*MINORITY REPORT* is disturbing

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[@alastaircollins1145]

You've got to remember that it's 2054. Cruise is so physically capable because he's done his own stunts in 150 Mission Impossible films.

[@thatHARVguy]

And Top Gun 3.

[@charlesmartinjr3971]

Hahahahahahahahahahaha!

[@rodrigomadera3048]

LMAO

[@ZukoHalliwell]

Or so he claims.

[@dlweiss]

For what it's worth, this movie pretty much originated the whole "desaturated colors, heavy lens flare" look that went on to dominate so much of modern cinema. At the time, it was intentionally chosen by Spielberg to capture the sense of a brightly-lit dystopia: a futuristic world that *should* feel sleek and inviting, but instead feels eerie and kinda joyless (where the sunlight isn't cheerful, but blinding). Unfortunately, other filmmakers thought this aesthetic was SO cool and striking that they began copying it and overusing it for every random "gritty" action/crime/drama movie for the next 2 decades.

[@Alskie1986]

I think Spielberg even said he wanted Minority Report to be his ugliest movie

[@Biggiiful]

@Alskie1986. Well he failed. That would be Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, or the BFG

[@skateurself]

U know.. when I see lens flares and de saturated stuff like this it reminds me of Speilberg.

[@frankbiondo3624]

That explains why the movie DID have such an unappealing visual palette, which Spielberg carried over to his War of the Worlds. I definitely did not appreciate his "desaturated period."

[@NateAZ]

I have always liked the story in this film, but I have only watched it a couple of times due to the lighting and filtering used. It has always given me a creepy feeling, that did not seem to fully mesh with the movie...always seemed a bit off because of that. Spielberg usually hits the mark with his films, but this one has always felt a few notches short of that because of this lighting/filtering choice.

[@NThurkettle]

When this came out, it was considered wildly futuristic and dystopian but also eerily plausible that advertising would follow you everywhere and know who you are; now it's so normal that we skipped that whole section in this watchalong.

[@dontsubcribedontlike673]

Spielburg mentioned in interviews that he regrets not patenting the technology he imagined in his fictional dystopian hellscape, like targeted advertising towards individuals, because he never imagined it would become so normalized that it's not only commonplace but straight up embraced by society.

[@1rexrex]

The PlayStation game was fun also. The Sick Stick is useful.

[@skateurself]

Advertisements follow us every where.. cars drive them selves.. and u can talk into your watch.. oh lord .. its all coming true

[@ams914]

@@dontsubcribedontlike673 You can't patent "Fake technology" LOL. This is a movie, dude. I assume Spielberg was joking.

[@MarkHWillson]

@@dontsubcribedontlike673 Thank god some of us still remember. We need to continue to pass this knowledge on to the younger generation who sees the film.

[@jasonsabbath6996]

Phillip K Dick wrote the book this was based on along with the books and stories that became Blade Runner, Total Recall, Imposter, and so many other trippy sci-fi movies and shows. He is definitely worth a read.

[@BigNWide]

A Scanner Darkly, Man in the High Castle. Yeah, the man was an amazing writer.

[@jamesvonborcke]

@@BigNWide _A Scanner Darkly_ is most definitely worth the watch.

[@Needler13]

​@@BigNWide a scanner darkly is one of my favorites.

[@gabrieltraylor8888]

I honestly didn't know Impostor was one of his, but don't forget Next and Paycheck.

[@YouHaventSeenMeRight]

It is more of short story and like so much of Philip K. Dick's work they modified the plot to fit their own ideas.

[@Yggdrasil42]

Agatha yelling RUN after that beautiful moment was such a great choice. Everybody in the theatre was suddenly full of adrenaline, exactly like John Anderton.

[@carlosrvra]

This movie has one of my favorite twists in Colin Ferrell's character turning out to actually be a decent cop who genuinely wants to solve a mystery, and not just screw over John.

[@d.jparer5184]

The twist was that max vin sydow is the villain, the Colin farrel character was a red herring.

[@sonofliberty1]

Philip K. Dick definitely got the connection between sci-fi and philosophy.

[@MrDavezd]

Well dick knows where to go...

[@cklambo]

Convinced he was actually from the future

[@steved1135]

Indeed.

[@alastaircollins1145]

@@cklambo Who needs to be from the future when you can be doing just... SO MUCH speed at all times?

[@KBTibbs]

Often, but even he had some duds like "Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said".

[@DocHikes]

This movie is always such a spectacular reminder of why Spielberg is so great. The humor (the short scene at the yoga studio), the visionary future, the action, the visual style... It's so great for sci-fi. Youve gotta watch A.I. Artificial Intelligence and War Of The Worlds to get an even bigger look at Spielberg's eye for sci-fi.

[@sandwiched]

Ooh, War of the Worlds...

