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| author | mms <michal@sapka.me> | 2024-02-21 22:01:01 +0100 |
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| committer | mms <michal@sapka.me> | 2024-02-21 22:01:01 +0100 |
| commit | 35b08612aab885a358e46ade32780c8b1200b8a5 (patch) | |
| tree | a3f631df09bf9217a8a6708bc8dcb3fcbc66c15c /content-org/blog.org | |
| parent | 47e5c4ca15fb96d4fc7138a6111252b20f2d545e (diff) | |
fix: lawmower facts
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diff --git a/content-org/blog.org b/content-org/blog.org index 3ccd8ff..848afd4 100644 --- a/content-org/blog.org +++ b/content-org/blog.org @@ -14,7 +14,7 @@ ** DONE The Lawnmower Man (1992) CLOSED: [2024-02-19 Mon 23:03] :PROPERTIES: -:EXPORT_FILE_NAME: lawmower-man-1229 +:EXPORT_FILE_NAME: lawmower-man-1992 :EXPORT_HUGO_CUSTOM_FRONT_MATTER: abstract My mirco reviview of a vr killer thriller :EXPORT_HUGO_PAIRED_SHORTCODES: img-c :END: @@ -28,9 +28,15 @@ I watched it on every occasion and loved it. Now, 30 years later it is time for a rewatch. No cyberpunk deep dive can be considered a good one without /The Lawnmower Man/. -/The Lawnmower Man/ is a movie about a disabled lawnmower man who, with usage of virtual reality, becomes a genius and starts exhibiting mind reading abilities and telekinesis (because, obviously, why not?). -There's also the (popular at the time) subtext about the dangers of corporates who, without supervision, play God. +/The Lawnmower Man/ is a movie about a disabled lawnmower man, Jobe, who, with the usage of virtual reality, becomes a genius. +Soon after, an Evil Company, stars secretly giving him drugs contracted by the military. +And as result, he starts exhibiting mind reading abilities and telekinesis (because, obviously, why not?). +We've got the (popular at the time) subtext about the dangers of corporates who, without supervision, play God. Somehow we stopped doing that, and now we've got Altman killing humanity with the clap of happy crowd. +/Lawmower Man/ is a movie about a great technology twisted by corporate overlords. +Fitting. + +Jobe becomes a psychic, genius killer (like every mad genius), who decides to take over the cyberspace. #+attr_shortcode: "lawnmower-man-1992-0001.jpg" #+begin_img-c @@ -38,7 +44,7 @@ Remember when huge companies were scary? #+end_img-c The movie was initially released as a /Stephen King/ movie. -But he sued, as the movie has nothing to do the short story of the same name. +King, however, sued the producers, as the movie has nothing to do the short story of the same name. And he won, because it was based on original script called /CyberGod/. Damn, I miss /cyber/ sounding cool. They should have the original name, instead of forcing King on everyone. |