imdb lists THEIR opinion of the top 20 sciffy flicks of past 20 years

[Pingfah]

Re: imdb lists THEIR opinion of the top 20 sciffy flicks of past 20 ye

I am surprised to see Until the End of the World in there at no. 5. I watched the 4.5 hour directors cut not long ago, and thoroughly enjoyed it. It's so rare the film is even mentioned though, let alone included amongst that sort of company.

 

[barnaclelapse]

Re: imdb lists THEIR opinion of the top 20 sciffy flicks of past 20 ye

There are only a few films that have been able to overcome a bad script, usually through sheer will, through having all the best people and the best talnents brought to bear on every aspect of a production to make sure the film works despite script problems. One such film is, perhaps, on the list: Avatar.

But Minority Report relies so heavily on the very premise that it is built around that this is not the case. Culturally, this film has been deservedly forgotten by much of the public, as it deserves to be.

Don't you get it? Your opinion is WRONG!!! Everyone but you think Minority report is a decent movie. Get it through your thick skull, YOU ARE WRONG!! Go cry a river elsewhere, and accept that you arrogant attitiude is worthless and incorrect.

I like you.

Anyone else get really, really, really turned on by that.

I didn't like Minority Report either.

Heh.

 

[Temis the Vorta]

Re: imdb lists THEIR opinion of the top 20 sciffy flicks of past 20 ye

So this has become the Minority Report draaaama thread? Well I might as well chime in: it's a good enough movie that the problems don't start to occur to you till you're safely out of the theater, which is a big improvement over something like ROTS, where the problems are too big to ignore and interfere with your actual enjoyment of the movie because you keep thinking thoughts like "I would pay REAL MONEY if Samuel L. Jackson would just lop off that whiney brat's head, to hell with continuity." So if ROTS makes the list, Minority Report should too.

The biggest problem with Minority Report: I didn't buy the happy Speilbergian ending. A society that is guaranteed to be safe from murder will happily trade that safety for the chance that innocent people will be incarcerated. I know this because it's happening in the real world right now. Take a good hard look at our criminal justice system for proof of that.