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.

@Iksvomid

2 жыл бұрын

Dare I say it? Money well spent! Now THAT is a comical realm we live in!

@khhnator

2 жыл бұрын

and yet it look worse than virtua racing(1992) and Daytona USA(1993) who did it in real time

@johnnybensonitis7853

2 жыл бұрын

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!"

@theactualTVB

2 жыл бұрын

@@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.

@masstv9052

2 жыл бұрын

@@theactualTVB back then, I believe video games, and rendering for movies were Technologically different. I remember seeing a documentary on KZread 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

@mattgroening8872

22 күн бұрын

You could even say it’s Gemmy

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

@endofcentury7077

2 жыл бұрын

This whole movie could just be an Xavier plot tbh

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

@draugrdraugr

2 жыл бұрын

80s did it with Tron

@Iksvomid

2 жыл бұрын

2010s did it with Inception

@khhnator

2 жыл бұрын

2020's did it with... oh wait...

@nathanengelhorn9562

2 жыл бұрын

@@khhnator the 20s aint ova yet sonyy

@garyotto3591

2 жыл бұрын

@@nathanengelhorn9562 you idiots... he is talking about the gleeful absurdity while keeping a straight face. Not cyber themed films.

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

@BLKDEVX

Жыл бұрын

Perfect

So many images. So many to think about

@shaggythewriter8185

2 жыл бұрын

Greatest think piece of the 21st century

@masstv9052

2 жыл бұрын

Make an alternative history of Lawnmower Man. That would be a cool project to see after this masterpiece of that 90s masterpiece.

@TheDefaultgameer

2 жыл бұрын

btw Cody, this all the madness is kinda on you bro. Just saying....... from a geography channel to this.

@masstv9052

2 жыл бұрын

@@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.

@Grgrqr

2 жыл бұрын

You and Whimsu have a very similar voice

Hidden gem

@yourmomisveryobese4418

Жыл бұрын

Coal

@daichinated449

9 ай бұрын

​@@yourmomisveryobese4418gem

@vinetak2645

7 ай бұрын

Some would say it's spine-tingling.

@YtHm-vh3mw

4 ай бұрын

​@yourmomisveryobese4418 stfu you post unfunny cord memes stop using our terminology

@tee-bird-10

Ай бұрын

@@vinetak2645Maybe even Genre Defining

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

@waterbird2686

2 жыл бұрын

u ok

@Iksvomid

2 жыл бұрын

The movie is a pure jungle fever!

@masterspongebat2387

2 жыл бұрын

@@waterbird2686 Covid test came back negative

@aturchomicz821

2 жыл бұрын

@@masterspongebat2387 Long Covid Moment😫

@CrossingRover

2 жыл бұрын

I watched this 30 seconds after waking up from a nap and I can't tell if I'm still dreaming

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.

@jagatheeldest5786

2 жыл бұрын

What happened with Batman, and Robin?

@Titan604

2 жыл бұрын

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.

@kelleygreenEmpressOne

2 жыл бұрын

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

@destruction8946

2 жыл бұрын

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.

@josedorsaith5261

Жыл бұрын

@@destruction8946 Seems like it was ham-fisted. Not sure why so many movies do that

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.

@magimon91834

2 жыл бұрын

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

@the_Sleepy_Druid

2 жыл бұрын

@@magimon91834 Its a reference to the ending of the Matrix.

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

@brandinginpajamas

2 жыл бұрын

🥂

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

@Jamie-nx2cg

2 жыл бұрын

Agreed

@DontEatPapa

2 жыл бұрын

It’s so fucking weird and honestly pretty funny

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

@pisacenere

2 жыл бұрын

I saw the first version, do Johnny Mnemonic please 🙏

@theankotze1292

2 жыл бұрын

What was it about?

@wednesday122

2 жыл бұрын

They need to get everything they can to make up for that stephen king lawsuit

@seanbusiness6052

2 жыл бұрын

+10 PR points for releasing it anyway

@RED01SEA

2 жыл бұрын

what is music at 16:00 ?

HWABAG

@merucrypoison296

Жыл бұрын

Total cobson victory

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

@mallninja9805

2 жыл бұрын

I saw this movie in theaters in 90-whatever, and that image is literally the only thing I remembered about it.

@Tornado1994

Ай бұрын

@@mallninja9805 1992. I remember seeing this in theaters. I loved this film as a 9 year old.

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!"

@deadlyninja112

2 жыл бұрын

😂😂😂😂😂

@monstermagnezgulp4614

2 жыл бұрын

Lol

@alwaysangry2232

2 жыл бұрын

behold vr chat

@imadrifter

2 жыл бұрын

Its actually just rekt. The w is silent

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

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.

@Puerco-Potter

2 жыл бұрын

Wasn't Hermes/Hernes what the space hippies called Kirk in that episode of star trek TOS?

