Minority Report, Lost in Adaptation ~ Dominic Noble

[@Dominic-Noble]

Apologies if you were expecting The Thing/Who goes there. Had to change the schedule last minute.

[@doom7ish]

That's alright man, just take your time with it. The Thing is pretty Amazing.

[@jamesknighton4489]

We can wait a little long for one of the greatest Sci fic horror film ever made. keep up the good work man

[@doom7ish]

@@jamesknighton4489 just hearing John Carpenter's Main theme For The Thing makes me wonder with fear and Terror.

[@CrossedLegion]

You should check out the anime Psycho Pass, similar setup, but better execution and look into a Utopian(?) dystopia of psychological control.

[@sabrinaloizides-merideth9874]

I was so glad to see this upload on my day off!

[@IcePickJoe]

Vomiting on his cake... and also the cake is made of beeeees!

[@tinahawley320]

I died laughing at that part!

[@C.L.Hinton]

Same here! 🤣

[@skyhai3689]

i'm going to use that all the time now

[@xRaiofSunshine]

Pffft 😂

[@tinchick2]

I laughed way too hard at that line!

[@peterbeck88]

Funny thing, as you mentioned how the film predicts some future tech and has a lot of product placement, when I rented the DVD of the movie ages ago, there was a special featurette on it that discussed how Spielberg approached a large number of companies to contribute ideas on possible technology to include in the movie, under the agreement that their involvement would come with product placement in the film. So a lot of the things they got right were right because it was stuff the companies were already developing. In a way, Minority Report was almost like the Epcot Center of films.

[@ZigUncut]

Like the Xbox Kinect.

[@khiclark31]

Or the coming soon portion of a VHS tape lol

[@Ettrick8]

What new technology was Guinness promoting?

[@sfsin3380]

@@Ettrick8 Guinness's parent group Diageo owns a bunch of other companies. Now days it's all alcohol brands but it used to own other things including at one point Burger King so who knows what it had back 2002

[@shadowscribe]

It's a little weird they crop so much out of short stories, they have the perfect amount of material for a film.

[@legathar8558]

shadowscribe well, the thing is they don’t have enough for a feature length film, so they have to heavily change the plot for it to work

[@jeebuschristos8423]

@@legathar8558 Dunno... Imposter was pretty close to the original story...

[@timothymclean]

@@jeebuschristos8423 There are exceptions to every rule, Jeebus. In general, a combination of length, lacking literature's temporal freedom, and using the strengths of a visual medium render a straight adaptation of literature to film...not _impossible,_ but definitely not a good idea.

[@cocolime6496]

I like how short stories inspire adaptations with their own particular plots. In this case both are interesting and entertaining stories.

[@Dielawn69]

Nah, like others have said most short stories are too short. Novellas are closer to the perfect length. For example The Shawshank Redemption and Stand by Me, which were both from the novella collection Different Seasons by Stephen King.

[@carlrood4457]

The movie never explains how pre-crime can go national with only three pre-cogs. It's also annoying that they fail to remove Anderton's security access from the police, not once but twice. However, I will say about Tom Cruise that he's impressively one of the few actors to have success across four, soon to be five decades. That's Jimmy Stewart/Henry Fonda level success in Hollywood.

[@ZemplinTemplar]

My own headcanon was that Burgess wanted to expand the program nationwide by literally manufacturing new pre-cogs. Some stronger version of the drugs that caused the pre-cog mutations in the first place, being distributed to random homeless or otherwise hapless citizens, making them into pre-cogs in the process. Without them having to be born with the pre-cog mutation, as the three young people were.

[@shelbyherring92]

I know this is a three year old comment, but - just wanna say as someone who has worked in a Secret facility in the military, you'd be horrified how often security protocols are skirted when anythings happen. We had a guy lose his clearance due to a drunk driving incident off base and yet he was allowed to handle Secret material because he was vouched for by his supervisor. It happens more often than anyone cares to admit without a few beers.

[@dondevice8182]

The scene where they fight in the car is being built is an odd scene Alfred Hitchcock always wanted to try to,lake work. You would be following on assembly line, seeing a car built from scratch to finish, and as it rolled off the line, the door would open and a dead body would roll out… Hitch was never able to figure out how to make it work, so I think they slid it in here to throw a bone to film buffs.. It’s a little nod to the famous book Hitchcock/TruFFaut But, silly? Yes… Yes, it is.

