I always assumed that Agatha's visions of "future" Sean were one of two things, either: 1. She was viewing *alternate* futures that never came to pass, essentially seeing how Sean's life *would* have progressed if he hadn't died. or 2. She's actually seeing the future life of their *second* son - the one his wife is pregnant with at the end of the film. Great reactions as always! :)
I always interpreted that she can see all or most possible futures and can focus on one or the other and she just focuses on the one she’s currently in. And that may be why the other two sometimes get it wrong, that they can’t control it so they see the possible future of a different timeline and not the one they are in, and why they aren’t always right.
Why would they name their second son Sean as well? We already know that the future these people see are possible futures which is why the minority report exists.
Yes, I believe it's the second son. She said that John has visited that house but Agatha states their love is in the house. I believe she's seeing the future life they have in the home.
@@anthonyleecollins9319 the way the camera lingers is so haunting and intriguing. Ive always imagined she was out there with an umbrella at the end of the scene.
Yes!! This is the scene that hits me the most! The way the camera stays on that woman… you can see the gears turning and the implications of what she just heard
The similarities to Cyberpunk is because the story was written by Philip K. Dick, one of the father's of the cyberpunk genre. He also wrote the book that Bladerunner is based on. If you enjoy reading, I highly recommend any of his books. He was quite brilliant.
@@MisterX867 Screamers, Paycheck, Impostor, The Adjustment Bureau, Next, Total Recall, Blade Runner, A Scanner Darkly, Radio Free Albemuth - although many of them are more like inspirations than adaptations. Oh, and the TV-show The Man in the High Castle.
@@MisterX867 A Scanner Darkly is a very stylized movie based on his book. And the show The Man in the High Castle is real good. You've probably seen Total Recall.
@@MisterX867in addition to this movie and Blade Runner his works were also the basis for: Total Recall Screamers Impostor Paycheck A Scanner Darkly Next The Adjustment Bureau Radio Free Albemuth Confessions d'un Barjo (French film) With films in development (which may or not end up getting made): Ubik (on hold) Vulcan's Hammer Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said (on hold) Also for television: Man in the High Castle (on Amazon) Philip K. Dick's Electric Dreams (also Amazon) Minority Report (Fox, only 1 shortened season) Almost all of these are great watches!
I've always been confused about her aging Sean from 10-years-old to being a high schooler to being a university student at 23 then back to being 6-years-old.
I am of the mind that Sean was indeed killed and her monologue was what might have been, but there's a glimmer of hope in the back of my mind that he's alive somewhere, undiscovered. Some have said that her monologue may refer to their new unborn son who they would name Sean out of respect, but I think that's a bit of a stretch.
George, this my favorite part of this movie - that Colin was so typically antagonistic and over time proves believably capable and ultimately that he has no personal grudge against Cruise - he’s a good detective searching for only the truth. Reminds me of the draw to Tommy Lee Jones’ character in The Fugitive. Thanks for sharing this reaction with us y’all!
Two things. 1) Pre cogs see visions based on proximity. Why they combine the three together as well to magnify their strength. At the end they are in a remote location, away from people so they don’t have visions anymore. They can be at peace. 2) His son is dead, she was just showing them the life his son would have had, had he not been taken. It’s very sad, but is offering some kind of closure. Cuz the latest memory they have of their son is the day he was taken, then it’s blank. She told them how he would have grown up in a loving house.
So much harder to reach resolution if you're left the hell of hope. Not knowing if your child is dead means you keep looking, especially if YOU are the one who lost the child. Guilt eats you up and never lets you rest.
Lois Smith and Peter Stormare have maybe 5 minutes of screen time each, but they acted like the rent was due. Holy hell, they nailed their scenes perfectly. "How do I slow it down, do I hit her on the head??" 😂
Samantha Morton played Agatha the precog. My favorite performance from her is from the movie “In America” about an Irish family that moves to America, and she was nominated for best actress for the movie. It will never win a poll but I highly recommend it.
When Agatha talks about Sean my take on it was that she was talking about what his life would have been had he lived. That scene gives me chills everytime especially when she says "I'm sorry John but you have to run again. RUUUUNNNNNNN!!!!"
The car factory scene is an homage to an unfilmed scene from Hitchcock's North by Northwest. The film was going to open with a car being built on an assembly line and when the car is finally finished they open the door and a body falls out. PS: You guys need to watch some Alfred Hitchcock movies.
@jimpepper7148 I think there's always a debate of "who did it better" Spielberg or Lucas and I swear I heard something somewhere where they actually made a bet to eachother out of it but I'm not sure if that true, if I had to pick though, Spielberg beats him by a mile for said conveyor belt action scene
The three precogs do not see death anymore at the end of the movie. It's not specifically stated how the National Precrime program is going to work, but it can be inferred from the film that the precogs are only seeing murders close enough for Anderton's team to catch, so the Washington DC area. The shot at the end shows you that the precogs now live in a remote area, so that there aren't enough people in close enough proximity for their gifts to kick in. Also, Agatha is played by Samantha Morton, the woman who voiced Samantha the AI in Her before Spike Jonze decided it didn't work, and told her he needed to recast and hired Scarlett Johansson.
Even she agreed that the role she had voiced wasn't what was needed. She still got credited as associate producer. There are other parts of the film that are rewritten because the initial script didn't show well enough how Sam was also becoming closer to Theodore. I would surmise that the movie wouldn't have worked as well if they had kept Samantha as the voice, nor would it have worked if Scarlett was initially hired and Samantha wasn't part of the early development of the character.
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.
It`s so funny I`ve always known Samantha Morton from Jane Eyre (1997 - where she plays the main role next to Ciaran Hinds who also played Aberforth Dumbledore in Harry Potter). Then I watched her in "Fantastic Beasts And Where To Find Them", and although I watched Minority Report in 2002, it was today that I realized that it was she who played Agatha. Fascinating! I must admit I have never watched a bad Tom Cruise movie, not once. Thank you, Simone and George, for another great reaction.❤ Greetings from Slovenia
The "RU-U-U-U-U-UN!!!" moment is gripping in a way big-budget action movies have no business being. Also, if you love Max von Sydow, as we all should, check out "Three Days of the Condor," with him, Robert Redford, and Faye Dunaway.
They assumed Colin Farrell would never be able to totally hide his Irish accent, so they wrote a backstory about him having grown up in Ireland, and then he did a perfect American accent for the whole film. For more of his perfect American accent, I suggest "Phone Booth".
'The Minority Report' is a 1956 science fiction novella by American writer Philip K. Dick, who also wrote 'Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?,' which was published in 1968, and is the story that was adapted into the film 'Blade Runner' (1982) So Philip K. Dick is one of the grandfathers of the cyberpunk genre before there was even a term for it yet, along with William Gibson, writer of 'Neuromancer' (1984) The term "cyberpunk" was first used in 1980 by American author Bruce Bethke as the title of a short story published in Amazing Stories in 1983. 'Cyberpunk' the tabletop RPG was written by Mike Pondsmith and first published by R. Talsorian Games in 1988.
The female actress is the amazing Samantha Morton. Loved your reaction to her "Run" scream. As many times as I've seen this movie that moment still makes me literally feel the hair stand up on my skin
5:12 I know adultery isnt a crime in Canada, but in the US there are still 16 states where it is illegal, including New York where you not only have to pay a $500 fine, but do uo to three months jail time as well, all the way up to states like Oklahoma where the fine is also $500 but you can serve up to 5 years, and Wisconsin where you can do up to 3.5 years and pay a $10,000 fine. So ya, not that strange to think of it as a crime
@@dbsagacious it's also a crime under the US Uniform Code of Military Justice. The Uniform Code of Military Justice (UCMJ) criminalizes adultery under Article 134,
Just another piece of evidence for the early settlers *_not_* having gone to the Americas to escape religious persecution, but to establish _their_ religious views as the law... Kind of like so many current Christians are crying "Persecution!" when they're not allowed to force others to live by their religious docrines anymore...
