The Lawnmower Man - Nostalgia Critic

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  • Опубликовано: 9 фев 2025
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    It's based on a Stephen King story, yet has nothing to do with it, yet has all the Stephen king clichés! What went on with the only King story King himself wanted no connection to? Nostalgia Critic takes a look at The Lawnmower Man.
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    The Lawnmower Man is a 1992 science fiction horror film directed by Brett Leonard, written by Leonard and Gimel Everett, and starring Jeff Fahey as Jobe Smith, an intellectually disabled gardener, and Pierce Brosnan as Dr. Lawrence "Larry" Angelo, a scientist who decides to experiment on him in an effort to give him greater intelligence.
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  • @ChannelAwesome
    @ChannelAwesome  3 года назад +307

    IT'S STEPHEN KING....ish TIME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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  • @HAL-st4ll
    @HAL-st4ll 3 года назад +1369

    "Bad CG can't hurt you anymore, it's gone now"
    And here Doug just fucking brings it back

    • @carloslopezortega3327
      @carloslopezortega3327 3 года назад +20

      Welcome the 90s people well yeah it’s the 90s.

    • @chasehedges6775
      @chasehedges6775 3 года назад +11

      @@carloslopezortega3327 2000s/2010s/2020s: HOLD OUR BEER

    • @Tailslol
      @Tailslol 3 года назад +7

      well the bad effect can be explained, everything is meant to happen in a game and not in reality for the vr phases, and about all the powers and visions, it is meant to be pulled out of the game since it is the games that gave the power, so in any moment it was never meant to be realistic.

    • @christhornycroft3686
      @christhornycroft3686 3 года назад +6

      @@carloslopezortega3327 actually 90s CGI was really the only time it worked. After that, it was so overused it just looked fake. Like today. Superhero movies post 2001 come to mind.

    • @TheScarletSlayer
      @TheScarletSlayer 3 года назад +3

      @@chasehedges6775 supermans upper lip* LOOK AT IT ...LOOK AT IT....LOOK AT IT

  • @AB-ot3bm
    @AB-ot3bm 3 года назад +1072

    my dad rented this on VHS, and that scene where he said all the phones will ring when he’s everywhere… our house phone rang and my older sister screamed. Lol.

    • @ShadowDemon_4
      @ShadowDemon_4 3 года назад +14

      Ha!

    • @YuniorGamboa
      @YuniorGamboa 3 года назад +13

      😆

    • @patch1752
      @patch1752 3 года назад +38

      Hahaha that’s great, you gotta love when stuff lines up like that.

    • @Steveman27
      @Steveman27 3 года назад +15

      Do you remember who it was on the other end? Maybe your dad pranked her by having someone call at that time.

    • @AB-ot3bm
      @AB-ot3bm 3 года назад +16

      @@Steveman27 One of her friends who called her all the time. Not sure if that makes it any funnier or not.

  • @DuelaDent52
    @DuelaDent52 3 года назад +1221

    Correction: the original short story was about a literal lawn mowing man, he was this grotesque man who ate the grass like a horse and killed his client for trying to expose his secret.

    • @MrDj232
      @MrDj232 3 года назад +99

      That's what I thought. I vividly remember the description of a fat naked man with goat horns murdering a guy and eating him to hide the evidence.

    • @t.c.bramblett617
      @t.c.bramblett617 3 года назад +107

      @@MrDj232 yeah and he ate a mole raw. That's literally all I remember

    • @squeaktheswan2007
      @squeaktheswan2007 3 года назад +67

      That sounds like it would have been better.

    • @tiderunnerdax2263
      @tiderunnerdax2263 3 года назад +33

      yeahhh dont for get the gopher that gets shredded by the mower that he also eats without pause
      I will NEVER forget that story as long as i live and i read it in 96 lol

    • @dunc0029
      @dunc0029 3 года назад +25

      Yeah, I remember seeing this film, having read the story, and being like... wtf, weirdest adaptation ever!

  • @Alioramusremotus
    @Alioramusremotus Год назад +335

    Bone-chilling, spine-tingling, jaw-dropping, slow-burn, character-driven, atmospheric, genre-defining GEM

  • @SunnysFilms
    @SunnysFilms 3 года назад +210

    "This is like if the Scary Godmother was farted out by the Langoliers" I cackled. Awesome Nostalgiaween, as always!!

  • @FistfulOfCourage
    @FistfulOfCourage 3 года назад +2394

    Fun Fact about this movie: the visual effects for the film’s virtual reality scenes were done by the same studio that would also do Red Dead Redemption and GTA, before the studio was known as Rockstar Games (specifically the San Diego unit).

    • @lutherheggs451
      @lutherheggs451 3 года назад +129

      They also likely only had a couple hundred thousand if that for the FX. The movie was made on a 10 million dollar budget in 1992.....Unless they had a T2 or a jurassic Park level budget it was going to look like ass no matter what.

    • @Tailslol
      @Tailslol 3 года назад +46

      well the bad effect can be explained, everything is meant to happen in a game and not in reality for the vr phases, and about all the powers and visions, it is meant to be pulled out of the game since it is the games that gave the power, so in any moment it was never meant to be realistic.

    • @sleepykittyH
      @sleepykittyH 3 года назад +20

      That's a very fun fact!

    • @vaughnrussell5772
      @vaughnrussell5772 3 года назад +7

      Good fact bruh....👍

    • @HmmNeatCody0_o
      @HmmNeatCody0_o 3 года назад +2

      Very very interesting fact.

