Johnny Mnemonic

[leoniedelt]

Not as good as I remember it being. I think the Matrix made it look like shit not too many years later, frankly,

Ooh, a fat whopping 320g in his head - i have more storage in my PC...

I loved his rant about wanting room service and the club sandwich, though. Funny.

I liked the idea of women bodyguards - good idea. Sort of reverse logic, but also still quite misogynistic as the men were so important that the women filled their bodies with implants to protect them...

I also liked Henry Rollins in this. A lot.  I like his patch of grey hair - I have one of those, same spot on my skull too. Strange.

That's about it. Cyberpunk doesn't do much for me, but as it was pre-Matrix, it was kindof nostalgic.

Comments

[the-terrible.livejournal.com]

No offense to you, but I hated the Matrix movies so much I have a hard time picturing them making anything look like shit... even something like Johnny Mnemonic.

[leoniedelt.livejournal.com]

I loved the Matrix when it came out, saw it at least 3 times in cinema alone. The other two were just hype.

[the-terrible.livejournal.com]

Oh, the other two were far worse, yes, but I didn't even like the first one. Guess it just didn't have what I look for.

[pmoodie.livejournal.com]

I've not seen Johnny Mnemonic in years, but I seem to remember thinking it was a bit crap I'm afraid.

I thought The Matrix was OK, but it was a bit of an Emperor's new clothes situation. I'd been a fan of Hong Kong cinema for years at that point, so the wire-fu was pretty old hat to me. The rest was a lot of goth/cyberpunk posturing really, and I thought it was a bit up it's own arse. But fun though!

I thought the sequels were basically just more of the same, but with far too much endlass pseudo-philosophical waffle and not enough fighting!

I suspect the original film really did well because of the fanboy fallout from The Phantom Menace!

[leoniedelt.livejournal.com]

Yeha, i thought JM was a bit crap too. I loved the first Matrix though. The sequels were just that. Meh.

[pmoodie.livejournal.com]

The sequels did have one thing going for them though - Monica Bellucci in latex! :)

[liodain.livejournal.com]

I've not seen Johnny Mnemonic, which is probably because I <3 William Gibson's books, and they don't translate well onto film due to their somewhat obtuse, abstract nature. Plus I heard the Molly Millions character was cut, which would decrease the awesomeness by 90% as she was the protagonist in the short story :p

Henry Rollins is a funny guy (and bizarrely, looks like Richard Dean Anderson lately). I'm gonna go see his spoken word tour in January :D

[leoniedelt.livejournal.com]

He's quite woof isnt he? I liked him in Lost Highway too.