Minority Report (2002)

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Wikidata Q244604, film, IMDb tt0181689, TMDB 180: matched by corpus:resolve, told apart by episode credits Steven Spielberg as director (The Tom Cruise Hall of Fame); 6 more episodes agree.

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Who talked about it

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Came from

What the speakers say it drew on. Each is a speaker's account: “the maker said so” when they report the maker's own words, “the host's read” when the read is theirs.

Saving Private Ryan: 1 line the host's read ×1

  1. unmapped (stylistic shift): Saving Private Ryan ⇒ Minority Report (the host's read). Saving Private Ryan was the biggest shift in Spielberg's signature style, letting him change languages for films like Minority Report and Munich.
    “Saving Private Ryan is, in my opinion, the single biggest shift in his signature style up until that point”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Empire of the Sun with Bilge Ebiri · 2:18:41 · Griffin Newman (0.70 sure it was them)

Led to

What the speakers say drew on it, marked the same way.

Mercy: 1 line the host's read ×1

  1. lineage (lineage): Minority Report ⇒ Mercy (the host's read). Mercy's AI-as-justice-machine premise is an idea Minority Report explored earlier.
    “Like minority report explores this idea of what if we use technology to better, like better control criminal activity in the world.”
    The Big Picture · The 10 Most Misused Stars in Hollywood and the Gnarly Magic of ‘Send Help’ · 0:20:46 · Amanda Dobbins (0.50 sure it was them)

Connected to

Colin Farrell: 1 line people ×1

  1. people (people): Minority Report → Colin Farrell. The Farrell-Cruise factory fight is a low-key best set piece, and a great early Farrell performance.
    “It's got one of the low-key best set pieces is the Colin Farrell Tom Cruise fight in the factory.”
    The Big Picture · Steven Spielberg's Top 5 Movies With Bill Simmons and Chris Ryan | The Big Picture (Ep. 57) · 0:28:13 · unknown (0.50 sure it was them)

Eyes Wide Shut: 1 line theme ×1

  1. theme (theme): Minority Report → Eyes Wide Shut. How-is-that-a-job category: Minority Report's eyeball seller, Milich's costume shop in Eyes Wide Shut.
    “Like the dude in minority report who just sells new eyeballs to Tom Cruise.”
    The Rewatchables · A CR Month Mailbag! · 0:55:18 · Bill Simmons (0.50 sure it was them)

Janusz Kaminski: 1 line craft ×1

  1. craft (craft): Minority Report → Janusz Kaminski. Minority Report looks like what Spielberg's films look like now: cloudy natural light into a dingy area.
    “And it feels more like what all Steven Spielberg movies look like now, this sort of like cloudy, natural light flooding through into a dingy area.”
    The Big Picture · Steven Spielberg's Top 5 Movies With Bill Simmons and Chris Ryan | The Big Picture (Ep. 57) · 0:28:34 · unknown (0.50 sure it was them)

Mercy: 1 line lineage ×1

  1. lineage (lineage): Mercy → Minority Report. Mercy's AI-as-justice-machine premise is an idea Minority Report explored earlier.
    “Like minority report explores this idea of what if we use technology to better, like better control criminal activity in the world.”
    The Big Picture · The 10 Most Misused Stars in Hollywood and the Gnarly Magic of ‘Send Help’ · 0:20:46 · Amanda Dobbins (0.50 sure it was them)

Neal McDonough: 1 line career ×1

  1. career (career): Neal McDonough → Minority Report. McDonough's great performance as the main chaser in Minority Report turns on his ice-blue eyes; he also had Star Trek First Contact and Justified.
    “Uh, was the other one I was going to say he's good in is, uh, Minority Party is really good”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Captain America: The First Avenger · 1:22:37 · unknown (0.35 sure it was them)