  • @Tadicuslegion78
    @Tadicuslegion78 3 года назад +138

    Stephen King: Listen, I'll slap my name on meatballs with teeth, on exploding soda machines, and Christopher Walken. But I refuse to associate my good name with Pierce Brosnan, have you heard his singing!?

  • @floydharper1216
    @floydharper1216 3 года назад +230

    This is more of a darker, loose adaptation of Flowers for Algernon than anything to do with Stephen King

    • @SithBunny1
      @SithBunny1 3 года назад +23

      And this is why I love this channel. A reference like that would just get lost on a lot of people.

    • @louisduarte8763
      @louisduarte8763 3 года назад +12

      I kinda remember reading that story and watching the movie of it in 8th grade English class. And definitely heard it mentioned in an episode of Sword Art Online Abridged.

    • @floydharper1216
      @floydharper1216 3 года назад +12

      @@louisduarte8763 it's basically the rough plot of this movie except instead of turning killer and going into VR, the guys intelligence fades away

    • @edwarddore7617
      @edwarddore7617 3 года назад +1

      Now I want to see a Charly Lawn mower man crossover1

  • @merucrypoison296
    @merucrypoison296 Год назад +551

    The shiniest brightest gem

  • @MusicDecomposer
    @MusicDecomposer 3 года назад +76

    Yeah, the title of the movie is very misleading. It’s like if Back to the Future was named “Spaceman from Pluto” just because of that one scene with the Peabody family.
    Oh wait, that almost actually happened.

    • @armorvil
      @armorvil 2 года назад +1

      This movie was renamed to "Le Cobaye" ie "the guinea pig" in France. As a french 12 or 13yo boy when I first watched this movie, I thank this decision.

  • @thebluedanyube62
    @thebluedanyube62 3 года назад +255

    "...dress up as TOONAMI mascots..."
    You do know your fanbase well.

  • @wstine79
    @wstine79 3 года назад +612

    I hope Doug does a Stephen King sequel month. So many of them are more crazy than the original. Sure, almost all of them are unofficial follow ups, but fun to watch.

    • @lutherheggs451
      @lutherheggs451 3 года назад +14

      Those sequels have nothing to do with Stephen King. Most of them don't even have his name on them because they didn't have to. They could do whatever they wanted with the film and didn't need Kings permission.

    • @Alejandroigarabide
      @Alejandroigarabide 3 года назад +19

      The only Stephen King sequel I know (except for It, which was split in 2) is Dr. Sleep. Most sequels to SK movies are film-only stories, not based on any book.
      However, a month of Sequels to Films that Were Based on Stephen King's Books has potential. Most of them are indeed pretty out there.

    • @mitchellalexander9162
      @mitchellalexander9162 3 года назад +10

      You're just saying that because you want him to do Lawnmower Man 2

    • @davidspring4003
      @davidspring4003 3 года назад +14

      Oh god. Pet Semetary 2

    • @silentassason
      @silentassason 3 года назад +6

      @@Alejandroigarabide Stephen King month...kinda

  • @PrincessNinja007
    @PrincessNinja007 3 года назад +161

    The awful CGI enhances the horror, and it feels like they're aware of that and leaned into it

  • @sorakun555
    @sorakun555 3 года назад +102

    I remember my step-dad tried showing my brothers and I this movie to show us (I think?) the danger of playing too many video games and was visibly disappointed when all we got from it is that playing *more* games would make us superhuman

    • @chaddaddywarden4349
      @chaddaddywarden4349 2 года назад

      Your step-dad is a douche lol

    • @willfomes406
      @willfomes406 2 года назад +12

      That’s brilliant.

    • @seankropff1877
      @seankropff1877 Месяц назад

      @@sorakun555 It was really nice of your stepdad to show you this spine-tingling, genre-redefining GEM.

  • @mikesantillanmx5530
    @mikesantillanmx5530 3 года назад +208

    The virtual reality CGI were never meant to look "real", and that's pretty obvious. The director said he wanted it to look abstract and colorful to show the possibilities to create other worlds, instead of simply recreate what we all know.

    • @Vorteksio3
      @Vorteksio3 3 года назад +10

      Its still absolutely shit, don't make excuses for it.

    • @Vorteksio3
      @Vorteksio3 3 года назад +3

      @illmerica No.

    • @mikesantillanmx5530
      @mikesantillanmx5530 3 года назад +1

      @@Vorteksio3 It's not a excuse, it's an explanation of what the production was doing. You lack of understanding is annoying.

    • @armorvil
      @armorvil 2 года назад +9

      I watched the movie as a kid when it was released back in '92 when I wished video-games had graphics like this, and was blown away. Those scenes were also creepy / gave me nightmares so I think they nailed it. Of course they aged like milk. A remake of this movie might be interesting, though I wouldn't get my hopes up considering how bad remakes have been.

    • @TheSmart-CasualGamer
      @TheSmart-CasualGamer 2 года назад +10

      @@Vorteksio3 It's not an excuse, it was intended to look like garbage. I question that decision, but it was an intentional choice.
      It's like young Jeff Bridges in Tron: Legacy, only if it failed miserably.

  • @sarah98917
    @sarah98917 3 года назад +272

    At least Doug is enjoying himself making the ads

    • @kendrickdinger
      @kendrickdinger 3 года назад +13

      I love that he left in him laughing it made it even funnier😂

    • @talariswatts-el6174
      @talariswatts-el6174 3 года назад +2

      Agree.

