Johnny Mnemonic - What's the Difference?
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- Опубліковано 22 тра 2019
- Johnny Mnemonic, Keanu Reeves' second best character named John, may not be the high water mark of his career, but it's a significant piece of sci-fi nonetheless. Cyberpunk pioneer William Gibson's original short story about a data trafficker with a time bomb in his headset the stage for decades worth of movie tropes you know and love. So how does a Sci-Fi classic turn into a great piece of mid-90's guilty pleasure cinema? It's time to ask What's the Difference?
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Watched Johnny Mnemonic way too young, saw the smooth transition to The Matrix.
Now John Wick.
I Can't wait for more Badassery from Keanu Reeves
Man of Tai Chi
Was great.
The third Bill And Ted is going to be a shock to you!
Have you seen 47 Ronin?
tw06le1 now Cyberpunk 2077 😁
Toy story' 4
Ages ago, when I worked as a DJ, I heavily used samples from this movie. Especially Keanu saying "Loop it". Which took forever to clean the BG music out of.
Love the movie, despite all its flaws.
what flaws? this is such a good movie.
Still one of my favourite movies. It has everyone: Reeves, Meyer, Rollins, Lundgren, Kier, Ice-T, Beat Takeshi... Screenplay by the man himself. It's just glorious. Just. Glorious.
Funny how they predicted this virus
I love this movie
@Mr. Perfect Cell Same here, I'm hyped up to watch it on netflix.
Love it too
It had an incredible soundtrack. Stabbing Westward, God Lives Underwater, KMFDM, Orbital and Helmet.
I might just be a weirdo but I love Johnny Mnemonic it is one of my favorite movies!
Me too 😎
I love this movie and I have this as my personal on DVD, I love it.
Yes my frend, it is called "nostalgia attachment". I too like this movie, but i do realize that if i hadn't seen it in my teenage years and just saw it now i would probably think it is shit. The acting is gawd awful man, but the atmosphere is cyberpunk AF! Probably gonna watch it again thanks to this Cyberpunk 2077 hype.
@@mancamiatipoola yup me too.
I remember thinking as a kid that it was a super highbrow movie id never understand
I love Johnny Mnemonic and I will continue to argue that it's (sadly) still the best representation of CyberPunk as a genre in film.
Fuck yeah. I couldn't care what anyone else thinks about this movie; it is legendary in my book!
Silly campy movies are awesome. I dont know why people judge them so harshly.
@@ShumaiAxeman Because some people can't grasp the idea of dystopia and some people are just boring. I can list loads of Cyberpunk films nobody I know has watched
Tob1 Kadach1 please by all means, list them! I really liked this movie
This film along with The Thirteenth Floor and Strange Days are criminally underrated. All brilliant films and I've only watched them in the past 5 or 6 years, way after I watched films like The Matrix and Total Recall
Strange days, yes, but this was really not very good.
Been thinking about this movie a lot since 2077 dropped, since they both share eerily similar plots and both feature Keanu Reeves as a dude named Johnny
wtf did I just witness? Time to watch this 4 dimensional masterpiece.
If you like campy scifi films it's awesome lol
And?
Love that movie. As a shadowrun gamer at the time it was like the second coming of christ to young me
Exactly! I haven't played Shadowrun since the late 90s, but I still absolutely love that whole universe. Oh how I dreamed of seeing a well made Shadowrun movie back then. This was the closest thing we ever got to that.
@@papaquonis Shadowrun even had that Monofilament Whip in the Cyberware Book ^^ So did my first character after watching the movie
Can't. handle. the. nostalgia.
Hope you saw Strange Days
Cyberpunk 2020... all the cyber... but no magic
Easily one of the best Whats The Differences ever. So much fun. Now I gotta watch Johnny Mnemonic again.
Still such a great film for one made in it's time. The same goes for Virtuosity with Denzel Washington and Rusell Crowe.
Who's here after cyberbunk trailer??? Im hyped!!
They totally stole the plot of Johnny Mnemonic for their game.
Cyberwhat? A/S/L? Got a URL?
@@djosearth3618 check for the videogame coming its called cyberpunk 2077 keanu appears at the end of the e3 trailer and is a major character in the game
Oh boy this comment didn’t age so well hahah “hyped “ 😂
She flexed her knees, white feet tensed on a flattened gas tank, and the Killing Floor began to heave in response. The sound it made was like a world ending, like the wires that hold heaven snapping and coiling across the sky.
William Gibson is my favourite! I love the incredible word pictures!
As I recall: They took one of the great street ninjas of cyberpunk and made her a whiny second bananna. Blech.
the term is street samurai, but: yeah.
"Molly Millions" is the same Molly from Neuromancer. She wasn't adapted into this film because they wanted to use the character for a Neuromancer movie that never got made.
