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General => The Superdeep Borehole => Topic started by: Bloodwake on May 09, 2008, 01:26:49 AM

Title: Okay, this is really bothering me now: Explain your hate for Minority Report
Post by: Bloodwake on May 09, 2008, 01:26:49 AM
Please. I'm begging you.

I just need to know why.
Title: Re: Okay, this is really bothering me now: Explain your hate for Minority Report
Post by: Joe Molotov on May 09, 2008, 01:27:26 AM
I liked Minority Report, although it kinda veered off course at the end.
Title: Re: Okay, this is really bothering me now: Explain your hate for Minority Report
Post by: Phoenix Dark on May 09, 2008, 01:28:38 AM
Quote from: Joe Molotov on May 09, 2008, 01:27:26 AM
I liked Minority Report, although it kinda veered off course at the end.

pretty much - like all of Spielberg's sci fi farces this decade
Title: Re: Okay, this is really bothering me now: Explain your hate for Minority Report
Post by: TVC15 on May 09, 2008, 01:29:09 AM
I've only seen it once, but I liked it.
Title: Re: Okay, this is really bothering me now: Explain your hate for Minority Report
Post by: Bloodwake on May 09, 2008, 01:30:28 AM
Well then, maybe I was too hasty.

Title: Re: Okay, this is really bothering me now: Explain your hate for Minority Report
Post by: demi on May 09, 2008, 01:31:03 AM
Because Cruise is a Scieno and you are only helping him
Title: Re: Okay, this is really bothering me now: Explain your hate for Minority Report
Post by: Bloodwake on May 09, 2008, 01:32:02 AM
Quote from: demi on May 09, 2008, 01:31:03 AM
Because Cruise is a Scieno and you are only helping him

Ah, well that makes more sense.

Not really a complaint with the film though. Cruise's acting ability, thankfully, has nothing to do with his religion. Because, in real life, he acts fucking crazy on camera, that's for sure.
Title: Re: Okay, this is really bothering me now: Explain your hate for Minority Report
Post by: Phoenix Dark on May 09, 2008, 01:33:40 AM
i love the idea, i love cruise, etc. it's an 8/10 type movie to me, and not particularly mind blowing. things get interesting once it becomes "cruise on teh run!" but at that point progresses things get borderline meh
Title: Re: Okay, this is really bothering me now: Explain your hate for Minority Report
Post by: Bloodwake on May 09, 2008, 01:35:19 AM
Quote from: mojovonio on May 09, 2008, 01:34:49 AM
Oh yeah

The night after seeing it, I had a dream where I was skull fucking the psychic bald chick.

:rofl
Title: Re: Okay, this is really bothering me now: Explain your hate for Minority Report
Post by: demi on May 09, 2008, 01:35:41 AM
Where do those orbs come from anyway? Probably shoots em out their vags
Title: Re: Okay, this is really bothering me now: Explain your hate for Minority Report
Post by: TVC15 on May 09, 2008, 01:37:22 AM
I believe I liked it more than AI, too.  I did enjoy AI, but it did feel kinda like a mess.  Minority Report at least felt like a solid, action-y sf flick with momentum.  War of the Worlds, now that gets a motherfuckin roll eyes.
Title: Re: Okay, this is really bothering me now: Explain your hate for Minority Report
Post by: Ichirou on May 09, 2008, 01:37:57 AM
I don't like Minority Report because it doesn't really make sense plotwise and because the minority report which is the focus of the short story doesn't even appear in the movie, making the title absolutely meaningless.
Title: Re: Okay, this is really bothering me now: Explain your hate for Minority Report
Post by: Howard Alan Treesong on May 09, 2008, 01:38:04 AM
I liked it, but it has the recent Spielberg SF problem of "awesome first two hours, goes to happy shit in last 10 minutes"

I like the interpretation of MR's ending that
spoiler (click to show/hide)
everything after he's captured is a dream he has inside his stasis - there is no "real" happy ending
[close]
Title: Re: Okay, this is really bothering me now: Explain your hate for Minority Report
Post by: Mandark on May 09, 2008, 02:39:51 AM
Minority Report's one of my favorite summer action movies of the last decade.

Quote from: Synthesizer Patel on May 09, 2008, 01:38:04 AM
I like the interpretation of MR's ending that
spoiler (click to show/hide)
everything after he's captured is a dream he has inside his stasis - there is no "real" happy ending
[close]

Oh FFS.  Do we have to tack this on to everything now?
Title: Re: Okay, this is really bothering me now: Explain your hate for Minority Report
Post by: TVC15 on May 09, 2008, 02:45:12 AM
Quote from: Mandark on May 09, 2008, 02:39:51 AM
Minority Report's one of my favorite summer action movies of the last decade.

Quote from: Synthesizer Patel on May 09, 2008, 01:38:04 AM
I like the interpretation of MR's ending that
spoiler (click to show/hide)
everything after he's captured is a dream he has inside his stasis - there is no "real" happy ending
[close]

Oh FFS.  Do we have to tack this on to everything now?

