Minority Report (2002)

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Yeah, eyes guys. Get Peter Stormair going bonkers on you. That was Peter Stormair, right? Yeah, that was Peter Stormair.

Yeah. Real snoddy. Yeah, right. That was like, did multiple people have colds in this movie for some reason?

Who else had a cold? Doesn't someone at the beginning go, we could do such and such, but we can't find a care for the common cold? Oh, maybe. Huh.

Maybe that was a different film or television show I watched. Maybe it was different. Possibly no. No, yeah.

I do think it was this though, because anything I've seen prior to this has evacuated my brain, like so much. Like feces from a beehole. It's a minority report. Not we got it.

I think not at all. Minority report, that's those are original idea for the podcast, right? You want it to be sort of like a right wing, screed? Yeah, yeah.

You want to call it the minority report? Yeah. I want to really get down to it. Talk about the borders and all of that kind of stuff that I'm not going to talk about.

I was about to say, go on. Give us the pitch. Give us the pitch. Rob, yeah, Dan, congrats to us on getting through the, what I think was probably the nadir, the nadir.

I think so. The first one, at least. Yeah. Because we got the end of this, you know, Blade Runner 24-9, I was standing.

I think we're gonna get some real, some real duds in the mix here, but we're coming up for air a little bit. Yeah, I think this is like after watching Screamers and Imposter. Yeah. Yeah.

Imposteroid. Both of those movies have a couple moments between them that are fun, but for the most part, pretty boring. Yeah. Yeah.

You know, very sci-fi original feel. Something you could, something those movies have in common that you can't say about minority report is that they were not directed by Steven Spielberg, whereas this was, you know, and I commemorate the occasion. I wore my Josh shirt, where Josh has a man's body and he's holding the severed heads of Richard Dreyfism, fucking what's his name? Robert Shaw or the other guy Roy Shider.

I think it's supposed to be Roy Shider. Yeah, that's right. Yeah. Shider.

Yeah. Yeah. You know, the thing is about Spielberg, right? There's a reason that he's like the best, you know?

Do you feel that way? I mean, like, you know, it's hard to be like, oh, Spielberg is my favorite director or even the best director. It's so objective or subjective, right? But the guy knows what he's doing.

Like, you know what I mean? Yeah, for sure. He's very rarely misses, you know? And he's like, and he's so, he's very consistent with like the quality of output and also the quantity and like of output.

It's always like, I don't know, the guy's always doing something, you know? Yeah. It's just always, I don't know, fucking, he's just killing it. I don't know.

And then like, he has like his different arrows also. Like, you know, he's got the 80s sort of stuff and then like moves into the 90s. And it's like all this DreamWorks stuff. And then I feel like, right around, like, this might be the first movie where like shifts into like this 2000s sort of look where, I don't know if it's a, I, you know, this is probably something I should have looked into, but the cinematography feels different than like his other movies, you know?

And then like, it stays with this sort of look for a while. Yeah. What are you fucking, I don't know. He makes great movies, like makes popcorn blockbusters.

And then he's like, let me drop a Schindler's list on you guys. Everyone's in a while. There's a war horse. And you know, but then like he comes in right behind with something, something else.

Look, if the worst you can say about someone is that they made war horse. Yeah. Right. So you like this movie quite a bit then.

That's what I'm hearing. I do like this movie. I, I, you know, when it first came out, I was probably like as lukewarm as everybody else, but I was also lukewarm is that electrolyte milk, huh? Yeah.

I was, I was laying in my bathtub. Floating, you know, in this is like, to me, this is boring because I this is my life. My life. When I say my, my life a movie, that's what I'm talking about.

Yeah. See like, okay, 2002 minority report, you know what else he releases in 2002? Catch me if he can. Like it's, it's, I, in the same year, man.

Yeah, I love that movie. I know you do. Another movie about people hanging out in, in Derry to an extent. Two mice.