[@MoonShadowWolfe]

I got a creeping dread that they intended to specifically recreate the circumstances of the precogs' birth, an undisclosed number of times.

[@ChristophGangrel]

@@ZemplinTemplar My idea was far less sinister. I thought that murder is basicaly eradicated because only ones that (don't) happend are passion crimes commited out of emotion / circumstances (I E the husband who almost killed his cheating wife). There's no premeditated murders OR they are reduces to small number. So maybe... Burgers was convinced that if Pre-Crime was made national others suposed to be killers / murderes just resign... xD Sounds naive but... It was my headcannon back in the day when movie came out...

[@anostalgicmillennial606]

Wait a minute... My Hero Academia hadn't come out yet in 2002! Plothole!

[@andrewcarmichael2371]

It two different time traveling Doms.

[@gracekim25]

😆wow

[@anostalgicmillennial606]

@@WithScienceAsMySheperd Lol What? I know that, I wasn't trying to say PKD stole from My Hero Academia or anything, I only meant the skit where he was supposedly coming out of the theater after having watched the movie and he was wearing a My Hero Academia shirt.

[@timothymclean]

@@WithScienceAsMySheperd I don't even know what he _could_ be implying came from MHA. Unless there's a precog hero stopping future crimes in a manga-only arc, there's not any significant overlap.

[@SiRenfield]

DING!

[@Inspiration_Date]

Precogs: "You will murder this man in a few days." Anderton: "Okay. I'll move out of town for a week."

[@clownpendotfart]

Haven't you heard of "An Appointment in Samarra"? The victim must surely travel to the other town you go to!

[@NotTheStinkyCheese]

@@clownpendotfart aka you can't escape fate.

[@fearanarchy]

But if they kill someone else before they are to kill said person, it proves their system also fails!

[@davidbodor1762]

Honestly the entire concept is so weird. If they do stop the crime how do they know it would have happened to begin with? If you CAN stop it, then it's not an accurate prediction system.

[@SolarisKane]

@@davidbodor1762 That's covered in the movie with the famous ball falling scene. Just because you stopped the ball from falling doesn't mean it wasn't going to fall. Probably my favorite scene from the movie. kzbin.info/www/bejne/f4eqgnutbs-lqc0

[@bradwolf07]

I think my favorite scene was when Cruise and Farrel in the elevator. Farrel is smug smile says "you wouldn't kill me or the alarms would go off". The alarm goes off and Farrel's face drops like he crapped his pants. It was a well done scene

[@DANRYX]

I was thinking the exact thing when I rewatched it three weeks ago, for such a subtle moment, it was my favourite scene in the entire movie, good catch!

[@aaronkienenberger9028]

question “is there an opposite to having your cake and eating it too?” answer Yes the phrase is biting your nose to spite your face

[@TimelordPrime]

"Biting your nose to Spider Face." Michael Scott

[@SwiftFoxProductions]

Don't know if the phrase is slightly different in other countries but, in the US, the phrase is usually "cutting off your nose to spite your face" rather than "biting off your nose". I would assume the reason being that it's kinda hard to bite off your own nose...

[@aaronkienenberger9028]

@@SwiftFoxProductions o ya that's rite my bad

[@fyxation]

I always liked the aesthetic of this movie. All the tech seemed believable (well, short of the psychic mutant bathtubs).

[@BbNaB]

Oh what I wouldn't give for a Sick-Stick

[@searchingfororion]

What I never understood is why it had a flush button? Obviously the guy who maintained the tank/precogs was freaking out when Tom Cruise did that (and no one knew where the drain went) so... It obviously wasn't meant for route cleaning. Did Cruise paint it on ala "The Mask"?

[@icp7201]

I agree. Though whil I think that the wooden balls with the names of the perpetrators and victims look cool as hell, they are also somewhat dumb in context

[@alexandresobreiramartins9461]

@@searchingfororion In case they shat the water? I really wondered where their pee/shit went, as they had no apparatus to collect those (AKA, tubes inserted into their buttholes/penises/pussies). On that note, how are they fed?!? The Matrix podcells are more realistic than those precog bathtubs.

