Adum & Pals: Johnny Mnemonic 

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Fun Fact: this is one of 8 roles where Keanu Reeves played someone named John or a variation of John 1. Johnny Mnemonic (Johnny Mnemonic) 2. Johnny Silverhand (Cyberpunk) 3. John Wick (John Wick) 4. John Constantine (Constantine) 5. Johnny Utah (Point Break) 6. Don John (Much Ado About Nothing) 7. Jonathan Harker (Dracula) 8. John (Generation Um...)

I literally cannot get enough Adum and Pals

Fun fact: on the screeners copy of the VHS. The box called Keanu Reeves "a sex machine"

William Gibson is one of the founders of cyberpunk genre. He also wrote the original script for Alien 3 which was adapted as a graphic novel. While he is listed as screenwriter for this movie, apparently, his script was changed and Gibson himself was not happy with how it turned out. The original short story was also very different. Funny enough, it still had drug-addicted cyborg dolphin.

This was after Dracula. Keanu was forced into Dracula by the studio because he was a heartthrob at the time. I'm serious. Fresh off of Bill & Ted, he was considered hot. That might be why he's here too.

Had no idea this was a prequel to the Matrix, Devils Advocate and John Wick. It's a major part of the Keanu-Wears-a-Suit-CU Can't believe it all started with Point Break and how much they've evolved each film

We now have a complete understanding as to why CD Projekt Red roped in Keanu for Cyberpunk 2077: Johnny Mnemonic Silverhand

It's honestly astounding that Keanu could turn in a performance like this and just a few years later Warner Brothers and the Wachowskis are casting for a big-budget movie with a lot of genre and thematic overlap and are like "yep, that's our lead"

RIP Scott - I’m watching back through all these now

I think it's also worth noting that the Yakuza boss was played by Takeshi Kitano, an extremely famous Japanese comedian

That computer animated part genuinely looked like Xavier Renegade Angel levels of animation

"Abraham Lincoln could've faxed a samurai" This is my new favorite thing.

I cant see this movie without thinking of the Weekly Planet joke about his full name being “Johnathon Mnemonathon”

Fun video, but I've gotta say that calling William Gibson, one of the most important authors in the history of cyberpunk fiction, a one-hit wonder is *extremely* funny.

Me and my sister loved this movie when we were kids. To this day, when I'm frustrated about something around her Ill yell "I WANT ROOM SERVICE!!"

Fun fact, they cut out the scenes where the dolphin is a heroin addict.

It's hilarious how the guy who wrote the screenplay for this is also credited with essentially inventing the genre of cyberpunk in literature. edit: yall bookish types don't fuck around huh

17:36 proves that Adam has watched so many movies his scream is now literally the Wilhelm Scream

Scoot mentioning Star Trek really caught me off guard. Didn't know he was slowly TFing into Mike Stoklasa

I think a lot of people wanted Keanu in their movies because he was fun to work with. I hear he was always a really good guy on set and because of that I would imagine a lot of directors preferring a person that's easygoing to play a part.

This movie has one of the most eclectic casts: Keanu, Dolph, Ice-T, Beat Takeshi, Henry Rollins, Udo Kier. And the story/screenplay comes from William Freakin' Gibson. Wow. Just wow...

The moment where Keanu shouts "ROOM SERVICE!" is when I became an irredeemable Keanu Reeves fanboy. This movie is amazing, second only to the Howard the Duck film from 1986.

Scoot petting Gael was too wholesome

i like how william gibson the father of all cyberpunk as a genre is "that random writer who will be fired after this movie"

The overall aesthetic here is fucking phenomenal. If I had infinite money I'd build that giant CRT TV tower thing in my living room.

Ah yes, the weird period of time in the late 1990s when the formerly cutting edge contemporary artists of 1980s New York started directing forgettable mid-budget Hollywood movies with a lot of star power... Cindy Sherman made Office Killer, David Salle made Search and Destroy, and Robert Longo made this. Yet somehow Julian Schnabel made it work and is still directing to this day.

Rip Scoot.

