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just a small nitpick and constructive criticism: love the reaction but the first 0:00 to ~1:30 of this intro, i tihnk the editor overdid it a bit with the "Echo". It acted less as a "hype reverb" vs hype mic boom, and it sounded like a disconnect in the audio/video sync accident vs actual intended voice modification. That is all, very small nitpick, it didnt ruin the reaction, and i hope whoever was working on this doesn't get too much noise from it (no pun intended), but i figured i'd share.
During one of the Mission Impossible films when Ethan needed to complete a task underwater, there was a lot of training. By the shoot Tom was holding his breath for 6+ minutes.
Movie doesn’t get the credit it deserves for the effect it had on science fiction storytelling. All that Touching Nothing Hologram sht you’ve seen everywhere for 20+ years. Thank Stevie Spielberg
I think the son was just a random crime that is unconnected, I think that’s what makes it more terrifying, there is no motive that we as the viewer know,
I've never seen anyone invent such an elaborate extra layer to Burgess's crimes haha. I understand not wanting it to just being some random act, but it is. Storytelling wise though there's no WAY this movie lays out so much of the scheme of what Burgess did to Agatha's mother and then just doesn't even have anyone mention a suspicion that he was responsible for the son, if that's "what actually happened". Also, in-universe I'm sure John was a really good cop before precrime, but it would be crazy for Burgess to want him SO MUCH he'd kill for it, when John's role in the system hadn't even been set up or tested yet.
This is based on a Philip K. Dick story. Other movies based on his stories are: Blade Runner, Total Recall, The Adjustment Bureau, Paycheck, and A Scanner Darkly.
To be honest I was not sure this was based on anything, it's so well put together as a single package. I was a little offended on behalf of sci fi screenwriters when he said "it's probably based on a book" without knowing haha, like what you don't there's any good original scripts in sci fi? I get that feeling in a movie that has sort of arbitrary weird feeling elements because it makes you think there's backstory that got left out, but Minority Report is tight tight tight.
I always felt that Sean was an actual real kidnapping before Precrime existed. This drove Cruise to be the best with precrime at all costs, his exwife said he was obsessed, in the hopes of finding Sean before he was murdered. Sydow knew this and used it to bend Cruise to his will.
Not sure what the confusion was. Anderton had a traumatic history of his son being kidnapped which was his primary motivation to be zealous about Precrime and that made him a massive asset for Lamar. Then, when he had served his purpose, and had started asking too many uncomfortable questions about Anne Lively, Lamar used John's trauma to fabricate a scenario which he knew would likely induce Anderton to commit murder, which the Precogs would pick up and highlight, effectively framing him for the future murder of his son's "kidnapper". Lamar and Leo Crow didn't have anything to do with the actual kidnapping, they were using his trauma to induce the murder. Its actually genius writing to weave the fallibility of the precrime concept into the framing of "pre-murder", since apparently the precogs pick up intent of murder, but may be inaccurate if the person decides not to go ahead with it (the minority report).
@khefka probably. Also doesn't help that he does a lot of the same style of film (action/spy/military) so the characters aren't going to be THAT different from each other. Still, love his films anyway
Tom Cruise Sci-fi movie was never dissapointed me. Minority Report (2002) War Of The Worlds (2005) Oblivion (2013) Edge of Tomorrow (2014) They all so good and very rewatchable
No, Burgess did NOT hire someone to kidnap John's son. That was something that happened before precrime. You didn't pay enough attention, and you were overthinking it. He hired Crow to *pretend* that *he* was the one who took John's son, to get John to commit murder. But no, it was someone else entirely who kidnapped John's son... and got away with it, because precrime didn't exist back then.
Yes, the lengths Van Sydow went through to keep precrime successful were evil, but Tom Cruise's supporting the cause was always genuine, no foul play to sucker him into precrime, but a horrible exploitation of his past in order to frame him when he got too close to the truth about the Ann Lively murder
This movie is LOADED with complex information and it's tough if not impossible to understand everything on your first watch. It's also REALLY easy to get confused because of the way some of the information is presented, I had to rewatch it numerous times with deliberate intent to process and understand all of the information presented by the movie, and even though I can summarize the plot very well, I still feel like it's inherently difficult to follow, and there's one or two details that still dont make perfect sense to me. I'm just saying, I think it's a bit harsh to go as far as saying "You weren't paying enough attention" on this movie. That'd be like saying "ugh, you didn't understand Inception the first time? Watch it again and maybe try to actually pay attention this time...." Some movies really benefit from multiple watches and this is definitely one of those films. And it's not even that he wasn't paying attention - he heard them say he was paid to act like he took his son. I think he just misunderstood that to mean Leo was paid to "act like he was kidnapping his son" ("acting" meaning "being paid to do something he wasnt really doing of his own volition"), i.e. he wasnt really a kidnapper, but he was still the reason his son went missing. Yeah, it turns out he was just overthinking it, but I can't blame him for expecting the movie to have more of an answer or give more closure to that plot point. He just thought everything was going to come down to that, not Anne Lively.
