Minority Report... w00t!... UBER! - Page 4

Jason1 · 10-06-2002, 07:55 PM

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Originally posted by FreakyBob
Jesus, this thread is so old. Anyway, yeah, I've seen Minority Report. It was pretty good, I guess. At least it was much better than I thought it would be from those ridiculously overblown commercials (This Sunday, EVERY.....BODY.....RUNS!!!!!). I don't really like giving out stars or anything, but I guess I'd give this movie 3/4. Basically, what that means is that it was a highly enjoyable movie that that I plan on never watching again ever.

By the way, Minority was much better than A.I. Not to say that I completely hated A.I. I thought that it was a decent idea (Pinokio played out with robots....um, right) that was just done wrong. The movie would have been great if it focused on it's saving grace, Gigolo Joe (Obviously a character made up by Stanly Kubric). Getting back to Minority Report, the only complaints I had with it were that there were a bit too many special effects (I know that it's a Sci-Fi film and all, but I loathe special effects) and that, at times, it was a little too warm hearted. That's fine with a movie like E.T., but it really didn't fit the overall tone of this film. I still liked it, though.

You dont like special effects, then go watch Signs, great film.

Angrist · 10-07-2002, 06:35 AM

The special effects were cool... they gave an interesting view of teh future.

I liked that the movie was a bit sentimental. Like how Agatha keeps dreaming how her mother was murdered and everybody thinks it's just an echo. Then she's trying to show John...

Doctor Zhivago · 10-07-2002, 11:20 AM

I saw Signs, actually. It was alright. I wouldn't call it great, though. What I did like about it was that it didn't focus on the aliens too much, and was instead one of those "ordinary people caught in extraordinary situations" type movies (sure it isn't original, but who cares?). Really, Signs was as much about aliens and crop symbols as Night of the Living Dead was about zombies. Had they gone about it differently, it would have just been like Independence Day. I didn't really care for the movie's whole theme of "nothing happens by chance and everything has a purpose", however. But, hey, it's just nice that it had a theme. I still think that Unbreakable is M. Night Shamalan's only great film. Maybe it's just me, though

Jason1 · 10-07-2002, 04:53 PM

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Originally posted by FreakyBob
I saw Signs, actually. It was alright. I wouldn't call it great, though. What I did like about it was that it didn't focus on the aliens too much, and was instead one of those "ordinary people caught in extraordinary situations" type movies (sure it isn't original, but who cares?). Really, Signs was as much about aliens and crop symbols as Night of the Living Dead was about zombies. Had they gone about it differently, it would have just been like Independence Day. I didn't really care for the movie's whole theme of "nothing happens by chance and everything has a purpose", however. But, hey, it's just nice that it had a theme. I still think that Unbreakable is M. Night Shamalan's only great film. Maybe it's just me, though

Didnt unbreakable get mostly crappy reviews? The reviews for Signs were kinda mixed, I know ebert and Roper both liked it, but some idiot people didnt...Im pretty sure the 6th sense got mostly good reviews...but I think signs is his best film by far...and what do those idiot movie review people know anyways?

Doctor Zhivago · 10-07-2002, 06:46 PM

Yeah, a lot of people didn't care for Unbreakable. Even though I enjoyed it, I can kinda see why. People have trouble taking "superhero" movies seriously. Though in a sense, Unbreakable is more of an anti-superhero movie than anything else (I won't go into the plot or anything). It was well written and well directed, in my opinion, and is certainly one of the more original movies to come around in a while. M. Night Shamalan's other films were...meh. By the way, why do you call people whose opinions differ from your's idiots? You must sure think a lot of yourself.