Wow, such a kickass movie! Seriously, you need to see this movie now. And if you need reasons, try some of these:

Based on a William Gibson novel
Stars Keanu Reeves
Has a psychotic mercenary priest/Jesus look-alike who tacks people to walls with scalpels and very, very large nails
Has a computer hacking dolphin created by the Navy who can attack people with souped-up sonar
Ice-T going to town on Yakuza lackeys with a crossbow. That's right, a ****ing crossbow. I'm sorry, you just can't beat that.
The best virtual reality sequences this side of The Lawnmower Man.

So, discuss your recent movie finds.

Umm you posted reasons not to see it on accident I think
Actually, I loved this when it first came out. I love cyberpunk anything though. Not a great movie by todays standards, but I still love it.

I don't really watch that many movies anymore though.

I just recently started getting all the Kevin Smith movies.
Clerks
Mallrats
Chasing Amy
Dogma
Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back

I saw it a long time ago. It was alright. Didn't love it, didn't hate it.

Johnny rox

it's in that 2 for $11 bin at wal-mart...

Yeah, that's the main reason I picked it up. I bought it, Spawn, Spawn 2, and Hellraiser, and ended up spending less than $30. It was also nice to see the Cobra in action, as I'd never really understood exactly how it worked.

Hilarious sci-fi movie.

Johnny can store "nearly 80 gigs of data in his head," which is apparently how much room is necessary to store all childhood memories. The irony is great - seeing all these powerful characters fighting eachother over the rights to.. Keanu Reeves' brain. I loved the dolphin and Ice T never fails to look as baffled as the audience at the fact he somehow got another movie role (or is that a look of disgust?)

Also, best non-PC quote from a villain ever, "It's Jesus time!"

keanu reeves?

I own a lot of movies that people haven't seen, people think are strange or people think are terrible.

• Pi - An interesting movie, very artsy with religious undertones.
• 12 Monkeys - Time travel. Strange movie. Bruce Willis.
• Army of Darkness - the original terrible awesome horror movie.
• Batman (the original movie) - Just.... just strange. Same sense of humor as the old series.
• Blazing Saddles - Mel Brooks, no explanation needed.
• Conan the Barbarian/Conan the Destroyer - The original cheesy fantasy movies.
• Demolition Man - Three seashells.
• Falling Down - The modern world forcing a man to descend into madness. Very powerful, funny in parts and just overall it's awesome.
• Fifth Element - Another movie that's supposed to be so bad that it's good. Stylistically it's a B-grade sci fi movie only it has a high budget. Also stars Bruce Willis.
• GalaxyQuest - Parody of sci-fi movies, sci-fi actors and sci-fi fans.
• Hackers - So bad it's good. Any advanced computer user knows it has no technical merit whatsoever, but the movie's content can only possibly appeal to advanced computer users.
• Harold and Kumar - If you haven't seen it yet, you need to.
• Johnny Mnemonic - See OP
• Judge Dredd - Terrible action movie set in a terrible universe with a terrible plot and acting. See Demolition Man.
• Kung Pow! Enter the Fist - Utterly hilarious if you enjoy old kung fu movies; was written and stars the same guy who wrote Ace Ventura.
• Little Nicky - It's lost some of its charm since I was a teenager but it's still pretty funny. Religious humor in the same flavor as Dogma although it's not quite as good.
• A Fistful of Dollars/For a Few Dollars More/The Good, The Bad and the Ugly - The "Man With No Name" trilogy. They're absolutely glorious classics and they all star Clint Eastwood, but they're spaghetti westerns through and through.
• Mega64 Volume 1 - Public Access TV show about gaming. I'm sure most of you have heard of them: they've gotten pretty big lately and they've done some skits for the bonus DVD of Splinter Cell: Chaos Theory.
• Memento - A movie that's watched backwards.
• Shawn of the Dead - Hilarious; British humor so most of the people here probably won't 'get it', but if you've seen any zombie movie it should still be enjoyable.
• Soldier - Another terrible action/sci-fi movie.
• Spaceballs - Mel Brooks.
• Starship Troopers - Terrible movie, very cheesy, and a parody of the book (by the same title) that's held in high regard by the US military because it aggrandizes military dictatorships.
• Street Fighter The Movie - Best casting and characterization of any video game movie ever.
• Super Mario Bros. The Movie - Worst casting and characterization of any video game movie ever.
• Team America - Another given. So bad it's good... at least the first time you watch it. As a moderate it makes me feel all warm and fuzzy inside.
• Titan A.E. - The protagonist is voiced by Matt Damon. One of the last hand-animated motion pictures ever made. Good script, great storyline. You need to watch this movie if you haven't seen it yet.
• Wing Commander - Hahahahaha. It's so bad I had to own it. I watched Wing Commander in the theaters because the TPM trailer was attached to it. I rented it years later to show my friends and then I bought it because it has a cool main theme.