The point was, and it was explained in the movie, the precogs can't see any other crimes or violence or just thinking bad thoughts. Only actual murders.
I think Simone should write a remake of this movie where the precogs can only see future adultery. (Talk about a full time job) Actually, George might have some connections to help make that movie.
Here’s a deleted scene from the script regarding Sean’s fate as John has a sort of ‘dream sequence’ talk with him: And now we see ANDERTON'S SON standing before him. He's now eleven years-old. ANDERTON Sean -- you're not real. SEAN You gotta have faith, Dad. ANDERTON It's a little late for that. SEAN Wanna hear something funny? ANDERTON What the hell. SEAN I lived for a year with a man who was pretending to be my father. He took me all over the world. Anderton looks at him. ANDERTON You're alive? SEAN No. (then) He got tired of pretending. ANDERTON Oh, Sean -- SEAN The funny thing is, I started to believe he really was my Dad. ANDERTON Sean -- SEAN I feel bad about that. (then) I need you to forgive me. ANDERTON I forgive you. SEAN Once I even told him I loved him. ANDERTON I forgive you... SEAN The more you want to believe something, the easier it is to be fooled. ANDERTON I was looking for you... SEAN I know that. I know you would have done anything to find me. I know you would have died for me. ANDERTON I wanted to. SEAN Good-bye, Dad... The boy begins to fade away.
Got damn, I saw this movie as a teenager and loved it. But seeing this type of stuff as a parent, it hits different and it hits harder. Can’t watch certain things that deal with kids in this way anymore.
Fun cameo fact: the man with the digital newspaper who recognizes Anderton when he first goes on the run is Cameron Crowe, director of Jerry Maguire. And right behind him, the lady with the eye piece is Cameron Diaz, though her face is obscured a bit.
@@joshuahermanson341 It's well worth a watch, I ended up preferring it to the original, and Kurt Russell is always great, there's also the alternate ending floating around UA-cam which is also worth it.
I'm not sure if anyone has mentioned this but there was a show that came out in the 2010's that was a loosely based sequel to the film by the same name. It only lasted one season, and is hard to find now, but it follows the precogs after their freedom.
I remember her from another sci-fi future film called Code 46. There are viruses that can affect your behavior and enhance your empathy. Also genetic manipulation has gotten to a level where you need to check your romantic partner's DNA to make sure you aren't related closely enough. It's an interesting film.
That Spielberg dude… he knows how to tell a story! I knew you guys would dig it 👍 Okay, the inevitable trivia… although the short story of Minority Report was a standalone story, the film version was originally developed as a sequel to another film based on a Philip K Dick short - Total Recall. It would’ve had Arnie’ character Douglas Quaid be in charge of a pre crime agency on Mars, with some of the mutants being the precogs. He then gets framed for murder etc etc. Obviously that didn’t come to pass, but it’s quite easy to see how the two stories could be made to dovetail. Then Tom Cruise came across it and said “Yeah, that’s a story that could play in the background while I run for an entire movie.”
This movie takes place about 50 years after its release date. During development, they got several "futurists" together to come up with things that they felt would be a reality in 50 years. The cars that run up the side of the buildings and open up to your apartment is one of them, as well as the cereal boxes that play videos. With the exception of pre-crime I'd say they're probably right about most of their guesses.
You have to remember this was 2002. Granted it's a highly stylized vision of the future. But minus the 'Pre-Cogs' and 'Pre-Crime', a lot of the concepts for future tech have already been realized today. Targeted and personalized adverts are constantly pumped to our browser. Touch and gesture based tech is more and more common. In the last year the world's first full eye transplant has been achieved. Autonomous vehicle tech exists and has 20+ years to scale. I'm sure there's much more to dig through. I'd say those futurists did a bang up job. What's more crazy is how Philip K Dick imaged all this as a possibly in the 50's. Now that's a legit pre-cog right there.
@@Robalogot scientists, accurately predicting future path of technological progress is kinda more mind blowing. If you have time, find 1953 short film "The Transistor" on youtube. Sci-fi writers couldn't even imagined.
They're working on the coma prison now. Supposedly, where the inmate goes under, and does his 15-20 years while actual time is negligible for the rest of us.
@@Robalogot It's like when people point out that Star Trek was "predicting" the future. Except, that a bunch of scientists are just really big Star Trek fans and would love the opportunity to have a wireless phone, a tablet display device, touch screens, etc. that they saw in TOS/TNG when they were growing up.
This movie scared me shitless when I watched it as a kid. I had this fear of being separated from my family (that's why Pinocchio scared me too), and when I watched the scene of the boy being taken in the pool it petrified me. It broke my heart. Eapecially because I know that kind of stuff actually happens.
Minority Report is a 2002 American cyberpunk[6] action film[7] directed by Steven Spielberg, loosely based on Philip K. Dick's 1956 novella "The Minority Report".
I'm always fascinated by the reaction to this movie because although both the short story is based on and the movie expose some very interesting philosophical questions attempted homicide is a crime today in most countries, you don't need to kill somebody to be prosecuted, attempting it is already a crime, even more so simply plotting about it can be a felony. Imagine in the intro scene instead of the whole precog setup the police just showed up because of a complaint and they see the open door and just enter to witness the guy attempting the murder, if they stop him that guy is going to jail for sure, the homicide doesn't need to happen. People reacting to this movie tend to forget that legislation already exists in our world.
You're so fucking stupid. The point of this movie isn't "oohh attempted murder is illegal now" It's just about whether or not the future is deterministic. Yes if I shoot someone and they don't die I could get charged with attempted murder but in the film universe I would be treated as a murderer before I've even pulled the trigger or hell even pulled the gun! Where as in the real world just pointing a gun at someone wouldn't be attempted murder and it wouldn't be anything before you pulled the gun. I can't believe you actually typed out this comment and thought it was some smart point. You're an absolute moron.
Yes, adultery is a crime in 17 states and Puerto Rico as of December 2023, but prosecutions are rare. The laws are usually found in conservative states, especially in the South, but there are some exceptions like New York. Penalties for adultery vary by state and can range from a fine of a few dollars to a life sentence. In some states, adultery is considered a felony, while in others it's a misdemeanor. For example, in Michigan, adultery is punishable by up to five years in prison and/or a $5,000 fine, while in Oklahoma it's punishable by up to five years in prison and/or a $500 fine. In Oklahoma, it's also a crime for the other person involved, even if they're single. In Florida, adultery is a misdemeanor that can result in up to 60 days in prison and/or a $500 fine. In New York, adultery is punishable by up to three months in prison, but charges are rare and convictions even rarer.
Also a thing in the US military. Article 134 of the Uniform Code of Military Justice (UCMJ) makes it a crime for married military personnel to have sexual relations with someone other than their spouse, if the conduct is prejudicial to good order and discipline or brings discredit to the armed forces. This is known as "adultery" or "extramarital sexual conduct".
Minority Report was originally written as a sequel to Total Recall. The precogs were supposed to be mutants from Mars. After the studio that made Total Recall went bankrupt, the script bounced around for years before being rewritten as a standalone movie.
