minority report: an equation [shouldn't spoil it for anyone who hasn't seen it, but don't read if you really, really want no clue]

minority report = crap

with the inclusion of lost highway let's say it DID end when he was collared and the rest was idealised brain activity.

it was still crap in bits.

but, yeah. the rocketeer. obvious.

Couldn't he have paid someone else to do it?

aw, maybe he died or someone stole 'em, I guess. but. still!

1) They didn't cancel the retina scan, because they believed he would come back and that would enable them to nab Tom straight away. If they cancelled the scan then Tom would be able to walk around undetected.

2) Bad guy couldn't hire someone else as he would then have the problem of what to do with the guy he hired, can't kill him coz the precogs would detect it, and he couldn't really trust some goon to keep quiet. So, that's why he created the smokescrean and did the deed himself (which the precogs saw, but the tech thought was an echo).

ii. haha senor spielbergo uses exactly the same trick as max von sydow, eg tries to get us going by harping on the death of the kid: we decided [MAJOR PSPOILER ALAERT] that mvj's suicide is spielberg's unconscious conscience speaking directly to the audience ("my family values heart-tugging is a crime and i atone thus: BANG!!)

iii. the gap-typer stuff was good, because it was SO CREEPY (unlike bladerunner, which is meant to be a dystopia which actually everyone watching wants to live in, this was a utopia which is clearly pretty horrible)

iv. swiss cheese, plot holes-wise

v. the spiders = sinister for a few moments then SS forgot himself and SUDDENLY THEY WERE CUTE

vi. the sick stick is brilliant

vii. haha the sick stick!! (cf no.vi)

viii. i liked when he was fighting with his old buds and they were trying not to actually hurt each other, every slapstick -> i'd like to see that bit again

ix. "the dead are among us: they help us" => perhaps we shd include this idea in ALL films, to detoxify a plot-device (someone shd have said it in schindler's list maybe)

x. haha i am more precog than agatha: i *knew* mvs was evil and did it the moment he first appeared (even when i didn't know what "it" was), and i *knew* the "bad" feds cop was actually good the moment he appeared

xi. i like the idea that sleazy porn is loops of old movies where people get killed

just watching this. lol at the electronic newspaper on the tube which is still the size of a current tabloid.

in fact i think every interface in the entire film is less efficient than the current versions - the arm waving, the enormo screens (transparent!), the ipad sized things they use for transferring files (no usb sticks, no wifi?), all too large.

did like the cars though, the way they flowed down buildings and could run sideways.

well if they were small they'd be hard to film

still kinda love this despite all of the above. Farrell's suits are a+

this movie’s a banger