Who else loves 90's Syfy? This movie really gives the feels of every early 90's Syfy show or movie. Tell me you millennials actually have seen Keanu's other work besides Wick
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Is this worth seeing if I liked the Sprawl trilogy
I've never seen the Sprawl trilogy, but I know Johnny Mnemonic is a decent but flawed cyberpunk movie that's worth a watch.
Don't expect too much and you'll like it. It's appropriately campy.
It's based on a short story by gibson. Molly millions is in the short story but didn't make it into the movie. It's a fun movie with good design. If you like Dark City you'll like it even though it's a bit shittier.
Is that why the bad guy had that nano wire in his nail?
i met set/costume design
>If you like Dark City you'll like it
? I don't understand why you'd make this comparison.
i feel like they have similiarities visually and in writing style even if the plots aren't similiar.
They don't feel remotely similar to me outside of taking place in a city at night. Dark City leans heavily into the psychological side of its protagonist as he struggles with his fractured identity and sense of self. Johnny Pnemonic is an action movie. Johnny never has any psychological breakdown, and he's never really confused. He's just angry that he's been forced out of his comfortable life into a fight he never wanted to be a part of.
for better or worse, it plays almost exactly like the sprawl trilogy reads. if i remember right its actually one of the short stories from burning chrome, and william gibson was actually brought in and possibly on set to help with the film.
it does capture the tone very well at certain points. unfortunately the delivery is so fricking silly and the production values were so low that its hard to take it seriously at all, but it was a good try.
No it's fricking not and I will die mad about it because it's a shit movie that LOOSELY ADAPTS the kino Sprawl trilogy, killing all hope of a good adaptation of the trilogy, with Hollywood instead being too afraid to adapt it cos they took a chance on this garbage and keep jacking the plots of Neuromancer, Count Zero and Mona Lisa Overdrive instead.
I was thinking about this movie the other day and thought it would be a cool idea to use dolphins as space navigators. I didn't spend enough time formulating a reason as to why dolphins would be necessary for intergalactic travel, but i like the idea of having a giant tank on the bridge with some mecha dolphin EEEEE EEEEEING his way through the cosmos.
Will the Dolphin have any energy ray blast charges like Echo on sega?
No, but he would be a tank of space hallucinogenics so he's constantly tripping fricking balls to be able to fold space.
Read Star Tide Rising and the rest of the uplift saga if you want space faring dolphins. The series is quite amazing. It turns out that dolphins are so adept at creating poetry that some species consider dolphin poetry a fare trade for passage on ships
I'm reminded of SeaQuest DSV but I don't remember the dolphin in that doing much other than being a mascot.
Star Trek uses dolphins as some sort of navigators, but they don't come up often.
I thought that was just a Star Trek 4 reference.
also those are whales
No, it's actual canon lore.
Damn, the internet looks like THAT?
Were in the Apple iPhone timeline, not the Thomson Eyephone one, unfortunately.
Looked. Stop living in the past. This is INTERNET - 2022 now.
This shit is so fricking sad. A 30 year old in the 90s imagined the bright future of the internet 20 years from then when he would be in his fifties.
And now hes an older man and the internet is just faster and lamer.
>he's that guy...who FRICKS YOUR MOTHER
I can't believe I got hyped up for this piece of shit
Schway dubs, but it wasn't that bad.
the trailer was amazing and had me hyped too.
I legitimately liked it. Just wandering around the city and soaking it all in is a brilliant experience and the music/aesthetics are top tier
Whatever you do don't look at Gibson's twitter. He also should have just kept going with the sprawl and bridge books.
tell me more
Also I enjoyed the blue ant trilogy.
I can't get into his newer stuff. His twitter is peak liboomer gibberish. He thinks he's part of the resistance or some shit. I have no idea what this retweeted image means. Frick it I'll just reread Hardwired and look for better cyberpunk.
What are some other good cyberpunk books?
yupp, go back, you ignorant child.
>I have no idea what this retweeted image means.
Cassidy Hutchinson testifies that she was told that as then-President Donald Trump was being driven back to the White House after the Jan. 6 rally that he demanded to be taken to the Capitol and tried to grab the steering wheel from a Secret Service agent.
>from the back of The Beast
There are people out there that believe this shit.
Sounds like complete fiction
I love this movie despite its faults.
Here's a little known gem for you cyberpunk appreciators:
I WANT ROOM SERVICE!!!!
I want the club sandwich, I want the cold Mexican beer, I want the $10,000 a night hooker!!!
I want these shirts laundered.
>he doesn't write his own GPL stealth modules
better than matrix, kek
To the movie's experts out there: what does "Turbine Edition" mean?
>those times when ultrachad dolph lundgren was basically Jesus
Virtuosity and Ghost in the Machine are also good examples of 90s sci fi.
No Keanu, but good.
Virtuosity is hilariously shit. People forget how much dross Denzel's starred in.
You know one thing I've always found kinda quirky about this movie and cyberpunk in general is the obscession with viruses and pandemics, look at Deus Ex and the grey death for instance. The made up virus is a constant feature.
I ain't laughing anymore.
About a gig of RAM should do it
>johnny mnemonic?
jonny muh knob dick more like amirite? XD
Watched it high asf and laughed my ass off, it's so bad it's good. Worth at least one watch, after that at least you can say you saw the film.
I watched dark city on acid when I was a teenager and it blew my fricking mind. The experience was so incredible I refuse to watch it again because i don’t want to ruin the memory.
That's another great film I watched as a kid too, not alot of people(normies) remember or know about it.
Its still good but probably anything would be hard to live up to an awesome acid trip
*because now you're sober and you'll realise what an idiot you are
Also if you're capable of watching a movie on acid, you haven't taken anywhere near enough, and you've wasted your time and money.
Breh I was on a quarter of a sheet, you don’t know what you are talking about. Pro-tip, getting really high on acid is a terrible idea. You won’t ever be the same.
Haven't seen it in forever, but Gibson's writing has such a good moody sort of vibe about it, and to lose that, but to keep the sillier aspects of his actual plots seems like the worst of both worlds.
It's got genuine moviesaur Takeshi Kitano in it. Not for a substantial amount of time but he is in it.
Existenz is probably my favourite of this particular brand of lower-key, vaguely cyberpunk 90's sci-fi.
Why are you spelling "sci-fi" like a moron?
it's science fiction you frick
OP was referring to the SyFy channel which denotes sci-fi material usually with a low budget that exhibits a certain level of simultaneous shittines and comfiness.
Kino you say?
Still never seen that. Putting it on the list finally.