MINORITY REPORT (2002) | FIRST TIME WATCHING | Reaction & Commentary | Tricked again!

[@syx3s]

she _HAS TO_ see 'edge of tomorrow'. i love that movie SOOOO much.

[@joeblankenship377]

We were all in on it. We knew the whole time. Steven Spielberg told us "in 21 years, we're gonna trick Shanelle with this movie." And we were all like "who's Shanelle?" Then he winked and said "you'll see" before boarding a helicopter and flying off.

[@Dragon-Believer]

If you assume that Phillip K Dick took a lot of LSD you'd be right.

[@joeblankenship377]

@@Dragon-Believer This movie was being made around the time I first tried LSD so maybe I am right???

[@TheJamieRamone]

We're so cunning! 🤣

[@chrisbloomfield3350]

Saw this in theaters. Awesome flick. The yelling of "RUNNNNNNNNN!" still sends chills down my spine.

[@johnbernhardtsen3008]

same! I saw most of Spielbergs amazing work with Janusz Kaminski!that duo is just as good as Villenueves and Deakins!

[@shuddupidc]

I know! STILL get chills 20 years later

[@tastyneck]

Seriously. Same!

[@chrisbloomfield3350]

And I'm not entirely sure how deliberate it was....like is it chilling cuz of the story she told John and Lara....or did Spielberg have multiple takes of her yelling "run" to see what was most spine tingling? The world may never know....

[@jebVlogs556]

Same this is was like at the height of Steven Spielberg movies!!

[@GairBear49]

Love to see your reaction to another PKD story" A Scanner Darkly". A great cast and was roboscoped to look animated.

[@Easy_Skanking]

It's such a trippy film. This one seems to have a more light moments than the other PHD movie adaptations. It's a interesting twist for his usually very deep looks at humanity and society.

[@Sandy-dd4le]

Beat me to it, it's an interesting film with a pretty unique look. Barely any reactions to it on youtube too!

[@zvimur]

Rotoscoped, maybe?

[@jonasfermefors]

I'm going deep on this trivia. There are 3 Swedes in this movie: Max von Sydow as Lamar, Peter Stormare as the doctor and Caroline Lagerfelt as his assistant Greta. She sings a song as she enters: "Små Grodorna". This is typically sung in Sweden at Midsummer while jumping like frogs around in a circle. Why? Because "Små Grodorna" means "small frogs" and there are lots of dancing in circles at midsummer. What most Swedes don't know is that this song was originally a French marching song used by one of Napoleon's regiments. The Brits then wrote a comedy version with changed lyrics mocking the French as "little frogs" and somehow this made its way to Sweden and is still sung every year in our summer celebrations.

[@MindFeather]

that is totally wild! thanks for adding these trivia details. cheers!

[@tnae]

I'd never made that connection but, having heard it, I like the idea and the implications of her seeing the future of their second child. In the moment, obviously, they both think she's talking about their late son but their reasons (being that, in that moment, they both see no future in which they're back together) make that possibility even more beautiful.

[@fatboy5926]

This is Tim’s most underrated movie in my humble. I just love it. It’s different but there’s quality performances all over & just so many heart in mouth moments

[@omarreyesmx]

"Only Spielberg gives me this full body chills, I don't know why!" That's because of John WIlliams' music!

[@zmarko]

What's great about the 2 shot at 26:40 is they're looking in separate directions, symbolizing his Anderton's ability to choose, echoing what Agatha just told him. Anderson looking slightly down and into the shadows/dark (the wrong choice), and Agatha looking up and into the light (the right choice). Have always loved this incredible moment.

[@zvimur]

I still think this is part of the homage to Ingmar Bergman, who was, apparently fan of the double face image. Other parts were casting Von Sydow and Stormare, both Bergman veterans.

[@BirchLeafPhotography]

Iphotographer here) That blown out look is a technique called high key. It's an art to accomplish that without completely blowing out your highlights. Very effective in certain situations. Great reaction!