[@PatrickWallsisawesome]

There's also the fact that Minority Report, despite being finished by 9/11, has been debated as part of Spielberg's "9/11 Trilogy". Other movies were the aforementioned War of the Worlds, The Terminal, and Munich. imo, Spielberg's BEST decade overall was his 00s. (His best year was 1993, I don't think anyone can refute that)

[@axr7149]

The one-two punch of MUNICH and WAR OF THE WORLDS in 2005 is mind-boggling, even more so considering not only the bleakness of the tone, but also the filming schedule (filming to release for WAR OF THE WORLDS was 7 months, and MUNICH began filming the same day WAR OF THE WORLDS released (MUNICH released just under 6 months later)). I also honestly believe Spielberg should have won Director and/or Picture for MUNICH (the camera blocking is incredible here, on top of being such a stylistic departure from his previous work).

[@Orangeflava]

That quick little scene of the jetpack cooking the burger patties in that apartment was funny too, haha

[@Domura]

My favourite part of Minority Report was the licensed game that came out. I couldn't tell you a single thing about the actual story of the game, just that it was one of the first games I can recall using ragdoll physics, there was a ton of knockback on attacks and a high-energy physics gun to launch people around. I remember spending so much time just knocking dudes over railings or blasting them off ledges and thinking "Mmm, yes, non-lethal takedowns" as a dude backflipped over a railing and fell three stories onto ceramic tile.

[@CodeeXD]

Dude I thought me and my buddy were the only ones to play that game! It was so much fun although I didn't know wtf I was doing in it lmao

[@KMCA779]

.... I feel like you're describing Half Life 2.

[@xaten1923]

I have the haziest memory of a conference room with breakable window that you can throw people out of and that the enemies in green carried sick sticks. That is all I remember about that game.

[@luisa.sanchez5064]

I remember the game, the physics were wild and fun!

[@LightStreak567]

I had the Gamecube version of Minority Report! Oh, I also had the Game Boy Advance version!

[@tristanhartup4936]

Fun fact: The precogs are named after famous mystery/detective authors, Agatha - Agatha Christie (The writer of the Hercule Periot books), Arthur - Arthur Conan Doyle (The creator of Sherlock Holmes), Dashiell - Dashiell Hammet (The writer of The Maltese Falcon)

[@LateCambrian]

This is a severely underrated Sci-Fi movie.... from Spielberg's weird late 90's to mid 2000's output.

[@ChibiHoshiDragon]

This and the mini series Taken

[@ChibiHoshiDragon]

@randywhite3947 Spielberg's *_Taken_* from 2002 *is* a limited 10-episode series intended to end. Even though it is more than 4-6 hours it is still a mini-series like *_Band of Brothers_* is. I *am* talking about *_Taken,_* aka *_Steven Spielberg Presents Taken,_* about alien abduction over generations (Dakota Fanning), *not* the action movies from 2008 (Liam Neeson) and TV series from 2017 (Clive Standen) - Which are Luc Besson's babies, *not* Spielberg's. I figured I didn't need to clarify since the comment I was replying to was about Steven Spielberg's underrated works from the 1990s and mid 2000s, which *_Taken_* is. Thank you for at least proving the *_Taken_* mini-series *is* underrated. ETA: format coding of proper titles; and clarifications

[@alastaircollins1145]

The little twists you were talking about at the end are also thematic. The film's all about being able to predict what's going to happen... except for some little element. Arguably, it's the same with the lighting. The film's all about vision and distortions of vision, so Anderton's reaction to light is different after his eye surgery and it's more intense for Agatha's shots than other people's, etc.

[@justsomebody-1665]

This comment needs more upvotes. Spot on.

[@Ylyrra]

Came here to say the same thing. The twists are a commentary on the unreliability of seeing the future.

[@reed5369]

In 02, you have to think over-exposed lighting was a new and cool thing to do, especially in a sci-fi movie. I've never been bothered by it here bc it gives the film a particular look and style that's hard to forget. Also, I never remember the plot-twists and turns when I re-watch it. I think it's done well. Though now, a lot plot-twists in a movie is somewhat annoying since its been done so much.

[@brom00]

It's always a trip watching Samantha Morton as the meek Agatha in this, then seeing her as the sadistic Alpha in The Walking Dead. One of my favorite Philip K Dick film adaptations.

[@RadArgie]

I watched this kid as a movie and Agatha always scared me so much. as an adult I watched TWD and I loved the actress playing Alpha she was insane! Didn't piece it together that it was the same actress until I started watching this reaction, cause I haven't seen Minority report in so long! I tottally agree with your comment.

[@chanceneck8072]

No way!!! 😳 I KNEW that Alpha looked familiar........... Holy shit, am I stupid...... 🙈

[@brom00]

@@chanceneck8072 not stupid. That is just how good she is. It took me a few episode of TWD to realize it too.

[@chanceneck8072]

@@brom00 lol, honestly I didn't even like her all that much on TWD. I thought she was overacting and also the accent was too much for me. But she was probably the best Alpha we could get. 👍

[@LucSchots]

I didn't even make that link! WOW!

[@jules_8673]

I think in 2002, the misdirection plot was popular. But in 2023 we’ve seen it done so much in tv and movies.

[@davidsumner7604]

Absolutely, people are more used to it now than at the time.

[@bothellkenmore]

I'll definitely take misdirection over blatant foreshadowing and literal rakes to step on any day. I'm not sure how being clever is a downgrade. I just watched this movie last week for probably the 8th time so I kinda like it.

