Oh my God, Samantha Morton's acting at 30:59 when he gets shot is some of the most incredible acting I've ever seen. You can just feel how the act of murder is such an incredibly traumatic psychic event for someone so deeply connected to everything around them.
"Minority Report" is both a top notch science fiction as well as a crime procedural. Scott Frank crafted Philip K. Dick's short story into a masterful screenplay. Frank later went on to write the screenplay and direct "The Queen's Gambit" on Netflix.
Agreed, it's crime noir in the best sense, in a high tech setting. I've seen a lot of cyberpunk movies over the years that try to do the same thing but usually fail, this movie works. Excellent screenplay for sure. The dialogue is scathing and quite funny.
Only in the opinion of people who haven't seen many science fiction films. For me, this is a disappointing adaptation of Philip K. Dick's novella, and I can't make an argument for it being in the top 50 best sci-fi films of all-time (even if I limit it to just Hollywood made films).
Witwer (Farrell) said Anderton (Cruise) was in trouble because he found the evidence in his apartment that he was using substances, most likely illegal substances. Anderton only assumed Witwer set him up because he was previously in the building asking questions of the program and could not imagine why he could be charged with a pre-crime. He was just making a wild guess when he came across Witwer in the elevator.
If you enjoyed the themes from this movie, highly recommend you read the works of sci-fi icon Phillip K. Dick. His work has been adapted into so many amazing movies, like Blade Runner, Total Recall, A Scanner Darkly, The Adjustment Bureau, Paycheck, and of course Minority Report.
His work has been butchered into so many amazingly mediocre movies (with the exception of the original Total Recall film, which is excellent). There, fixed it for you. 👍
I'd also recommend Stanley Kubrick's A Clockwork Orange. Both movies share a similar plot.. i.e. government programs to stop crime but turn fascist and abusive.
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. You Should read her novels. 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. John Williams thrilled his audience once again. He was inspired by the composer for Psycho and other Alfred Hitchcock films, Bernard Herrmann
Amazing Tom Cruise movies... Born on the 4th of July, Edge of Tomorrow, Rain Man, Oblivion, A few Good Men. I think most of his films are thoroughly entertaining and great acting. IMO
I'm already over 6 mins into your reaction here, and I have to applaud you for your comments thus far...especially the one you made about the dangers of social media algorithms and the 'authorities' (government colluding with BIG TECH companies) abusing their power by building databases of users etc. I'm glad that people are waking up to what's going on these days. I'll leave it at that for now, since there is only so much that we can say on platforms like RUclips before we get banned. Love your movie reactions!!
@@highstimulation2497 - Yes, you can get banned. These guys can label anything as 'hate speech' or 'Against community standards' (whatever that means). We're currently in a clown-world era.
I believe John Williams scored every Spielberg film from The Sugarland Express (1974) until now, with one exception: The Color Purple (1985) - that was Quincy Jones.
This was great 😂 I'm glad you decided to post this. I agree with you about Spielberg, his movies hold up. Jurassic park and Saving Private Ryan still look amazing today.
Glad you identified Max von Sidow, finally. He was in all those Igmar Bergman films in the 60s and early 70s which are all time classics of film making. I'm sure he made a pittance in those compared to what he made on some later blockbusters. Note, he was the exorcist, father Maren, in The Exorcist. He died a couple of years ago and I was surprised he was still alive till then. I thought he was 80 years old in The Exorcist but he was only in his 40s! With that rugged, Swedish face it seemed like he never aged over 40 years
This is such a brilliant movie and one of my favorite sci-fi thrillers. You should watch Spielberg's "A.I.: Artificial Intelligence" (2001), "Children of Men" (2006), "Under the Skin" (2013) and "Lucy" (2014) for more thought-provoking movies like this film. 📽❤️
@@Deathbird_Mitch I've been dying for a reaction to "Bicentennial Man". It's one of my top favorite Robin Williams movies that hardly anyone knows about. Great suggestion!👍
Hey Madison, This vision of the future is so next level in this movie. From self-driving cars that use the sides of building to double as roadways. To interface teach that can scan your mind fro their thoughts and on the flip side implant new ones to create fantasies. Flying police cars, roll up digital newspapers. Near-instant body part replacements, artificial body parts. And the list goes on and on. THe only one I would leave off the list is the constant eye scans. But our cell phones can do that trick to have us tracked, so were screwed either way.
It's also the humorous moments and over the top characters that really make this a repeat watch. John didn't recognize the doctor until he was under sedation, then the terror sinks in that he's strapped to the chair of a sadistic criminal with a grudge ( the whole prison story haha). One of my favorite movies.
I truly enjoy your inputs. You really know how to breakdown movie and you're like me, I too know or can predict what's a out to happen next. Some People think I have seen the movie already. Good job Madison.
Great reaction to a film that I appreciate more the more I watch it. Also, fun fact... Star Wars composer John Williams has been awarded an honorary knighthood in one of the final awards approved by the Queen before she died. R.I.P. QE2.
This story is based on a story written by Philip K. Dick, who also wrote the story Total Recall is based on, and is apparently the sequel to it (which is kind of funny seeing as Colin Farrell also starred in the Total Recall remake). John Anderton is supposed to be Douglas Quaid and Agatha is supposed to be one of the fortune tellers Quaid meets on Mars. Philip K. Dick also wrote the story Blade Runner is based on. But you probably already knew all this lol. Great reaction, Madison.
I love Spielberg's playful gags. Like at 35:05. She puts the eyeball down and you hear the ol' "shock" piano sting, ... and then you see the eyeball is sitting on the keys of a piano. The cheesy zoom seals it.
