Has anyone watched Johnny Mneumonic?
I love Gibson and the genre as a whole, but it got pretty mixed (mostly bad) reviews.
But I trust nostriches far more than some rotten tomatoes critic, so here we are š¦¾
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I enjoyed it back in day.
Thanks! Youāve got a good track record in my book. Iāll watch it next year š
Long ago Iāve probably seen it twice. Not something Iāve been tempted to revisit, and watch with my own kids, like Starship Troopers (which if anything has gotten better with age.) It wasnāt that memorable for me but it probably did inspire better films later.
Good answer! Starship troopers was pretty epic. Thanks!
It's worth watching. I wouldn't say that it's great, and (as is common), it departs from the Gibson story. I wasn't disappointed at paying full ticket price, and saw it for the second time recently.
Awesome. If you re watched, thatās a good sign. Would you recommend reading the story first? (I havenāt yet)
Definitely read the story! Gibson is mindblowing as a writer. Also, he's the opposite of a tech nerd/geek. He wrote Neuromancer on a manual typewriter, and when he got his first computer, he was confused by it's low-tech victorian-like use of a spinning disk.
Thatās an awesome bit of trivia! Never knew that. He wrote a nice forward to neuromancer (more recently) talking about how he completely missed the prediction of something like smartphones - all the screens are still full size. I found that an interesting reflection. Thanks for the rec, Troy!