Jonny Mnemonic was a "so bad it's good" experience. Honestly, an 80gb upgrade for your brain? Isn't it supposed to hold like 3 terabytes or something? Fun time when you watch it, though, just don't take it too seriously.

There was a spawn 2? Never heard about it here in Australia. Did it go straight to video or something? is it any good?

[QUOTE=Dj Yoshi]Jonny Mnemonic was a "so bad it's good" experience. Honestly, an 80gb upgrade for your brain? Isn't it supposed to hold like 3 terabytes or something? Fun time when you watch it, though, just don't take it too seriously.[/QUOTE]Nobody knows exactly how much long-term information it can store, but it's definitely compressed and indexed in a nonlinear fashion. That much, at least, is fairly easy to tell even without in-depth analysis. But there are different types of memory as well (everything from muscle reflex, which isn't even in your brain, to conditioning) so it's difficult to determine.

We're not even certain what biological mechanism the brain uses to store information. Some people believe it's stored in protein chains on the neuron's cellular membrane, which means the potential storage capacity is astronomical. It can't even be measured in a conventional manner ("terabytes") because the human brain uses a neural network, while computers use a binary processor. Not to mention that there are many specialized utilities in the brain that govern sense of direction (males especially), visual and audio perception, balance and equilibrium, language and communication, and locomotion, all of which are a form of learned behavior (at least in humans) representing a rearrangement of our brain (a form of learning) done in infancy.


Johnny Mnemonic had no technical merit whatsoever. Apart from the fact that they were storing binary information in a human brain (which is terribly inefficient), he was already wearing a bootlegged cochlear implant. If they can manage to disguise his storage device interface as benign medical technology they could certainly disguse a modern Hitachi 80 GB microdrive as one.

Brilliant, just awesome. Emotional and powerful.


my favourite films would be Roman Polanksi's "Fearless Vampire Killers", ANY thing by Tim Burton, or Bram Stokers Dracula.

Yeh, Goth films.


As for Johnny Moronic, I remembering it was a pretty crappy film.

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I watched it the other night. Wasn't exactly amazing.

Neh, didn't really like it. I, however, sort of liked "Queen of the Damned" and "The Crow". Yup. Both very gothy movies.

Are you kidding me? That is one of the worst movies of all time

The opening scene.... Keanu Reeves is the best actor.

Let that sink in....

KEANU REEVES WAS THE BEST ACTOR.

"Question."


That's all I have to say.

This almost movie induced more physical pain than Battlefield: Earth.


GAARH!

Should've clarified. I bought the animated Spawn and Spawn 2. But there is a live-action Spawn 2 in the works. And about the whole "80 gigs" thing, I believe that the information is stored in an implant in the back of his head, not his actual brain. And he explains in the movie that in order to put it in, they had to remove some long-term memory, thus effectivley removing most of his memories from childhood.

Bah, you beat me to it.