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+title = "Lawmower Man 2: Beyond Cyberspace (1996)"
+author = ["Michał Sapka"]
+date = 2024-02-23T20:29:00+01:00
+categories = ["blog"]
+draft = false
+weight = 2001
+abstract = "My mirco reviview of the sequeo to a vr killer thriller"
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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:1]_ 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.
+
+{{< img-c "lawnmower-man-2-1996-0002.jpg" >}}
+Kids flying in cyberspace
+{{< /img-c >}}
+
+{{< img-c "lawnmower-man-2-1996-0012.jpg" >}}
+And flying even more.
+{{< /img-c >}}
+
+{{< img-c "lawnmower-man-2-1996-0003.jpg" >}}
+Dog preparing to save a day...
+{{< /img-c >}}
+
+{{< img-c "lawnmower-man-2-1996-0004.jpg" >}}
+And saving the day by inserting a CD in the drive.
+How can anyone consider this to be a movie for adoults?
+{{< /img-c >}}
+
+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.
+
+{{< img-c "lawnmower-man-2-1996-0005.jpg" >}}
+Her hair is the closest thing to a "scare" in the entire movie
+{{< /img-c >}}
+
+{{< img-c "lawnmower-man-2-1996-0006.jpg" >}}
+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
+{{< /img-c >}}
+
+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!
+
+{{< img-c "lawnmower-man-2-1996-0001.jpg" >}}
+Cyberpunk!
+I'm pretty sure that almost all those scenes happened on the same crossroad.
+{{< /img-c >}}
+
+{{< img-c "lawnmower-man-2-1996-0011.jpg" >}}
+Almost Blade Runner.
+{{< /img-c >}}
+
+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_.
+
+{{< img-c "lawnmower-man-2-1996-0010.jpg" >}}
+Our first meeting with new Jobe in the cyberspace.
+Yes, this is VR-forest.
+{{< /img-c >}}
+
+{{< img-c "lawnmower-man-2-1996-0007.jpg" >}}
+Cyberspace here give more of FMV-game kind of vibe than I would have expected
+{{< /img-c >}}
+
+{{< img-c "lawnmower-man-2-1996-0008.jpg" >}}
+The VR here more social than what Apple showed.
+{{< /img-c >}}
+
+{{< img-c "lawnmower-man-2-1996-0009.jpg" >}}
+Luckily, sometimes the VR almost delivers.
+{{< /img-c >}}
+
+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:1]: Vide: [my review of Lawmower Man](/blog/2024/lawmower-man-1229/).
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 Rating is in a scale 1-5.
 
-| Title                                                                                               | Type         | Dates                   | Rating | Extra                                            |
-|-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|--------------|-------------------------|--------|--------------------------------------------------|
-| Lawmower Man 2 (1992)                                                                               | Movie        | 2024-02-22              | 2/3.75 | rewatch                                          |
-| Lawmower Man (1992)                                                                                 | Movie        | 2024-02-17              | 3.0    | rewatch, [review](/blog/2024/lawmower-man-1229/) |
-| Hardware (1990)                                                                                     | Movie        | 2024-02-15              | 3.5    | [review](/blog/2024/hardware-1990/)              |
-| Terry Pratchett's [Interesting Times](https://www.terrypratchettbooks.com/books/interesting-times/) | Novel        | 2024-01-31 - 2024-02-11 | 3.75   | [review](/blog/2024/interesting-times/)          |
-| Ghost in the Machine (1993)                                                                         | Movie        | 2024-02-09              | 3.0    | [review](/blog/2024/ghost-in-the-machine/)       |
-| [Jujutsu Kaisen](https://jujutsukaisen.jp/) [season 2]                                              | Anime Series | 2024-01-01 - 2024-02-06 | 4.24   |                                                  |
+| Title                                                                                               | Type         | Dates                   | Rating   | Extra                                              |
+|-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|--------------|-------------------------|----------|----------------------------------------------------|
+| Lawmower Man 2 (1992)                                                                               | Movie        | 2024-02-22              | 2 (3.75) | rewatch, [review](/blog/2024/lawmower-man-2-1996/) |
+| Lawmower Man (1992)                                                                                 | Movie        | 2024-02-17              | 3.0      | rewatch, [review](/blog/2024/lawmower-man-1229/)   |
+| Hardware (1990)                                                                                     | Movie        | 2024-02-15              | 3.5      | [review](/blog/2024/hardware-1990/)                |
+| Terry Pratchett's [Interesting Times](https://www.terrypratchettbooks.com/books/interesting-times/) | Novel        | 2024-01-31 - 2024-02-11 | 3.75     | [review](/blog/2024/interesting-times/)            |
+| Ghost in the Machine (1993)                                                                         | Movie        | 2024-02-09              | 3.0      | [review](/blog/2024/ghost-in-the-machine/)         |
+| [Jujutsu Kaisen](https://jujutsukaisen.jp/) [season 2]                                              | Anime Series | 2024-01-01 - 2024-02-06 | 4.24     |                                                    |
 
 
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