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A minute-by-minute review of the 1995 adaptation of William Gibson's classic cyberpunk noir: Johnny Mnemonic. Each week your hosts watch one minute of the film, dissect, discuss, and digress.
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This week starts with an email and a deleted scene from the week before. After that we get into the good cyberpunk stuff: Memory doublers, data jack cybernetics, and cheap matte paintings of 2021 Beijing.
Finally we get some action. Johnny centers himself after a harrowing data upload, then all hell breaks loose. Mono-molecular whips, air powered guns, total mayhem. We break it down frame by frame.
We have an awesome minute in store for you. First the conversation in the checker cab finishes up, then we finally cut to our super cyberpunky nightclub with techno opera singers, dudes in top hats and goggles, and of course Spider and Jane. We cover it in painstaking detail so hope you enjoy.
Josh and Eric watch the 22nd minute of Johnny Mnemonic, complain about the DVD player, and take a deep look at the club scene, in which there is no shortage of background craziness to comment on.
This week's episode starts with a harrowing tale from the Canadian desert. After that we dive into the minute, split between the nightclub, and an establishing shot of some urban slum. Also this scene features some tongue sucking if that's what you're into.
This week we start by talking about some of our favorite cyberpunk movies, and forget that Bladerunner was a thing. We then get into the 24th minute which is, lets be honest, not the most exciting part of Johnny Mnemonic. Interesting or not, we still bring some fun facts to the table and make the most of the minute.
After some nerdly reminiscing of the 1900s, your hosts dive into minute 25 of Johnny Mnemonic. In which a cowboy lies to Johnny, and a bald guy tries to cut his head off. It's all good fun however, as Johnny escapes into the alley.
Johnny makes a distraction, Toad gets shot, J-Bone does not say "bye". All that plus recommendos and anecdotes from your hosts.
This week, recorded at the beginning of July, has a meet-cute between two Johnny Mnemonic greats: Johnny and J-Bone. Marvel at the on screen chemistry of those guys while you recoil at the lack of it by your hosts.
Reunited after a long break, our hosts have lots of real world dystopia talk to catch on. After that they watch Johnny threaten Ralphie, then get knocked TF out.
This week's dystopia talk gets a little dark. Then we get into what is probably the least interesting minute of Johnny Mnemonic that we've watched yet. Then we ramble for an extra 15 minutes for some reason. Tadaaaa!
Johnny is still tied to a table, but any second now he's going to be rescued... any second now.... ok maybe next week. Also, as usual, we talk Dystopias, reccomendos, and deftly engineer other trains of thought.
This week's minute is action packed. With a rescue, a negotiation, blood, weird car-antenna weapons, possible cybernetic hand razors, and even an eventual escape. We break it down in literal slow motion so that not one detail escapes.
After the usual week-out-of-date dystopia talk, we dive into another minute packed with gunplay and dismemberment.
This week is about garbage. First we talk about the garbage world we live in, then we discuss the garbage stacked up in this week's minute of Johnny Mnemonic.
This week we watch Johnny and Jane get rescued by a bunch of Loteks, then descend into the subway tunnels to make good their escape. Your hosts discuss how bad everything is and have some suggestions for media to distract yourself with.
Your hosts don't have the heart to do much dystopia talk this week, so we hustle into the 35th minute of Johnny Mnemonic which is a dialog-heavy walk and talk in an abandoned subway. Johnny explains his situation to Jane, then has a seizure.
This week we dissect the 36th minute of Johnny Mnemonic which just happens to line up perfectly with a 58 second scene in Takahashi's office.
This week your hosts vaguely talk about something that could happen and that it might make them cautiously happy maybe, but won't say what it is. Then they watch Johnny have flashbacks in slow motion.
This week's pointless minute rehashes information we already knew in a subway tunnel we are already sick of. If that doesn't sell the podcast I don't know what will.
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