Fun fact: In The Lawnmower Man (1992), the eight minutes of computer generated effects in the movie, took seven people eight months to complete on a budget of $500,000.
Well, that explains how the movie still manages to look cutting edge. When the guy morphed into the hobgoblin and ejected semen from his mouth onto his vegetable girlfriend, that just wouldn't have been possible for what I had assumed was in the neighbor of $500k. It's like how those in the biz like to say: "The money is all on the screen, now get in the back of my van and drink this delicious tonic!"
@@khhnator even Pyramid Head from the first Silent Hill or Lara Croft's pyramid shaped breasts still hold up better than the CG effects in Lawnmower Man, both of which were created years after said movie.
@@theactualTVB back then, I believe video games, and rendering for movies were Technologically different. I remember seeing a documentary on TH-cam about (might have been Tron?) one of the first ever movies to heavily incorporate CGI with live action....... And they were literally handwriting code for each scene, and having this huge elaborate process because there weren't the types of tools we have today. Nothing like Valves engine to render "movies" using like team fortress characters, etc. No proper Game/CGI engines, with libraries, SDK's, or anything at all they could pull from. No software to work with. So they were literally handwriting the code as they went, instead of having the software do it. Ill see if I can find The video and share the link, but if you're interested, u could try YT search for something like Tron CGI process.... Or Early CGI movie process, and something cool might come up, even if iTs not the exact documentary I'm talking about.
@@TheDefaultgameer I know you was joking, and I was just gonna agree, but them I remembered a video (and I'm paraphrasing here) Cody was mainly the voice/narrator (because Tyler was to shy or something to do it himself. I forget), but that he initially wanted to cover geography, but got bored/felt trapped and wanted to expand........ Then came the age of (what I call) his LSD phase, with the crazy animation styles, that progressively got more trippy but also more improved, and then I guess he wanted to change interests again, and then he entered (what I call his "more chill than the most spiritual hippy phase) and the editing style calmed more from the crazy visuals, as he went into his more broader range of topics covering things like VR history, how companies aren't your friends, and more philosophical viewing of the topics. Tyler's done a lot of growth and change thru his main channel and whimsu.
took the first vid down because it was demonetized for a copyright claim tried a bunch of stuff, still kept getting claimed re-uploaded with a higher quality upload instead, still demonetized but ya know that's "fair use" for ya
I worked on the PHYSICAL special effects for this film. It had those too! There’s a director’s cut with more physical effects scenes. Yes, we were perplexed during production that Stephen King’s name was on the script, anywhere. Then, the story unraveled further.
Did you have anything to do with the remote control of the mower? Thinking of building a remote controlled Big Red replica, looks like it is based on a 20 inch McLane front throw reel mower and any info would be helpful, especially the source/make of all the added parts.
I remember seeing this movie in the theaters with my friend Mike, and when the agents were dying Mike exclaimed, "oh no! I am being color separated to death!" I think I laughed for about about six minutes. I remember being just utterly befuddled by this whole thing, because not a damn bit of the movie made the slightest sense, and it was as that was written by someone who just had no clue what virtual reality was, but it seemed like a Kronenberg film or some thing, and he had like a video toaster left over from Star Trek six and then this was the bastard offspring. Just a hysterically incoherent awful movie, and I remember my other friend afterwords kept talking about how deep it was and how I just didn't get it because I was not deep like him. He was super deep. He called everyone "Hermes," for some reason. Make of that what you will. Deep. I didn't even I was very surprised when there was a sequel to this. How the hell is this successful enough to warrant a sequel? Please do not review the sequel. I have never seen it and I fear what the frightening implications of it might do to my brain so I would prefer not to know. Thank you.
Lawnmower man: "By the turn of the millenium a technology known as VIRTUAL REALITY will be in widespread use." Us now: "Lol Grandma did a header into the TV and got wrekt!"
I watched this with a few friends last year, it was honestly bizarrely entertaining in how much of a bad early 90's time capsule of a movie it is. I was in awe at some of its most inane and ridiculous moments on my first watch, as I had no idea what the movie was going to be like at all.
@@masstv9052 most of us were born in the mid to late 90's so there was not really any nostalgia at all. The best part was the first time I watched it, I was actually watching it in Vrchat with a VR headset on at the time, which made it even more of an experience. I found it so funny I convinced another group of friends to watch it a few days later.