    • @travisporter5222
      @travisporter5222 3 года назад +12

      It is amazing how many original ideas he comes up with for the ads. The bottomless pit of ideas. I don't know how he does it.

  • @jugsyarts
    @jugsyarts 3 года назад +214

    Are we sure the fully CGI parts aren't just deleted scenes from a lost episode of Reboot?

    • @ddjsoyenby
      @ddjsoyenby 3 года назад +12

      i'm not convinced.

    • @josephperez2004
      @josephperez2004 3 года назад +16

      I mean, they never finished the fourth season...

    • @seigeengine
      @seigeengine 3 года назад +1

      What episode was it where they banged again?

    • @jugsyarts
      @jugsyarts 3 года назад

      @@seigeengine The secret "lost" episode the show makers made for themselves to watch near Christmas time obviously

  • @dennisanderson3895
    @dennisanderson3895 3 года назад +97

    However dated, the imagery of the guy's brain being endlessly "mowed," devoured and tormented, is amazing shudder-tale telling!

  • @andrewhudson7108
    @andrewhudson7108 3 года назад +75

    “Your chimp is dead.” Also applies to Sunset Boulevard.

    • @anubusx
      @anubusx 3 года назад +4

      Rise Of The Planet Of The Apes.

    • @plasmaoctopus1728
      @plasmaoctopus1728 3 года назад +3

      @@anubusx Rise of the Apes of the Planet

    • @Pcwizayylmao
      @Pcwizayylmao 3 года назад +2

      And to C.I.APE

  • @bexstar
    @bexstar 3 года назад +134

    I've always been jealous of Daria and Jane's ability to eat all that pizza.

    • @josephperez2004
      @josephperez2004 3 года назад +20

      Teenage metabolism is a hell of a thing.

    • @talariswatts-el6174
      @talariswatts-el6174 3 года назад +10

      Also their cartoon characters, so that helps.

    • @pheunithpsychic-watertype9881
      @pheunithpsychic-watertype9881 3 года назад +2

      @@josephperez2004 teenage? I eat more now than I did when I was a teen. Losing the weight was easy, bulking up is a matter of patience

  • @ErzengelDesLichtes
    @ErzengelDesLichtes 3 года назад +47

    That lawn mower face over a brain would be a perfect PS1 boss fight.

    • @anubusx
      @anubusx 3 года назад +2

      I can see that.

    • @SA80TAGE
      @SA80TAGE 3 года назад +2

      that's too much credit.... it could easily pass as a SNES or MegaDrive boss

  • @christhornycroft3686
    @christhornycroft3686 3 года назад +181

    If Doug is doing Stephen King, Christine and The Dead Zone are musts.

    • @ReneeSalono71013
      @ReneeSalono71013 3 года назад +7

      Which Dead Zone? The 1983 one with Christopher Walken or the horrible remake?

    • @AlexMcGillvrey
      @AlexMcGillvrey 3 года назад +3

      What about The Rage: Carrie 2?

    • @mr.peevyshow1914
      @mr.peevyshow1914 3 года назад +3

      Dead Zone is a classic.

    • @rezaqalam482
      @rezaqalam482 3 года назад +1

      Or some underated, like thinner or graveyard shift

    • @radioactive_moose
      @radioactive_moose 3 года назад +1

      But those were good.

  • @johnbones3455
    @johnbones3455 3 года назад +272

    I can’t tell if this is more or less weird than the original story.

    • @ChannelAwesome
      @ChannelAwesome  3 года назад +172

      The answer is Yes

    • @12Mantis
      @12Mantis 3 года назад +29

      @@ChannelAwesome Well atleast it didn't take place in Maine, right?
      Although, now I have this odd thought going through my head trying to create a crossover between *The Lawnmower Man* and *The Tommyknockers* ..........

    • @AngelofMusic04
      @AngelofMusic04 3 года назад +8

      More weird, definitely.

    • @mrrunodan8119
      @mrrunodan8119 3 года назад +4

      @@ChannelAwesome please make a Sequel of The Nickelodeon Month:
      Other Nicktoons (Loud House included)
      Spongebob The Movie
      The Loud House Movie
      RV with Robin Williams
      Monster Truck
      Hey Arnold! The Movie
      The Wild Thornberry Movie
      Invader Zim: Enter the Florpus
      Rocko's Modern Life: Static Cling
      Barnyard

    • @Zikkar
      @Zikkar 3 года назад +2

      @@ChannelAwesome but you got the original story wrong

  • @jasonjimerson7046
    @jasonjimerson7046 3 года назад +70

    "I'm being Dippin Dots to death!"
    I'm so glad you said that!

  • @july24pictures
    @july24pictures 3 года назад +57

    “This Looks Like How Foodfight Would Animate…”
    No Need to Finish that Sentence, you’ve roasted them enough.

  • @user-jf7om4lv3n
    @user-jf7om4lv3n Год назад +204

    ‘obson in the ‘talgia ‘ritic though

  • @deoccultist
    @deoccultist 3 года назад +92

    What bugged me was when Jobe kills someone by turning them into pixels... in the real world. It's creepy, but... no.

    • @loafusloaufusboboafus8971
      @loafusloaufusboboafus8971 3 года назад +5

      It’s creepier cuz it doesn’t make logical sense

    • @Phantom8941
      @Phantom8941 3 года назад +17

      The implication is he's atomizing them with his telekinesis.

    • @plasmaoctopus1728
      @plasmaoctopus1728 3 года назад +6

      @@loafusloaufusboboafus8971 Tearing the fabric of reality itself.

