The Lawnmower Man - Nostalgia Critic

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It's based on a Stephen King story, yet has nothing to do with it, yet has all the Stephen king clichés! What went on with the only King story King himself wanted no connection to? Nostalgia Critic takes a look at The Lawnmower Man.
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The Lawnmower Man is a 1992 science fiction horror film directed by Brett Leonard, written by Leonard and Gimel Everett, and starring Jeff Fahey as Jobe Smith, an intellectually disabled gardener, and Pierce Brosnan as Dr. Lawrence "Larry" Angelo, a scientist who decides to experiment on him in an effort to give him greater intelligence.
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[@stormshadowproductions1660]

Next nostalgia ween review Jack Black's Goosebumps

[@stormshadowproductions1660]

Can you do a dogs review paw patrol the movie

[@stormshadowproductions1660]

Can you view Sonic the hedgehog with black nerd angry Joe & Cinema snob

[@josemanuelcalvaamaya6920]

Review sonic the hedgehog 2020 please

[@mentalheadphones]

Review Lawnmower Man 2

[@FistfulOfCourage]

Fun Fact about this movie: the visual effects for the film’s virtual reality scenes were done by the same studio that would also do Red Dead Redemption and GTA, before the studio was known as Rockstar Games (specifically the San Diego unit).

[@lutherheggs451]

They also likely only had a couple hundred thousand if that for the FX. The movie was made on a 10 million dollar budget in 1992.....Unless they had a T2 or a jurassic Park level budget it was going to look like ass no matter what.

[@Tailslol]

well the bad effect can be explained, everything is meant to happen in a game and not in reality for the vr phases, and about all the powers and visions, it is meant to be pulled out of the game since it is the games that gave the power, so in any moment it was never meant to be realistic.

[@sleepykitty8918]

That's a very fun fact!

[@vaughnrussell5772]

Good fact bruh....👍

[@Neat0_o]

Very very interesting fact.

[@DuelaDent52]

Correction: the original short story was about a literal lawn mowing man, he was this grotesque man who ate the grass like a horse and killed his client for trying to expose his secret.

[@MrDj232]

That's what I thought. I vividly remember the description of a fat naked man with goat horns murdering a guy and eating him to hide the evidence.

[@t.c.bramblett617]

@@MrDj232 yeah and he ate a mole raw. That's literally all I remember

[@squeaktheswan2007]

That sounds like it would have been better.

[@tiderunnerdax2263]

yeahhh dont for get the gopher that gets shredded by the mower that he also eats without pause I will NEVER forget that story as long as i live and i read it in 96 lol

[@dunc0029]

Yeah, I remember seeing this film, having read the story, and being like... wtf, weirdest adaptation ever!

[@HAL-st4ll]

"Bad CG can't hurt you anymore, it's gone now" And here Doug just fucking brings it back

[@carloslopezortega3327]

Welcome the 90s people well yeah it’s the 90s.

[@chasehedges6775]

@@carloslopezortega3327 2000s/2010s/2020s: HOLD OUR BEER

[@Tailslol]

well the bad effect can be explained, everything is meant to happen in a game and not in reality for the vr phases, and about all the powers and visions, it is meant to be pulled out of the game since it is the games that gave the power, so in any moment it was never meant to be realistic.

[@christhornycroft3686]

@@carloslopezortega3327 actually 90s CGI was really the only time it worked. After that, it was so overused it just looked fake. Like today. Superhero movies post 2001 come to mind.

[@TheScarletSlayer]

@@chasehedges6775 supermans upper lip* LOOK AT IT ...LOOK AT IT....LOOK AT IT

[@AB-ot3bm]

my dad rented this on VHS, and that scene where he said all the phones will ring when he’s everywhere… our house phone rang and my older sister screamed. Lol.

[@ShadowDemon_4]

Ha!

[@YuniorGamboa]

😆

[@patch1752]

Hahaha that’s great, you gotta love when stuff lines up like that.

