Cinepals - MINORITY REPORT (2002) Movie Reaction & Review! | Tom Cruise | Colin Farrell | Samantha Morton | Steven Spielberg

Episode Date: August 6, 2024

Kristen and Michael watch Minority Report, based on the Phillip K. Dick story. In a future where a specialized police department predicts crimes before they occur, a top PreCrime officer finds himself accused of a murder he has yet to commit and goes on the run to prove his innocence.  This film is directed by Steven Spielberg (Jaws, E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial, & Schindler's List) & it stars: Tom Cruise (Top Gun, Mission: Impossible series, & Jerry Maguire), Colin Farrell (In Bruges, The Lobster, & Phone Booth), Samantha Morton (In America, Morvern Callar, & Synecdoche, New York), and Max von Sydow (The Exorcist, The Seventh Seal, & Flash Gordon). You can watch the cut down reaction to this movie (and many others) on our YouTube channel https://www.YouTube.com/@Cinepals and the full length reaction is available on our Patreon page https://www.Patreon.com/JabyKoay SOCIAL MEDIA: ~CINEPALS~ YouTube: @CinePalsInstagram: https://instagram.com/TheCinePals Twitter: https://twitter.com/TheCinePals   ~KRISTEN STEPHENSONPINO~ Instagram: @Kris10Kesp ~MICHAEL~ Instagram: @booseisloose 

Senna. What is up, ladies and gentlemen? It's your friendly neighborhood, Michael Boost, joined today by Kristen Steffa subpoena. Hello. What's up? And we are here watching a minority report. You know what we're going to talk about. Hit those buttons, please, please, please.

But in the meantime, we're going to get into it. All right. I did not see that one coming. No, I didn't see that one coming either. Well... All prisoners were unconditionally pardoned. Although police departments kept watch on many of them. Uh-huh.

Glad they pardoned the criminals they'd already caught. Oh, they're back together. Yay. She's pregnant. Wow. The twins were transferred to an undisclosed location. Oh, good. A place where they could find relief from their gifts.

Aw. A place where they could live out their lives in peace. A cabin out in the middle of nowhere. I don't like that system. I think it's messed up. The pre-crime system? Yeah, I think it's messed up. Because like they said, you know, like you can change it.

It could be a moment where like it could happen, but it's not for sure. But I also like it because you can prevent a lot of bad things from happening to good people. You know, but then at the same time, it's like, okay, well, how do we defend somebody who, for example, okay, you know they killed someone's child. Right. And then you kill them. how and then so you show up and you arrest that person but you let the other person off I mean if you can prove that that the other crime happened I mean like if you've got evidence and things like that like that would be a whole different it didn't really seem that way here

that didn't for me it didn't seem that way but I like and then there's another thing I'm like okay you shouldn't kill somebody because they're being unfaithful uh-huh however okay I know this is okay where we go I can understand Wanting to? The little snap inside of us as humans to want to do such a bad thing because you just snap in that moment and you see nothing but red. Okay, not that I'm saying. That's why it's a red ball, you know, crime of passion.

But it's, I think that's like the part of me that's like that vengeful pitiness in me that's like, oh, you deserve to get your balls cut off and this map, blah, blah, blah. like there's that petty pettiness in me okay uh-huh but we're not supposed to act on no but at the same time i wish they would be like bro i get it i understand why you're so pissed i see she sucks like man like go to put them through some therapy be like yo yo we just saved you today you don't want to do that you don't want to do that move like we under like you should have like a gray area where you're like i understand why you're going to do that so we're going to send you over here to get some help and like get through this or whatever right but we're

not going to allow you to act on that because you're actually overall a good person uh-huh you know what I mean I don't know those those were some thoughts going in my head when they arrested that one guy because it's like okay you can see why he thought or what's going to possibly make the decision decision but overall he seemed like a stand-of-guy I mean yeah of course from where our perspective like he looked sweet he just he was like hey you want to spend time with me Like, maybe we can go to lunch. Right. And she was just, you know.

And so this is, this is, is the problem of predictive crime fighting and, like, thought crime and things like that. Like, that is the moral dilemma is, like, is this person bad for thinking they're going to commit a crime? Now, it did seem like they were leaning more towards, like, this person is going to commit this crime. Yes. Like, it's less they're thinking about it.

