While I was listening to this video and doing something else at the same time, I heard the line “I want room service!“ Followed immediately by a DoorDash ad. I’ve never seen the movie so I honestly thought this was just a really aggressive ad lol
His "I WANT ROOM SERVICE!" rant is one I have * mostly * memorized and I go into it when I'm overly stressed and I know the only way out is through. It's something that even during the hardest times can give me a moment to laugh at... and when I've done it with whoever is going through that time with me generally takes us out of the moment, even if just for a moment. BUT That's freakin' hilarious...
Funnily enough, Johnny Silverhand is the 7th character Reeves will voice who's named John. (Johnny Utah in Point Break, Jonathan Harker in the '92 adpation of Bram Stoker's Dracula, Johnny Mnemonic, John Constantine, John in Generation Um... (which is really bad, don't watch it) and John Wick are the other ones he's played) Maybe 8 if you count him playing Don John in the '93 adaptation of Much Ado About Nothing.
@@D0cSwiss oh, Generation Um... is the _only_ bad movie, there, huh? *cough* Constantine *cough* (also, you forgot his characters in Babes in Toyland and Speed, which were all named "Jack", which is a diminutive form of "John"). So, all told, that makes 11 characters.
One thing I loved about Molly in Neuromancer (haven't read Johnny Mnemonic) is that she's sort of the the codifier for a trope that ended up being seen as very male, this anti-hero 'street samurai' with a tragic past and motivated by the death of a lover. I also really enjoyed how her cybernetics didn't look pretty or appealing, the lenses are actually kinda freaky.
"a trope that ended up being seen as very male, " This is actually easy to explain - Cyberpunk and Shadowrun RPG Players were overwhelmingly Male aged between 13 and 30 in an era where playing a female character was seen by many as admitting to being well you know. - So of course most played Male Characters and the Street Samurai was especially the choice of the more shall we say "Macho Wannabes". - It's just like why the Conan style Barbarian was so common amongst D&D players.
If you can, track down the Japanese home video cut of the movie. The Japanese distributors were allowed to make their own cut of the movie and they chose to include a fair number of deleted scenes, most of them involving the Japanese actors in the movie. As a side benefit, this also alters the tone of the movie substantially and brings it more in line with Gibson and Longo's original vision. Not quite a Director's Cut, but very much worth a watch.
Johnny's breakdown rant is one of my favourite acting moments, unironically. He's kind of a jerk for most/all of the movie, he's the guy walking though a ragged mob while wearing a tux, he's saving money to get out of the business while staying at classy hotels. When he nearly dies from a flaming car dropped on him by a couple of goofs he just loses it. Johnny howls out just how completely out of place he is in this whole life and death, save the world adventure. This has been the worst day (XX? hours) of his life and he throws an honest to goodness tantrum like the snooty, lip-curling, privileged 5% that he is. And then he's done. Like lancing a boil and letting all the ichor jet out until it's empty. Both he and the audience enter the final act of the movie scoured and ready.
I sometimes imagine a world where Johnny Mnemonic was a good movie and it ushered in a great era of William Gibson based movies and tv shows. Unfortunately that never happened.....
I was in full blown "I ❤ KEANU REEVES" mode when this movie came out. I was 9 and even then I knew the movie wasn't good, but I still liked it because it was so silly. Keanu Reeves has had a long journey in his career and I'm so happy everyone else has seen the light and come to love him.
@@ReddwarfIV I know, I'm making a joke about how in 2014 PETA had an adoption rate of 1% because the other 99% of the pets they "rescued" died in their care.
"The world, and in particular America, has gone downhill..." I legit didn't realize you'd started talking about the book's premise and was like, "Yes, go on."
The Dom's version of "the jacked-up son of the Almighty's death wail" is possibly the best thing I've seen on this channel. And that's a damned high bar it surpassed.
I loved this movie when I saw it in theaters. It made me go out and read the short story. I love the short story. I still love the movie. Yeah, it’s a bad adaptation but god, I just love this movie. Johnny’s rant after the flaming car dropped just puts a smile on my face. Such an absurd and fun movie. Thanks for the comparison. I just found your channel and I love this content. Keep it up.
