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+** TODO Wikipedia is a problem
+French Wiki bans contributors based on their opposition to trans people naming (https://eldritch.cafe/@Pandora/111980158155555456)
+Wikpedia has a list of /controvesion subjecs/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:List_of_controversial_issues
+** DONE Lawmower Man 2: Beyond Cyberspace (1996)
+CLOSED: [2024-02-23 Fri 20:29]
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+:EXPORT_FILE_NAME: lawmower-man-2-1996
+:EXPORT_HUGO_CUSTOM_FRONT_MATTER: abstract My mirco reviview of the sequeo to a vr killer thriller
+:EXPORT_HUGO_PAIRED_SHORTCODES: img-c
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+Fun fact: I remembered close to nothing about this movie back.
+When I was watching the first, everything seems familiar.
+Here?
+Not so much.
+Guess /Polsat/ consider the second one too expensive for regular broadcast.
+
+
+In /Lawnmawer Man[fn:reviewlm]/ we meet Jobe, now a genius being living in the cyberspace.
+But not so much, because in the first few minutes of /Lawmnower Man 2/ we learn that he has not left his meatsuit for the cyberspace.
+The explosion at the lab left him an amputee.
+But his talents are now in use of the Evil Corporation designing the future of cyberspace.
+
+Of course, Jobe wants the cyberspace for himself.
+
+The general plot seems similar to the first one, but they are very much different.
+The plot is much more complex, there are many more explosions and I think it makes much less sense than the first one.
+I would rate it at 2/5.
+
+But the biggest difference is that this movie is target towards certain audience.
+/Lawmower Man/ was a kid-friendly horror.
+/Lawmower Man 2/ is a kids' movie.
+They completely removed the part which tried to be scary.
+
+We've got bunch od kids (and a dog) fighting and winning against a grown-up.
+Yes, they get the help from an adult - the creator of cyberspace.
+But the main heroes are the kids.
+And the main target are the kids.
+
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+Kids flying in cyberspace
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+
+#+attr_shortcode: "lawnmower-man-2-1996-0012.jpg" 
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+And flying even more.
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+
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+Dog preparing to save a day...
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+
+#+attr_shortcode: "lawnmower-man-2-1996-0004.jpg" 
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+And saving the day by inserting a CD in the drive.
+How can anyone consider this to be a movie for adoults?
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+
+I've read that the director was locked out of the editing room as he was trying to make a different movie.
+The producers said a firm "no" and made /Lawmower Man 2/ close to the likes of /Goonies/, /Explorers/ or /Flight of the Navigator/.
+It never reaches the coolness of those, but it tries.
+A lot of people on the interweb bash the movie on logical problems or being goofy.
+Yes - occasionally the plot makes so little sense that they needed to add voice over explaining why the hell the /gang/ is going where they are going.
+Yes, it has a dog who saves the day.
+38 years old me was not amused, but the 10-year-old inside me screamed "yeah! Radical!".
+He was not doing well with being /modern/ back then as well.
+
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+Her hair is the closest thing to a "scare" in the entire movie
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+This hippie is the inventor of VR.
+Tech geniuses leaving all the tech behind to live in the wild is now more real than ever
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+
+Jobe is being played by Matt Frewer, who quite often acts like Jim Carey, which is fitting.
+He is not the magical-killer he used to be.
+He is goofy.
+
+Even the music sounds like something Spielberg would use.
+
+There is no Pierce Brosnan here, as only Austin O'Brien returns from the first one, once again reprising the role of Peter Parkette.
+
+My biggest gripe is the special effect here.
+The movie takes place in the future, so we're no longer seeing green grass.
+The real world vibe is close to /Blade Runner/ or /Dark City/.
+I dig it!
+
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+Cyberpunk!
+I'm pretty sure that almost all those scenes happened on the same crossroad.
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+
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+Almost Blade Runner.
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+
+But then there is the /cyberspace/.
+In /Lawmower Man/ we had amazing, early CGI closer to an acid trip than anything else.
+Here, the cyberspace looks like ours.
+They just added CGI here and there.
+It looks like an episode of /The Next Generation/, but without most of the campiness.
+For the most part it is competent, but there is no spark.
+It's not /cool/.
+
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+Our first meeting with new Jobe in the cyberspace.
+Yes, this is VR-forest.
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+
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+Cyberspace here give more of FMV-game kind of vibe than I would have expected
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+
+#+attr_shortcode: "lawnmower-man-2-1996-0008.jpg" 
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+The VR here more social than what Apple showed.
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+Luckily, sometimes the VR almost delivers.
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+
+But the 10-year-old me would not care.
+He would rate it as 3.75/5 or "that was cool!".
+But he he wasn't picky at all.
+
+[fn:reviewlm] Vide: [[/blog/2024/lawmower-man-1229/][my review of Lawmower Man]].
 ** DONE The Lawnmower Man (1992)
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