[@MH90]

Doesn't seem like it'd be the type but it's still one of my favourite Colin Farrell performances. Dude's first real major role in Hollywood, playing against the biggest movie star on the planet, and he just nails it.

[@tastyneck]

I've really enjoyed his career. He could've just stuck with the leading man in bland films but he's taken interesting roles, like in the The Lobster and Horrible Bosses (yes, seriously. Horrible Bosses. lmao)

[@ermagerd8306]

Add another vote for A Scanner Darkly. Philip K. Dick is widely regarded as the best science fiction author on any planet.

[@redviper6805]

Tom Cruise’s story arc on struggling with loss was brilliant. The pre-cogs were named after mystery writers. Dashiell Hammett, creator of Sherlock Holmes stories Arthur C Doyle and the Queen of Crime, Agatha Christie. I knew Agatha was gonna grab Tom Cruise from the pool but Spielberg still managed to scare me!! Love how they used Schubert’s music when Tom was browsing the images early in the movie.

[@lockheartmac]

40:12 it was about a minority report, but not John’s. It was Ann Lively’s minority report.

[@ChibiHoshiDragon]

The Anne Lively case wasn't a Minority Report either; as the hired killer didn't have one. It was a SECOND Complete Report that was ignored

[@PerfectHandProductions]

The best sci-fi film of the past decade is Ex Machina. Watch it if you haven't.

[@keyman6689]

One of my all-time favorites! Every aspect is top-notch. I love the depiction of the future. Spielberg's weekend think tank of futurists was brilliant. It makes the future more believable than most movies. It'll be interesting to see how it fares when we reach 2054, as opposed to Back to the Future's 2015. (I'll probably be dead, tho!)

[@danholmesfilm]

Thank you so much for including the line "I am going to kill this man." It's one of my favorite line deliveries EVER and def my fave in this film. The writing and performance there come together so perfectly it encapsulates and entire "lifetime" of emotions and decisions in a single sentence :)

[@pebblesanddirt]

Agatha Christie, Arthur Conan Doyle, Dashiell Hammett. All mystery writers. In a mystery, who knows the end beforehand? The author.

[@mikethemotormouth]

Fun fact: the hotel clerk is William Mapother, real life cousin to Tom Cruise. Personally my #1 favorite Philip K Dick movie adaptation.

[@Deined]

I'll watch this a little later, but a big part of me just wants to see Shanelle geek out over Minority Report's trivia alone. 😄

[@MuadDib042]

It would be so cool to see you watch Gattaca. Although its a completely different story, there are some similar themes and filming techniques. Its a incredible story about perceived fate versus one's actual potential, it has an amazing cinematic eye, and the soundtrack is one of my all time favorites, not to mention it has Ethan Hawke, Jude Law, and Uma Therman. And it will definitely give you a ton of chills.

[@pebblesanddirt]

Some shot details I noted that i haven’t seen mentioned elsewhere: Early in the film, the cheating wife uses the scissors and cuts through Abraham Lincoln’s eye on the back of the paper. It both shows us the scissors that would have been used and foreshadows the eye surgery later in the film (doesn’t hurt that it’s Lincoln who is also a murder victim who was shot in the back of the head). When Max Von Sydow’s character approaches Tom Cruise’s Anderton at the end with the gun, there is a high overhead shot with Sydow’s long shadow reaching out to Cruise. His shadowy evil is literally creeping toward John A.

[@kevinklare6436]

I saw this in NYC back in 2002 and it blew my mind.

[@RichardDicksondlyrch68]

There's a popular fan theory that everything that happens after John is arrested is actually a coma dream. They point to how easily John's wife gains access to the prison to get him out, how easily he's able to infiltrate Burgess' party, and the happy ending for him and his wife and the precogs as being John's own wish-fulfillment in his mind.

[@transamination]

And the colour of everything. Everything is golden yellow colour.