That plot point about a pharmaceutical company suppressing the cure for a common disease, while a cyber-activist tries to harass the CEO into doing the right thing, is remarkably similar to the backstory from the anime _Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex._ Seriously, you should watch it if you want to see that premise in a good story.
I suppose it must be one of the easiest stories to tell, if you're looking for a dystopian, corporations-bad story to tell. It's so blatantly, brutally heartless and immoral, and yet it's not cartoonish: there's a clear, simple and believable profit motive And best of all, it exposes the lie behind capitalism. The profit motive is supposed to drive companies to make our lives better, but it doesn't really work that way
nah, it's not the same.... Ironically in a film about a "dystopian" future an executive of a mega corporation had a brief moment of humanity and cared about other people. That's something that doesn't happen in real life in Google (or pharmaceutical companies for that matter) where absolutely nothing is done if it's not going to be profitable at some point or serves as advertisement or PR Stunt
@@theguardian8317 See also Jeff Bazos being confronted with the fact that he had more money than he could ever personally spend, and concludes that the only worthwhile use of that fortune would be space travel. I'm not saying getting into space isn't a worthwhile goal - I would like to have space colonies and whatnot - but rather that Bezos is apparently profoundly out of touch that he never considered _paying his employees more_ to be worth his fortune.
@@abadenoughdude300 Well, it'll eventually get patched to completion, so we're all gonna be screwed then...well, our kids and grandkids will be anyway.
Too be fair about the CG "hacking" scenes from 90's movies, William Gibson's description of hacking in cyberspace is pretty much on par with that, although with probably better graphics. The whole climax of Neuromancer revolves around that kind of scenario.
My favorite fact I learned about William Gibson is that despite being a influential sci fi writer........he didn't have that much of a grasp of technology at the time. It is once said when he finally bought a computer he immediately took it back and complained about the noise it was making. The person at the store had to tell him 'The noise is the fan, it needs it to work'. William seemed to write his sci fi based on how he FELT technology should work rather then a extensive working knowledge which is kind of inspiring. I think that's why his work is so entertaining to read. Many approach sci fi from a place of knowledge of science of technology but Gibson seemed to approach it from a standpoint of how much he loved the IDEA of technology and science and just RAN with it.
Gibson was fantastic about being vague about the actual specs of tech in his Neuromancer Trilogy. The specific decks considered first-drops-of-blood bleeding edge in the previous book are given the “I can’t believe we used to think this was high tech” treatment. IIRC, by the last book, they mention that Fisher-Price toys use better tech that what was in the experimental comp from the first book.
Despite what a lot of people say, this movie was actually pretty close to the short story. Sure, names were changed, characters and situations were added, but the general idea is still very much alive in this adaptation. I'll never understand why this movie bombed in the theaters, although I still dont understand why people don't like the Super Mario Bros movie as far as it being a weird and innovative flick rather than a true adaptation, so take my opinion with a whole fist full of salt. I love this movie, enjoyed William Gibson's short story, and even liked the FMV game on PC that was an exact retelling of this story with all different actors (Issac Hayes as J-Bone was awesome). Always enjoyed your work, Dom. This is no exception. Too bad I got to it so late. Thumbs up, bro.
I'm reading the neuroamcer trilogy at the moment and i was like "Wait a minuet! Molly? Molly is in this story?" Now i have to read the short story as well.
Idk about a whole series, or even a mini series. If the original story was as short as Dom claimed, it sounds like a single episode of an anthology show a la Black Mirror would be best
Are you planning to ever do a lost in adaptation on the Good Omens show comparing it to the book? I really want to hear your opinion and what you thought of the show now that it's out.
He said when it came out that he was waiting for the copyright bots to calm down. I'm not sure exactly how much time it is, but I give it at least a year.
8:40 - it's bit of a shame that Hollywood is only willing to do BIG BUDGET films these days. They know their industry more than I do, but I feel they could make a space somewhere for smaller films. Perhaps it is because movies don't just compete with movies, but ALL forms of modern entertainment. Gone of the "good ole' days" where the only entertainment was The Book of Numbers.
Dolph Lundgren is (like in many films) the best thing about this film. Together with the cyber-dolphin. His deathwail is just how much he cares about pain in general.