Yeah, this is about three mice. Jilling in a bucket of cream. I, not to get ahead of ourselves, but the pre-cogs themselves. I do love how, you know, Agatha, we spend a lot of time with her.

And I don't even think we get to see the other two, like the other guys' faces. The twins. Yeah, the twins. And these twins.

Yeah, right, that like last little moment of the movie where it's like, and they also live happily ever after. When they just show the brothers at first, I'm like, who the fuck are these guys? First of all, you have hair. Second of all, I've only seen you in profile.

Yeah, yeah, from either from like 30 feet overhead or in profile for like a split second. And then we cut to Tom Cruise saying the thing you just said. So it's like instantly out of my mind. Totally.

Yeah. Yeah. So, yeah. And this is also like, this is before Cruz sort of like, has his downturn in his career.

Like he's at this point, like 80s, 90s up through like mid-aughts. He is like, I only want to work with like great directors. I want to like, I want to do, you know, challenging things. You know, we come was like, is there anything between this and eyes wide shut?

Mm, that's the kind of thing you would know. It is definitely kind of not so much the kind of thing I would necessarily know. Mission Impossible, oh, he's got Magnolia, and I was wide shut in 99. And then I was guy, Mission Impossible.

And then Austin Powers and Gold member. Of course, of course. But like, you know, he's working with, he works with John Mu, Cameron Crow, Paul Thomas Anderson, Michael Mann, Spielberg. And then like, I don't know when he jumps on the couch on that Oprah show.

He's like, I love women. Yeah, he's like, I love my wife. I'm attracted to my wife. And yeah, and everybody was like, too crazy for us.

We don't like it. And then 20 months later, everybody is like, not crazy enough. We don't like it. It's the, he's our last hope for being like a fun, crazy celebrity.

Yeah. It's kind of, he's the only game in town. Actually, that's not true. I shouldn't say that.

That's, that's a fogy talk. Austin Butler, whatever's wrong with him is compelling. It is compelling. Yeah.

You're right. Did you see a speaking of which, the guy who created Bugman, Nick Corry Rossi. The Austin Butler story? By the Austin Butler Biopig trailer, about him relearning to become Austin Butler.

We were stuck as Elvis. So good. I don't know. There's Austin Cat.

So he sounds real nice. Yeah. This, okay, minority report. Yeah.

2002. Yep. Palindromic year. Yes.

Angel numbers. That's not me. Yeah. What was I going to say?

Oh, has one of my favorite lines in all of cinema? Oh. Which is in the milk all they see is the future. I think that's the coolest, funniest thing I've ever heard.

I think about it every time I eat cereal. Every time I'm in the photon milk. The photon milk. That's where they get all of their nutrients and whatever.

Their ideas. Yeah. I love when we were there. They talk about nutrients specifically.

They're like, this is our nutrient paste or whatever. Yes. So the photon milk acts as both a nutrient supply and a liquid conductor. I have to stress that you can't absorb most nutrients through your skin.

Topically, sure. So they're drinking it. Maybe they just- They're drinking the milk. Yeah.

Yeah. Back to pre-coggin. Oh. And pre-cog, of course, stands for premature coagulation.

Yep. Pre-mature coagulation. It's like pre-cognitive whatever. They see the future.

Is there- Of course. And we'll get into all that. Dan, there are a lot of people in this movie we should talk about. Yes, we should.

Tom Cruise, heard of him. Tom Cruise. Tooth in the middle. Yep.

One tooth in the middle. One weird middle tooth. So strange. That's not enough to stop him.

Yeah. Yeah. Man. That's why he's so good at running on camera because as a boy he was probably chased out of various villages or displaying demonic physiognomy.

If you see, I mean, these are his fixed teeth with the middle tooth. You should see his old teeth. His boy teeth. Yeah.

His teeth from like- I don't know. I'm just going to google Tom Cruise Boy Teeth. No, it's like- Oh, wow. They're fucked up.

Yeah. Oh, wow. Those are not the teeth of a movie star right there. No, they're not.

