ever have one of those days where everyone just wants to cut off your head?

[lauralh]

I have to hand it to Steve. After Surf Ninjas, nothing can seem bad. Or at least not that bad. Not even Cabin Boy. I have no idea what his obsession with making me watch terrible movies is, but we just saw Johnny Mnemonic. I'm still feeling sorta crappy so I guess I was "in the mood" for it. Anyway. Gads. Words cannot express. One of those movies I guess that just should not have been made. Or at least not made without a script doctor and Tom Cruise. (Because it seems that all the good SF movies nowadays have Tom Cruise in them. What's up with that? Not that I mind, of course.)

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[disarrayed.livejournal.com]

Henry Rollins, Black Flag tattoo and all, playing a doctor is enough to make me laugh to tears. Dolph Lungren as a cybernetic assassin/priest was a tearful laugh, too. Woah.

[discogravy.livejournal.com]

In the future, all doctors will be Henry Rollins, and dolphins will save the world with Ice-T's help.

U2's contribution to the soundtrack was a low point in their career.

[atypical-gnu.livejournal.com]

Why they tried to squeeze a feature length movie out of an so-so short story still mystifies me.

(hey, i like that song.)

[herbaliser.livejournal.com]

unlike, you know, "A Beautiful Day."

[apotheon.livejournal.com]

You're high. That story was incredible. Well, okay, maybe it was so-so by Gibson's standards, but in comparison to the literary world at large it was almost a masterwork. The movie adaptation blew goat, though.

The thousand-dollar-a-night-hooker monologue is incredible, on the other hand, and though his "acting" through the rest of the film was some of the worst tripe I've seen out of Keanu Reeves (which is really saying something -- something awful), it was my first hint that some talent might lurk behind his habitually vapid, glazed expression.

[discogravy.livejournal.com]

I did say a low point, not the low point of their career.