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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/blog/2024 | |
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fix: lawmower facts
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diff --git a/content/blog/2024/lawmower-man-1229.md b/content/blog/2024/lawmower-man-1992.md index 03df899..301ada6 100644 --- a/content/blog/2024/lawmower-man-1229.md +++ b/content/blog/2024/lawmower-man-1992.md @@ -17,16 +17,22 @@ 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. {{< img-c "lawnmower-man-1992-0001.jpg" >}} Remember when huge companies were scary? {{< /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. |