The Lawnmower Man - New Line Platinum Series

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Summary: More Kingian than less
Review: This film was rejected by Stephen King as his product. Yet it was inspired by Stephen King and we find in it all Stephen King's themes. The central character is a retarded young man. He is submitted to experiments by the Shop, without the doctor responsible for the experimentation being aware of it. His psyche and intellect are improved tremendously and he becomes a genius. But the Shop changes the drug used by the doctor who is a little bit dumb since he does not see the change in colors from blue to red. But, details, details. And Jobe becomes a monster who tries to conquer the world without stooping down but by entering the computer systems of the planet. Then you have a vicious priest who is a torturer, in the name of God of course, like in The Talisman. Then you have a young boy who goes along with the doctor and his mother to destroy the complex where the exprimentation is taking place. But they are too late. Then you have the theme of vengeance, which is, from the point of view of the victim, Jobe himself, justice : he kills the torturing priest, he kills the violent father who has been manhandling Peter, the young boy. He kills the secret service agents who are trying to stop the doctor in his attempt to freeze Jobe's transformation, and also a few other agents of the Shop. This is killing, but once again, from Jobe's point of view, from his victimized point of view it is justice because it sets the clocks back to his time. Justice is nothing absolute, but only something relative, even if we must admit it is more vengeance and revenge than what we would call justice. The only element that is less Kingian is the ending, the bad ending : the monster succeeds. But even that is not impossible in a way. We find such an ending in Pet Semetary, for instance. This film is a great film about the possibilities of virtual reality but also about its dangers, even if the main accent is set on the dangers, after all. Dr Jacques COULARDEAU, Paris Universities II and IX.

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Summary: The LawnmowerMan
Review: This is basically a great film. The problem with the DVD edition is the 12 deleted scenes. They where in the movie and they are in the VHS edition. So ...

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Summary: Buy the Directors Cut VHS or wait for the DVD version.
Review: This is one one of my favorite computer movies of all time, under WarGames and Tron. When the movie first came out on video I ran out and bought it. Man was I upset. They had cut most of the scenes I had seen in the theater. So they came out with a Directors Cut VHS... Beautiful. Figuring DVD is the wave I expected the cut scenes to be in the movie. No... as an add on. How hard would it have been to just put them in the movie. Protest against this DVD and buy the Directors cut VHS.. and convert to cd your self.

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Summary: Holy crap, this is one awful movie!
Review: This is only one of 4 or 5 movies where I actually walked out in the middle of a screening. I saw it as part of a double feature at a budget theatre and still I felt that I had been ripped off, it was that bad. I respect Jeff Fahey's talents as an actor, but he should be ashamed to have his name attached to this piece of crap, as should Stephen King (although I guess he really had very little to with this movie's production).

The world would be well-served if all prints of this movie could be destroyed. Forget weapons of mass destruction --- find the original negatives for this stinker and eliminate them. We will all be better off.

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Summary: Visually entertaining...
Review: This was a clever film with absolutely brilliant special F/X. Here we also see a pre-Bond Pierce Brosnan. I found it very slow in places and often confusing, but still good.

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Summary: Good movie
Review: This was a good science fiction movie and I don't know why it got such a bad wrap. In the beginning it seemed very stupid and it started slow but it became very interesting and I became completely engrossed in it. By the end of the film I was dying to see the sequel. My only complaint is that the special effects of virtual reality looked incredibly cheesy and unadvanced. I guess that makes sense since it is seven years old. If they updated the movie with the computer graphics of today it would truly be stunning and exhilarating.

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Summary: Great Movie, Bad DVD
Review: To describe it in a few words the Lawnmower Man is an excellent movie with a great cast and intriguing plot. I first saw the movie on VHS and loved it. When I saw the DVD and looked on the back of the box to find it had twelve deleted scenes I was very excited. I immediatly purchased the DVD even though I already owned the movie on VHS. When I saw the deleted scenes however I was furious. They were just parts of the movie that had been taken out and called deleted scenes. Then I realized on the box of my original VHS movie it read "the Director's Cut". I can't believe that those scenes were completely removed when they seemed so critical to the plot; especially the part with Roscoe and the death of Caroline. The commentary on the disc is also misleading. I thought that I would hear a critic of the movie by maybe some famous critic like on the Dark City DVD(which had Roger Ebert). However the comentary talked nothing of any real elements of film such as imagry or allusion, it just seemed like a behind the scenes with the writers. Like I said the movie is fantastic but don't waste the money on the DVD until they come out with a directors cut. If you can't wait buy the directors cut on VHS.

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Summary: DVD release of "Lawnmower Man" butchers story line
Review: With the release of "Lawnmower Man" on DVD, important scenes have been removed and retired as useless extras on the opposite side of the disk. These scenes play an integral part of the original story line, and in comparison to the VHS release, the DVD version is drastically butchered. Why bother; put them back in the movie where they belong to preseve the movie's original essence. You should not have to put a movie back together like a puzzle!