Very handsome young man. But those teeth are. I mean, no wonder he was cast to play Austin Powers. He's got the perfect teeth for it.

Tom Cruise born in Syracuse but went to high school in New Jersey. Is that right? That's right. Where in New Jersey?

I don't know. It's okay. I don't know. Do we claim him?

I mean, I claim anybody who spends some time in the old dirty jurors. The gardens. Glen Ridge. Glen Ridge.

That sounds like North Jersey. Yeah. It just sounds like North Jersey. North there are like glens involved.

I feel like, or ridges also. Yeah. A lot of ridges and cliffs. Yeah.

Topographically it's got to be in Jersey. Hills. That kind of thing. So Tom Cruise.

As chief John Anderson. Anderson. Not Anderson. Mr.

Anderson. Mr. Anderson. Swab it around.

Have we done a Tom Cruise movie before? I don't think so. I think so too. I think so too.

I think we definitely know if we had. Yeah. This is totally unprecedented. Oh, no.

It's not a magnolia. Oh, yeah, yeah. Which isn't really like a Tom Cruise movie, but for parts of it it is. Yeah, yeah.

It's definitely an old Psalm. But he has the sort of magnolia moment of screaming at a catatonic person in this also. That's true. So that's good.

Yeah. Screaming in poor Agatha's face. Yes. I'm so, I mean, this is the thing with Tom Cruise, right?

It's very conflicting to be a fan of the man because of his personal life, his all of his weirdo shit. His sea org style nonsense, his is a scientological leanings. That and like the weird stuff is like family and like, I don't, you know, whatever. I have no idea what.

What's the weird stuff with this family? Well, that he hasn't seen like his daughter, Suri in like years. Oh, really? Yeah.

Yeah. I mean, look, I think we can agree on two things. Tom Cruise, our most powerful movie star, like as an on screen presence. Yes.

Also Tom Cruise, there's a real darkness in there. Dude. Right. I really, I was just going to say, I was just going to say, I'm sorry.

I was just going to say, I like in this film when he gets his eye transplant and his eyes look kind of like blacked out for the rest of the movie. I'm like, this actually makes more sense. They're like, they're like, black eyes, like a dad on those eyes. I just, like, I think about this, not all the time, but when it comes up, but was Christian Bale, when he was preparing to do American Psycho, one of his like, Oh, yeah.

Touchstones was this late night interview with Tom Cruise on one of the late night shows, whatever, but he was like, that guy's eyes are so fucking hollow. Oh, yeah. And he's like, yeah, he seems like, I mean, he just seems like a guy who's been a movie star for, you know, his whole life, essentially, but he's so incredibly out of touch. Like there are weird stories of him, like, I forget where I heard some podcasts or whatever, but like him going to a Super Bowl party and just bringing a football and like, because he's just like, doesn't know what to do.

I guess, yeah, we're going to, we're going to play football as a football party. So and then he has a list of people that every Christmas he sends them this like coconut cake. Did I ever tell you, I, I don't even know. It's probably fine to say this on the air.

No one's listening. There's a, I knew someone who was like staying at the home of an interior designer who would like, or decorator, rather, who would like worked for Tom Cruise, like decorated a couple of his homes or something, right? And as a thank you gift, he sent this person a large painted portrait, like an oil painting of himself of Tom Cruise. Yes.

Thanks for making my home beautiful allow me to return the favor. I hope you put this in your foyer. And it was, it was like the entryway hallway. Like this is the first thing you saw when you walked in was what like a, the size of that portrait of Kramer is how big this painting was.

I imagine the, the sopranos, the horse with Pye and the, when he just paints it up like the general. And Paul is like, this is, this is good art. I'm going to hang on. So funny.

So funny. Yeah, but Paul, he just like does that, right? Like, yeah, he thinks it's a good idea. So he has that done.

Yes. Oh, yeah. He, uh, uh, Tony has the portrait. I don't even think, I think somebody just does it.