@@SiriuslyBlack7Phone Booth was very interesting! It told like a play, and I think I’m here for it. Plus, Keifer’s voice is so recognizable, it was a great role for him.
Spielberg and/or the writer has Colin’s character read Burgess’s whole conspiracy instead of the tired trope of the villain monologuing - that’s some witty subversion
@@Divamarja_CA Okay now I'm imagining Phone Booth as a play, and they could do a thing where they just have extras walking by at the rear of the stage at first and sometimes one of them just gets shot :) Cool concept!
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.
@@believeume122What about the people that think about it but don't? They got arrested and punished for something that was never going to happen, a literal thought crime.
@@believeume122 People who lose their ability to live their life because they were wrongly convicted of a crime that they wouldn't have, in fact, committed would disagree. Also, how can you be guilty of something that you didn't do? This is just as bad as convicting people for thoughtcrime.
I don't know a single person who didn't think it was really good, but he's right it isn't really talked about that much. I guess just because it was its own thing, no franchise, no ballooning superhero film industry that emerged out of it. And it's hard to do movies based on "they're psychic!" really well, and a lot of the backstory choices here are very specific. I have seen people reference it the most in terms of imagining how computer interfaces would go though.
Samantha Morton (Agatha) also ‘grew up’ to be Mary Lou - Credence’s adoptive mother - in Fantastic Beasts. Completely different character and almost unrecognisable from this one. She’s such a versatile actor. I think this is my favourite of Tom Cruises movie. It’s a tough call, he has some really great movies.
Because Aaron has so much movie knowledge too, Andrew doesn't have to say more than a couple words for him to get the movie references he makes. I find that awesome.
Does anyone else remember The Minority Report tv series? It only lasted 1 Season, but it followed the lives of the 3 Precogs after the events of the film. I liked it & still wish it had lasted longer.
I remember. They focused on one, teamed up with a regular cop, and he just wanted to keep helping people, but not be stuck in a tank forever doing it. I recall that in one episode, they did go to the island that Agatha (and the other twin?) lived on. It was one of those fun sci-fi premises that only lasted one season because it was on broadcast TV.
I remember it being kind of terrible. They pretty wildly changed Wally's character from the sad sack creep he is in the movie into a tech genius billionaire.
50:57 I love this moment so much. It’s so unsettling and unnerving. It rips you away from the soft sadness that you were feeling just a second before. It’s so well done.
Philip K. Dick wrote this book, Blade Runner, The Man In The High Castle, Total Recall, Screamers, and The Adjustment Bureau. The actress who played Agatha (Samantha Morton) was Alpha in TWD.
I'm glad you guys liked this movie. I think it's aged incredibly well over time. As far as if the people would want a system in place in which murders could be psychically predicted and stopped... I mean, as the audience, we can see the "behind the scenes" of how the system works in the movie, so we know there is at least some legitimacy to the process (putting aside the minority reports, and the corruption). But in the real world, if the police suddenly announced that they'd decided to arrest people who hadn't even committed a crime, and were putting them away forever, but it's okay because "trust us, bro, we're cops." There is NO WAY I would be in favor of that.
Spielberg pioneered that “top-down” tracking shot (that almost looks/feels like a video game) in the scene with the camera slowly following the spider bots while they searched the building. Chad Stahelski perfected it in John Wick 4 with the top-down tracking shot of John in that apartment building taking dudes out with an incendiary shotgun like a video game😄👀🙊 It all began with Minority Report🔥💪🏽🙌🏼
There is also the theory that after tom went into the halo the rest was a dream and everything after he is in prison never happened it was his dreams. So precrime still exist and has spread all over now.
@@Real_LiamOBryanthe organ player that is in charge of the ones with the halos says “your life flashes before your eyes” and “all your dreams come true.”
@@DeeSee25 True, but that is only evidence that it's consistent rather than true, at least as far as I can tell. Is there any evidence that it's actually the case in universe?
7:42 This was based on the story written by Phillip K. Dick, who also wrote the stories that inspired Bladerunner, Total Recall, Next, Paycheck, and more.
The precog, Agatha, is Samantha Morton, who's been in a ton of stuff career-wise but also just starred in the Walking Dead final season, where she totally rocked it naked and bald and terrifying.
Samantha Morton, a VERY seasoned English actress, has been nominated for an Oscar TWICE (2000 and 2004), check her out in 'Control', 'The Whale', 'Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find them', 'Cosmopolis', 'The Messenger', 'In America'.
3:00 Fun fact: "pre-crime" departments already exist in some cities, inspired by this film. Crime occurrence patterns are detected by analyzing local crime data. This guides patrol routes to capture crime as they are happening. Capture an xx seller on an unlicensed xx carrier before they commit a greater crime. However, not even close to the extent of the film.