You know what's funny is the fact that a lot of people never would have believed in airbags or nobody would have believed in anti-collision technology but it's amazing what we can get used to after it becomes mainstream. Once self-driving becomes mainstream and 100 percent safe and there is science to prove that it is safer than an average person driving a car, everyone will get one
Some constructive criticism: The sound level [both the narration and even more so the movie audio] is very low. Even with headphones it is hard to hear the movie and that makes it kind of uncomfortable to view the reaction. If the entire audio could be raised substantially that would make the reaction much more enjoyable to watch and easier to understand [as so much dialog from the movie is lost by not being able to be heard] Hope this helps. I do enjoy your reactions and so that is why I write to help them be better yet. Again, hope this helps. Please raise the audio. [I still gave you a thumbs up]
Two westerns you'll want to see are The Culpepper Cattle Company and The Long Riders. Culpepper is a coming of age film set during a long cattle drive with numerous veteran actors, all of whom are excellent in this. Long Riders is more fascinating, with brothers playing the roles of brother outlaws, including the James brothers, the Youngers, and the Fords. If you haven't seen these, you're in for a treat. The soundtrack for Long Riders is by Ry Cooder and is well worth having. It's directed by Walter Hill, a pretty good one from back in the day, whose other films are also worth a look. Other than those, I'm guessing you've already seen Lonesome Dove--masterpiece.
Critics like Roger Ebert called Minority Report the best sci-fi film of the decade, and I agree. The concept of Pre-Crime is original and masterfully done. The scene with the spiders is classic Spielberg. I also love the jet pack chase through the apartment blocks. I was surprised it wasn't a big box office hit when it came out but then considering the dark subject matter I can understand why. The whole surveillance-state "thought market" setting is bleak and pretty confronting.
Regarding the line on the movie that, "In the land of the blind, the one eyed man is king," H. G. Wells wrote a short story called The Country of the Blind that contradicts that notion.
Your audio was especially low this time around. Peaks were less than 10% of full scale. If you run the audio through Goldwave and use their Maximize button on default setting, it sounds great.
One of my favorite ' Sci Fi' movies , though it's considered by many as not one of the classics of the genre . But I enjoyed it immensely . Love your reactions , which are always very astute and reflect a very fine mind .
This is one of S/F "documentaries" and my favorite Spielberg's movie. There're many sanctions for actions people didn't do or didn't make any harm to nobody, in all human-made laws. On the other side, many people have no sanctions for the worst deeds. Nice reaction. Can you react on "Sixth Sense" with Bruce Willis?
He should have kept Sean in the pool instead of putting him on the edge, but this did help solve Agatha's mothers murder and free Agatha and the twins. She probably knew all along that John was coming because of his son's disappearance and knew that John was going to solve the case and save her and the twins otherwise she could have alerted the police in the mall instead of walking him to Leo Crow and Laura's house and him captured.
Great reactions from your vault for Minority Report, Madison!!!🎬👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽It did look like Danny was the obvious suspect. The future tech is just terrifying. The spiders in particular. We are already getting personalized ads on computers. A retina scan for ads does not seem too far fetched. Eventually ID will either be by retina scan or finger print.
This film is amazing, one the best sci-fi films ever. The world envisioned, the technology, the performances, the colour palette, the visual effects, the editing, Spielberg on his A game. The main setup (why would he kill someone he's never met) is predictable and couple of scenes haven't aged well, but there's so much creativity and craft on show, and it's nice to see Von Sydow play a villain. Criminally overlooked.
@@highstimulation2497 It’s a sci-fi premise based on a short story by a renowned author of sci fi. It has action, but ‘action movie’ would be more suitable for something like Terminator 2 or Aliens, whereas this is predominantly a chase/whodunnit movie, a thriller.
@@zerpblerd5966 it’s not that serious. We have different tastes, it’s fine. Reasonable people can disagree. You can carry on being weirdly condescending and antagonistic or not, happy trails to you chief
My favorite moment from this is when Anderton slams Colin Farrell up against the wall in the elevator and then points a gun at him and he says "Put the gun away John...I didn't hear a red ball.." And then the alarm goes off and his expression towards Anderton changes to this face like "holy shit...you really were gonna shoot me you son of a bitch.."
this isn't a Tom Cruise movie, it's Philip K Dick movie. The common theme for Philip K Dick stories is identify confusion. My personal favorite movies based on his stories .. Blade Runner, Minority Report, Total Recall, Paycheck. (oh! ... great reaction, btw!)
Excellent comparison with The Fugitive. I can see why you like The Minority Report more since it is more thought provoking. Kimbell knew someone else killed his wife and was just looking for him. John had the added complexity of not knowing who kidnapped/killed his son, not knowing if he was going to kill someone in the future, AND having a 2nd mystery of Ann Lively to figure out at the same time! I found The Fugitive to be more suspenseful and satisfying since Harrison Ford is more of the "every-man" and Tom Cruise is ... well, Tom Cruise. In The Fugitive there were so many moments where it seemed like Kimbell was going to get caught. Like you said, no one can catch Tom Cruise, his arms give him super speed (lol). Anyway, excellent reaction and post-analysis (my favorite part) :)
Deep cut choice Mads; great job - I also recommend Cruise & Spielberg's tag team for WAR OF THE WORLDS. And if you haven't seen BLADE RUNNER please do since that's also a Philip K. Dick joint.
These self-driving cars are different from the ones in real life, I think, because they coordinate with each other and work as a system, I presume. In real life, the AI just tries to react and drive like a person, independently in isolation, but if everything were part of the same system in which every car's destination is known, then they can be coordinated much better and more safely.
What they know for certain is that all of the would-be murderers have been apprehended and dealt with. But what they don't know is whether any innocent people have been wrongfully punished, and there are people who don't want anyone to know. The title of the movie is the flaw in the system that certain people are trying to hide. John didn't know about this at first, but he'll want to find out.
The idea of feeding everyone's personal information through an algorithm that can be exploited by those in power to destroy their enemies is handled quite well in _Captain America: The Winter Soldier_ . I'm guessing you've already seen that because you've reacted to related TV programs that came later.
