And I'm not entirely sure how deliberate it was....like is it chilling cuz of the story she told John and Lara....or did Spielberg have multiple takes of her yelling "run" to see what was most spine tingling? The world may never know....
We were all in on it. We knew the whole time. Steven Spielberg told us "in 21 years, we're gonna trick Shanelle with this movie." And we were all like "who's Shanelle?" Then he winked and said "you'll see" before boarding a helicopter and flying off.
I'm going deep on this trivia. There are 3 Swedes in this movie: Max von Sydow as Lamar, Peter Stormare as the doctor and Caroline Lagerfelt as his assistant Greta. She sings a song as she enters: "Små Grodorna". This is typically sung in Sweden at Midsummer while jumping like frogs around in a circle. Why? Because "Små Grodorna" means "small frogs" and there are lots of dancing in circles at midsummer. What most Swedes don't know is that this song was originally a French marching song used by one of Napoleon's regiments. The Brits then wrote a comedy version with changed lyrics mocking the French as "little frogs" and somehow this made its way to Sweden and is still sung every year in our summer celebrations.
It's such a trippy film. This one seems to have a more light moments than the other PHD movie adaptations. It's a interesting twist for his usually very deep looks at humanity and society.
Doesn't seem like it'd be the type but it's still one of my favourite Colin Farrell performances. Dude's first real major role in Hollywood, playing against the biggest movie star on the planet, and he just nails it.
I've really enjoyed his career. He could've just stuck with the leading man in bland films but he's taken interesting roles, like in the The Lobster and Horrible Bosses (yes, seriously. Horrible Bosses. lmao)
What's great about the 2 shot at 26:40 is they're looking in separate directions, symbolizing his Anderton's ability to choose, echoing what Agatha just told him. Anderson looking slightly down and into the shadows/dark (the wrong choice), and Agatha looking up and into the light (the right choice). Have always loved this incredible moment.
I still think this is part of the homage to Ingmar Bergman, who was, apparently fan of the double face image. Other parts were casting Von Sydow and Stormare, both Bergman veterans.
I'd never made that connection but, having heard it, I like the idea and the implications of her seeing the future of their second child. In the moment, obviously, they both think she's talking about their late son but their reasons (being that, in that moment, they both see no future in which they're back together) make that possibility even more beautiful.
Iphotographer here) That blown out look is a technique called high key. It's an art to accomplish that without completely blowing out your highlights. Very effective in certain situations. Great reaction!
One of my all-time favorites! Every aspect is top-notch. I love the depiction of the future. Spielberg's weekend think tank of futurists was brilliant. It makes the future more believable than most movies. It'll be interesting to see how it fares when we reach 2054, as opposed to Back to the Future's 2015. (I'll probably be dead, tho!)
Thank you so much for including the line "I am going to kill this man." It's one of my favorite line deliveries EVER and def my fave in this film. The writing and performance there come together so perfectly it encapsulates and entire "lifetime" of emotions and decisions in a single sentence :)
There's a popular fan theory that everything that happens after John is arrested is actually a coma dream. They point to how easily John's wife gains access to the prison to get him out, how easily he's able to infiltrate Burgess' party, and the happy ending for him and his wife and the precogs as being John's own wish-fulfillment in his mind.
This is Tim’s most underrated movie in my humble. I just love it. It’s different but there’s quality performances all over & just so many heart in mouth moments
Phillip K. Dick's works often are explorations of the nature of reality and personal identity partly because of his own history of drug abuse and mental illness. It is believed that he suffered from schizophrenia and he has a documented history of using amphetamines. Because he himself couldn't always be sure of what was real and who he really was, his works often reflected those same themes of questioning what is real and how would you know if it wasn't.
It's crazy how many of PKD's work was adapted for film. Kind of sad that he didn't get to see any of them. Also, you're usually on top of things with films and plot but this one got away from you. It totally tricked you, and that's so fun!
Actually Dick got to see parts of Blade Runner just before he died. He was amazed that they were able to make it look as he envisioned the world when he wrote it.
@@islandbricks9847 I figured he might have gotten to see some of that film but wasn't sure based on when he died and when it was released, so didnt claim that he did. Glad to hear they did him justice with his vision.
I think he'd be very confused and surprised at the success his name is having. For most of his life he was poor and while I won't say an unknown writer, he certainly wasn't in the upper echelon of sci fi writers for most of his life. He achieved a lot of success post-death.
@@purplegorilla9592 Yup. I know he essentially died poor and that's what makes him not seeing how insanely influential his writing was even more tragic. I wouldn't say he'd be surprised or confused, in reality, considering he'd see his success build in real time and his work validated over the years. But who knows if all this would have even happened if he were alive and in control of his IP. Regardless, you're probably correct that if he were suddenly aware from the grave of the appreciation of his work we have that he'd probably be wigged out.
