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Minority Report is a really, really solid sci-fi film, and Inglorious Basterds is a film that flirts with greatness but is a little too uneven to quite reach it. Still, its third act is one of the most suspenseful experiences I've ever had in the cinema. Combine that with A+ performances from an international cast and an opening sequence for the ages, and you have a strong entry in the Madness.
While my beloved champion of Filmspotting Madness 2015, Michael Fassbender (not Joaquin Phoenix, thank you very much, Adam), may be in Basterds, I'm still going for Minority Report. I can't say it better than Jon Demske. Unfortunately, the poor precogs are already seeing their own murder. Those Basterds!
I refuse to vote for the film that killed my beloved "Oldboy". The jew bear gets my vote.
Nathan,
Indonesia
You know that awful feeling you get when you realize, very reluctantly, that your childhood hero isn't what you built him up to be? It's like finally admitting there's no Santa Claus. I was in college when Minority Report came out and I distinctly remember WANTING to love this movie because it was Spielberg's. But as I wrestled with my own burgeoning adulthood, I also came to grips with a new reality: Spielberg, and his post-90s films, really aren't that good.
And on the other hand, you have an auteur who just keeps getting better at his craft. This one goes to Tarantino and the excellent "Inglorious Basrterds"
christoph waltz. need i say more?
Once again, I'm torn between my love of several of the scenes from Inglorious Basterds and the overall quality of the other movie, and once again, Basterds comes out on top. Minority Report is an excellent movie, a really underrated sci-fi gem. But the opening ten minutes of Inglorious Basterds is probably the greatest short movie ever made.
A polished vision of a dystopian future VS a comic vision of a hyper-idealized past. Personally, I think we have enough dystopian hellworld in our immediate future. I'll take the QT funhouse version of the last Just War for the win on this one.
Even though I'm not as much of a fan of Basterds as I was (I feel it works better in segments than as a whole), I really didn't care for Minority Report. Mid-to-lower tier Spielberg for me.
Minority Report sparks up its well-crafted, perfectly capable pipe, but then Inglourious Basterds whips out an intricate show-stopper of a tobacco delivery device, and we all know who's won the battle.
My father, who I don't tend to agree with on movies, turned to me while watching Inglourious Basterds and gave me a one sentence reaction: "this film is a mess." I agree completely. That film is a mess.
Alternate History Fantasy VS Prescient Future Fiction
Bastards has some insanely good sections but doesn't hold together as a whole. In the end it's just a thrilling alternate history fantasy.
Meanwhile, Minority Report. Maybe it's easy to take for granted because so much of what it depicted is already starting to happen: the voice activated home, the self-driving cars nearly here, the highly targeted advertisements, the protagonist's self-medicating addiction. But beyond being a smart movie it's fun and intense too, the red ball opening scene, the slapstick moments in the jetpack sequence, the larger mystery to solve. And that larger mystery asks bigger, important questions too, about what price is worth paying for justice, and about how poisonous power can be.
Stop pretending a few incredible scenes make Inglorious Bastards a truly good film. Truly good films don't just entertain, they ask us questions too, and only one of these two does both. I'm probably in the minority, but I'm voting for Minority Report.
Don't wanna vote for Tarantino. Don't wanna vote for Tarantino. Don't wanna vote for Tarantino.
And yet I did.
The opening sequence in Inglorious Basterds features one of the most brilliant uses of subtitles and linguistic code switching I think I've ever seen, in addition to being a master class in Hitchcockian suspense and as a language nerd that already puts Basterds over Minority report for me. Minority Report is a solid film that deserved its place in the tourney, but there is nothing in that film that can hold a candle to the performances Tarantino got out of Christoph Waltz and Melanie Laurent and Diane Kruger. Basterds in a walk in this one.
In my mind, the best of Tarantino's post-'Jackie Brown' work gets the nod.
Two films I easily voted against in round one face each other here. If one must prevail, may it be the first five minutes of Inglorious Basterds