1. Burgess contacts Crow to make the deal 2. Somehow someone points John to Crow 3. Precogs predict John will kill Crow 4. John sees prediction and goes on the run
I love the tension in the elevator, everything is under control until the alarm goes off which tells Farrell that Cruise *is* deadly. It's misinformed, but still a hell of a moment.
3:20 Andrew: “I wish we had this now.” Not the pre-crime technology, but the hand and eye tracking are available on the Apple Vision Pro. Anyone who owns one can be Tom Cruise, including watching spatial memories as seen at 9:20.
Great job, guys. Much enjoyed the watchalong. You guys were quick on the uptakes. 👍 Samantha Morton also played the villain Alpha of the Whisperers on seasons 9 and 10 of TWD.
I adore this film - my favorite Sci-Fi movie of the 2000's. Tom Cruise and Samantha Morton showed a fantastic acting. Despite that some scenes were definitely inspired by other films (L.A. Confidential, Robocop, Demolition Man, Blade Runner, The Fifth Element)
I agree about the visual design, it's awesome. The sets are imaginative and Spielberg made it all high contrast and grainy to feel like film- noir. The scenes in the shopping mall and "Cyberparlor" really stand out in my mind where you see rich reds in the color pallette whereas most of the movie is grey and blue-ish.
Id never noticed the similarities to Star Wars AOTC with the chase scene+music and then the fight/chase through the car assembly line like the chase through the droid assembly line in AOTC
Can’t really convey how fascinating the that whole gesture UI was back in 2002. It was a genuinely _different_ take on a computer UI - still cinematic, sure, but not a too-sci-fi hologram or whatever films usually do. This seemed like something that might actually work, and indeed the designers did a lot of work to make it realistic if still imaginative and juuust futuristic enough. When the first modern’ish touchscreens made a big splash a few years later, they were described as “Minority Report’esque” - it was just the only reference people had for all this slide, swipe, pinch gesture stuff, because it hadn’t been seen in real life before
So glad y’all reacted to this☺️ I remember when this came out in theaters - it was so packed my fam couldn’t sit together and my cousin and I sat on the steps because we couldn’t find seats together (people made room for us eventually). I enjoyed every second of that experience; fave T.C. film.
There have only been a handful of Spielberg films that John Williams didn't score: Duel, The Color Purple, Bridge Of Spies, Ready Player One and West Side Story. John Williams actually came out of retirement to score the latest Indiana Jones movie. But that was for director, James Mangold.
They did a clear "villain cut" to Burgess while you guys were still convincing yourselves you were right about your suspicion haha. At that point on it's just watching poor Colin Farrell figure it out. I liked the in-universe twist that everyone is so used to precrime now that they assume they couldn't be murdered - only explanation for Farrell spilling all the beans when he knows the culprit has to be someone "high up". And great evil tension building when Burgess reminds him what it means for Agatha to be absent.
Agatha was Alpha in The Walking Dead...Samantha Morrison is absolutely fantastic in everything she does. I also loved her in The Libertine with Johnny Depp.
Yeah, like others have said. I never got the impression that Lamar had anything to do right Sean’s kidnapping. I always figured it was something that happened before pre-crime and John got involved in pre-crime, like his wife said, to keep that kind of thing from happening to anyone else. Kinda like Batman 🤔 😯
I remember watching this in theaters and a core memory of this movie is whispering about the touch screens and how cool that would be. Me and my dad really liked this movie (despite his dislike of Tom Cruise) any time it was on TV we would watch. Due to our love of rewatching movies my mom hates this movie. But it's a good one.
The primary issue with pre-crime (beyond the enslaving of the precogs) is that every pre-murder perpetrator apparently gets an automatic life sentence with no chance of parole. Red Balls should be a twenty-four hour hold and mandatory counseling, and brown balls should be some form of forced institutionalization (in the case of psychopaths and serial killers) or if they're professional hitmen or something trying to force them to flip and use them for key witnesses in larger investigations. It's also never really explained how Pre-Crime could be made 'national.' The precogs have a limited range in which they can predict things, and they've only got the three of them. Are they going to build an airship and just constantly fly them around the country or something?
I think that there are a couple other "primary" issues with it, namely, that no crime has been committed yet--or is in the process of being committed, so nobody is actually guilty of anything, and people that have decided to do something can veto that with another act of volition. Nishi Shah, a philosopher, wrote a good paper about this. You can look it up by Googling "Direct Doxastic Voluntarism Nishi Shah". I'm sorry, I can't remember the name of the paper at the moment. Nevertheless, it gives a very persuasive case for at least the subjective veto of decisions made and, in that sense, a truly libertarian freedom of the will.
I saw this movie in a twin cinema the same afternoon I watched The Bourne Identity. Minority Report so outclassed Identity. I'm happy I saw Bourne first. Minority Report is a visual feast and a classic.
John's son went missing before Precrime came into existence. Lamar wanted John out of the picture when he started questioning him about Anne Lively. He also killed Danny (Colin) because he found the glitch with Anne's murder as well. This was always about hidding Anne's murder so Lamar could take Agatha to create Precrime. We never really find out what happened to John's son.
