What was wrong with Johnny Mnemonic? I would love to see Gibson's other books made into movies though, as long as they don't try to modernize it too much from the kind of dystopian future with cyber hacking / implants that Gibson set out.
There's a rather forgettable film version of New Rose Hotel, also a short story from the Burning Chrome collection like Johnny Mnemonic. Iirc it was not bad if you don't mind films where not much happens. Has Christopher Walken in it.
Neuromancer has been in production for half an eternity, but there's actually been some movement on this in the last year I understand, and that there's supposed to be an anime version of Idoru coming out at some point.
Damn, the silver throwback suit looks awesome, how it should. But I am guessing the black "tactical" suit, will be the better final version by the end of the film.
looks like someone didn't even understand the arc of the original movie.
there was nothing left of his humanity when he was reborn.
it wasn't a contest between man and machine, we got enough of that from terminator.
To expand on this: one of the things I REALLY liked about the original was that when RoboCop was turned on, he didn't know WHO he used to be. He had to discover this throughout the movie. We see this throughout the movie:
- Wife visits him "touch me" "it's cold" remember that?
- "We killed you!" - scene at the gas bar.
- RoboCop's visit to the house for sale.
- Etc, etc...
Maybe I'm getting too worked-up. I just see exactly what Michael Keaton's character says: "we're going to put a man inside a machine."
Might as well be Iron Man. (not a diss on Iron Man)
(not a diss on Iron Man)
