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CYBERPUNK Movies: Johnny Mnemonic -Vs- The Lawnmower Man

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CYBERPUNK Movies: Johnny Mnemonic -Vs- The Lawnmower Man
« on: February 16, 2024, 03:14:35 AM »
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0113481/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johnny_Mnemonic_(film)

A data courier, literally carrying a data package inside his head, must deliver it before he dies from the burden or is killed by the Yakuza.

Johnny Mnemonic is a 1995 cyberpunk action film[6] directed by Robert Longo in his feature directorial debut. William Gibson, who wrote the 1981 short story, wrote the screenplay. The film, set in 2021, portrays a dystopian future racked by a tech-induced plague, awash with conspiracies, and dominated by megacorporations and organized crime. Keanu Reeves plays Johnny, a data courier with an overloaded brain implant designed to securely store confidential information. Takeshi Kitano portrays a yakuza affiliated with a megacorporation attempting to suppress the data; he hires a psychopathic assassin played by Dolph Lundgren to do so. Ice-T and Dina Meyer co-star as Johnny's allies, a freedom fighter and a bodyguard, respectively.

Director Robert Longo
Writer William Gibson
Stars Keanu Reeves Dolph Lundgren Dina Meyer


Johnny Mnemonic - Official® Trailer [HD]




The only worthwhile part of Johnny Mnemonic




https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0104692/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Lawnmower_Man_(film)


A simple man is turned into a genius through the application of computer science.

The Lawnmower Man is a 1992 science fiction horror film directed by Brett Leonard, written by Leonard and Gimel Everett, and starring Jeff Fahey as Jobe Smith, an intellectually disabled gardener, and Pierce Brosnan as Dr. Lawrence "Larry" Angelo, a scientist who decides to experiment on him in an effort to give him greater intelligence. The experiments give Jobe superhuman abilities, but also increase his aggression, turning him into a man obsessed with evolving into a digital being.

The film is adapted from the merging of a 1975 short story by Stephen King with an original screenplay entitled "CyberGod." While King's story focused on the titular character, an animal-like Pan worshipper who eats the newly cut grass while controlling his lawnmower with mystical powers, the film has the same character controlling the lawnmower by means of the untapped potential of the human brain, which has been stimulated by advanced, but unethical scientific experimentation. In both versions, the character, initially presented as an unthreatening worker, turns into a menace once his powers are manifested, but in the film, this is the result of stimulation of the brain by nootropic drugs beyond the titular character's capacity for human goodness.

Director Brett Leonard
Writers Stephen King Brett Leonard Gimel Everett
Stars Jeff Fahey Pierce Brosnan Jenny Wright


The Lawnmower Man: Collectors Edition (1992) - Official Trailer (HD)




The Lawnmower Man: Popcorn People - Best Scene in the film.

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