Minority Report? Good or Bad?

[TicklingIsLife]

Minority Report has to be the most succesful film in engaging discussion after the film and working the brain! 😀

 

[JoBelle]

Two thumbs up.

Minority Report

Saw it last night.

I was kinda numb after watching it and I agree, it did spur some conversation today. Personally, difficult for me to discuss John's motive for choice to be in pre-crime. As far as some of the other aspects....we're so very close to this movie that is makes your hands tired from wringing them during the flick.

My $.02 and would like to hear others once enough people have seen it to get a conversation going.

Joby

 

[qwertyui]

saw it a coupla days bak and this is by far the most INCREDIBLE MOVIE I HAVE SEEN IN AGES!!!! The length of the movie did not take away the quality a single bit. I was sitting on the edge of my seat for almost the entire movie. The plot is intruiging and unique and the sfx were simply stunning. there were a couple of humorous parts as well. (the spiders walking in on a couple while they were getting it on). But truly this is a real mind blaster that i have needed for ages after all the disappointing recent movies. But the movie is not without flaws. For example, why were the precrime team late for TWO incidents (john killing leo, Mr Brugees attempting to kill john) after their plans were 'perfect' for the last 6 yrs? Why in the world did the policemen have to hunt John Anderson, all they had to do is to wait for him in the hotel? But the movie is still spectaculor. I also want to know, what happened at the end of the movie? i missed the bit after Mr Burgrees shot himself because i had an appointment(had to sprint out of the theater). Could someone plz tell me? I would not want to watch the entire movie again just to see the last 5 minutes. thanx

 

[qjakal]

Good...but...

there were the usual number of "holes" in the screenplay. Despite all their talk about the second drowning being perceived as an "echo" image of the first, the precogs should still have easily picked up the premeditation that went into planning of such an act, since it ended in murder...other issues, such as not lifting the bandages for 12 hours or you'll go blind, when obviously the eye that was exposed wasn't unable to see later on throughout the entire finale of the film. A few more, but why keep nitpicking...there hasn't been a film made that doesn't have these huge holes in for quite some time. Overall, a good action packed movie...very watchable, good FX and enough plot. Q

 

[toyou444]

slightly off this topic but I have a question...

Is Tommy boy any good in this? I'd hate to think he was a disappointment me and actually stretch his acting talent a little! Sorry, but every Tom Cruise film that has been an actual good movie has been so because of supporting cast or director...otherwise he plays the same old part over and over agin, just in a new situation: hot shot who gets into some sort of trouble (real or internal) and ends up changing his life (or philosophy) and coming out back on top as a new man. Sigh...I just don't like him. Thank you for letting me vent!

~ toyou

 

[Rockauthor]

Tom Cruise's second best film of his career!!!

For the record, here are my pics for the ten best Tom Cruise movies of all-time...

1. A FEW GOOD MEN
2. MINORITY REPORT
3. MISSION IMPOSSIBLE
4. RAIN MAN
5. THE FIRM
6. TOP GUN
7. RISKY BUSINESS
8. INTERVIEW WITH THE VAMPIRE
9. MISSION IMPOSSIBLE 2
10. THE COLOR OF MONEY

I LOVED "MINORITY REPORT". The idea of combining the acting talents of Tom Cruise with the directing talents of Steven Spielberg was pure genius. This movie was great from beginning to end. Good script. Very original. Great special effects. Good acting. Intense drama. I think this will be the sleeper hit of the year.

 

[toyou444]

I'm glad people like this film, and I don't want to be a devils advocate 🙂devil: ) but...can a summer film, directed by Spielberg, starrring Tom Cruise, really be called a "sleeper" if it makes big money and gets good reviews? Sorry...can't get over my dislike for Tom!

~ toyou

 

[JoBelle]

Sorry...can't get over my dislike for Tom!
~ toyou

Hehe, no worries, toyou, I'll like 'em enough for both of us! 😛

Actually thinking about it, what struck me throughout the movie was the use of grey-tone, almost sepia like colors. I suppose that was the typical thing to do to create that "dark" image of the future, but I think it worked well considereing they use the fog effects more than darkness.

Just rambling,
Joby

 

[Alex Warfield]

I saw Minority Report yesterday, and I've gotta say that was one hot movie! When the female "precog" jumped out of the pool dealie and grabbed Anderton, every single person in the theatre jumped, and while I didn't jump, I felt my heart stop for a second. It was great from beginning to end and I'll gladly see it again.

 

[Dave2112]

I haven’t seen this film yet, but I’m aware of the basic concept: looking into the future to prevent crimes before they happen. They used to ask a similar question in most Ethics courses. If you could go back in time, would you kill a teenaged Hitler before he could cause the horrors you know he will?

My problem with this is that it’s very arbitrary. A lot of this depends on your beliefs about the nature of Time. Here’s how I see it:

Measurements of any kind are only in place so that we can easily quantify things. We use distance units to measure the space between two objects. We use time units to measure the space between two events. With distance, you can measure things in different ways, but the result is the same. Two sticks in the ground are 6 feet apart. Or 2 meters. Or 1/1,000,000th of a parsec or whatever. But the sticks never move and have the same distance between them, no matter we choose to measure it. With time, it’s the same, but a little more of a mind-bender.

My point is that I don’t believe that the “Future” actually even exists. We only choose to apply the same measurements to it, to make Time make sense. A well-known paradox once argued that there must be a smallest measurable amount of time, the actual “present”. With the future attached at one end and the past at the other, you must be able to measure the moment that separates them. But with any amount of time divisible by two, is there really a “Tick of the Universe”, so to speak?

There is if you eliminate the future. Here’s how I see Time. The present is always in existence. The past is everything that has already happened. Most see time this way :

-----.------

with the period as the present, the line to the left as the past and the line to the right as the future. I see it this way:

-------------.

with the period as the present, the line to the left as the past. Now imagine the line growing longer, always pushing the period ahead:

(1 second) -.
(5 seconds) -----.
(20 seconds)--------------------.

See? It will always be the present, we’re just measuring what’s already happened, the thing that is quantifiable. Even if you could somehow leap into the future, all you’re really doing is bypassing parts of the line and arriving at a new period, a new “now”.

I believe that anything is possible when looking forward. This could happen. That may happen. Maybe you could even see one of the possible outcomes. But I don’t think that we are locked into a set of circumstances, given that there is no measurable place for them to happen in.

Ok, that’s the science of it. The morality of it is that I cannot in good faith condemn someone for what they have not yet done. Given the argument above, they may not. The person you are arresting in the current “now” is innocent. You exist in the same “now”. The present is the measurable time in which you are arresting an innocent person.

That’s my belief anyway.

 

[qjakal]

Valid...

And that concept is a big part of what the film "explores"...it's worth a look. Sure wish there was some way you could edit these things though...this could have been a classic, but it needs some work. Sigh...maybe in the future.. .------------- >>>>>>>

Venray is that a Romulan or Klingon ship,btw? Could be either...need to see the warpaint on it...

Dave2112 is a revered figure here in my century. although his theory on timetravel was glotz, pure and simple...little dots indeed.

My ancestor, Dave2112...the first of our flawed lineage....perhaps I should travel back and pay him a ....visit...hehe...

 

[CurtWild]

Actually thinking about it, what struck me throughout the movie was the use of grey-tone, almost sepia like colors. I suppose that was the typical thing to do to create that "dark" image of the future, but I think it worked well considereing they use the fog effects more than darkness.

i think this is what i liked most about the movie.it was good though,the special effects were pretty cool.