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Another great movie if you loved Johnny Mnemonic is Strange Days (1995). Its directed by the great Kathryn Bigelow and it too has MiniDiscs in it! https://www

Another great movie if you loved Johnny Mnemonic is Strange Days (1995). Its directed by the great Kathryn Bigelow and it too has MiniDiscs in it! https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0114558/ https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0114558/

keiferski 4y ago
Not sure if this is still the case, but -- this film wasn't available anywhere to stream. I ended up buying a DVD player and the DVD version just to watch it.
- rbanffy 4y ago
  Legend says Strange Days almost destroyed Bigelow's career.
  - vidarh 4y ago
    It bombed spectacularly in the theatres, so that sounds plausible.
    - EarlKing 4y ago
      ...which is a real headscratcher because it was great.
      - blihp 4y ago
        It was one of those sci-fi movies that was just too different for mainstream audiences and critics. It also didn't help that the marketing of it sucked for likely the same reason.
vidarh 4y ago
Strange Days is fantastic. It worked particularly well at just that moment in time, with the LA riots fresh in mind and the millennium coming up. It's one of the best cyberpunk movies I know of, and horribly underrated.
- Maursault 4y ago
  > and horribly underrated. It bombed at the box office, but critics generally praised it, and since its run, its critical standing has improved. Frankly, I hated it. About 7 years later, gave it another shot, still hated it. I think it is the most depressing movie I've ever seen. So it is not horribly underrated. By the critical reception and comments here, it is inscrutably overrated.
  - parenthesis 4y ago
    It's one of the very few movies I chose to sit down and watch but had to stop after just a few minutes. The others would be The Departed — I loved the original Hong Kong movie Infernal Affairs, but I couldn't bear to watch more than a few minutes of The Departed. And the David Lynch Dune. Usually I tough it out, L.A. Confidential, for example, I thought was awful, but saw it through to the end. I couldn't believe that the same director (Curtis Hanson) could have made such an awful (though, stangely, lauded) film and also the absolutely amazing Wonder Boys (and the servicable The Hand That Rocks the Cradle).
  - vidarh 4y ago
    I stand by my assessment. It's underrated in that few people are aware of it or see it as a good movie. In the sense that it is well regarded by most who has seen it (it has 7.1 of ~72K votes on IMDB), it can also be reasonable to not describe it as underrated, so fair enough. But I choose to go by the former - far fewer people are aware of it or would list it as an important sci-fi/cyberpunk movie than it deserves.
    - Maursault 4y ago
      I agree that, for a national release, it is relatively obscure. I think my aversion to it is due to Ralph Fiennes' and Juliet Lewis' character portrayals. I would consider myself a fan of both, and I'm not saying they didn't act well. I am saying these characters should never have been created, as one is disturbingly nervous, the other disturbingly nasty.

keiferski 4y ago

Not sure if this is still the case, but -- this film wasn't available anywhere to stream. I ended up buying a DVD player and the DVD version just to watch it.

rbanffy 4y ago
Legend says Strange Days almost destroyed Bigelow's career.
- vidarh 4y ago
  It bombed spectacularly in the theatres, so that sounds plausible.
  - EarlKing 4y ago
    ...which is a real headscratcher because it was great.
    - blihp 4y ago
      It was one of those sci-fi movies that was just too different for mainstream audiences and critics. It also didn't help that the marketing of it sucked for likely the same reason.

vidarh 4y ago

Strange Days is fantastic. It worked particularly well at just that moment in time, with the LA riots fresh in mind and the millennium coming up. It's one of the best cyberpunk movies I know of, and horribly underrated.

Maursault 4y ago
> and horribly underrated. It bombed at the box office, but critics generally praised it, and since its run, its critical standing has improved. Frankly, I hated it. About 7 years later, gave it another shot, still hated it. I think it is the most depressing movie I've ever seen. So it is not horribly underrated. By the critical reception and comments here, it is inscrutably overrated.
- parenthesis 4y ago
  It's one of the very few movies I chose to sit down and watch but had to stop after just a few minutes. The others would be The Departed — I loved the original Hong Kong movie Infernal Affairs, but I couldn't bear to watch more than a few minutes of The Departed. And the David Lynch Dune. Usually I tough it out, L.A. Confidential, for example, I thought was awful, but saw it through to the end. I couldn't believe that the same director (Curtis Hanson) could have made such an awful (though, stangely, lauded) film and also the absolutely amazing Wonder Boys (and the servicable The Hand That Rocks the Cradle).
- vidarh 4y ago
  I stand by my assessment. It's underrated in that few people are aware of it or see it as a good movie. In the sense that it is well regarded by most who has seen it (it has 7.1 of ~72K votes on IMDB), it can also be reasonable to not describe it as underrated, so fair enough. But I choose to go by the former - far fewer people are aware of it or would list it as an important sci-fi/cyberpunk movie than it deserves.
  - Maursault 4y ago
    I agree that, for a national release, it is relatively obscure. I think my aversion to it is due to Ralph Fiennes' and Juliet Lewis' character portrayals. I would consider myself a fan of both, and I'm not saying they didn't act well. I am saying these characters should never have been created, as one is disturbingly nervous, the other disturbingly nasty.