It's true, they're still trying to make a Neuromancer film but I'm still waiting
@@Tob1Kadach1
Apple's on it, congratulations
I _need_ a _computer._
"I WANT ROOM SERVICE!!!
I want a cold mexican beer, I want a 16,000 dollar a night hooker, I wants my shirts laundered... like they do... at the imperial hotel... in Tokyo".
The Sneezing Picture greatest comment and profile picture/name combo on UA-cam
I can't believe i've never heard of this movie
It's actually pretty good
You're not missing anything. It's truly horrific.
If external flash drives were invented earlier, Johnny wont have to worry about his memory
Was that motherfucking Henry Rollins? EDIT: I can't stop laughing, that's amazing.
London Jolly
Rollins recently did a movie called He Never Died, that’s pretty good.
He played a cop in The Chase from the 90s.
They cast him to make Keanu Reeves' acting look good.
"Johnny Mnemonic, Keanu Reeves' second best character named John"
so Utah is 3rd then?
Point Break!
Nope, 3rd is Silverhand. Utah has been pushed down to 4th
Jackson Carter are we sure Silverhand is only 3rd? He might end up bumping Mnemonic down a notch too.
Alastair I hope so! I’m just being realistic. There’s so many things that I was thrilled for, that just destroyed me when they didn’t live up to my expectations. Just ask my bank account about when Fallout 76 opened up preorders. But yeah, with all the news coming out of the game, it does look good
Or Constantine.
I actually liked this movie, though I will admit that I was a teenager when I saw it, but I enjoyed it.
Decker on the run with a fighter bodyguard from a yakuza assassin in a futuristic dystopia with redundant side characters sound like a game of Shadowrun run by a Game Master who have too many NPCs and too many ideas.
You do realize Shadowrun was literally "What if Gibbson and Tolkein got merged?" right?
@@Just_A_Dude Yeah. But what I wrote up there was my first thought when I watched the video. Shadowrun was more than a Gibbson and Tolkien fusion. It incorporated every mythological, spiritual and religious beliefs in it too. They made the Shadowrun world as much as Tolkien books.
I still like it as a cheesy, guilty pleasure 90s movie, lol. I was born in '88 so I experienced all of the 90s and get nostalgic for it sometimes. This is like a perfect encapsulation of the 90s, lol ;)
Eh, _Johnny Mnemonic_ is something of a guilty pleasure for mee, mostly because of Lungdren and Takeshi's characters. Its fun enough to help forget how dumb it is. In all seriousness though, I would like to see _Neuromancer_ and especially _Snow Crash_ adapted into (good) films.
That would be great. Maybe Denis Villeneuve could pull that off.
@@vendettapopetta Ooooooooooo, good choice of director!
This film was criticized by critics and fans but I adore this type of films. I love Johnny Mnemonic
Every time I get a chance to put on VR goggles, or any kind of headgear that vagely resembles Johnny's headset, I immediately assume his threatening claw fingers pose, growling, "I could crash you from here, Strike! Wipe out your entire fucking board!"
4:10 that's Dina Meyer from STARSHIP TROOPERS, isn't it?
Yes, she was gorgeous during this period of her career. So if you're a fan of hers check it out.
Yup. Her character "Jane" was ok but it's too bad they didn't have Molly in there, wonder why they took her out of the movie version.
joesinister I think it had to do with another company owning the rights to Neuromancer and therefore the character of Molly M. That’s why she’s basically the same but with a different name.
I love Jonny mnemonic too. Thanks guys
i liked that movie the story was interesting ... OK! movie could of been a lot better but forget about the bad production and the base of the movie is good ( my opinion ) .
One of my favorite movies off all time. I was too ahead of its time.
i love corny sci-fi from the 90s!
you should do 'freejack' (1992) next :)
Yoooo, I forgot about that movie so completely that when I read your comment my brain cramped as it flashed back into my head. O.O And now I wanna watch it again. lol
I waited 20 minutes for this shit?
Mick Jagger's biggest acting gig outside of being a musician. In my opinion.
@Braappy McBraapface Nemesis (1992)
I was so excited to see William Gibson come to the screen that I probably didn't want to admit to myself for years what a let down it was. You can say that studios had exploited cyberpunk, for me it felt like they had barely scratched the surface of cyberpunk's possibilities, To me the only truly perfect cyberpunk was the original Ghost in the Shell. Johnny Mnemonic was just what we had to get by on until The Matrix came out. Still, the VHS case remains the coolest packaging ever for VHS.
I've loved Keanu ever since I knew he existed so I enjoy everything he does. But I also love scifi and I think there's still something of a core left in this movie even if the execution is not so great.
I watched it three times in three days on its first release. I love it.