    • @SA80TAGE
      @SA80TAGE 3 года назад

      it's no different to how Dark Phoenix Jean Grey killed people in X-Men The Last Stand with her telekinesis.... just less detailed and bigger dots.

    • @SA80TAGE
      @SA80TAGE 3 года назад +1

      @@loafusloaufusboboafus8971 it does make sense, he has telekinesis... he can literally do anything to anything, like Jean Grey.

  • @josenadie
    @josenadie 3 года назад +48

    In Latin America, this movie was titled "El Jardinero Asesino Inocente" which translates as "The Innocent Killer Gardener".

    • @dinodumbo1365
      @dinodumbo1365 3 года назад +1

      Brazilians looking at this : "yo wtf ?"

  • @DAsrada
    @DAsrada 3 года назад +34

    Jobe: I have calculated the exact protein macronutrient intake combined with calorie deficit and usage of proper supplementation to make me "jacked", "yoked", and "one shredded fucker".

  • @AlvinEarthworm
    @AlvinEarthworm 3 года назад +68

    I'm just waiting for Doug to review the sequel. That movie was absolutely terrible and unnecessary.

    • @plasmaoctopus1728
      @plasmaoctopus1728 3 года назад +3

      So necessary, such greatness, reviewing it I mean, the sequel wasn't of course.

    • @jaborsey_joseph
      @jaborsey_joseph 3 года назад +1

      Hello Mr. Super Mario Bros Z.

    • @alysssabear
      @alysssabear 3 года назад +2

      …there’s a sequel?

    • @rav3ndust
      @rav3ndust 8 месяцев назад +1

      @@alysssabear there is. it was hot garbage lol

  • @rainbowphoenix_dashie28
    @rainbowphoenix_dashie28 3 года назад +43

    When I heard the name of the movie title "The Lawnmower Man", it sounds like a Horror parody of Slender Man created by SNL. Maybe that's just me.

    • @OliverTCrowe
      @OliverTCrowe 3 года назад +8

      Technically it'd be the reverse since this is older than Slender Man by about 17 years.
      If anything, Slender Man was created after the Lawnmower Man ran over him.

  • @hufflepuffsith5465
    @hufflepuffsith5465 3 года назад +49

    honestly impressed he went that long without a tron joke. i couldn't have.

  • @NarwhalEntertainment
    @NarwhalEntertainment 3 года назад +41

    This movie actually has a sequel, starring M-m-m-max Headroom himself, Matt Frewer, as Jobe.

    • @seamusquain2706
      @seamusquain2706 2 года назад +2

      Oh shoot, Max Headroom's in it? Maybe i should check it out.

  • @pootard3538
    @pootard3538 2 года назад +214

    nostalgia critic gem with coalish features

    • @swarthybullxxx
      @swarthybullxxx Год назад +24

      Why are you subbed to Animan? Only in Ohio 😢

    • @pootard3538
      @pootard3538 Год назад +22

      @@swarthybullxxx animan’s got that rizz bruh 😂

    • @bigbirdy1052
      @bigbirdy1052 Месяц назад

      @swarthybullxxx deleted comment award

  • @NietzscheanOtaku
    @NietzscheanOtaku 2 года назад +156

    3:05 gem

  • @TsukiCondor
    @TsukiCondor 3 года назад +40

    What's interesting, in Japan the film was simply sold as "Virtual War" which makes me wonder why they didn't choose that name

    • @britaingray5400
      @britaingray5400 3 года назад +4

      Honestly I think Lawnmower man is a better name. It's a simple title a horror film like this would have, like the Boy

    • @ShadowSonic2
      @ShadowSonic2 3 года назад +6

      Originally, this was going to be called "Cyber God".

    • @puppymaroon964
      @puppymaroon964 3 года назад

      Yeah. That would have been more fitting.

    • @darkservantofheaven
      @darkservantofheaven 3 года назад +2

      The sequel had a pretty good subtitle
      Beyond Cyberspace
      Still a bad movie, but the trailer rocked on the Mortal Kombat 1996 VHS
      It's also got Job's War

    • @TsukiCondor
      @TsukiCondor 3 года назад

      @@darkservantofheaven Beyond Cyberspace would make for a good pulp cyberpunk noir scifi movie name

  • @adamnaameeazim6365
    @adamnaameeazim6365 3 года назад +25

    CALLED IT! I knew it wouldn't be The Shining or Creepshow, Doug would have been waaaay too excited.

    • @OliverTCrowe
      @OliverTCrowe 3 года назад +7

      I mean, he already did the bad version of The Shining, so unless he was getting ready for a Doctor Sleep review, I doubt he'd do a review of the good Kubrick one.

  • @test18fort
    @test18fort Год назад +65

    most shiniest gleamiest glimmeriest gleamonderalderald ever mined from the mountains of hyperborea

  • @michaelb9537
    @michaelb9537 3 года назад +12

    The priest on fire is actually the first use of motion capture in a full length movie. It had previously been used in commercials and music videos, but Lawnmower Man holds the claim to first movie that uses motion capture.
    18:35

  • @freebot123abc6
    @freebot123abc6 2 года назад +260

    Gem review doug!

  • @prufrock1977
    @prufrock1977 3 года назад +28

    I actually liked this movie as a early teen. I didn’t care that it was so loosely connected to the King story, none of the true horror of his writing could be visualized in any meaningful way on the silver screen. I loved the ideas and the fantasy. And the mood of being able to avenge a bullied existence.

