I love this film so much. To date, Minority Report is still my favorite sci-fi film. I dragged my mom and grandfather to go see it mainly to see the Daredevil teaser trailer. Having stayed to watch the film, I was completely blown away how great it was. The themes of determinism vs free will and the confrontation with Leo Crow still occupy my mind.
I know what you mean, completely with you on that. Rowan's retrospectives are always a wealth of interest and fascination; well worth the watch, every time.
interesting take on the ending, indeed it could all be Andertons' dream, though I personally doubt it, John loved his son above all else, as such his dream would be to find him. I even found several revisions of the script containing a scene of John dreaming about his son;
I never considered for a second that the end of the movie was all in his head because unlike in Total Recall the suggestion of it being so felt like it was just a throwaway line from Gideon, never alluded to before or after whereas in TR the whole movie was built around the unreliability of Quaid’s perception of reality.
Interesting video with some interesting alternative casting. I liked this movie when I saw it and although I understood the movie plot points as they naturally presented themselves, i viewed the movie through a very sci-fi lens. On subsequent rewatches I immersed myself in the mystery elements which could thematically be translated easily to a non-sci-fi movie. I agree that CG like the cityscape feels dated, but the effects in the more mundane settings like the newspaper and cereal box still look effective. Those mundane moments remind me of Total Recall with the receptionist changing her nail colour, it's actually very immersive. Although very different subjects there are small parallels to Person of Interest which was engaging because there was mystery for the characters as well as for the viewer.
Colin Farrell always blew me away in this movie. He's only a few years older than me. And when I first saw Minority Report, it was a year or so after graduating college. I thought he was way older (relatively speaking). Especially opposite Tom Cruise, who was around 40, and like 15 years his senior.
Rowan, you have a gift. You have the ability to describe something I've seen, and appreciated, a thousand times already, but you manage to elevate it, extract more joy from it, and then leave me consuming the film or series again in short fashion. Thank you for that.
The thing that grabed my attention in this movie is the swedish speaking scen with Peter Stormare. Because I didn't expect to hear my native language in an "american action movie".
Always enjoy your retrospectives. This is no exception. Because of my lack of enthusiasm for Tom Cruise in only got to see this movie a few months ago. To my surprise I loved it, despite Cruise seemingly playing a character I have seen him play repeatedly. Nevertheless, I found myself drawn in, intrigued and enjoying all the action as well. Your video summed it up perfectly, especially the view of the ending. Top job. Bring on the next one!
Minority Reports cultural impact on in the tech scene has been massive. From iPad, to Xbox Kinect and Apple Vision Pro - virtually every review mentioned Minority Report.
The third act switch has always been a faximile of rhe twist in the climax of The Fugative (Harrison Ford). Its not a bad thing. But it was like treading the same path.
The funniest scene for me is when he chases his eye balls down the slope and of course there's a drain grate 😂 Yes the comedy moments are given enough credit
Sorry if anyone can't unsee this but Cruise's teeth are in the wrong place, the center two are off to the side. Pause at 9.03 and you'll see it. It's bothered me for years, it's horrific.
I never once, having seen this film many times - ever contemplated the possibility that everything after he got locked up was all a dream. I love this film, and how it was shot.
the Witwer/Burgess scene when he is shot was lifted from L.A. Confidential when Captain Dudley Smith shoots Detective Sergeant Jack Vincennes after he connected the links to the murders
Aside from it's biggest flaw (the stupidity of inventing a whole new name and harsher penalty for "attempted murder" then successful ones get) it's a beautiful movie with a sleek and authentic looking world
Have you looked up person of interest, its first season stealth so, but good scifi and is a precederal but gets more and more plot driven and character of course, and the firss season raelly is great introducing and fleshin out pieces that come together great, it even gets very scifi with super AIs. And it gets that gripping at least once root comes in start season 2.
Read PKD's "Sales Pitch", then watch this movie. It will add a lot more layers to the background. The hallmarks of PKD; Identity Crisis, Drug Abuse and over saturated Commercialism. They are there in many of the author's works, but sadly absent from the translation to film.
That claim, that Spielberg was responsible for the darker aspects of AI, is entirely based on Spielberg himself and people who worked on production of the film said it’s not true.