Such an excellent Sci Fi film... Here's a few more great, SMART, Sci Fi / Fantasy ones: "DARK CITY," "GATTICA," "BRAZIL," "CHILDREN OF MEN," "GRAVITY"... each of these films will resonate with you long after you're done watching. Cheers!
Tom Cruise’s story arc on struggling with loss was brilliant. The pre-cogs were named after mystery writers. Dashiell Hammett, creator of Sherlock Holmes stories Arthur C Doyle and the Queen of Crime, Agatha Christie. I knew Agatha was gonna grab Tom Cruise from the pool but Spielberg still managed to scare me!! Love how they used Schubert’s music when Tom was browsing the images early in the movie.
Two other PKD adaptations I would recommend - A Scanner Darkly (wild cast, interesting visual style) and Paycheck (ridiculous Hollywood John Woo melodramatic action with Ben Affleck and Uma Thurman)
I second that! Especially A Scanner Darkly. She would have more fun going into it blind. No research, don't look at the poster if you can help it, just hit play.
I just love Samantha Morton (Agatha)... she's such an exciting performer. She played an amazing villain in The Walking Dead and the lead in The Serpent Queen, which I'm still watching.
your trivia segments at the end of the reaction are the best! I usually know I like a movie if I research trivia and breakdowns of the movie right after watching it. You always find more trivia than I would! 🤠
Fun fact The setting was Washington DC, but they moved it across the river because the city officials pointed out they couldn't do driving up a high rise because it's illegal to build anything taller than the Washington monument
13:54 I saw a guy flying a jetpack once. It's really really loud and they can only fly for like 30 seconds. He took off from a 2 story rooftop, flew in a little circle, then landed maybe 20 feet from me.
I always associated the shot of Agatha and John's faces with the god Janus and his two faces. When I tried to find info to see if I was right to interpret it that way, I learned that the cinematographer for this and other Speilberg movies is named Janusz Kaninski. It doesn't support my take, but I still dig it.
Shanelle: you asked for Christmas-themed films for your reactions. A forgotten Christmas-set classic I HIGHLY recommend: "Bell, Book and Candle" (1958) Christmastime, witches, beatniks, and publishing in New York City. Stars James Stewart and Kim Novak, Jack Lemmon, Elsa Lanchester. This is my favorite Christmas movie, just barely above "A Christmas Carol" (1951), starring Alastair Sim.
It would be so cool to see you watch Gattaca. Although its a completely different story, there are some similar themes and filming techniques. Its a incredible story about perceived fate versus one's actual potential, it has an amazing cinematic eye, and the soundtrack is one of my all time favorites, not to mention it has Ethan Hawke, Jude Law, and Uma Therman. And it will definitely give you a ton of chills.
45:10 I’ve always felt that she was talking about what Sean’s future would’ve been if he had stayed alive. Especially because she says at the end, “There was so much love in this house.”
5:31 "Was that necessary, the ceiling thing?" They got the drop on the bad guy.
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"Conflicting messages? I dunno?!?" Good job catching on to the entire thing, and what the Minority Report is actually about. The entire movie was about Jon Anderton and the conflicting visions from Agatha in his Minority Report that cleared his name. Then the other guy killing himself at the end was another minority report I believe, because the precogs didn't see it.
I might misremember this but the way the computer interface on screens worked with hand gestures was ahead of its time and was later used by actual computer companies for touchscreens. So the reason we for example spread two fingers to zoom into a picture on a smartphone or tablet is that it was copied from this film. Remember, the film was made before smartphones and tablets existed...
If you think about it, the silvery look is actually a processing effect done to the film during development. In modern digital workflows any effect is post processing and now it is just part of the vernacular. Has anyone born after the 80s ever looked at their Photoshop toolbar and wondered why their burn and dodge tools have those icons? Why is it even called burning and dodging? (look it up) Pre-digital imaging is fascinating and makes me appreciate older movies even more. The things guys like Spielberg and Lucas had to do the get their vision in front of people's eyes!
Very insightful commentary. I loved this movie, not just for the mystery thriller narrative, but the little details of the future society, particularly how many in the general public revered the Pre Cogs as though they were deities. I also liked how the Colin Farrell character was not just an antagonist to Cruise, but was a very smart FBI agent. Spielberg avoided the trap of some contemporary movies that feel empty because the supporting characters are inconsequential. Here, the supporting cast was great. And Samantha Morton was excellent, and other worldly, as Agatha.
Neil McDonough (the unreasonably blonde Fletcher in this) was a wonderful addition to season 3 of Justified, where he channeled dark charm beautifully.