I don't think he has a commission or anything. And it's him standing next to the horse. Anybody's in a suit and you know, he's all like dapper and shit. And then the horse dies and, and then he's like, yeah, Tony gets mad and he throws out the painting and Paulie finds it.

And he's like, this is great. And then he has like somebody like touch up and paints him off paint Tony, like wearing his general suit or general. So good. And then Tony comes over and there's that awkward moment where they're like, we're just like, fuck is this?

Like, this is how. Oh man. Such a good show. Speaking of minority report, um, it's a Tom Cruise in this film undeniable.

You don't deny this. No, no, no. Also in this film? Yep.

Friend of the show. Yep. Max on side out. Max on side out playing director will Mar Burgess.

Max on side out. He's just, I mean, he has always been 70 years old, right? He's so good. Same from, you know, in the exercise.

Yeah. That's the, that was my first thought seeing this was like, well, because what year is it needs full things? It's like 80. Oh, that's right.

We just did things too. Yeah. It's got to be close to 10 years earlier. Yeah.

I think it's 91 or two. So it's almost exactly 10. Yeah. Um, and I like obviously, you know, it's Max on side out, but I did have to be like, I was like, that can't be him because he looks exactly the same as he did 10 years ago.

Yes. It's really weird. Yeah. He also like, yeah, director Lamar Burgess, not a name you'd expect this German guy to have.

It's very like Schwarzenegger playing, you know, like, like, yeah. I can't think of his total recall name, but yes. I know. Quaid.

Yeah. Yeah. Um, and also it's just like, he's so good at the evil paternalistic vibe. It's, it's amazing.

He is so comforting until he pulls that gun. Yeah. But again, it is like, like that is why you cast him is because he does both so well. Unfortunately, he is a German guy.

So it was like, as soon as he pops up, you're like, well, he's obviously going to be the setup guy here. He's Swedish. He's Swedish. Oh, that's the same.

That's basically the same thing. Um, Sweden is the Germany of Scandinavia. There I said it. Oh, man, we should watch, uh, Flash Gordon where he played the Emperor Ming.

Oh, I don't know about that. That's, I mean, the mercy. If I'm having a hard time with him playing someone named Lamar Burgess, I think I might have twice the hard time with Ming. Yeah.

It's very up. It's time. Okay. Um, it's not is it?

It's where, yeah, where's it fall on the scale of, like, how percentage of a Mickey Rooney is it? Yeah, it's not like that at all. Okay. It's been a while since I've seen it, but I think he still has his own voice.

He just is made up to look a little bit more like, uh, give him the eyeliner. Yeah. Yeah. The eyeliner, the, the mustache, he looks like the character Fu Manchu.

Okay. Um, anyway, so that's Max von Seidau. Uh, yes. Spoiler, he's the bad guy.

Sure. Secret bad guy. Uh, we do, of course also have, um, one of our finest living actors and also friend of the show, a certain Irishman who's no stranger to phone booths. That's right.

Uh, and then it's had to be right around that phone booth time, right? It's like an Helen Farrell. Yeah. Yeah.

Phone booth might be, is it the same year? I don't, it might be like a year earlier. Let's say, uh, 2002 comes out in 2002 and honestly, they could have, they may have shot this like between scene, they may have shot phone booth between scenes of minority report. That's possible.

Did you just, yeah, do you need me in the scene? Do you need me in the scene? That's my, uh, do you need me? All right.

I'm going to go stand in the, I'm going to go stand in that phone booth for far team minutes. Uh, he's terrific. I love, I love young, young Colin Farrell doing an Irish. Yeah.

Young ambitious drunk Colin Farrell. Um, he's doing like, he's such a good, like piece of shit at this point in his career and the like constant like sort of gum chewing energy of this is delightful. He is like, he walks into the pre crime, uh, facility here and he's just like, all sort of like, you know, fucking big balls and just like fucking, this is my show. Um, I'm going to start pushing everybody around here.

