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Summary: Jeff Fahey as Jobe Smith and Pierce Brosnan as Larry Angelo
Review: A slow witted gardener allows a scientist to exper iment on him
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Summary: Great movie!
Review: Anyone who loves sci-fi movies filled with conputer animation (virtual reality) will love this title. Acting is awesome, graphics are great! a must buy!
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Summary: A fabulously under-rated movie
Review: As a cognitive scientist from Yale, I can say with certainty that the ideas expressed in this film are very real, and very ahead of their time. The virtual reality visuals in this movie are timeless. The acting is good, the sets are impressive, and the ideas are priceless. Enjoy the film, but don't dare watch its sequel (it is awful).
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Summary: A fabulously under-rated movie
Review: As a cognitive scientist from Yale, I can say with certainty that the ideas expressed in this film are very real, and very ahead of their time. The virtual reality visuals in this movie are timeless. The acting is good, the sets are impressive, and the ideas are priceless. Enjoy the film, but don't dare watch its sequel (it is awful).
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Summary: Mindless Entertainment
Review: Certainly not Pierce Brosnan's best work. If you need some background while you do something else, it's okay. Don't be upset that I don't own this SciFi movie. I saw it when it was originally released at the theater. At that time I thought the graphics were great, but it just didn't grab my attention and hold it. I didn't mind going to the lobby for a soda, popcorn, hot dog, nachos, restroom, check out movie posters, make a phone call,... The problem is the story got to wrapped up in the lawnmower mans psyche. That would be okay if it was thought provoking, but it is mostly graphical halucinations and sexual innuendo. Not that illuminating into the characters motivations. One thing stands out in this movie. Some great early CGI. If you feel the need to see one of them catch this one, the second is much worse.
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Summary: A lot of potential falling to waste
Review: Computer animation is just starting to cut in as the de facto special effect engine for cinema. Two excellent actors take a stab at an interesting concept -- computer aided learning. What went wrong? A horrid script. Some lazy writer turned this into a boring romp through goofy computer- generated vengeance. The physical effects (or physical components) are simply horrible. This is yet another technophobe flick, and it amazes me that so many computer-philes approve of this drivel. It is as bad or worse than those retarded god- complex star trek episodes. And I'm being nice.
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Summary: Lawnmower Man 0.5
Review: DO NOT buy this movie! If you were looking for the movie "The Lawnmower Man" this isn't it. This is Lawnmower Man 0.5 (something less than version 1.0). Unfortuanately, 1 star is as low as I could go.In this version, Dr. Angelo did not think of using Jobe because of his unfortunate accidental meeting with the violence crazed chimpanzee. The priest ws not so evil that he sold Jobe to Dr. Angelo for a donation to the church (and therefore deserve what he got). Jobe did not absorb hundreds of CDs learning the violent history of mankind and then decide that maybe he needed to protect mankind from itself. Dr. Angelo did not develop an extreme hatred for Jobe because he murdered Mrs. Angelo. Hey, all this stuff sounds like it would make a good plot to a movie or something.
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Summary: Virtual reality turned into a great movie in reality
Review: Dr. Angelo (Pierce Brosnan) is a scientist who is studying the effects of virtual reality on the mind of a monkey. The experiments don't go well with the monkey, so now Dr. Angelo wants to try his virtual reality experiments on a retarded man named Jobe (Jeff Fahey). Jobe is known around the area for being able to put stuff together and as being the 'lawnmower man' because he is the best there is at mowing lawns. Dr. Angelo is going to try to make Jobe smarter with these experiments. But if Dr. Angelo doesn't watch out, he might make Jobe too smart to where he'll be able to control just about anything with his mind. "The Lawnmower Man" is a great movie. I don't see any reason why it isn't averaging 4 or 5 stars. It has spectacular special effects, a good job of acting by Jeff Fahey, and it really is an entertaining movie. The virtual reality effects aren't the only good thing about this movie, it has a good story (which came from Stephen King), and it's just a great movie that anybody should be able to enjoy. If you like movies about virtual reality, or good thrillers with great special effects, I recommend getting "The Lawnmower Man."
