it's time for... johnny mnemonic review

Jim the Dinosaur · Post by **Jim the Dinosaur** » Tue May 12, 2009 11:29 pm

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kitano speaks english and japanese but mostly english

mr t

that chick from starship troopers who isn't denise richards plays in it

Jim the Dinosaur · Post by **Jim the Dinosaur** » Tue May 12, 2009 11:30 pm

lundgren is also in there which makes for a pretty wacky cast all in all, I think I'll give it a 7/10 for effort.

MR Snake · Post by **MR Snake** » Tue May 12, 2009 11:36 pm

Your images are not working.

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Jim the Dinosaur · Post by **Jim the Dinosaur** » Tue May 12, 2009 11:58 pm

they're working for me :tard:

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S4ur0n27 · Post by **S4ur0n27** » Wed May 13, 2009 2:23 am

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Jim the Dinosaur · Post by **Jim the Dinosaur** » Wed May 13, 2009 2:28 am

Wolfman Walt · Post by **Wolfman Walt** » Wed May 13, 2009 3:16 am

The game deserves worth mention.

Caleb · Post by **Caleb** » Wed May 13, 2009 5:48 pm

I love gibsons work and...well...definitely not his best. A fun movie but nothing near the quality of shit like strange days really. CP movies....rarely really do too well.

Jim the Dinosaur · Post by **Jim the Dinosaur** » Fri May 15, 2009 12:27 pm

are there any other gibson movies then?

Caleb · Post by **Caleb** » Sat May 16, 2009 4:24 pm

No...not that I'm aware of, though his writing heavily influenced the look of bladerunner and other movies if i recall, can't name others off the top of my head.

Redeye · Post by **Redeye** » Sat May 16, 2009 5:56 pm

Caleb wrote:No...not that I'm aware of, though his writing heavily influenced the look of bladerunner and other movies if i recall, can't name others off the top of my head.

Bladerunner came before, and he also borrowed like hell from Escape From New York.

He also borrowed from Bio Futures.
(There's even a story or three in there which is similar to Ultraviolet except without the Kill Bill craziness.)

SF and Sci-Fi are totally incestuous, so it's hard to keep track of the order of things.

Lunchmeat · Post by **Lunchmeat** » Sat May 16, 2009 11:34 pm

They made a movie based on another Gibson short story called New Rose Hotel. Haven't seen it but it doesn't look promising.

Caleb · Post by **Caleb** » Sun May 17, 2009 1:07 am

Redeye wrote:
Caleb wrote:No...not that I'm aware of, though his writing heavily influenced the look of bladerunner and other movies if i recall, can't name others off the top of my head.
Bladerunner came before, and he also borrowed like hell from Escape From New York.

He also borrowed from Bio Futures.
(There's even a story or three in there which is similar to Ultraviolet except without the Kill Bill craziness.)

SF and Sci-Fi are totally incestuous, so it's hard to keep track of the order of things.

I do stand corrected, got the interview i was trying to remember backwards I guess. Still...his work was quite influential.

And as for new rose hotel..it's somewhere buried on my netflix list..still need to see it.

cazsim83 · Post by **cazsim83** » Sun May 17, 2009 2:34 am

Caleb wrote:No...not that I'm aware of, though his writing heavily influenced the look of bladerunner and other movies if i recall, can't name others off the top of my head.

The movie looks like somebody was a fan of Shadowrun, oi?

Redeye · Post by **Redeye** » Sun May 17, 2009 3:28 am

cazsim83 wrote:
Caleb wrote:No...not that I'm aware of, though his writing heavily influenced the look of bladerunner and other movies if i recall, can't name others off the top of my head.
The movie looks like somebody was a fan of Shadowrun, oi?

fan of running blade
mixed hi tech with low life
magic turdcherry

New Rose Hotel was just ok

I'd prefer something made with multiple short pieces like Heavy Metal.
Burning Chrome would have been perfect.
10 stories at 15 minutes each.
Sparse, slice of life type stuff.
Some with narration, most without.

Caleb · Post by **Caleb** » Sun May 17, 2009 4:56 am

Redeye wrote:
cazsim83 wrote:
Caleb wrote:No...not that I'm aware of, though his writing heavily influenced the look of bladerunner and other movies if i recall, can't name others off the top of my head.
The movie looks like somebody was a fan of Shadowrun, oi?
fan of running blade
mixed hi tech with low life
magic turdcherry

New Rose Hotel was just ok

I'd prefer something made with multiple short pieces like Heavy Metal.
Burning Chrome would have been perfect.
10 stories at 15 minutes each.
Sparse, slice of life type stuff.
Some with narration, most without.

I'm not sure...Idoru/virual light/all tomorrows parties in my opinion would be FUCKING PERFECT right now.

Also: shadowrun lifted a shitload from gibson...and didn't really credit him at all. Even the name of the matrix, the ideas of ice and all that shit...no mention.

Redeye · Post by **Redeye** » Sun May 17, 2009 6:28 am

Caleb wrote:
Redeye wrote:
cazsim83 wrote: The movie looks like somebody was a fan of Shadowrun, oi?
fan of running blade
mixed hi tech with low life
magic turdcherry

New Rose Hotel was just ok

I'd prefer something made with multiple short pieces like Heavy Metal.
Burning Chrome would have been perfect.
10 stories at 15 minutes each.
Sparse, slice of life type stuff.
Some with narration, most without.
I'm not sure...Idoru/virual light/all tomorrows parties in my opinion would be FUCKING PERFECT right now.

Also: shadowrun lifted a shitload from gibson...and didn't really credit him at all. Even the name of the matrix, the ideas of ice and all that shit...no mention.

I think some of the internal stuff references him. Maybe.
No, I think it was Cyberpunk that directly acknowledged.
Just don't remember.

As for the films, I was thinking of what could have been made instead of New Rose Hotel.
On second thought, my suggestion may have been significantly more expensive and difficult.

Idoru/Virtual Light are perfect for now.

Destruction of the middle class... pretty much achieved by now.
At least the brink is looming.

Caleb · Post by **Caleb** » Sun May 17, 2009 5:42 pm

All the nanotech, the semi depressed but somehow thriving underground market, the enclaves of society clinging to what little they have left. Always reminded me of a more grown up snow crash, really.

With shadowrun...all of the matrix ideas, the runners and deckers and shite in there...almost a direct lift. I do miss SR though, haven't checked the new edition but sounds like total ass.