I remember when this came out that Spielberg talked about how he met with experts and scientists about where technology could be in the future realistically. So most of the tech in the movie was stuff that ppl were/are still working on besides the whole precogs plot
One thing to notice is that the police have non-lethal weapons, like that puking stick and the force-gun. That's because they know the person won't kill them.
The way you guys jumped onto Lamar kidnapping his kid too 😅. Guys, no, I don't think Lamar did that one lol. He just capitalized on it later alot But, yeah, Minority Report is one of my favorite movies. It's freakin phenomenal. And if they released it today, it'd still be better than a lot of movies released today
The son was gone before the Precrime exist. Anne Lively was killed after Precrime exist but before John start working there. So, there's no way Lamar kill his son just to get him to work there. John only work there after the Precrime prove to be successful, not it's only successful after he works there.
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just a small nitpick and constructive criticism: love the reaction but the first 0:00 to ~1:30 of this intro, i tihnk the editor overdid it a bit with the "Echo". It acted less as a "hype reverb" vs hype mic boom, and it sounded like a disconnect in the audio/video sync accident vs actual intended voice modification.
That is all, very small nitpick, it didnt ruin the reaction, and i hope whoever was working on this doesn't get too much noise from it (no pun intended), but i figured i'd share.
During one of the Mission Impossible films when Ethan needed to complete a task underwater, there was a lot of training. By the shoot Tom was holding his breath for 6+ minutes.
Movie doesn’t get the credit it deserves for the effect it had on science fiction storytelling.
All that Touching Nothing Hologram sht you’ve seen everywhere for 20+ years. Thank Stevie Spielberg
I think the son was just a random crime that is unconnected, I think that’s what makes it more terrifying, there is no motive that we as the viewer know,
It’s plenty nefarious for Burgess to have exploited Anderton’s past in order to realize his program
I've never seen anyone invent such an elaborate extra layer to Burgess's crimes haha. I understand not wanting it to just being some random act, but it is. Storytelling wise though there's no WAY this movie lays out so much of the scheme of what Burgess did to Agatha's mother and then just doesn't even have anyone mention a suspicion that he was responsible for the son, if that's "what actually happened". Also, in-universe I'm sure John was a really good cop before precrime, but it would be crazy for Burgess to want him SO MUCH he'd kill for it, when John's role in the system hadn't even been set up or tested yet.
He didn’t pay crowe to kidnap sean, he paid crowe to pretend he was the guy and we don’t actually know who really did it
So were all those photos of Crowe and his son faked?
"That guy" that Tom Cruise has worked with a bunch is William Mapother ... Tom's cousin! He plays Ethan on LOST
Yes, Tom Cruise' last name is Mapother.
This is based on a Philip K. Dick story. Other movies based on his stories are: Blade Runner, Total Recall, The Adjustment Bureau, Paycheck, and A Scanner Darkly.
Also Screamers with Peter Weller, and Imposter with Gary Sinise.
The Matrix is also a spin on some of his existential literary work
To be honest I was not sure this was based on anything, it's so well put together as a single package. I was a little offended on behalf of sci fi screenwriters when he said "it's probably based on a book" without knowing haha, like what you don't there's any good original scripts in sci fi? I get that feeling in a movie that has sort of arbitrary weird feeling elements because it makes you think there's backstory that got left out, but Minority Report is tight tight tight.
OOOOO the adjustment Bureau
And Man in the High Castle.
I always felt that Sean was an actual real kidnapping before Precrime existed. This drove Cruise to be the best with precrime at all costs, his exwife said he was obsessed, in the hopes of finding Sean before he was murdered. Sydow knew this and used it to bend Cruise to his will.
Yeah, his son wasn't kidnapped by Lamar to get him to join pre crime. That was some heavy over thinking.
I think its already clear as day, they just really overthinking it because they didn’t pay attention lol
Correct
Agree
@@mrabduhthat’s what happens when you pay TOO much attention lol. That’s why I never trust critics 👀
Not sure what the confusion was. Anderton had a traumatic history of his son being kidnapped which was his primary motivation to be zealous about Precrime and that made him a massive asset for Lamar. Then, when he had served his purpose, and had started asking too many uncomfortable questions about Anne Lively, Lamar used John's trauma to fabricate a scenario which he knew would likely induce Anderton to commit murder, which the Precogs would pick up and highlight, effectively framing him for the future murder of his son's "kidnapper". Lamar and Leo Crow didn't have anything to do with the actual kidnapping, they were using his trauma to induce the murder. Its actually genius writing to weave the fallibility of the precrime concept into the framing of "pre-murder", since apparently the precogs pick up intent of murder, but may be inaccurate if the person decides not to go ahead with it (the minority report).