Ready Player One: 1 line contrast ×1

  1. contrast (contrast): Minority Report → Ready Player One. Ready Player One treats earnestly what Minority Report satirizes (personalized ads).
    “Some people have noted that the things that that movie satirizes are actually treated in a very straightforward manner in Ready Player one.”
    The Big Picture · Steven Spielberg's Top 5 Movies With Bill Simmons and Chris Ryan | The Big Picture (Ep. 57) · 0:26:46 · Sean Fennessey (0.80 sure it was them)

Saving Private Ryan: 1 line unmapped ×1

  1. unmapped (stylistic shift): Saving Private Ryan → Minority Report. Saving Private Ryan was the biggest shift in Spielberg's signature style, letting him change languages for films like Minority Report and Munich.
    “Saving Private Ryan is, in my opinion, the single biggest shift in his signature style up until that point”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Empire of the Sun with Bilge Ebiri · 2:18:41 · Griffin Newman (0.70 sure it was them)

Schindler's List: 1 line contrast ×1

  1. contrast (contrast): Minority Report → Schindler's List. Minority Report's dystopia is among the ugliest worlds Spielberg set a movie in, unlike his historical films.
    “one of the uglier worlds that he has set a movie in.”
    The Big Picture · Steven Spielberg's Top 5 Movies With Bill Simmons and Chris Ryan | The Big Picture (Ep. 57) · 0:27:18 · Chris Ryan (0.50 sure it was them)

Steven Spielberg: 1 line people ×1

  1. people (auteur credit): Minority Report → Steven Spielberg. Minority Report is judged a Spielberg achievement more than a Cruise one and gets cut.
    “because that is a Steven Spielberg achievement rather than a Tom Cruise achievement.”
    The Big Picture · The Tom Cruise Hall of Fame · 1:36:10 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)

The Truman Show: 1 line contrast ×1

  1. contrast (contrast): The Truman Show → Minority Report. A Cruise Truman would become a paranoid thriller like Minority Report.
    “you don't want it to feel like a paranoid thriller.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘The Truman Show’ With Bill Simmons, Glen Powell, and Chris Ryan · 1:04:08 · Glen Powell (0.70 sure it was them)

Vanilla Sky: 1 line career ×1

  1. career (career): Vanilla Sky → Minority Report. After this film everything Cruise does is haunted.
    “And everything that he does after this is haunted, you know”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Vanilla Sky with Richard Lawson (Ad-Free) · 0:55:39 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)

War of the Worlds: 1 line verdict ×1

  1. verdict (ranking): Minority Report → War of the Worlds. Of the Spielberg-Cruise films, Minority Report stays on the yellow list over War of the Worlds because one Spielberg is enough.
    “I think it's reasonable to include one Spielberg.”
    The Big Picture · The Tom Cruise Hall of Fame · 1:32:59 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)

Where it came up

What was said about it, by kind

career (2)

  1. career (career): Neal McDonough → Minority Report. McDonough's great performance as the main chaser in Minority Report turns on his ice-blue eyes; he also had Star Trek First Contact and Justified.
    “Uh, was the other one I was going to say he's good in is, uh, Minority Party is really good”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Captain America: The First Avenger · 1:22:37 · unknown (0.35 sure it was them)
  2. career (career): Vanilla Sky → Minority Report. After this film everything Cruise does is haunted.
    “And everything that he does after this is haunted, you know”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Vanilla Sky with Richard Lawson (Ad-Free) · 0:55:39 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)

contrast (3)

  1. contrast (contrast): The Truman Show → Minority Report. A Cruise Truman would become a paranoid thriller like Minority Report.
    “you don't want it to feel like a paranoid thriller.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘The Truman Show’ With Bill Simmons, Glen Powell, and Chris Ryan · 1:04:08 · Glen Powell (0.70 sure it was them)
  2. contrast (contrast): Minority Report → Ready Player One. Ready Player One treats earnestly what Minority Report satirizes (personalized ads).
    “Some people have noted that the things that that movie satirizes are actually treated in a very straightforward manner in Ready Player one.”
    The Big Picture · Steven Spielberg's Top 5 Movies With Bill Simmons and Chris Ryan | The Big Picture (Ep. 57) · 0:26:46 · Sean Fennessey (0.80 sure it was them)
  3. contrast (contrast): Minority Report → Schindler's List. Minority Report's dystopia is among the ugliest worlds Spielberg set a movie in, unlike his historical films.
    “one of the uglier worlds that he has set a movie in.”
    The Big Picture · Steven Spielberg's Top 5 Movies With Bill Simmons and Chris Ryan | The Big Picture (Ep. 57) · 0:27:18 · Chris Ryan (0.50 sure it was them)

