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Tom Cruise comments on MINORITY REPORT at the GOLDEN GLOBES
Man... this is getting a bit funny for me. Harry here, and ya know.... I love the seeming 'on again off again' speculation that everyone seems to have for MINORITY REPORT, the long talked about Spielberg/Cruise pairing. At the Golden Globes last night, it appears that Tom told one outlet that he hoped the film would be his next project, but that it was a film that he and Steven were definately going to make. So take that as you will. The HARRY POTTER and A.I. rumors still circle like vultures, with Warner Bros. playing a bit of hard ball with Steven in attempting to force or coerce Steven into making it his next project, or a never his project. It's understandable really... Harry Potter is pretty dang 'HOT' right now, and Warners... ever the opportunists (POKEMON anyone?) knows all too well the danger of falling popularity. Of course at the same time, there's a whole circling wave of filmmakers that will instantly step in place if Steven should pass to make either A.I. or MINORITY REPORTS, but I really don't think that if Spielberg was to drop Harry Potter, he'd go to A.I. I'm still betting on MINORITY REPORT... though I do believe the dear Professor is wagering upon HARRY POTTER. We'll see.
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Let me jump the gun here, and continue the trend, by saying that Natalie Portman is hot and I want to have sex with her. -
Uncle Steven ought to do Harry Potter. It's about time he made another kids flick!!! Make the other ones later... I wanna see those made too, You know!
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It's StarWars, it's GhostBusters and Terry Pratchett and Lord of the RIngs; but so kids can get it.
I bought it for my 12 year old sister for christmas; had a sick day last week and read it one day.
It was SO cool; it is totally refreshing, orignal and yet so familiar.
I can't wait to see the bits with the broomstick football match (forgotten the name!) and the final scene is like Indie and and and and the sets would be so Cool!!!
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Minority Report is by far the most deserving of ATTENTION and THOUGHT that it boggles my mind that you waste your energy and time to make comments like, "my boner" and "want to bon-her". Jesus, Phil Dick is one of the most deserving thinkers of our time and we are sitting here deciding what to do??? Give me a break I've lost all hope in anybody else making good sci-fi movies. Hey let's go to Mars, and the red rock and everything. NO! NO! NO! NO! Phil Dick, brings humanity to it's knees. Can you handle it?...........
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yep, the spielberg-thing is a case i really love.
we can only win, not like the spider-man rumour were we stand in front of a catastroph
it is like the question who ist cooler indy or han solo
after all i hope for minority report -
Last night the guy won at the Golden Globes for best supporting actor and I do hope he wins an Oscar this year in that category. He is a very talented actor and its about time the academy recognizes his work. As for Minority Report I hope they do make this film with him, Matt Damon and Steven Spielberg directing.
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why doesn't Spielberg just mix all the best elements from all 3 projects into one cool movie, like have a futuristic harry potter, accused of a murder he didnt commit, framed by his mechanical buddie HAL, out for revenge, out for justice, out to kill! i'd queue to see that.....
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i thought Tom was scheduled to be the little kid grown up in Iron Giant 2.
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Well, according to the late
Edward Margulies, his opinion of Spielbering doin AI was was it just him or were other movie fans laughing over the fact that Spielbering would do AI because does anyone think if Kubrick had lived to film AI it would have been another pretenious flop since he hasn't made a good movie in decades and is a sign of Spielberg lusting after other director's exalted (innacurate) reputations. Margulies also wonders is it just him or are other film fans underwhelmed by the idea of a JP3, feeling it must go down as the worst sequel in history after the miserable JP2 and that Johnston
would be better off directing a sequel to one of his better films, Jumanji (the sequel is
currently set to be directed by Ken Ralston). Margulies spoke
nothing of Harry Poter or
Memoirs of a Geisha or Minority Report. But he did say he also disliked the idea of Mike Meyers
during his Saturday Night Live skit, Sprockets into a full-length feature film.
I kind of agree with Margulies here. Enough with Kubrick, his reputation (for his earlier great films) has taken a severe beating
by the audience and critics and Hollywood folks. Talk of him needs to lay low till the dust settles after the EWS debacle. Hopefully, the upcoming re-releases of 2001 (late December in the USA)and ACO (in Britian) will restore his reputation and remind us of how great a director he was (despite the fact that I loathe ACO but I love 2001). As for JP3, it could be unbelivably bad I agree but on the other hand, you never can tell...Joe Johnston could put a rabbit out of his hat with JP3.
He did make The Rocketeer, one
of the few good comic book films.
I liked Jumanji but it came off
as shallow, fun but the kind of film which is a one-time ride. I liked seeing it, but on repeat viewings, I disliked it.
Meanwhile, Jeff Wells believed in an article he wrote on reel.com that Spielberg's next would be Spiderman (he was wrong). I do
not know what Wells thinks of Spielberg making AI but he does think is it just him or does anybody else think The Godfather 4 is a bad idea, since didn't Coppola making Godfather 3 tarnish the original films's reputations.