"Edge of Tomorrow" - Tom Cruise and Emily Blunt, excellent movie if you haven't seen it. And Cruise's latest Top Gun film "Maverick" - was flawless. Both worth seeing. Enjoyed your reaction and really like your thoughts post reaction. Thx.
Some films based on the works Philip K. Dick The Man in the High Castle (TV Series) Electric Dreams (TV Series) The Adjustment Bureau A Scanner Darkly Paycheck Minority Report Total Recall Blade Runner
We never find out who killed Anderton's son. That's part of the tragedy of it, and the price we pay for NOT being arrested for crimes we may or may not commit. The fundamental conflict in any legal system is that, with humans being fallible (part of the point of this movie), we can err on the side of letting some guilty people get away, or we can err on the side of punishing some innocent people for crimes they didn't commit. In reality, of course, both things happen a lot, no matter what we do, but we still have to choose whether to emphasize freedom or security.
Whitworth was just sceptical about pre-crime (smartest man in the movie) and only had it in for our hero when he discovered he was a druggy running the department.
How many times did you say you didn't see that coming? The movie had just the right amount of twists and turns to keep the audience thinking they knew what was going to happen, then it pulled the rug right out from under them lol.
Agatha was the one with the most talent and the key to tapping into the abilities of the others, and she was the one who kept issuing the minority reports that were swept under the rug and kept secret. Gee, nothing suspicious here.... 🤨
5:59 You're actually totally correct. Facebook has predictive algorithm's that can almost accurately predict you behavior based on your daily patterns. On people's cell phones the Facebook app is installed as bulkware, and even if you do not use the app it still collects meta data and sends that back to Facebook. Advertisements that you see on websites are sent to you based on this meta data that Facebook sells to third parties, that's why they're so scarily accurate. As you travel during the day your phone is sending a signal to various cell towers, and your location can be triangulated that way, even with location turned off. Facebook keeps a record of your daily routine, they will even know when you wake up each day, since people usually check their phone. Just slight movement of the phone, such as picking it up, can be determined by geo location and cell tower triangulation. So picking up the phone and going to the bathroom is known too. A smartwatch even aids this info gathering even more, by seeing your heartbeat change, so they know when you're moving and when you're not. Plus how long you sleep too. It's crazy just how much info an app, phone, or smartwatch can learn just from cell tower triangulation, and even more crazy how much people are tracked and monitored every second of their lives. Google, Apple, Facebook, Microsoft, RUclips, Instagram, and tons of others all collect meta data, and either sell it or use it for their own purposes.
If this was accurate and not just paranoid delusion, then the information sent to advertisers would show how much I hate their ads, how I do everything in my power to avoid their products, rate them badly and try to discourage people I know from buying them. And yet the ads keep coming. Maybe you're not deluded. Maybe the marketing people using the metadata are morons. Or maybe the algorithm spits out nonsense which the marketing people then rationalise into counter productive behaviour. Whatever the truth about metadata algorithms, sane adults don't believe everything they read on the internet, especially if there's money involved.
@@mdwquiz Paranoid delusion? Nothing I said is delusion or paranoia. How do you think Facebook makes money? Also, you aren't going to know what ads you see are being directed to you based on your social media activity, browsing history, or location data. If you use a smart phone, then you're sending your location, whether location is turned on or off, every second of every day. Google analytics is used by pretty much every website, that collects data too on your browsing history. The point being that people have no real privacy anymore, which privacy is willingly handed over. Alexa listens and records even when not being used, that was shown in court during a murder investigation. If you knew or understood how this impacts your daily life, you would have real concerns over privacy, and how much information these corporations should be allowed to collect and then sell for profit.
We're really not that far away from policing thought. We certainly police speech in certain ways that go beyond the immediate reaction of those around us, and I mean in a sinister, organized, systemic way.
Hey Madison, I don't think Lamar Burgess was remorseful at all. I think he did want to spend the reminder of his life in jail so he toook his own life. I don't believe there is any arc to his character sinec we focus on his so little in order to have the plot twist at the end. Just my 2 cents in the discussion of this awesome Spielberg flick.
Yet another futuristic technology with dubious applications in real life is transparent displays. Who would want to use one of those when a normal opaque screen has far better contrast and does not potentially interfere with your examination of images (or reading text)?
You hit the main question of this movie in the first 5 minutes. Can you arrest someone for something they haven't done yet? And the discussion between Cruise and Ferrel's characters presents both sides. "Why did you catch the ball?" "It was gonna hit the floor." "But it didn't. You stopped that from happening." Because of the Precogs (at this point in the film), they could know a murder is going to happen without intervention (most of the time, hence the title). But then it leads back to can they be arrested? They haven't actually done anything wrong now, because of your intervention. If this were to ever happen for real, this very discussion would be the only thing on people's lips for years. Edit: But also, John and Lamarr were only able to change the vision because of their knowledge of it. But what would you think if your phone rang and you answered to "Hello, this is the (Your City Here) Police Department. You are hereby under notice that 15 minutes from now, at 10:52 PM, you will have murdered (Victim name here), and will be arrested by police showing up 5 seconds later. This is your only chance to change your fate." If someone's VERY intent on killing someone, they could move it up. Or do it later. How many times will police have to respond to a potential murder to find they held back, but then they continue getting "calls" about the same attacker/victim/location?
So I hope you realized Danny was only interested in John's substance abuse as an officer, not anything else. And she couldn't strangle Lamarr because the Precogs were "operational" again. She would have been haloed before she could do it.
Well, if you're going to prioritize the crimes that the precogs predict, murder would definitely have the highest priority. I think they can see all kinds of things, but murder is what really gets their attention, naturally, over crimes such as jaywalking or opening lemonade stands without a permit (which gets higher priority these days in real life than ever before).