@@treetopjones737 I appreciate that, but I wasn't specifically recommending less commentary, just less guessing at the unfolding plot. Anyway, it's a good channel and I enjoy it. 😊
More trivia: For the mag-lev vehicles scene, they found that actual magnetic-levitation vehicles make no sound _(cause it's just magnetism)_ so they recorded the mechanical noises inside old washing machines & dryers to add to the effects.
What is implied by the "going nationwide" thing, is they are going to need a lot of Precogs. Like, INTENTIONALLY creating many more, so there are no "gaps" in the coverage. And that horrifying dystopia moment is very easy to overlook.....
This movie predicted so many technologies that we have today. Such as iris scanners, multi-touch interfaces, gesture-based interfaces, personalised advertising, flexible displays, electronic paper, insect robots, electric and autonomous cars and jet packs. Plus William Gibson brought about many ideas for Cyberpunk, he practically invented the genre. As well as predicting The Internet and Virtual Reality.
@@treetopjones737 i meant to say The World Wide Web which a lot of people don't realise is not the same as the Internet. Basically information connected across millions of computers using Hyperlinks. That's what William Gibson predicted.
Samantha Morton was terrifying in a movie called “Longford” (HBO movie I think). She played British serial killer Myra Hindly. It also has Jim Brodbent and Andy Serkis.
Peak Spielberg. He went to trouble of consulting everyone who was anyone in tech and asked them to describe what our future was going to be by the time of this film. Other than the targeted ad thing, seems like we're still a ways off, but it would be curious to hear from those people how close we may be getting.
Spielberg's overlooked film is AI, forget what critics say, the film is a masterpiece. The film was first conceived by Stanley Kubrick but wanted a director who understood sentimentality better than him. The script is by Spielberg and Kubrick, has both his dark elements and Steve's whimsy.
Actually Spielberg has spoken about how this perception is almost totally backwards. The sentimental stuff, most notably the last act, is very close to how Kubrick wrote it. The Flesh Fair is the part Spielberg added.
The pre-cog was played by the wonderful Samantha Morton (British of course) who had an interesting upbringing, most of it living in children's homes. She was th original voice in "Her" until Spike Jonze changed the voice to Scarlett Johansson after production had finished. She was also nominated for best actress at the Oscars for In America (worth a watch) that she made the same year as Minority Report.
Movies based on Philip K. Dick's writing are something else. You have seen Total Recall (We can remember it for you wholesale), Blade Runner (Do androids dream of electric sheep), and now Minority Report (Minority Report), and there is another film based on Dick's novel - Screamers (Second Variety) with Peter Weller (guy who played the original RoboCop).
Screamers gets a bad rap because it didn't have much of a budget but I say you can't go wrong with Peter Weller or Jennifer Rubin (the actress not the politics writer)
You're so right about Colin Farrell's amazing character arc in this. Especially for a supporting character that isn't even that important to the core of the story
My dad was infamous for letting me and my brother see movies we were way too young to see. His greatest legacy was letting my brother watch the original IT film, when he was only 4. He took us both to see this movie when I was 10 or 11 and I actually walked out of the theater after I saw the blind drug dealer because I thought it was so scary at the time 😂. My dad calmed me down and I watched the rest of the movie on the edge of my seat, I was so engrossed. This is one of my favorite films ever.
Fun fact, The controls of the screens with the hands and the interface was real. It turns out almost impossible to use over time your hands will get so tired quickly. They had to stop filming and take many breaks in between as a result modern interfaces in this type work around it. For example with apple vision you 'select' things mostly with eyes and the click and pinch with the hands can be done anywhere so most people just keep them at their sides since keeping them 'near' the object is so hard.
I wonder if it's just a matter of muscle training -- like, if you did it enough then the less-commonly-used muscles would strengthen and you wouldn't get tired any more. Like how people who learn to drive late in life get a sore right leg but those who've been driving since they were teens never even notice it.
@@bigdream_dreambig Well if tom cruise in his early 40's has issues who is considered trained i doubt many of us would do much better. The issue is more complex and has todo with the amount of energy needed to do big hand movements above your hart level. Just try it for say 1 hour yourself and see what happens. Maybe you can do it but it will not be easy and takes energy from other parts like for example your brain that you might need in finding 'killers'. But even if someone would be able to train for a 'desk' job doing this 8 hours a day spending most of his/her energy on holding and moving arms up you don't find many people to fill these jobs i bet.
@@scb2scb2 I'm just wondering if it may be a "these muscles aren't used very much" issue which can be fixed through practice and/or use from childhood, or if it's a human ergonomics problem -- but it sounds like you're arguing for ergonomics as the root cause.
The film took several things out of the novel that weren't included, for example. In the film the precogs can ONLY see murder, while in the novel ALL crime is preventable. And to answer Simone about adultery being a crime, in Alabama it is against the law to commit Adultery. Edit: the force guns they used are called "Concussion Rifles" and are used in the game The drug John uses is called "Neuroin" which is Neural Heroin, But Hineman said that when the impure version was available, the addicts who gave had kids became the Precogs by mutation.
Philip K Dick, who wrote the short story on which this movie was made, also also wrote “Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep” on which the movie Blade Runner was based.
I heard Shelley Duvall died a couple of days ago. Since you've already done The Shining, which is her most famous role, I gotta recommend the 1981 fantasy adventure movie Time Bandits. It's about a boy who's dragged along on an adventure by a band of thieves who have a map that reveals all the gaps in time and space. The Time Bandits then use this map to time travel and steal treasures from various points in history. Shelley Duvall has a small role in it, but it's one of the funniest recurring bits in Time Bandits. Time Bandits is a fun one and I think it'd make a fun reaction.
@ 14:28 that's writer/director Cameron Crowe peering over the newspaper. He's returning a favor to Spielberg by doing a cameo in this film. A year earlier, Spielberg had a cameo in Crowe's Vanilla Sky. Both of course starring Tom Cruise.
25:21 - AHEAD OF HIS TIME - This movie was released in 2002, and is loosely based on Philip K. Dick's novella "The Minority Report" which was published forty-six years prior in 1956. Amazing foresight, pun intended.
There's a fan theory that everything after Anderton gets arrested and fitted with a Halo is actually all in his head. The guard who watches over all the precrime prisoners said that they supposedly see their wildest dreams come true while fitted with the Halo...and the end of the movie is definitely a Wayne's World Mega Happy Ending.
A little cameo to make you aware of on the bus reading the newspaper is Director Cameron Crowe and sitting behind him, with some head phones in is Cameron Diaz. Both a did cameo for Cruise after both had just worked with him on Vanilla Sky, as co star and director. 14:28 on your video timeline.
Philip K. Dick also wrote "Do Androids Dream Of Electric Sheep" on which the film called "Bladde Runner" was based, "We Can Remember It For You Wholesale" on which the film "Total Recall" was based and the following films were also based on his books... A Scanner Darkly, The Crystal Crypt, The Adjustment Bureau, Paycheck and Screamers. None of these films necessarily follow the books totally, but they are based on his ideas.
There is another movie based on Phillip K. Dicks works, that came out at about the same time. It's called Paycheck, and was directed by John Woo. Although it had a lot of negative reviews most of the critics said: "I enjoyed the movie, butt..." Personally i liked the movie and would love to see what you make out of it.
On of my favorite movies! I like how it pulls you into this futuristic world. I also agree that Agatha was describing what Sean’s future would have been. She wanted Sean’s parents to feel like her mom felt wanting her back. Very underrated movie.
😎👍 This was one of four major motion pictures that were based on novels by Philip K Dick, the other three being "Blade Runner" (1982), "Total Recall" (1990) and the most underappreciated one of them all, "A Scanner Darkly" (2006).
