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Why Minority Report Kinda Sucks

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  • Title: Minority Report
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Released in 2002, Steven Spielberg‘s Minority Report offered a slick sci-fi thriller set in the not-too-distant future resulting in huge financial and critical acclaim. However, before it was a feature film adapted by Scott Frank and Jon Cohen (who admitted in an interview with Script Magazine that he didn’t understand the original story) The Minority Report was a short novella by Peter K. Dick. And for those who read the story before seeing the movie it’s almost impossible to reconcile the fundamental changes to not only the narrative but also the core ideas Dick was exploring to such an extent that the film’s title no longer makes sense. It would be another decade before a writer and director would so fundamentally misunderstand their source material resulting in Man of Steel.

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Seven Snipers

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  • Title: Seven Snipers
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Radha Mitchell stars as a retired Special Forces sniper living in the remote Australian countryside with her rebellious teenage daughter (Annabel Wolfe). The serenity of their isolated life is interrupted when an agent of an old enemy locates the former sniper and alerts his boss, a mad warlord (Tim Roth), to their location. The result is a solid, although not overly ambitious, thriller.

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1987 – Masters of the Universe

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  • Title: Masters of the Universe (1987)
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A disaster so complete it would torpedo the franchise which would wait nearly 40 years for another live-action adaptation, 1987’s Masters of the Universe is a mess of a film that does provide some guilty pleasure vibes in how nearly everyone involved in the enterprise completely misunderstood the assignment. Based on the 80s toy line, and largely ignoring the popular animated series, the film takes He-Man (Dolph Lundgren), Man-At-Arms (Jon Cypher), Teela (Chelsea Field), and Gwildor (Billy Barty) as the first of many substitute characters never seen before, to small town America.

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Alice in Wonderland

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  • Title: Alice in Wonderland (1951)
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Disney’s 1951 adaptation of Lewis Carroll’s novel is a fever dream dropping young Alice (Kathryn Beaumont) down the rabbit hole into a nonsensical world which is both everything she ever wanted and far more than she bargained for. The film follows Alice through a series of odd, mostly disconnected, and admittedly beautifully rendered, adventures coming across the likes of the Mad Hatter (Ed Wynn), the Cheshire Cat (Sterling Holloway), the Queen of Hearts (Verna Felton), and others, while following the White Rabbit (Bill Thompson).

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Naked Weapon

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  • Title: Naked Weapon
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Nearly a decade before she was Nikita, Maggie Q was basically Nikita. Siu-Tung Ching‘s 2002 thriller stars Maggie Q, Anya Wu, and Jewel Lee as the three survivors from dozens of young girls abducted over the world, trained to be assassins, and pitted against each other by the elusive Madam M (Almen Wong). The movie offers flashbacks to the the girls’ training and graduation while in the present our protagonists are offered one last job to earn their freedom only to fall into a trap laid by a Yakuza boss (Andrew Lien) out for revenge against the women for one of their previous missions.

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