312: A Cyborg Dolphin

The Incomparable Mothership

Jason Snell

Arts, Tv & Film, Leisure

4.8 • 694 Ratings

🗓️ 7 August 2016

⏱️ 78 minutes

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Summary

Our Rocket Surgery series returns to the heady days of the ’90s, home of questionable cyberpunk movies, to watch Keanu Reeves in “Johnny Mnemonic.” How can a movie written by the godfather of cyberpunk, William Gibson, be such a disaster? We’ll fax you the answer.

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0:00.0	It's not brain science.
0:01.4	It's rocket surgery.
0:02.7	This is Johnny Mnemonic.
0:05.1	The incomparable number 312, August 2016.
0:17.5	Welcome back everybody to the incomparable's rocket surgery edition where we look at a questionable film from a recent or past decade and discuss it.
0:29.7	The 90s. The 90s is now in our sites. We visited the 2010s with Coolcat and now it's the 90s and Johnny
0:37.5	Neimanic from the height of cyberpunk mania okay from several years after the
0:43.0	height of cyberpunk mania comes Keanu Reeves in a film based on a short story by
0:50.6	William Gibson Gibson also credited with the screenplay. For a screenwriter, he's a
0:56.2	very fine novelist. So, joining me to talk about Johnny Nemonic, our three brave people, David Lour.
1:05.8	Hello. I just wanted to say I saw Cool Cat twice. Twice!
1:12.5	This is not about Cool Cat.
1:13.4	Damn it!
1:17.0	Are all your comments going to be about Cool Cat instead of Donnie?
1:19.1	There he is!
1:21.5	Joe Rosenstiel is here.
1:25.2	Joe, I have faxed information to you, so it's in the fax buffer.
1:26.9	Look for it in the fax buffer. I'll check the three anime images that I have and compare it against the 16 gigabytes I have stored in the data doubler inside my brain.
1:35.5	Okay.
1:36.5	Well done.
1:37.0	And also, hey, baldy, it's Monty Ashley.
1:42.1	Because of when I was born, just the mention of yakuza and black ice makes things sound cool.
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