One of my favorite sci-fy thrillers! Also, I was not aware this score was composed by the John Williams. I was watching your reaction and at 15:00, I was like that sounds a lot like something out of Star Wars. Googled it and was like, well that makes sense. When Tom Cruise is yelling, "SEAN!" in this movie during the pool scene, I can't help but laugh. It's because of the meme of Ethan yelling Shaun over and over in the video game Heavy Rain ... I can't get it out of my head. IYKYK
Agatha is played by Samantha Morton, a really excellent actress who is currently starring in The Serpent Queen.
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I loved this movie when it came out. The premise makes it interesting, and Spielberg is a master. I also like the acting, especially from "Agatha" and "Lamarr".
5:00 In Simone's defense, adultery is considered a crime in sixteen states in the US, along with Puerto Rico. While it's not a punishable offense in regards to jail time, it can be used in divorce cases to give more restitution to the one cheated on. It can also negatively affect employment with several companies and organizations. So, long story short, don't cheat on your lovers, people!
I saw this in the movie theater when I was a kid and it blew my freaking mind. The special effects/futuristic setting with the technology was awesome, but the story of this was amazing. I've always been a sucker for a good mystery, but this took it to another level. I don't think I blinked through the entire runtime. This movie was captivating and the moral/ethics aspect was always insane. I still remember wracking my brain during the scene where Danny catches the red ball to prevent it from hitting the ground. This movie is so damn clever and did a fantastic job simplifying such a complex plot.
This movie influenced SO MANY different forms of media. Hell, augmented reality pretty much came from the visualizations of this movie, him moving his hands to interact with a screen for investigating.
Despite his usual accolades for more famous films, for me this is right at the very top of my favorite Spielberg movies; the way it was filmed, the bleached-out grainy look, the storyline, the raw human emotions, all of it. This is one of those films I will never tire of re-watching.
Attack of the Clones and this were developed simultaneously, with Spielberg and Lucas sharing ideas. They both liked the factory belt scene so much that they worked it into both movies.
"But they will still see all the murders" But now they do it on their terms, with some peace and some freedom. This movie was well ahead of it's time, but punishment before a crime is not only contradictory... it's impossible... mindset and circumstances change... freewill changes everything. It's why movie style time travel is impossible.
I think the precogs need to be close to where the crime is happening to pick it up (remember they were only foreseeing crimes in one state/city). Now that they are 100 miles from anywhere they won't pick up anything.
The actor who plays Agatha (Samantha Morton) and Colin Farrell actually do appear prominently in the Harry Potter prequel "Fantastic Beasts". Sean died. Agatha says "the dead don't die", meaning Sean is gone. Agatha then gives details of the life that should have been. She's reading the shadows of a life denied, cancelled. Simone dated the setting perfectly; set in Washington, DC in the year 2054, 30 years from now.
I'm a huge fan of Samanta Morton, who plays Agatha. She has one Oscar nomination (I believe) for a prior film, but she is ALWAYS wonderful. Love her in Elizabeth, The Golden Age as Mary Queen of Scots and In America. She is so good in this movie! The scene where she hollers at Cruise, "RUNNNNNN!!!!" always gives me shivers!
I always assumed that Agatha's visions of "future" Sean were one of two things, either:
1. She was viewing *alternate* futures that never came to pass, essentially seeing how Sean's life *would* have progressed if he hadn't died. or
2. She's actually seeing the future life of their *second* son - the one his wife is pregnant with at the end of the film.
Great reactions as always! :)
I always interpreted that she can see all or most possible futures and can focus on one or the other and she just focuses on the one she’s currently in. And that may be why the other two sometimes get it wrong, that they can’t control it so they see the possible future of a different timeline and not the one they are in, and why they aren’t always right.
Why would they name their second son Sean as well? We already know that the future these people see are possible futures which is why the minority report exists.
@@tanimal3964 Perhaps they'd name the 2nd son Shawn instead.
Yes, I believe it's the second son. She said that John has visited that house but Agatha states their love is in the house. I believe she's seeing the future life they have in the home.
I never got the whole deal w/ Sean going from 23-years-old to 6-years-old in her vision. It sounds like she's describing a ghost.
This movie was based on a story by Philip K Dick. That dude was definitely ahead of his time.
His brain was practically from the future. He laid so much foundation
@@blacklite911 Bladerunner (Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?), Total Recall, Through a Scanner Darkly, The Adjustment Bureau)
Blade Runner, Total Recall, The Adjustment Bureau, A Scanner Darkly, and Screamers are other movies based on his stories.
Adjustment Bureau could be good choice next
I love all of Philip K Dick's novels. Definitely the best Sci-Fi writer of our generation.
The names of the precogs are an homage to great Mystery Writers, Agatha Christie, Arthur Conan Doyle and Dashiell Hammett
No James or Robert, sadly.
Wow, I did not know that! Nice detail!
"He knows. Don't go home." I love that moment,
Actually preventing a tragedy without punishing someone for something that didn't happen.
That scene is a few seconds, but so poignant.
That part always sticks out because it is extremely brief, but boy does it make you think.
@@anthonyleecollins9319 the way the camera lingers is so haunting and intriguing. Ive always imagined she was out there with an umbrella at the end of the scene.
Yes!! This is the scene that hits me the most! The way the camera stays on that woman… you can see the gears turning and the implications of what she just heard
Character: [dies]
George: Great character development. 😃
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The similarities to Cyberpunk is because the story was written by Philip K. Dick, one of the father's of the cyberpunk genre. He also wrote the book that Bladerunner is based on. If you enjoy reading, I highly recommend any of his books. He was quite brilliant.
Do you happen to know any other movies or shows based on his works?
@@MisterX867 Screamers, Paycheck, Impostor, The Adjustment Bureau, Next, Total Recall, Blade Runner, A Scanner Darkly, Radio Free Albemuth - although many of them are more like inspirations than adaptations. Oh, and the TV-show The Man in the High Castle.
@@MisterX867 A Scanner Darkly is a very stylized movie based on his book. And the show The Man in the High Castle is real good. You've probably seen Total Recall.
@@MisterX867in addition to this movie and Blade Runner his works were also the basis for:
Total Recall
Screamers
Impostor
Paycheck
A Scanner Darkly
Next
The Adjustment Bureau
Radio Free Albemuth
Confessions d'un Barjo (French film)
With films in development (which may or not end up getting made):
Ubik (on hold)
Vulcan's Hammer
Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said (on hold)
Also for television:
Man in the High Castle (on Amazon)
Philip K. Dick's Electric Dreams (also Amazon)
Minority Report (Fox, only 1 shortened season)
Almost all of these are great watches!
@@MisterX867 Well I was gonna answer but it seems like a few other folks had it covered so... Yeah, everything they said. :D
I've always interpreted Agatha's "Sean Monologue" as the life he might have had. Samantha Morten's performance is amazing.
I've always been confused about her aging Sean from 10-years-old to being a high schooler to being a university student at 23 then back to being 6-years-old.
Sean was dead tragically. She just gave him a glimpse of an alternate future for him that gave Tom Cruise's character some closure
@@jp3813 That's because he actually died at 6 so didn't experience the future she saw for him.
I am of the mind that Sean was indeed killed and her monologue was what might have been, but there's a glimmer of hope in the back of my mind that he's alive somewhere, undiscovered. Some have said that her monologue may refer to their new unborn son who they would name Sean out of respect, but I think that's a bit of a stretch.
@@DerekHartley So she's visualizing his ghost?
George, this my favorite part of this movie - that Colin was so typically antagonistic and over time proves believably capable and ultimately that he has no personal grudge against Cruise - he’s a good detective searching for only the truth. Reminds me of the draw to Tommy Lee Jones’ character in The Fugitive.