Some shot details I noted that i haven’t seen mentioned elsewhere: Early in the film, the cheating wife uses the scissors and cuts through Abraham Lincoln’s eye on the back of the paper. It both shows us the scissors that would have been used and foreshadows the eye surgery later in the film (doesn’t hurt that it’s Lincoln who is also a murder victim who was shot in the back of the head). When Max Von Sydow’s character approaches Tom Cruise’s Anderton at the end with the gun, there is a high overhead shot with Sydow’s long shadow reaching out to Cruise. His shadowy evil is literally creeping toward John A.
What's really gonna twist your noodle is whether the ending actually happened. PKD loves playing with reality. In Total Recall, was it just a the vacation he paid for? In this movie, did he really make it out of prison? Remember when you're in that prison you dream about your desires to keep you complacent.
Regarding Gideon, the "prison guard" - Tim Blake Nelson is not only a great actor with an iconic face, but also a heavily busy director and a playwright. Judging from his usually rather goofy characters, you wouldn't tell that among other things he wrote and directed one of the most disturbing movies about the holocaust, "The Grey Zone" from 2001, telling the story of the 1944 rebellion of the 12th Sonderkommando at Auschwitz-Birkenau, featuring an amazingly stacked cast with Harvey Keitel, David Arquette, Steve Buscemi, Mira Sorvino and Natasha Lyonne to name only a few.
He also played prison escapee Delmar in "O Brother Where Art Thou", Buster in "The Ballad Of Buster Scruggs", Samuel Sterns/The Leader in "The Incredible Hulk" and Looking Glass in "Watchmen: The TV mini series".
@Madbandit77 Not to forget his supporting role as an oil lobbyist in Stephen Gaghan's "Syriana" from 2005 with his impressive yet scary "Corruption? Corruption! Corruption is why we win."-monologue.
Yes, 80s Spielberg is hugely influential, but I think that his later 90s and 00s output, basically the run from Schindler's List to Munich, is another great era. He revolutionalized filmography again and was very in touch with the times: the pre-9/11 Western hybris as well as the confusion and sobering after are represented very clearly.
Great movie, and a terrifying premise that is currently happening on a less sci-fi scale. If you keep a certain amount of cash on hand or in the bank. If you spend "too much" money (according to the government). If you buy "too many" firearms...even from a licensed firearms dealer. And many more examples.. You are likely to get a visit from some three letter government agency.
Anything from the early 2000's is influenced by The Matrix. The color tone and blown out whites are the next evolution of The Matrix's green tone. Also, I can't explain how amazing it was to see the early scene where Tom is using hand gestures to manipulate video. The pinch-to-zoom controls we use on phones today basically came from that scene. When you see people in The Expanse use a hand gesture to toss data from one screen to another or manipulate a map of the solar system - all that comes from that scene.
I guess you missed the swedish actor Max von Sydow. He died in 2020, 90 years old. Actor in 278 movies... Oh, and the other really famous swedish actor; Peter Stormare. (The creepy "doctor").
20:12 comment... the same items one fresh. The last customer's food was left. He Knocked-down an item yet grabbed and drank with no thought to try the bottle he first hit and knocked. The refridgerator seems to have fresh food and milk along with that of a previous customer.-Ernie Moore Jr.
Samantha Morton, who plays Agatha, is a powerful actress. She was Oscar nominated in the film In America in 2002 and was wonderful as Mary, Queen of Scots in Elizabeth: The Golden Age.
After the little Philip K Dick binge, let's see if we can figure out the REAL mystery? - Is Deckard a replicant? - Did Quaid actually go to Mars and terraform the world, or was that him living out the last of his Recall hallucination as he died just like they told him? Because that adventure seemed pretty much exactly what he asked for...before the film fades to WHITE (not black as is traditional) at the end. - Did John's wife actually break him out of the dream-jail, or was the rest of the film after that his hallucinations locked in the jail? Because that sure was one perfect wrap-up with all the mysteries solved and John back together with his wife in their beautiful country home and the precogs all safe and sound and living a cozycore life with no lasting physical disabilities or mental trauma from living prone in milk for decades.
13:30 - Oh yeah, that reminds me: Demolition Man - S. Stallone, S. Bullock, W. Snipes. Same level of satire as RoboCop, bit more comedic, sci-fi, action, set in the future, bit more modern. The whole kit & kaboodle! 😊
I enjoyed the short lived TV series spinoff of Minority Report as well. Another TV show about future, tech and morality is "Almost Human" only one season, but very enjoyable.
You said it, " only Spielberg can give me full body chills!" Same for me. I'm not a crier, but when i watch like Schindler's List or The Color Purple or A.I: Artificial Intelligence or Saving Private Ryan, i get Goosebumps in situations where most people would be crying.
This movie is very sci-fi, but one of the biggest predictions it made was of personalized advertisement. It is not as invasive today as "how is your new sports bra", but we're on the road there...