[@lonellfletcher]

As far as the old/new eyes thing; he needed his new eyes to get past all the scanners he'd encounter before reaching the lab. He only needed his old eyes for the lab but the new eyes to escape detection before then.

[@robinvik1]

"Did no one in the police department object to that?" Yes, the entire police department not objecting to one of their own doing something that is obviously illegal. Very unrealistic indeed....

[@connorscorner443]

Wish that were less true

[@addemac5353]

I did not think much, if anything at all, about police corruption in 2002. Having watched shows that put police in a positive light, I once thought, "Police can't be this dumb." Now, I can say they can be as incompetent and corrupt as the agents in the film.

[@damianrives563]

@@addemac5353 police are mostly bullies from school but with a badge..granted, not all are stupid & quick to violence but quite a few are.

[@kapparomeo]

One thing that I always really liked about the film version was how the murder plot dovetailed together neatly. Anderton's murder of Crow WAS premeditated - just not by Anderton!

[@ACEYGAMES]

1:23 Dominic then took himself on a date, decided he liked himself enough to be friends and he still is to this day. Dates don't always endup with bf/gfs, friends are nice too. Also Dominic ended up paying for dinner but it was ok as Dominic helped paying for gas so they could drive themselves back home.

[@searchingfororion]

Over a year has passed and I still think this comment wins the internet.

[@ACEYGAMES]

@@searchingfororion Sweet my first internet. I wonder where I should put it...

[@searchingfororion]

@@ACEYGAMES "This location accentuates the shapes and angles... However, an item of sentimental value is perhaps more appropriately placed in a predominant location where it will be easily and frequently viewed and admired."

[@ishanshah7521]

...did.... Did you write Dom-cest fantiction???

[@ACEYGAMES]

@@ishanshah7521 Based on his videos, he did it first.

[@brettbarnard4501]

I think they say somewhere that they know she can walk and talk on her own, but part of being hooked to the computer involves keeping them super doped up on all kinds of drugs since their visions are more accurate when they are semi-comatose

[@davidbodor1762]

I mean come on you really think the POLICE would object to violating human rights? That's their bread and butter! Basically it's in their job description.

[@Tbm998]

I can't remember which reviewer said it (I suspect it may be The Nostalgia Critic), but there was the suggestion that the unbelievable happy ending was a product of the protagonist's mind whilst he was in his prison coma, given the creepy warden was deliberate to mention that in the coma "all your dreams come true"...

[@weirdotzero7065]

Spoony

[@Tbm998]

@@weirdotzero7065 ahhh, thanks. I always confuse that one asshole with that other asshole.

[@jackaylward-williams9064]

I think that’s another one for the “Ash Ketchum is in a coma, Count Olaf raped Violet, and Scott Pilgrim is a serial killer” list.

[@Tbm998]

@@jackaylward-williams9064 Well YOU explain why Ash doesn't age or achieve anything with his life??

[@jackaylward-williams9064]

bluemidgit by that logic, Spongebob Squarepants, Dennis The Menace, Bart Simpson, and a whole host of other cartoon characters are also in a coma. Cartoon characters just don’t progress.

[@Solarn40]

The plotholes you mentioned aren't actually plotholes. They all have very clear in-universe explanations. - Burgess is introduced as an established trustworthy mentor figure for all of the principal characters, so of course they wouldn't suspect him until his guilt was revealed. - Since it turns out that the whole precrime project was founded on willful abuse of the precogs, the people involved in taking Agatha back probably didn't care that she was capable of functioning on her own. - Since the precogs were drugged to give off the appearance of being nonresponsive, their precognitive functions were lessened. Notice that Agatha doesn't start predicting everything right away as she's unplugged, only after she'd been out and about for a while.

[@coreyhand3138]

I was going to say- even the people who had some moral objections to the abuse of the precogs wouldn't speak up about it since a majority of the people probably view it as for the "greater good". Like "Yeah, we're abusing these three people, but look how many lives we're saving!"

[@abbiaca-3288]

@@coreyhand3138 3 people who would have been dead if it was not for the treatment they got. Without precrime those 3 people would never exist. Also it's mentioned that they where in the milk bath for 10 year so I doubt anyone would really think those where people at the end of the day. In the movie and tv show the public was also lead to believe that the precogs where supper happy and living their best life and was willing helping humanity. The public believe that they are treated like gods when in reality they where in hell.