The man playing Matthew (Daniel Warren) said some years later that he does regret how much of a rant that review was. That doesn't mean he was wrong about a lot of the points he brought up. This movie is really, really dumb at times.
@@Yama_1291 that review was awful. He literally compared the movie to Hitler and insulted Steven Spielberg for doing his job and insulted Roger Ebert for daring to have a different opinion than his he didn’t bring up any good points
The only issue that I, and many others have with this movie is that there is no resolution of Anderton finding out what actually happened to his son. Other than that it's great.
It basically means where everything is positioned in relation to everything else. Good blocking helps everything flow naturally (or cinematically) from one shot to another whereas bad blocking leaves you confused over what is happening. My go to example of bad blocking is from the original live action movie of Avatar: The Last Airbender. One scene that is universally laughed at is where 6 or so Earthbenders are doing an elaborate sequence that appears to only cause one relatively small rock to slowly float into an enemy soldier. The reason that this is bad blocking is The slow moving rock was caused by a completely different person who was off camera until after we see the rock itself and the big effect that the 6 people were doing was seen before we saw them. Due to bad positioning and timing the scene looked farcical and it was near impossible to see one event correctly flowing into the next. People are hardwired to see things as cause and effect but by doing effect-cause, effect-cause watchers mentally associated the cause of the first pairing with the effect of the second pairing even though they were unrelated. Good blocking is something you are supposed to take for granted as everything should feel natural. If a character enters one room, talks to another character, picks up an object, and heads out another door you should have a good impression of the layout of the original room including the position of both doors, the other character and the original position of the picked up item, then the next shot would probably include the other side of the second door as he emerges from it to establish continuity. Throughout the scene every action should comfortably flow into the next without us having to question what is happening.
As a PKD fan, I always find this one of the poorer adaptations.of his work The origanl story is nunaced. Anderton is actually going to commit murder, but that fore-knowledge changes his actions. It's Dick using Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle (observing an event changes the outcome of the event) as a plot device. The film is quite a middling Hollywood thriller that could have been made in the 40s with little difference to the plot. It's visually stunning of course and has some great set pieces. I just find myself roling my eyes at the end of it all. I thnk it's becuase unlike Total Recall or Blade Runner, which also vary widely from the source material, the conclusions the film seem to reach are diametrically opposed to the story.
I liked the movie although Tom Cruise's new eyes just creep me out. Am I mistaken in thinking there was a little Scientology propaganda inserted in the Good Sandwich, Bad Sandwich scene?
@@RowanJColeman oooh interesting. But why use a view finder and not just a camera to figure out the shots? What makes a view finder special and sets it apart from a camera?
I think Minority Report and Blade Runner 2049 are the only tech noir films after Blade Runner that have been able to stand on their own. Everything else just seems like a derivative of Blade Runner.
@@NeoConnor1 Personally I don't really fit the Matrix into the tech noir genre. It feels more like an action movie and it has a different aesthetic that doesn't really seem influenced by Blade Runner.
I actually lever liked the Noir-like aesthetics. It makes every shot look incredibly bland, like a cheap green screen composition, lacking any depth. Maybe they were trying to match contemporary CGI scenes in order to make the whole thing more coherent - I wouldn't know. I just couldn't bring myself watching it a second time as that style would pretty much put me off each time I truly thought about it.
Even though Tom Cruise makes my skin crawl, this film was - and is - one of my favorite of all SciFi films. All SciFi films ever. The casting. A veritable embarrassment of riches: Colin Farrell; Samantha Morgan; Neal McDonough; Max von Sydow; Tim Blake; Arye Gross; Mike Binder; and the exquisite Lois Smith. I just bought my third Lexus, and when at the dealership in Greenwood Village I always conjure the scene from ‘Minority Report’ where my new RX500h is custom-built, on-site, instead of shipped from distant Ontario. Those wooden balls, names etched in laser-guided precision, gliding down their tracks remain a very specific, very permanent part of my movie-obsessed treasure vault.
I talk about this movie with people regularly. Because I had Agathas face tattooed on my calf when I had my PKD phase. 4/5 times i hear this question: Wait, it was directed by Spielberg? Really? Its so "unspielbrgian" that the fact is easier to forget, than draw attention to it as an oddity in his oeuvre.