@@legodude0 oh, that's so cool. Were you all able to watch it in VRchat also? Or was it just a regular get together on the TV? Using a VR headset for lawnmower man is so meta. Lol
@@masstv9052 There's movie rooms on the game so we were watching it in one of those. Yeah we kept bringing up how weird and surreal it was to watch a movie about VR in VR.
Interesting factoid: New Line Cinema straight up ignored the court ruling to take Stephen King's name off of the marketing. In '94 they released the VHS with King's name on it and was pretty quickly slammed and held in contempt of court.
Brings back such nostalgia. I was 11 and my dad sneaked me into the cinema to see this as it was a 15. He was terminal and wanted to watch this last movie with me since we were both gamers
I had to watch the original upload of this video, read the Wikipedia article for Stephen King’s The Lawnmower Man, and watch this upload to realize the “connection” between this movie and the Stephen King short story is that a lawnmower operates itself
The movie capitalized on people's general misunderstanding and ignorance of VR and the internet at the time. Today, the idea of portraying VR as opening a gateway to a parallel dimension is just laughable beyond words.
It's supposed to be that reality itself by nature is very much a virtual world, not that it opens portals to parallel dimensions. It is in essense and unintentionally a prequel to the matrix and the 13th floor movies.
Its a highly strange allegory for the sublimation of virtual space into our own reality that we are currently experiencing on an increasingly literal level as all of our attention is absorbed by digital media and most of our real lives only serve toward that entertainment space. Very little of this film could ever be taken literally but the metaphoric angle is scarily prescient in that typical paranoid schizophrenic way
I've kind of come around to this one. The early 90s cgi has a certain aesthetic to it that hits the nostalgia buttons, even if it isn't very good by today's standards
The film was good and original for it's time. This review is really trashing the movie, the reviewer must be a Zoomer. It's hard to explain why this was a good movie if you weren't there at the time.
great video. i remember watching that movie with my mom when i was young. it was so weird i never forgot about it. this is truly the serial experiments lain of live action movies
Brett Leonard and Gimel Everett were obsessed with VR, to the point where Leonard explicitly chose the sigils that flash in front of Jobe's eyes, when he gets his first dose of VR-activated nootropics. The nineties were this weird niche where people like Leonard pushed for high-concept sci-fi on shoestring budgets and with this weird, blind faith that their scripts' basic assertions would turn out to be real. The same works with Leonard's next feature release, Virtuosity. As for any sort of consumer-level electronics effectively making people smarter... That's complete bull, obviously. The only tenuously real thing in there is nootropic drugs as a concept, seeing as a lot of us are familiar with focus-enhancing drinks. If you've ever drank a Red Bull, a Guru or even an old-ass can of Jolt Cola, you just took in what was designed as a nootropic, with the only proven nootropic molecule on the current market being caffeine. Your average Red Bull can has concentrated amino acids and taurine in it, plus weird, New Agey stuff like ginseng extract, but we have no proof that stuffing a soda with guanine or even synthesized taurine has any real benefit. Taurine's used to rebuild muscle and maintain cardiovascular tone, but it's freely available in meat and fish - and the concentration of the stuff in a Red Bull can wouldn't make much of a difference for healthy individuals. So, VR's not going to make your brain swell up, and smart drugs are still at the drawing-board phase, nevermind what Red Bull's PR team has to say. We're a long shot from Bret Leonard's weird, Oculus Rift-powered Age of Aquarius nonsense.
i wouldn’t say smart drugs are still in the drawing board phase, but all the viable options except for caffeine are controlled substances. (i’m not 100% sure if i agree with them being so heavily restricted tbh). prescription stimulants and modafinil are considered nootropics, and iirc they have some cognitive benefits such as improving memory and problem solving. as someone who has to take a lot of these medications i can’t tell if they’ve made me any smarter, but at least now i can force myself to complete basic tasks and i don’t suddenly fall asleep on the floor in the middle of the day anymore lol
The only thing this movie has of Stephen King's ideas is the lawnmower seemingly moving by itself (as in his short story called the Lawnmower Man), and his blatant hatred for White Christians (that's basically showing up in all his books and stories).
Man a friend on discord showed me this a few months ago, I was wondering when this fever dream of a movie would wiggle its way into the mainstream of the internet.
Robots might not have taken over the world in a manner as awesome as The Terminator might have, but walk into a GM factory, observe the self-automated forklifts, welding robots and painting robots and you'll see that perhaps they won out in a much more banal manner.
