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weirdlookindog · 6 months

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The Dead Pit (1989)

#the dead pie #jeremy slate #cheryl lawson #stephen gregory foster #1989 #1980s movies #brett leonard #horror movie poster

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rwpohl · 22 days

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the lawnmower man, brett leonard 1992

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filmjunky-99 · 4 months

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t h e l a w n m o w e r m a n, 1992 🎬 dir. brett leonard

#film #sci fi #the lawnmower man #the lawnmower man 1992 #Brett Leonard #great film posters #great movie posters #film poster #movie poster

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adamwatchesmovies · 4 months

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The Lawnmower Man (1992)

The Lawnmower Man is a film at odds with itself. The story hates and fears computers while attributing magic abilities to them. The special effects department loves computers and uses them at every opportunity, even when practical effects would’ve been far easier. In the middle is the audience, forced to suffer through terrible dialogue and a laughable plot that entertains - but only in unintended ways.

Dr. Larry Angelo (Pierce Brosnan) works for Virtual Space Industries, using psychoactive drugs and virtual reality to augment the intelligence and combat effectiveness of his test subjects. After a chimpanzee goes on a rampage, Dr. Angelo pivots his research to focus solely on the intelligence-boosting treatments. He recruits his intellectually disabled greenskeeper, Jobe Smith (Jeff Fahey) as a new test subject.

Even if this film was faithfully adapting Stephen King’s 1975 short story, he would’ve wanted his name removed. It boils down to a clumsy mash-up of Flowers for Algernon and Carrie (or Firestarter). When Jobe begins the film, he looks like Harry Dunne from Dumb and Dumber. He’s hanging out with his neighbor, a kid whose cartoonish father abuses his wife and son nightly. You know it’s only a matter of time before bad dad gets his comeuppance and that it’ll probably be a gruesome lawnmower-related death. Why else would the camera linger on its ridiculous design for so long? Then again, maybe he’ll get torn apart by Jobe’s emerging telekinetic powers. As far as superpowers go, they’re pretty useful, particularly once he also learns to read minds and project his thoughts. Meanwhile, his IQ skyrockets to genius levels. Too bad all of these skills fail to impress “The Shop”, the clandestine group funding Dr. Angelo’s research. What results they were after, I don't know. Their original plan of raising an army of ape soldiers pales compared to the destructive power Jobe now wields. It must be an ego thing, as “The Director” always appears on a giant TV screen the size of an entire wall when he’s holding meetings. Whenever he shows up, his camera’s zoomed in so close he’d be a shoo-in for Big Brother.

It’s hard to tell which is more comically evil; "The Director" or Jobe’s abusive adoptive father, Father Francis McKeen (Jeremy Slate). His death is one of the film's biggest disappointments. It shatters any leftover good faith you might’ve had towards the movie. Throughout, we see many shots of virtual reality that are about as enchanting as you'd expect considering the film was made in 1992 and only had a $10 million budget. Your kind heart wants to give the movie a break, thinking "It’s the best they could do at the time." Then, Father McKeen gets it and the effect is pathetic. Worse, it’s the sort of thing that has been done better thousands of times before and since. If director Brett Leonard can't get this simple thing right, there's no point giving The Lawnmower Man the benefit of the doubt; it's a bad movie.

The villains give you plenty to laugh at. The question is, will you laugh harder at them, the random bully that works at the gas station who continuously picks on Jobe, or at the intellectual titan’s girlfriend, a wealthy divorcee who makes bad inuendos and lounge around in her nightgown all day. It’s some of the least erotic material I’ve ever seen, which makes her scenes a riot.

This movie keeps getting wilder and dumber the longer it goes but also overstays its welcome. 108 minutes is too much - though it makes me wonder what the 142-minute director’s cut is like. What else prevents The Lawnmower Man from being a true bad movie classic? Mostly, the fact that the movie is "almost there" far too often. Though you’ll get a chuckle out of the dated special effects, you can tell they might’ve been impressive way back when. It’s not like the tombstone in Plan 9 from Outer Space. Also making you feel slightly bad for laughing at the picture is the ending, which is well done.