[@rixlan]

The movie doesn't say the precogs can't make other accurate predictions only that only murder predictions are 100% accurate.

[@NotTheStinkyCheese]

One wonders how they tested that ... (And if someone attempted to cheat during those tests ... )

[@davidbodor1762]

Well if you think about it, murder predictions aren't 100% accurate based on the entire concept of them stopping it before it happens. If you CAN stop it, it can't be an accurate prediction.

[@LucyLioness100]

The movie is relatively good despite being “in name only”. It was when Spielberg still had some magic in his films and Tom Cruise hadn’t gone mad with power over his films yet either. I’m sure the author himself would’ve disliked the film, but could have liked it instead. However “Blade Runner” is the clearly superior adaptation of a Philip K. Dick story even if it’s vastly different. He did approve the final script & was supportive of the footage he had seen prior to his death; I wonder what he would’ve thought of the final product that was a massive failure before we got the definitive cut in ‘92 or ‘07

[@lexnight]

That's so cool about Bladerunner and PKD. I hadn't known that! I'll have to have to read up on that.

[@icp7201]

I think the tone of the BR adaptation is much closer to PKD books. Whit the whole dark and grim setting and not so happy ending.

[@HonkeyKong54]

Minority report is the better movie imo.

[@HonkeyKong54]

Blade runner is more important though

[@StarkRG]

I really hope you do a Lost in Adaptation of A Scanner Darkly. It's my most favourite Philip K. Dick story and also probably the most accurate adaptation of a story of his. Plus the completely rotoscoped nature really lends itself to the themes covered in it (namely mind-altering drugs, dissociation, and paranoia).

[@racewiththefalcons1]

13:43 - he switched his eyes so the retina scanners that work everything in that world won't recognize him _before_ he gets to the police station. He'd be picked up before he ever got near the place.

[@alexanderpohl9277]

Not sure if it is the name change, however, KZbin finally notified me that you uploaded something

[@Carewolf]

It notified me too, but I wasn't sure who Dominic was, and thought it odd he look like The Dom.

[@alexanderpohl9277]

@@Carewolf He announced the name thing a while ago ^^

[@Carewolf]

@@alexanderpohl9277 I know.. Just didn't see it until it poped up as a notification ;)

[@DarkBanks3]

They fixed the bell (supposedly)

[@AlbertCalis]

I never did like the name of the title. To me "The Minority Report" sounds more like a political commentary show you would watch on Evening PBS or C-Span.

[@TheLeadhound]

If you called the movie Echos instead of Minority Report, it would be a lot easier to figure out what is going on.

[@mirjanbouma]

Goodness your multiple selves sketches are always so GOOD. Your timing is witchcraft. How do you do that!?

[@danp2779]

Terrence and a Time Turner

[@BbNaB]

Watch Moon if you haven't.

[@SorowFame]

Vomiting on his cake and the cake is made of BEES! This might be my favourite line Edit: someone else made a very similar comment but I didn't see it before making my comment.

[@drlarrymitchell]

I've always enjoyed this film much more than I was ever able to adequately explain to myself.

[@iwrestledabear1s]

Oh no, not the bees! NOT THE BEES!!

[@sirrliv]

Also worth mentioning is the anime series"Psychopass" directed by Gen Urobuchi, which was heavily inspired by "Minority Report" to the point of almost being an in-name adaptation itself. That is, except perhaps for the naval gazing pretentious introspection, because Gen Urobuchi.

[@Pikaman20008]

Personally I prefer the movie’s ending. Simply because of its more positive and overall beneficial message. Maybe it’s just me, but I felt the book had a more “don’t question authority” message

[@troggdorthesecond]

*sees you have a MHA shirt * Ah. I see you too are a man of culture. BD

[@Mintylight]

Your recap of the story is amazing, because it is rather complicated. I think the film adaptation of this is severely underrated.

[@xiao668]

THE CAKE IS MADE OF BEEEEESS

[@bradwolf07]

Quick! Vomit on it!

