Films/DVD Asylum

Posted by sjb (A) on June 26, 2002 at 14:52:04

In Reply to: Oddly enough, I think AI was a much better film. My impressions of Minority Report: posted by Audiophilander on June 26, 2002 at 10:23:26:

I completely agree about the eyeball thing. The MOST ridiculous part of it was when one of his eyes went down the sewer drain but his wife still had 2 eyeballs in the bag at the end (also just the idea that she would know exactly here to go to retrieve him - and only one unarmed guy is the entire security for the place - is pretty silly). One more thing about the eyes. Everywhere TC went there were these automatic scanners checking people's ID's (a rightwing wet dream) when they were in public; but in the high security pre crime building there were only the couple of single eye scanning devices.

I though it was kind of weak that his one eye was unbandaged after only 6 hours and the very next scene he's breaking into pre-crime and everything's fine despite the 12 hour warning (I'm not saying his eye's couldn't have been fine after 6 hours but after making such a big deal about the 12 hours they could have given it a little bit of exposition).

As for the advertising; in the Gap the holographic ads were clearly speaking to several different customer's

My biggest complaint is about the crime TC was pre-accused of. I haven't completely wrapped my mind around it yet but something's not right. In the other crimes it was the people's own plans that were being revealed but in TC's it was the precognition itself that led him to the hotel room. If TC had been lured there in some other way it would have made more sense.

Let's say his boss needed to trap him and came up with the idea to set him up with the fake killer of his child driving TC to murder. If he set the guy up in the hotel room but did nothing to alert TC to his presence; whose mind does the idea come from for the contact and murder to take place. It can't come from TC's mind he has no idea. It can't come from the patsy guy he also has no idea. For it to come from TC's boss doesn't make any sense since the whole thing relies on the precognition as the force that creates the event. Like I said I haven't totally wrapped my mind around it but something's not right there.

"A dictatorship would be a heck of a lot easier, there's no question about it." --George W. Bush, July 26, 2000