[@BlackMatt2k]

The "our Glow knobs go to 11" era...

[@3DJapan]

13:54 I saw a guy flying a jetpack once. It's really really loud and they can only fly for like 30 seconds. He took off from a 2 story rooftop, flew in a little circle, then landed maybe 20 feet from me.

[@hawke5311]

Phillip K. Dick's works often are explorations of the nature of reality and personal identity partly because of his own history of drug abuse and mental illness. It is believed that he suffered from schizophrenia and he has a documented history of using amphetamines. Because he himself couldn't always be sure of what was real and who he really was, his works often reflected those same themes of questioning what is real and how would you know if it wasn't.

[@jazzthrowout265]

I might misremember this but the way the computer interface on screens worked with hand gestures was ahead of its time and was later used by actual computer companies for touchscreens. So the reason we for example spread two fingers to zoom into a picture on a smartphone or tablet is that it was copied from this film. Remember, the film was made before smartphones and tablets existed...

[@Yggdrasil42]

Exactly! The computer UI was mind blowing to me. Inspired plenty of gesture tech.

[@MacMov]

Regarding Gideon, the "prison guard" - Tim Blake Nelson is not only a great actor with an iconic face, but also a heavily busy director and a playwright. Judging from his usually rather goofy characters, you wouldn't tell that among other things he wrote and directed one of the most disturbing movies about the holocaust, "The Grey Zone" from 2001, telling the story of the 1944 rebellion of the 12th Sonderkommando at Auschwitz-Birkenau, featuring an amazingly stacked cast with Harvey Keitel, David Arquette, Steve Buscemi, Mira Sorvino and Natasha Lyonne to name only a few.

[@Madbandit77]

He also played prison escapee Delmar in "O Brother Where Art Thou", Buster in "The Ballad Of Buster Scruggs", Samuel Sterns/The Leader in "The Incredible Hulk" and Looking Glass in "Watchmen: The TV mini series".

[@MacMov]

@Madbandit77 Not to forget his supporting role as an oil lobbyist in Stephen Gaghan's "Syriana" from 2005 with his impressive yet scary "Corruption? Corruption! Corruption is why we win."-monologue.

[@mrch6200]

your trivia segments at the end of the reaction are the best! I usually know I like a movie if I research trivia and breakdowns of the movie right after watching it. You always find more trivia than I would! 🤠

[@ArthurFrank-ot4or]

If you listen to what the warden says the ending may just be John's dream.

[@auslandermercury972]

45:10 I’ve always felt that she was talking about what Sean’s future would’ve been if he had stayed alive. Especially because she says at the end, “There was so much love in this house.”

[@BorisK83]

Little fun fact. The precogs were named after famous crime authors. Agatha Christie, Arthur Conan Doyle and Dashiell Hammett.

[@corneliusoverton2617]

"A Scanner Darkly" is the quintessential Philip K Dick story, directed by Richard Linklater. It's a must watch. All-star cast and very underrated.

[@Sammael6662]

The Recruit. Underrated Colin Farrell/Al Pacino flick with this type of feel. Great movie.

[@TheJamieRamone]

30:15 - Oh, I can't wait for your reaction when you get it! It's like watching your head exploding in slo-mo! 🤣

[@jd-zr3vk]

5:31 "Was that necessary, the ceiling thing?" They got the drop on the bad guy.

[@johnmavroudis2054]

Such an excellent Sci Fi film... Here's a few more great, SMART, Sci Fi / Fantasy ones: "DARK CITY," "GATTICA," "BRAZIL," "CHILDREN OF MEN," "GRAVITY"... each of these films will resonate with you long after you're done watching. Cheers!

[@LordVolkov]

Two other PKD adaptations I would recommend - A Scanner Darkly (wild cast, interesting visual style) and Paycheck (ridiculous Hollywood John Woo melodramatic action with Ben Affleck and Uma Thurman)

[@jasonbuter9493]

I'd add Adjustment Bureau to that list.