Somehow so convoluted I was actally wondering what and why and also what does it have to do with anything from first movie? I remember very well..watched it in cinema too lol
I watched the director's cut recently and I'll be damned if this isn't incredibly entertaining. It's kind of crazy how dated it feels even to films made from the same time period, but that's what gives it is charm. Really fun film.
As I recall it's a short story about a gardener who worships the Greek god Pan and makes sacrifices to him, including mowing down either a cat or a squirrel. It's definitely a much more (excuse the pun) earthier story.
Kings' story was about a guy who hires a man who mows lawns, but the guy he hires is also a worshipper of the Greek god Pan that eats the grass, and when it's found that he does, the lawnmower man kills him.
Isn't King's Lawnmower man a 12 page story about a weird Satyr like creature doing yard work? How do you get "Flowers for Algernon" but, written by William Gibson from that?
Really love this move it, watched it for the first time a few weeks ago and it’s Pretty impressive for the time. I mean people are just now getting hip to VR headset, gloves, suit. It was pretty forward thinking. I really love the ethics of it all. Also also the bringing sentence about VR being widespread hasn’t happened YET, you gotta say yet because we still have much so see. Also robots haven’t taken over YET, gotta say yet these days lol love your channel
I thought you were joking when you said there villain wanted to ring all the phones in the world, in a comedic quip. But as his actual intention? That's the sort of motive you'd expect from a Terry Pratchett character
The difference is that game CGI (in those time) use texture and sprite of real world to make scene looks good, but this movie tries to generate the image from scratch using polygons.
@@xponen Yeah, back in the day, 1992, there was no "game cgi" outside cut-scenes. Megarace was released ´93 and it´s pre-rendered-fmv 95%. Doom was kinda first to mimic reality using only sprites and you needed at least 486DX4/100mhz to run it smoothly. Then there was System Shock and Ultima Underworld which could be considered more like a "simulation" and both are claustrophobic in comparison. System Shock has a virtual reality section just like in the movie, it´s horrible even if the graphics were cine-quality. :D
Dammit, thank you for making this. I was obsessed with this movie as a kid when it came out for some reason, and this is such a hilarious and perfect retelling of it. Also, the title alone is worth it: "a movie that exists"
I guess there's a lot of people who have never heard of this movie. Being a kid at the time when it came out... it made more sense at the time for some reason.
Commenting this before even watching this video; I saw this film actually a couple years ago with a group of friends. Days before, one of my friends were looking through an old game store with me and I picked up a game with a strange name and a goofy looking cover. An N64 game I believe. I picked it up and showed him and laughed at it saying, "The fuck is this?" He weirdly didn't seem surprised. "It's lawnmower man. I saw a review of it before. It's based on a movie." Fast-forward back to the day we were watching the movie. It was moist in the room, warm, and generally dark and uncomfortable (Florida lol). And not a single person out of the 4-5 people in that room fully understand what we watched that night. If you ask all 5 of us the plot, and all that we remember, you'll get VERY different answers. To this day I think about the day I'll sit down and watch the movie again while zonked off my gourd. I'll probably watch it with my girlfriend and see where that goes and what happens.
So, fun fact about my first time watching this movie. I first encountered this movie when playing VR chat and going to a VR movie theater. I was randomly scrolling through the sci-fi movies and I saw this film really confused as to why it was in the sci-fi section. Absolutely baffled at the fact that this movie would be about virtual reality. This movie (despite some of the outdated stuff) holds a little place in my heart lol.
1:43 "So the monkey does some good shooting in Quake 2 and we get this amazing shot before the opening credits roll." I know I'm stoned rn, but that line hit especially hard for some reason. 🤣
I got to play VR right after this movie was released. Played it in like 1993/94 maybe. The game was weak, but it was cool to see. I thought it would have been way bigger, and it died out. I'm surprised it took so long to come back around. But I guess the tech had to become way cheaper for computers to really start powering the potential of vr.
"Hey in order to build this internet thing we should just use the already existing phone cables since they would offer plenty bandwidth, what would possibly go wrong?"
I never saw this movie, but remember doing a double take when I saw the CGI scenes in this clip; there were these movies I watched as a kid called The Mind's Eye series that were just random assortments of primitive CGI reels, and I was unaware until now that the origin of a bunch of the CG clips from the second were actually from The Lawnmower Man.
The movie is basically the guy finds out the nature of reality is much like the virtual worlds and he somehow glitched into a well of knowledge and abilities. Same way people glitch or break video games by overloading something. Essentially his brain was overloaded by the virtual game thing and he got glitched into forbidden wells of reality.