Yeah. Please, uh, Danny Whitworth, which is another one where it's like, feels like it should be Whitmer, the name I have heard. Yeah. Yeah.

Yeah. Yeah. Just slightly off here. Whitworth.

Neil McDonough is Fletcher who's like, he's one of the pre crime cops and sort of like on Tom Cruise's side for the most part doesn't want to like, you know, he's kind of a friend, but also has to do his job. Um, I like the, uh, the character not played by, uh, Patrick Hill Patrick. Hey, uh, oh, is he the one who wants to go get lunch or whatever? Yes.

Yeah. He's the guy who's like, I can't wait to get my hands on fucking Tom Cruise so I can rough him up a little bit before he throw the Halo on him. Yeah. It's right.

It's, right. It's Neil McDonough's character is like, uh, he's like, no, you know, if he gets his hands on you again, he'll probably just, uh, power wash the side of a building with you again. Yeah. Exactly.

Right. Yeah. Um, this, this movie has like weird, like I didn't see Frank Grillo as one of the, you know, in, in the movies, but he's in the pre crime cops. Yeah.

I'm seeing that now. Also Jim Rash, please like a lab tech. Yep. Yeah.

We got a Tim Blake Nelson, uh, who's like the, he's almost like the, uh, he's like a corrections officer or a guard over these sedated, uh, pre- Oh man. That's what he's doing in this. Yeah. Tim Blake Nelson, if, if you're unfamiliar, most recently Buster Scruggs, the titular Buster Scruggs.

Yeah. He is Buster Scruggs. Uh, Lois Smith as, uh, Dr. Heinemann, um, with all of her like evil poisonous plants and shit, like basically like an alien poison ivy.

That was, man, that whole scene is so like, it's from a different movie. It's totally from a different, the energy, the energy she's bringing is so peculiar. It was delightful. Like, she was really just kind of like rushing through all of her dialogue, not in like a, not in a, and I don't care way, but in like a, just like, yeah, just like playing hyper competent is kind of how it feels.

But she's also, yeah, exactly. Right. It's like, I have a lot of ex, like her whole scene is just like explaining, yeah, like setting up the next act of the movie, basically. And, um, I think it's, it's, it's a great weird, like totally insulated scene.

She does have, uh, plants that are from another planet. Yep. They move like animals and they have brains. They do.

Um, and in that scene, she, uh, she like whispers something in Tom Cruise's ear and then she kisses him, um, which was not scripted. She just, she was like, like, I'm just trying to kiss him. Yeah. Um, who else?

Who else? We got, uh, Mike Binder, who's like a, uh, like a comedy writer and stuff actor who plays Leo Crow. Um, who, who, there was a kind of a leap having a, like someone in comedy play like a sex offender. Yeah, I don't really buy it.

I mean, you know, well, you think he's a sex offender and then he turns out to be a complete fraud, which is also hard to imagine. Yeah. I wanted to point out, uh, just this guy, William, uh, Mayporth, uh, or I'm sorry, uh, maypother, Mappethur. I don't know.

Hold on. Let me Google or not what Google. I think it's Mappethur. Yeah, that feels right.

Right. Um, is Tom Cruise's cousin? Really? Mappethur is actually Cruise's real last name.

You don't say? I do. Uh, little, little Mappethis. Little Mappethis.

But he's, uh, he's like a working actor. This is a stunt cast by any means. No, no, no. Uh, you know, we said Stormare.

Um, I think that's like, uh, yeah. Like most of everybody, right? A couple of cameos, right? Uh, on the, on the train, there's like a guy reading a newspaper who makes eye contact with, uh, Tom Cruise at one point.

Like when he first, uh, escapes, uh, the cops and then they first blast out like wanted or whatever, uh, that guy is Cameron Crow, the director. Oh, I completely missed that. Yeah. Sitting directly behind Cameron Crow.

You can only see like kind of the top of her face is Cameron Diaz. Um, just a bunch of cameras in this thing. Yeah. Yeah.