@kevinrhea7332

2 жыл бұрын

The sequel is hilarious fun do it

@kevinrhea7332

2 жыл бұрын

Be deep Hermes watch it

@mahatmarandy5977

2 жыл бұрын

MatAle Albiach no, that was "herbert."

@Puerco-Potter

2 жыл бұрын

@@mahatmarandy5977 thanks for the clarification

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

Broke: return to monke Woke: advance to cybermonke

@artistwithouttalent

2 жыл бұрын

Pretty sure Cybermonke was the name of Billy Idol's last album.

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

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

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

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

@sirwannabeguy4886

3 ай бұрын

marge howeverbeit

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...

@Ledabot

2 жыл бұрын

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

@Iksvomid

2 жыл бұрын

Life is good, but it can be better!

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

2 жыл бұрын

Were you a 90s kid? Or did you & your friends go into that masterpiece of a (something?) without any 90s nostalgia goggles?

@legodude0

2 жыл бұрын

@@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.

@masstv9052

2 жыл бұрын

@@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

@legodude0

2 жыл бұрын

@@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.

@Xegethra

2 жыл бұрын

And then they made a sequel.

GLISTENING 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

@jeffthecoder

2 жыл бұрын

Today's standards?! This movie came out AFTER Terminator 2

@urdnal

2 жыл бұрын

If you like that you should see the music video for Fire by the Prodigy. Hilariously cheesy cgi

@Scrimparmy

7 ай бұрын

same also nice pfp

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.

@jhnyjoejoe69

2 жыл бұрын

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.

@brm5844

2 жыл бұрын

VR:Chat bouta send us to Dimension X

@imadrifter

2 жыл бұрын

But what we were the lawnmower all along

@PSNSMANIACALMIND1st

2 жыл бұрын

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

@josedorsaith5261

Жыл бұрын

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"

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

@JJAB91

2 жыл бұрын

This movie came out after Terminator 2

@deadlyninja112

2 жыл бұрын

😂

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

@brandinginpajamas

2 жыл бұрын

🥂my thoughts exactly

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

@ROBOHOLIC1

2 жыл бұрын

Must've been a fond memory then

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

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

Jobe Requiem got me cracking up.

@higginswalsan

2 жыл бұрын

It’s even funnier when you remember Giorno is like Jesus and they call Job “CyberChrist”

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

This movie is one of the best movies ever.

@brandinginpajamas

2 жыл бұрын

🥂

Cobson

@sirwannabeguy4886

3 ай бұрын

ywnbaw

@soyjakpartyvideoarchive4645

3 ай бұрын

@@sirwannabeguy4886 >ywnbaw

@Indianmf

Ай бұрын

ywnbaw

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

@plawson8577

2 жыл бұрын

SGI did the graphics. They later handled the Graphics processor of the N64.

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...

@deadlyninja112

2 жыл бұрын

I hear you ...

@PieterPatrick

2 жыл бұрын

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.

@ericwinters1513

2 жыл бұрын

I'm sorry.

@EthanLy-re6bd

Ай бұрын

@@PieterPatrickThey sound old, and you might just be blinded by nostalgia

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

@baxterbragi

2 жыл бұрын

Based comment

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

@RM2011ish

2 жыл бұрын

Cyber Jobe WAS pretty scary looking.

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

"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.

@brandinginpajamas

2 жыл бұрын

🥂

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".

@CinnamonGrrlErin1

2 жыл бұрын

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.

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.

Gemerald

The Lawnmower Man is just so META

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

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

gem

This and Virtuosity are both really underrated cyberpunk movies imo.

Can we expect a Lawnmower Man 2 review?

@khhnator

2 жыл бұрын

wait... there was a sequel?

@largeboi4678

2 жыл бұрын

I need to see that sequel

@monstermagnezgulp4614

2 жыл бұрын

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

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.

@stinky59

Жыл бұрын

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

_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.

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

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

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).

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.

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?

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

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

@autobotstarscream765

2 жыл бұрын

It hates religion, so yeah, take a shot. 🥃

Issa gem

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

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.

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

Oh my science!

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.

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

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.

@Gatorade69

2 жыл бұрын

SNES or Genesis or Sega CD (or computer). There was no Lawnmower man game on N64.

@d00mprodigy21

2 жыл бұрын

@@Gatorade69 it was some sort of cartridge game. Anything involving this movie is a fuzzy memory.

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

"My god!!! The new James Bond movie looks Fantastic!"

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

"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?"

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

Gem

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.

You had me laughing the entire time. Thank you.

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

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

Thank you for making the internet a better place, sir

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?

@xponen

2 жыл бұрын

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.

@kaydgaming

2 жыл бұрын

@@xponen something that we do much more efficiently today

@woldemunster9244

2 жыл бұрын

@@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

IDK what you're talking about, this movie is a gemerald.

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

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.

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 got a lawnmower ad before this started playing

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

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

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"

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.

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.

cobsissy slander, therefore gem or however the cookie crumbles.

This is the most hilarious film review I've seen.

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

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.

Please do more movie reviews like this. You've got a knack for it