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"Now the gun down John, i dont hear a red ball" Alarm starts rining
Love that moment. At that point, the story could literally go anywhere
I miss the days when Hollywood would pilfer the drawing boards of futurist tech R&D for its production design in Sci Fi movies.
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I love this film so much. To date, Minority Report is still my favorite sci-fi film. I dragged my mom and grandfather to go see it mainly to see the Daredevil teaser trailer. Having stayed to watch the film, I was completely blown away how great it was. The themes of determinism vs free will and the confrontation with Leo Crow still occupy my mind.
God, these videos are good. Always excited to see one pop into my feed.
I know I say that every time.
what else can you say when it's true
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Exactly!
I know what you mean, completely with you on that. Rowan's retrospectives are always a wealth of interest and fascination; well worth the watch, every time.
One of the few subscriptions I watch as soon as it lands in my feed. Thanks again.
interesting take on the ending, indeed it could all be Andertons' dream, though I personally doubt it, John loved his son above all else, as such his dream would be to find him. I even found several revisions of the script containing a scene of John dreaming about his son;
An underrated movie which blends entertainment and food for thought seamlessly.
Love your videos man you deserve more views
I never considered for a second that the end of the movie was all in his head because unlike in Total Recall the suggestion of it being so felt like it was just a throwaway line from Gideon, never alluded to before or after whereas in TR the whole movie was built around the unreliability of Quaid’s perception of reality.
Interesting video with some interesting alternative casting. I liked this movie when I saw it and although I understood the movie plot points as they naturally presented themselves, i viewed the movie through a very sci-fi lens. On subsequent rewatches I immersed myself in the mystery elements which could thematically be translated easily to a non-sci-fi movie. I agree that CG like the cityscape feels dated, but the effects in the more mundane settings like the newspaper and cereal box still look effective. Those mundane moments remind me of Total Recall with the receptionist changing her nail colour, it's actually very immersive.
Although very different subjects there are small parallels to Person of Interest which was engaging because there was mystery for the characters as well as for the viewer.
I am very excited for this one😊. Thanks for the commitment
I totally agree with you about this being a favorite era of Spielberg. I'm a big big fan of this era too.
Colin Farrell always blew me away in this movie. He's only a few years older than me. And when I first saw Minority Report, it was a year or so after graduating college. I thought he was way older (relatively speaking). Especially opposite Tom Cruise, who was around 40, and like 15 years his senior.
One of my favourite Movies of all Time.
IIRC, my major thought about that happy ending of this film was that there would be a lot more murders in Washington.
Rowan, you have a gift. You have the ability to describe something I've seen, and appreciated, a thousand times already, but you manage to elevate it, extract more joy from it, and then leave me consuming the film or series again in short fashion. Thank you for that.
If Neil McDonald is a character actor, I’m Miles Davis. Amazing review as always.
The thing that grabed my attention in this movie is the swedish speaking scen with Peter Stormare. Because I didn't expect to hear my native language in an "american action movie".
Well done as always!
Always enjoy your retrospectives. This is no exception. Because of my lack of enthusiasm for Tom Cruise in only got to see this movie a few months ago. To my surprise I loved it, despite Cruise seemingly playing a character I have seen him play repeatedly. Nevertheless, I found myself drawn in, intrigued and enjoying all the action as well. Your video summed it up perfectly, especially the view of the ending. Top job. Bring on the next one!
Minority Reports cultural impact on in the tech scene has been massive. From iPad, to Xbox Kinect and Apple Vision Pro - virtually every review mentioned Minority Report.
Minority Report was a very underrated scifi film, especially with the sinister subtext to a supposedly happy ending
Thanks for the review Great Film Underrated one of Cruise's best for me
The film that turbo boosted Samantha Morton to the fore. One of the best living actors out there. And now she's delved into music!
The third act switch has always been a faximile of rhe twist in the climax of The Fugative (Harrison Ford).
Its not a bad thing. But it was like treading the same path.
Another brilliant video - thank you
Love every one of these.
A superb movie!
You are going to review the War of the Worlds musical?
Sweet!!!
Minority Report was epic. Not a big Colin Farrell fan but still very good movie.
The funniest scene for me is when he chases his eye balls down the slope and of course there's a drain grate 😂 Yes the comedy moments are given enough credit
One of my favorite films! Thanks for the retrospective!