Fun fact: In The Lawnmower Man (1992), the eight minutes of computer generated effects in the movie, took seven people eight months to complete on a budget of $500,000.
Dare I say it? Money well spent! Now THAT is a comical realm we live in!
and yet it look worse than virtua racing(1992) and Daytona USA(1993) who did it in real time
Well, that explains how the movie still manages to look cutting edge. When the guy morphed into the hobgoblin and ejected semen from his mouth onto his vegetable girlfriend, that just wouldn't have been possible for what I had assumed was in the neighbor of $500k. It's like how those in the biz like to say: "The money is all on the screen, now get in the back of my van and drink this delicious tonic!"
@@khhnator even Pyramid Head from the first Silent Hill or Lara Croft's pyramid shaped breasts still hold up better than the CG effects in Lawnmower Man, both of which were created years after said movie.
@@theactualTVB back then, I believe video games, and rendering for movies were Technologically different. I remember seeing a documentary on TH-cam about (might have been Tron?) one of the first ever movies to heavily incorporate CGI with live action....... And they were literally handwriting code for each scene, and having this huge elaborate process because there weren't the types of tools we have today. Nothing like Valves engine to render "movies" using like team fortress characters, etc.
No proper Game/CGI engines, with libraries, SDK's, or anything at all they could pull from. No software to work with. So they were literally handwriting the code as they went, instead of having the software do it.
Ill see if I can find The video and share the link, but if you're interested, u could try YT search for something like Tron CGI process.... Or Early CGI movie process, and something cool might come up, even if iTs not the exact documentary I'm talking about.
the director's cut is a gem
You could even say it’s Gemmy
It's def worth a watch if yer even the slightest fan of the standard version.
Defined the genre you could even say
I love how the virtual world looks like something out of Xavier The Renegade Angel
This whole movie could just be an Xavier plot tbh
So many images. So many to think about
Greatest think piece of the 21st century
Make an alternative history of Lawnmower Man. That would be a cool project to see after this masterpiece of that 90s masterpiece.
btw Cody, this all the madness is kinda on you bro. Just saying....... from a geography channel to this.
@@TheDefaultgameer I know you was joking, and I was just gonna agree, but them I remembered a video (and I'm paraphrasing here) Cody was mainly the voice/narrator (because Tyler was to shy or something to do it himself. I forget), but that he initially wanted to cover geography, but got bored/felt trapped and wanted to expand........ Then came the age of (what I call) his LSD phase, with the crazy animation styles, that progressively got more trippy but also more improved, and then I guess he wanted to change interests again, and then he entered (what I call his "more chill than the most spiritual hippy phase) and the editing style calmed more from the crazy visuals, as he went into his more broader range of topics covering things like VR history, how companies aren't your friends, and more philosophical viewing of the topics.
Tyler's done a lot of growth and change thru his main channel and whimsu.
You and Whimsu have a very similar voice
You would not get away with making a movie like this in any time period but the 90s.
80s did it with Tron
2010s did it with Inception
2020's did it with... oh wait...
@@khhnator the 20s aint ova yet sonyy
@@nathanengelhorn9562 you idiots... he is talking about the gleeful absurdity while keeping a straight face. Not cyber themed films.
took the first vid down because it was demonetized for a copyright claim
tried a bunch of stuff, still kept getting claimed
re-uploaded with a higher quality upload instead, still demonetized but ya know
that's "fair use" for ya
I saw the first version, do Johnny Mnemonic please 🙏
What was it about?
They need to get everything they can to make up for that stephen king lawsuit
+10 PR points for releasing it anyway
what is music at 16:00 ?
I worked on the PHYSICAL special effects for this film. It had those too! There’s a director’s cut with more physical effects scenes. Yes, we were perplexed during production that Stephen King’s name was on the script, anywhere. Then, the story unraveled further.
What happened with Batman, and Robin?
Did you have anything to do with the remote control of the mower? Thinking of building a remote controlled Big Red replica, looks like it is based on a 20 inch McLane front throw reel mower and any info would be helpful, especially the source/make of all the added parts.
That's super cool that you left a comment, and that you watched the video, and I bet that was a hell of a ride to make.....lol
Did you know the movie would ultimately become a critique of the Catholic church with in-your-face Satanic aesthetics? I found that part odd.
@@destruction8946
Seems like it was ham-fisted. Not sure why so many movies do that
I’m so glad I watched this with 102 degree fever. Now I really can’t tell what the hell is going on anymore.
u ok
The movie is a pure jungle fever!