Mandark, I didn't want to be the one to tell you, but. . .you never survived Super Tuesday.
Title: Re: Okay, this is really bothering me now: Explain your hate for Minority Report
Post by: Howard Alan Treesong on May 09, 2008, 02:46:01 AM
Quote from: Mandark on May 09, 2008, 02:39:51 AM
Minority Report's one of my favorite summer action movies of the last decade.

Quote from: Synthesizer Patel on May 09, 2008, 01:38:04 AM
I like the interpretation of MR's ending that
spoiler (click to show/hide)
everything after he's captured is a dream he has inside his stasis - there is no "real" happy ending
[close]

Oh FFS.  Do we have to tack this on to everything now?

Only for as long as Spielberg is tacking on happy endings to his dystopian SF!
Title: Re: Okay, this is really bothering me now: Explain your hate for Minority Report
Post by: FlameOfCallandor on May 09, 2008, 03:29:50 AM
It was forgettable.
Title: Re: Okay, this is really bothering me now: Explain your hate for Minority Report
Post by: Mandark on May 09, 2008, 03:54:34 AM
Quote from: TVC 15 on May 09, 2008, 02:45:12 AM
Quote from: Mandark on May 09, 2008, 02:39:51 AM
Minority Report's one of my favorite summer action movies of the last decade.

Quote from: Synthesizer Patel on May 09, 2008, 01:38:04 AM
I like the interpretation of MR's ending that
spoiler (click to show/hide)
everything after he's captured is a dream he has inside his stasis - there is no "real" happy ending
[close]

Oh FFS.  Do we have to tack this on to everything now?


Mandark, I didn't want to be the one to tell you, but. . .you never survived Super Tuesday.


Here I sit in limbo, while Rudy and Hillary kick off their general election campaigns.  That's a depressing state of affairs.
Title: Re: Okay, this is really bothering me now: Explain your hate for Minority Report
Post by: TVC15 on May 09, 2008, 03:57:08 AM
Quote from: Mandark on May 09, 2008, 03:54:34 AM
Quote from: TVC 15 on May 09, 2008, 02:45:12 AM
Quote from: Mandark on May 09, 2008, 02:39:51 AM
Minority Report's one of my favorite summer action movies of the last decade.

Quote from: Synthesizer Patel on May 09, 2008, 01:38:04 AM
I like the interpretation of MR's ending that
spoiler (click to show/hide)
everything after he's captured is a dream he has inside his stasis - there is no "real" happy ending
[close]

Oh FFS.  Do we have to tack this on to everything now?


Mandark, I didn't want to be the one to tell you, but. . .you never survived Super Tuesday.


Here I sit in limbo, while Rudy and Hillary kick off their general election campaigns.  That's a depressing state of affairs.

The twist in the sequel to Mandark: The Movie is going to be that APF isn't real, but that "he" is just a manifestation of all the truths inside of you that you refuse to accept.
Title: Re: Okay, this is really bothering me now: Explain your hate for Minority Report
Post by: Mandark on May 09, 2008, 04:03:22 AM
In the book version Loki was just a product of my fever dreams and I figure it out when I realize that nobody else responds to his posts.
Title: Re: Okay, this is really bothering me now: Explain your hate for Minority Report
Post by: TVC15 on May 09, 2008, 04:04:13 AM
Quote from: Mandark on May 09, 2008, 04:03:22 AM
In the book version Loki was just a product of my fever dreams and I figure it out when I realize that nobody else responds to his posts.

And that book was 8000 pages long.
Title: Re: Okay, this is really bothering me now: Explain your hate for Minority Report
Post by: Mandark on May 09, 2008, 04:06:09 AM
You win!
Title: Re: Okay, this is really bothering me now: Explain your hate for Minority Report
Post by: crimsondynamics on May 09, 2008, 04:09:03 AM
Quote from: demi on May 09, 2008, 01:31:03 AM
Because Cruise is a Scieno and you are only helping him

This is the correct answer.

spoiler (click to show/hide)
Scientology... ugh...

Average donations per member are USD500,000 to reach OT7 / OT8, and here these jokers are telling us how to help the fellow man and improve the world? Hows about donating that money to worthwhile charities or causes instead?
[close]
Title: Re: Okay, this is really bothering me now: Explain your hate for Minority Report
Post by: ToxicAdam on May 09, 2008, 07:16:54 AM
Like most Tom Cruise movies, I didn't care what happened to his character, so I didn't feel emotionally vested in what the outcome was.