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Summary: The question of Man , freedom and God as a cybergame ...
Review: Even if the 12 scenes cannot be played as an extended version there's food for Your brains , hearts and gender here ! This movie does have vague resemblances to Scott's - BladeRunner , but only philosophically .
And the attempts to compare this film with Nelson's - Charly(1968) or Whale's - Frankenstein(1931) is ridiculously superficial , like comparing Coppola's - Godfather(1972) to Polonsky's - Force of Evil(1948) or Lang's - You only live once(1937) ! It is however understandable why critics and audiences in 1992 were repelled by the burning of a priest (!) and fascinated by sex/violence in the cyberspace ... they reacted blindly : "This is a satanic movie !"
An indication of this , is that Stephen Kings wished/had his credit removed by a following lawsuit ... I recommend everyone to see it (again) for now 12 years later this brilliant movie still shines as an epic drama of man , freedom and God .
Just remember BladeRunner , which 22 Years ago also grew discarded , cult-reserved and now is number 10 in IMDb Votes Charts Top 50 Sci-Fi movies and number 89 in Top 250 movies ! In the beginning The Lawnmower Man has a parallel to Charly (Daniel Keyes great Novel : Flowers for Algernon) , but mainly Jobe EVOLVES due to a growing thirst for knowledge and possibilities - while Charly IMPROVES himself to be more accepted and feeling equal to others . While Charly ends tragically sweet , the Lawnmower Man explores in a completely different direction . What about Frankenstein ? No , it does not go in this direction either or end like this other great story ; Brett Leonard dares to push his vision much higher : Jobe sees the totality of the world like God , but has become sad in soul through the interference of the government , religion & society and strikes back to change everything through the available electronic international net ...
That alone should be an eyeopener in these days of spam and morality ! Though the script has really very little to do with King's character nor his shortstory in the shortstory-collection Nightshift , one can hardly blame Leonard without remembering how another instructor expanded and explored Arthur Clarkes shortstory (called "The sentinel" on even fewer pages than TLM) and making the amazing movie 2001: A Space Odyssey .
At that time it was criticised as being too long , etc. ! I agree that there are typical movie-clones of Frankenstein and Charly , one is even with Robert DeNiro and Robin Williams called "Awakenings"(1990) and though I love the two guys this is a 90% Charly-story ! But , then again , nobody dared saying so to Penny Marshall after making "Big" cowritten by Spielbergs sister - personally I think Daniel Keyes still could make a lawsuit ! And no critics would minimize Charlie Chaplins Dictator for being a cute rewriting of Duck Soup from the geniuses of the Marx Brothers ! I think this movie deserves respect and You will all find that the reason why You were amazed at the once incredible special effects , were because they fitted so well to the story and characters - a secret that merely few instructors like Spielberg and Hitchcock master . Therefore judge this movie by the many-layered story of existence . I must say thanks to Brett Leonard & Gimel Everett
for making this neo-myth out of a Stephen King-title
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Summary: A Classic Sci-Fi Film!
Review: i am very suprised at most of the reviews here. they all really bombed the movie talking about the 12 deleted scenes. True some of the cut scenes should have been kept but most are just plain out stupid! when the movie first came out on tape, it was an unrated direcor's cut with all the deleted scenes intact. later when the tape was re-issued, the scenes where cut out. now this dvd is a transfer of that second vhs tape. this dvd still gives the option to view the 12 cut scenes and i am happy about that. you can still see them, just not in the film. i thought most of them ruined the movie anyway. but its stil good to be able to see them separetly. the other special features on this dvd are really great. for a 12 buck dvd, its a great deal! its go the trailer, making of, audio commentary,a music video of the V.R. scenes and the 12 cut scenes. the reason this film didnt do so well in theatres was that it was competing with T2 and thats not easy to do! still this is a wonderful classic for any sci-fi fan. big woop about the 12 missing scenes! they really dont help the movie but if you wanna see them you still can seperately!
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