Um, what is this train that I've got? Uh, let's also, let's not forget to, uh, shout out our, our pre-cogs. Oh, we have Samantha Morton. Samantha Morton.

I, yeah, more of a, uh, director now, but, uh, yeah, start out as an actor. I think, I think she's like, she has such a strange part to play. The character is so strange. Yeah.

And she does like a great job of being like somebody who's getting her mind is being constantly flooded with, uh, Moira. Well, future visions, you know, that scene when they're like walking through the mall and she's like, umbrella, grab an umbrella, balloons, all this shit. Like she's like falling apart and like has to be held up and shit. I liked all that.

That was really good. Also think the moment where she just like screams run. Yeah. Like, oh, that's so good.

Yes. That's like, that's the moment for me. That's the moment of the movie. I have a hundred percent.

That or when Tom Cruise drinks spoiled milk is one of those two. And then drinks spoiled milk. Yeah. Yeah.

Chasing his eyeballs around. Samantha Morton, of course, also in my favorite Woody Allen movie, Sweet and Lowdown. And you're a big Woody Allen guy. I am late.

Late era, Woody Allen came to him through his Dixie jazz and, uh, yeah, you're a fan of his music, parenting style. Go ahead. Parenting slash romantic partnering style. Yep.

Yep. Um, what can be said about Woody that has not even said, uh, what if we say this, I like Annie Hall? I've never seen Annie Hall. It's just a, it's a, it's a, it's like a, the best execution of a Woody Allen romantic comedy, which I understand.

I get it. And it is one of those movies that's people, everybody's like, you have to see it. And like Hannah and her sisters. You have to see all these things, right?

I have to see all of them down. I, I could commit to one. Uh, I don't know guys. Um, and then the other two are, are real life twins.

Mm. Matthew and Michael Dickman. Yeah. Plankman.

He could be on this show. Hey, like, Dachshil, Arthur and Agatha, all named after mystery writers, Dachshil Hammett, Arthur C. Clark and Agatha Christie and John Agatha. That's really our main cast here, right?

This is our cast. Our folks that we're going to be following all the time. Um, right off the bat, like we're, we're sort of dropped into, um, like this is, this is my Spielberg is like, he's just like, all right, I'm going to establish the world. I'm going to take the first 20 minutes or 15, what, 15, 20 minutes, establish what we got going on here.

Very clear, very succinct. And like, it's a feel okay, Dick, sorry, I haven't read this one, but this movie is pretty like dense as far as like the, all the sort of like futuristic stuff that is going on. Yeah. Yeah, I like very succinctly, like all of the stuff where we were like Tom Cruise, like nothing is, there's no exposition bump really in the beginning, right?

Unless I'm forgetting something. No, the, so this was the thing I thought was so cool is like, they, they dropped right. Yeah, there's like almost, it's not like a cold open, but you get dropped in right in the action. They're like, we got it.

We got to hit. Right. And so you get like the visual of what's happening without any of the explanation. The explanation comes later.

Yes. And like a lot of it is clear enough that like you're kind of like, all right, he's doing the computer stuff. He's looking at whatever footage they just got. And he's like piecing it together.

And do you see a weird little wooden ball and you're like, okay, I guess, I guess it's bingo night at the pre crime division. But yeah, it's like just enough to like, to give you a sense of what's going on, but you're still absolutely tantalized. You're like, I want to know what's up with where that ball came, who's bought that ball came out of totally. I don't know who's bought that ball came out of.

We, we see, yeah, we get Tom Cruise, he like walks in, like grabs his little computer gloves and starts like conducting his computer symphony, right? Yeah. This may be like, because this, this is the kind of thing that is in like every movie now, any movie with some sort of like futuristic computer technology, it's all holograms and like moving your hands in a very specific way to manipulate it, right? The moment where he like just sort of like wipes something off, wipes a screen away, I'm like, this changed, this changed, this changed the course of human history.

It really did. People were like, this is what I want. Yeah. I just want to be knocking windows away.

