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a kennedy

(33,956 posts) Fri Jun 20, 2025, 01:32 PM Jun 20

Johnny Mnemonic anyone???

Gotta love Keanu Reeves eh?? A 1995 movie about the future of 2021!!!!! Kinda interesting tho. and ok, it got a horrible tomatoes rating, 20% and a 31% popcornmeter rating.

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Johnny Mnemonic anyone??? (Original Post) a kennedy Jun 20 OP

I do! Bayard Jun 20 #1

+1Johnny Mnemonic justaprogressive Jun 20 #2

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Saw it just a couple of days ago. Mostly disappointed. eppur_se_muova Jun 21 #4

Bayard

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1. I do!

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Fri Jun 20, 2025, 02:22 PM

Jun 20

justaprogressive

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2. +1Johnny Mnemonic

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Fri Jun 20, 2025, 02:56 PM

Jun 20

Have a copy...

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eppur_se_muova

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4. Saw it just a couple of days ago. Mostly disappointed.

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Sat Jun 21, 2025, 03:11 AM

Jun 21

The whole premise of the movie is thoroughly outdated, of course -- all that effort to move 320GB of data looks silly in the age of BluRay, thumb drives, advanced encryption and dark Internet.

Frankly -- and this may have been just due to the usual toxic effect of Hollywood on anything it touches -- it came down to a sequence of ultra-violent episodes punctuated by a certain amount of suspense.

I've always been impressed with William Gibson's works, so it's not surprising to read that there was lots of studio meddling in the product before release, leaving something that neither the scriptwriter (Gibson) or producer felt was what they had envisioned.

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