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Lawnmower man

Swashbuckler
Honored Guest
Lame movie, great graphics! Is there anyone out there who thought of and took on the challenge to try and recreate the vr scenes? For me personally (and maybe a lot of you) it was the highlight of vr in the eighties and after this it died a painful death. A demo would be like hé the wait is really over, vr is here. And it took only 20 years. Apologies if I sound like a really passive type of guy, but I am a user and a noob when it comes to developing.
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cybereality
Grand Champion
Lawnmower Man? Lame movie? Must... not... ban...
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jherico
Adventurer
"cybereality" wrote:
Lawnmower Man? Lame movie? Must... not... ban...


I suppose you liked the sequel too, where Jeff Fahey somehow turned into Max Headroom (Matt Frewer), and the world became a dystopia in a surprisingly short amount of time.
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cybereality
Grand Champion
"jherico" wrote:
I suppose you liked the sequel too...

Nope. Lawnmower Man 2 was the worst film ever made. Let's not speak of it.
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Ausinspiration
Honored Guest
Falling, Floating, Flying is on my (very long) todo list and I am sure there will be a whole industry around the other 'F'!

Are there any other VR scenes you had in mind?

Sharpfish
Heroic Explorer
I LOVE "THE LAWNMOWER MAN"!!!!!!

There, I said it. And we are all well aware of it's cheesier aspects, and some dated things by today's standards. It also probably doesn't have the best script or direction but it IS still a great film especially if you were into VR back when it came out (as I was). It was the 90s btw not the 80s when it came out. I watched it a lot on good old vhs from 1992-1999 and haven't watched it in ages.

About the VR in it, yeah I always dreamed of the lying down bed/joystick/flying game with that level of graphics... :lol: Funnily enough while we could easily approximate it today, I'm not even sure if we could still achieve quite that slick ray traced look they appear to have used in the film, would look very close if done right I guess.

22 years later... no monkeys

and I also passed on 'mindfire' (the sequel), could tell it wasn't gonna be up to scratch.
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kevinw729
Honored Visionary
I use to work for Angel Studios, the guys that did the graphics for the movie - had some great stories about modeling the actors faces into the graphics. Great times.
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Swashbuckler
Honored Guest
"cybereality" wrote:
Lawnmower Man? Lame movie? Must... not... ban...


Please don't. 😄
But come on, it was like porn for vr, a bunch of mediocre storylines that had to lead up to every climactic scene - which were awesome; the vr scene with Pierce and Jobe in the and still gives me chills!

Crespo80
Explorer
The movie is objectively mediocre at best, but it was released in the storm of the 90s VR craze and was very influential back then. And it made such an impact on my childhood that I simply can't talk too bad of it :mrgreen:
The Matrix instead was a truly cinematographic masterpiece, but it came when the VR corpse had just exhaled its last breath, to put the last nail to the coffin 😮
15 years later we need a new awesome movie to fuel this VR reborn, is there something on the horizon, did someone watch transcendence, is it good or bad?

T35513R
Honored Guest
Feedback on Transcendence was that is BAD. I mean, just, overall TERRIBLE (on all levels - acting/story/etc.).

Last I heard Natali was going to be directing Neuromancer, but that seems like a stretch given how long that film has been in production hell. Done right, it could be AWESOME. . . (oh, Chris Cunningham, where did you go?)

Anyway, did anyone ever read the Stephen King story that Lawnmower Man was "based" on? I think the only thing it had in common with the movie was that there was a lawnmower in it (seriously, it's a COMPLETELY different story).