Minority Report ending

Now first off let me say that I have yet to read the short story of Minority Report, I'm just going on the movie here, but did anyway hate the ending? Now to me, it was too happy. It really didn't seem like a true Philip K. Dick ending. I would of loved it if they had ended it right when he was put into Halo. But then again, I can see why they made it happy, it was geared towards more of the mainstream audience who all love happy endings and can't take unhappy endings and artistic or visual creation or expression. Anyone else feel the way I do? I think this might be a big reason that Impostor did so bad in the theatres, even though I absolutely loved it and loved the ending, I want to give schnapps to the director for doing such a fine job with that movie.<BR><BR>_________________<BR>Technology Loves Misery.<BR><BR><font size=-1>[ This Message was edited by: TekXombie on 2002-07-15 10:22 ]</font><BR><BR><font size=-1>[ This Message was edited by: TekXombie on 2002-07-15 12:54 ]</font><BR><BR><font size=-1>[ This Message was edited by: TekXombie on 2002-07-18 03:23 ]</font>

Yep I totally agree - that's Spielberg for ya - he loves his happy endings...<BR><BR>Did you miss the <!-- BBCode u2 Start --><A HREF="http://bladezone.com/forum/viewtopic.php?topic=303&forum=2&14" TARGET="_blank">'Minority Report'</A><!-- BBCode u2 End --> thread in the other forum?<BR><BR>_________________<BR><!-- BBCode Start --><IMG SRC="http://www.deckard.worldonline.co.uk/filez/BR26354.gif" BORDER="0"><!-- BBCode End --><BR><BR>Richard Gunn<BR>News and Content Manager for Bladezone<BR><!-- BBCode Start --><A HREF="mailto:[email protected]">[email protected]</A><!-- BBCode End --><BR><BR><font size=-1>[ This Message was edited by: Deckard BR26354 on 2002-07-15 16:57 ]</font>

MR has a happy ending? CRAP!<BR>Spielberg should do only what he knows best -popcorn family entertainment. Not dark cyberpunk. <BR><BR>EDIT: This was written in a very bad mood, moreover before I saw the movie itself. Now I am thinking otherwise about it. MR does not have a "happy ending" - it has a "good ending" which is a bit different. God bless.<BR><BR><BR><BR><font size=-1>[ This Message was edited by: BR796164 on 2002-11-07 02:59 ]</font>

<!-- BBCode Quote Start --><TABLE BORDER=0 ALIGN=CENTER WIDTH=85%><TR><TD><font size=-1>Quote:</font><HR></TD></TR><TR><TD><FONT SIZE=-1><BLOCKQUOTE> Minority Report ending </BLOCKQUOTE></FONT></TD></TR><TR><TD><HR></TD></TR></TABLE><!-- BBCode Quote End --><BR><BR>It sucked no other way to say it but the ending bombed seriously it was good up until then when it let itself down. They should have gotten Ridley Scott in to do Minority Report

Unfortunately, Scott became a pure commercial pansy in the second half of nineties.

Gladiator was a rip off of Conan The Barbarian, watch it and you will see what i mean

I couldn't agree with you more. This is Speilberg's greatest flaw, his desire for mass appeal. However, I might add that the movie did give a bit of hope (or lack depending on how you see it) for those of us who like our reality a bit harsher. Just before he was put in, he was told that one lives out his dreams inside the machine. It is plausible that we were only seeing those dreams and our hero is still in his cell, living happily ever after.

I thought Spielberg was trying to say with the ending "Screw you all, this is a happy story" , i don't like that attitude from film makers, i like making up my own mind like on the Blade Runner DC
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I think the short story had a better plot..in that *spoiler warning* Anderton discovered that there were <!-- BBCode Start --><B>3 minority reports</B><!-- BBCode End -->..2 of which had him killing the General in different ways and 1 where he didn't kill him at all. If he didn't kill him it gave the General permission to overthrow the Pre-Cog system as in his eyes the fact that he didn't kill him proved that the system didn't work and there were innocent people in prison or banished..so Anderton fulfilled the prophecy of the 'correct' minority report and deliberately killed the General even though it meant banishment from earth, just so the system wouldn't be shut down.
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I just saw MR. I gotta tell you I'm pissed! That's supposed to be dark-future-cyber punk. I mean come on Spielberg did you see R. Scott ending Bladerunner happy? (Okay I realize for the first one it did, but the DC it didn't. ok.). No? Why? Because IT'S NOT SUPPOSED TO! Get it right!
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Huh. Maybe ten years down the road Speilberg will come to his senses and revisit Minority Report, hack off the ending, and leave the film with Anderton lowering into his cylinder in jail.
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I can agree with you guys on the happy ending crap (I still like the movie though) but how many of you like the matrix? I noticed a sig when I was reading this thread and almost fell out of my chair.

No offence to those that like it but, for my tastes that movie is way to yuppie, when ever someone mentions it I get these flashbacks of all the especially "special" scenes in the film and the deep lines that went with them.

"I know Kung Fu!" (no keanu you don't, I think its time for you to warp back to your own time in that magical phonebooth now)