I just finished watching the movie The Island, and basically, I couldn’t roll with it. I can normally suspend belief pretty well with movies, but I couldn’t buy that an organism who had been alive for less than 5 years and had the mental capacity of an 13 year old or less could pull off everything that happened in that movie.

The worst part, though, was the overt Microsoft product placement. Usually I can look past this, but I was disturbed by the fact that the game used to keep the clones complacent (since the existence of clones with emotions was illegal in this movie) had X-Box written all over it! I can imagine that pitch. “Hey Microsoft! How’d you like to donate some X-Box equipment to help prevent these clones from becoming self-aware, and ensure that our organization continues to make its illegal profit? Good deal, huh!”

So as I watched the movie, I couldn’t help but think, “This horrible future reality is brought to you by Microsoft. ‘Where do you want to go today?’ If you’re a clone and you said, ‘outside’ - we’re sorry, that’s not allowed. Why don’t you play X-Box instead?” I’m so excited to start working there so I can usher in this awful future with all due haste.