Thanks for sharing this reaction with us y’all!
He's also searching for flaws in a supposedly perfect system, and is obviously ambitious.
Two things.
1) Pre cogs see visions based on proximity. Why they combine the three together as well to magnify their strength. At the end they are in a remote location, away from people so they don’t have visions anymore. They can be at peace.
2) His son is dead, she was just showing them the life his son would have had, had he not been taken. It’s very sad, but is offering some kind of closure. Cuz the latest memory they have of their son is the day he was taken, then it’s blank. She told them how he would have grown up in a loving house.
So much harder to reach resolution if you're left the hell of hope.
Not knowing if your child is dead means you keep looking, especially if YOU are the one who lost the child.
Guilt eats you up and never lets you rest.
Lois Smith and Peter Stormare have maybe 5 minutes of screen time each, but they acted like the rent was due. Holy hell, they nailed their scenes perfectly.
"How do I slow it down, do I hit her on the head??" 😂
Holy smokes, that's the lady from Twister with the awesome steak breakfasts.
Same for Tim Blake Nelson.
LOVE Peter Stormare. So great!
Been watching for long time. Appreciate all you do and wanted to say thank you!
Samantha Morton played Agatha the precog. My favorite performance from her is from the movie “In America” about an Irish family that moves to America, and she was nominated for best actress for the movie. It will never win a poll but I highly recommend it.
As well as her twisted torn as Alpha in "The Walking Dead".
@@macontosh2000 I thought she won an Oscar for that movie. She's definitely won an Oscar though, I'm sure of it.
@@stimela1000 never won, nominated twice, for Sweet and Lowdown and In America
Quite true.
@@adampeterfongoh wow. Well she deserves a win.
When Agatha talks about Sean my take on it was that she was talking about what his life would have been had he lived. That scene gives me chills everytime especially when she says "I'm sorry John but you have to run again. RUUUUNNNNNNN!!!!"
One of the best reviewed movies of 2002, I remember seeing it as a kid, it was fantastic.
saw it 2 days after the premiere at my local cinema! I love Spielbergs camerawork through the years!this work with Kaminsky is epic!
Definitely my favorite Tom Cruise movie
The car factory scene is an homage to an unfilmed scene from Hitchcock's North by Northwest. The film was going to open with a car being built on an assembly line and when the car is finally finished they open the door and a body falls out. PS: You guys need to watch some Alfred Hitchcock movies.
Yes!
And Orson Welles. Specifically Touch of Evil.
See also ATTACK OF THE CLONES’ robot factory sequence that came out the same year and John Williams scored both simultaneously.
@jimpepper7148 I think there's always a debate of "who did it better" Spielberg or Lucas and I swear I heard something somewhere where they actually made a bet to eachother out of it but I'm not sure if that true, if I had to pick though, Spielberg beats him by a mile for said conveyor belt action scene
That’s a great idea.
This movie was so good and it holds up over 20 years later. Anything philip k. Dick wrote is fantastic.
George: This is like the least fun Powerball.
🤣🤣🤣 Nice one.
The three precogs do not see death anymore at the end of the movie. It's not specifically stated how the National Precrime program is going to work, but it can be inferred from the film that the precogs are only seeing murders close enough for Anderton's team to catch, so the Washington DC area. The shot at the end shows you that the precogs now live in a remote area, so that there aren't enough people in close enough proximity for their gifts to kick in.
Also, Agatha is played by Samantha Morton, the woman who voiced Samantha the AI in Her before Spike Jonze decided it didn't work, and told her he needed to recast and hired Scarlett Johansson.
They did a follow on TV series where one of the precogs secretly teamed up with an detective.
She's also the voice of a rabbit in the Canadian animated kids TV show "Max and Ruby" 2002-2010
Even she agreed that the role she had voiced wasn't what was needed. She still got credited as associate producer. There are other parts of the film that are rewritten because the initial script didn't show well enough how Sam was also becoming closer to Theodore. I would surmise that the movie wouldn't have worked as well if they had kept Samantha as the voice, nor would it have worked if Scarlett was initially hired and Samantha wasn't part of the early development of the character.
@@rhaedas9085 To be clear, I wasn't saying he wronged her. I was just mentioning that it happened.
@@harrybirchall3308Wait, who was she in control?
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.
George, your “he’s now Tom Cruise Control” gag didn’t get the recognition it deserved from Simone. I just want you to know I appreciated it 😂
sim one? (an other movie too;))
@@engywook-usr You mean S1m0ne ?
Man that Spielberg guy is going places
It`s so funny I`ve always known Samantha Morton from Jane Eyre (1997 - where she plays the main role next to Ciaran Hinds who also played Aberforth Dumbledore in Harry Potter).
Then I watched her in "Fantastic Beasts And Where To Find Them", and although I watched Minority Report in 2002, it was today that I realized that it was she who played Agatha. Fascinating!
I must admit I have never watched a bad Tom Cruise movie, not once.
Thank you, Simone and George, for another great reaction.❤
Greetings from Slovenia
The "RU-U-U-U-U-UN!!!" moment is gripping in a way big-budget action movies have no business being.
Also, if you love Max von Sydow, as we all should, check out "Three Days of the Condor," with him, Robert Redford, and Faye Dunaway.
Great movie!!
Yes he's great in condor , as an Alsatian assassin no less you don't see many of those, but von Sydow could do it all.😊
Or Strange Brew
They assumed Colin Farrell would never be able to totally hide his Irish accent, so they wrote a backstory about him having grown up in Ireland, and then he did a perfect American accent for the whole film.
For more of his perfect American accent, I suggest "Phone Booth".
'The Minority Report' is a 1956 science fiction novella by American writer Philip K. Dick, who also wrote 'Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?,' which was published in 1968, and is the story that was adapted into the film 'Blade Runner' (1982)
So Philip K. Dick is one of the grandfathers of the cyberpunk genre before there was even a term for it yet, along with William Gibson, writer of 'Neuromancer' (1984)
The term "cyberpunk" was first used in 1980 by American author Bruce Bethke as the title of a short story published in Amazing Stories in 1983.
'Cyberpunk' the tabletop RPG was written by Mike Pondsmith and first published by R. Talsorian Games in 1988.
The female actress is the amazing Samantha Morton. Loved your reaction to her "Run" scream. As many times as I've seen this movie that moment still makes me literally feel the hair stand up on my skin
5:12 I know adultery isnt a crime in Canada, but in the US there are still 16 states where it is illegal, including New York where you not only have to pay a $500 fine, but do uo to three months jail time as well, all the way up to states like Oklahoma where the fine is also $500 but you can serve up to 5 years, and Wisconsin where you can do up to 3.5 years and pay a $10,000 fine. So ya, not that strange to think of it as a crime
@@dbsagacious it's also a crime under the US Uniform Code of Military Justice. The Uniform Code of Military Justice (UCMJ) criminalizes adultery under Article 134,
She corrected that she meant as reason for divorce. Though some states have no-fault divorce.
Just another piece of evidence for the early settlers *_not_* having gone to the Americas to escape religious persecution, but to establish _their_ religious views as the law... Kind of like so many current Christians are crying "Persecution!" when they're not allowed to force others to live by their religious docrines anymore...
The point was, and it was explained in the movie, the precogs can't see any other crimes or violence or just thinking bad thoughts. Only actual murders.
I think Simone should write a remake of this movie where the precogs can only see future adultery. (Talk about a full time job) Actually, George might have some connections to help make that movie.