Fun Fact: I bought this movie for like 2 bucks. I laughed my ass off the whole time. I had no idea it was "based" on a short story though.
Yeah it's a short story prequel to Neuromancer and the rest of the Sprawl Trilogy. Fun fact Billy Idol's 1993 album Cyberpunk was inspired by Neuromancer
@@Tob1Kadach1 cool stuff. I'll have to go find them now.
I've seen it and loved it and have watched it more than once since it came outwhen i was a teen
You gotta hand it to Keanu, he's always in innovative stuff.
i saw this opening night when i was 18. i have owned it on VHS, laserdisc, dvd and blu-ray. this is one of my all time favorite movies. i think i will go watch it now. thanks!!
This is screaming for a remake closer to the source materials! 🤓
I'd rather they just went ahead with making Neuromancer a movie already
The entire Sprawl series.
Where'd y'all go? No new vids in forever
What about the 1999 cyberpunk classic Strange Days? Love that one!
I loved this movie. Still one of my fav Keanu Reeves roles, followed close by his role in Freaks.
Thumbs up before the video start cuz what's the difference is always beyond awesome
Could you do a “What’s the Difference” on The Odyssey and the 2006 film Penelope?
Sure, O Brother Where Art Thou is an interesting adaptation by the Coen Brothers, but I’ve never wanted anything so much as discussions on how a fantastical fairytale-esque romcom retells Homer’s epic in fascinating new ways, where the heroine is Odysseus, Telemachus, and Penelope rolled into one & reinterpreted. Instead of the wandering man’s journey home, it is the constrained female journeying afar; instead of the son’s coming of age by rebuking his mother and asserting himself as master of the household, it is a daughter escaping from the well meaning oppression of hers and finding independence outside. The suitors after a dowry, the sorceress’s pig curse, the blinded “cyclops”, the adventures framed in that the most fantastical parts are being told by the “hero/heroine” him/herself to a credulous audience (royal court/kindergarten class), et cetera.
I think it’s fascinating, at any rate
I love these! If you guys could do the Poseidon adventure vs it’s 1972 counterpart that would be amazing! Keep up the amazing vids- Z
Liggy bone bone. Because ligaments tie bones to bones. Liggy bone bone.
-Johnny mnemonic device
Wouldn't it be bone liggy bone?
I would love to see The Count of Monte Cristo in this series.
(Though it is a lot of material)
Holy shit how long has it been!? Nice to hear your voice.
I don't care what anyone else says, this is still one of my guilty pleasure movie I watch at least once a year or so, along with Hackers which I own on VHS, VCD, and DVD lol!
HACK THE PLANET!!!
@@antheathetiefling8581 Technicolor rainbow!!!
An ad for Cyberpunk 2077 played before this video did. He will never not be associated with the cyberpunk asthetic
I saw this film about a year before release, several unfinished scenes, some "Insert Scene Here"'s, and still showing blue screens waiting for inserts, I loved it. I spent the next year telling friends about it and then had to apologize as the finished film was barely the same as what I had seen.
Turns out that the Focus Groups and the studio were followed completely, always a bad idea, and the production team split and never worked together again over this film.
The Japanese edit of the film, available on torrents, is quite better than the US, world release and is closer to my original screening.
Have fun!
It happens. There's a workprint for Hard Target that's like watching an entirely different film. By the time John Woo got done caving in to all the studio demands it was like any random Hollywood action director could have done it and you'd never know the difference.
Now thats enough bad mouthing of Jonny M. One of my fave films. Had its probs but better than the endless remakes now
I saw this in the theater when I was a kid. Love it.
people should stop picking on johnny mnemonic....its one of my favorite films.......no i aint kiddin......lol......i love it.....
ah yes the 80s and 90s....the era where we all thought our corporate overlords would have scary names like zaibatsu heavy industries and tyrell corp but in reality we're all slave to companies with shit names like amazon and disney
I can carry nearly eighty gigs of data in my head.
Recently rewatched it, still an underrated Sci-Fi film
I actually watched this movie again and again as it was rerun on TV and I was never bored or not entertained. I know it is not a good movie and it barely deserves the name adaptation, but I liked it every time I watched it.
There's actually a pretty decent novelization of Gibson's Johnny Mnemonic short story by Terry Bisson that Gibson contributed to. It fills a lot of plot holes in the movie, and sort of spells out the movie that Longo could have and should have made.
We haven't got a Neuromancer film yet. So this film is like the never made Neuromancer one.
2:00 Maybe you did not know it, but _Takahashi_ was played by *Takeshi Kitano* man 👊
Aang beat Takeshi!
Love the connection to Neuromancer, which is obv. the best, sorry, my favorite cyberpunk-book ... ever.