For him, the era of the Godfather is over and the era of
The Sopranos is in. Here, my opinion is if it's a great script, Godfather 4 might be okay and I've never seen The Sopranos.
Meanwhile Ted Casablanca says Spielberg's next is Memoris of a Geisha with Lucy Lui in the title role after she completes her work on the Charlie's Angels movie.
Ted has said the new Anakin for
Episode II has already been cast and it ain't Leo (who turned down the role) but after seeing TPM,
couldn't give a care about
Episode II. Me, I want to see
Episode II and liked TPM.
Anyway, I haven't read the Harry Potter books, but I am nervous about the film and fear it will be a bad film. In that it will be shades of Spielberg making another HOOK (which took another childhood property, the stories of Peter Pan and ruined it) and has for
Memoirs of a Geisha, I have
no comment. Didn't read the book
and couldn't care whether it gets made or not. Minority Report sounds interesting and I'd love
to see if Spielberg can do justice to Philip K. Dick's imagination. But, according to Jeff Wells, the script is bad, so that makes me nervous about see
Minority Report as a movie. What
I wonder is is Spielberg is
set to direct Indiana Jones 4?
most is
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Jan 24, 2000 10:43:54 AM CST
Who gives a flying fuck's rat's ass about Harry friggin Potter.
by monkey butt
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Jan 24, 2000 10:51:16 AM CST
Who gives a flying fuck's rat's ass about Harry friggin Potter?!
by monkey butt
Make fucking Minority Report and make it fucking now! If there are script problems, fix em! It's about time Speilberg sunk his big cock into a juicy, kick ass sci-fi movie. Give the limp dick Potter film to some hack pussy director. Spielberg, Cruise and Philip K. Dick. For fuck's sake, what more could you want?
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Minortiy AI Report: Harry Potter's Post Apocalyptic Adventure. Then everyone will be happy :)
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I think Spielberg tends to pick projects based on whether they will garner him critical claim or box office results. The guy loves to be popular--and making money too.
Hook--terrible
JP--great fx--abysmal everything else
SL-different for him but still had a bit of Spielberg gloss-overrated for sure
JP2--reminded me the most of spielberg's pre-ET films--but he was sleeping during this one(still--prefer it to JP)
Amistad--havent seen it
SPR--oh god--fuck was this overrated!
Harry Potter, Minority Report, AI
He'll do the project that he thinks will gain him the most popularity and $$$.
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I would be thrilled if good directors would pass on Minority Report because for some reason anything with Tom Cruise in it is a snoozefest to me.
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He clearly said in an interview with Larry King last month that he doesn't want to do A.I now or maybe ever, its either minority Report or Harry Potter.
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No... on second thought, go ahead and give it to someone else. This is ridiculous. May be better in other hands anyway, ARGH!
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...is Quidditch. (For the completely uninitiated, it's a bit like soccer, football, and hockey all in one, and played on broomsticks.) And I agree that this would be quite fun to see on the big screen after the effects boys go at it with lots of blue screen. I also agree with a few other posters here who contend that Spielberg will go with the project that will do big box office. With the continued popularity of the Harry Potter books--no one seems to mind that the next one won't be available here in the States until July--this could be another money magnet. We'll see...but I'll guess that SS's desire for a big payday will override any musings over tributes to dead directors or dream match-ups with box-office draws. Kids will flock to this flick if it's made, and it just might help SS shed the criticism he still gets for "Hook." That'll do for now. Gotta go practice grabbbing that Snitch.....
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Can't wait for this lil' thingy.... I've been readin' up on Harry's backfiles and stuff, and I gotta say. It looks to be pretty darn cool. That is, if the execs don't spend their time backsliding on Sundays with their thumb up their @$$3$.... //d12-beowulf
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Jan 24, 2000 11:56:06 PM CST
Those of you whining about Spielbergs seeming indecision...
by deltahead
Get over it. The truth is, famous directors (and Senor Spielbergo certainly is famous) ALWAYS have multiple movies being offered to them at the same time. It's not that he's holding out for money or having some crisis. Pre-production, that "in-between time" for movies is always a limbo. Peace.
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Spielberg and Kubrick are, in my opinion, two of the finest filmmakers and artists of the past thirty years. It always amazes and saddens me when these two are snobbishly put down, when they have laid the ground work for all the "cutting edge" or "alternative" filmmakers of today. Of course, Spielberg and Kubrick aren't the be-all and end-all of movies, but knocking them is like putting down the Beatles just because they were popular and made a lot of money. Think about it, and think for yourself. Peace.
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Ohhhhh please please let Minority Report be made. PKD is the most underrated, incredible author to live in the twentieth century. He's so amazing. Blade Runner, as visually and cinematically fantastic as it was, did not do his story justice, and then there's Screamers and Total Recall... bleh. Just ONE PKD book has more imagination and spark than ten Hollywood studio scripts in production right now. This man's work deserves all the attention Spielberg can give him.