Thank you, Dom, for slowing down your commentary, at least in this video. In most of your previous videos, your commentary was so fast that I often didn't have time to fully process one point before you moved on to the next one. Keep up the good work. I appreciate what you do from the other side of the Pond.
I accidently walk onto the set of Johnny Mnemonic. I was out for a walk near Toronto's Union Station. I walked into the station to get to the subway and suddenly found myself surrounded by an epic set piece, with hospital gurneys strewn about and huge shafts of light coming in from the station's high windows. And it was completely deserted! Not a soul in sight! I walked around and checked out the details of the entire set all by myself. There was a food kiosk section in the middle of the set that was especially detailed. There was actual toast in a toaster BEHIND the counter where the camera couldn't even see it. The whole thing was gorgeous! And maybe...MAYBE...only 5% of it ended up on screen. Eventually an extra popped out from behind a wall in the distance. I asked him what was going on and he said everybody was on break (including, apparently, all the security people). The next day at my job pouring coffee, a customer mentioned to me that he was working as an extra on a film down at Union Station called Johnny Mnemonic. I freaked! I had read the story a couple of years earlier and was still a total cyberpunk junkie at the time. You can imagine my letdown at seeing the finished product.
Pick up the whole burning chrome short story collection, there are alot of good stories in it. "Fragments of a holographic rose" and the "gurnsback (sp?) continuum" both really stand out in my memory.
Neuromancer did provide its own example of why it's best to avoid specific amounts of data, with Case trying to find a buyer for three megabytes of hot RAM.
I did the “room service” rant as a monologue in a high school drama class because why the hell not. I also use the “come to Jesus” line knowing full well no one will ever know what I’m talking about lmao
Sometimes authors just do weird things to their work when adapting it. John Green once said that while writing a film adaptation of his own book An Abundance of Katherines he completely changed it and even had the protagonist fall for a different person, which is the main plot of the book.
Honestly the movie sounds better. The book sounds like a chapter in Molly's story. It makes sense to add more plot so as to justify the movie's existence, and to make Johnny more action-y, to make it feel like he actually should be the protagonist.
At least they kept the cyborg dolphin. That was the most memorable thing for me. I'm not sure my rpg crew would have met a cyborg elephant if it wasn't for that.
I was fascinated by the intellectual discussion, following along perfectly, and then I saw Henry Rollins. My brain shut off faster than it ever has before. I screamed "IS THAT HENRY ROLLINS???" out loud by myself.
Why are you so amazing Dom there's just something about your videos which just connect to me and no it's not pointing out changes adaptations to people in real life to make me look like a literature snob 😆
Johnny Mnemonic is an all-time classic for me👌👍 the soundtrack is one of my favorite soundtracks of all time! Acts like kmfdm, Stabbing Westward, God lives underwater, Bono and the edge, orbital, cop shoot cop🎹🎸🎧💫😵👌👍
I just stumbled onto your channel a few days ago and have been watching your newer videos, but I am DELIGHTED to find that you did this book and movie. Both were my first introduction in Cyberpunk because my dad is a big nerd. We almost bought the animationic Jonesy when he went for auction years ago!
That is an absolutely stunning tie pin my good man. Where ever did you find such a thing? Could it possibly be from the Etsy store of one Pushing Up Roses, per chance? (Seriouisly, I've never thought of using enamel pins as a tie pin and now I have so many regrets over the many pins I could've bought...)
I really liked this movie growing up, and bought it on Blu Ray recently to show some friends. I'm not sure it's a good movie, but it is quite enjoyable, if only for how weird it gets sometimes, and how 90's future it gets at others.
It's so great to hear about the silly-old 1990's fear of cellphone signals...a year before 5G fears spread through the conspiracy-prone. Thanks for another great video!
So long and thanks for all the horse. I'm jacked up and shaky cause of course...I am a junkie and a dolphin, even Flipper did speed...so long so long so long and thanks for all the horse!
And why is it only just occuring to me that this is video about a cyber punk movie starring a man who has been considered the best bit of or only good bit of Cyberpunk 2077
"[The gmo dolphin] has all the heroin he could ever want" is a sentence I never thought would happen
And it is a GLORIOUS sentence. Never realized I needed it in my life :)
This video has all the good quotes. I also love "Robo-Jesus doesn't care about half the Earth population and just wants to save himself"
If there's something I learned about humans and fiction is that ANY sentence will happen.