A concept like pre-crime is very likely to come about in society using AI. Organisations, politicians and private companies are going to market these products and systems as if they are a flawless, and latch on to the mistaken belief that AI is neutral because it is data driven. But it isn't true, because you only get out of an AI system what you put into it -- much like a person. If you put in flawed and biased data (which is what our criminal data is, unfortunately, because we flawed humans maintain it) you're going to get AI systems that are flawed and biased.
I thought Max von Sydowkilled the son, to turn the main character’s focus on pre-crime and kind of make him the poster child of pre-crime. What could be more compelling about the possibility of pre-crime than it could save the life of a child? But it’s been a looong time since I saw the whole movie.. I too shudder at the thought of our government having a pre-crime division, but what what if they just used it to stop the crime and decided not to arrest or incriminate those who have not yet done anything illegal. Yeah, probably a pipe dream, I know.
I think you are confusing yourself and what this movie was about. You are suggesting that we are in a scary point in our society, and that it would be wrong to allow the use of social media to predict crimes before they happen. I think everyone would agree, but that is NOT what this movie is about. It is about people with psychic powers, or more specifically, people with premonitory capabilities "SEEING" the future and therefore locking the perpetrators up before they commit their crimes, thereby preventing the actual crime. Essentially, that WOULD be the right thing to do. However, the REAL problem with this premise is that, if they prevent the crime, then the crime never happens, therefore the person is not guilty of actually doing anything wrong. Now, the weird thing is, their 1st example, where the man is about to kill his wife with a pair of scissors ✂, WAS a crime, even though he was not successful. He WAS guilty of "attempted murder", not the actual murder. Now, THAT might be the thing they wanted to focus on. In other words, Tom Cruise's character arrested the man for the "precrime" of "murder of his wife", when he SHOULD'VE arrested him for the "attempted murder of his wife". The punishment would not be the same but, it WOULD prevent the woman's death, and allow her to go on having sex with the other man (WOOHOO for them, right ???).
It's really too bad you don't offer a blooper reel of A-plus footage that includes you destroying your studio, Madison. It's kind of ironic that this mayhem occurred while wearing your Spidey T-shirt. Maybe your superpower is producing great content. I've always felt _Minority Report_ was vastly underrated--you do have to pay attention and think about it more than a _Mission Impossible_ movie--but am really impressed you appraised it so highly without having to mull much of it over. Fantastic video. I think you'd love the Wired article from 2012 on the "Idea Summit" that Steven Spielberg convened of thinkers from science and technology to present ideas on what the near-future would look like. Human beings are very poor at predicting what's going to happen, otherwise, we'd all be successful investors.
I think the music kinda sucks in this movie, i'd say a darker tone would've suited it better. I have zero issues with John Williams, i just think the whimsey of the music conflicts the darkness of the subject matter.....thought control.....which is possibly on the way if things continue the way they're going. Love me some Philip K. Dick ✌ @madison Thames Also see Vanilla Sky, a 2001 Tom Cruise movie that hits a similar 'theme' vibe....only similar from a certain perspective, ya know 👍
More proof, if it were needed, that the novel (or novella in this case) is ALWAYS better than the on screen adaptation. The film is "meh", but I love PKD's book. 👍
Obviously, pre-crime enforcement has saved a lot of people's lives, but you know what? I don't think it's right on a deep philosophical level, and on a practical level, I don't think it makes society better to live in, overall. Of course, that's the point of this story, and I agree in the ways it presents, among other possibilities.
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Oh my God, Samantha Morton's acting at 30:59 when he gets shot is some of the most incredible acting I've ever seen. You can just feel how the act of murder is such an incredibly traumatic psychic event for someone so deeply connected to everything around them.
He didn't set him up. He found evidence and actual quantities of illicit drugs in his apartment.
"Minority Report" is both a top notch science fiction as well as a crime procedural. Scott Frank crafted Philip K. Dick's short story into a masterful screenplay. Frank later went on to write the screenplay and direct "The Queen's Gambit" on Netflix.
Agreed, it's crime noir in the best sense, in a high tech setting. I've seen a lot of cyberpunk movies over the years that try to do the same thing but usually fail, this movie works. Excellent screenplay for sure. The dialogue is scathing and quite funny.
Arguably one of the greatest Sci-fi films ever made in the history of Hollywood cinema. Great reaction! 👍🏿
@@zerpblerd5966 He's allowed his opinion, and he did say 'arguably'......and geez, u can in no way know how many movies he's seen.
Only in the opinion of people who haven't seen many science fiction films. For me, this is a disappointing adaptation of Philip K. Dick's novella, and I can't make an argument for it being in the top 50 best sci-fi films of all-time (even if I limit it to just Hollywood made films).
@@paulcurran4786 EXACTLY! 💯
Witwer (Farrell) said Anderton (Cruise) was in trouble because he found the evidence in his apartment that he was using substances, most likely illegal substances. Anderton only assumed Witwer set him up because he was previously in the building asking questions of the program and could not imagine why he could be charged with a pre-crime. He was just making a wild guess when he came across Witwer in the elevator.
I love both this and The Fugitive. Those are two movies I never tire of watching.
If you like that twist in the middle of the film where they reveal who's the bad guy, I would also recommend "L.A Confidential (1997)"
If you enjoyed the themes from this movie, highly recommend you read the works of sci-fi icon Phillip K. Dick. His work has been adapted into so many amazing movies, like Blade Runner, Total Recall, A Scanner Darkly, The Adjustment Bureau, Paycheck, and of course Minority Report.
His work has been butchered into so many amazingly mediocre movies (with the exception of the original Total Recall film, which is excellent). There, fixed it for you. 👍
I'd also recommend Stanley Kubrick's A Clockwork Orange. Both movies share a similar plot.. i.e. government programs to stop crime but turn fascist and abusive.
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. You Should read her novels. 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. John Williams thrilled his audience once again. He was inspired by the composer for Psycho and other Alfred Hitchcock films, Bernard Herrmann
I enjoy from the vault, thanx for letting us enjoy these with ya.
