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-title = "The Lawnmower Man (1992)"
-author = ["Michał Sapka"]
-date = 2024-02-19T23:03:00+01:00
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-Back in the glorious 90s, when kids still enjoyed linear TV, we had _Polsat_.
-In the post-communist Poland, this was the first _western_ TV station.
-Filled with western movies, and western series[^fn:1]
-Among those, there were constant replays of _The Lawnmower Man_[^fn:2]
-I watched it on every occasion and loved it.
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-Now, 30 years later it is time for a rewatch.
-No cyberpunk deep dive can be considered a good one without _The Lawnmower Man_.
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-_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.
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-Jobe becomes a psychic, genius killer (like every mad genius), who decides to take over the cyberspace.
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-{{< img-c "lawnmower-man-1992-0001.jpg" >}}
-Remember when huge companies were scary?
-{{< /img-c >}}
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-The movie was initially released as a _Stephen King_ movie.
-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.
-And yes, I know King was the king back then.
-
-{{< img-c "lawnmower-man-1992-0002.jpg" >}}
-That's one way to save your neck from Apple Vision
-{{< /img-c >}}
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-The movie is we have here is a much dumbed down version of _Flowers for Algeron_, which I intend to finally read.
-I don't think anyone ever called it a _good_ movie, and for a good reason.
-It's cool, it's got great cyberspace CGI, it's got Pierce Brosnan.
-It also has an opening scene with a monkey using a gun, so yeah.
-
-Story-wise is as straight forward as it gets.
-The first half is full of sweet shots of grass and sexualization of a lawnmower.
-And the most awkward sex scene I've seen in ages... or two.
-Then, through a heavy-handed comment about religion and corporations we go the killing part.
-
-This movie fails as horror (there is not even blood or any scare here), and fails as morality play (it's not smart enough).
-But it is a testament to the glorious time, when _cyberspace_ was magical and full of potential.
-We sure deserve more of that.
-
-{{< img-c "lawnmower-man-1992-0006.jpg" >}}
-The cyberspace we all need.
-{{< /img-c >}}
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-I give it a 3.0/5.
-
-I was **sure** the ending of this film was from the sequel.
-But nope - I don't remember anything from the second one.
-Therefore, see you on the other side, _Beyond Cyberspace_.
-
-If anything, it's a great movie to show everyone how amazing trackballs are.
-And we all know it is a fact.
-No one can tell me otherwise.
-
-{{< img-c "lawnmower-man-1992-0004.jpg" >}}
-The hidden star of the movie, right behind that hairy guy.
-Look at that keyboard!
-Look at how beige it is!
-{{< /img-c >}}
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-{{< img-c "lawnmower-man-1992-0005.jpg" >}}
-Cyber God indeed.
-{{< /img-c >}}
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-[^fn:1]: And Polish version of those.
-    We had a great copy of _The Honeymooners_ named _Miodowe Lata_.
-    The translation of the title is surprisingly spot-on.
-[^fn:2]: Under an amazingly translated title, which would translate back as _The Lawmower Man of Minds_.
-    Perfection.
-    We knew _Dirty Dancing_ as _Spinning Sex_ and _Die Hard_ as _Glass Trap_.
-    Those were simpler times.
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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.
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-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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-{{< img-c "lawnmower-man-2-1996-0012.jpg" >}}
-And flying even more.
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-Dog preparing to save a day...
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-{{< 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 >}}
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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
-{{< /img-c >}}
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-{{< 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 >}}
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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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-{{< 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 >}}
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-{{< img-c "lawnmower-man-2-1996-0011.jpg" >}}
-Almost Blade Runner.
-{{< /img-c >}}
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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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-{{< img-c "lawnmower-man-2-1996-0010.jpg" >}}
-Our first meeting with new Jobe in the cyberspace.
-Yes, this is VR-forest.
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-Cyberspace here give more of FMV-game kind of vibe than I would have expected
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-The VR here more social than what Apple showed.
-{{< /img-c >}}
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-{{< img-c "lawnmower-man-2-1996-0009.jpg" >}}
-Luckily, sometimes the VR almost delivers.
-{{< /img-c >}}
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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.
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-[^fn:1]: Vide: [my review of Lawmower Man](/blog/2024/lawmower-man-1229/).