[@LordVolkov]

@@jasonbuter9493 Is it based on a PKD work? I haven't seen it.

[@ethananim]

​@@LordVolkovbased on short story - "adjustment team"

[@jasonbuter9493]

@@LordVolkov yes it is... And its Matt Damon and Emily Blunt

[@VoidR]

I second that! Especially A Scanner Darkly. She would have more fun going into it blind. No research, don't look at the poster if you can help it, just hit play.

[@TheJamieRamone]

14:35 - Well they're certainly not sonic screwdrivers or probes! 😂

[@chris...9497]

Shanelle: you asked for Christmas-themed films for your reactions. A forgotten Christmas-set classic I HIGHLY recommend: "Bell, Book and Candle" (1958) Christmastime, witches, beatniks, and publishing in New York City. Stars James Stewart and Kim Novak, Jack Lemmon, Elsa Lanchester. This is my favorite Christmas movie, just barely above "A Christmas Carol" (1951), starring Alastair Sim.

[@RTTGunsGear]

Great movie, and a terrifying premise that is currently happening on a less sci-fi scale. If you keep a certain amount of cash on hand or in the bank. If you spend "too much" money (according to the government). If you buy "too many" firearms...even from a licensed firearms dealer. And many more examples.. You are likely to get a visit from some three letter government agency.

[@John_Locke_108]

Really cool movie with a really cool concept. Definitely makes you think. Also great performance by Tom Cruise.

[@TheJamieRamone]

Oh god dammit! I've been refreshing my feed all day waiting for this to drop, gave up thinking you'd be posting it on Saturday and then, out of the blue, I see the notification for this. Pretty late in the day too. It's past 10 P.M. here so...5 P.M. where you are? Were you having issues uploading it? Oh well, I suppose it doesn't matter. I'm a simple guy, Shanelle uploads, I watch. 😊

[@jonathanspahn7308]

Holy moocow, Shanelle! You nailed it!! 👏 You definitely have an ear for John Williams 🎶😛

[@TheJamieRamone]

18:09 - Oh don't give me that face! Like you wouldn't! 😂

[@TheJamieRamone]

45:07 - Hehe, they just keep throwing surprises atcha! 😁

[@TheJamieRamone]

40:22 - Hey, look, Shanelle got her groove back! 😉

[@TheJamieRamone]

3:34 - And the movement of the actors along with said music. 😉

[@Scott-J]

Anything from the early 2000's is influenced by The Matrix. The color tone and blown out whites are the next evolution of The Matrix's green tone. Also, I can't explain how amazing it was to see the early scene where Tom is using hand gestures to manipulate video. The pinch-to-zoom controls we use on phones today basically came from that scene. When you see people in The Expanse use a hand gesture to toss data from one screen to another or manipulate a map of the solar system - all that comes from that scene.

[@t-bonestickyfingers1336]

The blown out whites has nothing at all to do with the matrix. That's just your baseless random assumption.

[@TheJamieRamone]

28:44 - Ah! Now you're catching on! 😉

[@meghanmonroe]

I just love Samantha Morton (Agatha)... she's such an exciting performer. She played an amazing villain in The Walking Dead and the lead in The Serpent Queen, which I'm still watching.

[@morpheusjones4753]

Her daughter plays Hannah in the Amazon show Hannah.

[@meghanmonroe]

@@morpheusjones4753 Never watched that one. Good to know, though!

[@TheJamieRamone]

21:52 - As Ashleigh always says: "You tried your best, you did good!" 😁

[@3DJapan]

There still a few Radio Shacks left. I see there's one in New Holland, PA.

[@vincegamer]

Fun fact The setting was Washington DC, but they moved it across the river because the city officials pointed out they couldn't do driving up a high rise because it's illegal to build anything taller than the Washington monument

[@pauln44]

I always associated the shot of Agatha and John's faces with the god Janus and his two faces. When I tried to find info to see if I was right to interpret it that way, I learned that the cinematographer for this and other Speilberg movies is named Janusz Kaninski. It doesn't support my take, but I still dig it.