@@waterbird2686 Covid test came back negative
@@masterspongebat2387 Long Covid Moment😫
I watched this 30 seconds after waking up from a nap and I can't tell if I'm still dreaming
Hidden gem
Coal
@@yourmomisveryobese4418gem
Some would say it's spine-tingling.
@yourmomisveryobese4418 stfu you post unfunny cord memes stop using our terminology
@@vinetak2645Maybe even Genre Defining
"The VR grass is always greener but just as hard to mow." - Lawnmower Man
Perfect
Having Killing in the Name as the credits song just completes it.
I really really hope it was the actual end credit song and that he didn't just add it in because that's the part that made me laugh the most
@@magimon91834 Its a reference to the ending of the Matrix.
Nah he does this for his master of disguise video also
Remember watching this on rental with my dad, will always be a gem to me
It's hard to believe that Terminator 2 released a year before this lol
I remember seeing this movie in the theaters with my friend Mike, and when the agents were dying Mike exclaimed, "oh no! I am being color separated to death!" I think I laughed for about about six minutes. I remember being just utterly befuddled by this whole thing, because not a damn bit of the movie made the slightest sense, and it was as that was written by someone who just had no clue what virtual reality was, but it seemed like a Kronenberg film or some thing, and he had like a video toaster left over from Star Trek six and then this was the bastard offspring. Just a hysterically incoherent awful movie, and I remember my other friend afterwords kept talking about how deep it was and how I just didn't get it because I was not deep like him. He was super deep. He called everyone "Hermes," for some reason. Make of that what you will. Deep. I didn't even I was very surprised when there was a sequel to this. How the hell is this successful enough to warrant a sequel? Please do not review the sequel. I have never seen it and I fear what the frightening implications of it might do to my brain so I would prefer not to know. Thank you.
Wasn't Hermes/Hernes what the space hippies called Kirk in that episode of star trek TOS?
The sequel is hilarious fun do it
Be deep Hermes watch it
MatAle Albiach no, that was "herbert."
@@mahatmarandy5977 thanks for the clarification
17:56 I AM COB HERE!
Heard the CGI was from an early Rockstar games!
Other than that, movie is a gem. Occult, esoteric gem.
Lawnmower man: "By the turn of the millenium a technology known as VIRTUAL REALITY will be in widespread use."
Us now: "Lol Grandma did a header into the TV and got wrekt!"
😂😂😂😂😂
Lol
behold vr chat
Its actually just rekt. The w is silent
I’d rather live in the 90’s interpretation of the internet than what it is now
🥂
"Timmy Jimmy Power Hour" honestly, I really need you to do a proper analysis of the most epic crossover in Bush-era TV.
The short story is actually one of Stephen King's most interesting stories.
Agreed
It’s so fucking weird and honestly pretty funny
The image of job mowing a brain with his mouth is gonna stick in my head for eternity.
I saw this movie in theaters in 90-whatever, and that image is literally the only thing I remembered about it.
@@mallninja9805 1992. I remember seeing this in theaters. I loved this film as a 9 year old.
You guys mean the year when the guy said this came out? No way!
Jobe literally used a soyjak on his former bully.
great video gonna be watching more my dude! thankn you mate !
Based comment
Lawnmower Man is a gemmy gem gemerald 4EVA
jump😊
Broke: return to monke
Woke: advance to cybermonke
Pretty sure Cybermonke was the name of Billy Idol's last album.
Couldn't even get 5 seconds in without dying of laughter. There's no way he said that in THE FLINTSTONES movie 😳😭
I watched this with a few friends last year, it was honestly bizarrely entertaining in how much of a bad early 90's time capsule of a movie it is. I was in awe at some of its most inane and ridiculous moments on my first watch, as I had no idea what the movie was going to be like at all.
Were you a 90s kid? Or did you & your friends go into that masterpiece of a (something?) without any 90s nostalgia goggles?
@@masstv9052 most of us were born in the mid to late 90's so there was not really any nostalgia at all. The best part was the first time I watched it, I was actually watching it in Vrchat with a VR headset on at the time, which made it even more of an experience. I found it so funny I convinced another group of friends to watch it a few days later.
@@legodude0 oh, that's so cool. Were you all able to watch it in VRchat also? Or was it just a regular get together on the TV?
Using a VR headset for lawnmower man is so meta. Lol
@@masstv9052 There's movie rooms on the game so we were watching it in one of those. Yeah we kept bringing up how weird and surreal it was to watch a movie about VR in VR.