This is my favourite short story by Philip K Dick. My favourite theme in the story is that the only members of Precrime generate minority reports, because only they have access to knowledge about the future, which in turn generates various futures in which you act on the information in each subsequent prediction. Which suggests that more people would choose not to commit the crime, were they given access to the information.
At the time this movie came out, I happened to be taking Science Fiction as an English Literature elective in college. ... Early 2000s sci-fi is something special.
1:11 - Oh, I think I can guarantee you'll feel that. One good point I'll give this movie is the way the story unfolds. We always know as much as the main protagonist, not made privy to any clue before him, discovering what he does WHEN he does.
Probably already been said, but just in case. The cinematographer's name is pronounced: Y-AH-n-oo-sh K-uh-m-ih-n-s-k-ee, he is Polish! He has been working on Spielberg movies since 1993 and won the Oscar for Schindler's List and Saving Private Ryan!!
38:43 comment,, technique,,the changa fore shadowing in lighting shows or reveals the perception shift the writer shares to foreshadow to the audience.-Ernie Moore Jr.
One of the coolest concepts in this movie wasn't precognition, precrime, replacement eyes, the way traffic works, or any of that other stuff. No, the coolest concept was the "sick stick", a stun baton that makes the target projectile vomit when struck.
I'd be interested to see you react to The Seventh Seal (1957), directed by Ingmar Bergman and starring Max von Sidow. It's the film that really cemented Igmar Bergman's status as one of the great directors.It's a great, philosophical movie about a knight playing chess with Death while he struggles with his religious faith and the trauma of returning home after the crusades.
This is a great neo noir Sci Fi Action Thriller Film! Originally,this was going to be a sequel to TOTAL RECALL, but Steven Spielberg took the reins and made it into a standalone movie instead.
Saw this in theaters. Awesome flick. The yelling of "RUNNNNNNNNN!" still sends chills down my spine.
same! I saw most of Spielbergs amazing work with Janusz Kaminski!that duo is just as good as Villenueves and Deakins!
I know! STILL get chills 20 years later
Seriously. Same!
And I'm not entirely sure how deliberate it was....like is it chilling cuz of the story she told John and Lara....or did Spielberg have multiple takes of her yelling "run" to see what was most spine tingling? The world may never know....
Same this is was like at the height of Steven Spielberg movies!!
We were all in on it. We knew the whole time. Steven Spielberg told us "in 21 years, we're gonna trick Shanelle with this movie." And we were all like "who's Shanelle?" Then he winked and said "you'll see" before boarding a helicopter and flying off.
If you assume that Phillip K Dick took a lot of LSD you'd be right.
@@Jordan-Ramses This movie was being made around the time I first tried LSD so maybe I am right???
We're so cunning! 🤣
she _HAS TO_ see 'edge of tomorrow'. i love that movie SOOOO much.
I'm going deep on this trivia. There are 3 Swedes in this movie: Max von Sydow as Lamar, Peter Stormare as the doctor and Caroline Lagerfelt as his assistant Greta. She sings a song as she enters: "Små Grodorna". This is typically sung in Sweden at Midsummer while jumping like frogs around in a circle. Why? Because "Små Grodorna" means "small frogs" and there are lots of dancing in circles at midsummer. What most Swedes don't know is that this song was originally a French marching song used by one of Napoleon's regiments. The Brits then wrote a comedy version with changed lyrics mocking the French as "little frogs" and somehow this made its way to Sweden and is still sung every year in our summer celebrations.
that is totally wild! thanks for adding these trivia details. cheers!
Love to see your reaction to another PKD story" A Scanner Darkly". A great cast and was roboscoped to look animated.
It's such a trippy film. This one seems to have a more light moments than the other PHD movie adaptations. It's a interesting twist for his usually very deep looks at humanity and society.
Beat me to it, it's an interesting film with a pretty unique look. Barely any reactions to it on youtube too!
Rotoscoped, maybe?
Doesn't seem like it'd be the type but it's still one of my favourite Colin Farrell performances. Dude's first real major role in Hollywood, playing against the biggest movie star on the planet, and he just nails it.
I've really enjoyed his career. He could've just stuck with the leading man in bland films but he's taken interesting roles, like in the The Lobster and Horrible Bosses (yes, seriously. Horrible Bosses. lmao)
Add another vote for A Scanner Darkly. Philip K. Dick is widely regarded as the best science fiction author on any planet.
What's great about the 2 shot at 26:40 is they're looking in separate directions, symbolizing his Anderton's ability to choose, echoing what Agatha just told him. Anderson looking slightly down and into the shadows/dark (the wrong choice), and Agatha looking up and into the light (the right choice). Have always loved this incredible moment.
I still think this is part of the homage to Ingmar Bergman, who was, apparently fan of the double face image. Other parts were casting Von Sydow and Stormare, both Bergman veterans.