22:56 Whoever added Michael Scott saying "parkour" is genious 😂
Thank you, I didn't notice. That's brilliant. 😂
Swear I thought Tom said it.😂😂
"DON'T YOU EVER SAY HIS NAME!!!" always chills
KEEP MY SON'S NAME OUT YOUR F*CKING MOUTH
Rewound that quite literally 4 times
As much as I love Tom Cruise films, his actual acting is kinda generic most of the time.
But the film is probably one of his best in terms of acting.
@@carston101 i think that's because he has done so many movies already and he makes 1 every 2 to 3 years
@khefka probably. Also doesn't help that he does a lot of the same style of film (action/spy/military) so the characters aren't going to be THAT different from each other.
Still, love his films anyway
The fact this movie is 22 years old makes me feel very weird. How is that possible . Lol
Dammmmmn that is wild to me too lol
@@BassLineProductionsI but it looks so good, it hasn’t aged
@@Knightowl1980Spielberg is great at creating worlds, his blending of effects and sets holds up so well
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Damn. I saw this in the cinemas as a young man. I feel ancient now.
Spielberg and Cruise need to make more movies together!
Tom Cruise Sci-fi movie was never dissapointed me.
Minority Report (2002)
War Of The Worlds (2005)
Oblivion (2013)
Edge of Tomorrow (2014)
They all so good and very rewatchable
All great flicks!
Yes. Glad Oblivion made the list!
The soundtrack for Oblivion slaps
Bruh wbu Vanilla Sky?
Oblivion was legit
No, Burgess did NOT hire someone to kidnap John's son. That was something that happened before precrime. You didn't pay enough attention, and you were overthinking it. He hired Crow to *pretend* that *he* was the one who took John's son, to get John to commit murder. But no, it was someone else entirely who kidnapped John's son... and got away with it, because precrime didn't exist back then.
It’s also nefarious enough for Burgess to exploit Anderton’s history
Yes, the lengths Van Sydow went through to keep precrime successful were evil, but Tom Cruise's supporting the cause was always genuine, no foul play to sucker him into precrime, but a horrible exploitation of his past in order to frame him when he got too close to the truth about the Ann Lively murder
This movie is LOADED with complex information and it's tough if not impossible to understand everything on your first watch. It's also REALLY easy to get confused because of the way some of the information is presented, I had to rewatch it numerous times with deliberate intent to process and understand all of the information presented by the movie, and even though I can summarize the plot very well, I still feel like it's inherently difficult to follow, and there's one or two details that still dont make perfect sense to me.
I'm just saying, I think it's a bit harsh to go as far as saying "You weren't paying enough attention" on this movie. That'd be like saying "ugh, you didn't understand Inception the first time? Watch it again and maybe try to actually pay attention this time...." Some movies really benefit from multiple watches and this is definitely one of those films.
And it's not even that he wasn't paying attention - he heard them say he was paid to act like he took his son. I think he just misunderstood that to mean Leo was paid to "act like he was kidnapping his son" ("acting" meaning "being paid to do something he wasnt really doing of his own volition"), i.e. he wasnt really a kidnapper, but he was still the reason his son went missing. Yeah, it turns out he was just overthinking it, but I can't blame him for expecting the movie to have more of an answer or give more closure to that plot point. He just thought everything was going to come down to that, not Anne Lively.
“Don’t you EVER SAY HIS NAME!” Sooo many great lines and deliveries in this movie. It’s soo good.
“Everybody runs.” Ahh, I love that line and its delivery so much.
This movie introduced me to Colin Farrell. Such a great, understated performance. And he had a fantastic 2002, with also The Recruit and Phone Booth.
I absolutely LOVED Phone Booth!!a psychological thriller between Colin Farrell and Keifer Sutherland? I'm in ALL THE WAY!!
@@SiriuslyBlack7Phone Booth was very interesting! It told like a play, and I think I’m here for it. Plus, Keifer’s voice is so recognizable, it was a great role for him.
@@Divamarja_CA all the way!Now that you mentioned it, i could definitely see it as a stage performance!
Spielberg and/or the writer has Colin’s character read Burgess’s whole conspiracy instead of the tired trope of the villain monologuing - that’s some witty subversion
@@Divamarja_CA Okay now I'm imagining Phone Booth as a play, and they could do a thing where they just have extras walking by at the rear of the stage at first and sometimes one of them just gets shot :) Cool concept!
OMG! I had to rewind to make sure I actually heard “PARKOUR!” Haha. Hilarious
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.
I don't really need to make a case why pre-crime is a bad idea, the movie will do it for me
Yeah…lots to consider and I was getting twitchy to comment but the movie at least raises the main ethical issues 😅
I still think it's a good idea. People who are about to be murdered or who have been would agree. 🤷♀️
@@believeume122What about the people that think about it but don't? They got arrested and punished for something that was never going to happen, a literal thought crime.
It’s also really striking how Spielberg portrays the potency of precrime in Williamsburg vs how invasively the precops search a poor tenement
@@believeume122 People who lose their ability to live their life because they were wrongly convicted of a crime that they wouldn't have, in fact, committed would disagree. Also, how can you be guilty of something that you didn't do? This is just as bad as convicting people for thoughtcrime.
