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The parts of this movie that really pissed you off


1. the dog putting the disk in the computer.
2. "you know adults have betrayed me my whole life peter"
3. The sad attempt at incorporating the end of the 1st movie, then completely nullifying it by ressurecting Jobe and not addressing the 1st movie phone call at the end at all.

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The whole film - end of the first film - Jobe leaves his body behind and Brosnan unplugs him. Job gets into everything and makes all the phones around the world ring for his birthcry!

This says he didn't win, he got back into his body (unplugged) and waits 10 years before trying again????
I hated this film
Here's to swimmin' with bow-legged women!

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Aside from the obvious negating of the ending of the first film, I am also pissed off with how they treated the character of Jobe. In the first film, as Jobe grew powerful he seemed humourless, in LM2, he seemed to be a wiseguy. Most importantly, Jobe was a demigod. He gained considerable psychic power from mind reading to telekenisis. Theonly thing that compared was Jobe using the computer networks to send subway cars where he pleased.

Perhaps the worst bit about the end negation, the movie opens with CyberJobe exiting the VSI network through that open port.

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He gained considerable psychic power from mind reading to telekenisis.

Remember at the end of the first film, Brosnan warned him that if he left his physical body behind he would lose all control over the physical world. So he shouldn't have any power.

But then he shouldn't have a body either. I don't understand the beginning of this movie. It shows the end of the first movie where Jobe sends his mind into his virtual avatar and escapes into cyberspace, leaving his body as a husk. Then it shows them resurrect the husk and his consciousness is still in his body. Then they try to "heal him with VR" and his mind constructs a new avatar in cyberspace. If that's the route they wanted to take, that his mind was back in his body, why didn't they show that? Why go out of their way to show the scene from the first movie where his mind escapes into cyberspace and then suddenly have him back in his body?

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"Get that dirt you idiot!" Minimum wage guard yelling at a lab technician who's probably got a PHD.

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Everything from the opening credits to the end credits.
Having Matt Frewer as a villain wasn't the brightest of ideas concidering how he first came into popularity.
Perhaps this would have been better if they called it, "The Fall of Max Headroom."

D. v~~v

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