[@Steveman27]

Do you remember who it was on the other end? Maybe your dad pranked her by having someone call at that time.

[@AB-ot3bm]

@@Steveman27 One of her friends who called her all the time. Not sure if that makes it any funnier or not.

[@merucrypoison296]

The shiniest brightest gem

[@makutas-v261]

The 'bson that saved the 'ritic

[@mememachine7938]

​@@makutas-v261the 'obson that saved the 'arty

[@SchizophrenixTheGaul3478]

'most dropped my sproke at this radiant 'emstone

[@blackhawk_Enochserpent]

WHAT ARE YOU DOING HERE? I AM GOD HERE

[@quakeknight9680]

'ostalgia 'ritic, He gems it so you don't have to

[@Alioramusremotus]

Bone-chilling, spine-tingling, jaw-dropping, slow-burn, character-driven, atmospheric, genre-defining GEM

[@wstine79]

I hope Doug does a Stephen King sequel month. So many of them are more crazy than the original. Sure, almost all of them are unofficial follow ups, but fun to watch.

[@lutherheggs451]

Those sequels have nothing to do with Stephen King. Most of them don't even have his name on them because they didn't have to. They could do whatever they wanted with the film and didn't need Kings permission.

[@Alejandroigarabide]

The only Stephen King sequel I know (except for It, which was split in 2) is Dr. Sleep. Most sequels to SK movies are film-only stories, not based on any book. However, a month of Sequels to Films that Were Based on Stephen King's Books has potential. Most of them are indeed pretty out there.

[@mitchellalexander9162]

You're just saying that because you want him to do Lawnmower Man 2

[@davidspring4003]

Oh god. Pet Semetary 2

[@silentassason]

@@Alejandroigarabide Stephen King month...kinda

[@Tadicuslegion78]

Stephen King: Listen, I'll slap my name on meatballs with teeth, on exploding soda machines, and Christopher Walken. But I refuse to associate my good name with Pierce Brosnan, have you heard his singing!?

[@koneheadcokehead4981]

THIS AIN'T OVA........ BEARS!!!!

[@mrkenneth1328]

@@koneheadcokehead4981 Bruce, shame on you.

[@lillianwaise5545]

"The ICE....is gonna break!"

[@mikecabral2420]

What's wrong with Christopher Walken?

[@lillianwaise5545]

@@mikecabral2420 Nothing!

[@imrigly]

3:05

[@sirwannabeguy4886]

HWABAG

[@merucrypoison296]

The shiniest brightest gem

[@SunnysFilms]

"This is like if the Scary Godmother was farted out by the Langoliers" I cackled. Awesome Nostalgiaween, as always!!

[@thebluedanyube62]

"...dress up as TOONAMI mascots..." You do know your fanbase well.

[@jugsyarts]

Are we sure the fully CGI parts aren't just deleted scenes from a lost episode of Reboot?

[@ddjsoyenby]

i'm not convinced.

[@josephperez2004]

I mean, they never finished the fourth season...

[@seigeengine]

What episode was it where they banged again?

[@jugsyarts]

@@seigeengine The secret "lost" episode the show makers made for themselves to watch near Christmas time obviously

[@bejitafag]

cobson W-erald

[@PrincessNinja007]

The awful CGI enhances the horror, and it feels like they're aware of that and leaned into it

[@willfomes406]

I like it.

[@apollorock3r244]

I think it puts the uncanny valley in good use.

[@MusicDecomposer]

Yeah, the title of the movie is very misleading. It’s like if Back to the Future was named “Spaceman from Pluto” just because of that one scene with the Peabody family. Oh wait, that almost actually happened.

[@armorvil]

This movie was renamed to "Le Cobaye" ie "the guinea pig" in France. As a french 12 or 13yo boy when I first watched this movie, I thank this decision.

[@johnbones3455]

I can’t tell if this is more or less weird than the original story.

