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Anyone notice the plot from Minority Report is just like.....

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Aquaman

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I know the movie is not out yet but has anyone notice the plot from Minority Report is just like..... the 70's movie Logan's Run (with Michael York)?

In Logan's run they hunt for people who are over the age of 30. The 'Super' computers who run the society make it so that Logan (Mike York) appears to be breaking the age law so they go after him.

In Minority Report, Tom Cruise captures people who are about to commit crimes in the future and is framed to test the system.

You'd think that Steven Spielburg would think of something original 😉

Cheers,
Aquaman
 
Originally posted by: Aquaman
I know the movie is not out yet but has anyone notice the plot from Minority Report is just like..... the 70's movie Logan's Run (with Michael York)?

In Logan's run they hunt for people who are over the age of 30. The 'Super' computers who run the society make it so that Logan (Mike York) appears to be breaking the age law so they go after him.

In Minority Report, Tom Cruise captures people who are about to commit crimes in the future and is framed to test the system.

You'd think that Steven Spielburg would think of something original 😉

Cheers,
Aquaman
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Steven didn't think of anything -- except that Philip K. Dick's work was interesting.

-geoff
 
Yes, but Logan's Run has that funky-looking '70s look with semi-naked chicks... (and is a damn cool movie, when you think about it..)
 
Originally posted by: Astaroth33
Yes, but Logan's Run has that funky-looking '70s look with semi-naked chicks... (and is a damn cool movie, when you think about it..)
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True Dat 😀

Cheers,
Aquaman
 
Originally posted by: LordJezo
You'd think that Steven Spielburg would think of something original 😉

Cheers,
Aquaman
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You'd think maybe you might think that they were both based after the same book....

Eesh..
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Nope......... Logan's run was written by William F. Nolan & George C. Johnson (1976) ............... Minority Report was written by Philip K. Dick (2002)

Cheers,
Aquaman
 
err i think minority report was originally published in 86? or was that another book from the same author. i flipped through the cover of a few of his books in the store. anyways its an original story😛
 
Originally posted by: Aquaman


Nope......... Logan's run was written by William F. Nolan & George C. Johnson (1976) ............... Minority Report was written by Philip K. Dick (2002)

Cheers,
Aquaman
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Except that you gave the dates for the movies. "Logan's Run" was a novel written in the mid-sixties(1966, I believe) and "Minority Report was a short story from 1956. So, you'd think that William F. Nolan & George C. Johnson would think of something original, huh?
 
Originally posted by: Basilisk6
Originally posted by: Aquaman


Nope......... Logan's run was written by William F. Nolan & George C. Johnson (1976) ............... Minority Report was written by Philip K. Dick (2002)

Cheers,
Aquaman
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Except that you gave the dates for the movies. "Logan's Run" was a novel written in the mid-sixties(1966, I believe) and "Minority Report was a short story from 1956. So, you'd think that William F. Nolan & George C. Johnson would think of something original, huh?
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omg, owned!! 🙂
 
Philip K. Dick was born in Chicago in 1928 and lived most of his life in California. The author of thirty-six novels, including the acclaimed Blade Runner, and five short story collections, he won a Hugo Award for The Man in the High Castle, and a John W. Campbell Memorial Award for Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said. He died in 1982.



ooo! he died in 82!! and blade runner? wow🙂


http://hubcap.clemson.edu/~sparks/dickbib1.html
1955 "The Minority Report"
 
I think the story about someone who is wrongfully accused has been done to death.
But...I might just have to watch it.
 
Phillip K. Dick pretty much wrote the book (no pun intended) on paranoid sci-fi. Minority Report, Blade Runner and Total Recall all were based on short stories by him. He is one of the greats of 50's sci-fi literature (alongside Alfred Bester, who I don't think has had anything actualized into movie form, which is a shame)

Highly recommend you pick up one of his books...

--Christopher

 
good news🙂 ebert and roper raved about this movie in todays show. hell they devoted extra time on a bit on certain scenes and stuff. finally decent movies to watch, in a few days atleast😛

the show reruns about 12:30 at night if u wanna see it🙂
 
cricky is right - you don't know dick about dick unless you read him....

Try "Man in the High Castle," or "Flow my tears, the Policeman Said," or "Radio Free Albemuth" and of course "Do Androids Dream of Electic Sheep."

All great books...😀
 
Originally posted by: Nefrodite
good news🙂 ebert and roper raved about this movie in todays show. hell they devoted extra time on a bit on certain scenes and stuff. finally decent movies to watch, in a few days atleast😛

the show reruns about 12:30 at night if u wanna see it🙂
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Was it just me or were ebert and roeper kissing some major spielburg ass, they were fallling all over themselves saying how great the movie was and how great spielburg was, it made me NOT want to see the movie.
 