My favorite part is Adum's apparent knowledge of the Discography of Nas

Oh scoot 😢

I love this film so un ironically. I know it’s bad I don’t care. I’ve watched it so many times. I am very forgiving of it’s flaws

I can't wait for the Johnny Pneumatic sequel, Johnny Hydraulic

I love how Adam is just a floating head talking to animals in these videos

Scoot name dropping Black Flag has stirred my loins

Arguably Keanu still isn't a good actor, but he knows how to work with his limited range better.

I read the short story this movie’s based on a while back because my dad loves it for some reason. The only thing I could remember was the dolphin with the drug addiction. I was very happy when it finally showed up.

"Henry Rollins is awesome, everyone else is garbage" is the truest statement ever said.

Love 90s depictions of the future

That title crawl was eerily accurate.. It even had info-wars in it wtf

The only thing I knew about this movie was the hilariously low storage of couriers. Johnny has like 300gb, which apparently needs to be implanted in his brain for some reason. We’re only a year ahead of when this movie was supposed to take place and I have a 1tb micro sd card in my Switch 😂

This was one of those movies where I couldn’t tell if it was Keanu learning acting or it was the director’s direction

Seeing Kiryu-chan for a brief moment made me do a double take for a second

This video finally gave me a way to tell the difference between Ice-T and Ice Cube. Ice-T is the one with sad eyes, and Ice Cube is the one with angry eyes.

5:53 You might have thought Face Off was lying about tongue sucking being all the rage in the 90s, this movie proves otherwise

8:57 "Man, '90s child porn was boring." Thank you for that laugh.

I feel like Keanu's films are just a documentary of his life. I believe he went back in time, and escaped the matrix, and can kill a man with a pencil.

Just FYI my sister had Epilepsy and seizures can last for literal hours even days. For her she would have mostly absences which were a few seconds, but could have seizures that lasted for several minutes called grand mal's, they would last well over 3 minutes. It was common for them to last for 10-30 minutes, when we would have to decide whether she needed an ambulance or not. Eventually we got some very strong medication that was for emergencies only. Overall the reality is seizures don'[t have a prescribed "Three minutes and you die" type thing going on. Some people have a small seizure lasting only seconds and sadly pass away and others can have a seizure lasting hours and walk away without issue, this includes an initial seizure scenario. sorry to go all "um acktually" on this but yeah I just heard this stuff so often and it can be dangerous, when someone is having a seizure you have to basically let them just have the seizure, you can't do much unless you have training and even then if it's literally the first time that having a seizure it's prety much 9 times out of ten you have to just wait till it ends. Many of the drugs used for anti-seizure are not great for your body so until you've had a proper diagnosis it's not like you can just pump them with magic siezure go bye bye juice, coz if you get the dosage wrong it can be really harmful.

'I havent seen the new matrix...' "Do yourself a favor, and never watch a movie again. For Fear. That it might be... the new matrix." That gets me everytime lol fuckin quality

Keanu was out-acted by an animatronic dolphin.

Has any one else noticed that Johnny Mnemonic could be the prequel to Cyberpunk 2077? Seriously, the number of things that line up is uncanny.

well now we gotta get Adum & Pals: The Lawnmower Man

The hacking sound effect sounds exactly like the baby penguin walking in Super Mario 64

Keanu’s first serious dramatic movie would be either River’s Edge or My Own Private Idaho.

When was the fax machine invented? The first recognizable version of what we consider the telephone fax was invented in 1964 by the Xerox company, but the technology that led to that advancement was created much earlier. In fact, it was Alexander Baine in 1843 who invented the electric printing telegraph.

Keanu's acting before John Wick has always been abysmal

Rip scoot 😢

i'd really recommend the writer's actual books, he's famous for being a founder father of cyberpunk. Neuromancer and Idoru are pretty good.

One of the top Letterboxd reviews of this movie claims "It's not any less technically competent then (sic) any other Hollywood sci-fi action movie of the time period." Sometimes I feel like other people exist in a different reality than I do.

I can't comprehend how no matter what the movie is, Takeshi Kitano will always show up as a Yakuza member/boss. Aside from Battle Royale he's almost exclusively typecast as a gangster

adam losing it at the car locking sound effects

Love the adum & pals

One liner for Dolphin Lungrin: "Christ, he's cooked"

18:17 Even Jerma needed a filter to pull THAT face. Keanu over here pulling it naturally

I miss when movies started with giant text-walls of exposition

If I had a dollar for every instance of Keanu Reeves playing a character named Johnny in a cyberpunk setting, I would have two dollars, which is not a lot, but it's weird that it happened twice.

