Major plot hole in Minority Report

I watched Minority Report again after recently re-reading the original short story. The movie isn't that great anyway, but my major problem with it is that after he is on the run John Anderton (Tom Cruise's character) uses his eyes to get back into Precrime, and even near the end when he is incarcerated his wife uses his eyes to get into the containment facility.

Heck, at my old job when I applied for a new security card, because my existing one was physically damaged and I couldn't attach it to my retractable card thingie, the one I had was disabled before they gave me my new one. You're telling me a law enforcement agency wouldn't revoke someone's access to everything as soon as they were wanted?

Posted by Marcin on 06/01/2008 @ 18:13 +1100

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More than meets the eye!

Holy crap, I had never realised just how phallic Megatron was. This is from the toy's box art:

I'm sure that's some sort of metaphor for guns being used to make up for a lack of penis. Err, I don't mean by single women in the bedroom either.

In other Transformers news, if you haven't heard they're making a new Transformers movie. There has been some leaked "Work in Progress" art of the new Megatron:

The new Megatron

Doesn't really look like the Transformers of the 80s, but rather some robot alien thing with lots of sharp bits. The toy will certainly not be suitable for small children as they could get some nasty cuts from playing with that thing.

I think I'll write some more about the movie later, I need to sleep now.

Posted by Marcin on 10/09/2006 @ 23:22 +1000

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Skiffy

The articles on Pointless Waste of Time are usually funny, and yet at the same time can make some good points. I was just reading a recent article "The Top Ten Sci-Fi Films That Never Existed". There's an interesting bit there about Alien 3 and why that went to shit. Of particular interest is a link to an Alien 3 screenplay by William Gibson - I've only just started reading it, but I assume it's not made up, it may look legit at the start and turn into a gay porno half way through like a good Slashdot troll.

Anyway, go and read it all for yourself - it's fun.

Posted by Marcin on 04/06/2006 @ 13:38 +1000

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