[@VoidR]

Even if you're totally wrong, that is a cool thing to dig. I think I'll dig it with you!

"Conflicting messages? I dunno?!?" Good job catching on to the entire thing, and what the Minority Report is actually about. The entire movie was about Jon Anderton and the conflicting visions from Agatha in his Minority Report that cleared his name. Then the other guy killing himself at the end was another minority report I believe, because the precogs didn't see it.

[@januzi2]

40:56 Yanush ;) There's a movie "Impostor". It's also based on the short story by Philip K. Dick.

[@TheJamieRamone]

26:39 - Oh, I know. That's one of the good points of this movie: the framing.

[@brachiator1]

Very insightful commentary. I loved this movie, not just for the mystery thriller narrative, but the little details of the future society, particularly how many in the general public revered the Pre Cogs as though they were deities. I also liked how the Colin Farrell character was not just an antagonist to Cruise, but was a very smart FBI agent. Spielberg avoided the trap of some contemporary movies that feel empty because the supporting characters are inconsequential. Here, the supporting cast was great. And Samantha Morton was excellent, and other worldly, as Agatha.

[@TheJamieRamone]

31:00 - (Shaking fist at the sky) Damn you filmmakers! 😂

[@TheJamieRamone]

31:14 - Oh, not me! I mean I HAVE seen it, yes, but I'm totes OK with your banter. Best part of your reactions! 😊

[@auslandermercury972]

I’m so glad you liked this. It’s one of my favorite movies ☺️

[@auslandermercury972]

33:44 Haha, I never realized that was a corruption joke 😅

[@twooharmony2000]

20:12 comment... the same items one fresh. The last customer's food was left. He Knocked-down an item yet grabbed and drank with no thought to try the bottle he first hit and knocked. The refridgerator seems to have fresh food and milk along with that of a previous customer.-Ernie Moore Jr.

[@TheJamieRamone]

1:11 - Oh, I think I can guarantee you'll feel that. One good point I'll give this movie is the way the story unfolds. We always know as much as the main protagonist, not made privy to any clue before him, discovering what he does WHEN he does.

[@mrpickmanb]

I saw this in theaters and have always been a big fan. Great flick.

[@TheJamieRamone]

32:53 - I was just about to say the same thing! 😂

[@danholmesfilm]

7:00 lol thought you were gonna say "no, you're dead kid" lol

[@keyman6689]

The jetpack scene was giving me Rocketeer vibes.

[@mikemanzano5363]

What's really gonna twist your noodle is whether the ending actually happened. PKD loves playing with reality. In Total Recall, was it just a the vacation he paid for? In this movie, did he really make it out of prison? Remember when you're in that prison you dream about your desires to keep you complacent.

[@TheJamieRamone]

19:41 - Same. I can people when I have to. But if I don't have to, I don't people.

[@steelekeepinitreel4909]

You said it, " only Spielberg can give me full body chills!" Same for me. I'm not a crier, but when i watch like Schindler's List or The Color Purple or A.I: Artificial Intelligence or Saving Private Ryan, i get Goosebumps in situations where most people would be crying.

[@jthomann71]

Cruise does fantastic scifi. Another favorite of mine is Oblivion. And another great PKD adaptation is Paycheck with Affleck.

[@TheJamieRamone]

6:03 - As I say every other video of yours Shanelle: Ask and ye shall receive! 😉

[@rockof.1793]

Yes, 80s Spielberg is hugely influential, but I think that his later 90s and 00s output, basically the run from Schindler's List to Munich, is another great era. He revolutionalized filmography again and was very in touch with the times: the pre-9/11 Western hybris as well as the confusion and sobering after are represented very clearly.

[@Madbandit77]

This film came out a year after the September 11 attacks. So, the subject matter was both timely and foreshadowing.

