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TV ClubHouse: archive: Movies Sept 2002 - April 2003: Minority Report

Ryn

Friday, June 21, 2002 - 11:00 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Saw it tonight - liked it.

Felt a bit like AI, was 2 hours and 20 minutes long but was never boring (to me).

Now I want to read the book (Phillip K. Dick also wrote the story that was the basis for Bladerunner - and there were also some similarities there).

Not gonna spoil anything, except to say it is PG-13 and we had my 14 year old neice with us and there were a couple times where I was a bit un-easy (implied sexual situations).

The movie also has a few moments of humor, and the visual effects, though not spectacular are pretty cool.

Thumb up from me :)

Tess

Saturday, June 22, 2002 - 12:05 am EditMoveDeleteIP
Thanks for the review, Ryn. DH and I are going to the movies on Sunday and this was his first choice. If we don't get in we'll either see The Bourne Identity or The Sum of All Fears instead and wait another week or two for Minority Report. It's not often that there are several movies out at once that we want to see. He still wants to see Star Wars also.

Marysafan

Saturday, June 22, 2002 - 04:27 am EditMoveDeleteIP
I am so looking forward to seeing this movie for personal reasons. My cousin design and built the car used by Tom Cruise in the movie. As it was a one of a kind custom made vehicle, he had to go the the set to give Tom instructions as to how to operate it. When he got there, he was asked to drive the car as he is the same size as Tom, but first he had to shave his beard off. When he did, they discoverd his resemblance to Tom and asked him to stay on and be his "double".

He said it was quite an experience working with Stephen Spielberg. The man knows exactly what he wants.

Gail

Saturday, June 22, 2002 - 05:45 am EditMoveDeleteIP
Tess, I heard that Sum of All Fears is lots better then Bourne Identity (in case it comes to a choice).

Webkitty

Saturday, June 22, 2002 - 05:59 am EditMoveDeleteIP
Gail, I saw both and I thought that Bourne Identity was much better than the Sum of All Fears.

Gail

Saturday, June 22, 2002 - 06:11 am EditMoveDeleteIP
I actually want to see all three of these movies. - I think I will 4th of July weekend. :)

Webkitty

Saturday, June 22, 2002 - 03:22 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
I saw this today. I agree that is has an ~AI~ quality to it.

I thought this movie WAS to long, and like AI, it was sort of disturbing and "dark".
Also, Spielberg tries to inject little tidbits of humor that doesn't quite fit into the "new" style of film making that he seems to be on. JMO

The overall "look" of the film is sort of smokey, foggy, grey. Some of the special effects were ok, but not the best I have ever seen.

It was kind of like Vanillia Sky meets Artificial Intelligence. It wasn't bad, just different.

The year is 2054. Tom Cruise is a cop in the pre-crime unit. This experimental unit uses humans (pre-cogs) that were born with a gift (or curse) to read murder in the future. They got this way because their mothers were drug users (I forget the name of the futuristic drug) Tom Cruise also has a little habit himself. Surprise! (and heads up to parents)
They keep these pre-cogs in a tank, drugged, and they just lay there and have visions of murder.
When they do, a wooden ball is generated with the name of the victim and then another one with the name of the killer. This was all explained right at the beginning of the movie and I didn't quite catch how it worked.

Tom then uses a futuristic "screen" that generates out of thin air to play out the murder. This was interesting to see and he used gloves that had little points of light on the fingertips to manipulate the screen.

Then he gets framed for a murder, and off it goes, and goes and goes.

I still haven't decided fully how I feel about it.

Stephen Spielberg AND Tom Cruise seem to have changed their style, I think it works for Tom better than Stephen.

Ketchuplover

Saturday, June 22, 2002 - 07:37 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
THIS MOVIE KICKED BOOTY LIKE BOOTY HAS NEVER BEEN KICKED :)

Ketchuplover

Sunday, June 23, 2002 - 02:50 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
I agree Ketchuplover :)

Webkitty

Sunday, June 23, 2002 - 02:53 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
LOL Ketchup!
I knew this movie would be right up your alley!
I'm glad you liked it

Muse

Sunday, June 23, 2002 - 11:39 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Ohhh...I don't like the comparisons to Vanilla Sky and A.I. Because I didn't really like either of those movies, but I loved Minority Report.

