The Last Flight of Noah’s Ark (1980, 40%)ĭesperate pilot Elliott Gould and perennial scamp Ricky Schroder are on a B-29 hauling zoo animals across the Pacific when they crash land on an uncharted island.
(Just kidding, it’s actually spoiled Hollywood actors refusing to play nice with each other.) Wells novel, set on a remote island where mankind encounters its greatest enemy: himself. Starring Val Kilmer and late-period Marlon Brando in an infamously troubled production of the H.G. The most famous adaptation of the 1812 Johann David Wyss novel, produced by noted public domain pillagers Disney. Nearly banned in its country for makeup evoking the survivors’ scars of the WWII atomic bombings.Ī comedic adventure originally written/directed by Oscar-nominee Lina Wertmuller, later remade by Guy Ritchie starring wife Madonna as a way to destroy your marriage on-screen.Ī family makes the most of it when they’re run off the seas by pirates and shipwrecked on a sustainable, tree house-zoned island. Peculiar Japanese horror film of giant island mushrooms who mutate their victims. Journey 2: The Mysterious Island (2012, 43%)īut, alas, one never learns: Caine was roped into another adventure island romp decades later with Dwayne Johnson, Josh Hutcherson, and Vanessa Hudgens. The Wild Life is the first Crusoe adaptation in twenty years - that’s how long it’s taken technology to catch up with Pierce Brosnan’s chest hair.īetween this and Jaws 4: The Revenge, Michael Caine needed to stay the hell away from large bodies of water during the ’80s. Things go south when Bell claims to be military and that a virus is currently ravaging the planet, refusing to let either leave the island. Italian video nasty produced at the height of the ’70s/’80s cannibal craze, starring George Eastman as a ouroboros-y maniac who terrorizes tourists on his remote island.Ĭillian Murphy and Thandie Newton are on their isolated retreat when they’re interrupted by the uninvited but equally good-looking Jamie Bell. 10 prisoners are plucked from deep within the bowels of our justice system and thrown onto an island, where they’ll fight to death for our broadcast amusement. If Battle Royale and Beyond Thunderdome had a bald American baby, this would be it. Not digging the accommodations, Eastwood carves out an an exit plan. Off the coast of San Francisco, Clint Eastwood arrives at the maximum security prison run by the ironically cast (assuming you’ve seen The Prisoner) Patrick McGoohan. When will the people learn? Though we hear Isla Sorna is nice this time of year. Isla Nublar: The island’s big, but so are the fauna. It’s survival of the grungiest in this sci-fi thriller, where unstable crook Ray Liotta is purged to a lawless jail island. Opposite personalities Harrison Ford and Anne Heche are brought closer together when a thunderstorm forces Ford to crashland on a South Asian island with a pirate problem. Sometimes They Lagoon…Again! Now starring Milla Jovovich. They sit down to play cribbage while patiently awaiting rescue. Two precious Hollywood babes, stranded from the Benetton model ad where they once lived, play maroonees on an island with no clothes and nothing to do and decades before the internet.
Under things Japanese high school students look forward to, no one ever checks off ‘the island retreat.’ That’s because their totalitarian state sends these kids packing with deadly tracking devices and weapons used to kill each other before time runs out as a way of scaring the population in check.Ī new age allegory of modern living, that we are all on our own desert islands and that it takes a bloated farting white guy to lead us to the light between oceans. For the role, Hanks decultivated mass and grew a beard which was used to trawl the awards season depths, coming up with a Golden Globe. Tom Hanks is Chuck, a virtuous FedEx employee who - even when stranded on a remote island with no hope of rescue - refuses to open mail packages (they go over this in the daily meeting).
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