[@derred723]

Also everybody is trying to prove they are smarter than the director and can predict the plot. Like nobody could predict things before.

[@wyterabitt2149]

@@bothellkenmore Misdirecting is laughably easy to write, far more than clever foreshadowing. It's still fun like many narrative concepts can be when done right, but it's certainly not something that requires being clever compared to anything else.

[@delvictor7570]

@@wyterabitt2149 Yeah this movie was easy to write lol. What a dolt.

[@AlejandroDiazadiaz201]

This is by far one of my favorite sci fi movies of all time. The tech is awfully advanced but within our reach

[@TheLouisvilleJedi]

Minority Report is a really fantastic film, one of my absolute favorites. This next suggestion doesn't really have anything in common with Minority Report other than being one of my favorite films, but... you should do Midnight in Paris!

[@TheJrr71]

Midnight in Paris is awesome! Love it. Great suggestion. I'm off to see if anybody has reacted to it 😊

[@mikelarsen5836]

"Have you been doing some rock-climbing?" Guess she hasn't seen the opening to "Mission Impossible 2" 😂🤣😂

[@SoshiMECH]

The floating in water thing has been around since 1954 though it's usually in the dark. The first film I can think of that really feature an immersion tank was the very trippy "Altered States" (1980) and I'm sure it inspired Stranger Things.

[@my_randomology]

There's actually a one-season series that takes place several years after the movie. One of the twins comes back to DC and tries to prevent murders since he can still see them in flashes, so he teams up with a DC detective to give her "clues." It's not life-changing television, but it's VERY interesting to see where they take the story.

[@MsMya89]

Oh yeah i remember that lol

[@pmpowalisz]

That one Minority Report season had a decent budget for a tv show too. It was also interesting seeing a grown up Agatha (who definitely calmed down and appeared more normal).

[@frozengoat5834]

especially considering the twins are likely actually taken back to precog hq at the end of the movie, and jon is likely still in prison, imagining all of this

[@kryptonianguest1903]

@@frozengoat5834 That's such a boring take. Why even bother making the movie at that point?

[@GreatLevellerGaming]

Theres a fun theory that after John gets Halo'd that the rest of the film is his dream state, as the guy said earlier in the film, they're all having sweet dreams. Everything does wrap up really well for him so it does seem plausible

[@Dave3Dguy]

Yup, wraps up a bit "too" well. The last part of the film after his initial incarceration is a virtual fantasy. He even gets back together with his wife. All too neatly played out. In my view, he never gets out, framed for two murders.

[@doro626]

Very Total Recall.

[@MP197742]

Had never heard that or thought about it. It maybe should have been teased a little more. Or maybe it was, and got edited out for a happy Hollywood ending. But leaving people to question that as an ambiguous “what is reality” ending would definitely fit for a Phillip K Dick story.

[@fineousreese6856]

@@doro626 Blade Runner as well, human or replicant?

[@frozengoat5834]

This really is more than a theory. Once Jon gets haloed, everything that happens after is questionable at best, there's just no getting around it. Once you have that kind of mechanic in your universe, you can't get away from the ambiguous endings unless it NEVER gets put in your literal ONLY POINT OF VIEW CHARACTER (that's still alive, at least). Now, we could take it a step further and maybe it was on the entire movie but that WOULD be theory-land and a little crackpot. But we actually see it get put on his head during the movie very clearly and we've already been taught what that means. I mean plz the precogs live in a damn cottage reading by the lake r u fkiing kidding me? U even watch the movie? That's not how this world plays

[@yourthaiguy]

One of Spielberg's most underrated and also helped put Colin Farrell on the map who at the time was a relative unknown...

[@dtimmm]

Wish I could watch this, but as a person with misophonia I can't stand the sounds of chewing or someone talking with food in their mouth. I hate when youtubers do this, any video with someone eating is instantly unavailable to me

[@jameshitt3263]

Samantha Morton in this----good God, I don't know if I can even call that acting; she looks like she is genuinely reliving some kind of horrific trauma.

[@Cau_No]

In the 70s/80s there was some psychological and parapsychological experimenting done with so-called 'Isolation Tanks' There is another movie, "Altered States" (1980) centered around that, a kind of trippy one. Both Minority Report and Stranger Things referenced that technique from back then, it's a staple to Psi-Fi stories. The world depicted for the 2050s was based on advisers from various IT fields working on those technologies, like automotive driving, gesture controls (I think those guys even made the MIcrosoft Kinect a reality right after.) Another movie from the same time doing such was "I, Robot" with Will Smith, it's another future detective story worth a watch. That one is based on Isaac Asimov's Robot Stories.

[@Mansplainer2099-jy8ps]

_"like automotive driving, gesture controls (I think those guys even made the MIcrosoft Kinect a reality right after.)"_ Well, automotive driving was in Demolition Man and gesture controls was in Johnny Mnemonic so they were not new things in movies.

[@Cau_No]

​@@Mansplainer2099-jy8ps Where did I claim that those were new to movies? The post was about the people working on these technologies also working with the team of this movie. Not the others you mentioned. Maybe try first to understand what is actually written before replying out of context …

[@Mansplainer2099-jy8ps]

@@Cau_No I didn't say you outright _claimed_ they were new to movies, my point was "Boston Dynamics were involved in Spielberg's movie with robots." isn't that big of a a deal when robots aren't new to movies.