Amazing Tom Cruise movies... Born on the 4th of July, Edge of Tomorrow, Rain Man, Oblivion, A few Good Men. I think most of his films are thoroughly entertaining and great acting. IMO
I'm already over 6 mins into your reaction here, and I have to applaud you for your comments thus far...especially the one you made about the dangers of social media algorithms and the 'authorities' (government colluding with BIG TECH companies) abusing their power by building databases of users etc. I'm glad that people are waking up to what's going on these days. I'll leave it at that for now, since there is only so much that we can say on platforms like RUclips before we get banned.
Love your movie reactions!!
Agreed!
you're not gonna get banned for talking about the evils of social media. it's not hate speech. to believe otherwise is paranoid.
@@highstimulation2497 - Yes, you can get banned. These guys can label anything as 'hate speech' or 'Against community standards' (whatever that means).
We're currently in a clown-world era.
@@fidel2xl agree 100%
I believe John Williams scored every Spielberg film from The Sugarland Express (1974) until now, with one exception: The Color Purple (1985) - that was Quincy Jones.
This was great 😂 I'm glad you decided to post this. I agree with you about Spielberg, his movies hold up. Jurassic park and Saving Private Ryan still look amazing today.
Glad you identified Max von Sidow, finally. He was in all those Igmar Bergman films in the 60s and early 70s which are all time classics of film making. I'm sure he made a pittance in those compared to what he made on some later blockbusters. Note, he was the exorcist, father Maren, in The Exorcist. He died a couple of years ago and I was surprised he was still alive till then. I thought he was 80 years old in The Exorcist but he was only in his 40s! With that rugged, Swedish face it seemed like he never aged over 40 years
This is such a brilliant movie and one of my favorite sci-fi thrillers. You should watch Spielberg's "A.I.: Artificial Intelligence" (2001), "Children of Men" (2006), "Under the Skin" (2013) and "Lucy" (2014) for more thought-provoking movies like this film. 📽❤️
I'd add "Bicentennial Man" to that list even though it isn't crime driven.
@@Deathbird_Mitch I've been dying for a reaction to "Bicentennial Man". It's one of my top favorite Robin Williams movies that hardly anyone knows about. Great suggestion!👍
Hey Madison, This vision of the future is so next level in this movie. From self-driving cars that use the sides of building to double as roadways. To interface teach that can scan your mind fro their thoughts and on the flip side implant new ones to create fantasies. Flying police cars, roll up digital newspapers. Near-instant body part replacements, artificial body parts. And the list goes on and on. THe only one I would leave off the list is the constant eye scans. But our cell phones can do that trick to have us tracked, so were screwed either way.
Madison: "How long can he hold his breath?"
Forever. He's Tom Cruise!
Strangle him with the tie! LOL
It's also the humorous moments and over the top characters that really make this a repeat watch. John didn't recognize the doctor until he was under sedation, then the terror sinks in that he's strapped to the chair of a sadistic criminal with a grudge ( the whole prison story haha). One of my favorite movies.
I truly enjoy your inputs. You really know how to breakdown movie and you're like me, I too know or can predict what's a out to happen next. Some People think I have seen the movie already. Good job Madison.
Great reaction to a film that I appreciate more the more I watch it. Also, fun fact... Star Wars composer John Williams has been awarded an honorary knighthood in one of the final awards approved by the Queen before she died. R.I.P. QE2.
This story is based on a story written by Philip K. Dick, who also wrote the story Total Recall is based on, and is apparently the sequel to it (which is kind of funny seeing as Colin Farrell also starred in the Total Recall remake). John Anderton is supposed to be Douglas Quaid and Agatha is supposed to be one of the fortune tellers Quaid meets on Mars. Philip K. Dick also wrote the story Blade Runner is based on. But you probably already knew all this lol. Great reaction, Madison.
I love Spielberg's playful gags. Like at 35:05. She puts the eyeball down and you hear the ol' "shock" piano sting, ... and then you see the eyeball is sitting on the keys of a piano. The cheesy zoom seals it.
You know what's funny is the fact that a lot of people never would have believed in airbags or nobody would have believed in anti-collision technology but it's amazing what we can get used to after it becomes mainstream. Once self-driving becomes mainstream and 100 percent safe and there is science to prove that it is safer than an average person driving a car, everyone will get one
I hope your lamp is OK. 😂
Great reaction video to a great movie!
Max von Sydow's best role as a villain is in Strange Brew (1983).
Some constructive criticism: The sound level [both the narration and even more so the movie audio] is very low. Even with headphones it is hard to hear the movie and that makes it kind of uncomfortable to view the reaction. If the entire audio could be raised substantially that would make the reaction much more enjoyable to watch and easier to understand [as so much dialog from the movie is lost by not being able to be heard] Hope this helps. I do enjoy your reactions and so that is why I write to help them be better yet. Again, hope this helps. Please raise the audio. [I still gave you a thumbs up]
@Robert J and 11 people who voted this up are also incapable of using volume knob?
@Robert J I'm sorry, but you are the wrong one here, when Windows alert sounds start to rock the chair then video volume is way too quiet.
@Robert J Can you please go be a self-centred jerk somewhere else? Thanks.
@Robert J She can run herself audio through mixer and compare levels to all other youtube videos, you are not helping.
I totally agree with this comment. I just want to see this excellent channel get better and normalising the volume levels would help.
Great reaction, l absolutely love this movie!
I think I saw the original upload but glad to see it here too.
Two westerns you'll want to see are The Culpepper Cattle Company and The Long Riders.
Culpepper is a coming of age film set during a long cattle drive with numerous veteran actors, all of whom are excellent in this. Long Riders is more fascinating, with brothers playing the roles of brother outlaws, including the James brothers, the Youngers, and the Fords. If you haven't seen these, you're in for a treat. The soundtrack for Long Riders is by Ry Cooder and is well worth having. It's directed by Walter Hill, a pretty good one from back in the day, whose other films are also worth a look. Other than those, I'm guessing you've already seen Lonesome Dove--masterpiece.