Strangely enough...
www.cracked.com/blog/an-infamous-nasa-experiment-involved-horny-dolphin-lsd/
"Swanky aquarium" is now my favorite phrase.
While I was listening to this video and doing something else at the same time, I heard the line “I want room service!“ Followed immediately by a DoorDash ad. I’ve never seen the movie so I honestly thought this was just a really aggressive ad lol
😂
That's interactive ads.
Omg mine did that too! I cracked up at the irony.
Damn, I saw this before I watched the video and was really hopeful...but I got a Miller Lite commercial featuring the Dallas Cowboys. Much disappoint.
His "I WANT ROOM SERVICE!" rant is one I have * mostly * memorized and I go into it when I'm overly stressed and I know the only way out is through. It's something that even during the hardest times can give me a moment to laugh at... and when I've done it with whoever is going through that time with me generally takes us out of the moment, even if just for a moment.
BUT
That's freakin' hilarious...
Keanu Reeves playing a character called Johnny in a cyberpunk universe. How very breathtaking.
@Drew Taylor partially, Johny Silverhand is also a character from the Cyberpunk tabletop RPG that the game is based
Whoa.
Funnily enough, Johnny Silverhand is the 7th character Reeves will voice who's named John.
(Johnny Utah in Point Break, Jonathan Harker in the '92 adpation of Bram Stoker's Dracula, Johnny Mnemonic, John Constantine, John in Generation Um... (which is really bad, don't watch it) and John Wick are the other ones he's played)
Maybe 8 if you count him playing Don John in the '93 adaptation of Much Ado About Nothing.
@@D0cSwiss Maybe he just has a very "John"/"Johnny" looking face?
@@D0cSwiss oh, Generation Um... is the _only_ bad movie, there, huh? *cough* Constantine *cough* (also, you forgot his characters in Babes in Toyland and Speed, which were all named "Jack", which is a diminutive form of "John"). So, all told, that makes 11 characters.
What a beautiful tie pin.
I read “pie tin” and was very confused…
Considering the size i think what Johnny stole might have been the yakuzas copy of Cyberpunk 2077
But why would they throw several guys at him to get THAT back?
Nah, it was their copy Guy Ga Gotoku 7.
@@Ugly_German_Truths uhhh 2077 is going to be 2020 GOTY bro. HAVE YOU SEEN ANY OF THE HYPE??!
@@ABLEARC No? Falling prey to the hype is so late nineties anyway :-p
@@ABLEARC well. That comment aged badly.
One thing I loved about Molly in Neuromancer (haven't read Johnny Mnemonic) is that she's sort of the the codifier for a trope that ended up being seen as very male, this anti-hero 'street samurai' with a tragic past and motivated by the death of a lover. I also really enjoyed how her cybernetics didn't look pretty or appealing, the lenses are actually kinda freaky.
I've read that trope for so many women that when I see a cool samurai women I know she lost a lover
@@shepard1175 That's how angsty anti-heroes roll.
So.....gender appropriation?! 🤪
"a trope that ended up being seen as very male, "
This is actually easy to explain - Cyberpunk and Shadowrun RPG Players were overwhelmingly Male aged between 13 and 30 in an era where playing a female character was seen by many as admitting to being well you know.
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So of course most played Male Characters and the Street Samurai was especially the choice of the more shall we say "Macho Wannabes".
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It's just like why the Conan style Barbarian was so common amongst D&D players.
Bizzarely from an outsiders point of view I've seen more female characters that fit that trope than male characters
"Keanu Reeves is an actor who is only as good as the director" just explains so much.
True. That's why John Wick sucks
@@pnut3844ableyou've chosen death, pnut
"I WANT... ROOM SERVICE!!!" is my favorite line from the movie. I love the insane line delivery. So crazy. So fun.
As i said to my dad when he read me Johnny Mnemonic as a kid
“Its basically a video game escort mission from the escort NPCs point of view”
If you can, track down the Japanese home video cut of the movie. The Japanese distributors were allowed to make their own cut of the movie and they chose to include a fair number of deleted scenes, most of them involving the Japanese actors in the movie. As a side benefit, this also alters the tone of the movie substantially and brings it more in line with Gibson and Longo's original vision. Not quite a Director's Cut, but very much worth a watch.