[@weldonwin]

*(Holds up hand)* I have the book, its on the shelf next to me. It also contains the short stories that were adapted into the movies Total Recall, Screamers and Imposter

[@weldonwin]

@@richmcgee434 I also have a copy of Rendezvous with Rama and Lord of the Rings next to my copy of Minority Report... also there are a bunch of other short stories in this book, some of which are weird to say the least

[@weldonwin]

@@richmcgee434 In the foreword to Minority Report, it rather tellingly mentioned how Dick would go one weekend long writing benders, fueled by amphetamines and cranking out dozens of short stories. I'd say his work has lots of great ideas, but the stories themselves couldn't really be adapted straight from the source... I mean unless you'd really like a movie about a man who turns into an amorphous blob for about twelve hours a day and who's wife is actually an amorphous blob who takes on a human form(Oh To Be A Blobble) or the one about a group of product testers, checking out various offworld made toys that have varied sinister effects (War Game)

[@smspirate]

I enjoyed this movie, but my favorite part? When they view the crime scene screens and move them around on that hologram board? The music that's playing... is Schubert's Unfinished Symphony. Someone did that on purpose. It's awesome.

[@koolkel00]

Hey Dom! I really appreciate all of your videos. I have ADHD and it makes reading and especially finishing books, absolute agony and almost impossible for me. But I love stories and literary analysis and I want to be a film director someday!! So videos like yours open up a whole world of stories and accurate looks at books that would usually be extremely inaccessible to people like me, (because videos are way more effective as a storytelling format for people with ADHD, at least for me anyway, usually I'm limited to whatever the movie adaptation ends up being 🙄) and you put them into a manageable attention getting and keeping format that is digestable in a meaningful way! There are so many stories I would have never gotten to hear or experience before without the work you do on these, and I just wanted to let you know the effort you put into these videos makes a world of difference. 😁

[@eiffiedarkness649]

Hmm that’s interesting cause as another person with adhd I can read whole books for hours especially if I’m on my meds I’m an avid reader and video watcher is it possible that adhd manifests itself differently in different people or

[@ABLEARC]

Nice! You and Lessons from the Screenplay both out put out videos on this movie today.

[@definepoetic]

Is it an anniversary or something? Damn Precogs!

[@indesicion2823]

I saw that as well. Both had interesting points

[@WhatIsItAboutThem]

I was spooked and felt out of the loop lmao

[@DoveAlexa]

I saw this movie on a date and I was in a state of 'this is the worst choice I could have made' the whole time. It was waaaay darker and creepier than I was expecting.

[@TeresaBaileypolymath]

I thought of you when I was watching the adaptation of "Good Omens" today. I was wondering what you thought of it. I found it well acted a good adaptation and yet something of a letdown. I'm not sure why, it just didn't fully work for me. I'm interested in your thoughts about it.

[@kreyne10]

I know I watched this movie as a kid, but I don't remember anything except for the eye transplant.

[@megamanfan220x]

I remember when Spoony reviewed the minority report game, that he mentioned a theory that the ending was alittle too happy. That it all started to get better for MC right before he entered the coma machine. What if all the ending was just a dream in the MC's mind and he was still hooked up to the machine

[@jerQCote]

I clicked in this video so fast it's as if I saw it coming 🤔

[@TheAlmostDeadman]

Awesome video. I'm one of those few people who put this in their top 10, glad to see you cover it.

[@almightycinder]

Regarding Burgess's choice at the end: I interpret it as he chose the future where he didn't shoot Anderton, but personally did want to live in a world without pre-crime. The world knew the lengths he went to to make sure pre-crime continued. It wouldn't have continued, regardless of what he did. This is having your cake, but knowing you can't have it.

[@kiwilerner]

Honestly the suicide makes sense to me. In addition to the fact that the pre-crime program was likely done for either way, Burgess had just been revealed to the entire crowd at the party as the murderer of Ann Lively. His major accomplishment was tainted, and most of all his reputation and life were ruined by his outing as a killer. Proving the precogs right by killing Anderton wouldn't have saved him. Desperation and depression were probably enough to make him pull the trigger on himself.