It's less, like, plucking people's thoughts and being like, oh, at 3.30 in the morning, this person was thinking about, like, killing someone. because like we're human we all think weird things we all think odd thoughts sometimes we have those intrusive thoughts even that like ah this person's really pissing me off if I could just throttle them and be really helpful you know I've had my wife is the loveliest person on the planet she's so delightful but there are people there are times where she gets home from work and she's like I'm going to kill him sort of thing right if we're policing if we are policing thoughts to the extent that like if you even remotely think about a crime

you're getting arrested for it, that's a problem. Yes. Now, they do kind of skirt that moral thing where it's like, okay, the idea is if this crime is going to happen and we can prevent it before it happens, great. Yeah. But where the moral gray area is, is if we stop the crime from happening, is that person guilty of a crime and do we sentence them to what effectively is life in purgatory? Yeah, and I don't think I agree with that.

No, not at all. Not only that, I also feel like anything, I mean, we're already kind of going down that route with no privacy and like, I hate that idea. This is, okay. Go on. Technology has done wonders for us. Yes. But I also hate it. I mean, yeah, it's the black mirror thing.

Go on. A lot of people are like, oh, my God, technology is so great. Honestly, if I have the choice, I'm just going to let you know, I would choose to. go back a little, like I get rid of the technology so that people had to be more present and also have to apply themselves more. Like, even with like, I feel like dating or communication and like not just the dating world, okay? Right.

Okay. But also just having those connections with people and also being more present and being able to enjoy ourselves has been tainted so much by technology. Right. That we're also losing touch with our. And then on top of that, it gives, like, also the government and stuff too much, almost like too much power over us. The technology is a whole?

Yes. And when you watch this, as evidence. As you can see, you know, at some point, we might have that. I mean, there's already things where, there's already some things that are kind of sketch, okay? And like there's that thing, what, with some people have chips, right? What? The chip.

What chip? You've never heard about the people using the chip. And then they did test and stuff They put a chip in you And then that has your identity And everything And they go, Oh, oh, oh, oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, okay

I'm not a believer, okay? I'm not for that bullshit Fuck that I'm not a dog, I'm not a cat I struggle even chipping my animals Like I don't, I haven't chipped by Because I'm like, I don't know, man I'm like, do I want to know where you're at

And somebody steals you? Yeah But do I want to do that? No. You know, and like, I feel like I fight with that because it's my animal. But anyway, so I hate this world. I hate it.

Right. As a story plot and everything, it's like, damn, that's so scary. Stop giving people these ideas. Stop neutralizing our thought process and stop trying to make it so norm so that you accept it the moment it happens. Right. I'm going there. I'm going there. I don't care.

That's not what they're doing with this. I think the story is all about the horrors of where technology could go. Exactly. Like what part of this film? It's also normalizing like this. No, because I feel like once you see something so much, okay, when it's new, you're like, oh my God. And then after you see it so much and then little things start coming. Then you're already, you're obviously, you're accepting it because you're like, I've seen this before.

I'm picking up what you're saying. But nobody watches this. Nobody watches the Matrix. Nobody watches a fucking Terminator. Hey, as you can see, that old man was not a good person, Michael. We're good people. We are good people. Not everybody's good people.

And they will use it and take advantage. You give somebody power. How many cartoons, animations, movies we've seen where they're like, oh, with power comes great, responsibility, yeah, no, shit. And they're like, and you have, what's his name, that little furry thing you like from that one new animated film we were watching?

He's that little thing. What are you talking about? And he got demoted from his position. Oh, you mean Heimerdinger in Arcane? Thank you, yes. For example, Hymerdinger, okay? He's like, hey, we shouldn't touch this because in the wrong hands, da-da-da-da-da-da, like,

I mean, and that's the whole point of the show. No matter what, it's going on to be used poorly. No matter what, this bullshit gets put in the wrong hands all the time. Yeah. Go ahead. But I don't think, I think the point that we're disagreeing on is I don't think the moral of this story and the moral of the short story this is based off of by Philip K. Dick is touting the good things of technology. I think it's kind of a warning.

I think this movie, at its core, is a warning of letting technology go too far and predictive algorithms go too far. And let me put some really messed up ideas in your mind so you could ponder upon it and then really create it. Again, again, I think most people watching this are not going to go out and create. It's like the women. I'm going to, sorry women, but I'm going to throw this out there. It's like they love to watch murder mysteries and all that stuff, right? you're putting ideas and people's heads so when they snap and go crazy one day they're like uh you know what in this episode they got caught for xyz so let's make sure we cover the xyz you're literally

giving people you mean you're telling me you're telling me wait wait wait wait you're telling me you're telling me that what you're taking away from minority report right now is that a bunch of suburban moms who are watching and listening to true crime media are going to be the perfect killers? That's what your takeaway is? My takeaway is, I'm just saying, okay? That was an example. It was an example.

