So many images. So many to think about

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.

I love how the virtual world looks like something out of Xavier The Renegade Angel

You would not get away with making a movie like this in any time period but the 90s.

the director's cut is a gem

Hidden gem

HWABAG

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

"The VR grass is always greener but just as hard to mow." - Lawnmower Man

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.

I’m so glad I watched this with 102 degree fever. Now I really can’t tell what the hell is going on anymore.

It's hard to believe that Terminator 2 released a year before this lol

Having Killing in the Name as the credits song just completes it.

I’d rather live in the 90’s interpretation of the internet than what it is now

The short story is actually one of Stephen King's most interesting stories.

The image of job mowing a brain with his mouth is gonna stick in my head for eternity.

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.

"Timmy Jimmy Power Hour" honestly, I really need you to do a proper analysis of the most epic crossover in Bush-era TV.

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!"

Remember watching this on rental with my dad, will always be a gem to me

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

Couldn't even get 5 seconds in without dying of laughter. There's no way he said that in THE FLINTSTONES movie 😳😭

Broke: return to monke Woke: advance to cybermonke

12 year old me: "This movie is awesome" 42 year old me "This movie is hilarious"

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...

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.

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

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

I think the lawnmower man is an accurate depiction of reality today 🧐

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.

these graphics were actually mind blowing back in the day. the thing to remember is nobody ever saw anything like this previously

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

Oh god. Oh no. I thought I had hallucinated this film. I don’t know if I can deal with it being real.

The same studio that made: The Midnight Club series The Red Dead series Smuggler's run Collabed to make gta 5

This movie is one of the best movies ever.

Jobe Requiem got me cracking up.

This and Virtuosity are both really underrated cyberpunk movies imo.

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 can’t believe I was too terrified to watch this movie when I was younger…

gem

This is really just an adaptation of Flowers For Algernon, but with added dial-up internet. Memorable.

Mom and dad could never understand why I went through a "shirtless cowboy while mowing the lawn phase" when I was 13.

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...

Can we expect a Lawnmower Man 2 review?

great video gonna be watching more my dude! thankn you mate !

My favorite part is that a lot of the sound effects in the clips sound like Morrowind spell effects.

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?

GLISTENING GEMERALD!!!

"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.

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".

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.

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

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.

_Please_ tell me it _actually_ ends with _Killing in the Name._

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.

Real Talk: Even though this movie has nothing to do with Stephen King, I'd totally believe this was written by him.

The director's cut is fantastic. The chimp gets away in the beginning and finds Jobe by accident

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).

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.

Gem

Issa gem

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

thank you for this video people need to know about how dangerous vr is

You played that monkey scene 10 times, and I laughed every time.

Welp, now I know what the vaguely remembered from some movie in my childhood "I am GOD here!" line is from.

17:56 coalson

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.

Well I know where Billy Bob got his premise for Sling Blade from now.

I play vrchat and I frequently sit around and do nothing in vr like Pierce Brosnan in that one scene

15:52 10/10 marksmanship, would totally trust these guys with automatic weapons

I loved this movie growing up. Until I saw The Matrix this was my existentialist introduction.

"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.

0:07 Nice to see Sneakers referenced for once--one of my favorite movies.

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?

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

Thank you for making the internet a better place, sir

17:56

The SNES game was pretty cool, and the sequel could have been a prequel to The Matrix.

11:07 the shower's behind him- he washed his face in a sink, maybe washed his hair in the sink. my figurin anyhow

I love that vpl was an actual company

cobsissy slander, therefore gem or however the cookie crumbles.

Bro you're not watching the Director's Cut, what gives? Also Jobe is God here and always will be, this movie is a timeless gem.

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.

Ayyy bro love ur vids man, this channel is actually just everything I like about your main channel

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.

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.

Every time I am about to see a horror movie, I always check to make sure that the writer and director are not the same person. Because, nine times out of ten, if they are, you end up with incomprehensible, self-indulgent, pseudo-"intellectual" nonsense like this. Even Jordan Peele's "Get Out" suffered from that problem to some degree, just not nearly as disastrously.

This is my favorite film, I was doing 3D CG on my Amiga at that time with Real3D, Sculpt3D, Imagine3D...

i love hearin you enjoy something this much, love the content!!

RoboCop Monkey is still my favorite thing

"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?"

Joab: I know clunge fu... Bond: Show me. Also, I think Brosnan's original VR program idea, was to help women consume more calories.

Ah, the early '90s. Awesome if you were a 14 year old nerdy kid and interested in computers and especially computer graphics. Lawnmower man, Beyond The Mind's Eye (music by Jan Hammer), the demoscene, it was just so hopeful and good. Now we have like the Metaverse trending. But a corporate overlord version. *sigh* Gibson was so on point.

No genre is as quickly dated as science fiction.

At least we know what to look forward to in the world of VR...

This had a lot of potential. With just a little more of good judgment, this could have become a cult classic.

I got a lawnmower ad before this started playing

I remember a kid in school trying to describe this movie to me and how awesome it was, none of it made sense to me.