Johnny's breakdown rant is one of my favourite acting moments, unironically. He's kind of a jerk for most/all of the movie, he's the guy walking though a ragged mob while wearing a tux, he's saving money to get out of the business while staying at classy hotels. When he nearly dies from a flaming car dropped on him by a couple of goofs he just loses it.
Johnny howls out just how completely out of place he is in this whole life and death, save the world adventure. This has been the worst day (XX? hours) of his life and he throws an honest to goodness tantrum like the snooty, lip-curling, privileged 5% that he is. And then he's done. Like lancing a boil and letting all the ichor jet out until it's empty. Both he and the audience enter the final act of the movie scoured and ready.
I sometimes imagine a world where Johnny Mnemonic was a good movie and it ushered in a great era of William Gibson based movies and tv shows. Unfortunately that never happened.....
I was about to say the back stories sound interesting but.... They changed so much but KEPT THE DOLPHIN???? I was not expecting that.
I was in full blown "I ❤ KEANU REEVES" mode when this movie came out. I was 9 and even then I knew the movie wasn't good, but I still liked it because it was so silly. Keanu Reeves has had a long journey in his career and I'm so happy everyone else has seen the light and come to love him.
Actually, PETA in that world is waging all-out war to exterminate all corrupted dolphins.
Either that or their Dolphin recovery rate after capturing the cyber-dolphins would by like 1%.
@@Avengedtenfold Srećko Čuvalo
is making a point about PETA's absurdly high kill ratio for animals left in their care.
Which is something I could easily see PETA doing.
@@ReddwarfIV I know, I'm making a joke about how in 2014 PETA had an adoption rate of 1% because the other 99% of the pets they "rescued" died in their care.
@@Avengedtenfold Ah.
"The world, and in particular America, has gone downhill..."
I legit didn't realize you'd started talking about the book's premise and was like, "Yes, go on."
Super intelligen dolphiins with heroin addiction and body armor. I love cyberpunk.
Who doesn't!?
The Dom's version of "the jacked-up son of the Almighty's death wail" is possibly the best thing I've seen on this channel. And that's a damned high bar it surpassed.
This is one of my favorite movies, unironically
I loved this movie when I saw it in theaters. It made me go out and read the short story. I love the short story. I still love the movie. Yeah, it’s a bad adaptation but god, I just love this movie. Johnny’s rant after the flaming car dropped just puts a smile on my face. Such an absurd and fun movie. Thanks for the comparison. I just found your channel and I love this content. Keep it up.
That plot point about a pharmaceutical company suppressing the cure for a common disease, while a cyber-activist tries to harass the CEO into doing the right thing, is remarkably similar to the backstory from the anime _Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex._ Seriously, you should watch it if you want to see that premise in a good story.
I suppose it must be one of the easiest stories to tell, if you're looking for a dystopian, corporations-bad story to tell. It's so blatantly, brutally heartless and immoral, and yet it's not cartoonish: there's a clear, simple and believable profit motive
And best of all, it exposes the lie behind capitalism. The profit motive is supposed to drive companies to make our lives better, but it doesn't really work that way
Both the movie and book are some if the primary forces behind my creative vision and personal style. I owe much to them.
"Corporations and organized crime having long ago become far more powerful than any sort of democratic government" - so Google.
If merged with Uber.
nah, it's not the same.... Ironically in a film about a "dystopian" future an executive of a mega corporation had a brief moment of humanity and cared about other people. That's something that doesn't happen in real life in Google (or pharmaceutical companies for that matter) where absolutely nothing is done if it's not going to be profitable at some point or serves as advertisement or PR Stunt
@@theguardian8317 See also Jeff Bazos being confronted with the fact that he had more money than he could ever personally spend, and concludes that the only worthwhile use of that fortune would be space travel.
I'm not saying getting into space isn't a worthwhile goal - I would like to have space colonies and whatnot - but rather that Bezos is apparently profoundly out of touch that he never considered _paying his employees more_ to be worth his fortune.
"She has massive... cybernetic implants"
Not where I expected that sentence to go.