Definitely sounds like a porn parody🤣
No thanks....no remakes just make a brand new movie
@@believeume122 To be fair, that pitch sounded more like a parody.
Here’s a deleted scene from the script regarding Sean’s fate as John has a sort of ‘dream sequence’ talk with him:
And now we see ANDERTON'S SON standing before him. He's now eleven years-old.
ANDERTON
Sean -- you're not real.
SEAN
You gotta have faith, Dad.
ANDERTON
It's a little late for that.
SEAN
Wanna hear something funny?
ANDERTON
What the hell.
SEAN
I lived for a year with a man who
was pretending to be my father. He
took me all over the world.
Anderton looks at him.
ANDERTON
You're alive?
SEAN
No.
(then)
He got tired of pretending.
ANDERTON
Oh, Sean --
SEAN
The funny thing is, I started to
believe he really was my Dad.
ANDERTON
Sean --
SEAN
I feel bad about that.
(then)
I need you to forgive me.
ANDERTON
I forgive you.
SEAN
Once I even told him I loved him.
ANDERTON
I forgive you...
SEAN
The more you want to believe
something, the easier it is to be
fooled.
ANDERTON
I was looking for you...
SEAN
I know that. I know you would have
done anything to find me. I know
you would have died for me.
ANDERTON
I wanted to.
SEAN
Good-bye, Dad...
The boy begins to fade away.
Got damn, I saw this movie as a teenager and loved it. But seeing this type of stuff as a parent, it hits different and it hits harder. Can’t watch certain things that deal with kids in this way anymore.
That's some scary $#!+. reminds me of the Aeris Ghost video someone made as a joke.
@@EDTGO1same here bro
Colin Farrels character was just amazing. you hate him in the first part then he grows on you just for him to die.
Fun cameo fact: the man with the digital newspaper who recognizes Anderton when he first goes on the run is Cameron Crowe, director of Jerry Maguire. And right behind him, the lady with the eye piece is Cameron Diaz, though her face is obscured a bit.
And the hotel lobby clerk is Tom Cruise's cousin who also worked with him in Mission Impossible 2
It was a cameo trade, Spielberg appears in Vanilla Sky, starring Tom Cruise, Cameron Diaz and directed by Crowe.
@@KaraJaneAdams Thanks. I did not know that. I've never actually watched Vanilla Sky, I only knew Cruise and Diaz were in it.
@@joshuahermanson341 It's well worth a watch, I ended up preferring it to the original, and Kurt Russell is always great, there's also the alternate ending floating around UA-cam which is also worth it.
@@KaraJaneAdams V.S. is a remake of "Abre los ojos" 1997
I was 10 years old when this movie came out and it blew my mind. It's still such a great movie and honestly waaay ahead of its time.
5:03 - To be fair back in the 1940s, adultery was a considered a crime. The video game LA Noire showcases this.
It still illegal in religious communities, including the state of Alabama
It still is a crime in at least 15 states; in three of those it's a felony.
It's illegal in the military, punishable under UCMJ.
It’s illegal not just in religious communities.
I'm not sure if anyone has mentioned this but there was a show that came out in the 2010's that was a loosely based sequel to the film by the same name. It only lasted one season, and is hard to find now, but it follows the precogs after their freedom.
The pre-cog is played by Samantha Morton, an actress who's had a long career and a couple of Oscar nominations without becoming famous.
I recognized her as the anti-magic evil mother in Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them.
I remember her from another sci-fi future film called Code 46. There are viruses that can affect your behavior and enhance your empathy. Also genetic manipulation has gotten to a level where you need to check your romantic partner's DNA to make sure you aren't related closely enough. It's an interesting film.
doesn't she also appear on The Walking Dead?
@@ShatteredDreams90Alpha
I can't believe I didn't notice this at first but the main Precog is "Alpha" from TWD.
That Spielberg dude… he knows how to tell a story! I knew you guys would dig it 👍
Okay, the inevitable trivia… although the short story of Minority Report was a standalone story, the film version was originally developed as a sequel to another film based on a Philip K Dick short - Total Recall. It would’ve had Arnie’ character Douglas Quaid be in charge of a pre crime agency on Mars, with some of the mutants being the precogs. He then gets framed for murder etc etc. Obviously that didn’t come to pass, but it’s quite easy to see how the two stories could be made to dovetail. Then Tom Cruise came across it and said “Yeah, that’s a story that could play in the background while I run for an entire movie.”
The creative work of Philip K Dick is still heavily underrated.
This movie takes place about 50 years after its release date. During development, they got several "futurists" together to come up with things that they felt would be a reality in 50 years. The cars that run up the side of the buildings and open up to your apartment is one of them, as well as the cereal boxes that play videos. With the exception of pre-crime I'd say they're probably right about most of their guesses.
You have to remember this was 2002. Granted it's a highly stylized vision of the future. But minus the 'Pre-Cogs' and 'Pre-Crime', a lot of the concepts for future tech have already been realized today. Targeted and personalized adverts are constantly pumped to our browser. Touch and gesture based tech is more and more common. In the last year the world's first full eye transplant has been achieved. Autonomous vehicle tech exists and has 20+ years to scale. I'm sure there's much more to dig through.
I'd say those futurists did a bang up job. What's more crazy is how Philip K Dick imaged all this as a possibly in the 50's. Now that's a legit pre-cog right there.
sci-fi getting things right is often the chicken or the egg, where engineers try to create what they saw in sci fi.
@@Robalogot scientists, accurately predicting future path of technological progress is kinda more mind blowing. If you have time, find 1953 short film "The Transistor" on youtube.
Sci-fi writers couldn't even imagined.
Still waiting to drive to work in my flying car.
They're working on the coma prison now. Supposedly, where the inmate goes under, and does his 15-20 years while actual time is negligible for the rest of us.
@@Robalogot It's like when people point out that Star Trek was "predicting" the future. Except, that a bunch of scientists are just really big Star Trek fans and would love the opportunity to have a wireless phone, a tablet display device, touch screens, etc. that they saw in TOS/TNG when they were growing up.
This movie scared me shitless when I watched it as a kid. I had this fear of being separated from my family (that's why Pinocchio scared me too), and when I watched the scene of the boy being taken in the pool it petrified me. It broke my heart. Eapecially because I know that kind of stuff actually happens.
Minority Report is a 2002 American cyberpunk[6] action film[7] directed by Steven Spielberg, loosely based on Philip K. Dick's 1956 novella "The Minority Report".
the actress playing Agatha in this movie is Samantha Morton who played Alpha in The Walking Dead
Peter Stormare just elevates every movie he's in. Love this guy!
I'm always fascinated by the reaction to this movie because although both the short story is based on and the movie expose some very interesting philosophical questions attempted homicide is a crime today in most countries, you don't need to kill somebody to be prosecuted, attempting it is already a crime, even more so simply plotting about it can be a felony. Imagine in the intro scene instead of the whole precog setup the police just showed up because of a complaint and they see the open door and just enter to witness the guy attempting the murder, if they stop him that guy is going to jail for sure, the homicide doesn't need to happen. People reacting to this movie tend to forget that legislation already exists in our world.
You're so fucking stupid. The point of this movie isn't "oohh attempted murder is illegal now" It's just about whether or not the future is deterministic.
Yes if I shoot someone and they don't die I could get charged with attempted murder but in the film universe I would be treated as a murderer before I've even pulled the trigger or hell even pulled the gun! Where as in the real world just pointing a gun at someone wouldn't be attempted murder and it wouldn't be anything before you pulled the gun.
I can't believe you actually typed out this comment and thought it was some smart point. You're an absolute moron.