[@LunarKnight22]

I have an actually seen the movie, because at the time it just didn’t interest me. And having since read the book, where I would even stand behind pre-crime because of the weakness being limited to the person who sees these reports before anybody else. A.k.a., the leader of pre-cook. And I thought it was a pretty cool story. I recently went through a little spiel of listening to several of his shorts they had been turned into movies, oddly the only one I personally enjoy is a movie is still vastly different from the story. I really like paycheck, and in a lot of ways I actually do prefer the movie to the book as it’s not quite as depressing an ending.

[@chelnahtheegghead]

I’m guessing the anime Psycho Pass was strongly influenced by Minority Report? I have yet to read or watch either version, so I’m guessing just from the summaries of each in this video.

[@pj9525]

Call me cynical, but I always assumed the end of the movie was so conveniently happy because it was a dream Andersen was having in his coma.

[@joyleilani5456]

I remember really enjoying this movie

[@Disavowedagent47]

Dom I love your work. Please keep it up. I watch your channel all the time and love the reviews

[@femmedracula6857]

I'm surprised you didn't mention the quote about what happens to the comatose prisoners - that supposedly, they have vivid dreams in which everything they want comes to pass... which also matches the ending we see. How do we know *for certain* that what happened after Anderton was locked away is something that actually happened within the film as opposed to a fantasy generated by Anderton's comatose mind?

[@Leiliel1]

Uh, Dom, you're seeing a plot hole that isn't there; the retinal scanners are shown to report known pre-criminals to the police and the spyder drones find their targets through retinal scanning. He needed new eyes to get anywhere without a legion of cops after him.

[@jamesharker5560]

Great video. Always loved the film and need to check out the story. Thanks for your hard work and research.

[@ritzexists2201]

Having started to read pkd’s work, I’ve come to the conclusion that he is the Steven king of sci fi: his work cannot be translated to film without serious changes due to the presentation or the mechanics of the worlds he creates.

[@ThierryVerhoeven]

1:24 - "Indeed no one seems to truly hate this film..." I guess you never watched the video review by Confused Matthew, who considers this to be the worst film he's ever seen.

[@deangordon2215]

This may be a nostalgia-fuelled opinion, but Confused Matthew's original review remains one of the best tear-downs of a movie that I've ever seen; and I'm sure it was made around 2009 - 2010 so it's had some competition. "So they dress up in full Swat gear and fly off in an armoured tank to confront a man that they know is armed only with a pair of scissors." - Would get me every time.

[@NGorso1]

I also loved that the guy making the mindreading equipment(and persumably others in the society) saw the precogs like holy figures.

[@kylpyvene]

Keeping myself distracted from life by watching Dom

[@OverdramaticAngel]

He`s very good to watch for that. Sounds like you might be going through something tough, and if you are, I'm sorry. I know I'm just a random internet stranger, but hugs if wanted.

[@kylpyvene]

@@OverdramaticAngel Thanks, appreciate it. And true, Dom is very comforting to watch

[@kramermariav]

Aren't we all?

[@KiramidHead]

They originally bought the rights for this to make it a sequel to Total Recall, so a faithful adaptation wasn't really in the cards, heh.

[@gbadspcps2]

2002 flashback but a t-shirt for a 2014 manga. It's a time traveller!

[@gbadspcps2]

@Studio Autio it's at 1:24

[@almightycinder]

It's one of the Doms from the Total Recall reviews.

[@osnatashtaralevin8944]

They didn't actually predict those technological developments.. I saw a behind the scenes video, apparently Spielberg really wanted everything to look as real or as plausible as can be, so the producers did quite an extensive research into future technologies that were currently in development, cranking them up a notch - for example the idea of cars driving perpendicular to the ground was inspired by the magnetic levitation train in Japan (bullet train). I actually think I'm impressed more by this then by the notion of them predicting everything by chance =P

[@bobwalsh3751]

One of VERY few "ostentatiously Scientologist" era Tom Cruise films I actually like.

[@Tillyard86]

1:25 A You Tube film reviewer by the name of Confused Matthew hated the film. Then again he also hated No Country For Old Men and The Lion King, so take that with a gain of salt. The reason he has his eyes replaced is so he's not picked up on security camera that identify people by scanning their eyes, it wasn't to help him break into pre-crime. Why his old eyes still allow him access is odd though, he's a fugitive now wouldn't they have taken him off the system?

