816: Fascism for Algernon

The Incomparable Mothership

Jason Snell

Tv & Film, Leisure, Arts

4.7 • 704 Ratings

🗓️ 8 May 2026

⏱️ 87 minutes

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Put on your eye phones and jack in to the cyberscape! Rocket Surgery comes for 1996’s cyberpunk epic “Lawnmower Man 2.” (Don’t worry if you haven’t seen the original “Lawnmower Man,” half of us didn’t either.) Matt Frewer is Max Headrooming it up! A bunch of urchins populate a rainy L.A. that’s straight out of “Blade Runner,” but, you know—cheaper. There’s a brilliant doctor in charge of virtual-reality research, and also there’s Jennifer! And everything in the future is hackable!...

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0:00.0	It's not brain science.
0:00.9	It's rocket surgery.
0:01.9	This is lawnmower man, too.
0:05.8	The incomparable, number 816, May 2026.
0:12.4	Welcome back, everybody, The Incomparable.
0:14.2	I'm your host, Jason Snell, and this is a episode where we're going to talk about a movie that is probably bad.
0:20.0	No, I've seen it.
0:20.8	It's definitely bad, but it's fun to talk about.
0:23.8	And it takes us back 30 years to 1996 to the height, the height I say, of cyberpunk movies.
0:31.1	And also I felt a logical successor to our episodes about Blade Runner.
0:35.3	Sorry, I can't even say it with a straight face.
0:38.4	It's Lonmore Man 2, colon, beyond cyberspace.
0:42.0	However, I have to caution you, it has some alternate titles.
0:45.3	It was retitled for home video as Lonmower Man 2 colon, Job's War.
0:50.8	Doesn't really help.
0:52.2	And in, I watched this on Amazon Prime video, which titled it, Lonmore Man 2,
0:58.1	colon, beyond the cyberspace.
1:01.8	Jason, if I could just tack on there, great IMDB trivia, the 1993 VHS tape of the
1:07.6	widescreen version of the first film had an announcement screen that read,
1:14.4	look out for lawnmower man two colon mindfire.
1:15.9	Mind fire.
1:18.5	Really good.
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