And then they made a sequel.
Interesting factoid: New Line Cinema straight up ignored the court ruling to take Stephen King's name off of the marketing. In '94 they released the VHS with King's name on it and was pretty quickly slammed and held in contempt of court.
My life was significant better about 20 minutes ago when I didn't know the plot of this film. Oh, well...
My life is better. I now know how blessed i am that i haven't had to work on something so sad as this movie
Life is good, but it can be better!
HWABAG
Total cobson victory
The gem that saved the sharty
THE CURSE OF COB LINGERS...
Brings back such nostalgia. I was 11 and my dad sneaked me into the cinema to see this as it was a 15. He was terminal and wanted to watch this last movie with me since we were both gamers
Must've been a fond memory then
I had to watch the original upload of this video, read the Wikipedia article for Stephen King’s The Lawnmower Man, and watch this upload to realize the “connection” between this movie and the Stephen King short story is that a lawnmower operates itself
The movie capitalized on people's general misunderstanding and ignorance of VR and the internet at the time. Today, the idea of portraying VR as opening a gateway to a parallel dimension is just laughable beyond words.
It's supposed to be that reality itself by nature is very much a virtual world, not that it opens portals to parallel dimensions. It is in essense and unintentionally a prequel to the matrix and the 13th floor movies.
VR:Chat bouta send us to Dimension X
But what we were the lawnmower all along
Its a highly strange allegory for the sublimation of virtual space into our own reality that we are currently experiencing on an increasingly literal level as all of our attention is absorbed by digital media and most of our real lives only serve toward that entertainment space.
Very little of this film could ever be taken literally but the metaphoric angle is scarily prescient in that typical paranoid schizophrenic way
You can always tell a film is hacky when they throw in an evil priest. Seems to be one of the boxes to tick for a movie to seem "deep"
12 year old me: "This movie is awesome"
42 year old me "This movie is hilarious"
14 year old me: "this movie is coal"
88 year old me: "this movie is a gem"
A teacher of mine worked in this film. I remember him trying to explain it. "Weird" Is the best thing he could come up with
A true gemerald
I've kind of come around to this one. The early 90s cgi has a certain aesthetic to it that hits the nostalgia buttons, even if it isn't very good by today's standards
Today's standards?! This movie came out AFTER Terminator 2
If you like that you should see the music video for Fire by the Prodigy. Hilariously cheesy cgi
same also nice pfp
He wasn't a coal he was a gem
For those that don't know the reference it's the birth of Cobson on Wikipedia
marge howeverbeit
This and Virtuosity are both really underrated cyberpunk movies imo.
I loved this movie as a kid. Don't know if that says more about the time it was filmed in, or my home life as a child...
I hear you ...
The film was good and original for it's time.
This review is really trashing the movie, the reviewer must be a Zoomer.
It's hard to explain why this was a good movie if you weren't there at the time.
I'm sorry.
@@PieterPatrickThey sound old, and you might just be blinded by nostalgia
great video. i remember watching that movie with my mom when i was young.
it was so weird i never forgot about it. this is truly the serial experiments lain of live action movies
Jobe Requiem got me cracking up.
It’s even funnier when you remember Giorno is like Jesus and they call Job “CyberChrist”
This movie is one of the best movies ever.
🥂
Brett Leonard and Gimel Everett were obsessed with VR, to the point where Leonard explicitly chose the sigils that flash in front of Jobe's eyes, when he gets his first dose of VR-activated nootropics. The nineties were this weird niche where people like Leonard pushed for high-concept sci-fi on shoestring budgets and with this weird, blind faith that their scripts' basic assertions would turn out to be real. The same works with Leonard's next feature release, Virtuosity.
As for any sort of consumer-level electronics effectively making people smarter... That's complete bull, obviously. The only tenuously real thing in there is nootropic drugs as a concept, seeing as a lot of us are familiar with focus-enhancing drinks. If you've ever drank a Red Bull, a Guru or even an old-ass can of Jolt Cola, you just took in what was designed as a nootropic, with the only proven nootropic molecule on the current market being caffeine. Your average Red Bull can has concentrated amino acids and taurine in it, plus weird, New Agey stuff like ginseng extract, but we have no proof that stuffing a soda with guanine or even synthesized taurine has any real benefit. Taurine's used to rebuild muscle and maintain cardiovascular tone, but it's freely available in meat and fish - and the concentration of the stuff in a Red Bull can wouldn't make much of a difference for healthy individuals.
