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.
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.
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.
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!)
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.
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.
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)
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!
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.
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 :)
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.
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 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.
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!
Oh god dammit! I've been refreshing my feed all day waiting for this to drop, gave up thinking you'd be posting it on Saturday and then, out of the blue, I see the notification for this. Pretty late in the day too. It's past 10 P.M. here so...5 P.M. where you are? Were you having issues uploading it? Oh well, I suppose it doesn't matter. I'm a simple guy, Shanelle uploads, I watch. 😊
Great movie, but the precog idea has problems. They only apparently see obvious, first degree murder. But what about cases that are murky, like killings that may be self-defense? What about drunk driving and involuntary manslaughter, for example? Conspiracy or murder-for-hire? They don't see companies who pollute or make bad products and kill people that way. What about a wife slowly poisoning her husband over many months? Do they see that?
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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! 🤠
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.
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").
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.
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'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.
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.
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.
The whole last 20 minutes are pretty much a reversal of Dick's story so there's a happy ending. The original short story was a far more tragic end, where Anderton knows his crime was faked, but he still kills the criminal to ensure Pre-Crime continues (in short, the individual dies while the system rules which better fit Dick's classic government paranoia)
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.
it's called "minority report" not as a red herring but because that's the name of the origin of the story (by philip k. dick) -- in which the minority report IS real
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
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
lol you were so sus on Whitwer that you didn’t clue in with the “orgy of evidence discussion” that that is the confirmation that Whitwer isn’t corrupt.
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.
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.
There's still one major Philip K. Dick movie for you to watch: "Paycheck", with Ben Affleck and Uma Thurman. It's very similar to this movie, in a number of ways. I don't want to spoil it for you, though.
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.
Ugh I know! That's when he (Speilberg) entered his "Kubrick-boner" era where he tries to make his movies all colorless like Kubrick's, but forgetting that he DID use bright, saturated colors quite a bit. He just used the in small amounts in each scene and spread out, so it would stand out when they appeared. Speilberg never seemed to have gotten the memo it seems.
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.
Neil McDonough (the unreasonably blonde Fletcher in this) was a wonderful addition to season 3 of Justified, where he channeled dark charm beautifully.
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...
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.
Excellent.....actually Exceptionally well crafted movie all round nothing was left out every tiny detail is well thought of Flawless and perfect movie 🎥💯👌
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 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.
Great reaction for a Great movie .. Hopefully you react to more TOM CRUISE movies .. here's some you'll enjoy: War of the Worlds - RAIN MAN - A few good men - The Last Samurai - Collateral - Tropic Thunder - Edge of tomorrow - all the MISSION IMPOSSIBLE movies 😊
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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 am baffled by how you are so ahead of somethings yet completely missing little major things. LOL! Colin knows he's in trouble only because of the "drugs" he found on Tom's desk table. The promo's aimed at Tom are not in his head because the advertisement scans his eyes. The police weapons are called "Sick Sticks". That's why those poked throw up. The guy in the beginning was definitely going to kill his wife. Any way you probably figured all out by the end! Terry Gilliam's 12 MONKEYS is another you've seen that is not obvious nor spoon feed the answers. BUT I RECOMMEND a wonderful obscure Mystery with Kate Beckinsale & All-Star cast titled "STONEHEARST ASYLUM'
I love this movie. The only part that makes me wince is how someone who's been floating in a tank her entire life seems to have no muscular atrophy. Maybe I missed an explanatory scene somewhere.
In a world where psychic siblings are used to predict crimes in the future, eyes can be swapped, and everything else we see, do we really *need* an explanation or can we maybe just go with it?
@@movieatorfilms I said it made me wince. I also stated I loved the movie. I can suspend belief for Sci-Fi's sake, but some things are simply less believable than others and can be distracting.
Hey Shanelle I recommend that you watch Galaxy Quest, The Waterboy, Inspector Gadget, Tarzan, Flubber, Anastasia, The Prince of Egypt, Joseph: King of Dreams, Ruby Gillman, Teenage Kraken, Team America: World Police, Disney’s The Kid, The Master of Disguise, The Powerpuff Girls Movie, Scooby-Doo (2002), Scooby-Doo 2: Monsters Unleashed, Monsters, Inc., Monsters University, Monsters VS Aliens, Shark Tale, Turbo, WALL-E, Iron Man, Shrek, Madagascar, Robots, Chicken Little, Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of The Were-Rabbit, The Sixth Sense, The Grinch (2000), The Cat In The Hat (2003), Horton Hears A Who, The Lorax, Mighty Morphin Power Rangers: The Movie, Turbo: A Power Rangers Movie, Power Rangers (2017), Speed Racer, Get Smart, Godzilla (1998), The Cable Guy, The Nutty Professor, The Super Mario Bros. Movie, Elemental, Barbie, Cars, Happy Feet, Open Season, Over The Hedge
If you want more sci-fi mystery drama style movies, here are a few more to check out; “Virtuosity” (Russell Crowe & Denzel Washington), “Paycheck” (Ben Affleck), & “Strange Days” (Ralph Finnes & Angela Bassett). 👍🏻
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.
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.
You definitely have to watch EQUILIBRIUM now Christian Bale Also how about these Inner Space Batteries not included Little Nicky Tank Girl Don't be a menace to south central while drinking your juice in the hood Flight of the navigator Cocoon Johnny mnemonic The frighteners Species Timecop Hollow man Lost in space Honey I shrunk the kids Home alone 2 Jumper End Of Days Last action hero Eraser Blade Ghosts of Mars Small Soldiers Cliffhanger Assassins Shooter Color Of Night The Santa clause Death becomes her Dr Dolittle Harold and Kumar Beavis & Butthead Ali G indahouse Shanelle tyere sre real jetpacks now liik uo ftank Zappa its more green goblin but GRAVITY have real jetpacks they are used hy military
I am surprised you couldn’t work out the composer at first. Spielberg nearly ALWAYS uses John Williams. I think there have been 3 times he has not used Williams. Color Purplehe used Quincy Jones, Bridge of Spies he used Thomas Newman, I think it was. Ready Player One he used Alan Silvestri.
