Film: Minority Report

[fasteddie]

I don't usually care for Spielberg films, but I loved this one.

Does it strike anyone else as really weird that this is the third major film Hollywood made based on the work of a fairly obscure SF writer who died in 1982? Of causes, likely, related to liberal use of amphetamines.

 

[Pander Bear]

i dont see how strange it is that they adapt hot stories. He's the greatest sci-fi writer ever, IMO.

Blade Runner
Total Recall
Minority Report
Paycheck
A scanner darkly


They haven't touched the good stuff (excluding Do androids dream...)

 

[captainballs]

Besides the plot and acting, the cinematography is also excellent. Super high contrast filters are used effectively without giving it a trendy feel

 

[TALLY]

I thought it was stupid.

In the future all crime is going to be stopped by 3 retards in a pool...yeah fucking right.

 

[Zagenth]

In the future all crime is going to be stopped by 3 retards in a pool...yeah fucking right.

I nearly fell out of my chair laughing at that lol, thanks.

 

[alasdairm]

rate this movie

alasdair

 

[alasdairm]

i was surprised to find we didn't already have a thread for this.

i wrote a capsule review of this for gmr magazine when it came out:

Spoiler: monority report

Minority Report

Minority Report is set in the not-too-distant future of Washington DC 2054 - only 50 years away. The DC of 2054 is a very different place than it is today.

Law enforcement has changed dramatically with the creation of the Pre-Crime unit who arrest and convict murderers before they commit the crime. Murder rate, zero.

The system is based on the visions of three unique, mysterious individuals – ‘precogs’ who see the future. Pre-Crime detective John Anderton (Tom Cruise) believes in the system. His life is the system. The system is flawless.

Then his world turns upside down. Anderton is predicted to commit the murder of a man he does not know. On the run from his own unit, he has 36 hours to prove his innocence – to prove that the system that is never wrong is just that. Wrong.

Director Steven Spielberg’s future-world is breathtaking but not overwhelming. As well as offering spectacular action sequences and some futuristic police gadgets well worth getting paranoid over, Minority Report poses provocative questions – can someone be found guilty of a crime that never actually happened? There’s more here than simply meets the eye.

alasdair

 

[fasteddie]

I thought it was stupid.

In the future all crime is going to be stopped by 3 retards in a pool...yeah fucking right.

Yes, instead it's going to be stopped by a committee of retards with psychology degrees.

 

[Pander Bear]

people who think that science fiction is about predicting the future should probably stick to sleeping and eating, and leave the rest up to people who are better equipped. 8(

 

[Captain Commie]

Yes, instead it's going to be stopped by a committee of retards with psychology degrees.

Dr Phil! woot.

I enjoyed this movie, but I saw it when it came out so things might've changed.

 

[fasteddie]

Civil Confinement laws

These are policies where involuntary confinement of criminals may be extended beyond the term they were sentenced to, if some committee of psychiatrists deems them likely to reoffend.

Anybody who thinks that some shrinks notions of what's "normal" constitutes due process of law is an idiot.

 

[mariacallas]

I thought it was stupid.

In the future all crime is going to be stopped by 3 retards in a pool...yeah fucking right.

lol.
I remember belatedly seeing this on DVD with my friends (everybody else had seen it except me!) and they kept saying just watch it, you'll love it. And I did.

 

[Banquo]

Does it strike anyone else as really weird that this is the third major film Hollywood made based on the work of a fairly obscure SF writer who died in 1982? Of causes, likely, related to liberal use of amphetamines.

How so?

I'm a huge fan of both AI and Minority Report. Two scenes need to be cut or edited from Minority Report -- the scene with Agatha describing to Anderton and his wife how their little boy would have been a high school athlete (gag!) and the scene with the crazy-gardener-scientist lady. Other than that, there is brilliant CGI here and some great Spielberg action sequences.

 

[L2R]

well polished action piece with a few plot holes which are excuseable.

i want a sick stick.

 

[fasteddie]

How so?

I'm a huge fan of both AI and Minority Report. Two scenes need to be cut or edited from Minority Report -- the scene with Agatha describing to Anderton and his wife how their little boy would have been a high school athlete (gag!) and the scene with the crazy-gardener-scientist lady. Other than that, there is brilliant CGI here and some great Spielberg action sequences.

The description of how the kid would have become a high school athlete...that's not just cornball 'what might have been' tearjerker stuff. It's an alternate reality track she picked up.

If I had anything like that lady's "gifts" I would surely be addicted to heroin.

 

[Banquo]

The description of how the kid would have become a high school athlete...that's not just cornball 'what might have been' tearjerker stuff. It's an alternate reality track she picked up.

yeah, i get functional part of it. the way the scene was executed, though, is too sappy. it's Spielberg overcooking the emotion (like he did in Saving Private Ryan with the old guy in the cemetery). it's just one of his flaws, imo.

 

[Finder]

Like AI, this suffered from the tacked-on 15 minute explain everything-a-thon ending Spielberg loves so much.

 

[Pander Bear]

AI suffered from a lot more than that , IMO

 

[Finder]

Perhaps, it's been years since I've seen it.

 

[L2R]

AI's great, you two misguided heathens!