What's up with the surname?

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zekk4hire — 19 years ago(June 02, 2006 07:35 AM)

I never read the King short story. (was only a couple pages long) but from I heard, the only thing the movie and story have in common is the "bird bath" comment from the police.

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WinstonWolf08 — 19 years ago(October 04, 2006 08:11 PM)

I also have read the short story and I think it would have made a better movie than this travesty!

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Times_Up — 19 years ago(January 02, 2007 09:55 PM)

The scene in the first movie where Jobe attacks the drunken father next door with his ESP controlled lawnmower and the police conversation afterward is the closet the whle movie gets to the story. That scene is fairly accurate (though I haven't read the story in 10 years).
Anyhow, King sued to have his name taken off that movie anyhow so it really doesn't count as an adaption.
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devilmaster — 19 years ago(July 10, 2006 12:43 PM)

PROS: Matt Frewer in the supervillain title role, computer FX wonderworld.
Computer FX wonderworld my ass. They were better in the first one, which had actual CG action scenes. The effects of the second one, instead, were just lame chroma-key effects with static backgrounds!

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warlord148 — 21 years ago(August 22, 2004 11:26 AM)

I think the title was perhaps a ploy to sound innovative. Remember, in 1996, "cyberspace" was a relatively new word and idea. Other movies came out around this time with titles that were working this same angle, such as "Hackers" and "The Net."

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da3daluz — 20 years ago(September 24, 2005 05:31 AM)

The name is definateley a ripoff from mad max: Beyond thunderdome

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Shinnokxz — 20 years ago(November 19, 2005 09:42 PM)

Actually if you think about it, the surname 'Beyond Cyberspace' is hypocritical to the thin plot of the movie, since Jobe wants everyone to follow HIM into Cyberspace.. there's no going 'beyond' at all.

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Lunchbox-3 — 14 years ago(April 07, 2011 09:35 AM)

Yes, it should have been called "Beyond Reality Into Cyberspace." But then "Jobe's War" isn't that accurate either since there's no war to speak of. More like "Jobe's Scheme."

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Jupiter1988 — 13 years ago(September 28, 2012 12:47 PM)

"PROS: Matt Frewer in the supervillain title role, computer FX wonderworld."
I disagree about Frewer, he seemed to be channeling Jim Carey in "Batman Forever" only much more obnoxious. Fahey in the first one was sympathetic, scary, unpredictable and a bunch of other cool adjectives
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enterlexx — 10 years ago(August 31, 2015 04:07 AM)

i remember it being called:
Lawnmower Man 2 : Mindfire (or just Mindfire).
i saw it at the end credits of the widescreen UK VHS directors cut of Lawnmower Man 1 .
Lawnmower Man will be back in Mindfire.or someting like that
( also read something that there was a disclaimer at the beginning which said:
Don't Miss Lawnmower Man 2 : Mindfire, in cinemas February 1994)
perhaps it was that that i remember lol
but that was when the original people of Lawnmower Man were still involved obviously.
part 2 as it turned out to be just plain sucked!
nothing of what part 1 made so special remained
Part 1 looks very dated now though
perhaps someone can update the CGI and make it into a special edition fanmade film haha
story itself is still pretty solid.