Product Description

Movie DVD

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #43246 in DVD
• Brand: NEW LINE HOME VIDEO
• Released on: 2006-01-31
• Rating: R (Restricted)
• Aspect ratio: 1.33:1
• Formats: Closed-captioned, Color, DVD, NTSC
• Original language: English
• Number of discs: 1
• Running time: 201 minutes

Customer Reviews

Was hoping for better versions.
I picked this up in order to help complete my collection of cyberpunk films. In the back of my mind I was hoping for additional footage, cut scenes, etc.

There is nothing extra here at all. A very poorly done full screen cut and piss poor menu's.

Hopefully one day the DVD will come out in the US will all the additional footage and story additions. Sadly I'm not holding my breath.

PAN & SCAN, WORTHLESS!!!
This release isn't worth your time. Both films (previously released in widescreen) are full screen here for some reason. I waited months for this release and put off buying the dirt cheap individual discs, which are now out-of-print and nowhere to be seen. Thanks for nothing, New Line!

Virtual Reality at its scary best.!
This DVD is a double feature. The 1992 Lawnmower Man stars Jeff Fahey and Pierce Brosnan. Brosnan plays a scientist (Dr. Larry Angelo)who is developing a Virtual Reality software that he hopes to put to good use in waking up brain cells. He experimented on animals, but found alarming and horrifying results. The neighborhood lawnmowing guy, Jobe (Jeff Fahey), who is slightly retarded seems to be the perfect human experiment. Jobe wants to be smarter so people won't take advantage of him, so he agrees to be the "guinea pig". Almost instantly Jobe becomes smarter, but with horrible side effects. Corporate America, whose only interest is in the money making aspect, wants to continue the experiment no matter what the human cost is. Jobe becomes a Dr. Jekyll-and-Mr. Hyde character. This movie takes you on a wild virtual reality journey that has not only aspects of sci-fi, but horror as well. I would have given it 5 stars had The Lawnmower Man just been a solo. The added feature, Lawnmower Man 2--Jobe's War, was a complete waste of watching! The two stars, Brosnan and Fahey were missing and were desparately needed to pull this film through. Jobe's War delt with the out of control now genius character, Jobe and his revenge against anyone that did him wrong. The way Amazon packaged these two films is good in that for just a couple dollars more, you can get the double feature. However, save yourself the agony of watching the second. This just proves that the original movie is usually better than the sequel.