[@AgentPedestrian]

Minority report is a tough nut. The movie itself if not coloured by nostalgia is indeed bot necessarily in the top tens and judging by the novella synopsis it would be wayyyy more though provoking to digest in that form. But the concept is much more easily digested in movie form and I appreciate that immensely. Also that they humanised they precogs was a cute break.

[@josephhermitage5996]

This was the last film I watched before getting glasses. The eye motif throughout the film is thus a particularly fun for me.

[@ItsJustChurch]

I really like both stories. The book is an interesting thought experiment, and the movie has good action justified well by the premise. I like mysteries in general, though.

[@Abyssfullofgoats]

"I don't know anyone who hates this movie". Me remembering Confused Mathew's review "Right".

[@MrFlixallade]

For YEARS, I had a faint memory in my mind of watching a movie (or part of it) that had some sort of "predicting crime before it happened" element in it (that was the only part I distinctly remembered). Thank you for finally unfogging that stupid memory of mine! Also, thanks for Lost in Adaptation in general, it's one of my favorite things to watch! :D

[@mrpitman5496]

Why not change your name to The Noble Dominic

[@onnimannimaki8846]

He made video about it

[@mrpitman5496]

I know why he changed it from the Dom, just after seeing the change think it would look more prestiges the other way around.

[@searchingfororion]

@@mrpitman5496 We can just start calling him this. You and I. He's already said he doesn't care / understands if people still say The Dom (as long as they don't make any "50 Shades"-eque jokes) - So when he reboots the the livestream - we can address him as "Oh Noble Dominic, ye doth braveth E.L James again for thou fellow man." Or - "Greetings Noble Dominic! May your health and voice ring true!"... Ect. We should start a #NobleDominicNoble club!

[@RawbeardX]

so it's fascists vs fascists who can LEGALLY lock you up for a crime you didn't commit. I think I would side with the military in this scenario

[@weldonwin]

Yeah, but in the book, there is a check and balance system where no single agency has sole control over the precogs or their predictions, since every government agency has their own set of precogs with the records of every prediction being logged with multiple databases. The military, would have taken sole control over all the precogs, allowing them to basically manufacture what ever charges they wanted to get rid of anyone who opposed them

[@casihamilton3773]

The cake is made of bees might be my new favorite quote

[@nemeziskill]

another solid good work

[@thac0twenty377]

Phillip K Dick is the unrecognized go to for Hollywood sci fi

[@ishotmyboss]

And Bradbury.

[@LoganProductions54]

Wait a gosh darn minute. Does MR and TR (remake) feature Colin?

[@FosukeLordOfError]

So apparently the script for this was originally going to be a total recall sequel

[@commentcopbadge6665]

It's been a spell since I watched this movie but I do recall that I was surprised that Colin Farrel went through the whole movie without his Irish accent slipping through his American one he is doing. lol It's a thing I do when I watch anything with Farrel where he's in a role that he's got to mask his natural brogue. The reason I do this is because when he does slip up, it's never subtle. lol I mean it's like *BAM!* , oirish brogue en yer fol'kin fa'hce! lol

[@JustSomeGuy]

If they do another adaption, they should cast Paul Giamatti as the main character. He'd be perfect.

[@gamepopper101]

I like the theory for the film that SpoonyOne pointed out where the final act of the film didn't really happen, and it was just the result of Anderton being in that mental coma while imprisoned.

[@ponypublications]

For a moment there I thought you had done this already, but then I realized that that might have been Krimson Rogue... Looking forward to hearing your thoughts then~ :3 Edit: I looked it up and Krimson Rogue did not do a video on this. No idea where I got that idea then, lol.

[@thequietdreamer2186]

Ah, remember watching this in high school as part of a film class. Never read the book, though, but I should fix that soon.

[@zappawoman5183]

You really should - it's excellent.

[@ChaosHolland28]

Good review, I actually had a scifi/fantasy writing class in highschool that did a lesson on this book/movie adaption. If I remember right it was a lesson of taking ideas form one source and using them to tell a different story with the same core

[@llouie4999]

Besides this and Monster's Inc both solidifying the "kindly old mentor" trope in my head, this movie also stuck with me for that scene when all the ads are calling out to Anderton. I like using it whenever we discuss the complications of overly "helpful" personalized marketing tech

[@ThePopcornFairy]

Third Philip K. Dick novel, tied with Stephen King for most revisited author, excluding the Harry Potter marathon. I see what you did there. There is another book trilogy you covered... but we don't really consider *her* an "author," now do we?