[@ChannelAwesome]

The answer is Yes

[@12Mantis]

@@ChannelAwesome Well atleast it didn't take place in Maine, right? Although, now I have this odd thought going through my head trying to create a crossover between *The Lawnmower Man* and *The Tommyknockers* ..........

[@AngelofMusic04]

More weird, definitely.

[@mrrunodan8119]

@@ChannelAwesome please make a Sequel of The Nickelodeon Month: Other Nicktoons (Loud House included) Spongebob The Movie The Loud House Movie RV with Robin Williams Monster Truck Hey Arnold! The Movie The Wild Thornberry Movie Invader Zim: Enter the Florpus Rocko's Modern Life: Static Cling Barnyard

[@Zikkar]

@@ChannelAwesome but you got the original story wrong

[@floydharper1216]

This is more of a darker, loose adaptation of Flowers for Algernon than anything to do with Stephen King

[@SithBunny1]

And this is why I love this channel. A reference like that would just get lost on a lot of people.

[@louisduarte8763]

I kinda remember reading that story and watching the movie of it in 8th grade English class. And definitely heard it mentioned in an episode of Sword Art Online Abridged.

[@floydharper1216]

@@louisduarte8763 it's basically the rough plot of this movie except instead of turning killer and going into VR, the guys intelligence fades away

[@edwarddore7617]

Now I want to see a Charly Lawn mower man crossover1

[@sarah98917]

At least Doug is enjoying himself making the ads

[@kendrickdinger]

I love that he left in him laughing it made it even funnier😂

[@talariswatts-el6174]

Agree.

[@travisporter5222]

It is amazing how many original ideas he comes up with for the ads. The bottomless pit of ideas. I don't know how he does it.

[@user-jf7om4lv3n]

‘obson in the ‘talgia ‘ritic though

[@maverickhunterstupidiocy7779]

@etgsuryoutube8476 nice pfp

[@mikesantillanmx5530]

The virtual reality CGI were never meant to look "real", and that's pretty obvious. The director said he wanted it to look abstract and colorful to show the possibilities to create other worlds, instead of simply recreate what we all know.

[@Vorteksio3]

Its still absolutely shit, don't make excuses for it.

[@Vorteksio3]

@illmerica No.

[@mikesantillanmx5530]

@@Vorteksio3 It's not a excuse, it's an explanation of what the production was doing. You lack of understanding is annoying.

[@armorvil]

I watched the movie as a kid when it was released back in '92 when I wished video-games had graphics like this, and was blown away. Those scenes were also creepy / gave me nightmares so I think they nailed it. Of course they aged like milk. A remake of this movie might be interesting, though I wouldn't get my hopes up considering how bad remakes have been.

[@TheSmart-CasualGamer]

@@Vorteksio3 It's not an excuse, it was intended to look like garbage. I question that decision, but it was an intentional choice. It's like young Jeff Bridges in Tron: Legacy, only if it failed miserably.

[@dennisanderson3895]

However dated, the imagery of the guy's brain being endlessly "mowed," devoured and tormented, is amazing shudder-tale telling!

[@christhornycroft3686]

If Doug is doing Stephen King, Christine and The Dead Zone are musts.

[@lillianwaise5545]

Which Dead Zone? The 1983 one with Christopher Walken or the horrible remake?

[@AlexMcGillvrey]

What about The Rage: Carrie 2?

[@mr.peevyshow1914]

Dead Zone is a classic.

[@rezaqalam482]

Or some underated, like thinner or graveyard shift

[@radioactive_moose]

But those were good.

[@sorakun555]

I remember my step-dad tried showing my brothers and I this movie to show us (I think?) the danger of playing too many video games and was visibly disappointed when all we got from it is that playing *more* games would make us superhuman

[@chaddaddywarden4349]

Your step-dad is a douche lol

[@willfomes406]

That’s brilliant.

[@AlvinEarthworm]

I'm just waiting for Doug to review the sequel. That movie was absolutely terrible and unnecessary.

[@plasmaoctopus1728]

So necessary, such greatness, reviewing it I mean, the sequel wasn't of course.