That's not to say I can't see some similarities, though. :) You can see Spielberg's influence all throughout Minority Report, and it's another one of his darker sort of movies. And yes, the cinematography is similar to A.I.'s. Plus it has a lot of twists and turns like Vanilla Sky, along with the futuristic stuff and unpredictable ending. But I thought that A.I. dragged and really had no point...and just kind of made you depressed when it was over. And Vanilla Sky just seemed ridiculous to me. I didn't sympathize with any of the characters, and I wasn't impressed with the convoluted ending.

With Minority Report, I thought there were some really good performances (including those of Tom Cruise and Samantha Morton), and I was able to care about Tom's character. The darkness didn't bother me. It was a complex plotline, but I felt it was intelligent and creative. There are several details that seem a bit off (don't make sense when you look back at the whole movie), but they were relatively insignificant. I didn't even mind the product placement - in fact, it amused me. :) I also found the vision of the future that they came up with fairly interesting.

When I first saw previews for it, I didn't think I'd like it, since I also immediately thought of A.I. and Vanilla Sky. lol - but it surprised me. It's not the kind of thing I'd watch over and over again (too different/dark), but I'm really glad I went to see it.

Just my .

Juju2bigdog

Friday, June 28, 2002 - 05:13 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Saw it today. I liked it, and did not notice now long it was at all. What I noticed the most, was the unusual lighting of the shots, and the lack of color of everything. It almost seemed to be shot in sepia tones. At the formal banquet at the end, notice how nobody is wearing clothes that have any color to them.

Geogirl

Sunday, June 30, 2002 - 09:56 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Saw MINORITY REPORT today and I thought it was awesome. Action packed, stunning visuals of the future make this movie excellent! I barely noticed how long it was.

Mssilhouette

Thursday, July 11, 2002 - 06:31 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
:::Warning I might accidently spoil something so you might wanna skip this post if you haven't seen it:::

Okay I'm gonna issue my own Minority Report and because I'm one of the people who didn't really feel anything for this movie except for a whole bunch of questions.

I should say that I'm not really a tom cruise fan because he always plays the same character...This is no different. But I looked beyond Tom and into this movie.

I thought while the main story was interesting I think there was something lacking. I didn't really care about Tom's character because it was very 2 dimensional and sterotypical. An "on the edge" cop gets framed and his past is that he lost a child, oh yeah that's original. The big difference..it's in the future. Big woop!

I liked some of the special effects. But I had some real problems with this "future world". I liked AI's world a bit better.

Here are a few things I found...umm intresting according to Miniorty Report's not too distant future:

1 Advertising will be everwhere...even on cereal boxes...Wow we don't have that now! Oh wait..it moves and it knows who you are. So it's like cookies on the net right?...right? LOL

2 Cars will, through the use of magnets, scale walls and look sleak amd futuristic like....even in the future. So no one will need a license and there won't be any accidents cept for hwne you really need to get away and can hop on the roofs of cars without any problems.

3 Somewhere we will run out of materials and everything will be made of glass or plastic...'cept for that wood ball they keep wasting to inscribe names of killers. Oh and that statue of the Precogs. Oh and the papaer people stills seem to write on. And the rubber we still use to make conviently placed ballons.

4 Guns will stun people instead of kill but you can still get real guns with real bullets that kill real people.

5 Apparently medical advancements only include black market eye swapping. Nothing good like say, being able to heal someone who's gotten shot or has a common cold.

6: Cops will fly with a jetpack that should burn their a$$ but it won't. Also apprarently we allow cops to use jet fuel in our nations captial cause, it's futurstic and looks cool!

7: Apparently laws about using children for the betterment of mankind aren't in effect as well as no protestors against the use of these Percogs (I personally would have liked to see that)

8. Sex is still sex....but like more virtual and cybery and kinda creepy. Unlike most peep shows and porn houses...oh yeah this is a great future.

9. Oh yeah apparently there are no comp techs to updated the police identification system when one of their own is charge with a precrime. Soooo at any time he can waltz back into his former workplace and cause havoc.

10 Offices look futuristic but houses look the same and apparently we still use sissors to cut things but we watch home movies using a projector on the wall. but it's 3D kinda.

11 Malls have not gone extinct and the best way to protect against the rain is an gold old low tech umbrella. Oh and the Gap still lives and is still annoying! And we still use hangers. Go future!

