Okay, this is really bothering me now: Explain your hate for Minority Report

[Bloodwake]

Please. I'm begging you.

I just need to know why.

[Joe Molotov]

I liked Minority Report, although it kinda veered off course at the end.

[Phoenix Dark]

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

[TVC15]

I've only seen it once, but I liked it.

[Bloodwake]

Well then, maybe I was too hasty.

[demi]

Because Cruise is a Scieno and you are only helping him

[Bloodwake]

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.

[Phoenix Dark]

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

[Bloodwake]

Oh yeah

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

[demi]

Where do those orbs come from anyway? Probably shoots em out their vags

[TVC15]

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.

[Ichirou]

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.

[Howard Alan Treesong]

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

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[Mandark]

Minority Report's one of my favorite summer action movies of the last decade.

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?

[TVC15]

Minority Report's one of my favorite summer action movies of the last decade.

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.

[Howard Alan Treesong]

Minority Report's one of my favorite summer action movies of the last decade.

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!

[FlameOfCallandor]

It was forgettable.

[Mandark]

Minority Report's one of my favorite summer action movies of the last decade.

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.

[TVC15]

Minority Report's one of my favorite summer action movies of the last decade.

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.

[Mandark]

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.

[TVC15]

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.

[Mandark]

You win!

[crimsondynamics]

Because Cruise is a Scieno and you are only helping him

This is the correct answer.

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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?

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[ToxicAdam]

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.

[The Fake Shemp]

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.

[Eric P]

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

[AdmiralViscen]

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.

[Solo]

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.

[Mupepe]

I remember it being awesome.  I need to buy it.

[CHOW CHOW]

It's an amazing film with a lot of creative ideas about what the future could be like.  Plus it stars The Cruise Missile.

[Solo]

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.

[AdmiralViscen]

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/

[Phoenix Dark]

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?

[Solo]

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.

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.

[disgruntled_jojo]

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.