“Babe, wake up. There’s a new Adum and Pals.”

It upsets me that potentially the only Takeshi Kitano movie Adum has seen is Johnny Mnemonic.

I watched the original commentary, and was confused about the "subtitles came too late joke", turns out the Netflix version removed the subtitles for the Japanese guy and just has a (speaking Japanese) subtitle, good job Netflix, cinema is saved!

11:30 lmao I'm so glad you said "The Alabama Shakes" I'm not alone :). Hold On has gotten me through some rough days. Love that band.

The boys NEED to do Sharkboy and Lavagirl.

I was recently reminded that George Lucas called his movie Strange Magic “Star Wars for girls” and had to give it a rewatch and oh man. It’d be the perfect Adam and pals. Every moment is so poorly done and unintentionally funny that it’s gold.

I can't get enough of these! I just realized I skipped this one- after plowing snow for 2 hrs, this is a blessing:)

In this feature film, Keanu Reeves plays a man with a deadly microchip in his head, in Cyberpunk 2077, he IS the dangerous microchip

That car park sound effect is what they use at target for their walkie-talkies

I always thought that Johnny Mnemonic was a childrens film like Osmosis Jones but instead of teaching kids about biology it was about literary devices

i remember watching this immedietly after Keanu got his arm replaced by the Devil Breaker

Regarding the shitty music score for this movie, apparently the movie was premiered in Japan with a soundtrack by Mychael Danna, but this was "re-composed" by Brad Fiedel for the international release. God knows why - the original music is much better. You can get a taste of it in a youtube video called "Johnny Mnemonic - Deleted Scenes". They were definitely going for more of a Blade Runner vibe.

In fairness, there's a lot going on at @6:28, but how did nobody comment on the *absolutely bewildering* little skip-hop the bad guy did to reposition himself behind Keanu???

I love when you see an actor before their biggest role and it's basically them in a B tier version of that same role.

I'm kinda shocked you guys don't know who William Gibson is.

The editing on these videos is always incredible

you guys got to watch "New Rose Hotel 1998 "The other short story William Gibson did that got turned into a movie in the 90s. Also with a cast of Christopher Walken , Willem Dafoe and Asia Argento. or play Johnny Mnemonic FMV Movie Game.

Scoot made a Shadowrun reference. I will now make every NPC a gene-modded tiger person.

The movie's terrible, but I see Beat Takeshi for three seconds and my entire brain is like, 'wow, he's so subtle🥰'

That scrolling intro sounds like something Sam Hyde wrote for his card game. Totally schizophrenic in sound, at least the way everyone was reading it simultaneously.

15:10 Johnny Phonetic.

I don't know what it is but every part of this movie seems like it was meant purely on an aesthetic level. The story and shit is all really kind of bad, but it rules. I love how Keanu acts and I love the dolphin and I love Henry Rollins being better than Keanu. It's fire. Great film. I wish the internet looked like Johnny Mnemonic hacking.

I was sad no one called out Takeshi Kitano.

Scoots alarmed look always gets me.

Oh man I hope these boys watch Dracula because I need them to see “I know hwhere the bästahd sleeps. I put him theuh myself.”

19:01 the new Morbin time just dropped XD

Yes, finally, another Adum and Pals.

There can never be enough Adam and pals The world needs more of it.

Fun fact: the crazy cyber warrior chick who's got the shakes? In the original Gibson script, that's Molly from Neuromancer. The original short story was part of the Sprawl continuity.

My favourite part was when he said "Jesus time" and proceeded to Jeez all over the place

i believe that there is a higher power or god out there helping keanu because he is such a nice guy he deserves it.

its like the essence of the 90s

The animated sequence at the end was actually the most heinous thing I've ever seen

I love how the guys are shitting on the "room service" line, and rightfully so, but that's also like the best acting in the movie.

Keanu's sitting down acting at 20:23 is so bad he looks like the lead singer of Puddle of Mudd singing that Nirvana cover.