Johnny Mnemonic

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I haven`t seen it would you recommend it? The previews on the telly make it
look like it would be good....

It's a bit gory and intense in parts.
The writing, in typically Gibson style, is atrocious.
The specail effects are cool, but over-the-top in spots (e.g., when a 
laser whip cuts a person in half, and you can see his sliced internal 
organs for an interval of a second -- in short, on a par with Interview
with a Vampire).
The vision of the future is grim, unrealistic, hackneyed, and overdone.
The acting's excellent.  The casting's excellent, with Henry Rollins as 
an anti-science underground medico and Dolph Lundgren as a psychotic
evangelist hitman (among others).
The soundtrack is loud.
I give it a tentative thumbs-up.  It's worth seeing once, unless extreme
violence bothers you, or strobe lights induce seizures (I can easily
see people having neurological problems with it, from the motion... 
considering two of the five people I was with felt seriously ill-at-ease
afterwards).

This movie was kinda like _Jurassic Park_.  The special effects were 
phenomenal, but the plot was lacking (to be nice  8*).  

Re #2:  Great review!  I was planning to see that movie, but
now I don't think I'll bother.  Informed indifference.

Thanks, although don't decide entirely on my opinion.  I've heard raves
about Stargate, but was rather indifferent (actually, ambivalent) to it
myself.  Good acting, lousy science (in almost every field:  math, 
physics, linguistics, anthropology, ...).

hummmmm..... I liked Stargate...

Stargate didn't deserve raves, in my opinion.  It promised a *lot* more
than it delivered.  I was quite disappointed.

I've been reluctant to see Johnny Mnemonic because I can see from
the trailors that serious liberties were taken with the original
story, despite the fact that Gibson (whose writing I *like*) wrote
the screenplay.  Hmmph.  What's Johnny Mnemonic without *Molly* I
ask you?  I didn't see no mirror implants on Jane or whatever the chick's
name is.  Hmmph I say again.

The original story is most excellent, however.

<Sigh> where did all these cool people go?

to a gallaxy far far away, too another set...

The River. The River.

The River Styx, I take it?

Smelly rivers?! That doesn't sound like fun at all!

The river where speech & dreams are commodities to be bought & sold like
so much wheat or automobile tires.

What about quomquats?

They're in aisle 5, right next to the llamas.

Comquats are juggled here...funny...the well is deep and the river ran through
it, but grex is forever, if tenuous.  :-P
hrm.  it occurs to me that these individuals may think that free speech is
worth more if you pay more for it.

Well, no, you see, what they have is paid speach, we on the other hand, have
free speach, and, well, you get what you pay for...

Isn't Tenuous a great word?

Only on alternate Monday's and special holidays.

WHat would count as a non-special holiday?

The ones that happen every year, like New Years, or Thanksgiving, of Labor
Day.  Special holidays usually involve things like all of Jupiters moons
aligning, don't ch'ya know?

Well, I'ddn't that Special?  :-)

I'm sorry.  What were you trying to say there?

She was trying to say "Well, I'ddn't that Special?"

It seems she has succee'dded.

you could try sounding it out.

I could, but I won't.  Nyah.

Sound-A-Ramma!  (and if you got "hooked on phonics, does that mean you'd need
a 12 step program to get off of it?  Would you test positive for Phonics
Abuse?  Inquiring minds want to know!)

If eating a poppyseed bagel gives you a false positive on drug tests, does
eating alphabet soup give you a false positive on phonics tests?

Yeah.
Cool, huh?

I wanna take a foniks test!

First:  Bark like a dog.

2.  What is the last name of the first director to ever do color movies?

3.  Who designed the very first GUI interface?

3.  What is the name of the Esteemed Baked Good which was Iris's adversary?

4.  Mispell the answer to this question...What is the meaning of life?

5.  What was the question?

6. The chemical that took over the world.  (it ends with a number ;-)

7.  Make flawless Lemon Custard.

8.  Name your favorite ingredient in brownies.

9.  Multiple choice: You would rather
a) chat with congressmen over sushi or a 3 minute egg about how this country
doesn't need any more food inspectors looking at our food b) you'd rather
discuss it with a rino that has just eaten a case of chips made with olestra,
inside a moble home.  (and you just installed the carpet)  *this question was
provided by a halarious comic who's name I cannot currently remember.  I
embellished it slightly.  or c) you'd like to talk to someone at YUCA about
the consequences of undigestable food in the water table.

10.  Stand on your head, bark like a dog.

11.  More Multiple choice:
The greatest movie in history is:
a) BoysTown  b) Prospero's Books  c) Yani (he's so good he counts as a movie)
4) THe Hamsters from Mars Attack Grex  e) Bill & Ted Go to Hell

12.  Name your favorite font's Top Ten Dumb Things to Do on ________ Holiday.

13. Our Favorite Ol' Time Accordionist is....

#11.  (con't) f. The Lost Boys.  g.  Pole Position.  h.  Some God-Awful movie
I can't remember.  i.  Repo-Man    j<looser!> Titanic
 
14.  Name the number of Purity Tests you've taken, with the results of each.
Be graphic.

15.  What's your favorite collor/pattern?

16.  if you lived a long time, what would be your long term project?

17, who would you most like to be teled by?

18.  Your favorite PicoSpan Command.

19.  Your favorite topic under accordions.

20.  Read all the conf and bark like a dog.

First:  Bark like a dog.
-Woof Purple Woof.
 2.  What is the last name of the first director to ever do color movies?
Henry Purple VonLichtenspat, why?
3.  Who designed the very first GUI interface?
-If it wasn't Marcus Watts, it should've been.
4.  Mispell the answer to this question...What is the meaning of life?
Perple

 5.  What was the question?
"What is your favorite color?"
6. The chemical that took over the world.  (it ends with a number ;-)
Yellow 5 (which is two bad, since purple 5 is far more interesting)
 7.  Make flawless Lemon Custard.
Been there, done that.
8.  Name your favorite ingredient in brownies.
purple #7 and chocolate.

 9.  Multiple choice: You would rather
 a) chat with congressmen over sushi or a 3 minute egg about how this country
 doesn't need any more food inspectors looking at our food.
10.  Stand on your head, bark like a dog
foow, elprup, foow.
 11.  More Multiple choice:
 The greatest movie in history is:
"The Blues Brothers."  Closly tailed by "Yani 2, he's back, and this time,
he's MEAN!"
 12.  Name your favorite font's Top Ten Dumb Things to Do on ________ Holiday.
Labour Day.
 13. Our Favorite Ol' Time Accordionist is....
Yani
 14.  Name the number of Purity Tests you've taken, with the results of each.
 Be graphic:
Y'know I could really dig a snicker's bars right now.
 15.  What's your favorite collor/pattern?
I love those preists collers.  I want one. (without become a preist)
16.  if you lived a long time, what would be your long term project?
To make snicker's bars available to the world at large.
 17, who would you most like to be teled by?
God/Ernest Hemmingway.  I don't know why, I just think that would be cool.
18.  Your favorite PicoSpan Command.
is "ps"
 19.  Your favorite topic under accordions.
None of the Above
20.  Read all the conf and bark like a dog.
owfo! I WANT A (PURPLE) COOKIE!! ofwo!

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