[@jaborsey_joseph]

Hello Mr. Super Mario Bros Z.

[@alysssabear]

…there’s a sequel?

[@rav3ndust]

@@alysssabear there is. it was hot garbage lol

[@p33ko81]

Cobson got the gemmy tho

[@andrewhudson7108]

“Your chimp is dead.” Also applies to Sunset Boulevard.

[@anubusx]

Rise Of The Planet Of The Apes.

[@plasmaoctopus1728]

@@anubusx Rise of the Apes of the Planet

[@Pcwizayylmao]

And to C.I.APE

[@HitoriTeaTime]

3:05 gem

[@merucrypoison296]

Everything else was actual coal

[@sirwannabeguy4886]

Glistening gemerald

[@seronymus]

IT'S YOU

[@kingautismoslayatheivth6946]

HWABAGemson

[@makutas-v261]

@@merucrypoison296 Moxxie's dick is coal, not this movie

[@adamseeker2956]

I AM COB

[@pootard3538]

nostalgia critic gem with coalish features

[@swarthybullxxx]

Why are you subbed to Animan? Only in Ohio 😢

[@pootard3538]

@@swarthybullxxx animan’s got that rizz bruh 😂

[@yosh9192]

Gem

[@deoccultist]

What bugged me was when Jobe kills someone by turning them into pixels... in the real world. It's creepy, but... no.

[@loafusloaufusboboafus8971]

It’s creepier cuz it doesn’t make logical sense

[@Phantom8941]

The implication is he's atomizing them with his telekinesis.

[@plasmaoctopus1728]

@@loafusloaufusboboafus8971 Tearing the fabric of reality itself.

[@SA80TAGE]

it's no different to how Dark Phoenix Jean Grey killed people in X-Men The Last Stand with her telekinesis.... just less detailed and bigger dots.

[@SA80TAGE]

@@loafusloaufusboboafus8971 it does make sense, he has telekinesis... he can literally do anything to anything, like Jean Grey.

[@ErzengelDesLichtes]

That lawn mower face over a brain would be a perfect PS1 boss fight.

[@anubusx]

I can see that.

[@SA80TAGE]

that's too much credit.... it could easily pass as a SNES or MegaDrive boss

[@emailchrismoll]

The CG may look very dated by today's standards, but back in the day this was a completely new art style that had never been seen before and it was truly amazing

[@Ben92-z80]

This came before Jurassic Park, which had CGI that made Lawnmower man look irrelevant.

[@armorvil]

@@Ben92-z80 The goal wasn't the same though so they can't really be compared. TLMM's were perfect to make kids both have nice dreams about what virtual reality can be, and have terrible nightmares because of how creepy the sex scene and lawnmower man are inside it. It 100% worked on 12 yo me, so this movie will always have a special place in my heart.

[@IsmailofeRegime]

​@@Ben92-z80 Yeah, but it still came *before* Jurassic Park, not after, and Lawnmower Man wasn't trying to create *realistic* CGI; it was intentionally cartoony.

[@TheQuashingoftheTub]

It looks like the racing games I had to play during Neurofeedback and it cracks me up. There still isn't really anything quite like surrealist N64+texture pack horror

[@digitaldazzle5836]

@@Ben92-z80 the visual effects were intentional. It was to show that Job can bring the VR into reality. People with such low IQ make me lose faith in humanity.

[@josenadie]

In Latin America, this movie was titled "El Jardinero Asesino Inocente" which translates as "The Innocent Killer Gardener".

[@dinodumbo1365]

Brazilians looking at this : "yo wtf ?"

[@MetalliMarkus]

Cobson

[@freebot123abc6]

Gem review doug!

[@mariobros237]

HWABAG

[@caiosoares2834]

Bone-chilling even.

[@blackhawk_Enochserpent]

lawn owner man is not a woman btw.

[@ButifIvegotapackofcigarettes]

@@caiosoares2834hell even genre redefining

[@EusisLandale]

​@@blackhawk_Enochserpent That's is XHER for you XIR

[@bexstar]

I've always been jealous of Daria and Jane's ability to eat all that pizza.