So, VR's not going to make your brain swell up, and smart drugs are still at the drawing-board phase, nevermind what Red Bull's PR team has to say. We're a long shot from Bret Leonard's weird, Oculus Rift-powered Age of Aquarius nonsense.
i wouldn’t say smart drugs are still in the drawing board phase, but all the viable options except for caffeine are controlled substances. (i’m not 100% sure if i agree with them being so heavily restricted tbh).
prescription stimulants and modafinil are considered nootropics, and iirc they have some cognitive benefits such as improving memory and problem solving. as someone who has to take a lot of these medications i can’t tell if they’ve made me any smarter, but at least now i can force myself to complete basic tasks and i don’t suddenly fall asleep on the floor in the middle of the day anymore lol
I rate this review of The Lawnmower Man a blade of grass out of turf!
Also I got an ad for lawnmowers at the end of the video.
The same studio that made:
The Midnight Club series
The Red Dead series
Smuggler's run
Collabed to make gta 5
SGI did the graphics. They later handled the Graphics processor of the N64.
This is really just an adaptation of Flowers For Algernon, but with added dial-up internet. Memorable.
I can’t believe I was too terrified to watch this movie when I was younger…
Cyber Jobe WAS pretty scary looking.
You played that monkey scene 10 times, and I laughed every time.
My favorite part is that a lot of the sound effects in the clips sound like Morrowind spell effects.
Oh god. Oh no. I thought I had hallucinated this film. I don’t know if I can deal with it being real.
I think the lawnmower man is an accurate depiction of reality today 🧐
🥂my thoughts exactly
The only thing this movie has of Stephen King's ideas is the lawnmower seemingly moving by itself (as in his short story called the Lawnmower Man), and his blatant hatred for White Christians (that's basically showing up in all his books and stories).
"We know what hapenned to the internet, robots did not take over the world..."
Homie, you act like this is over. IT HAS NOT EVEN BEGUN YET.
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cult classic real gem
Man a friend on discord showed me this a few months ago, I was wondering when this fever dream of a movie would wiggle its way into the mainstream of the internet.
Mom and dad could never understand why I went through a "shirtless cowboy while mowing the lawn phase" when I was 13.
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Welp, now I know what the vaguely remembered from some movie in my childhood "I am GOD here!" line is from.
very gemmy movie
Robots might not have taken over the world in a manner as awesome as The Terminator might have, but walk into a GM factory, observe the self-automated forklifts, welding robots and painting robots and you'll see that perhaps they won out in a much more banal manner.
Can we expect a Lawnmower Man 2 review?
wait... there was a sequel?
I need to see that sequel
Somehow so convoluted I was actally wondering what and why and also what does it have to do with anything from first movie? I remember very well..watched it in cinema too lol
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The director's cut is fantastic. The chimp gets away in the beginning and finds Jobe by accident
i love hearin you enjoy something this much, love the content!!
GLISTENING GEMERALD!!!
I watched the director's cut recently and I'll be damned if this isn't incredibly entertaining. It's kind of crazy how dated it feels even to films made from the same time period, but that's what gives it is charm. Really fun film.
Thank you for making the internet a better place, sir
I'm going to throw out a guess here, but I bet Steven king's book, is actually about, some sort of, literal "Lawnmower+Man".
As I recall it's a short story about a gardener who worships the Greek god Pan and makes sacrifices to him, including mowing down either a cat or a squirrel. It's definitely a much more (excuse the pun) earthier story.
Kings' story was about a guy who hires a man who mows lawns, but the guy he hires is also a worshipper of the Greek god Pan that eats the grass, and when it's found that he does, the lawnmower man kills him.
Isn't King's Lawnmower man a 12 page story about a weird Satyr like creature doing yard work? How do you get "Flowers for Algernon" but, written by William Gibson from that?
0:07 Nice to see Sneakers referenced for once--one of my favorite movies.
I play vrchat and I frequently sit around and do nothing in vr like Pierce Brosnan in that one scene
thank you for this video people need to know about how dangerous vr is
_Please_ tell me it _actually_ ends with _Killing in the Name._
Really love this move it, watched it for the first time a few weeks ago and it’s Pretty impressive for the time. I mean people are just now getting hip to VR headset, gloves, suit. It was pretty forward thinking. I really love the ethics of it all. Also also the bringing sentence about VR being widespread hasn’t happened YET, you gotta say yet because we still have much so see. Also robots haven’t taken over YET, gotta say yet these days lol love your channel
I thought you were joking when you said there villain wanted to ring all the phones in the world, in a comedic quip. But as his actual intention? That's the sort of motive you'd expect from a Terry Pratchett character
Real Talk: Even though this movie has nothing to do with Stephen King, I'd totally believe this was written by him.