Fun fact: the hotel clerk is William Mapother, real life cousin to Tom Cruise. Personally my #1 favorite Philip K Dick movie adaptation.
I'd never made that connection but, having heard it, I like the idea and the implications of her seeing the future of their second child. In the moment, obviously, they both think she's talking about their late son but their reasons (being that, in that moment, they both see no future in which they're back together) make that possibility even more beautiful.
Iphotographer here) That blown out look is a technique called high key. It's an art to accomplish that without completely blowing out your highlights. Very effective in certain situations. Great reaction!
The best sci-fi film of the past decade is Ex Machina. Watch it if you haven't.
One of my all-time favorites! Every aspect is top-notch. I love the depiction of the future. Spielberg's weekend think tank of futurists was brilliant. It makes the future more believable than most movies. It'll be interesting to see how it fares when we reach 2054, as opposed to Back to the Future's 2015. (I'll probably be dead, tho!)
Thank you so much for including the line "I am going to kill this man."
It's one of my favorite line deliveries EVER and def my fave in this film. The writing and performance there come together so perfectly it encapsulates and entire "lifetime" of emotions and decisions in a single sentence :)
There's a popular fan theory that everything that happens after John is arrested is actually a coma dream. They point to how easily John's wife gains access to the prison to get him out, how easily he's able to infiltrate Burgess' party, and the happy ending for him and his wife and the precogs as being John's own wish-fulfillment in his mind.
And the colour of everything. Everything is golden yellow colour.
I'll watch this a little later, but a big part of me just wants to see Shanelle geek out over Minority Report's trivia alone. 😄
"Only Spielberg gives me this full body chills, I don't know why!"
That's because of John WIlliams' music!
This is Tim’s most underrated movie in my humble. I just love it. It’s different but there’s quality performances all over & just so many heart in mouth moments
Phillip K. Dick's works often are explorations of the nature of reality and personal identity partly because of his own history of drug abuse and mental illness. It is believed that he suffered from schizophrenia and he has a documented history of using amphetamines.
Because he himself couldn't always be sure of what was real and who he really was, his works often reflected those same themes of questioning what is real and how would you know if it wasn't.
It's crazy how many of PKD's work was adapted for film. Kind of sad that he didn't get to see any of them.
Also, you're usually on top of things with films and plot but this one got away from you. It totally tricked you, and that's so fun!
Actually Dick got to see parts of Blade Runner just before he died. He was amazed that they were able to make it look as he envisioned the world when he wrote it.
@@islandbricks9847 I figured he might have gotten to see some of that film but wasn't sure based on when he died and when it was released, so didnt claim that he did. Glad to hear they did him justice with his vision.
👌😤 "On my mark!! We are catching up to the future!!!"
I think he'd be very confused and surprised at the success his name is having. For most of his life he was poor and while I won't say an unknown writer, he certainly wasn't in the upper echelon of sci fi writers for most of his life. He achieved a lot of success post-death.
@@purplegorilla9592 Yup. I know he essentially died poor and that's what makes him not seeing how insanely influential his writing was even more tragic. I wouldn't say he'd be surprised or confused, in reality, considering he'd see his success build in real time and his work validated over the years. But who knows if all this would have even happened if he were alive and in control of his IP. Regardless, you're probably correct that if he were suddenly aware from the grave of the appreciation of his work we have that he'd probably be wigged out.
Such an excellent Sci Fi film... Here's a few more great, SMART, Sci Fi / Fantasy ones: "DARK CITY," "GATTICA," "BRAZIL," "CHILDREN OF MEN," "GRAVITY"... each of these films will resonate with you long after you're done watching. Cheers!
Tom Cruise’s story arc on struggling with loss was brilliant.
The pre-cogs were named after mystery writers. Dashiell Hammett, creator of Sherlock Holmes stories Arthur C Doyle and the Queen of Crime, Agatha Christie. I knew Agatha was gonna grab Tom Cruise from the pool but Spielberg still managed to scare me!!
Love how they used Schubert’s music when Tom was browsing the images early in the movie.
"A Scanner Darkly" is the quintessential Philip K Dick story, directed by Richard Linklater. It's a must watch. All-star cast and very underrated.
If you listen to what the warden says the ending may just be John's dream.
Two other PKD adaptations I would recommend - A Scanner Darkly (wild cast, interesting visual style) and Paycheck (ridiculous Hollywood John Woo melodramatic action with Ben Affleck and Uma Thurman)
I'd add Adjustment Bureau to that list.
@@jasonbuter9493 Is it based on a PKD work? I haven't seen it.
@@LordVolkovbased on short story - "adjustment team"
@@LordVolkov yes it is... And its Matt Damon and Emily Blunt
I second that! Especially A Scanner Darkly. She would have more fun going into it blind. No research, don't look at the poster if you can help it, just hit play.