[@josephperez2004]

Teenage metabolism is a hell of a thing.

[@talariswatts-el6174]

Also their cartoon characters, so that helps.

[@pheunithpsychic-watertype9881]

@@josephperez2004 teenage? I eat more now than I did when I was a teen. Losing the weight was easy, bulking up is a matter of patience

[@jasonjimerson7046]

"I'm being Dippin Dots to death!" I'm so glad you said that!

[@test18fort]

most shiniest gleamiest glimmeriest gleamonderalderald ever mined from the mountains of hyperborea

[@mxkinist]

'em

[@RhodesianTheRapist]

Doug Walker IAS btw

[@jerrysmith8814]

Gemson

[@hufflepuffsith5465]

honestly impressed he went that long without a tron joke. i couldn't have.

[@levelfive7662]

The gemmiest duo

[@thegangstachimp]

This review is such a gem; thanks Doug

[@RealSnuuy]

This sharty is mine, i am GEM here!

[@july24pictures]

“This Looks Like How Foodfight Would Animate…” No Need to Finish that Sentence, you’ve roasted them enough.

[@phoneixgamestream9613]

When I heard the name of the movie title "The Lawnmower Man", it sounds like a Horror parody of Slender Man created by SNL. Maybe that's just me.

[@OliverTCrowe]

Technically it'd be the reverse since this is older than Slender Man by about 17 years. If anything, Slender Man was created after the Lawnmower Man ran over him.

[@DAsrada]

Jobe: I have calculated the exact protein macronutrient intake combined with calorie deficit and usage of proper supplementation to make me "jacked", "yoked", and "one shredded fucker".

[@NarwhalEntertainment]

This movie actually has a sequel, starring M-m-m-max Headroom himself, Matt Frewer, as Jobe.

[@seamusquain2706]

Oh shoot, Max Headroom's in it? Maybe i should check it out.

[@makutas-v261]

>"This movie actua-ACKKK!!!!!"

[@TsukiCondor]

What's interesting, in Japan the film was simply sold as "Virtual War" which makes me wonder why they didn't choose that name

[@britaingray5400]

Honestly I think Lawnmower man is a better name. It's a simple title a horror film like this would have, like the Boy

[@ShadowSonic2]

Originally, this was going to be called "Cyber God".

[@puppymaroon964]

Yeah. That would have been more fitting.

[@darkservantofheaven]

The sequel had a pretty good subtitle Beyond Cyberspace Still a bad movie, but the trailer rocked on the Mortal Kombat 1996 VHS It's also got Job's War

[@TsukiCondor]

@@darkservantofheaven Beyond Cyberspace would make for a good pulp cyberpunk noir scifi movie name

[@VloggerMan-if9bt]

Great review of this bone-chilling, spine-tingling gem of a movie 💎💎

[@heyguysiguessthatsit4610]

HWABAG

[@hinderless831]

gem

[@grapeshot]

Oh in the the 1990s, when we taught virtual reality was going to be the future. At least in that form. Although I do like when he said my birth cry will be all the phones in the world ringing in unison.

[@lutherheggs451]

We were also told by movies we were going to get flying cars...Thank god we never got those, there are too many fuckwits that would ruin that for people. We can't even have self driving cars, with the fuckwits and the drunks proving were not mature enough for them.

[@koneheadcokehead4981]

Gonna assume your father wasn't Steve Jobs

[@Mirality]

It's kinda the other way around, actually. Self-driving cars are perfect for fuckwits and drunks, it's just that what we have now isn't actually "self-driving cars", it's just slightly less dumb cruise control being marketed incorrectly. So it's the technology that's not mature enough yet.

