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just started joe vs the volcano and thinking about how much i want to kill doctors

the CG in this movie is...i mean, i understand why people might think it looks bad, it's kind of corny in some places, but it just makes cyberspace look mind-meltingly psychedelic, and i think that's awesome. i think these two movies make fur a great double feature, especially given they both clock in healthily under 2 hours.

johnny mnemonic in black and white (1995 / 2022)

monochrome flesh and metal blend together and humans bleed oozing black oil. keanu sells the role of a somewhat shallow but rightfully irritated asshole with abrasive, aggressive, automatic delivery. ice-T is here and it kicks ass. where hackers is concerned with environmental disaster, johnny mnemonic's dystopia is one of disease, of bodies failing and medical corpurrations purrofiting from people's suffuring.

the film embodies an optimistic belief in collectivist action triumphing over destructive and selfish purrofit-focused corpurrate white hat hackers. though, i wonder if the movie anticipated just how many more of those countercultural hackers would end up as eugenes in their middle age than would be zero cools.

hackers (1995)

the entire 90s techno-counter-culture, distilled. incredible soundtrack and aesthetic sensibilities. the core cast's androgynous fashion and faggy affect serves well to draw a line distinguishing the young and rebellious hackers from eugene/plague. some of the most amazing visual interpurrtations of hacking put to film.

im decking so many people out with this control list it brings me twisted joy

last stab i bet it is

it feels kind of aesthetically unstuck in time. weird!