Title: Re: Okay, this is really bothering me now: Explain your hate for Minority Report
Post by: The Fake Shemp on May 09, 2008, 07:28:09 AM
I never said Minority Report was a bad film, but you called it one of the best films of the decade which is nothing short of lunacy.  Good concept, bad execution.  Wraps up poorly.  I agree that Tom Cruise's character feels totally dispensable.
Title: Re: Okay, this is really bothering me now: Explain your hate for Minority Report
Post by: Eric P on May 09, 2008, 08:54:10 AM
it was boring and insipid

though i was happy to get a sneak preview of the "no more skilled labor america" with the robot lexus factory

Title: Re: Okay, this is really bothering me now: Explain your hate for Minority Report
Post by: AdmiralViscen on May 09, 2008, 09:50:56 AM
Quote from: TVC 15 on May 09, 2008, 01:37:22 AM
I believe I liked it more than AI, too.  I did enjoy AI, but it did feel kinda like a mess.  Minority Report at least felt like a solid, action-y sf flick with momentum.  War of the Worlds, now that gets a motherfuckin roll eyes.

Slam dunk.

MR is a good flick.
Title: Re: Okay, this is really bothering me now: Explain your hate for Minority Report
Post by: Solo on May 09, 2008, 10:04:32 PM
I dont hate it. In fact, I love it, despite Spielberg going all, well, Spielberg, in the final act. Otherwise, its my favorite sci-fi flick of the decade behind Children of Men, and probably my favorite Spielberg since Schindler.
Title: Re: Okay, this is really bothering me now: Explain your hate for Minority Report
Post by: Mupepe on May 09, 2008, 10:39:48 PM
I remember it being awesome.  I need to buy it.
Title: Re: Okay, this is really bothering me now: Explain your hate for Minority Report
Post by: CHOW CHOW on May 09, 2008, 10:41:43 PM
It's an amazing film with a lot of creative ideas about what the future could be like.  Plus it stars The Cruise Missile.
Title: Re: Okay, this is really bothering me now: Explain your hate for Minority Report
Post by: Solo on May 09, 2008, 10:49:41 PM
Im also usually not huge on Kaminski's work, but this is the one film where I felt that the clinical, sterile, washed-out look of his films was a perfect match for the material. Really love the cinematography in this.

By comparion, he is a terrible match for Indiana Jones, which looks like shit from a cinematography perspective.
Title: Re: Okay, this is really bothering me now: Explain your hate for Minority Report
Post by: AdmiralViscen on May 10, 2008, 12:56:57 AM
Quote from: Solo on May 09, 2008, 10:04:32 PM
I dont hate it. In fact, I love it, despite Spielberg going all, well, Spielberg, in the final act. Otherwise, its my favorite sci-fi flick of the decade behind Children of Men, and probably my favorite Spielberg since Schindler.

What year did 12 Monkeys come out/
Title: Re: Okay, this is really bothering me now: Explain your hate for Minority Report
Post by: Phoenix Dark on May 10, 2008, 01:29:59 AM
Quote from: Solo on May 09, 2008, 10:49:41 PM
Im also usually not huge on Kaminski's work, but this is the one film where I felt that the clinical, sterile, washed-out look of his films was a perfect match for the material. Really love the cinematography in this.

By comparion, he is a terrible match for Indiana Jones, which looks like shit from a cinematography perspective.

You're referring to the almost angelic lighting that borders everything in the trailers correct? Did you think that Kaminski's work was effective in Saving Private Ryan?
Title: Re: Okay, this is really bothering me now: Explain your hate for Minority Report
Post by: Solo on May 10, 2008, 05:04:48 PM
Quote from: AdmiralViscen on May 10, 2008, 12:56:57 AM
Quote from: Solo on May 09, 2008, 10:04:32 PM
I dont hate it. In fact, I love it, despite Spielberg going all, well, Spielberg, in the final act. Otherwise, its my favorite sci-fi flick of the decade behind Children of Men, and probably my favorite Spielberg since Schindler.

What year did 12 Monkeys come out/

Not in this decade. 1995.

Quote from: Amber Lambchops on May 10, 2008, 01:29:59 AM
Quote from: Solo on May 09, 2008, 10:49:41 PM
Im also usually not huge on Kaminski's work, but this is the one film where I felt that the clinical, sterile, washed-out look of his films was a perfect match for the material. Really love the cinematography in this.

By comparion, he is a terrible match for Indiana Jones, which looks like shit from a cinematography perspective.

You're referring to the almost angelic lighting that borders everything in the trailers correct? Did you think that Kaminski's work was effective in Saving Private Ryan?

Yeah. And just the general washed out color palettes/filters he always uses. Oops, I forgot SPR. I guess that makes 2 films that I felt his style worked out well for.
Title: Re: Okay, this is really bothering me now: Explain your hate for Minority Report
Post by: disgruntled_jojo on May 11, 2008, 04:48:20 AM
Quote from: TVC 15 on May 09, 2008, 01:29:09 AM
I've only seen it once, but I liked it.

Same.  The computer interface special effects are the sexiest I'd seen at the time.  Iron Man's reminded me of them and are equally sexy.  Someone needs to be working on those stat.  I'm tired of typing on this fucking bluetooth mac keyboard.