She's got huuuge... tracts of land.
@@ReddwarfIV Ah, a fellow man of culture, I see.
It might also be a little inside joke considering how she got the money for those implants
@@ReddwarfIV
Damn, you beat me to it! 😁
Honestly, I think we already ARE in the cyberpunk dystopia. Just, you know, a really _lame_ one.
We're going the Repo route but without the awesome rock opera
We're living in an early access version, where only the microtransactions engine is fully functional.
@@abadenoughdude300 Well, it'll eventually get patched to completion, so we're all gonna be screwed then...well, our kids and grandkids will be anyway.
This screams “I’m 14 and this is deep”
You best be believing in Cyberpunk dystopias - CAUSE YOURE IN ONE
So Dolph was killed by a dolphin. Im sure theres a joke in there somewhere
Dolph gives, dolph takes away.
Dolphin, Dolph out.
He was done (Dolph)in.
Dolph on Dolph crime
@@cindycarter199457 You win!
As much as I love Keanu, I would love a Molly Millions movie more.
Too be fair about the CG "hacking" scenes from 90's movies, William Gibson's description of hacking in cyberspace is pretty much on par with that, although with probably better graphics. The whole climax of Neuromancer revolves around that kind of scenario.
My favorite Keanu performance will forever remain his turn as the villainous Don John in Kenneth Branagh's Much Ado About Nothing
The Dom has a new video? "I NEED... A COMPUTER!"
I'm glad that in the book, the dolphin had a good ending. Sucks about Johnny, though.
My favorite fact I learned about William Gibson is that despite being a influential sci fi writer........he didn't have that much of a grasp of technology at the time. It is once said when he finally bought a computer he immediately took it back and complained about the noise it was making. The person at the store had to tell him 'The noise is the fan, it needs it to work'. William seemed to write his sci fi based on how he FELT technology should work rather then a extensive working knowledge which is kind of inspiring. I think that's why his work is so entertaining to read. Many approach sci fi from a place of knowledge of science of technology but Gibson seemed to approach it from a standpoint of how much he loved the IDEA of technology and science and just RAN with it.
That's fascinating, I think without that kind of imagination his stories wouldn't be as fun.
"I WANT ROOM SERVICE!!!"
With a club sandwich and the Mexican beer?
I'm not gonna lie, I unironically love this movie.
The book sounds like the best anime ever
Trivia: how many characters has Keanu Reeves has played a character called John or Johnny?
You could ask the same of John Wayne
@@chadfalardeau3259John Wayne played soo many "Johns" that his real name wasn't even John yet everyone knew him as "John"
@@technounionrepresentative4274 His real name was Marion right?
By “an unspecified future” he means about ten years from now.
10-15 years gotta account for technology having to catch up
Nope, it’s now
Depends on the Llama king.
Scott Sandler The corporations haven’t officially taken over yet.
No, it was ten year agp.
Gibson was fantastic about being vague about the actual specs of tech in his Neuromancer Trilogy. The specific decks considered first-drops-of-blood bleeding edge in the previous book are given the “I can’t believe we used to think this was high tech” treatment. IIRC, by the last book, they mention that Fisher-Price toys use better tech that what was in the experimental comp from the first book.
I laughed out loud at your half hearted scream scene omg amazing
Despite what a lot of people say, this movie was actually pretty close to the short story. Sure, names were changed, characters and situations were added, but the general idea is still very much alive in this adaptation. I'll never understand why this movie bombed in the theaters, although I still dont understand why people don't like the Super Mario Bros movie as far as it being a weird and innovative flick rather than a true adaptation, so take my opinion with a whole fist full of salt. I love this movie, enjoyed William Gibson's short story, and even liked the FMV game on PC that was an exact retelling of this story with all different actors (Issac Hayes as J-Bone was awesome). Always enjoyed your work, Dom. This is no exception. Too bad I got to it so late. Thumbs up, bro.
I'm reading the neuroamcer trilogy at the moment and i was like "Wait a minuet! Molly? Molly is in this story?" Now i have to read the short story as well.
The story is weirdly like a prologue for the Sprawl trilogy
This movie is a much-loved guilty pleasure for me, so thank you so much for making this video!