I would have also liked someone protesting or at least addressing the fact that these precogs could stop a murder but not rape or any other assult, domestic abuse etc. So you can still commit a violent assult as long as it doesn't end it murder. Gee I feel safe now. That would mean that criminals would just do everything to their vitims except kill them....say like torture, maime, rape, remove body parts.

I would prefer to read the book than have watched this movie. I think this movie moved for the character and not around him. I also think Speilberg's endings always go on longer than they should be and way to um....pollyanna-ish.

I wouldn't really recommend anyone spend money on this thing...wait for video. But if you love Tom Cruise then go see it there's pletny of shots of him.

Oh the best acting/senes is done in the scene between Tom and the creator of the Precrime/precogs. All the acting is done by her. Tom just kinda stands there waiting for his cue. LOL

Webkitty

Friday, July 12, 2002 - 10:28 am EditMoveDeleteIP
Yea Mssil! I'm glad someone other than me didn't think Spielberg's "vision" of the future just didn't make sense!

That whole black market eye transplant scenario was the worst offender to me. I just didn't buy it.
And Tom Cruise carrying around his eyeballs in a baggie? OMG!

I also agree about the whole pre-cog thing. They can only predict murder in the greater DC area? And like you said, they can ONLY predict murder? Whatever.

I ususally am a fan of SciFi type movies, I just thing Speilberg has lost it. Ever since Jurassic Park II came out. A dinasaour running amuck in downtown San Deigo? What was THAT all about?

And Tom Cruise has gone off into a weird direction too. Eyes Wide Shut, Vanilla Sky, now this.
I liked him better in the Rainman, Jerry McGuire type movies. (My absolute favorite was FAr and Away that he did with Nichole Kidman))

Mssilhouette

Saturday, July 13, 2002 - 06:33 am EditMoveDeleteIP
::Spoiler Warning:::

Yea! Webkitty! And what was up with the guy doing the eye swap...he was supposed to be taking his revenge...since Cruise arrested him. Then it seems he forgot all about it, if that's the case what was the freaking point of mentioning it. That did not add a THING to the plot there was no sense of drama. Considering the dang movie posters have him with the bandages on.

I don't know about Speilberg...maybe after channeling Kubric for AI he had to get rid of those remaining ghosts with Miniorty Report.

I actually liked AI's future pinnchoo(sp) story, because that movie didn't shy away from the comparison and story was about a disposable being(s). It was really a much better storyline.

Enbwife

Monday, August 05, 2002 - 08:42 am EditMoveDeleteIP
Loved this movie! Tom Cruise is great! I think he's been making some excellent choices in movies lately (loved Vanilla Sky too)! I thought the movie was long but really well done. I really can't see the world being like this movie in only 52 years, but maybe one day. Worth seeing!!!

Rolandcat

Tuesday, September 10, 2002 - 08:48 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Hated this movie! I knew I was not going to like it when Tom Cruise started with the moving of people, facts, ? on that clear board. And is Tom getting to look a little worn around the edges?

The eyes, cogs etc. too much. And I love to read Sci-fi.

I loved him in Rain Man, Top Gun and Jerry Mcguire. Not into action films, maybe that's the problem. missions Impossible-bad so never saw the @nd.

Lycanthrope

Thursday, December 26, 2002 - 02:20 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
I loved the movie also. Definitely came away satisfied. Just saw it on DVD. Very slick, very sci-fi look to this puppy. I loved those transport pods all over the place. And yes, I love action films.

Calamity

Monday, December 30, 2002 - 01:35 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Before we went to see this, I had only seen three (I think) other Tom Cruise movies in my life - none of them his blockbuster hits - so I must not have that built-in TC burn-out factor much of the movie-going public has (that's a lot of hyphens!).

**Rather vague spoiler follows**

I enjoyed this movie, too. Can't remember many details though, so I'd like to see it again on DVD. Yeah, it was flawed, but for anyone who says it was predictable, did you really suspect who orchestrated everything until the end? That was the twist - not TC's character's actions or the old man's.

I know the part where he's moving stuff around on the board was probably just to look cool, but I also thought it was kind of a clever visual metaphor for the way the Pre-crime unit manipulated reality and fate. Probably wasn't intended that way, but that's what it reminded me of.

Hummingbird

Tuesday, December 31, 2002 - 10:47 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
I loved this movie although it almost belongs on the "too dang weird" list.