  • @obsc3n3skull
    @obsc3n3skull 3 года назад +16

    This was my favorite "forbidden" film when I was a kid that my dad had recorded on a VHS.
    Even as a kid I thought these effect were terrible but my mom was sure I would get nightmares from how "realistic" they were, and ofc when I got older I started having nightmares about horrible CGI coming to make movies bad.

  • @thecunninlynguist
    @thecunninlynguist 3 года назад +39

    Lol, this film. The only thing I remember is the weird VR love scene. And the music from the snes game

    • @masterprick1
      @masterprick1 3 года назад +3

      The SNES music was amazing, I honestly only remember the movie due to the game.

    • @thecunninlynguist
      @thecunninlynguist 3 года назад +4

      @@masterprick1 it's a crime how good that music is for such a mediocre game

  • @imrigly
    @imrigly Год назад +70

    3:05

  • @klimmr
    @klimmr 3 года назад +18

    23:24 And yet, this imagery still doesn't haunt me like the walrus from Tusk.

  • @superstarultra28
    @superstarultra28 3 года назад +12

    18:38 I actually really like this design. The fire looks like it came right out of an early 90s computer.

  • @weirdosofsociety2237
    @weirdosofsociety2237 3 года назад +15

    "JEEEESUS WEPT!!!"
    "Stop saying Jesus wept."

  • @VloggerMan-if9bt
    @VloggerMan-if9bt Год назад +80

    Great review of this bone-chilling, spine-tingling gem of a movie 💎💎

  • @thegangstachimp
    @thegangstachimp Год назад +90

    This review is such a gem; thanks Doug

  • @wariodude128
    @wariodude128 3 года назад +56

    For early 90s CG effects, these were mostly pretty good. They didn't have to be realistic, so they just went the other way and it still looks alright.

    • @smaakjeks
      @smaakjeks 3 года назад +3

      Jurassic Park 1 year later.

    • @sparkpenguin
      @sparkpenguin 3 года назад +8

      @@smaakjeks jurassic park was trying to render animals sharing reality with the actors *as realistically as possible; lawnmower was a guy using surreal graphics from video game to telepathically digital-nightmare murder people like he was still in the game. the budget was way lower yeah but the trippy stylistic thru-line seemed largely intentional.

    • @alysssabear
      @alysssabear 3 года назад

      I wouldn’t call them “good” but they were pretty innovative

    • @wariodude128
      @wariodude128 3 года назад

      @@UnknownName5050 I did say **mostly** pretty good, remember now.

  • @guillermosierracuellar9812
    @guillermosierracuellar9812 3 года назад +89

    Such a great Halloween theme song I’m going to miss Nostalgiaween

    • @DJtheBlack-RibbonedRose
      @DJtheBlack-RibbonedRose 3 года назад +10

      I know, it went by so fast this year. But I'm at least glad that he reviewed Witch's Ghost. 😊🧙‍♀️

    • @stephonmanny7555
      @stephonmanny7555 3 года назад +3

      Me to

    • @Cheyenne_Hayden
      @Cheyenne_Hayden 3 года назад +6

      Me too, but next month there will the commercial special!

  • @TheInternetHelpdeskPlays
    @TheInternetHelpdeskPlays 3 года назад +56

    It wasn't a bad movie, now the sequel was a sight to behold! In every wrong way.

    • @diamondknight8587
      @diamondknight8587 3 года назад +3

      …this has a sequel?

    • @Aaron-xo5ud
      @Aaron-xo5ud 3 года назад +1

      @@diamondknight8587 Its about a future where everyone is dependent on computers... oh the horror!

    • @diamondknight8587
      @diamondknight8587 3 года назад +1

      @@Aaron-xo5ud ...So...the sequel is reality?

    • @titusmccarthy
      @titusmccarthy 3 года назад +1

      The original was awful.

    • @plasmaoctopus1728
      @plasmaoctopus1728 3 года назад +1

      @@diamondknight8587 The real horror is that the Windows interface has hardly improved after all these years.

  • @GeekCredTrivia
    @GeekCredTrivia 3 года назад +45

    I like how people don't realize this is basically a rip off of flowers to Algernon

    • @chasehedges6775
      @chasehedges6775 3 года назад +3

      I love that book

    • @pheunithpsychic-watertype9881
      @pheunithpsychic-watertype9881 3 года назад +4

      I just thought the dumb turned genius was just a trope

    • @GeekCredTrivia
      @GeekCredTrivia 3 года назад +12

      @@pheunithpsychic-watertype9881 pretty much where the troppe came from, just like how the Pinocchio robot thing came from ASTRO Boy or the super hero scientist transformation comes from jekyll and Hyde. I'm there were people who predicted using eugenics to turn those on the spectrum into geniuses before but most take from or were inspired by flowers to Algernon

    • @zachsutton2113
      @zachsutton2113 3 года назад +2

      I've grown quite hweeareh

    • @mr.someoneudontkno698
      @mr.someoneudontkno698 3 года назад +4

      He made a direct joke on that in the video actually

  • @firecrest3325
    @firecrest3325 3 года назад +30

    This would be a good remake, imagine someone being able to control the internet from the inside.

    • @plasmaoctopus1728
      @plasmaoctopus1728 3 года назад +5

      I have a feeling if I had the ability to connect and see the entire internet, what I would see would lead me to believe the only solution is to fire all of the nukes.