[@LaLogic2]

VR is booming right now

[@makutas-v261]

3:06 TOTAL 'BSON VICTORY, BLASPHEMERS CONTINUE ACKING INTO ETERNITY. Also Hank Schrader was in this? the role that saved coal hank memes

[@merucrypoison296]

geeeg lawnmower annihilates breaking reddit coal memes

[@makutas-v261]

@@merucrypoison296 Hi

[@makutas-v261]

hi@@merucrypoison296

[@makutas-v261]

@@merucrypoison296 hello

[@MinorLife10]

He will always be a gem

[@prufrock1977]

I actually liked this movie as a early teen. I didn’t care that it was so loosely connected to the King story, none of the true horror of his writing could be visualized in any meaningful way on the silver screen. I loved the ideas and the fantasy. And the mood of being able to avenge a bullied existence.

[@michaelb9537]

The priest on fire is actually the first use of motion capture in a full length movie. It had previously been used in commercials and music videos, but Lawnmower Man holds the claim to first movie that uses motion capture. 18:35

[@thecunninlynguist]

Lol, this film. The only thing I remember is the weird VR love scene. And the music from the snes game

[@masterprick1]

The SNES music was amazing, I honestly only remember the movie due to the game.

[@thecunninlynguist]

@@masterprick1 it's a crime how good that music is for such a mediocre game

[@adamnaameeazim6365]

CALLED IT! I knew it wouldn't be The Shining or Creepshow, Doug would have been waaaay too excited.

[@OliverTCrowe]

I mean, he already did the bad version of The Shining, so unless he was getting ready for a Doctor Sleep review, I doubt he'd do a review of the good Kubrick one.

[@weirdosofsociety2237]

"JEEEESUS WEPT!!!" "Stop saying Jesus wept."

[@69killerpotato]

Cobson still 'al

[@mememachine7938]

💎

[@TheInternetHelpdeskPlays]

It wasn't a bad movie, now the sequel was a sight to behold! In every wrong way.

[@diamondknight8587]

…this has a sequel?

[@Aaron-xo5ud]

@@diamondknight8587 Its about a future where everyone is dependent on computers... oh the horror!

[@diamondknight8587]

@@Aaron-xo5ud ...So...the sequel is reality?

[@titusmccarthy]

The original was awful.

[@plasmaoctopus1728]

@@diamondknight8587 The real horror is that the Windows interface has hardly improved after all these years.

[@guillermosierracuellar9812]

Such a great Halloween theme song I’m going to miss Nostalgiaween

[@DJtheBlack-RibbonedRose]

I know, it went by so fast this year. But I'm at least glad that he reviewed Witch's Ghost. 😊🧙‍♀️

[@stephonmanny7555]

Me to

[@chayden153]

Me too, but next month there will the commercial special!

[@tipulsar85]

So, Strange story time, the CG animators for Lawnmower Man did get their sequences in a video album that came out the same year. In fact, in some ways their uses there are much better than in the film. So if you just want to see the pretty graphics, Check out Beyond the Mind's Eye elsewhere on youtube in full form.

[@dracocellestan6874]

I grew up watching that! My parents recorded it from TV onto a vhs tape... and I still have the tape and never recorded over it. Jeeze I feel old...

[@tipulsar85]

@@dracocellestan6874 I have the actual copies still that I had as a kid. I also kept the soundtracks.

[@SgtScorpious]

Wondered why it looked familiar

[@avosmash2121]

YES incredibly cool series

[@wariodude128]

For early 90s CG effects, these were mostly pretty good. They didn't have to be realistic, so they just went the other way and it still looks alright.

[@smaakjeks]

Jurassic Park 1 year later.

[@sparkpenguin]

@@smaakjeks jurassic park was trying to render animals sharing reality with the actors *as realistically as possible; lawnmower was a guy using surreal graphics from video game to telepathically digital-nightmare murder people like he was still in the game. the budget was way lower yeah but the trippy stylistic thru-line seemed largely intentional.

[@alysssabear]

I wouldn’t call them “good” but they were pretty innovative

[@wariodude128]

@@UnknownName5050 I did say **mostly** pretty good, remember now.