I just love Samantha Morton (Agatha)... she's such an exciting performer. She played an amazing villain in The Walking Dead and the lead in The Serpent Queen, which I'm still watching.
Her daughter plays Hannah in the Amazon show Hannah.
@@morpheusjones4753 Never watched that one. Good to know, though!
Little fun fact.
The precogs were named after famous crime authors. Agatha Christie, Arthur Conan Doyle and Dashiell Hammett.
your trivia segments at the end of the reaction are the best! I usually know I like a movie if I research trivia and breakdowns of the movie right after watching it. You always find more trivia than I would!
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Fun fact
The setting was Washington DC, but they moved it across the river because the city officials pointed out they couldn't do driving up a high rise because it's illegal to build anything taller than the Washington monument
I saw this in NYC back in 2002 and it blew my mind.
13:54 I saw a guy flying a jetpack once. It's really really loud and they can only fly for like 30 seconds. He took off from a 2 story rooftop, flew in a little circle, then landed maybe 20 feet from me.
I always associated the shot of Agatha and John's faces with the god Janus and his two faces. When I tried to find info to see if I was right to interpret it that way, I learned that the cinematographer for this and other Speilberg movies is named Janusz Kaninski. It doesn't support my take, but I still dig it.
Even if you're totally wrong, that is a cool thing to dig. I think I'll dig it with you!
Shanelle: you asked for Christmas-themed films for your reactions.
A forgotten Christmas-set classic I HIGHLY recommend:
"Bell, Book and Candle" (1958)
Christmastime, witches, beatniks, and publishing in New York City.
Stars James Stewart and Kim Novak, Jack Lemmon, Elsa Lanchester.
This is my favorite Christmas movie, just barely above "A Christmas Carol" (1951), starring Alastair Sim.
Agatha Christie, Arthur Conan Doyle, Dashiell Hammett. All mystery writers. In a mystery, who knows the end beforehand? The author.
Really cool movie with a really cool concept. Definitely makes you think. Also great performance by Tom Cruise.
It would be so cool to see you watch Gattaca. Although its a completely different story, there are some similar themes and filming techniques. Its a incredible story about perceived fate versus one's actual potential, it has an amazing cinematic eye, and the soundtrack is one of my all time favorites, not to mention it has Ethan Hawke, Jude Law, and Uma Therman. And it will definitely give you a ton of chills.
The Recruit. Underrated Colin Farrell/Al Pacino flick with this type of feel. Great movie.
There still a few Radio Shacks left. I see there's one in New Holland, PA.
“Don't you EVER SAY HIS NAME!!!” Gets me every time 🥲
45:10 I’ve always felt that she was talking about what Sean’s future would’ve been if he had stayed alive. Especially because she says at the end, “There was so much love in this house.”
5:31 "Was that necessary, the ceiling thing?" They got the drop on the bad guy.
"Conflicting messages? I dunno?!?"
Good job catching on to the entire thing, and what the Minority Report is actually about. The entire movie was about Jon Anderton and the conflicting visions from Agatha in his Minority Report that cleared his name. Then the other guy killing himself at the end was another minority report I believe, because the precogs didn't see it.
40:12 it was about a minority report, but not John’s. It was Ann Lively’s minority report.
The Anne Lively case wasn't a Minority Report either; as the hired killer didn't have one.
It was a SECOND Complete Report that was ignored
I might misremember this but the way the computer interface on screens worked with hand gestures was ahead of its time and was later used by actual computer companies for touchscreens. So the reason we for example spread two fingers to zoom into a picture on a smartphone or tablet is that it was copied from this film. Remember, the film was made before smartphones and tablets existed...
Exactly! The computer UI was mind blowing to me. Inspired plenty of gesture tech.
Cruise does fantastic scifi. Another favorite of mine is Oblivion. And another great PKD adaptation is Paycheck with Affleck.
The "our Glow knobs go to 11" era...
If you think about it, the silvery look is actually a processing effect done to the film during development. In modern digital workflows any effect is post processing and now it is just part of the vernacular.
Has anyone born after the 80s ever looked at their Photoshop toolbar and wondered why their burn and dodge tools have those icons? Why is it even called burning and dodging? (look it up)
Pre-digital imaging is fascinating and makes me appreciate older movies even more. The things guys like Spielberg and Lucas had to do the get their vision in front of people's eyes!
Very insightful commentary. I loved this movie, not just for the mystery thriller narrative, but the little details of the future society, particularly how many in the general public revered the Pre Cogs as though they were deities. I also liked how the Colin Farrell character was not just an antagonist to Cruise, but was a very smart FBI agent. Spielberg avoided the trap of some contemporary movies that feel empty because the supporting characters are inconsequential. Here, the supporting cast was great. And Samantha Morton was excellent, and other worldly, as Agatha.
In that scene, Agatha was giving John an account of Sean’s Minority Report, his possible alternate future had he not been taken.