[@blitzgirl6522]

This movie does have a disturbing vibe about it, but it's so plausible and that's what makes it creepy. The tech is so creative, and it's certainly a cautionary tale. I love it so much!

[@joerafferty3248]

The film does an excellent job of portraying the theme of free will vs determinism. Anderton believes that because he has never met and doesn't know Leo Crow personally, that it is impossible for him to murder him without a premeditated reason. However, during the course of his investigation into tracking down Crow, inevitably leads him to the exact time and location that the murder is going to take place, which is the deterministic outcome. But in that moment, Anderton makes the choice to arrest him initially as opposed to killing him, which is the argument for free will and that human beings do actually have the power to make their own decisions in situations like this, which exposes the fundamental flaw of the entire precime system.

[@flatebo1]

In the story this movie is based on the three precogs sometimes disagree about what the future holds, with the disagreeing precog's vision being the "minority report". In Anderson's case, when he is identified as a pre-murderer the minority report is that he does not commit the murder. This is what sets off the story. As Anderson has access to all three reports, he seizes on the "minority report" as proof of his innocence, or at least of proof that he isn't necessarily guilty. But in the end, he kills the victim anyway. Because each precog saw a different future. The "original" future is one where Anderton has learned of the existence of a "minority report" on his predicted murder but kills the victim anyway in order to protect the validity of PreCrime. (If the pubic knew that not all PreCrimes were absolutely certain, it would destroy the credibility of the system, and Anderton wants to preserve that credibility.) The second precog saw a future in which Anderton decided that the cost of being imprisoned wasn't worth the benefit of protecting PreCrime. The third saw that Kaplan, the murder victim (a retired general in the story) was himself going to expose the existence of minority reports to the public in order to cause civil unrest, giving him a pretext to impose martial law and lead a military coup. It's a series of events that could only come about if the prospective murderer has access to the precogs' reports. Ordinary people don't, so they can't change their behavior in order to confound the PreCrime system. Anderton did have access, and so knew what choices he had to make differently to live out each version of events.

[@Mansplainer2099-jy8ps]

The problem with stories like this is that there is "magic precognition" which negates that the future being predetermined doesn't negate free will. My one and only future might be that I die of lung cancer in seven years and seven days because I was a chain smoker for the last eleven years but you introduce that I married a precognitive woman who warned me for ten years of marriage that I was going to die of lung cancer in seventeen years but also that I won't quit chain smoking until seven years before my death...

[@anthonyleecollins9319]

The car assembly line scene was an idea Hitchcock had. He'd told Spielberg about it, but he never got around to using it himself. Hitchcock's idea was to run the assembly line scene under the opening credits of a movie, and at the end the car is done, somebody opens the door, and a dead body falls out.

[@Mansplainer2099-jy8ps]

Interesting!

[@zvimur]

Strangers on a Train last scene on the carousel (merrygoround?) has that vibe.

[@cyberiasaint]

THAT would be hard asf.

[@solongdentahlplaan7975]

Doo doo doodoooooo... SVU..

[@cyberiasaint]

@@solongdentahlplaan7975 IKR! Even CSI Miami

[@3DJapan]

If you haven't seen it I think you'd really like Gattaca.

[@Nyhde]

I had forgotten the filtering was so over the top, but it's been a while since I last saw the movie. I remember thinking it looked very cool back in the day :D Also, it was released 21 years ago - what the heck?!

[@Starlightean]

I love this movie and Philip K Dick, there are many great movie adaptations. One recommendation (besides Blade Runner) is A Scanner Darkly which has an amazing cast, and combines live action and computer imaging on top of the usual fascinating philosophy.

[@jonasfermefors]

The doctors assistant sings "små grodorna" which is a song Swedes traditionally sing while dancing around a "may pole" on midsummer. Originally it was a French marching song from the French revolution "La Chanson de l’Oignon" or "the onion song" but we got it from a parody version the English wrote at the time. In English our version translates to "little frogs", but most Swedes have no idea that it's pejorative of the French.

[@davidbergfors6820]

Surprisingly many swedes in this film, I remembered Peter Stormare but had forgot about Max Von Sydow... and no, I did not know that little frogs are a derogative slur against the french!

[@NadeemShekh-uy9zn]

I feel so bad for the guy that was arrested in the beginning his wife was cheating on him and i felt so bad for him

[@Xeromm]

10:11 'Rock climbing' she says. Apparently, she hasnt seen Mission Impossible 2. 😏 15:36 Holding breath connecting to Knight and Day. Cruise seems to like integrating his abilities across films, huh? 😆

[@JoyaLewisTheMusician]

This is my first experience with the movie and WOW AGATHA’S ACTRESS!

[@JamesASharp]

Arguably one of the greatest Sci-fi films ever made in Hollywood. Great reaction! 👍🏿

[@zvimur]

18:54, anybody who studied Cinema, is the double faced head an Ingmar Bergman thing? Between that and having Von Sydow and Stormare in the cast, it's like a fan letter to Bergman. Am I right?