Minority Report is a true cinematic gem that grows in stature
I don't know a single person who didn't think it was really good, but he's right it isn't really talked about that much. I guess just because it was its own thing, no franchise, no ballooning superhero film industry that emerged out of it. And it's hard to do movies based on "they're psychic!" really well, and a lot of the backstory choices here are very specific.
I have seen people reference it the most in terms of imagining how computer interfaces would go though.
Samantha Morton (Agatha) also ‘grew up’ to be Mary Lou - Credence’s adoptive mother - in Fantastic Beasts. Completely different character and almost unrecognisable from this one. She’s such a versatile actor. I think this is my favourite of Tom Cruises movie. It’s a tough call, he has some really great movies.
OMG! I didn't perceive that as being the same person AT ALL! 🤯
Because Aaron has so much movie knowledge too, Andrew doesn't have to say more than a couple words for him to get the movie references he makes. I find that awesome.
Does anyone else remember The Minority Report tv series? It only lasted 1 Season, but it followed the lives of the 3 Precogs after the events of the film. I liked it & still wish it had lasted longer.
I did a day as an extra on the pilot of that show in Vancouver 🎬
I remember. They focused on one, teamed up with a regular cop, and he just wanted to keep helping people, but not be stuck in a tank forever doing it. I recall that in one episode, they did go to the island that Agatha (and the other twin?) lived on. It was one of those fun sci-fi premises that only lasted one season because it was on broadcast TV.
I remember it being kind of terrible. They pretty wildly changed Wally's character from the sad sack creep he is in the movie into a tech genius billionaire.
I'm hearing about this for the first time
@@Fafhrd42 In 2002 nerds were lame, in 2015 nerds rule the world, so obviously all the nerds from 2002 grew up to be genius billionaires :P
50:57 I love this moment so much. It’s so unsettling and unnerving. It rips you away from the soft sadness that you were feeling just a second before. It’s so well done.
The desk clerk that you said was also in MI2 is William Mapother, Tom Cruise's cousin.
Philip K. Dick wrote this book, Blade Runner, The Man In The High Castle, Total Recall, Screamers, and The Adjustment Bureau. The actress who played Agatha (Samantha Morton) was Alpha in TWD.
I love this movie so much, "Is it now?" and "Run", are such amazing line deliveries.
I'm glad you guys liked this movie. I think it's aged incredibly well over time. As far as if the people would want a system in place in which murders could be psychically predicted and stopped... I mean, as the audience, we can see the "behind the scenes" of how the system works in the movie, so we know there is at least some legitimacy to the process (putting aside the minority reports, and the corruption). But in the real world, if the police suddenly announced that they'd decided to arrest people who hadn't even committed a crime, and were putting them away forever, but it's okay because "trust us, bro, we're cops." There is NO WAY I would be in favor of that.
Spielberg pioneered that “top-down” tracking shot (that almost looks/feels like a video game) in the scene with the camera slowly following the spider bots while they searched the building.
Chad Stahelski perfected it in John Wick 4 with the top-down tracking shot of John in that apartment building taking dudes out with an incendiary shotgun like a video game😄👀🙊
It all began with Minority Report🔥💪🏽🙌🏼
There is also the theory that after tom went into the halo the rest was a dream and everything after he is in prison never happened it was his dreams. So precrime still exist and has spread all over now.
I've never heard that. That's interesting! I wonder what reasons there are to think that that's true, though, instead of merely interesting?
That's how the Brazilian remake of Minority Report ends :P
@@Real_LiamOBryanthe organ player that is in charge of the ones with the halos says “your life flashes before your eyes” and “all your dreams come true.”
@@DeeSee25 True, but that is only evidence that it's consistent rather than true, at least as far as I can tell. Is there any evidence that it's actually the case in universe?
Hi guys! Please consider checking out 'Déjà Vu' (2006) with Denzel Washington and 'Source Code' (2011) with Jake Gyllenhaal, please. Thanks. 🧡
Which film's future society would you MOST like to live in??
Demolition Man just to see how they use those shells.
@@Kaileigh_BrokoFr tho
The Fifth Element, or Meet The Robinson - just to travel in one of those tubes to anywhere. Or maybe Aeon Flux.
7:42 This was based on the story written by Phillip K. Dick, who also wrote the stories that inspired Bladerunner, Total Recall, Next, Paycheck, and more.
The precog, Agatha, is Samantha Morton, who's been in a ton of stuff career-wise but also just starred in the Walking Dead final season, where she totally rocked it naked and bald and terrifying.
Samantha Morton, a VERY seasoned English actress, has been nominated for an Oscar TWICE (2000 and 2004), check her out in 'Control', 'The Whale', 'Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find them', 'Cosmopolis', 'The Messenger', 'In America'.
3:00 Fun fact: "pre-crime" departments already exist in some cities, inspired by this film. Crime occurrence patterns are detected by analyzing local crime data. This guides patrol routes to capture crime as they are happening. Capture an xx seller on an unlicensed xx carrier before they commit a greater crime. However, not even close to the extent of the film.