craft (1)

  1. craft (craft): Minority Report → Janusz Kaminski. Minority Report looks like what Spielberg's films look like now: cloudy natural light into a dingy area.
    “And it feels more like what all Steven Spielberg movies look like now, this sort of like cloudy, natural light flooding through into a dingy area.”
    The Big Picture · Steven Spielberg's Top 5 Movies With Bill Simmons and Chris Ryan | The Big Picture (Ep. 57) · 0:28:34 · unknown (0.50 sure it was them)

lineage (1)

  1. lineage (lineage): Mercy → Minority Report. Mercy's AI-as-justice-machine premise is an idea Minority Report explored earlier.
    “Like minority report explores this idea of what if we use technology to better, like better control criminal activity in the world.”
    The Big Picture · The 10 Most Misused Stars in Hollywood and the Gnarly Magic of ‘Send Help’ · 0:20:46 · Amanda Dobbins (0.50 sure it was them)

people (2)

  1. people (auteur credit): Minority Report → Steven Spielberg. Minority Report is judged a Spielberg achievement more than a Cruise one and gets cut.
    “because that is a Steven Spielberg achievement rather than a Tom Cruise achievement.”
    The Big Picture · The Tom Cruise Hall of Fame · 1:36:10 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)
  2. people (people): Minority Report → Colin Farrell. The Farrell-Cruise factory fight is a low-key best set piece, and a great early Farrell performance.
    “It's got one of the low-key best set pieces is the Colin Farrell Tom Cruise fight in the factory.”
    The Big Picture · Steven Spielberg's Top 5 Movies With Bill Simmons and Chris Ryan | The Big Picture (Ep. 57) · 0:28:13 · unknown (0.50 sure it was them)

theme (1)

  1. theme (theme): Minority Report → Eyes Wide Shut. How-is-that-a-job category: Minority Report's eyeball seller, Milich's costume shop in Eyes Wide Shut.
    “Like the dude in minority report who just sells new eyeballs to Tom Cruise.”
    The Rewatchables · A CR Month Mailbag! · 0:55:18 · Bill Simmons (0.50 sure it was them)

unmapped (1)

  1. unmapped (stylistic shift): Saving Private Ryan → Minority Report. Saving Private Ryan was the biggest shift in Spielberg's signature style, letting him change languages for films like Minority Report and Munich.
    “Saving Private Ryan is, in my opinion, the single biggest shift in his signature style up until that point”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Empire of the Sun with Bilge Ebiri · 2:18:41 · Griffin Newman (0.70 sure it was them)

verdict (1)

  1. verdict (ranking): Minority Report → War of the Worlds. Of the Spielberg-Cruise films, Minority Report stays on the yellow list over War of the Worlds because one Spielberg is enough.
    “I think it's reasonable to include one Spielberg.”
    The Big Picture · The Tom Cruise Hall of Fame · 1:32:59 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)

Fun items about it

  1. fun, about Minority Report: The only Spielberg movie where eyes are surgically removed or drug addiction is a major theme.
    “it's certainly the only movie that he made in which, like, a man's eyes are surgically removed”
    The Big Picture · Steven Spielberg's Top 5 Movies With Bill Simmons and Chris Ryan | The Big Picture (Ep. 57) · 0:27:51 · Chris Ryan (0.50 sure it was them)

Who the speakers said made it

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