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In lugnet.castle, Mark Sandlin wrote:
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Johnny Mnemonic was based on a short story by William Gibson. It bombed at
the theatre, because I think most people just didn’t get it. Yeah, it’s
corny, but one of my guilty pleasures. I think its corniness is one of the
things I like about it. :D
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Ah, the old “didn’t get” it trump card. What about those of us who did get
it (and paid to see it in the theater!) but still didn’t like it? 8^)
It was cool to see Henry Rollins as a streetdoc, though. And the monofilament
whip was nifty...
Dave!
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| (...) Well, what about you? I'm not trying to say it's a great movie that was just misunderstood by the general public. It's a hokey corny movie that was misunderstood. I don't think the average moviegoer knew what 75% of the stuff in the movie was (...) (20 years ago, 5-Mar-04, to lugnet.castle, lugnet.space, lugnet.general, FTX)
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| (...) Actually, the monofilament whip was a HUGE letdown for me - in fact, given that everyone else I knew had already seen the movie and told me not to see it because it was crap, I went in with very low expectations for the movie as whole, and on (...) (20 years ago, 9-Mar-04, to lugnet.castle, lugnet.space, lugnet.general, FTX)
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| (...) Bicentennial Man was (not faithfully) adapted from Asimov's short story of the same name, as well as his novel The Positronic Man. Supposedly there are talks of doing something with Asimov's Foundation series, and I Robot is currently filming (...) (20 years ago, 5-Mar-04, to lugnet.castle, lugnet.space, lugnet.general, FTX)
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