[@PKMNResearcherSkyler]

Fellow beautiful watchers, join me in the fight against the KZbin algorithm!

[@firezstorm369]

"The LLAAAMMMAAAAA KING!!!!" Is the Llama King related to Carl by any chance?

[@rodrolliv]

Carl: "how can you even think that monarch is related to me, I'm a republican at heart. Speaking of hearts, have you seen my latest work yet?"

[@TheSufferingDarkness]

rodro CAAAAAARRRRRLL!

[@berengustav7714]

CAAAARRRRRRLLLLLL...

[@Megatron_95]

Just checked it on Amazon to see if the book is available. And yes, it's available

[@UnderdogRecords91]

This is actually one of my favorite Spielberg movies. And it's also home to one of my favorite fan theories: This film's ending gets a lot darker if you consider everything happening past Anderton's arrest to be just a figment of his imagination.

[@trequor]

Also known as "the most boring way to interpret any story"

[@mac1991seth]

I'm gonna have to read that book. It sounds far more interesting than the movie. I like the idea of precognition adjusting itself according to the "criminal's" knowledge of the situation, eventually becoming a self-fulfilling prophecy.

[@icp7201]

I always thought that the ending of the movie wasn't necessarily a happy one, and more of a ambiguous one. Since it's very hard to believe that such an intelligent and methodical guy like burgess would let slip his guilt to Anderton's wife, making it all to be part of Anderton's dream while he is still in comma.

[@ringking7]

Never seen the film, game was pretty good for a movie game though.

[@l.francesca4780]

"Vomiting on the cake and also the cake is made of BEES!" We really do need an opposing phrase for "Having one's cake and eating it too." That being said, I remember seeing the movie in a creative writing class as a young highschooler and being mildly traumatized by the sandwich scene and any and all scenes with the eyeballs. Movie still freaks me out to this day. I am a soft person and was not at all prepared for horror thrillers in the sanctity of my little school. The premise of both the book and movie are very interesting though and I'm glad I know about them more, but I wish I had been exposed to them just a bit later in life.

[@anna_in_aotearoa3166]

Glad it wasn't just me wincing at the body horror aspects of all the eyeball shenanigans!! 😂 I don't remember the sandwich though 🤔 I feel like there's a certain level of vividness of visual imagination & recall that really makes watching horror movies & adjacent content pretty much impossible...? 🙈 Maybe some people desensitize themselves by watching a lot of it, but tbh I've never loved that style of content enough to try & do that...

[@TheStraatjutter]

Hi Dominic, just want to tell you Noble is a really cool last name and being called freaking Bruggeman I am very jealous.

[@ilexdiapason]

his real last name is smith, you might not have seen the polls that revealed this, but noble is a family name so that's still fair

[@fallingskies8991]

“The Senate is supposedly in-charge but the military and the police have a disturbing amount of power and independence” hahaha...hah...ha....

[@lokilover1315]

PLEASE do High Rise by JG Ballard and directed by Ben Wheatley I'm poor but I've been a fan since way before patreon. Please please, please I love you AND Terrance.

[@misShezw00]

This. I love Tom Hiddleston. God bless that sexy British bum.

[@ashleightompkins3200]

It's currently approaching three in the morning... I have time

[@robinpullman1488]

Awesomeness!!!

[@Inka.R.]

I don't know how I missed it the first time, but the bit about vomiting on his cake and the cake is made of beeeeeeees made me laugh out loud so hard and long it made my throat hurt 😂😂😂😂😂

[@BG12sofia]

I need to rewatch this movie one of these days.

[@VonWenk]

I liked Minority Report more than A.I., and my favorite part was Witwer not being a complete idiot and his explanation of an "orgy of evidence."

[@mirjanbouma]

Yes, that made the character suddenly interesting and "real" as opposed to the "antagonist 1" he seemed to be at the start.

[@Redem10]

1928 to 1982 invert 28 and it become 82 Conspiracy?!?

[@alwaysxnever]

Bruh this purple is beautiful.