This movie is a MASTERPIECE..
Don't miss TOP GUN MAVERICK, it's definitely Tom Cruise's best movie
Top Gun Maverick is over-rated and Top Gun is under-rated
Critics like Roger Ebert called Minority Report the best sci-fi film of the decade, and I agree. The concept of Pre-Crime is original and masterfully done. The scene with the spiders is classic Spielberg. I also love the jet pack chase through the apartment blocks. I was surprised it wasn't a big box office hit when it came out but then considering the dark subject matter I can understand why. The whole surveillance-state "thought market" setting is bleak and pretty confronting.
Enjoying your reactions and intelligent overviews, Madison. I suggest "Arsenic and Old Lace "- Cary Grant Classic. Cool magic lamp...lol
Cameron Crowe's, Tom Cruise, Kurt Russell, Cameron Diaz, "Vanilla Sky" is a great, mind-blowing sleeper!!!
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Regarding the line on the movie that, "In the land of the blind, the one eyed man is king," H. G. Wells wrote a short story called The Country of the Blind that contradicts that notion.
Your audio was especially low this time around. Peaks were less than 10% of full scale. If you run the audio through Goldwave and use their Maximize button on default setting, it sounds great.
One of my favorite ' Sci Fi' movies , though it's considered by many as not one of the classics of the genre . But I enjoyed it immensely . Love your reactions , which are always very astute and reflect a very fine mind .
I always knew it was Lamar because he was played by Max von Sydow - who is nearly always a villain.
This is one of S/F "documentaries" and my favorite Spielberg's movie. There're many sanctions for actions people didn't do or didn't make any harm to nobody, in all human-made laws. On the other side, many people have no sanctions for the worst deeds. Nice reaction. Can you react on "Sixth Sense" with Bruce Willis?
Let’s gooo this is one of Tom and Spielberg’s most underrated simply because it’s maybe too popcorn but that’s just a nitpick
He should have kept Sean in the pool instead of putting him on the edge, but this did help solve Agatha's mothers murder and free Agatha and the twins. She probably knew all along that John was coming because of his son's disappearance and knew that John was going to solve the case and save her and the twins otherwise she could have alerted the police in the mall instead of walking him to Leo Crow and Laura's house and him captured.
Great reactions from your vault for Minority Report, Madison!!!🎬👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽It did look like Danny was the obvious suspect. The future tech is just terrifying. The spiders in particular. We are already getting personalized ads on computers. A retina scan for ads does not seem too far fetched. Eventually ID will either be by retina scan or finger print.
Good intuition about John Williams doing the composing!
This film is amazing, one the best sci-fi films ever. The world envisioned, the technology, the performances, the colour palette, the visual effects, the editing, Spielberg on his A game. The main setup (why would he kill someone he's never met) is predictable and couple of scenes haven't aged well, but there's so much creativity and craft on show, and it's nice to see Von Sydow play a villain. Criminally overlooked.
it's more an action film than a sci-fi film, and I really don't think it measures up to other sci-fi films. I love this film though.
@@highstimulation2497 It’s a sci-fi premise based on a short story by a renowned author of sci fi. It has action, but ‘action movie’ would be more suitable for something like Terminator 2 or Aliens, whereas this is predominantly a chase/whodunnit movie, a thriller.
@@zerpblerd5966 Great, what’s wrong with it? What are some movies that do this stuff better? Don’t just disagree, explain
@@zerpblerd5966 you don’t want to name any examples, okay. Our opinions differ, it’s all good
@@zerpblerd5966 it’s not that serious. We have different tastes, it’s fine. Reasonable people can disagree. You can carry on being weirdly condescending and antagonistic or not, happy trails to you chief
My favorite moment from this is when Anderton slams Colin Farrell up against the wall in the elevator and then points a gun at him and he says "Put the gun away John...I didn't hear a red ball.." And then the alarm goes off and his expression towards Anderton changes to this face like "holy shit...you really were gonna shoot me you son of a bitch.."
this isn't a Tom Cruise movie, it's Philip K Dick movie.
The common theme for Philip K Dick stories is identify confusion.
My personal favorite movies based on his stories .. Blade Runner, Minority Report, Total Recall, Paycheck.
(oh! ... great reaction, btw!)
Excellent comparison with The Fugitive. I can see why you like The Minority Report more since it is more thought provoking. Kimbell knew someone else killed his wife and was just looking for him. John had the added complexity of not knowing who kidnapped/killed his son, not knowing if he was going to kill someone in the future, AND having a 2nd mystery of Ann Lively to figure out at the same time! I found The Fugitive to be more suspenseful and satisfying since Harrison Ford is more of the "every-man" and Tom Cruise is ... well, Tom Cruise. In The Fugitive there were so many moments where it seemed like Kimbell was going to get caught. Like you said, no one can catch Tom Cruise, his arms give him super speed (lol).
Anyway, excellent reaction and post-analysis (my favorite part) :)
Yoga pose: NOT a lamp landing on its feet 😂
Deep cut choice Mads; great job - I also recommend Cruise & Spielberg's tag team for WAR OF THE WORLDS. And if you haven't seen BLADE RUNNER please do since that's also a Philip K. Dick joint.
These self-driving cars are different from the ones in real life, I think, because they coordinate with each other and work as a system, I presume. In real life, the AI just tries to react and drive like a person, independently in isolation, but if everything were part of the same system in which every car's destination is known, then they can be coordinated much better and more safely.
Minority Report has the same twist as LA Confidential
What they know for certain is that all of the would-be murderers have been apprehended and dealt with. But what they don't know is whether any innocent people have been wrongfully punished, and there are people who don't want anyone to know. The title of the movie is the flaw in the system that certain people are trying to hide. John didn't know about this at first, but he'll want to find out.
