the top action scenes that totally overshadowed any real questions being posed by the first half.