[@steved1135]

Yet another shining example of the pure genius of Philip K. Dick, the author whose work this is based on. Unreal insight into the examination of how humans interact with their environment, and how it affects them. And, it's a good movie.

[@spiderhamilton1]

Yes, it is a lot like Eleven. Stranger Things is a mosaic of nostalgia from sci-fi and horror. The government stealing special children is a common troupe of the 80s since Philip K. Dick inspired so much of sci-fi and he wrote Minority Report short story.

[@mitchellmelkin4078]

@spiderhamilton1, Sort of presaged by the original Outer Limits' two-parter The Inheritors.

[@dude-man]

i always loved the 'twist' of WHY he would commit the crime.. as a Dad, that shit got my feels

[@tremorsfan]

The car factory scene is actually inspired by the planned opening for Hitchcock's North By Northwest in which we see a car being built only for a body to fall out when it's finally finished.

[@sammylane21]

Actress playing that Precog was also the same actress that made us shudder cold in TWD as "Alpha".

[@Zerashadow]

This movie is great, there is a tv show that follows it up, with one of the twins as the main character, only think it got 1 or 2 seasons tho. as a swedish person, one of my favorite parts are the banter between the Doctor and the Nurse, since they talk in Swedish to each other, she even sings a song we sing at midsummer :D

[@clairekerr1864]

That intro 😂👏 you've got those puppy dog eyes, how could anyone go anywhere else?

[@SerginhoPMoura]

"You can't run, John" - "Everybody runs" Just perfection 😂😂😂

[@doro626]

Phillip K Dick was definitely THE MAN. One of the revolutionary writers or our time. If you're a sci-fi writer, you definitely have read his stuff. Asimov, Clark, King, Bradbury, Herbert, Wells, I could go on and on. That's just the modern guys before the modern guys they influenced. I thought this movie was just OK, but I love your reaction to it. They made a TV show spin off, but I stopped watching it after one episode.

[@One.Zero.One101]

📌What makes sci-fi great is the themes. Some sci-fi fall into the trap of "End of the World Scenarios" like Nu-Trek. The themes I liked in this movie are 1. False Utopia - Everything is perfect. Everything is working as it should be. There's no cause for concern. 2. Does the End Justify the Means? - This system is built upon the mistreatment of children and their families. Is it worth it?

[@kelseymeinke6732]

Yes! This movie is crazy! 🎉 Love your videos Natalie!❤

[@henrahmagix]

the lighting and glows are _textbook_ Janusz Kaminski, Spielberg's longtime cinematographer collaborator - like Saving Private Ryan, looks so similar!

[@jamesnoneyabizness5611]

This movie, by the end, becomes "predictably unpredictable", like almost every M. Night Shyamalan movie after _The Sixth Sense_ ("What a twist!").

[@GlenCodes]

Minority Report - where the I.T department doesn't invalidate the primary character/suspect's access to the pre-crime division building (twice) lol.

[@soniciris]

I really enjoy this film! It;s not my favorite aesthetic (lighting-wise etc)either, but I think it does exactly what it intends to...the future seems clean and bright but very harsh. I love the story, it had me on the edge of my seat the first time and I still enjoy the ride. The sequence with him and Agatha escaping where she works her precognition to the fullest is so sick. In some ways the movie kind of reminds me of The Fugitive, that incredible old Harrison Ford-centered action thriller that made me nearly ill with stress because it was sooo good at being tense and gogogo.

[@adrianmorales5770]

Actually the 'spider' didn't hear the little bubble burst but detected the slight change of CO2 inside the room. Great reaction as always!

[@mikal4452]

Really enjoyed that opening. Was sassy and amusing. Sometimes those come off cringey, but you were pretty smooth.

[@MrMastrix]

Natalie: "Grab a snack!" Me: " I almost already finished it while you were talking about New York" 😄 but np, we love you

[@caseyh8386]

Philip K Dick is one of my favourite authors ❤

[@nightking0130]

It’s a loose adaptation of a Philip k dick story. Believe it or not this was originally gonna be a spiritual successor to Total Recall with Arnold Schwarzenegger. Paul verhoeven was gonna return to direct with Arnold starring and it just went In development hell until Steven Spielberg took the one idea of the precogs and just made his own story.

[@smavtmb2196]

I like the movie, but I don't love it. It has fascinating aspects, but also definitely a disturbing concept for multiple reasons. Not the future I want. I agree the lighting/coloring was a bit much at times.

[@frozengoat5834]

So, this movie has 2 distinct endings. Consider Oedipus for a moment, who strives to avert his own predetermined fate and in failing to do so ends up gouging out his own eyes. With that said, we have one film, which starts with Jon having a series of bad luck, misfortune, and doing his best with what little information he has, (can you see? she askes, but he cannot.) Then, seemingly out of nowhere, when at his lowest point, everything turns around for Jon. His estranged wife returns to save the day, he catches the villain with his ingenious albeit somewhat vague on the details plan, him and his wife get back together and she becomes pregnant, and then the precogs get to live out a harmonious existence in a sweet cottage. There's another movie, where WE are the ones who cannot see. We get so caught up in the story we miss the crucial detail, when describing the prisoners our warden describes them:"Look at how peaceful they all seem! But on the inside..busy busy busy." Is it a mere coincidence that the moment Jon is haloed things take a turn for not just the better, but the outright miraculous, and in the case of the cottage ending, downright laughably optimistic? You tell me.