Sorry if anyone can't unsee this but Cruise's teeth are in the wrong place, the center two are off to the side. Pause at 9.03 and you'll see it. It's bothered me for years, it's horrific.
Oh my 😮
How does that even happen?
I think its just the light making it look like that
"Lightening never strikes twice. " Great pull, man. I like War of the Worlds, but it's not nearly as good as Minority Report.
I never once, having seen this film many times - ever contemplated the possibility that everything after he got locked up was all a dream.
I love this film, and how it was shot.
Love your retrospectives, Rowan!
the Witwer/Burgess scene when he is shot was lifted from L.A. Confidential when Captain Dudley Smith shoots Detective Sergeant Jack Vincennes after he connected the links to the murders
Aside from it's biggest flaw (the stupidity of inventing a whole new name and harsher penalty for "attempted murder" then successful ones get) it's a beautiful movie with a sleek and authentic looking world
Yeahbibcan see ptecrime as useful but the punishment way too harsh
4:42 wow, that was prophetic!
Have you looked up person of interest, its first season stealth so, but good scifi
and is a precederal but gets more and more plot driven and character of course, and the firss season raelly is great introducing and fleshin out pieces that come together great, it even gets very scifi with super AIs.
And it gets that gripping at least once root comes in start season 2.
I dream of the day I will travel in an self-driving transport.
Wake up, babe, new "that-Star-Trek-Scotsman-RUclipsr" video dropped
Read PKD's "Sales Pitch", then watch this movie. It will add a lot more layers to the background.
The hallmarks of PKD; Identity Crisis, Drug Abuse and over saturated Commercialism. They are there in many of the author's works, but sadly absent from the translation to film.
Dang Spielberg kinda nailed future internet huh?
i love kubrick, i love philip k dick stories and books, and that one two punch of AI then MR in real time felt like a gift
The videogame was awesome and incredibly difficult
If you enjoy the premise of this movie then I highly recommend the 1st season (and only the 1st season) of Psycho Pass.
I am currently watching Psycho-Pass :)
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I think I would have enjoyed it more if it hadn't been so similar to LA Confidential near the end half.
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That claim, that Spielberg was responsible for the darker aspects of AI, is entirely based on Spielberg himself and people who worked on production of the film said it’s not true.
Such a great movie
We need more PKD film adaptations! 🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯👍👍👍👍👍😎😎😎😎😎😕
A sequel to total recall? Wasn’t what made the ending so great that the audience decided weather it was real or not?
At least rown did a better review of minority report then confused Matthew
The man playing Matthew (Daniel Warren) said some years later that he does regret how much of a rant that review was. That doesn't mean he was wrong about a lot of the points he brought up. This movie is really, really dumb at times.
@@Yama_1291 that review was awful. He literally compared the movie to Hitler and insulted Steven Spielberg for doing his job and insulted Roger Ebert for daring to have a different opinion than his he didn’t bring up any good points
Looks like Mr. Spielberg is a bit of a pre-cog himself
Your videos are always amazing,even when they’re about something I’m not a huge fan of.
I don't think you have enough midrolls
The only issue that I, and many others have with this movie is that there is no resolution of Anderton finding out what actually happened to his son. Other than that it's great.
It was so fucking dumb how they call the crime “future murder” when there’s already a name for what they’re doing - attempted murder.
More like Max Von Silent talker
Where is part 1 2 and 3 ? I cant find them
I’ve heard it a few times now but I still don’t understand what blocking means in film/TV.
It basically means where everything is positioned in relation to everything else. Good blocking helps everything flow naturally (or cinematically) from one shot to another whereas bad blocking leaves you confused over what is happening.
My go to example of bad blocking is from the original live action movie of Avatar: The Last Airbender. One scene that is universally laughed at is where 6 or so Earthbenders are doing an elaborate sequence that appears to only cause one relatively small rock to slowly float into an enemy soldier. The reason that this is bad blocking is The slow moving rock was caused by a completely different person who was off camera until after we see the rock itself and the big effect that the 6 people were doing was seen before we saw them. Due to bad positioning and timing the scene looked farcical and it was near impossible to see one event correctly flowing into the next. People are hardwired to see things as cause and effect but by doing effect-cause, effect-cause watchers mentally associated the cause of the first pairing with the effect of the second pairing even though they were unrelated.
