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diff --git a/content-org/blog.org b/content-org/blog.org index 848afd4d..f4a7bbba 100644 --- a/content-org/blog.org +++ b/content-org/blog.org @@ -7,10 +7,147 @@ #+HUGO_WEIGHT: auto #+HUGO_SECTION: blog -* 2024 [16/16] :@blog: +* 2024 [17/18] :@blog: :PROPERTIES: :EXPORT_HUGO_SECTION: blog/2024 :END: +** 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] +:PROPERTIES: +: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 +:END: +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. + +#+attr_shortcode: "lawnmower-man-2-1996-0002.jpg" +#+begin_img-c +Kids flying in cyberspace +#+end_img-c + +#+attr_shortcode: "lawnmower-man-2-1996-0012.jpg" +#+begin_img-c +And flying even more. +#+end_img-c + +#+attr_shortcode: "lawnmower-man-2-1996-0003.jpg" +#+begin_img-c +Dog preparing to save a day... +#+end_img-c + +#+attr_shortcode: "lawnmower-man-2-1996-0004.jpg" +#+begin_img-c +And saving the day by inserting a CD in the drive. +How can anyone consider this to be a movie for adoults? +#+end_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. + +#+attr_shortcode: "lawnmower-man-2-1996-0005.jpg" +#+begin_img-c +Her hair is the closest thing to a "scare" in the entire movie +#+end_img-c + +#+attr_shortcode: "lawnmower-man-2-1996-0006.jpg" +#+begin_img-c +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 +#+end_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! + +#+attr_shortcode: "lawnmower-man-2-1996-0001.jpg" +#+begin_img-c +Cyberpunk! +I'm pretty sure that almost all those scenes happened on the same crossroad. +#+end_img-c + +#+attr_shortcode: "lawnmower-man-2-1996-0011.jpg" +#+begin_img-c +Almost Blade Runner. +#+end_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/. + +#+attr_shortcode: "lawnmower-man-2-1996-0010.jpg" +#+begin_img-c +Our first meeting with new Jobe in the cyberspace. +Yes, this is VR-forest. +#+end_img-c + +#+attr_shortcode: "lawnmower-man-2-1996-0007.jpg" +#+begin_img-c +Cyberspace here give more of FMV-game kind of vibe than I would have expected +#+end_img-c + +#+attr_shortcode: "lawnmower-man-2-1996-0008.jpg" +#+begin_img-c +The VR here more social than what Apple showed. +#+end_img-c + +#+attr_shortcode: "lawnmower-man-2-1996-0009.jpg" +#+begin_img-c +Luckily, sometimes the VR almost delivers. +#+end_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:reviewlm] Vide: [[/blog/2024/lawmower-man-1229/][my review of Lawmower Man]]. ** DONE The Lawnmower Man (1992) CLOSED: [2024-02-19 Mon 23:03] :PROPERTIES: diff --git a/content-org/me.org b/content-org/me.org index 0140ea97..dce5bfa5 100644 --- a/content-org/me.org +++ b/content-org/me.org @@ -39,15 +39,15 @@ Starts in February 2024 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, [[/blog/2024/lawmower-man-1229/][review]] | -| Hardware (1990) | Movie | 2024-02-15 | 3.5 | [[/blog/2024/hardware-1990/][review]] | -| Terry Pratchett's [[https://www.terrypratchettbooks.com/books/interesting-times/][Interesting Times]] | Novel | 2024-01-31 - 2024-02-11 | 3.75 | [[/blog/2024/interesting-times/][review]] | -| Ghost in the Machine (1993) | Movie | 2024-02-09 | 3.0 | [[/blog/2024/ghost-in-the-machine/][review]] | -| [[https://jujutsukaisen.jp/][Jujutsu Kaisen]] [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, [[/blog/2024/lawmower-man-2-1996/][review]] | +| Lawmower Man (1992) | Movie | 2024-02-17 | 3.0 | rewatch, [[/blog/2024/lawmower-man-1229/][review]] | +| Hardware (1990) | Movie | 2024-02-15 | 3.5 | [[/blog/2024/hardware-1990/][review]] | +| Terry Pratchett's [[https://www.terrypratchettbooks.com/books/interesting-times/][Interesting Times]] | Novel | 2024-01-31 - 2024-02-11 | 3.75 | [[/blog/2024/interesting-times/][review]] | +| Ghost in the Machine (1993) | Movie | 2024-02-09 | 3.0 | [[/blog/2024/ghost-in-the-machine/][review]] | +| [[https://jujutsukaisen.jp/][Jujutsu Kaisen]] [season 2] | Anime Series | 2024-01-01 - 2024-02-06 | 4.24 | | ** Future |