    • @SA80TAGE
      @SA80TAGE 3 года назад +4

      @@plasmaoctopus1728 Ultron felt the same way after 30 seconds on the net, so you ain't alone.

    • @sjh3217
      @sjh3217 3 года назад +1

      You should read Robert J. Sawyer's WWW trilogy. A hard SF scenario where the Net itself becomes sentient, and done far better than this movie could ever hope for.

  • @apollorock3r244
    @apollorock3r244 3 года назад +12

    21:33 “I’m being Dippin’ Dots to death! It’ll still never be the ice cream of the future!”XD I’m being reminded of the “I’ve been Listerined” joke from the Tommyknockers review 10 years ago.
    I wonder if he’ll review the godawful sequel that had Max Headroom himself in it. That could make a good Nostalgiaween episode for next year. XD

  • @grapeshot
    @grapeshot 3 года назад +49

    Oh in the the 1990s, when we taught virtual reality was going to be the future. At least in that form. Although I do like when he said my birth cry will be all the phones in the world ringing in unison.

    • @lutherheggs451
      @lutherheggs451 3 года назад +5

      We were also told by movies we were going to get flying cars...Thank god we never got those, there are too many fuckwits that would ruin that for people. We can't even have self driving cars, with the fuckwits and the drunks proving were not mature enough for them.

    • @koneheadcokehead4981
      @koneheadcokehead4981 3 года назад +1

      Gonna assume your father wasn't Steve Jobs

    • @Mirality
      @Mirality 3 года назад +6

      It's kinda the other way around, actually. Self-driving cars are perfect for fuckwits and drunks, it's just that what we have now isn't actually "self-driving cars", it's just slightly less dumb cruise control being marketed incorrectly. So it's the technology that's not mature enough yet.

    • @LaLogic2
      @LaLogic2 3 года назад

      VR is booming right now

  • @adamseeker2956
    @adamseeker2956 2 года назад +128

    I
    AM
    COB

  • @nightshadehelis9821
    @nightshadehelis9821 3 года назад +7

    Can confirm, virtual reality was 100% like this in the 90s. Our local theater had a VR demo that you could try for $20. It was rediculously disappointing, but it looked so futuristic.

  • @wfrancis25
    @wfrancis25 3 года назад +19

    This movie is one of those that really influenced me as a kid...and it still holds a special place in my heart(even with the bad CG)....ok time for a rewatch

  • @feandil666
    @feandil666 3 года назад +10

    It's a cult classic because of the sheer creativity of this VR scenes, I'd take that over modern uninspired CGI, however competent.

  • @smolderedrazor7833
    @smolderedrazor7833 3 года назад +8

    Of all the Stephen king times I should've known this would be it but I would never have guessed lawnmower man

  • @wolfgangamadeusmozart1293
    @wolfgangamadeusmozart1293 3 года назад +38

    Another Stephen King review! Perfect to wrap up Nostalgiaween 2021!

    • @chasehedges6775
      @chasehedges6775 3 года назад

      👍👍👍💯💯💯💯

    • @DJtheBlack-RibbonedRose
      @DJtheBlack-RibbonedRose 3 года назад +1

      Stephen King(ish) review. Makes sense since Ben Ravencroft was basically Scooby-Doo's version of King last week. 😉

  • @Ospyro3em
    @Ospyro3em 3 года назад +6

    Is it just me or was that "pirate" accent in the sponsor skit going progressively from Mr. Krabs to Scrooge McDuck? 😂

  • @cross172
    @cross172 3 года назад +42

    Let me just say… This year had the best Nostalgia-ween intro!

    • @ChannelAwesome
      @ChannelAwesome  3 года назад +11

      It's so good!!!!

    • @MovieFan1912
      @MovieFan1912 3 года назад +1

      I wonder what next years intro is going to reference.

  • @koneheadcokehead4981
    @koneheadcokehead4981 3 года назад +48

    Wouldn't it be weird if it wasn't a guy who rides a lawnmower and his friends call him lawnmower man and instead it was just a guy eating a chocolate bar while he stairs with a swashbuckling look.

    • @DJtheBlack-RibbonedRose
      @DJtheBlack-RibbonedRose 3 года назад +6

      "Eat a Snickers."
      "Why?"
      "You become Stephen King-ish when you're hungry."
      "Better?"
      *see above comment* "Better."

  • @tipulsar85
    @tipulsar85 3 года назад +34

    So, Strange story time, the CG animators for Lawnmower Man did get their sequences in a video album that came out the same year. In fact, in some ways their uses there are much better than in the film. So if you just want to see the pretty graphics, Check out Beyond the Mind's Eye elsewhere on youtube in full form.

    • @dracocellestan6874
      @dracocellestan6874 3 года назад +3

      I grew up watching that! My parents recorded it from TV onto a vhs tape... and I still have the tape and never recorded over it. Jeeze I feel old...

    • @tipulsar85
      @tipulsar85 3 года назад +3

      @@dracocellestan6874 I have the actual copies still that I had as a kid. I also kept the soundtracks.

    • @SgtScorpious
      @SgtScorpious 3 года назад +1

      Wondered why it looked familiar

    • @avosmash2121
      @avosmash2121 3 года назад +1

      YES incredibly cool series

  • @sekrad
    @sekrad 3 года назад +9

    I have a soft spot for this movie, own the blu ray with both versions. Yeah, it’s cheesy, but as a disabled person I relate to Jobe’s character. Fun fact: my acting colleague was the soldier who holds back Pierce Brosnan when the chimp is killed in the director’s cut. Also Pierce was grieving his wife’s death during filming.