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I don't know a thing about "Minority Report" so I won't comment but I think Spielberg is perfect for "Harry Potter." A prime example of a match between director and project. But what happened to talk of Spielberg doing Indy IV? If they keep putting it off Harrison Ford will have to chase Nazis with a walker.
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I really have no interest in seeing any body else do it. It was Kubricks project, and now he is dead. There are pleanty of good stories and ideas to do, without having to plunder Kubrick's final ideas. And to "Kubrick" (the poster above) I just have to say that you are the perfect example of what a true artist Kubrick (the real one) really was (that was not meant as an insult). All of his work doesn't always sit well with everyone because he didn't pull any punches, and didn't have a "style". He did what was right for the particular film that he was working on at the moment. I can believe you not liking the film of A Clockwork Orange, but I don't think that Kubrick had anything to do with that fact. Kubrick did not fail in making that film, and he did not make a bad film either. I believe more that you don't like A Clockwork Orange in general. That is fine, because it is a very difficult work in both of it's forms. The film of A Clockwork Orange is exactly what it should be. It truthfully (not literally) adapts the novel to film. He didn't think about how he could make it his movie. He thought about what he had to do to make it A Clockwork Orange, only on a screen rather than a page. It needed to be made that way and no other, wether people like it or not. To make it any other way would be pointless. Kubrick didn't have a style of his own. His style was just to be truthful to his films. To deal with them the way they had to be dealt with individually, not within a framework of his "style". I truely doubt that if you showed 2001, A Clockwork Orange, and Doctor Strangelove to someone green they would guess that they were done by the same person. That is how more filmmakers should be. The only problem then is that good film makers make good films that people don't like, not because they are bad, or not well made , but because they don't fit the tastes of those individuals.
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Best movie of the year??!?!?! Give me a break, stop sucking on PTAnderson, and get some cajones to accept that a movie as a package, an overall presentation of ideas, should be tight, and consistent. Magnolia just had some "good spots" and "mediocre points" and the frogs? Biggest fucking cop out I have ever goddamn seen. Please, please, please, you people need to get some balls. Hurly Burly, American Beauty, eXistenZ,.........Research, not just cream in your pants. That goes for you to Harry........Potter.
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I was excited about the prospect initially, but I'd like to address remarks made by Evil Knievel about the merits of Philip K. Dick. If you are so enthralled by his work, you should know better than to think Spielberg is the person for this project. If you thought a semi-maverick like Ridley Scott made a great film "but still didn't do justice to the book", how in God's name do you think the King of Commercial Hollywood is going to deliver PKD's worldview the way it was intended. Don't make me laugh. Some of Dick's story concepts might seem like cool movie ideas (personally I feel the synopses of his stories always sound completely idiotic compared to what they are ACTUALLY about), but Spielberg is too afraid of alienating an audience to do justice to Michael Crichton, let alone a subversive genius like Philip K. Dick. Dick was anti-establishment to the core; there are plenty of directors who would be better suited to this work. It's not that it needs to be something totally dark; I think Dick believed in the beauty of humanity, and the ability of people to find love and kindness in one another, but his pessimistic view of the world as a place, and of society as a whole is something Spielberg frankly does not have to balls to come out and suggest, or actually endorse, as it should be. But let them continue to do lame-ass versions of his short stories and novellas. One day a great filmmaker will do an honorable version of a PKD novel, and then the world will open up its eyes.
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Phillip K. Dick goes so far beneath the plot level, I almost went into convulsions when I saw the adaptation of Second Variety into its butchered film version "Screamers". Ugh. None of the subleties or foreshadowings of the story worked themselves into the film version. Total Recall did semi-justice to his short story "We can remember it for you" something something, but overall it was just an action mess.
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Yesterday on Access Hollywood (or ET), Speilberg commented that his next project would NOT be Harry Potter, but would be the same project he has been and continues to work on, Minority Report.
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For some background on this film, check out my interview with the two writers of "Godzilla 2000 Millennium" in the new issue (61) of SFX magazine.
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wrong board. Sorry, dudes.
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Regarding Kubrick as an artist,
was something which Edward Margulies (in reply to a bunch of people who attacked him for dislking Kubrick's later films)
is awful and even if people insist on calling Kubrick an artist, Margulies says Kubrick preferred the term "director." Edward goes on to say it's not a terrible thing to say out loud, a director is in artistic decline because it also happened to Preston Sturges, Billy Wilder, Fellini, Hitchock, William Wyler. Though, later on in a later column Margulies called both Tobey Maguire and Michael Caine, two artists at work in his movie review of The Cider House Rules (considering this movie's up for some major awards at the Academy, what is Harry's opinion on it...where is his review?).
Strange yes, but it's Edward's opinion and he's entitled to it and I respect him. As for ACO, no matter what you or anybody else says I still hate it, hate, it. With all these remakes of Lolita and The Shining, why can't Hollywood remake ACO and do justice to Anthony Burgess' original novel ? Poor Anothony,
he had to bear the burden of having been always known as the author of ACO and never being known as the author for his many other fine works of literature.
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