Without looking it up, I think the eye surgeon was also the crazy Russian in Armageddon and the Psychiatrist in the video game Until Dawn.
Well you shouldn't need to look it up. Peter Stormare is a very well known actor that has been in alot of TV and movies
He was also in The Big Lebowski, Fargo, and John Wick 2. Nice filmography!
and the very best depiction of Satan/Lucifer in Constantine
1. Burgess contacts Crow to make the deal
2. Somehow someone points John to Crow
3. Precogs predict John will kill Crow
4. John sees prediction and goes on the run
I love the tension in the elevator, everything is under control until the alarm goes off which tells Farrell that Cruise *is* deadly. It's misinformed, but still a hell of a moment.
3:20 Andrew: “I wish we had this now.”
Not the pre-crime technology, but the hand and eye tracking are available on the Apple Vision Pro. Anyone who owns one can be Tom Cruise, including watching spatial memories as seen at 9:20.
Tom Cruise calls Colin Farrell cute and a twink in this, that's cinema at its finest if you ask me.
Aaron: oh man this is good
Andrew: YEAH ABSOLUTELY. THIS MOVIE IS GOOOOOOD!!!!!
Great job, guys. Much enjoyed the watchalong. You guys were quick on the uptakes. 👍 Samantha Morton also played the villain Alpha of the Whisperers on seasons 9 and 10 of TWD.
In that role, does she look anything like that image of her they edited into this video?
@@jerodast She does, just a bit older, still bald with a few more pounds
I adore this film - my favorite Sci-Fi movie of the 2000's. Tom Cruise and Samantha Morton showed a fantastic acting. Despite that some scenes were definitely inspired by other films (L.A. Confidential, Robocop, Demolition Man, Blade Runner, The Fifth Element)
I agree about the visual design, it's awesome. The sets are imaginative and Spielberg made it all high contrast and grainy to feel like film- noir. The scenes in the shopping mall and "Cyberparlor" really stand out in my mind where you see rich reds in the color pallette whereas most of the movie is grey and blue-ish.
Philip K. Dick is the author.
One of the best sci-fi writers
Id never noticed the similarities to Star Wars AOTC with the chase scene+music and then the fight/chase through the car assembly line like the chase through the droid assembly line in AOTC
“Hello, Lamar.” Oooh, I love that line 😃
Agatha Christie, Dashell Hammet and Arthur Conan Doyle… mystery writers the pre cogs names are based on
This is still one of my absolute favorite tom cruise movies
26:19 Love the triple thump from his head shake. Reminded me of Thumper 😂
I think the guy holding the paper staring at Tom Cruise is director Cameron Crowe. He directed Vanilla Sky which starred Cruise.
It is. I came to comment the same thing.
I wish Samantha Morton had gotten an Academy Award for this
Can’t really convey how fascinating the that whole gesture UI was back in 2002. It was a genuinely _different_ take on a computer UI - still cinematic, sure, but not a too-sci-fi hologram or whatever films usually do. This seemed like something that might actually work, and indeed the designers did a lot of work to make it realistic if still imaginative and juuust futuristic enough. When the first modern’ish touchscreens made a big splash a few years later, they were described as “Minority Report’esque” - it was just the only reference people had for all this slide, swipe, pinch gesture stuff, because it hadn’t been seen in real life before
So glad y’all reacted to this☺️ I remember when this came out in theaters - it was so packed my fam couldn’t sit together and my cousin and I sat on the steps because we couldn’t find seats together (people made room for us eventually). I enjoyed every second of that experience; fave T.C. film.
when Tom jumps from the bed to confront his supposed kidnapper is some of my fav. acting...yes
A Clockwork Orange MUST SEE🍊
Great Reaction Aaron and Andrew! 👍
There have only been a handful of Spielberg films that John Williams didn't score: Duel, The Color Purple, Bridge Of Spies, Ready Player One and West Side Story. John Williams actually came out of retirement to score the latest Indiana Jones movie. But that was for director, James Mangold.
Happy Easter y’all
To you as well!
Can we all just upvote this comment, not for me, but for Colin Farrell's consistently on-point American accent?
What a fun reaction and appreciated the philosophical debate afterwards. 👍🏻
41:13 - WILLIAM MAPOTHER - the actor who portrays the hotel manager has appeared in five films starring his cousin, TOM CRUISE MAPOTHER IV.
It was Agatha all along! 😂
They did a clear "villain cut" to Burgess while you guys were still convincing yourselves you were right about your suspicion haha. At that point on it's just watching poor Colin Farrell figure it out.
I liked the in-universe twist that everyone is so used to precrime now that they assume they couldn't be murdered - only explanation for Farrell spilling all the beans when he knows the culprit has to be someone "high up". And great evil tension building when Burgess reminds him what it means for Agatha to be absent.