  • @p33ko81
    @p33ko81 3 года назад +53

    Cobson got the gemmy tho

  • @francisfatta
    @francisfatta 3 года назад +21

    Well, he was definitely right. I couldn’t have possibly guessed this was what he meant by “Stephen King-ish”

    • @LucyLioness100
      @LucyLioness100 3 года назад +3

      Only movie the man has ever disowned & he successfully sued to get his name removed from the project

    • @chasehedges6775
      @chasehedges6775 3 года назад +2

      @@LucyLioness100 Good for him

    • @alysssabear
      @alysssabear 3 года назад

      @@LucyLioness100 Isn’t it funny how your name is Alyssa Black and my name is Alyssa Gray? 💀

  • @justanotherchannelonyoutub126
    @justanotherchannelonyoutub126 3 года назад +44

    If Stephen King revealed that all of his books took place in the same universe, what would it be called? The universe of Stephen, or like Stephen uni-

    • @Nasser851000
      @Nasser851000 3 года назад +6

      The SKCU? XD

    • @h.rtheater8321
      @h.rtheater8321 3 года назад +6

      He technically did that with the Dark Tower series

    • @dechicken6090
      @dechicken6090 3 года назад +2

      You mean Stephen universe.
      * Stephen king packs to go to my house. *

    • @thepinkestpigglet7529
      @thepinkestpigglet7529 3 года назад +7

      Ita called Maine

    • @dechicken6090
      @dechicken6090 3 года назад +5

      Stephen king: i ain't taking maine on this, not my fault

  • @BionicleGio22210
    @BionicleGio22210 3 года назад +63

    Christ this cg makes beast wars look more advanced

    • @pedrohenriquemoraessantos1164
      @pedrohenriquemoraessantos1164 3 года назад +14

      22:00 they even get a waspinator cameo

    • @garrtoons4303
      @garrtoons4303 3 года назад +4

      CGI Jobe moves his mouth the same way Sonic from Sonic Adventure 1 moves his. 🤣

    • @anubusx
      @anubusx 3 года назад +1

      Love that show.

    • @Grudgebearer47
      @Grudgebearer47 3 года назад +4

      Not my fault

    • @ShadowSonic2
      @ShadowSonic2 3 года назад +1

      Beast Wars was acceptable for the mid 90s, admittedly

  • @levelfive7662
    @levelfive7662 Год назад +68

    The gemmiest duo

  • @1981Speedwagone
    @1981Speedwagone 3 года назад +6

    I find the best testament to this movie is how much I still remember from it. I saw it in theaters, and have never seen it since. Every time i see anything VR it reminds me of it, so it's a movie that truly had an impact.

  • @jrcarter9175
    @jrcarter9175 3 года назад +6

    "Maybe we were too hard on Birdemic." You can NEVER be too hard on Birdemic!

  • @TaliaIGhul
    @TaliaIGhul 3 года назад +13

    (Kinda) Fun Fact: This was directed by the same person directed Virtuosity and Highlander: The Source. Yeah, the director's skill was deluded over time.

    • @lutherheggs451
      @lutherheggs451 3 года назад +4

      Shhhhhhh....Lets just pretend that Highlander: The Source never actually happened.

  • @Anime-Doom
    @Anime-Doom 3 года назад +67

    I haven't seen this movie in many MANY years but I still hold a great nostalgic fondness for it, I remember seeing it on VHS back when I was like 7 or 8 and looking back at it now it's no wonder it stuck with me all these years. This shit is pretty damn crazy.
    Also the Mega Drive version of the game was hard as balls, at least as far as I remember.

    • @nightshadehelis9821
      @nightshadehelis9821 3 года назад +2

      We are around the same age. Just curious, how disappointed and confused were you by the Super Mario Bros movie?

    • @CommanderM117
      @CommanderM117 3 года назад +1

      same

  • @MetalliMarkus
    @MetalliMarkus Год назад +75

    Cobson

  • @Xenodyne
    @Xenodyne Год назад +5

    7:59 the literal first thing out of the box with the oculus. lmfaoooo

  • @undeadgentalmen
    @undeadgentalmen 3 года назад +64

    "The film opens with text virtual reality. It's pro and... Cons? Mind control. Really?"
    Have you seen the Vtuber community? That's big loss for humanity, however a overwhelming victory for us weebs.

    • @Alondro77
      @Alondro77 3 года назад +1

      Vtubers have shark wahmen and caribou wamen... clearly, the furries are taking over the Internet... we're doomed.

    • @Here_is_Waldo
      @Here_is_Waldo 3 года назад

      Well, if direct neural interfaces ever become reality, then it might be possible to control someone's mind in the future.

    • @samhenley7156
      @samhenley7156 3 года назад

      @@Here_is_Waldo You kidding? Elon musk wants to use Neuralink to connect your brain to the internet! It's inevitable.

    • @Here_is_Waldo
      @Here_is_Waldo 3 года назад +1

      @@samhenley7156 Inevitable, yes. Elon Musk though? I doubt it. The technology to properly do so is probably another generation or two away still. We can't even fix a broken spine yet, it's a long way off from implanting a chip that can control a brain.

  • @carlosspeicywiener7018
    @carlosspeicywiener7018 3 года назад +27

    Not gonna lie. I love this movie.
    Also, the lab was funded by the CIA, and they've never had any problems with the legality of what they do.
    Just saying

  • @RealSnuuy
    @RealSnuuy Год назад +50

    This sharty is mine, i am GEM here!