Commenting to feed the algorithm. Also, this is a movie that actually could use a remake. Or maybe it could make a fun TV series.
Idk about a whole series, or even a mini series. If the original story was as short as Dom claimed, it sounds like a single episode of an anthology show a la Black Mirror would be best
LOVE Johnny Mnemonic! Classic 90s film!
8:26 A room service cart falls on top of him
God: There, happy? Now will you please stop shouting!
"in the dystopian future of 2021"
Are you planning to ever do a lost in adaptation on the Good Omens show comparing it to the book? I really want to hear your opinion and what you thought of the show now that it's out.
He said when it came out that he was waiting for the copyright bots to calm down. I'm not sure exactly how much time it is, but I give it at least a year.
@@chloesimard3162 Fair enough. I shall happily and patiently wait for when it comes out. Thank you for the information. X3
Chloé Simard I’m here a year later to just say - no word yet. See you in the future!
8:40 - it's bit of a shame that Hollywood is only willing to do BIG BUDGET films these days. They know their industry more than I do, but I feel they could make a space somewhere for smaller films. Perhaps it is because movies don't just compete with movies, but ALL forms of modern entertainment. Gone of the "good ole' days" where the only entertainment was The Book of Numbers.
Dolph Lundgren is (like in many films) the best thing about this film. Together with the cyber-dolphin.
His deathwail is just how much he cares about pain in general.
Thank you, Dom, for slowing down your commentary, at least in this video. In most of your previous videos, your commentary was so fast that I often didn't have time to fully process one point before you moved on to the next one. Keep up the good work. I appreciate what you do from the other side of the Pond.
I accidently walk onto the set of Johnny Mnemonic. I was out for a walk near Toronto's Union Station. I walked into the station to get to the subway and suddenly found myself surrounded by an epic set piece, with hospital gurneys strewn about and huge shafts of light coming in from the station's high windows. And it was completely deserted! Not a soul in sight! I walked around and checked out the details of the entire set all by myself. There was a food kiosk section in the middle of the set that was especially detailed. There was actual toast in a toaster BEHIND the counter where the camera couldn't even see it. The whole thing was gorgeous! And maybe...MAYBE...only 5% of it ended up on screen. Eventually an extra popped out from behind a wall in the distance. I asked him what was going on and he said everybody was on break (including, apparently, all the security people). The next day at my job pouring coffee, a customer mentioned to me that he was working as an extra on a film down at Union Station called Johnny Mnemonic. I freaked! I had read the story a couple of years earlier and was still a total cyberpunk junkie at the time. You can imagine my letdown at seeing the finished product.
A movie I have heard the name of a lot, and yet somehow never heard a thing about until now. Thanks for the great work!
I love the line a human USB stick. thank you for making my day
I feel cheated knowing I will never see a movie in which the protagonist shoots up a dolphin with heroin.
I love this movie. We used to refer to it as the low rent matrix. Been trying to get the original stories but Johnny Mnemonic is had to find.
Pick up the whole burning chrome short story collection, there are alot of good stories in it. "Fragments of a holographic rose" and the "gurnsback (sp?) continuum" both really stand out in my memory.
I actually read this book in a Canadian science fiction class. I distinctly remember the robotically enhanced dolphin addicted to drugs.
I literally laughed out loud at the death wail bit... Thanks for that. I needed it.
Neuromancer did provide its own example of why it's best to avoid specific amounts of data, with Case trying to find a buyer for three megabytes of hot RAM.
I did the “room service” rant as a monologue in a high school drama class because why the hell not. I also use the “come to Jesus” line knowing full well no one will ever know what I’m talking about lmao
If anyone is interested I found where Molly talks about Johnny in Neuromancer. Chapter 15 pages 176-178. Although the page may vary by the print.
So, we ain't gonna talk about Ice-T?
Sometimes authors just do weird things to their work when adapting it. John Green once said that while writing a film adaptation of his own book An Abundance of Katherines he completely changed it and even had the protagonist fall for a different person, which is the main plot of the book.
Honestly the movie sounds better. The book sounds like a chapter in Molly's story. It makes sense to add more plot so as to justify the movie's existence, and to make Johnny more action-y, to make it feel like he actually should be the protagonist.
Love lost in adaptation vids. Keep up the good work dom.