[@firecrest3325]

This would be a good remake, imagine someone being able to control the internet from the inside.

[@plasmaoctopus1728]

I have a feeling if I had the ability to connect and see the entire internet, what I would see would lead me to believe the only solution is to fire all of the nukes.

[@SA80TAGE]

@@plasmaoctopus1728 Ultron felt the same way after 30 seconds on the net, so you ain't alone.

[@sjh3217]

You should read Robert J. Sawyer's WWW trilogy. A hard SF scenario where the Net itself becomes sentient, and done far better than this movie could ever hope for.

[@GeekCredTrivia]

I like how people don't realize this is basically a rip off of flowers to Algernon

[@chasehedges6775]

I love that book

[@pheunithpsychic-watertype9881]

I just thought the dumb turned genius was just a trope

[@GeekCredTrivia]

@@pheunithpsychic-watertype9881 pretty much where the troppe came from, just like how the Pinocchio robot thing came from ASTRO Boy or the super hero scientist transformation comes from jekyll and Hyde. I'm there were people who predicted using eugenics to turn those on the spectrum into geniuses before but most take from or were inspired by flowers to Algernon

[@zachsutton2113]

I've grown quite hweeareh

[@mr.someoneudontkno698]

He made a direct joke on that in the video actually

[@carlosspeicywiener7018]

Not gonna lie. I love this movie. Also, the lab was funded by the CIA, and they've never had any problems with the legality of what they do. Just saying

[@justanotherchannelonyoutub126]

If Stephen King revealed that all of his books took place in the same universe, what would it be called? The universe of Stephen, or like Stephen uni-

[@Nasser851000]

The SKCU? XD

[@h.rtheater8321]

He technically did that with the Dark Tower series

[@dechicken6090]

You mean Stephen universe. * Stephen king packs to go to my house. *

[@thepinkestpigglet7529]

Ita called Maine

[@dechicken6090]

Stephen king: i ain't taking maine on this, not my fault

[@andreibaciu7518]

let us not forget this movie's important contribution to soyjak culture being Cobson, the only good coal soyjak.

[@obsc3n3skull]

This was my favorite "forbidden" film when I was a kid that my dad had recorded on a VHS. Even as a kid I thought these effect were terrible but my mom was sure I would get nightmares from how "realistic" they were, and ofc when I got older I started having nightmares about horrible CGI coming to make movies bad.

[@TaliaIGhul]

(Kinda) Fun Fact: This was directed by the same person directed Virtuosity and Highlander: The Source. Yeah, the director's skill was deluded over time.

[@lutherheggs451]

Shhhhhhh....Lets just pretend that Highlander: The Source never actually happened.

[@Sony_MiniDisc]

HWABAS4bright blue cat

[@sirwannabeguy4886]

3:04 GEm

[@nightshadehelis9821]

Can confirm, virtual reality was 100% like this in the 90s. Our local theater had a VR demo that you could try for $20. It was rediculously disappointing, but it looked so futuristic.

[@BionicleGio22210]

Christ this cg makes beast wars look more advanced

[@pedrohenriquemoraessantos1164]

22:00 they even get a waspinator cameo

[@garrtoons4303]

CGI Jobe moves his mouth the same way Sonic from Sonic Adventure 1 moves his. 🤣

[@anubusx]

Love that show.

[@Grudgebearer47]

Not my fault

[@ShadowSonic2]

Beast Wars was acceptable for the mid 90s, admittedly

[@doddermodd]

3:05 🗝️🔑🗝️

[@XS-03_Apollo]

💎💎💎💎💎💎💎💎💎💎💎💎💎💎💎💎💎

[@lukethekuya]

==GEM GO UP==

[@jerrysmith8814]

COBBY 🥺

[@Xhechaos]

ID'd

[@triplecrosscounter]

Coal go down

[@wolfgangamadeusmozart1293]

Another Stephen King review! Perfect to wrap up Nostalgiaween 2021!

