Best Science Fiction Film Round 1c: Minority Report (18) vs Willy Wonka & The Chocolate Factory (47)

[Chris]

Minority Report
Release Date: June 19, 2002 (Ziegfeld Theatre), June 21, 2002 (United States)
Director: Steven Spielberg
Cast: Tom Cruise, Colin Farrell, Samantha Morton, Max von Syndow
Plot: In a future where a special police unit is able to arrest murderers before they commit their crimes, an officer from that unit is himself accused of a future murder.



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Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory
Release Date: June 30, 1971
Director: Mel Stuart
Cast: Gene Wilder, Jack Albertson, Peter Ostrum, Roy Kinnear
Plot: A poor but hopeful boy seeks one of the five coveted golden tickets that will send him on a tour of Willy Wonka's mysterious chocolate factory.
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[CakeWalker]

Wonka is a classic, but Report is a defining film of the genre

 

[Chris]

I think I'd go more fantasy than sci-fi with Wonka but it's close enough for me and I think it's the better film so I'm going there

 

[Leon TrotSky]

IDK how in the fuck Wonka became a sci-fi but I want it to get through just to make the entire competition more "interesting" (weird)

 

[Grimoire Lenin]

Say what you will. Fantasy works for me in the lens of science fiction.

 

[Chris]

Say what you will. Fantasy works for me in the lens of science fiction.

It's basically just if the candy is magical or some kind of futuristic science lol I think it does technically fit but I wouldn't have thought of it myself

 

[Grimoire Lenin]

It's basically just if the candy is magical or some kind of futuristic science lol I think it does technically fit but I wouldn't have thought of it myself

The closest comparison I can come up with is Phantasy Star for the Genesis, which is a science fiction fantasy game. Both can be part of the same genre, just depends to what extent.

 

[CakeWalker]

People need to re-watch Minority Report again, me thinks

 

[Marty McFourth]

Minority Report is awesome. Literally one of my favourite Tom Cruise roles. Very engrossing storyline with some good plot twists.