[@deviantbehavior28]

This movie reminds me of a movie that is criminally underrated, Equilibrium with Christian Bale. Highly recommend

[@rastiga9196]

Some police forces us AI for pre-crime and China is actively pursuing it. It is nowhere near perfect of course. Kind of scary that if our dollar fails and the world transfers to a EFT (electronic fund transfer) system with the advancing of AI prospect this could be a very real thing in the not so far future.

[@banonKING]

"He's a religious man after all, I shouldn't have doubt him". There are a lot of Catholic kids who probably should have doubted religious men a lot more.

[@peteg475]

Movie raises a lot of questions, because the precogs only seem to see first or second-degree murder and only see the actual "trigger-man". They don't see conspiracies, murder-for-hire, they don't see drunk driving vehicular homicide, they don't see companies who do negligent things like cause cancer/deaths in the things they sell to people. Do they see things like a wife poisoning her husband through slow poisoning over many months? It's head-scratching if you think too much about the details.

[@asiamatron]

Good questions.

[@peteg475]

@@asiamatron Yep. What about a killing where a jury has to decide if it's justifiable homicide or murder? Like a self-defense case. Those cases aren't easy for juries - do the precogs automatically know that? Issues, issues...

[@Mansplainer2099-jy8ps]

@@peteg475 _"What about a killing where a jury has to decide if it's justifiable homicide or murder? Like a self-defense case."_ Well, that's the point, there is no jury because the precogs only see "murders", slap the halo on the perp and move on, perfect system, hooray.

[@asiamatron]

@@peteg475 Yeah it does raise a lot of questions and people can end up being killed in a variety of different ways as you mentioned.

[@TenTonNuke]

Precrime works, but they forgot to take into consideration that knowing the future can change the future, specifically for crimes of passion. If you tell me I'm going to get into a bar fight and kill a guy, I'm not going to go to that bar. And having the capacity to kill is not an arrestable offense. Most people, given the right circumstance, have the capacity to kill.

[@SarahBuhrmanKalisara]

I always felt the constant misdirection/subversion of expectations was the point. This movie is literally about how predictable (or not, rather) human behavior is. The twists are the minority report.

[@scottbarkley496]

It's Roger Ebert number 1 movie of 2002 .. TOM CRUISE is the GOAT ❤

[@domoslaf]

What is really interesting is the difference between the movie and the PK Dick short story it's based on. In the short story the "minority report" had a different meaning. It was somethning seen by 1 of the 3 precogs that has actually taken into account that the suspect got to know the prediction of the other 2. So that precog's prediction changed because the main character learned of the prediction of the other two, and because of that it became more true - that the basis of the story - how the future changes when you know of it. The movie took a different but no less interesting approach. It's also worth noting that it was filmed not that long after the 9/11 and the invasion of Iraq, that was also a huge part of it.

[@TheRightSideOfFunny]

You have such a great speaking voice . I would darkly love to listen to you do an audio book .

[@m4l4kan]

I've always wondered how far in advance Agatha knew this would happen, that he'd be framed/rescue her etc.

[@Madagon367]

Wait what? Totally out of the loop here. New York, moving in and out? Did Nat and Tyler embark on a new adventure after the wedding?

[@danhelphrey6260]

I saw you on Ventura Bl once, but I had one of those "where do I know her from?" moments and by the time I remembered you were in your car driving away...

[@bigwoke5956]

Yoooo this is such a good movie, also where's your beautiful bckground :((

[@paradoxN0W]

It takes a real idiot to not realize that there was a segmented ending based on the main character's getting put into cryogenic stasis. With a fantasy of what ideal reality could have been in the aftermath of his capture.

[@Vaishino]

Say what you will about the overexposed lighting, at least you can see what's happening in the scene.

[@patrickcromwell7554]

I just watched paycheck starring ben Afleck and Kathryn Morris (Lara - Tom Cruise's wife) is in that too. I remember seeing her for the first time in a story arc on Xena and how intensely I crushed on this woman and this movie and Paycheck reminded me of how pretty I used to think she was. She also starred in a show called Cold Case as well.

[@LordVolkov]

Another Phillip K Dick adaptation with a great director (John Woo).

[@DocEonChannel]

@@LordVolkov You mean another Dick adaptation that ignores everything but some surface elements of the source material. ;)

[@Seele2015au]

@@LordVolkov In addition to his obligatory "dove" and "Mexican standoff" scenes, "Paycheck" has John Woo's signatures all over it. I still do not think he was as happily as could be when working on this film though. I have the Blu-Ray (like all the others) with deleted scenes and they would have added much to the story, the final cut was considerably shorter than how Woo wanted it to be.