13% On RT for this movie is exactly why I don't use RT for ANY suggestions on movies. I love this movie.
◼️◾️◼️◾️ Rollins never talks about this. I wonder why?
When you've lived a life as badass as his, this sort of thing is pretty forgettable.
Now I really want to see a 90s cyberpunk films video. This is on the list, along with Virtuosity, The 13th Floor, eXistenZ, Strange Days...
All great films! The Thirteenth Floor is criminally underrated
5:10 "His jacked up..Jesus Christ!" I lol'd
I would love to see you do some more of these on the other Walking Dead seasons since there are now so many differences.
Why is this 13% on Rotten Tomatoes? I remember renting the movie in the 90s and loving it.
Hahaha!
I saw the movie and STILL don’t understand the breakdown you just gave!
That’s awesome!
Almost 4 years later and I'm still waiting for "The Walking Dead (Season 4) - What's the Difference?"...
The most replayed part of this video is people like me trying to pause the video so they can read the list of tropes
A cult classic. The effects in this movie is old, but the concept and story is on point.
According to Gibson himself, (who actually did some work on the script) the character of Molly was included in the film rights to the movie version of Neuromancer (which will never be made) and so they had to replace her character with a another female bodyguard character for this film.
"YOU GOT PARENTS AND STUFF" What? I laughed my ass off
Love your vid
More double features?
More lists?
Just more please. Love u guys
Jhonny Mnemonic have the true and perfect Cyberpunk genere /world setting. Every other so called "cyberpunk" movie is just cyberpunk-ish. (Nirvana 1997 is close too but not as precise).
kinda disagree 'cause cyberpunk is a core genre, so it will have its own interpretations & styles to it, just like fantasy for example.
Although, I am really hoping a Neuromancer will get a movie or show adaptation in my life time LOL
I loved this film as a kid and I still do. It was the first film I watched which wasn’t child friendly and pre-teen me loved it! 😂
When is best movie antiheroes coming?
Damn i feel like a begger, sorry about that.
The first step to recovery is knowing you have a problem 😂😂😂😂😂
This was lit asf.
Bruh I was like 10 when i seen this i remember the VHS cassette came with a dope, foil, and see-through cover 😎😂
Such a gem of flick!!
Johnny Mnemonic is one of the best Cyberpunk movies ever 💯
Such an underrated film, and an interesting one. I originally watched this in the January of 2021 again, as the film, and the original story takes place at that time. Real amazing, how they thought about how 2021 would be, and I guess they got something right, and I would say it would be the "Pandemic/Sickness". But in all honesty, a very interesting film, with a great cast especially with Ice T, and a young Keanu. Overall, great storyline, characters, and soundtrack added to it. It's worth watching, but you'd find how "interesting" this movie really is, literally. Kind of hard to describe this film, but as said it deserves its credit especially for a 1995 film, and worth a watch.
This movie was actually a fun movie and It's crazy that Keanu Reeves was made for this Cyberpunk distopyian genre.
That Yakuza boss was in MXC or known as Takashi's castle in Japan (I believe that's how it's spelled). He was also in that anime live action adaption movie with Scarlett Johanson.
Man 320 GB in the 90s is like 100 TB in today's standards. 1 ps1 memory card was 1 MB so thats 320,000 of them in a 320GB hard drive!!!
I have seen it and loved it...
I jst watched this movie. The idea is pretty good
Would you consider doing a "what's the difference" for The Prince of Egypt?
Tough call. They have done many interpretations of the story like 12 Commandments. most recently there was another one done.
I saw it in the theater!
Of course, the biggest change this movie made is taking it from the late 20th century Sprawl to the year 2021. Oddly, while the short story took place in the same universe as his Sprawl trilogy, the movie take place in the same universe as his Bridge trilogy. There was a single line in one of those books where a character talks about NAS having taken place sometime in the past.
I actually liked this movie, it was probably the gateway to my love for all things cyberpunk.
The waves..no good ..that was so key
So...no mention of the handmade shotgun Johnny brings to a meeting and uses to get out of a stand-off? That was one thing that stood out to me, aside from the trampoline thing.
i haven’t seen johnny mnemonic, but even in a split second clip i can spot jones the modded heroine addicted dolphin
Would any of you would like a New, more accurate adaptation of the short story, but still starring Keanu Reeves?
You guys should do what's the difference The Stand
"I want the Club Sandwich! I want the Cold Mexican Beer! I WANT A TENTHOUSANDDOLLARANIGHT *HOOKER!!!* "
I like this movie. I have read the short story after watching the movie since I saw the movie when I was younger. I feel the movie should have been made in the 80s I think we might have gotten something closer to the source material. Not a 💯 but closer
Can you make a top 10 list of where the main characters/protagonist die/lose