Excellent video!!!
At least they kept the cyborg dolphin. That was the most memorable thing for me. I'm not sure my rpg crew would have met a cyborg elephant if it wasn't for that.
4:22 Lady Deathstrike, you’re thinking of Lady Deathstrike
“Plastic surgery is a normal and accepted practice in this world”
* Looks at South Korea *
*Looks at Brazil*
Ah, I forgot Henry Rollins was in this movie. He so adorable in his dorky glasses.
I was fascinated by the intellectual discussion, following along perfectly, and then I saw Henry Rollins. My brain shut off faster than it ever has before. I screamed "IS THAT HENRY ROLLINS???" out loud by myself.
Why are you so amazing Dom there's just something about your videos which just connect to me and no it's not pointing out changes adaptations to people in real life to make me look like a literature snob 😆
These are my favorite videos. Great work!
This is awesome timing. I was just wanting to watch this again. I love this movie.
Holy hell, I had never really thought of Reeves' career in such a manner (being as good an actor as his director) but you nailed it Dom.
Dom recreating that unenthusiastic death scene was too funny. 😂 😂 😂
Johnny Mnemonic is an all-time classic for me👌👍 the soundtrack is one of my favorite soundtracks of all time! Acts like kmfdm, Stabbing Westward, God lives underwater, Bono and the edge, orbital, cop shoot cop🎹🎸🎧💫😵👌👍
Great video (as usual), Beautiful Host 👍🏾😊
And I am watching this in 2021
Thank you for the step into the future
I just stumbled onto your channel a few days ago and have been watching your newer videos, but I am DELIGHTED to find that you did this book and movie. Both were my first introduction in Cyberpunk because my dad is a big nerd. We almost bought the animationic Jonesy when he went for auction years ago!
That's awesome! What state is it in lol?
this movie is one of my guilty pleasures. it reminds me of the original cyberpunk story back in the 1980's
That is an absolutely stunning tie pin my good man. Where ever did you find such a thing? Could it possibly be from the Etsy store of one Pushing Up Roses, per chance? (Seriouisly, I've never thought of using enamel pins as a tie pin and now I have so many regrets over the many pins I could've bought...)
Welp, looking at this from September 2022... I wish 2021 was this good
He's getting better and better at saying 'remember to like'. Honestly, highlight of the (non)video along with the posh guy at the end.
I can't handle the plot summary of this movie. It feels like I've just downloaded a whole 360 GB into my brain!
Johnny Mnemonic is a great movie. I first watched it in 2000.
I really liked this movie growing up, and bought it on Blu Ray recently to show some friends. I'm not sure it's a good movie, but it is quite enjoyable, if only for how weird it gets sometimes, and how 90's future it gets at others.
You're breathtaking, Dom.
YOU'RE breathtaking ^__^
Oh yeah!... I saw this movie once!
It's all coming back to me now!
Hello my beautiful Dom! Lovely vest :) thanks for the video
It is criminal that you don't have more subscribers!
There's also a slightly extended 'Japanese Cut' of the film that adds more backstory for the CEO so that sideplot is slightly less out of nowhere.
My Goodness, Dom! Where **do** you get those smashing suits you wear? That tie pin in particular is wonderful.
Oh, and the review's amazing as well.
The pin is actually merch from another UA-camr you might enjoy: ua-cam.com/users/pushinguproses
Awesome video Dom. Keep up the good work.
It's so great to hear about the silly-old 1990's fear of cellphone signals...a year before 5G fears spread through the conspiracy-prone.
Thanks for another great video!
Two years later and my local shop still sells anti-5g "reflectors" and gives out pamphlets (':
I unironically love Keanu movies. They’re dumb and weird and love them.
So long and thanks for all the horse. I'm jacked up and shaky cause of course...I am a junkie and a dolphin, even Flipper did speed...so long so long so long and thanks for all the horse!
And why is it only just occuring to me that this is video about a cyber punk movie starring a man who has been considered the best bit of or only good bit of Cyberpunk 2077
Great timing with the Matrix 4 confirmation.
Wait, what?!
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variety.com/2019/film/news/matrix-4-keanu-reeves-carrie-anne-moss-lana-wachowski-1203307955
this movie sounds like GOLD