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@@ -1584,19 +1585,86 @@ But following this definition, I am not sure if we can call any movie other than
 Often we put all dark-sf into "cyberpunk" genre, which limits our ability to be pricks about it.
 [fn:alien] Aka "the clearly superior of the /Alien/ series"
 
-*** TODO Johny Mnemonic (1995)
 
-One plus of the linear-tv age of the past is that I've seen movies I would have no change otherwise.
-Polish stations tried to put as many new blockbusters as possible.
-Other times they had to resort to movies of lesser fame, like the hero of the day - Johny Mnemonic.
+*** DONE Johnny Mnemonic (1995)
+CLOSED: [2024-06-11 Tue 15:52]
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+:EXPORT_HUGO_CUSTOM_FRONT_MATTER+: :abstract My mirco reviview of the cyberpunk classic
+:END:
 
-- Gibson
-- Story (Size of data)
-- Cyber words
-- Terrible acting (kitano)
-- Nice FX
-- Great story
-- Neuromancer
+One plus of the linear-tv age of the past is that I've seen movies I would have no chance otherwise.
+Polish stations tried to put as many new blockbusters as possible.
+Other times they had to resort to movies of lesser fame, like the hero of the day - /Johnny Mnemonic/.
+
+Willian Gibson, the father of modern /Cyberpunk/ genre, doesn't have much luck when it comes to movies.
+/Neuromancer/ is finally getting an adaptation, but unfortunately it will be a TV show[fn:neurotv].
+His /Aliens III/ script was rejected.
+At this moment, his only legacy in this medium is /Johnny Mnemonic/.
+Luckily, it's an awesome legacy!
+
+#+attr_shortcode: :file johny-mnemonic-1.jpg
+#+attr_shortcode: :alt Keanu Reeves in metal VR goggles grimming his teeth. The helmet covers most of his face.
+#+attr_shortcode: :source https://madmuseum.org/events/johnny-mnemonic
+#+attr_shortcode: :class centered
+#+begin_image
+This looks like something I want!
+Screw that plastic toy from Apple.
+#+end_image
+
+#+attr_shortcode: :file johny-mnemonic-2.jpg
+#+attr_shortcode: :alt A futurstic CGI city resembling cyberspace
+#+attr_shortcode: :source https://madmuseum.org/events/johnny-mnemonic
+#+attr_shortcode: :class centered
+#+begin_image
+This was the cyberspace we were promised. 
+#+end_image
+
+The story is what he does best - a classic story in a cybernetic world.
+Johnny is a courier who smuggles information.
+The trick is that he is not smuggling them on tapes, but in his own brain.
+This time he overdid it and loaded too much data (320 gigs!) overflowing his capacity.
+He needs to get it out, and to do it /fast/.
+It won't be easy as the data is /hot/ and yakuza and gigantic corporation are trying to stop him.
+
+/Neuromancer/ is a heist story with a twist, /Johnny Mnemonic/ is a fugitive story with a twist.
+For what it's worth, I found the story to be great.
+There is nothing profound, nothing makes you scratch your head.
+It's story about a smuggler and the whole world trying to kill him.
+
+The worst aspect of this movie is the acting.
+It's Keanu Reeves at his most mediocre, single faced act.
+Even Takashi Kitano seems to be bored on set.
+I have no idea why, but *no* actor seems to be invested.
+
+#+attr_shortcode: 4.0 "johny-mnemonic.jpg" 
+#+begin_rating
+Cover
+#+end_rating
+But everything else works.
+First, the movie looks great.
+All special effects are selling distopian vision of near future - be it the scenes of high raise buildings, slums, or of cyberspace.
+It all looks like one would expect (no sky /the color of TV turned to a dead channel/ though, which is a shame).
+
+Talking about cyberspace, when have we ruined the way we talked about computers?
+/Johnny.../ has all the Gibson's words, like Ice-breakers.
+It's magical and hypnotic.
+We live in world of his novels (with corporations being more powerful than nations, internet everywhere, or the destruction of environment) but this is what we lost?
+It's so dull and dry!
+I don't want App, I want "visual interface".
+
+I may be looking at this movie through rose-tainted cyber-visors, but I was expecting a terrible movie.
+I saw as a teen and loved it.
+But somehow, after all this years /Johnny Mnemonic/ holds up.
+It's not a big nor overly smart movie.
+It's a product of it's times but does it marvelously.
+I loved it.
+
+[fn:neurotv] It's a sign of the times.
+Platforms want to get as much from every license, a /Neuromancer/ is as hot as SciFi goes.
+This means that it will most likely be expanded into self-parody, with one unnecessary thread after another.
+And /Neuromaner/ is already structured as a *movie*!
+ 
 
 *** DONE Ghost in the Machine (1993)
 CLOSED: [2024-02-09 Fri 22:59]
@@ -1638,6 +1706,7 @@ I give it a =3.0/5.=
 links:
 - [[https://utf.thetvdb.com/movies/ghost-in-the-machine][Ghost in the Machine on TVDB]]
 
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 *** DONE Colossus: The Forbin Project (1970) 
 CLOSED: [2024-03-03 Sun 16:52]
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