Neil McDonough (the unreasonably blonde Fletcher in this) was a wonderful addition to season 3 of Justified, where he channeled dark charm beautifully.
Plus he was excellent as Damien Darhk in various Arrowverse TV shows.
Some shot details I noted that i haven’t seen mentioned elsewhere:
Early in the film, the cheating wife uses the scissors and cuts through Abraham Lincoln’s eye on the back of the paper. It both shows us the scissors that would have been used and foreshadows the eye surgery later in the film (doesn’t hurt that it’s Lincoln who is also a murder victim who was shot in the back of the head).
When Max Von Sydow’s character approaches Tom Cruise’s Anderton at the end with the gun, there is a high overhead shot with Sydow’s long shadow reaching out to Cruise. His shadowy evil is literally creeping toward John A.
What's really gonna twist your noodle is whether the ending actually happened. PKD loves playing with reality. In Total Recall, was it just a the vacation he paid for? In this movie, did he really make it out of prison? Remember when you're in that prison you dream about your desires to keep you complacent.
14:35 - Well they're certainly not sonic screwdrivers or probes! 😂
21:52 - As Ashleigh always says: "You tried your best, you did good!" 😁
18:09 - Oh don't give me that face! Like you wouldn't! 😂
The jetpack scene was giving me Rocketeer vibes.
3:34 - And the movement of the actors along with said music. 😉
Regarding Gideon, the "prison guard" - Tim Blake Nelson is not only a great actor with an iconic face, but also a heavily busy director and a playwright. Judging from his usually rather goofy characters, you wouldn't tell that among other things he wrote and directed one of the most disturbing movies about the holocaust, "The Grey Zone" from 2001, telling the story of the 1944 rebellion of the 12th Sonderkommando at Auschwitz-Birkenau, featuring an amazingly stacked cast with Harvey Keitel, David Arquette, Steve Buscemi, Mira Sorvino and Natasha Lyonne to name only a few.
He also played prison escapee Delmar in "O Brother Where Art Thou", Buster in "The Ballad Of Buster Scruggs", Samuel Sterns/The Leader in "The Incredible Hulk" and Looking Glass in "Watchmen: The TV mini series".
@Madbandit77 Not to forget his supporting role as an oil lobbyist in Stephen Gaghan's "Syriana" from 2005 with his impressive yet scary "Corruption? Corruption! Corruption is why we win."-monologue.
40:56 Yanush ;)
There's a movie "Impostor". It's also based on the short story by Philip K. Dick.
Yes, 80s Spielberg is hugely influential, but I think that his later 90s and 00s output, basically the run from Schindler's List to Munich, is another great era. He revolutionalized filmography again and was very in touch with the times: the pre-9/11 Western hybris as well as the confusion and sobering after are represented very clearly.
This film came out a year after the September 11 attacks. So, the subject matter was both timely and foreshadowing.
Great movie, and a terrifying premise that is currently happening on a less sci-fi scale. If you keep a certain amount of cash on hand or in the bank. If you spend "too much" money (according to the government). If you buy "too many" firearms...even from a licensed firearms dealer. And many more examples.. You are likely to get a visit from some three letter government agency.
I'd forgotten how *nearly identical* the score when Cruise first starts running is to the Star Wars I podrace sequence.
26:39 - Oh, I know. That's one of the good points of this movie: the framing.
Anything from the early 2000's is influenced by The Matrix. The color tone and blown out whites are the next evolution of The Matrix's green tone. Also, I can't explain how amazing it was to see the early scene where Tom is using hand gestures to manipulate video. The pinch-to-zoom controls we use on phones today basically came from that scene. When you see people in The Expanse use a hand gesture to toss data from one screen to another or manipulate a map of the solar system - all that comes from that scene.
The blown out whites has nothing at all to do with the matrix. That's just your baseless random assumption.
30:15 - Oh, I can't wait for your reaction when you get it! It's like watching your head exploding in slo-mo! 🤣
I guess you missed the swedish actor Max von Sydow. He died in 2020, 90 years old. Actor in 278 movies... Oh, and the other really famous swedish actor; Peter Stormare. (The creepy "doctor").
45:07 - Hehe, they just keep throwing surprises atcha! 😁
31:00 - (Shaking fist at the sky) Damn you filmmakers! 😂
20:12 comment... the same items one fresh. The last customer's food was left. He Knocked-down an item yet grabbed and drank with no thought to try the bottle he first hit and knocked.
The refridgerator seems to have fresh food and milk along with that of a previous customer.-Ernie Moore Jr.
Samantha Morton, who plays Agatha, is a powerful actress. She was Oscar nominated in the film In America in 2002 and was wonderful as Mary, Queen of Scots in Elizabeth: The Golden Age.
Her daughter does a great job in the show Hannah.