[@Gort-Marvin0Martian]

Crazy film. Your remark about the "defense lawyers" had me totally laughing out loud. Great reaction. Based on the book by Philip K. Dick. A great writer. Here are some other films and TV series based on his works. The Man in the High Castle (TV Series) Electric Dreams (TV Series) The Adjustment Bureau A Scanner Darkly Paycheck Total Recall Blade Runner - As we say in Texas; y'all be safe.

[@jdneilso]

The Man in the High Castle was absolutely great for 2 seasons, then it went woke and got horrible.

[@discoskull]

@@jdneilso so a show about fighting literal homegrown Nazis is woke? You don't say

[@jdneilso]

@@discoskull No, fighting Nazi's is fine, and that's what made seasons 1 and 2 so good.

[@cloudshad0ws]

Not a show (yet?) but The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch is probably my favorite PKD novel. Shit is wild.

[@Gort-Marvin0Martian]

@@cloudshad0ws I highly recommend, "The Exegesis of Philip K. Dick". Completely non-fiction. It is literally a tome (massive) of his thoughts about almost everything and how he arrived at some of his fiction(s).

[@izuela7677]

We never actually find out what happened to his son. Most action hero flicks would not have been able to resist returning his son to him. Or at the very least solve his murder. But this one does. Subverted expectations!

[@supercode2825]

That's what makes me think the last part of the film isn't a dream. In his ideal world, his son would have been found, alive, for sure.

[@gemsdirtykitchen3658]

I remember I recorded this movie on a VHS tape but the tape ended on that roof scene so I never knew how the movie ended.. until now :)

[@s1lentsamurai]

Got to be on set a few days for this film during the jet pack alleyway scene. Met with the pixel liberation front or army who did CGI for movie and got me into 3d/modeling animation. Weird movie for sure

[@s1lentsamurai]

May I just add. The amount of thought, intelligence and deepness in the comments I’ve read since posting. Wow. So many people interested in this film or have so much depth of info. Hopefully nerds and not google searchers. Cheers

[@SonicProfessor_a.k.a._T._Andra]

This (like a bulk of the great science-fiction of the past 70-or-80 years) is based on a Philip K. Dick story (novella, in this case). Dick's work is entitled: "The Minority Report" (written and published in the 1950s). I agree with you that: the movie is: enjoyable, once through; ..."watchable," but, overall: kind-of "not-up-to-snuff"/doesn't warrant repeat viewing It's, kind-of, "just there." (Which is a shame, as Dick's work, itself, is NEVER that, I.M.O.!) --If you aren't a Philip K. Dick fan or an avid, 20th Century, sci-fi reader, you would likely know Dick as the author of the stories which became: BLADE RUNNER (Arguably, my favorite film of all time,) and: Total Recall [The titles, respectively, of the Philip J. Dick stories/novellas which were used for those are: Do Androids Dream Of Electric Sheep and We Can Remember It For You, Wholesale.].

[@SonicProfessor_a.k.a._T._Andra]

...although, in fact, "The Minority Report", was a story I had NOT read, prior to seeing the movie (which almost NEVER happens, for me!). I read it afterwards (found it, indelibly, superior -as always is the case) and I would venture that: Dick's focus in writing the story was: the question of whether, so-termed, "freewill" actually exists, at all. A deeply important concern. 👍👍

[@hettfield]

The whole expectation of a twist is very much a generational thing. Nobody spoke of plot twists until The Sixth Sense came along. Sure, they always existed, but it wasn't a plot device that was expected. Since then we have been bombarded with them and the whole idea of "Spoilers" came to be as well. I find people under a certain age are disappointed when they can guess the plot or if the plot twist is "obvious".

[@Mansplainer2099-jy8ps]

_"Nobody spoke of plot twists until The Sixth Sense came along."_ Whatchoo tawkin' about? You really think people were not expecting the seeming killer to not really be the killer in thrillers and horror movies before 1999? You really think nobody expected there'd be a twist to Patrick Swayze finding the man who killed him in _Ghost_ (1990) or that the killer would do something kind of unpredictable in _Se7en_ (1995)? Or how about the main character in _The Heavenly Kid_ (1985) finding out who his assigned "target"'s parents are?

[@hettfield]

@@Mansplainer2099-jy8ps as I mentioned, they have always existed, but it wasn’t a prerequisite on a checklist for every single movie. Thrillers and mysteries of course have some kind of a twist, but these days people go nuts if the movie ends the way it logically should. There is a greater emphasis on a twist subverting expectations. It’s given more value.

[@Mansplainer2099-jy8ps]

@@hettfield I don't really agree as there's really no plot twist in Titanic, Avatar, Captain America: First Avenger or Man Of Steel and people didn't go nuts about that. Sidenote: "Should" and "value" are myths.

[@snowdenwyatt6276]

During the first extended chase sequence with Cruise, there's a man on the train who looks at him over his newspaper. That's director Cameron Crowe who was already set to direct Cruise in his next film (Vanilla Sky). Probably about as close to a 'Hitchcock-esque" cameo as you'll get in a Spielberg film. edit: I had forgotten that Spielberg returned the favor and had a cameo in Vanilla Sky. He's had a couple of appearances in his own films (Jaws and the third Indy film) but his cameos are mostly in other directors films like in The Blues Brothers.