[@TheJamieRamone]

36:01 - Oh, I know! I've been cheersing it for 20 years! 😁

[@TheJamieRamone]

37:29 - Oh bullshit! That was a pleasant surprise and you know it! 😉

[@TheJamieRamone]

12:18 - Patience, little grasshopper! 😉

[@TheJamieRamone]

13:30 - Oh yeah, that reminds me: Demolition Man - S. Stallone, S. Bullock, W. Snipes. Same level of satire as RoboCop, bit more comedic, sci-fi, action, set in the future, bit more modern. The whole kit & kaboodle! 😊

[@Dr3amtime]

Neil McDonough (the unreasonably blonde Fletcher in this) was a wonderful addition to season 3 of Justified, where he channeled dark charm beautifully.

[@anthonyleecollins9319]

Plus he was excellent as Damien Darhk in various Arrowverse TV shows.

[@coreyhendricks9490]

Hi there Shanelle, cool reaction as always, you have a good night sweetie 🥰❤️

[@auntvesuvi3872]

Thanks, Shanelle! 🔮 Kudos to Steven Spielberg.

[@samworf6550]

13:25 Sounds like you missed an earlier bit of dialogue, they called those batons "sick sticks" because they disable you by making you vomit

[@TheJamieRamone]

36:51 - Oh yeah, I remember that. 😊

[@joshfacio9379]

Great movie n reaction. I love how when hes using his computer the interface gestures now look very familiar but i dont believe at the time tablets, iphones, n things where we use touchscreen finger movements were pervasive yet.

[@twooharmony2000]

38:43 comment,, technique,,the changa fore shadowing in lighting shows or reveals the perception shift the writer shares to foreshadow to the audience.-Ernie Moore Jr.

[@auslandermercury972]

“Don't you EVER SAY HIS NAME!!!” Gets me every time 🥲

[@maxducoudray]

Colin Farrell is so underrated.

[@TheJamieRamone]

41:42 - Well, maybe the skeletons in the hole for the pool in Poltergeist...nah, you're right, he doesn't have it in him.

[@TheJamieRamone]

23:28 - All right, all right, calm down you. 😁

[@Brianml77]

In that scene, Agatha was giving John an account of Sean’s Minority Report, his possible alternate future had he not been taken.

[@Serevuin]

This is my favourite short story by Philip K Dick. My favourite theme in the story is that the only members of Precrime generate minority reports, because only they have access to knowledge about the future, which in turn generates various futures in which you act on the information in each subsequent prediction. Which suggests that more people would choose not to commit the crime, were they given access to the information.

[@MyraJean1951]

Samantha Morton, who plays Agatha, is a powerful actress. She was Oscar nominated in the film In America in 2002 and was wonderful as Mary, Queen of Scots in Elizabeth: The Golden Age.

[@morpheusjones4753]

Her daughter does a great job in the show Hannah.

[@TheJamieRamone]

20:35 - I'm reminded of the 2nd ever episode of Nu Who (the modern Doctor Who) End Of The World. Wonder why? 🤔😁

[@keithrichman6918]

Absolutely love this movie! Thank you so much for reviewing this amazing film!❤

[@VoidR]

If you think about it, the silvery look is actually a processing effect done to the film during development. In modern digital workflows any effect is post processing and now it is just part of the vernacular. Has anyone born after the 80s ever looked at their Photoshop toolbar and wondered why their burn and dodge tools have those icons? Why is it even called burning and dodging? (look it up) Pre-digital imaging is fascinating and makes me appreciate older movies even more. The things guys like Spielberg and Lucas had to do the get their vision in front of people's eyes!

[@TheJamieRamone]

9:24 - NOOOOOOOOOO!! It did? 😂

[@TheJamieRamone]

36:30 - Chills on your eyes? Oh. 😂

[@-M0LE]

Excellent.....actually Exceptionally well crafted movie all round nothing was left out every tiny detail is well thought of Flawless and perfect movie 🎥💯👌