[@chasehedges6775]

👍👍👍💯💯💯💯

[@DJtheBlack-RibbonedRose]

Stephen King(ish) review. Makes sense since Ben Ravencroft was basically Scooby-Doo's version of King last week. 😉

[@wojakthecrusader1410]

Nostalgia Become gem. Can we go back in time? Back when this channel mean something.

[@feandil666]

It's a cult classic because of the sheer creativity of this VR scenes, I'd take that over modern uninspired CGI, however competent.

[@undeadgentalmen]

"The film opens with text virtual reality. It's pro and... Cons? Mind control. Really?" Have you seen the Vtuber community? That's big loss for humanity, however a overwhelming victory for us weebs.

[@Alondro77]

Vtubers have shark wahmen and caribou wamen... clearly, the furries are taking over the Internet... we're doomed.

[@Here_is_Waldo]

Well, if direct neural interfaces ever become reality, then it might be possible to control someone's mind in the future.

[@samhenley7156]

@@Here_is_Waldo You kidding? Elon musk wants to use Neuralink to connect your brain to the internet! It's inevitable.

[@Here_is_Waldo]

@@samhenley7156 Inevitable, yes. Elon Musk though? I doubt it. The technology to properly do so is probably another generation or two away still. We can't even fix a broken spine yet, it's a long way off from implanting a chip that can control a brain.

[@francisfatta]

Well, he was definitely right. I couldn’t have possibly guessed this was what he meant by “Stephen King-ish”

[@LucyLioness100]

Only movie the man has ever disowned & he successfully sued to get his name removed from the project

[@chasehedges6775]

@@LucyLioness100 Good for him

[@alysssabear]

@@LucyLioness100 Isn’t it funny how your name is Alyssa Black and my name is Alyssa Gray? 💀

[@superstarultra28]

18:38 I actually really like this design. The fire looks like it came right out of an early 90s computer.

[@vovabars1234]

Yup, it's a gem

[@koneheadcokehead4981]

Ok a better question i have is HOW IS THERE A SEQUEL TO THIS?!? Was someone really yeah lets make even more crapper CG someone will buy it.

[@lutherheggs451]

Because like most of the "King sequels" the studio owned the rights to the movie and could do whatever they wanted with it without needing King or King's permission....It also made 32 million on a 10 million dollar budget

[@MrCommandoawesome]

It also doesn't have any of the original cast, or filmmakers. Really good sign in a sequel.

[@Tornado1994]

Only Austin O’Brien returned for the Sequel.

[@smolderedrazor7833]

Of all the Stephen king times I should've known this would be it but I would never have guessed lawnmower man

[@sekrad]

I have a soft spot for this movie, own the blu ray with both versions. Yeah, it’s cheesy, but as a disabled person I relate to Jobe’s character. Fun fact: my acting colleague was the soldier who holds back Pierce Brosnan when the chimp is killed in the director’s cut. Also Pierce was grieving his wife’s death during filming.

[@Nerdtendo6366]

I can like Bad CGI if it’s unique, and this definitely passes that test

[@indisummers4385]

YES! He saw the Simple Jack parallel! I love you, Critic lmao

[@jrcarter9175]

"Maybe we were too hard on Birdemic." You can NEVER be too hard on Birdemic!

[@cross172]

Let me just say… This year had the best Nostalgia-ween intro!

[@ChannelAwesome]

It's so good!!!!

[@MovieFan1912]

I wonder what next years intro is going to reference.

[@wfrancis25]

This movie is one of those that really influenced me as a kid...and it still holds a special place in my heart(even with the bad CG)....ok time for a rewatch

[@jonandewey5367]

TLMWABAG

[@filmfangirls9163]

Woooow. We're just gonna stand there a watch a man abuse his son. You're James Bond for crying out loud!

[@piplup2009]

This could do with a modern remake, maybe something involving VR

[@park5782]

This is the first nostalgia critic video I’ve watched, I’ve known about him for a long time but never bothered. This is banger

[@DjDeadpig]

The birth of Cobson.