Agatha is the leader of the Whispers on TWD right? 😮
Yupppp
I’ll never forget when I first seen this movie. The augmented reality stuff really blew my mind.
"Deja Vu" with Denzel Washington
Underrated flick! Would love to see it in 4K!
One of my favorite movies. So glad you’re reacting to it 😃
Agatha was Alpha in The Walking Dead...Samantha Morrison is absolutely fantastic in everything she does. I also loved her in The Libertine with Johnny Depp.
Samantha *Morton* is amazing, yes. 🙂
I love how shocking that moment is when Agatha screams “RUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUN!”
Oh, hey! I just noticed you guys are matching. Nice!
22:56 “Parkour!” 🤣
Yeah, like others have said. I never got the impression that Lamar had anything to do right Sean’s kidnapping. I always figured it was something that happened before pre-crime and John got involved in pre-crime, like his wife said, to keep that kind of thing from happening to anyone else. Kinda like Batman 🤔 😯
I want a standalone Les Grossman film.
The author of Minority Report created some of the GREATEST Sci-fi
I remember watching this in theaters and a core memory of this movie is whispering about the touch screens and how cool that would be. Me and my dad really liked this movie (despite his dislike of Tom Cruise) any time it was on TV we would watch. Due to our love of rewatching movies my mom hates this movie. But it's a good one.
Both Top Guns, Far and Away, Interview with a Vampire, Edge of Tomorrow, Jack Reacher movies, MI movies.
The primary issue with pre-crime (beyond the enslaving of the precogs) is that every pre-murder perpetrator apparently gets an automatic life sentence with no chance of parole. Red Balls should be a twenty-four hour hold and mandatory counseling, and brown balls should be some form of forced institutionalization (in the case of psychopaths and serial killers) or if they're professional hitmen or something trying to force them to flip and use them for key witnesses in larger investigations.
It's also never really explained how Pre-Crime could be made 'national.' The precogs have a limited range in which they can predict things, and they've only got the three of them. Are they going to build an airship and just constantly fly them around the country or something?
I think that there are a couple other "primary" issues with it, namely, that no crime has been committed yet--or is in the process of being committed, so nobody is actually guilty of anything, and people that have decided to do something can veto that with another act of volition. Nishi Shah, a philosopher, wrote a good paper about this. You can look it up by Googling "Direct Doxastic Voluntarism Nishi Shah". I'm sorry, I can't remember the name of the paper at the moment. Nevertheless, it gives a very persuasive case for at least the subjective veto of decisions made and, in that sense, a truly libertarian freedom of the will.
Dudes reaction to the mouldy sandwich and gone off milk was hilarious 😂
I saw this movie in a twin cinema the same afternoon I watched The Bourne Identity. Minority Report so outclassed Identity. I'm happy I saw Bourne first. Minority Report is a visual feast and a classic.
I also love the Williams cue when Cruise is escaping in his car. There's a wonderful addition by the strings as the car travels vertically.
Sean's kidnapping happened before pre-crime started. It motivated John to join the program but Lamar had nothing to do with it.
Maybe I'm just an old boomer, but it still blows my mind that this generation hasn't seen movies like this. Especially if you're a Spielberg fan.
John's son went missing before Precrime came into existence. Lamar wanted John out of the picture when he started questioning him about Anne Lively. He also killed Danny (Colin) because he found the glitch with Anne's murder as well. This was always about hidding Anne's murder so Lamar could take Agatha to create
Precrime. We never really find out what happened to John's son.
I remember when this came out that Spielberg talked about how he met with experts and scientists about where technology could be in the future realistically. So most of the tech in the movie was stuff that ppl were/are still working on besides the whole precogs plot
Highly underrated flick imo!
It is said that everything after John Anderton goes into the prison is actually a dream - something he came up with while stuck in there.
Seriously one of my favorite Spielberg movies
You should check out AI by Stephen Spielberg it's visually stunning
Leo Crow was just a patsy (works in this context, rite?) he didn't actually have anything to do with the taking of the son. He was just a pawn.
I absolutely love this movie! One of my favorite sci-fi movies!
One of my favorite Tom Cruise movies.
This is my favorite Tom Cruise movie. I love house scene with the spiders
One thing to notice is that the police have non-lethal weapons, like that puking stick and the force-gun. That's because they know the person won't kill them.
32:48 The Woman is Spielbergs Stepdaughter Jessica Capshaw
Crow was hired to pretend to be the guy who took his son.
The way you guys jumped onto Lamar kidnapping his kid too 😅. Guys, no, I don't think Lamar did that one lol. He just capitalized on it later alot
But, yeah, Minority Report is one of my favorite movies. It's freakin phenomenal. And if they released it today, it'd still be better than a lot of movies released today
The son was gone before the Precrime exist. Anne Lively was killed after Precrime exist but before John start working there. So, there's no way Lamar kill his son just to get him to work there. John only work there after the Precrime prove to be successful, not it's only successful after he works there.
Wow that's the my daughter lady 😂😂😂