Absolutely. And it's so, it's weird to like, it's weird to watch this movie now because some of this stuff is just like, we kind of just accept and take for granted, but like the targeted advertising in the movie, yeah, they're literally like reading your eyes and being like, you know, John Anderson, how did you like that, you know, shirt that you bought last week or one? John Anderson, you could use a Guinness. Exactly.

Exactly. And now, like we don't have ads specifically calling out our names, but they are very targeted. That is what's happening. That is what's happening.

Yeah. Yeah. Like, and like the surveillance stuff on the train, right? Yeah.

It's all like retiniscans, right? Like that's the big thing because we're setting up for when he gets his eyes taken out. Yeah. I really, the retiniscan in the train station, when he's like running, he's escaping the first time.

There's a moment where you see a lady get on with her eyes closed and it still scans them. That's so, I'm just like, thank you for answering that question for me before I even had to ask it. It's like, no, these things will scan your damn eyes. It doesn't matter.

It doesn't matter. Yeah. Yeah. So, yeah, I let like all the technology stuff.

We'll get into more of it, but what do you think of cars in this future? All the self-driving cars. The self-driving cars that work. Yeah.

Yeah. I mean, pretty fun. The way that they're like, I do, I like how the highway is set up where it's like, everybody's going straight ahead and then it like drops off this cliff and then they're going like vertical and you're just like, well, yeah, I guess. I mean, if the car is self-driving and I guess it also, it's like everyone in those cars, they're just slamming down into the, I imagine that there's got to, they have to affig it out, right?

Yeah. You got to hope. You got to hope. You got to hope.

And then when you're on, go to his apartment, it just sort of like, sidles up to his door and just like, you know, it's almost like an air lock situation. There was a detail with the car, the cars I really appreciated and it may have just been his car because he was like climbing on the outside of it. But the windows were all smudged up. Yep.

I just thought that was so like, it's, I think, you know, we, we talk about this with like Star Wars a lot like a sci-fi world that feels like kind of gritty and imperfect, right? Like things are not quite. Yeah. Yeah.

And that's really how this whole thing feels. It's like, because it's set in 2054. So like, obviously you have like the major technological leaps that like drive a lot of the story in the action or whatever. Yeah.

But so much of it still feels familiar and shitty. Like all the advertisements, like the scene in the mall or whatever, weirdly that is like a relic now. But yeah, people really go to malls anymore. But like the, just the idea, the idea that like things are not clean and good for most people seemingly.

Yeah. And like, I mean, everything, the whole time I was watching this, I'm like, all of this just sucks. Right. This is besides the whole like pre-crime of it and like the ethical and moral sort of issues that the movie does bring up.

Like just this future fucking sucks. Yeah. It seems bad. Yeah.

Which is, I mean, that's a filicade dick thing. They're no like, they're no utopian futures. It's all just sort of like, yeah, I feel like a lot of bad. Basically every filicade dick story starts with like, there was a nuclear war.

Yes. And unfortunately it didn't kill everybody. So some people still got to deal with this. Yeah.

So yes, we get like, we see this wooden ball like travel down these like, this plastic tube system, right? And then let's say, let's call it is. It's a ski ball ball. It is a ski ball ball.

And yeah, John is like, he's the chief and he comes in and he's, we see like, he's looking at a screen and they're like images popping up of like, you know, we can't really make it out. It's, you know, a guy and a woman and whatever and they're, they're all these like, they're like short clips of things. And what he's trying to do is find out where this is because alarm is going off and somebody is about to be murdered and bring the murder alarm, bring the murder alarm and there's a countdown to the exact moment when it's going to happen. So they know exactly how much time they have before, you know, they have to intercept this.

And then so the whole time he's like, he's looking for an address. He's like trying to find like a piece of mail that's on the table. Like all of this stuff that's in, you know, just trying to pick apart this image. Very blade runner in that scene where Harrison Ford is looking at the picture, right?