Good blocking is something you are supposed to take for granted as everything should feel natural. If a character enters one room, talks to another character, picks up an object, and heads out another door you should have a good impression of the layout of the original room including the position of both doors, the other character and the original position of the picked up item, then the next shot would probably include the other side of the second door as he emerges from it to establish continuity. Throughout the scene every action should comfortably flow into the next without us having to question what is happening.
As a PKD fan, I always find this one of the poorer adaptations.of his work The origanl story is nunaced. Anderton is actually going to commit murder, but that fore-knowledge changes his actions. It's Dick using Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle (observing an event changes the outcome of the event) as a plot device. The film is quite a middling Hollywood thriller that could have been made in the 40s with little difference to the plot. It's visually stunning of course and has some great set pieces. I just find myself roling my eyes at the end of it all. I thnk it's becuase unlike Total Recall or Blade Runner, which also vary widely from the source material, the conclusions the film seem to reach are diametrically opposed to the story.
The Paycheck next? lol
Steven didn't direct Paycheck. John Woo did.
Can't put my finger on why this movies so good......but it is.
After Saving private Ryan it's Spielberg's best.
Great movie. Very resonant today as some people try to criminalise thoughts today.
What was the point of the rotten sandwich scene?
Comedy and Tension.
I liked the movie although Tom Cruise's new eyes just creep me out.
Am I mistaken in thinking there was a little Scientology propaganda inserted in the Good Sandwich, Bad Sandwich scene?
There is zero chance this movie cost $12M right?
15:06 what is he doing there? Is this a camera?
It's a view finder. He's using it to figure out which shots he wants.
@@RowanJColeman oooh interesting. But why use a view finder and not just a camera to figure out the shots? What makes a view finder special and sets it apart from a camera?
I think Minority Report and Blade Runner 2049 are the only tech noir films after Blade Runner that have been able to stand on their own. Everything else just seems like a derivative of Blade Runner.
The Matrix?
@@NeoConnor1 Personally I don't really fit the Matrix into the tech noir genre. It feels more like an action movie and it has a different aesthetic that doesn't really seem influenced by Blade Runner.
I actually lever liked the Noir-like aesthetics. It makes every shot look incredibly bland, like a cheap green screen composition, lacking any depth. Maybe they were trying to match contemporary CGI scenes in order to make the whole thing more coherent - I wouldn't know. I just couldn't bring myself watching it a second time as that style would pretty much put me off each time I truly thought about it.
Even though Tom Cruise makes my skin crawl, this film was - and is - one of my favorite of all SciFi films. All SciFi films ever. The casting. A veritable embarrassment of riches: Colin Farrell; Samantha Morgan; Neal McDonough; Max von Sydow; Tim Blake; Arye Gross; Mike Binder; and the exquisite Lois Smith. I just bought my third Lexus, and when at the dealership in Greenwood Village I always conjure the scene from ‘Minority Report’ where my new RX500h is custom-built, on-site, instead of shipped from distant Ontario. Those wooden balls, names etched in laser-guided precision, gliding down their tracks remain a very specific, very permanent part of my movie-obsessed treasure vault.
it always bugged me how similar this movie is to Timecop which came first
Good movie, but damn I can't stand that early-2000s over-exposed aesthetic; did *not* age well!
This is Spielberg's last really good movie. Sigh...
My goodness! Spielberg predicted cancel culture before it became a reality today.
I'd rather watch "Impostor" with Vincent D'Onofrio & Gary Sinise.
I talk about this movie with people regularly. Because I had Agathas face tattooed on my calf when I had my PKD phase.
4/5 times i hear this question: Wait, it was directed by Spielberg? Really?
Its so "unspielbrgian" that the fact is easier to forget, than draw attention to it as an oddity in his oeuvre.
The film should have ended with Anderton locked up.
AI is a masterpiece, Minority Report is okay
The last great Spielberg movie. Now he just makes mediocre CIA propaganda.
Ah, yes. The Fablemans was just filled with that.
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@@NeoConnor1 West side story, on the other hand, was obviously the work of Langley. Their fingerprints are all over that one.
@@NeoConnor1, probably, but the exception proves the rule.
@@elonmusksellssnakeoil1744I was kidding. Yikes.
@@NeoConnor1, I wasn't.
I couldn't stand MR. I love Tom but i thought this wasa very Sub par flick.
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