This movie was ahead of it's time.
How? It's an adaptation of a novella published in 1956.
The idea of feeding everyone's personal information through an algorithm that can be exploited by those in power to destroy their enemies is handled quite well in _Captain America: The Winter Soldier_ . I'm guessing you've already seen that because you've reacted to related TV programs that came later.
This was originally going to be a sequel to Total Recall, but Spielberg took the reins and made it into a standalone film instead.
"Edge of Tomorrow" - Tom Cruise and Emily Blunt, excellent movie if you haven't seen it. And Cruise's latest Top Gun film "Maverick" - was flawless. Both worth seeing. Enjoyed your reaction and really like your thoughts post reaction. Thx.
Some films based on the works Philip K. Dick
The Man in the High Castle (TV Series)
Electric Dreams (TV Series)
The Adjustment Bureau
A Scanner Darkly
Paycheck
Minority Report
Total Recall
Blade Runner
The old man in the movie MAX VON SYDOW , is the old priest in the EXORCIST 😀😀😀😀
We never find out who killed Anderton's son. That's part of the tragedy of it, and the price we pay for NOT being arrested for crimes we may or may not commit. The fundamental conflict in any legal system is that, with humans being fallible (part of the point of this movie), we can err on the side of letting some guilty people get away, or we can err on the side of punishing some innocent people for crimes they didn't commit. In reality, of course, both things happen a lot, no matter what we do, but we still have to choose whether to emphasize freedom or security.
👻 If you're looking for a really scary movie for the month of October, check out "1408" (2007) if you haven't seen it yet.😈
I must be going deaf... can barely hear anything with the volume all the way up.
You landed on your feet The lamp landed right side up the big light was the minority... report 😊❤
I hope we get to hear the long story as to why these were filmed but not uploaded.
Have you reviewed A Clockwork Orange? It has a legendary “eye” scene.
That hair is amazing. I'm sad its not still like that.
I think you need to turn up the volume. Love your videos.
Great reaction. Can you turn your sound up a bit? It's a little low.
Whitworth was just sceptical about pre-crime (smartest man in the movie) and only had it in for our hero when he discovered he was a druggy running the department.
Thanks ...
How many times did you say you didn't see that coming? The movie had just the right amount of twists and turns to keep the audience thinking they knew what was going to happen, then it pulled the rug right out from under them lol.
Agatha was the one with the most talent and the key to tapping into the abilities of the others, and she was the one who kept issuing the minority reports that were swept under the rug and kept secret. Gee, nothing suspicious here.... 🤨
Great movie. It deals with Destiny vs Free Will. You should react to Vanilla Sky another great Tom Cruse movie.
Great movie!!!! 👍😎
5:59 You're actually totally correct. Facebook has predictive algorithm's that can almost accurately predict you behavior based on your daily patterns. On people's cell phones the Facebook app is installed as bulkware, and even if you do not use the app it still collects meta data and sends that back to Facebook. Advertisements that you see on websites are sent to you based on this meta data that Facebook sells to third parties, that's why they're so scarily accurate. As you travel during the day your phone is sending a signal to various cell towers, and your location can be triangulated that way, even with location turned off.
Facebook keeps a record of your daily routine, they will even know when you wake up each day, since people usually check their phone. Just slight movement of the phone, such as picking it up, can be determined by geo location and cell tower triangulation. So picking up the phone and going to the bathroom is known too. A smartwatch even aids this info gathering even more, by seeing your heartbeat change, so they know when you're moving and when you're not. Plus how long you sleep too. It's crazy just how much info an app, phone, or smartwatch can learn just from cell tower triangulation, and even more crazy how much people are tracked and monitored every second of their lives. Google, Apple, Facebook, Microsoft, RUclips, Instagram, and tons of others all collect meta data, and either sell it or use it for their own purposes.
If this was accurate and not just paranoid delusion, then the information sent to advertisers would show how much I hate their ads, how I do everything in my power to avoid their products, rate them badly and try to discourage people I know from buying them. And yet the ads keep coming. Maybe you're not deluded. Maybe the marketing people using the metadata are morons. Or maybe the algorithm spits out nonsense which the marketing people then rationalise into counter productive behaviour. Whatever the truth about metadata algorithms, sane adults don't believe everything they read on the internet, especially if there's money involved.
@@mdwquiz Paranoid delusion? Nothing I said is delusion or paranoia. How do you think Facebook makes money? Also, you aren't going to know what ads you see are being directed to you based on your social media activity, browsing history, or location data. If you use a smart phone, then you're sending your location, whether location is turned on or off, every second of every day. Google analytics is used by pretty much every website, that collects data too on your browsing history. The point being that people have no real privacy anymore, which privacy is willingly handed over. Alexa listens and records even when not being used, that was shown in court during a murder investigation. If you knew or understood how this impacts your daily life, you would have real concerns over privacy, and how much information these corporations should be allowed to collect and then sell for profit.
Precrime arrests would lead to a society that is unable to deal with malevolence, expecially when the system fails.
Madison, you gotta learn to spot red herrings! 🤣😂
In all seriousness, this was a really fun film reaction. Subscribed!
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@@MadisonKThames I can't help it. I subscribe to good content. Thanks for providing it!
"I place you under arrest for the future murder of so-and-so."
Doesn't this mean they can comit the murder at a later date, without futher punisment?
Thanks for the video!! See you later!! Stay safe.😊
We're really not that far away from policing thought. We certainly police speech in certain ways that go beyond the immediate reaction of those around us, and I mean in a sinister, organized, systemic way.
Hey Madison, I don't think Lamar Burgess was remorseful at all. I think he did want to spend the reminder of his life in jail so he toook his own life. I don't believe there is any arc to his character sinec we focus on his so little in order to have the plot twist at the end. Just my 2 cents in the discussion of this awesome Spielberg flick.