My takeaway is, I'm just saying these are thoughts in my mind, okay? This is what Minority Report through in my mind. These are the things that made me start thinking about. You're watching two different movies. And I'm like... We were sitting here watching two different movies.

watching Tom Cruise fight the system and try and fight against the future that is predicted. We got to run. Stop showing people this stuff. Kristen's over here being like this is the future. The future is a foregone conclusion which I guess is also like part and parcel with the themeing of this show

but we really got entirely different messages. All right so before we go too far down the rabbit hole I just want to say I made a comment about the music especially when Colin Farrell and Tom Cruise's fight was going on. It sounded very Star Warsy. This is a John Williams movie. John Williams did the soundtrack for Star Wars and Jurassic Park. Obviously, Stephen Spielberg is like what he loves using

John Williams in his films. So like that makes total sense. But the music was really, there was only one part that sounded super Star Warsy. The rest of it sounded, I don't know how to put it, like, fittingly dystopian, I want to say. Okay. You know, I think John Williams did a really, really good job of like kind of setting the tone of like excitement, but all. also terror, I would say with that. But yeah, any other thoughts about the film itself rather than society? Just curious. I don't know a good film overall.

I don't know how I feel about all the scenes where they were like overly exposed. Oh yeah, no, they did lean really heavily on the overexposure. Like a part of me felt like sometimes I felt like when they were. doing so much exposure, I felt like they were trying to hide something and like maybe, I don't know, but and so sometimes I was like, Tom Cruise is in this and they're overexposing

it that hard. I don't know and I had that thought. Did you have like a pimple in that scene? Like why are why are we just blinding us? Yeah, I just had that thought for like a few shots like is this low quality? It was a little lens flary, yeah.

I'm wondering if it was like partially to try and set up a juxtaposition between like the flashes of the future that the precogs see and then like actual existence because like with the lens flares and stuff like that it kind of gave it that almost grainy like dream like quality wondering if that's maybe what they were going for i just like it was a little too much at times for me yeah that's fair like where like where i was just like interesting choice feels a little bright why are we suddenly in heaven yeah but i also think that it also kind of gave me a little bit of making matrix vibes for a few for a few yeah for a few shots and I was kind of like hmm like it was very interesting and I didn't know where they were going with it so it was hard for me to also comment quite a bit because I was like I was kind of like I don't know you predicted it faster than I did like well I was like the majority of I feel like I was like this and my head's like working and then I had to go in my criminal mind I was going to say you got to be here with like

your little like finger Lelly D light gloves and and And I'm like, and I'm going through like, you know, I'm like, all right, what are you teaching me? Uh-huh. What are you showing me? What are you teaching? Well, how are you letting me learn to get ahead of this? And I'm like, you know, so that I can commit those crimes. Right, right, right, yeah.

And I was actually impressed. I was actually shocked. I was like not confident with what I was saying. You predicted it. I'm super impressed. I did not see the twist coming right up until you said it and pointed it out. That's because you're innocent. I am innocent.

You're innocent, mine. and you're not watching all these horrible things and thinking, oh my gosh, you're giving people ideas. You're right. You're right. I'm not being watching true crime documentaries. I don't do that either,

but I know people who do, and I listen to what they say and stuff. I'm like, ugh. And I'm just supporting what I said earlier by bringing it back. Amazing. I'm trying to like, you know. Yeah, yeah.

All right. I know you understand me. I know. You guys, you know what? Throw in the comments, okay? I want you to say, Michael, Kristen has a point if you think I have a point and say, Michael, you got to understand, man, like crazy shit's out there.

I'm looking forward to this lively debate in the comments. No, man, blast it. And then if you think I'm wrong, just be like, Kristen, you need it. You're going to get arrested before you make a crime. Well, in the meantime, thank you all so much for watching Minority Report with us. Let us know what you think down in the comments. As always, if you enjoy what you're watching and you want to see more, please, please, please hit subscribe, hit the bell icon and upload these videos so you know when the next ones are coming out. YouTube likes it when you hit those buttons.

In the meantime, I'm Michael Boost. This is Chris and Steph and Spino. Take it easy, y'all. Bye. Behave yourselves.