Yes, adultery is a crime in 17 states and Puerto Rico as of December 2023, but prosecutions are rare. The laws are usually found in conservative states, especially in the South, but there are some exceptions like New York.
Penalties for adultery vary by state and can range from a fine of a few dollars to a life sentence. In some states, adultery is considered a felony, while in others it's a misdemeanor. For example, in Michigan, adultery is punishable by up to five years in prison and/or a $5,000 fine, while in Oklahoma it's punishable by up to five years in prison and/or a $500 fine. In Oklahoma, it's also a crime for the other person involved, even if they're single. In Florida, adultery is a misdemeanor that can result in up to 60 days in prison and/or a $500 fine. In New York, adultery is punishable by up to three months in prison, but charges are rare and convictions even rarer.
Also a thing in the US military.
Article 134 of the Uniform Code of Military Justice (UCMJ) makes it a crime for married military personnel to have sexual relations with someone other than their spouse, if the conduct is prejudicial to good order and discipline or brings discredit to the armed forces. This is known as "adultery" or "extramarital sexual conduct".
Interesting, nice info.
Minority Report was originally written as a sequel to Total Recall. The precogs were supposed to be mutants from Mars. After the studio that made Total Recall went bankrupt, the script bounced around for years before being rewritten as a standalone movie.
well thank god for small miracles.
Minority Report: "SEAN!"
Heavy Rain: "SEAN!"
That game is awesome!!
Ennio Morricone "Sean Sean". A Fist Full of Dynamite ua-cam.com/video/gvvYcOWjdP4/v-deo.html
I also laughed at that. It very much reminded me of the "Sean glitch".
Fun fact:
If you stop trying to guess what's going to happen next, movies will usually provide that information in a fun way. 😁
Love your channel!
stories tend to tell themselves😆
They can't just sit quietly watching. Copyright is an issue.
@@treetopjones737 I appreciate that, but I wasn't specifically recommending less commentary, just less guessing at the unfolding plot.
Anyway, it's a good channel and I enjoy it. 😊
The way Agatha screams "rruuuuUUUUUUNNNNNN" at Anderton as the cops arrive at his wifes house is just freaky.
It always unsettled me during viewings
This movie is one of the greatest Sci-fi films ever made in the history of Hollywood cinema. Great reaction! 👍🏿
More trivia:
For the mag-lev vehicles scene, they found that actual magnetic-levitation vehicles make no sound _(cause it's just magnetism)_ so they recorded the mechanical noises inside old washing machines & dryers to add to the effects.
What is implied by the "going nationwide" thing, is they are going to need a lot of Precogs.
Like, INTENTIONALLY creating many more, so there are no "gaps" in the coverage.
And that horrifying dystopia moment is very easy to overlook.....
Fun fact: Samantha Morton (Agatha) is known for her role as Alpha in the walking dead series.
I loved this movie when it came out. Saw this in the theater and was blown away. I'm genuinely surprised it doesn't get more accolades than it does.
This movie doesn't get enough praise, such a unique concept, great storytelling and acting from everyone.
You guys must have a good Patreon community because you watch all the best movies.
This movie predicted so many technologies that we have today. Such as iris scanners, multi-touch interfaces, gesture-based interfaces, personalised advertising, flexible displays, electronic paper, insect robots, electric and autonomous cars and jet packs. Plus William Gibson brought about many ideas for Cyberpunk, he practically invented the genre. As well as predicting The Internet and Virtual Reality.
There was a pre-internet before the mainstream one we use today. Of course it did not have video etc.
@@treetopjones737 i meant to say The World Wide Web which a lot of people don't realise is not the same as the Internet. Basically information connected across millions of computers using Hyperlinks. That's what William Gibson predicted.
Samantha Morton was terrifying in a movie called “Longford” (HBO movie I think). She played British serial killer Myra Hindly. It also has Jim Brodbent and Andy Serkis.
Peak Spielberg. He went to trouble of consulting everyone who was anyone in tech and asked them to describe what our future was going to be by the time of this film. Other than the targeted ad thing, seems like we're still a ways off, but it would be curious to hear from those people how close we may be getting.
Self driving cars
Motion controls
Eye transplants
Spielberg's overlooked film is AI, forget what critics say, the film is a masterpiece. The film was first conceived by Stanley Kubrick but wanted a director who understood sentimentality better than him. The script is by Spielberg and Kubrick, has both his dark elements and Steve's whimsy.
Actually Spielberg has spoken about how this perception is almost totally backwards. The sentimental stuff, most notably the last act, is very close to how Kubrick wrote it. The Flesh Fair is the part Spielberg added.
The pre-cog was played by the wonderful Samantha Morton (British of course) who had an interesting upbringing, most of it living in children's homes. She was th original voice in "Her" until Spike Jonze changed the voice to Scarlett Johansson after production had finished. She was also nominated for best actress at the Oscars for In America (worth a watch) that she made the same year as Minority Report.
There was a TV series. With one of the precogs secretly teaming up with a detective. But was cancelled before revealing the big mystery.
Movies based on Philip K. Dick's writing are something else. You have seen Total Recall (We can remember it for you wholesale), Blade Runner (Do androids dream of electric sheep), and now Minority Report (Minority Report), and there is another film based on Dick's novel - Screamers (Second Variety) with Peter Weller (guy who played the original RoboCop).
Paycheck starring ben affleck and scanner darkly with Keanu Reaves as well.
Screamers gets a bad rap because it didn't have much of a budget but I say you can't go wrong with Peter Weller or Jennifer Rubin (the actress not the politics writer)
No Shaun is dead, but it what Agatha mention that “Hinnaman says, that the dead don’t really die!” and Agatha can see what Shaun would be like now!
I mean there's Shaun of the Dead, so yeah he is
You're so right about Colin Farrell's amazing character arc in this. Especially for a supporting character that isn't even that important to the core of the story
My dad was infamous for letting me and my brother see movies we were way too young to see. His greatest legacy was letting my brother watch the original IT film, when he was only 4.
He took us both to see this movie when I was 10 or 11 and I actually walked out of the theater after I saw the blind drug dealer because I thought it was so scary at the time 😂. My dad calmed me down and I watched the rest of the movie on the edge of my seat, I was so engrossed. This is one of my favorite films ever.
My dad took me to see Alien when I was 6. I loved it and all i wanted for Christmas that year was an alien ‘doll’.
Fun fact, The controls of the screens with the hands and the interface was real. It turns out almost impossible to use over time your hands will get so tired quickly. They had to stop filming and take many breaks in between as a result modern interfaces in this type work around it. For example with apple vision you 'select' things mostly with eyes and the click and pinch with the hands can be done anywhere so most people just keep them at their sides since keeping them 'near' the object is so hard.
I wonder if it's just a matter of muscle training -- like, if you did it enough then the less-commonly-used muscles would strengthen and you wouldn't get tired any more. Like how people who learn to drive late in life get a sore right leg but those who've been driving since they were teens never even notice it.
@@bigdream_dreambig Well if tom cruise in his early 40's has issues who is considered trained i doubt many of us would do much better. The issue is more complex and has todo with the amount of energy needed to do big hand movements above your hart level. Just try it for say 1 hour yourself and see what happens. Maybe you can do it but it will not be easy and takes energy from other parts like for example your brain that you might need in finding 'killers'. But even if someone would be able to train for a 'desk' job doing this 8 hours a day spending most of his/her energy on holding and moving arms up you don't find many people to fill these jobs i bet.
@@scb2scb2 I'm just wondering if it may be a "these muscles aren't used very much" issue which can be fixed through practice and/or use from childhood, or if it's a human ergonomics problem -- but it sounds like you're arguing for ergonomics as the root cause.