[@scottbarkley496]

You missed Cameron Diaz 😉

[@zammmerjammer]

Stranger Things is constantly referring back to The X-Files.

[@Revytwohands-io6du]

the reason why the guy vomited was because he got electric shock to his throat. they don't make you throw up its just a taser

[@Feesh322]

This movie foretold the future! Lots of tech in the film that is now reality, 20+ years later. One of those Spielberg gems that is often overlooked in this filmography, a great futuristic whodunit that explores the concept of predestination and fate. Has been one of my favorites since I first saw it in the theater. Some have even suggested that from the moment of the end of Jon Anderton's 'halo' scene, the rest of the film--including its happy ending and Jon Anderton's monologue throughout--is all a delusion/dream in his own mind! That this interpretation is plausible speaks volumes.

[@hashtagPoundsign]

I highly recommend “Spotlight” (2015)

[@patrickcromwell7554]

The "sick stick"!!! lol. Did anybody else picture THAT scene from Kick Ass 2???? lol.

[@SchulzEricT]

"Interesting concept for a movie" or a book. Phillip K Dick, who also wrote the novels/short stories that led to the movies: "Blade Runner", "The Running Man" and "Into a Scanner Darkly" and the tv show "Man in the High Castle" And I may well be missing some, but those are the ones I can think of off the top of my head. He was a seminal sci-fi writer whose ideas were fascinating, typically exploring the ideas of what is reality... the writing though? The ideas were great, the writing was *fucking terrible*. Just a slog to get through. So... worth watching the movies, worth maybe clif notes/wikipedia-ing his books, but I cannot recommend them.

[@SchulzEricT]

ALSO I think of this as kind of a companion movie to the other Tom Cruise sci-fi movie from around this time "Vanilla Sky". I think "Minority Report" was more commercially successful, more accessible to the average audience, but I think "Vanilla Sky" was more interesting, I actually prefer "Vanilla Sky" to "Minority Report". But, you know... it's not everybody's cup of tea.

[@brianhoward9336]

Officer and a Gentleman...." I don't have anywhere else to go"!

[@charlesmartinjr3971]

Give this film a re-watch in about a year. Seriously. I didn't like it when I first saw it in the theaters, but now it's one of my favorites. It really grew on me.

[@nelgoez]

0:37 OK. I'll change my name so it be the actual letter U, Just for this to be true.

[@boomieboo]

You may have noticed all the image swiping, pinching, zooming/expanding, etc John used when interacting with the precog's visions which were new imagery in film (and most likely TV as well). I believe this was a big inspiration for the iPhone screen interface which didn't come out until 5-6 years later and also used the same swiping, pinching, expanding, zooming, etc. type of screen play. Although other tech had touch screens before the iPhone, interacting with tech more specifically in this way was new until then. As far as the film, I appreciated it much more than it seems you did. How it asked if we're all just slaves to our predetermined destinies or the masters of our choices and lives was brilliant. Although you found the twists and turns to be gimmicky, they weren't predictable to me and only added to my enjoyment of the film. And how tortured John was over losing his son was emotionally wrenching and effective. The blown-out look of the film also didn't affect my experience of the film as I just saw it as a stylistic choice of Speilberg and his cinematographer.

[@1Vmiboy]

It’s not so dystopian these days. We’re not all that far away from this anymore…that isn’t a good thing

[@k.delpino1124]

Cruise (almost age 40 at the time) in his first of 2 collaborations with Spielberg. Much like Blade Runner, futuristic crime drama and from the same author of the source material. The storytelling raises so many questions about the nature of fate and destiny with good or bad intentions. The script is just as smart as the science of the film itself with good actions and visualization. The infamous 'Industrial Light & Magic' special effects house designing the most incredible to bring this world to life. This was a new classic for a new century.

[@clintono]

Totally gave up on you after the wedding. ~sigh~ 😉

[@taejaskudva2543]

Honestly, this was the first time I had watched a movie as a person who noticed film technique, and I think it was because I thought the lighting and color palette was awesome. It helped this dystopian future seemed differentiated from Blade Runner which was dark and rainy but with neon color pop for its dystopia. Whereas this was very sterile and totalitarian, except that the shackles were the screen and the marketing and the consumerism and the buy in of the population to be subjugated. But both were adaptations of visions of Philip k dick, who I think is greatly appreciated by a lot of sci-fi nerds, especially as he was neurodivergent.

[@Mansplainer2099-jy8ps]

Blade Runner was intended to visually be very film noir while a movie more closely adhering to the Philip K Dick book would be more like this movie, I feel.

[@DurgisFlak]

Always found the plot of this dumb. Let's build an entire police division around the visions of three people who are, I'm pretty sure, not immortal. Whole system would come crashing down under it's own biology in a couple of decades.

[@mitchellmelkin4078]

@DurgisFlak, Couldn't they be replaced by new ones?

[@CoffinStuffer]

YEEEEES, in my top 10 films of all time. This blew me away when it first came out, loved it.

[@Belnick6666]

long time since I saw it, but is not Timecop with Van Damme similar?

[@cloudshad0ws]

Philip K. Dick is one of the best sci-fi authors ever.