SHANELLE: “Why is there two choices?”
AGATHA: (Much later) “You can choose!”
After the little Philip K Dick binge, let's see if we can figure out the REAL mystery?
- Is Deckard a replicant?
- Did Quaid actually go to Mars and terraform the world, or was that him living out the last of his Recall hallucination as he died just like they told him? Because that adventure seemed pretty much exactly what he asked for...before the film fades to WHITE (not black as is traditional) at the end.
- Did John's wife actually break him out of the dream-jail, or was the rest of the film after that his hallucinations locked in the jail? Because that sure was one perfect wrap-up with all the mysteries solved and John back together with his wife in their beautiful country home and the precogs all safe and sound and living a cozycore life with no lasting physical disabilities or mental trauma from living prone in milk for decades.
33:44 Haha, I never realized that was a corruption joke 😅
13:30 - Oh yeah, that reminds me: Demolition Man - S. Stallone, S. Bullock, W. Snipes. Same level of satire as RoboCop, bit more comedic, sci-fi, action, set in the future, bit more modern. The whole kit & kaboodle! 😊
The name of the precogs is an homage to great mystery writers Agatha Christie, Arthur Conan Doyle and Dashiell Hammett
Holy moocow, Shanelle! You nailed it!! 👏 You definitely have an ear for John Williams 🎶😛
I enjoyed the short lived TV series spinoff of Minority Report as well. Another TV show about future, tech and morality is "Almost Human" only one season, but very enjoyable.
You said it, " only Spielberg can give me full body chills!" Same for me. I'm not a crier, but when i watch like Schindler's List or The Color Purple or A.I: Artificial Intelligence or Saving Private Ryan, i get Goosebumps in situations where most people would be crying.
I saw this in theaters and have always been a big fan. Great flick.
This movie is very sci-fi, but one of the biggest predictions it made was of personalized advertisement. It is not as invasive today as "how is your new sports bra", but we're on the road there...
This is my favourite short story by Philip K Dick. My favourite theme in the story is that the only members of Precrime generate minority reports, because only they have access to knowledge about the future, which in turn generates various futures in which you act on the information in each subsequent prediction. Which suggests that more people would choose not to commit the crime, were they given access to the information.
At the time this movie came out, I happened to be taking Science Fiction as an English Literature elective in college. ... Early 2000s sci-fi is something special.
1:11 - Oh, I think I can guarantee you'll feel that. One good point I'll give this movie is the way the story unfolds. We always know as much as the main protagonist, not made privy to any clue before him, discovering what he does WHEN he does.
19:41 - Same. I can people when I have to. But if I don't have to, I don't people.
I’m so glad you liked this. It’s one of my favorite movies ☺️
41:42 - Well, maybe the skeletons in the hole for the pool in Poltergeist...nah, you're right, he doesn't have it in him.
The irony is that it's self-fulfilling prophecy: would Anderton have gone looking for a guy named Leo Crowe if the prediction had never been made?
Oh, the rotten sandwich & milk never made sense to me until you asked why there were two choices. Everything's f*cking symbolism. 😂
40:22 - Hey, look, Shanelle got her groove back! 😉
Scanner Darkly - amazing - all star cast and closest adaptation to PKD novel. Paycheck very good.
Probably already been said, but just in case. The cinematographer's name is pronounced: Y-AH-n-oo-sh K-uh-m-ih-n-s-k-ee, he is Polish! He has been working on Spielberg movies since 1993 and won the Oscar for Schindler's List and Saving Private Ryan!!
I always forget that the two best sci-fi movies of the 2000s came out on the same weekend.
28:44 - Ah! Now you're catching on! 😉
38:43 comment,, technique,,the changa fore shadowing in lighting shows or reveals the perception shift the writer shares to foreshadow to the audience.-Ernie Moore Jr.
One of the coolest concepts in this movie wasn't precognition, precrime, replacement eyes, the way traffic works, or any of that other stuff.
No, the coolest concept was the "sick stick", a stun baton that makes the target projectile vomit when struck.
36:01 - Oh, I know! I've been cheersing it for 20 years! 😁
I'd be interested to see you react to The Seventh Seal (1957), directed by Ingmar Bergman and starring Max von Sidow. It's the film that really cemented Igmar Bergman's status as one of the great directors.It's a great, philosophical movie about a knight playing chess with Death while he struggles with his religious faith and the trauma of returning home after the crusades.
This is a great neo noir Sci Fi Action Thriller Film!
Originally,this was going to be a sequel to TOTAL RECALL, but Steven Spielberg took the reins and made it into a standalone movie instead.
I do hope you watch total recall with Collin Farrell from 2012. It has a whole new twist on the movie
13:25 Sounds like you missed an earlier bit of dialogue, they called those batons "sick sticks" because they disable you by making you vomit