The film took several things out of the novel that weren't included, for example.
In the film the precogs can ONLY see murder, while in the novel ALL crime is preventable.
And to answer Simone about adultery being a crime, in Alabama it is against the law to commit Adultery.
Edit: the force guns they used are called "Concussion Rifles" and are used in the game
The drug John uses is called "Neuroin" which is Neural Heroin, But Hineman said that when the impure version was available, the addicts who gave had kids became the Precogs by mutation.
The life of PKD is a story all in itself
Philip K Dick, who wrote the short story on which this movie was made, also also wrote “Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep” on which the movie Blade Runner was based.
I heard Shelley Duvall died a couple of days ago. Since you've already done The Shining, which is her most famous role, I gotta recommend the 1981 fantasy adventure movie Time Bandits. It's about a boy who's dragged along on an adventure by a band of thieves who have a map that reveals all the gaps in time and space. The Time Bandits then use this map to time travel and steal treasures from various points in history. Shelley Duvall has a small role in it, but it's one of the funniest recurring bits in Time Bandits. Time Bandits is a fun one and I think it'd make a fun reaction.
The scanning spider eyes scene was epic and cool AF.
@ 14:28 that's writer/director Cameron Crowe peering over the newspaper. He's returning a favor to Spielberg by doing a cameo in this film. A year earlier, Spielberg had a cameo in Crowe's Vanilla Sky. Both of course starring Tom Cruise.
25:21 - AHEAD OF HIS TIME - This movie was released in 2002, and is loosely based on Philip K. Dick's novella "The Minority Report" which was published forty-six years prior in 1956. Amazing foresight, pun intended.
There's a fan theory that everything after Anderton gets arrested and fitted with a Halo is actually all in his head. The guard who watches over all the precrime prisoners said that they supposedly see their wildest dreams come true while fitted with the Halo...and the end of the movie is definitely a Wayne's World Mega Happy Ending.
@@Liesmith424 Repo Men has a similar setting to this.
At one point, Anderson also lives through the Scooby Doo ending. I wish they’d have shown that too.
There's always dumb theories of everything being a dream for all kinds of movies but if the movie doesn't suggest it, it's just fantasies.
@@johnman9386 of course the movie DID suggest it. Ultimately it lets the viewer decide what they wanted to happen.
@@johnman9386 The theory would echo another common fan theory for another movie based on a Phillip K Dick story, the ending of Total Recall.
A little cameo to make you aware of on the bus reading the newspaper is Director Cameron Crowe and sitting behind him, with some head phones in is Cameron Diaz. Both a did cameo for Cruise after both had just worked with him on Vanilla Sky, as co star and director. 14:28 on your video timeline.
Philip K. Dick also wrote "Do Androids Dream Of Electric Sheep" on which the film called "Bladde Runner" was based, "We Can Remember It For You Wholesale" on which the film "Total Recall" was based and the following films were also based on his books... A Scanner Darkly, The Crystal Crypt, The Adjustment Bureau, Paycheck and Screamers. None of these films necessarily follow the books totally, but they are based on his ideas.
George you got robbed, the "Tom Cruise Control" joke was gold, deserved a bigger laugh!
George and Simone, yes, in some states Adultery is a crime and comes with fines or jail time.
There is another movie based on Phillip K. Dicks works, that came out at about the same time.
It's called Paycheck, and was directed by John Woo.
Although it had a lot of negative reviews most of the critics said:
"I enjoyed the movie, butt..."
Personally i liked the movie and would love to see what you make out of it.
I actually like that one.
The "RUN!" moment still gives me chills
12:48 They explained this while you guys were talking over their conversation lol
On of my favorite movies! I like how it pulls you into this futuristic world. I also agree that Agatha was describing what Sean’s future would have been. She wanted Sean’s parents to feel like her mom felt wanting her back. Very underrated movie.
😎👍 This was one of four major motion pictures that were based on novels by Philip K Dick, the other three being "Blade Runner" (1982), "Total Recall" (1990) and the most underappreciated one of them all, "A Scanner Darkly" (2006).
You forgot Paycheck and several others featured in other comments here :)
Don't forget Paycheck.
Screamers, Paycheck, Next, etc
One of my favorite sci-fy thrillers! Also, I was not aware this score was composed by the John Williams. I was watching your reaction and at 15:00, I was like that sounds a lot like something out of Star Wars. Googled it and was like, well that makes sense. When Tom Cruise is yelling, "SEAN!" in this movie during the pool scene, I can't help but laugh. It's because of the meme of Ethan yelling Shaun over and over in the video game Heavy Rain ... I can't get it out of my head. IYKYK
Agatha is played by Samantha Morton, a really excellent actress who is currently starring in The Serpent Queen.
I loved this movie when it came out. The premise makes it interesting, and Spielberg is a master. I also like the acting, especially from "Agatha" and "Lamarr".
5:00 In Simone's defense, adultery is considered a crime in sixteen states in the US, along with Puerto Rico. While it's not a punishable offense in regards to jail time, it can be used in divorce cases to give more restitution to the one cheated on. It can also negatively affect employment with several companies and organizations.
So, long story short, don't cheat on your lovers, people!
I saw this in the movie theater when I was a kid and it blew my freaking mind. The special effects/futuristic setting with the technology was awesome, but the story of this was amazing. I've always been a sucker for a good mystery, but this took it to another level. I don't think I blinked through the entire runtime. This movie was captivating and the moral/ethics aspect was always insane. I still remember wracking my brain during the scene where Danny catches the red ball to prevent it from hitting the ground. This movie is so damn clever and did a fantastic job simplifying such a complex plot.
Agatha (Samantha Morton) also played Alpha in The Walking Dead =)
This movie influenced SO MANY different forms of media.
Hell, augmented reality pretty much came from the visualizations of this movie, him moving his hands to interact with a screen for investigating.
Despite his usual accolades for more famous films, for me this is right at the very top of my favorite Spielberg movies; the way it was filmed, the bleached-out grainy look, the storyline, the raw human emotions, all of it. This is one of those films I will never tire of re-watching.
Attack of the Clones and this were developed simultaneously, with Spielberg and Lucas sharing ideas. They both liked the factory belt scene so much that they worked it into both movies.
"But they will still see all the murders"
But now they do it on their terms, with some peace and some freedom.
This movie was well ahead of it's time, but punishment before a crime is not only contradictory... it's impossible... mindset and circumstances change... freewill changes everything. It's why movie style time travel is impossible.
“He knows, don’t go home.” That is the most terrifying sentence in a movie.
I think the precogs need to be close to where the crime is happening to pick it up (remember they were only foreseeing crimes in one state/city). Now that they are 100 miles from anywhere they won't pick up anything.
The actor who plays Agatha (Samantha Morton) and Colin Farrell actually do appear prominently in the Harry Potter prequel "Fantastic Beasts".
Sean died.
Agatha says "the dead don't die", meaning Sean is gone. Agatha then gives details of the life that should have been. She's reading the shadows of a life denied, cancelled.
Simone dated the setting perfectly; set in Washington, DC in the year 2054, 30 years from now.
I'm a huge fan of Samanta Morton, who plays Agatha. She has one Oscar nomination (I believe) for a prior film, but she is ALWAYS wonderful. Love her in Elizabeth, The Golden Age as Mary Queen of Scots and In America. She is so good in this movie! The scene where she hollers at Cruise, "RUNNNNNN!!!!" always gives me shivers!
the precogs didn't see him put a gun to the othe guy's neck because he wasn't gonna pull the trigger.