And he's like, yeah, totally enhanced, enhanced 42 to 36 or whatever. And you know, it's just like manipulating is just trying to pick out any sort of piece of information, get any clue. So, you know, he thinks he has it. He sends a team out there.

And I too love this. The whatever the address is, the initial address that they sent their sent out to is completely like bombed out. It is destroyed, right? And he's like, nope, not it.

Okay. We got it like whatever, trying to find it. And then we keep we're cutting between this and what is happening in real time with we see this guy who's like a businessman glasses or whatever. And then in the pre-crime video, he stabs his wife, his wife is having a favorite this guy and he stabs her.

Ring the cock alarm also. Also, yeah. Ring that cock alarm. There's a two alarm situation.

I got a four alarm cuck situation over here. So we're cutting between John looking through the videos and whatever and the actual this family and their morning, right? The guy's getting ready for work. His wife is getting their son, I think, ready for school and like breakfast and all this stuff.

And the husband goes out to like get the paper or something. I love it. He sees this guy that's just like standing across the street and just in the most conspicuous sort of way. He's just like hanging out, like looking at their house like sort of whatever.

And they make eye contact. And then the husband comes back inside. He's like the guy's back. He's out there again.

And he's like, oh, he's like, I don't know. I saw him like a couple weeks ago in the park. She's like, I don't know. I have no idea who that is.

And he's like, maybe I'll stay home from work today. And she's like, I can't. I have a house showing or something like that. That must be why you're all dressed up.

Yes. Yes. All this says. Right.

So yeah, the husband leaves and the kid leaves and almost immediately this young stud. He comes in and he's and she's like all over him. And he's like, let's go to the bedroom. And she's like, no, I want you.

I want to do it right here. And the husband comes back and he overhears all of this. He has these like big scissors, these like silver scissors that just like, it's almost like a shallow movie. Yeah.

Like the glitter in the light. And then yeah, while this is going on, John, he like, he finds the general. He's like, he could see he could tell from one of the videos that they're near park. So they nailed that down.

They send out a team there and then John is standing there and they're like three houses that look identical. But one of the doors open, do you leave the door open? Well, fine. Yes.

Okay. And John runs into the house. The husband, he stands up, whatever their wife and the guy are making out on the bed. He's like, we're standing right there.

And he like interrupts them. And it's about to happen. And just as like with like two seconds to spare, John like tackles the guy, saves the woman. Yeah.

He is the guy like rears his hand back with the scissors. Yes. And John runs in and like punches his hand through the glass window. Yes.

Yeah. It's good stuff. It's good stuff. So there you go.

We have proof that this system is flawless and it works and we're all big fans. We also learn, is it like immediately after that we see Anderson's apartment and like how he's living his life pretty much. Yeah. Yeah.

First he goes, I think he goes on a run, I want to say, through like, yeah, he goes on a run through like a really like sketchy part of town and he's like, he's got like the hoodie up and shit. He's like, yeah, doesn't want to be conspicuous or anything. And he meets up with his drug dealer and I forget no eyes. Yeah.

The guy has no eyeballs. Not a one. And you know, this even pays off though because like we learn that you can sell your eyes on like a secondary market, totally on like a black market or whatever. Also like if you want to be off the grid, you know, you're going to have to pop out those eyeballs and the guy with no eyes says in the land, he like makes a point to say in the land of the blind, the one I ban is king, right?

Yeah. Which and he's not not king, but I mean, well, he's got that one eye between his legs as your reefer up. That's what he meant. That's what he meant.

Is that what you're going to say? Yeah. Yeah. That's exactly what I was going to say.

All right. Moving on. Like, you know, it's all retinal recognition and everybody. You're constantly being tracked and monitored, whatever.

If you have no, like no eyes, that's essentially being off the grid and you can kind of move and do whatever you want. Right. It benefits a drug dealer, for example. Exactly.

I love all of the drug stuff too. It's I love future drugs in movies. That's like, did you catch the name of this drug? I missed it.