Originally posted by: Mrburns2007
Originally posted by: Nefrodite
good news🙂 ebert and roper raved about this movie in todays show. hell they devoted extra time on a bit on certain scenes and stuff. finally decent movies to watch, in a few days atleast😛

the show reruns about 12:30 at night if u wanna see it🙂
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Was it just me or were ebert and roeper kissing some major spielburg ass, they were fallling all over themselves saying how great the movie was and how great spielburg was, it made me NOT want to see the movie.
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why? its not as if they consistently kiss spielberg @ss. atleast its new to me😛
 
From Oscar Watch Forum :

Roeper: Ok, our next movie is Steven Speilberg's "Minority Report". A masterful work infused with beautiful and haunting visuals, outstanding performances from Tom Cruise & a gifted supporting cast, and a story that challenges the mind and engages the spirit.

(synopsis of film w/ stunning clips)

Roeper: (ending synopsis) ...Screenwriter Scott Craig and John Cohen have expanded the story into a spectacular scifi film noir and the brilliant Speilberg and his special effects team have created a believable vision of the near future...(thumbs up)

Ebert: This movie is a great movie! (thumbs up) This is a brilliant movie; this is one of Speilberg's best movies, and he's a great filmmaker.

Roeper: Right.

Ebert: ...(Speilberg) puts it all into a package that absolutely fascinated me from beginning to end. I loved this movie...

Roeper:...It's one of those movies that afterwards you can pick it apart and say well did this happen this way or it could have happened this way but that's part of it's brilliance that it has you thinking about it so much afterwards and the cast, including Tom Cruise, AGAIN, continuing his streak of excellent performances in fine films.

Ebert then goes on to go in depth on 2 specific scenes...
you'll have to see this; it's too hard to describe
Ebert: ...that's why Speilberg is such a great director, not just because he's a mastor of all the new stuff, but because he begins in the classical style with story and character.

Roeper: (Speilberg) really respects the strong writing in this adapted screenplay, and actors, Samantha Morton, she can make the hairs on your arms go up just with her voice in this film.

Ebert: Tom Cruise is wonderful in this film! He absorbs that character and you begin to identify with him as he's up against this situation where he's being framed in a world where to frame someone would be the perfect crime because he can't get away with anything.

Roeper: This movie succeeds on every level.







and Roger Ebert Interview With Spielberg and Tom
 
Originally posted by: Nefrodite
From Oscar Watch Forum :

Roeper: Ok, our next movie is Steven Speilberg's "Minority Report". A masterful work infused with beautiful and haunting visuals, outstanding performances from Tom Cruise & a gifted supporting cast, and a story that challenges the mind and engages the spirit.

(synopsis of film w/ stunning clips)

Roeper: (ending synopsis) ...Screenwriter Scott Craig and John Cohen have expanded the story into a spectacular scifi film noir and the brilliant Speilberg and his special effects team have created a believable vision of the near future...(thumbs up)

Ebert: This movie is a great movie! (thumbs up) This is a brilliant movie; this is one of Speilberg's best movies, and he's a great filmmaker.

Roeper: Right.

Ebert: ...(Speilberg) puts it all into a package that absolutely fascinated me from beginning to end. I loved this movie...

Roeper:...It's one of those movies that afterwards you can pick it apart and say well did this happen this way or it could have happened this way but that's part of it's brilliance that it has you thinking about it so much afterwards and the cast, including Tom Cruise, AGAIN, continuing his streak of excellent performances in fine films.

Ebert then goes on to go in depth on 2 specific scenes...
you'll have to see this; it's too hard to describe
Ebert: ...that's why Speilberg is such a great director, not just because he's a mastor of all the new stuff, but because he begins in the classical style with story and character.

Roeper: (Speilberg) really respects the strong writing in this adapted screenplay, and actors, Samantha Morton, she can make the hairs on your arms go up just with her voice in this film.

Ebert: Tom Cruise is wonderful in this film! He absorbs that character and you begin to identify with him as he's up against this situation where he's being framed in a world where to frame someone would be the perfect crime because he can't get away with anything.

Roeper: This movie succeeds on every level.







and Roger Ebert Interview With Spielberg and Tom
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Man maybe they got some payolla from spielburg or something.....seems a little over the top.

 
Originally posted by: Nefrodite
hehe yup🙂 now to see if ebert and roper will elope off to some tropical island never to review a film again🙂
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I usually like there reviews but was taken back by all the spielburg fawning that they did...
 
In Logan's run they hunt for people who are over the age of 30. The 'Super' computers who run the society make it so that Logan (Mike York) appears to be breaking the age law so they go after him.
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Actually, in the book from which the movie was poorly (in many ways, but not all) adapted, he chooses to run on his last day because he realizes that there is no guarantee that anyone gets "renewed" so he essentially has nothing to lose.
At the end of the book it turns out that "Sanctuary" is on the moon.

At the end of the movie, it turns out that there is no sanctuary, but the fact that there is life outside the city beyond the confines of Carousel is sanctuary enough.
Besides, if Logan and Jessica stay on Earth, it's more conducive to a television series that is little more than a knockoff of The Fugitive, in which Logan spends his days endlessly fleeing the pursuit of Francis.

 
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