There’s an idea in The Lawnmower Man; it never quite comes together. Though it has occasional moments where you can see what the film wants to be and it might even reach its potential, they're drowned out by dated special effects, laughable villains, failed attempts at eroticism and a plot that makes less sense the more you think about it. How they followed this up with a sequel, I have no idea. If it’s as fun as this, I can’t wait to see it. (Theatrical version, August 20, 2021)

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absencesrepetees · 2 years

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virtuosity (brett leonard, 1995)

#virtuosity #brett leonard #denzel washington #gale tattersall #s

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schlock-luster-video · 10 months

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On July 10, 1992, The Lawnmower Man debuted in Sweden.

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90smovies · 2 years

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#The Lawnmower Man #Lawnmower Man 2 Beyond Cyberspace #Farhad Mann #Michael Miner #Brett Leonard #Gimel Everett #90s

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swampflix · 7 months

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Podcast #195: Hideaway (1995) & Brett Leonard's Virtual Worlds

Welcome to Episode #195 of The Swampflix Podcast. For this episode, Brandon, James, Hanna, and Britnee discuss the rudimentary CG realms of director Brett Leonard, starting with his supernatural serial killer thriller Hideaway (1995). 00:00 Welcome 01:58 Fools Rush In (1997)05:55 Jodorowsky’s Dune (2013)13:28 Rebecca (1940)16:13 Amateur (1994)20:40 Petals on the Wind (2014)25:33 We Were the…

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#brandon ledet #brett leonard #britnee lombas #computers #Hanna Räsänen #hideaway #james cohn #siegfried and roy #the lawnmower man #virtual reality #virtuosity

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meadows-jukebox · 1 month

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@bobdylanfanpage and I took it upon ourselves to tier-list our favorite guys based on vibes. here's mine.

BAE STYLIN: richey edwards, david sylvian, richard barbieri, gerard way, syd barrett, george harrison, dave vanian, mick taylor

I'M LOOKING: bernard butler, mick karn, frank iero, trey parker, matt stone, nick mason, robert plant, keith richards

NO COMMENT: nicky wire, brett anderson, todd rundgren, richard butler, richard wright, andrew eldritch, mick jagger

YIKES: roger waters, john lennon, leonard cohen*, jimmy page

WHAT THE ACTUAL FUCK: eric clapton, jim morrison**

*got points taken away because he's a fucking freak who wrote beautiful losers aka the worst literature experience of my life

**i hate him so much its unbearable

DISCLAIMER: I love all of these guys so much even though I am so mean to them, they are my little guys and I cherish them deeply and wholly.

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ohdarlings · 1 year

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leonard cohen being the worlds most bizarre choice for this 90s british breakfast tv segment ‘in bed with paula’

#found this watching 90s it boys get interviewed on this segment #like brett anderson!! keanu reeves!! damon albarn !! and … leonard cohen !!!#90s british breakfast tv was the wild west #leonard cohen #my uploads

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coolthingsguyslike · 1 year

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#7Up #soda #vintage #advertisement #Magic Johnson #George Brett #Mike Schmidt #Sugar Ray Leonard #1980s

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emperornero · 9 months

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youtube is trying to make me watch a fucking soyjak deep dive origin video but aside from how much i dont care about this the thumbnail is so funny to me simply because the first one is the fucking guy from the movie the lawnmover man and its director is an inside joke in my friend group every time i see someone reference it i feel like im about to cough up my lungs

#this movie sucks but 1. the polish title translation is fucking incredible 2. the director of it is like a guy i refuse to believe really #- exists. the things he has made . the fight with stephen king over this fucking movie . everything about him . mr brett leonard im a fan

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rwpohl · 22 days

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