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diff --git a/content/reviews/movies/lawmower-man-2-1996.md b/content/reviews/movies/lawmower-man-2-1996.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..b251b44 --- /dev/null +++ b/content/reviews/movies/lawmower-man-2-1996.md @@ -0,0 +1,130 @@ ++++ +title = "Lawmower Man 2: Beyond Cyberspace (1996)" +author = ["Michał Sapka"] +date = 2024-02-23T20:29:00+01:00 +categories = ["reviews"] +draft = false +weight = 2009 +reviewSection = ["Movies"] +image_dir = "reviews/screenshots" +image_max_width = 765 +abstract = "My mirco reviview of the sequeo to a vr killer thriller" +aliases = ["/blog/2024/lawmower-man-2-1996//", "brain-rot/lawnmower-man/lawmower-man-2-1996/", "brain-rot/american-scifi/lawnmower-man/lawmower-man-2-1996/"] +rating = 3.75 +related = ["Lawnmower Man"] +relatedName = "Lawnmower Man 2" +image = "reviews/covers/lawnmower-man2.jpg" ++++ + +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. + +{{< image class="centered" file="lawnmower-man-2-1996-0002.jpg" >}} +Kids flying in cyberspace +{{< /image >}} + +{{< image class="centered" file="lawnmower-man-2-1996-0012.jpg" >}} +And flying even more. +{{< /image >}} + +{{< image class="centered" file="lawnmower-man-2-1996-0003.jpg" >}} +Dog preparing to save a day... +{{< /image >}} + +{{< image class="centered" file="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? +{{< /image >}} + +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. + +Her hair is the closest thing to a "scare" in the entire movie +\#+end_image + +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! + +{{< image class="centered" file="lawnmower-man-2-1996-0001.jpg" >}} +Cyberpunk! +I'm pretty sure that almost all those scenes happened on the same crossroad. +{{< /image >}} + +{{< image class="centered" file="lawnmower-man-2-1996-0011.jpg" >}} +Almost Blade Runner. +{{< /image >}} + +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_. + +{{< image class="centered" file="lawnmower-man-2-1996-0010.jpg" >}} +Our first meeting with new Jobe in the cyberspace. +Yes, this is VR-forest. +{{< /image >}} + +{{< image class="centered" file="lawnmower-man-2-1996-0007.jpg" >}} +Cyberspace here give more of FMV-game kind of vibe than I would have expected +{{< /image >}} + +{{< image class="centered" file="lawnmower-man-2-1996-0008.jpg" >}} +The VR here more social than what Apple showed. +{{< /image >}} + +{{< image class="centered" file="lawnmower-man-2-1996-0009.jpg" >}} +Luckily, sometimes the VR almost delivers. +{{< /image >}} + +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/). |