The Film Room GOAT list #3- Minority Report

[daemonova]

Minority Report second to last great Spielberg film, Munich is better, Terminal is better than I expected but that is a no for me

 

[FlyRy]

I knew this was going to happen

It’s okay homie. We can’t win them all

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[South Paw]

loved the concept of this movie


it always gets unfairly shyt on

 

[FlyRy]

- The Washington Post

:tarantino:

 

[Regular_P]

Watched it for the first time in a while. Still classic; still great from start to finish.

 

[Regular_P]

 

[Regular_P]

 

[Poetical Poltergeist]

Never been a fan of this movie.

 

[Lootpack]

One of my favs, will give it a watch this week.

 

[FlyRy]

One of my favs, will give it a watch this week.

listening now. need that 4K disc. its been on 4K on paramount + for a few years

 

[Lootpack]

listening now. need that 4K disc. its been on 4K on paramount + for a few years

Caught it the other night. Legit entertaining flick that’s futuristic, but Hollywood noir at the same time. 2002…low-key great year for cinema. Dying for Cruise to return to complex roles like this again, pending whatever he has in store with Iñárritu.

The Spielbergisms do show out though and it’s keeping me from calling it an all-out great. He’s a legendary filmmaker, but I think the majority of his works teeter on that edge of overdoing it with the sentimentality.
‘Munich’ stood out to me because I felt like he kept such to a minimum there. A story like Minority Report could’ve benefited from a colder telling, IMO. Upon rewatch, I did wonder how someone like Villeneuve would’ve tackled it. I guarantee if he did, it wouldn’t have ended on such a straightforward happy note.

Regardless, PKD was a sci-fi visionary and it’s scary how well most of his works have aged today.

 

[FlyRy]

Caught it the other night. Legit entertaining flick that’s futuristic, but Hollywood noir at the same time. 2002…low-key great year for cinema. Dying for Cruise to return to complex roles like this again, pending whatever he has in store with Iñárritu.

The Spielbergisms do show out though and it’s keeping me from calling it an all-out great. He’s a legendary filmmaker, but I think the majority of his works teeter on that edge of overdoing it with the sentimentality.
‘Munich’ stood out to me because I felt like he kept such to a minimum there. A story like Minority Report could’ve benefited from a colder telling, IMO. Upon rewatch, I did wonder how someone like Villeneuve would’ve tackled it. I guarantee if he did, it wouldn’t have ended on such a straightforward happy note.

Regardless, PKD was a sci-fi visionary and it’s scary how well most of his works have aged today.

it's pretty dark for a spielberg movie overall though. the stuff with his son

 

[Lootpack]

it's pretty dark for a spielberg movie overall though. the stuff with his son

It is, so much so to the point where I think it’s headed for a bleak ending, and then…LOL NOPE.

 

[Lootpack]

I don’t want to come across like the film has to have a downer ending for it to be good. Not at all. But let’s turn down the saccharine just a little. It’s something that I’ve come to accept with his movies a long time ago though.

 

[Amo Husserl]

I like it was set in the near future and had all the tropes of what the government been doing with psychic research but gave the precognitive crime twist with how determinism could be wrong. Using technology to circumvent human error in our reality won't have the same effect due to coding... but the technologists and peanut gallery won't hear that. The trans-human connection will come with too many minor decision and framing errors that lead to a bigger issues of judgment when security is on the table. Cool lil' utopia dressed up as a dystopia flick for the millennium.