Check out David Fincher and Denis Villeneuve's work. 2 of the best directors working today. period
Yet another futuristic technology with dubious applications in real life is transparent displays. Who would want to use one of those when a normal opaque screen has far better contrast and does not potentially interfere with your examination of images (or reading text)?
You hit the main question of this movie in the first 5 minutes. Can you arrest someone for something they haven't done yet? And the discussion between Cruise and Ferrel's characters presents both sides.
"Why did you catch the ball?"
"It was gonna hit the floor."
"But it didn't. You stopped that from happening."
Because of the Precogs (at this point in the film), they could know a murder is going to happen without intervention (most of the time, hence the title). But then it leads back to can they be arrested? They haven't actually done anything wrong now, because of your intervention.
If this were to ever happen for real, this very discussion would be the only thing on people's lips for years.
Edit: But also, John and Lamarr were only able to change the vision because of their knowledge of it. But what would you think if your phone rang and you answered to "Hello, this is the (Your City Here) Police Department. You are hereby under notice that 15 minutes from now, at 10:52 PM, you will have murdered (Victim name here), and will be arrested by police showing up 5 seconds later. This is your only chance to change your fate."
If someone's VERY intent on killing someone, they could move it up. Or do it later.
How many times will police have to respond to a potential murder to find they held back, but then they continue getting "calls" about the same attacker/victim/location?
So I hope you realized Danny was only interested in John's substance abuse as an officer, not anything else.
And she couldn't strangle Lamarr because the Precogs were "operational" again. She would have been haloed before she could do it.
Well, if you're going to prioritize the crimes that the precogs predict, murder would definitely have the highest priority. I think they can see all kinds of things, but murder is what really gets their attention, naturally, over crimes such as jaywalking or opening lemonade stands without a permit (which gets higher priority these days in real life than ever before).
A concept like pre-crime is very likely to come about in society using AI. Organisations, politicians and private companies are going to market these products and systems as if they are a flawless, and latch on to the mistaken belief that AI is neutral because it is data driven. But it isn't true, because you only get out of an AI system what you put into it -- much like a person. If you put in flawed and biased data (which is what our criminal data is, unfortunately, because we flawed humans maintain it) you're going to get AI systems that are flawed and biased.
21:50 Well then you may want to get 1971's A Clockwork Orange out of the way sooner than later
I thought Max von Sydowkilled the son, to turn the main character’s focus on pre-crime and kind of make him the poster child of pre-crime. What could be more compelling about the possibility of pre-crime than it could save the life of a child? But it’s been a looong time since I saw the whole movie..
I too shudder at the thought of our government having a pre-crime division, but what what if they just used it to stop the crime and decided not to arrest or incriminate those who have not yet done anything illegal. Yeah, probably a pipe dream, I know.
I think you are confusing yourself and what this movie was about. You are suggesting that we are in a scary point in our society, and that it would be wrong to allow the use of social media to predict crimes before they happen. I think everyone would agree, but that is NOT what this movie is about. It is about people with psychic powers, or more specifically, people with premonitory capabilities "SEEING" the future and therefore locking the perpetrators up before they commit their crimes, thereby preventing the actual crime. Essentially, that WOULD be the right thing to do. However, the REAL problem with this premise is that, if they prevent the crime, then the crime never happens, therefore the person is not guilty of actually doing anything wrong.
Now, the weird thing is, their 1st example, where the man is about to kill his wife with a pair of scissors ✂, WAS a crime, even though he was not successful. He WAS guilty of "attempted murder", not the actual murder. Now, THAT might be the thing they wanted to focus on. In other words, Tom Cruise's character arrested the man for the "precrime" of "murder of his wife", when he SHOULD'VE arrested him for the "attempted murder of his wife". The punishment would not be the same but, it WOULD prevent the woman's death, and allow her to go on having sex with the other man (WOOHOO for them, right ???).
It's really too bad you don't offer a blooper reel of A-plus footage that includes you destroying your studio, Madison. It's kind of ironic that this mayhem occurred while wearing your Spidey T-shirt. Maybe your superpower is producing great content.
I've always felt _Minority Report_ was vastly underrated--you do have to pay attention and think about it more than a _Mission Impossible_ movie--but am really impressed you appraised it so highly without having to mull much of it over. Fantastic video.
I think you'd love the Wired article from 2012 on the "Idea Summit" that Steven Spielberg convened of thinkers from science and technology to present ideas on what the near-future would look like. Human beings are very poor at predicting what's going to happen, otherwise, we'd all be successful investors.
Please watch and react to “Under The Skin” (2014) staring Scarlett Johansson and “Flag Day” (2021) staring Sean Penn
Is that a Darth Revan figure?
More S.F., Blade Runner next ( Harrison Ford ).
The only way a person could predict a crime before the precogs without any evidence is if it's a setup, of course--a frame job.
Need higher volume.
“Turn it to 11.”
I think the music kinda sucks in this movie, i'd say a darker tone would've suited it better. I have zero issues with John Williams, i just think the whimsey of the music conflicts the darkness of the subject matter.....thought control.....which is possibly on the way if things continue the way they're going.
Love me some Philip K. Dick ✌
@madison Thames
Also see Vanilla Sky, a 2001 Tom Cruise movie that hits a similar 'theme' vibe....only similar from a certain perspective, ya know 👍
I also had trouble hearing the movie.
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More proof, if it were needed, that the novel (or novella in this case) is ALWAYS better than the on screen adaptation. The film is "meh", but I love PKD's book. 👍
Obviously, pre-crime enforcement has saved a lot of people's lives, but you know what? I don't think it's right on a deep philosophical level, and on a practical level, I don't think it makes society better to live in, overall. Of course, that's the point of this story, and I agree in the ways it presents, among other possibilities.
could you please react to a film from the great movie nation of australa, try the year my voice broke it is the first film from 1987 of ben mendelsohn an aussie actor you may recognise from rogue one, it is available on youtube