Minority Report
Started: 2002-06-23 16:48:33
Submitted: 2002-06-23 17:19:50
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Ha! Am I actually going to log a viewing for a major-budget, newly-released movie before Bitscape? What is the world coming to?
Gem and I caught the first matinee showing of Minority Report early this afternoon. From the trailers, it wasn't apparent whether this was going to be another forgettable action movie, or if it were actually going to be good. Perhaps they should have played up the fact that it was based on a Philip K. Dick short story. (Let me guess... "We can forsee it for you wholesale"? How about "Do pre-cogs dream of future sheep"?) Since both Salon and Roger Ebert had nothing but good to say about it, I thought it must be good. (I normally read Bitscape's reviews during my decision-making process, but he seems to have thought that "sleep" was something better than movies adapted from Philip K. Dick short stories, so I had only two reviews to go on. Maybe this means that my review (well, if you could call it that) will be considered in Bitscape's process.)
That was a most enjoyable movie. (Although I could have gone without the Goldmember trailer at the beginning. The biggest advantage of that movie's release will be that I no longer will be subjected to forced viewings of its trailer.) The computer interfaces our hero used to manipulate the visions of the pre-cogs was great; it even managed to do the wrong thing at one point. The fantastic exterior people-mover scenes seemed a little bit out of sync with the rest of the movie; everything else seemed like a natural extrapolation of 2002, but that was a bit odd, even if it did make for a great action scene. The movie asked questions about pre-destiny, and touched upon the question of what should really be illegal. Today, legal wrangling is underway that will determine what exactly the government can do with those who they think have or will commit terrorism. This movie couldn't have come at a better time.
This might just be the best movie I've seen so far this year. (Spider-Man and Attack of the Clones were great fun, but this movie made me think.)
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acceptance by sharing his vision. He enjoys helping low-tech firms
define their offline strategy, and he's advised many anonymous
unknowns, including the homeless on Pearl Street, escaped mental
patients, and hookers on East Colfax. As an aspiring web bum, he
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