  • @park5782
    @park5782 3 года назад +3

    This is the first nostalgia critic video I’ve watched, I’ve known about him for a long time but never bothered. This is banger

  • @DjDeadpig
    @DjDeadpig 8 месяцев назад +18

    The birth of Cobson.

  • @dolphincrescent54
    @dolphincrescent54 3 года назад +62

    When Stephen King would rather have himself connected to time traveling meatballs (langoliers), aliens that poop out of your ass (dreamcatcher) and incestuous cat creatures (Sleepwalkers) than this movie, you KNOW crazy shit's gonna happen!

    • @anubusx
      @anubusx 3 года назад +8

      God help us all.

    • @DJtheBlack-RibbonedRose
      @DJtheBlack-RibbonedRose 3 года назад +10

      Badly-rendered CGI meatballs with teeth? Sure. Badly-rendered CGI virtual-god proclaimers? *NOPE,* can't give them the royalties!

    • @MrDj232
      @MrDj232 3 года назад +3

      Meatballs? Those were clearly dust bunnies.

    • @Brandyalla
      @Brandyalla 3 года назад +4

      At least the shit weasels were creative...I mean, has there ever been another story about aliens being born by fart?

    • @Chaos89P
      @Chaos89P 3 года назад +2

      @@Brandyalla An episode of Jimmy Neutron comes to mind, believe it or not.

  • @filmfangirls9163
    @filmfangirls9163 3 года назад +8

    Woooow. We're just gonna stand there a watch a man abuse his son. You're James Bond for crying out loud!

  • @ChrisNeufeldMusic
    @ChrisNeufeldMusic 3 года назад +7

    Thought it would be Doctor Sleep, but you proved me and others that guessed the same flick wrong.
    And what a way to end this year’s Nostalgiaween!

  • @DarthAzabrush
    @DarthAzabrush 3 года назад +1

    Capin' Product Placemen' there ranges from James Doohan to Geoffery Rush to Sylvester McCoy in the same sentence.... I LOVE IT!

  • @WayneManor666
    @WayneManor666 3 года назад +5

    " I left prison for this"...great line XD 02:27

  • @koneheadcokehead4981
    @koneheadcokehead4981 3 года назад +18

    Ok a better question i have is HOW IS THERE A SEQUEL TO THIS?!? Was someone really yeah lets make even more crapper CG someone will buy it.

    • @lutherheggs451
      @lutherheggs451 3 года назад +4

      Because like most of the "King sequels" the studio owned the rights to the movie and could do whatever they wanted with it without needing King or King's permission....It also made 32 million on a 10 million dollar budget

    • @MrCommandoawesome
      @MrCommandoawesome 3 года назад

      It also doesn't have any of the original cast, or filmmakers. Really good sign in a sequel.

    • @Tornado1994
      @Tornado1994 3 года назад +1

      Only Austin O’Brien returned for the Sequel.

  • @piplup2009
    @piplup2009 3 года назад +11

    This could do with a modern remake, maybe something involving VR

  • @geardog24
    @geardog24 3 года назад +8

    12:51 Holy crap, you actually remember the Real Adventures of Johnny Quest? 😳

  • @evilgrayfly08
    @evilgrayfly08 3 года назад +4

    Honestly, now I want a reboot of this film. It had good elements. I still vividly remember it even though I haven't watched it for 30 years.

  • @TwoFacedGentleman
    @TwoFacedGentleman 3 года назад +3

    "I have a boat."
    This is the quality content that I subscribe for.

  • @jerrysmith8814
    @jerrysmith8814 Год назад +20

    Gemson

  • @1805movie
    @1805movie 3 года назад +19

    Only a matter of time before Stephen King himself shows up for revenge.

    • @klimmr
      @klimmr 3 года назад +1

      He talked about the Top 11 Good Stephen King movies.

    • @alysssabear
      @alysssabear 3 года назад

      Oh Lord

  • @sakuradaidouji6526
    @sakuradaidouji6526 3 года назад +4

    jesus man that ADR work on Malcolm's line at 3:57 is SO noticeable i just had to say something.

  • @rido-iw6df
    @rido-iw6df 7 месяцев назад +17

    I am Cob here.

  • @mxkinist
    @mxkinist 2 года назад +53

    'em

  • @painter194
    @painter194 3 года назад +22

    Why not Steven King’s “Rose Red”. It’s a fantastic Stephen King miniseries that begs to be reviewed.☹️😢😭.
    Maybe next year? I’ve been waiting over a decade for it. One day critic, one day🤞

    • @strawberrylime33
      @strawberrylime33 3 года назад +1

      I heard of that book in 5th grade and kids were talking about it like it was the best scariest thing to come along. I don't even know what it's about!

    • @mr.peevyshow1914
      @mr.peevyshow1914 3 года назад

      Rose Red was horrible. Watch The Haunting 1963 Directed by Robert Wise.

    • @maximumrisk2004
      @maximumrisk2004 3 года назад +3

      @@strawberrylime33 The more one explains about the movie the more gets spoiled. To put it best, all of Stephen Kings tropes come together in an old Ghost Mansion for a experiment and silliness ensues.

    • @OliverTCrowe
      @OliverTCrowe 3 года назад +4

      @@maximumrisk2004 This is a great enough explanation. It's a horribly cheesy movie with some legit good creepy scenes at moments. But overall it's a parade of tropes in a goofy setting masked as a horror series.