It hates religion, so yeah, take a shot. 🥃
Anyone else find it weird that video game CGI advanced so fast that it never matched 90s pre-rendered CGI and just blew past it somehow?
The difference is that game CGI (in those time) use texture and sprite of real world to make scene looks good, but this movie tries to generate the image from scratch using polygons.
@@xponen something that we do much more efficiently today
@@xponen Yeah, back in the day, 1992, there was no "game cgi" outside cut-scenes. Megarace was released ´93 and it´s pre-rendered-fmv 95%. Doom was kinda first to mimic reality using only sprites and you needed at least 486DX4/100mhz to run it smoothly. Then there was System Shock and Ultima Underworld which could be considered more like a "simulation" and both are claustrophobic in comparison. System Shock has a virtual reality section just like in the movie, it´s horrible even if the graphics were cine-quality. :D
Dammit, thank you for making this. I was obsessed with this movie as a kid when it came out for some reason, and this is such a hilarious and perfect retelling of it. Also, the title alone is worth it: "a movie that exists"
I guess there's a lot of people who have never heard of this movie. Being a kid at the time when it came out... it made more sense at the time for some reason.
You had me laughing the entire time. Thank you.
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Commenting this before even watching this video; I saw this film actually a couple years ago with a group of friends. Days before, one of my friends were looking through an old game store with me and I picked up a game with a strange name and a goofy looking cover. An N64 game I believe. I picked it up and showed him and laughed at it saying, "The fuck is this?"
He weirdly didn't seem surprised. "It's lawnmower man. I saw a review of it before. It's based on a movie."
Fast-forward back to the day we were watching the movie. It was moist in the room, warm, and generally dark and uncomfortable (Florida lol).
And not a single person out of the 4-5 people in that room fully understand what we watched that night. If you ask all 5 of us the plot, and all that we remember, you'll get VERY different answers.
To this day I think about the day I'll sit down and watch the movie again while zonked off my gourd. I'll probably watch it with my girlfriend and see where that goes and what happens.
SNES or Genesis or Sega CD (or computer). There was no Lawnmower man game on N64.
@@Gatorade69 it was some sort of cartridge game. Anything involving this movie is a fuzzy memory.
So, fun fact about my first time watching this movie. I first encountered this movie when playing VR chat and going to a VR movie theater. I was randomly scrolling through the sci-fi movies and I saw this film really confused as to why it was in the sci-fi section. Absolutely baffled at the fact that this movie would be about virtual reality.
This movie (despite some of the outdated stuff) holds a little place in my heart lol.
1:43 "So the monkey does some good shooting in Quake 2 and we get this amazing shot before the opening credits roll." I know I'm stoned rn, but that line hit especially hard for some reason. 🤣
"My god!!! The new James Bond movie looks Fantastic!"
I got to play VR right after this movie was released. Played it in like 1993/94 maybe. The game was weak, but it was cool to see. I thought it would have been way bigger, and it died out. I'm surprised it took so long to come back around. But I guess the tech had to become way cheaper for computers to really start powering the potential of vr.
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Well I know where Billy Bob got his premise for Sling Blade from now.
I love that vpl was an actual company
"Hey in order to build this internet thing we should just use the already existing phone cables since they would offer plenty bandwidth, what would possibly go wrong?"
This is the most hilarious film review I've seen.
Please do more movie reviews like this. You've got a knack for it
I never saw this movie, but remember doing a double take when I saw the CGI scenes in this clip; there were these movies I watched as a kid called The Mind's Eye series that were just random assortments of primitive CGI reels, and I was unaware until now that the origin of a bunch of the CG clips from the second were actually from The Lawnmower Man.
The Lawnmower Man is just so META
I got a lawnmower ad before this started playing
4:40 Abusive father comes home still wearing his hard hat, lmao - now we know he's in construction.
11:07 the shower's behind him- he washed his face in a sink, maybe washed his hair in the sink. my figurin anyhow
The movie is basically the guy finds out the nature of reality is much like the virtual worlds and he somehow glitched into a well of knowledge and abilities. Same way people glitch or break video games by overloading something. Essentially his brain was overloaded by the virtual game thing and he got glitched into forbidden wells of reality.