Apr 14
Click for full imagePerry Armstrong Comments: When a godawful film adaptation of your excellent novel does the favour of – not – using the proper title, why oh why oh why then remind us about it on the cover?
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April 14th, 2016 at 1:01 pm
GESUNDHEIT!
April 14th, 2016 at 1:16 pm
Oh, how thoughtful! The cover comes with a Zoom In/Out button on the left side! Amazing what they can do these days…
April 14th, 2016 at 1:16 pm
“Basis for the film FreeJack”. That’s like saying “Written by the scriptwriter for Batman Forever”.
As per the cover:
‘Some users have noted that after long use, the paint on the VR helmet can soften, and in extreme circumstances a small blue drop of paint may appear. All in-house tests show this is not a problem for any units shipped.’
April 14th, 2016 at 1:17 pm
When you start to drool, it’s time to turn off your VR goggles.
April 14th, 2016 at 1:17 pm
Lets do it. Lets use teal and orange as a colour-scheme.
April 14th, 2016 at 1:18 pm
Cover blurb should read ‘My book was made into a movie? With Antony Hopkins? How many Oscars did it win? – Robert Sheckley’
April 14th, 2016 at 1:52 pm
At least they didn’t turn this one into a movie. And I say that as a fellow who participated in a few Shadowrun campaigns Back In The Day.
April 14th, 2016 at 2:06 pm
Tinfoil hats will never go out of fashion, so go one better: tinfoil goggles. You’ll never be fooled by the Illuminati again.
April 14th, 2016 at 2:36 pm
Nothing sells books like a cover featuring a guy who needs to wipe his nose.
April 14th, 2016 at 2:37 pm
The film has Mick Jagger in a rather fetching armoured car. I think the producers expected the next Total Recall and got Sleeper sans laughs – aside from Mick’s accent.
April 14th, 2016 at 2:40 pm
Flow My Sweat, the Policeman Said
April 14th, 2016 at 3:54 pm
@RayP: in the producers’ defense, I forgot I had ever seen that until you mentioned the Great Lipped One. ‘The movie where Mick Jagger doesn’t not try to act’ sticks in your memory better than ‘The movie’.
April 14th, 2016 at 6:11 pm
No, sir, I don’t know why we’re waterboarding this person in a tinfoil suit, sir. Orders from above, sir.
Either that, or Tinfoil Suit got very startled and dropped their drink.
Your choice.
April 14th, 2016 at 6:38 pm
“If he swallows any of that I’m out of a job.”
April 14th, 2016 at 6:45 pm
Some time ago a guy showed up on the cable TV show Pawn Stars with the car from Freejack for sale. He wanted 13k for it. I think the owners of the pawn shop laughed at him. Maybe if it had been painted in the teal-and-orange motif, it would have gone for a bit more.
April 14th, 2016 at 6:45 pm
The experiment to install artificial intelligence in the trophies for the 1992 Brit Awards backfired as the one given to Prince began to speculate on what he’d use her for….
April 14th, 2016 at 8:39 pm
Stannum Chopper, from the gritty 90s thriller The Wizordor of Mega-City OZ
April 15th, 2016 at 12:01 am
Mr Jagger in Freejack is camper than Liberace in Sincerely Yours.
April 15th, 2016 at 11:36 am
Haha I remember when I was young, I had a friend whose parents really didn’t care what they watched. So we saw Aliens, Predator, Robocop and all the awesome stuff they made toys for well before we really should of.
One day, he had Free Jack. “BUT IT HAS MICK JAGGER IN IT!” He said… I didn’t know who the hell he was at the time.
We made it about half way through the movie before putting on Total Recall. I have never returned to it, all I remember is a race car crashing for some reason and a pointlessly distracting video phone in a car.
I like to keep my memory of Freejack to that.
April 16th, 2016 at 3:18 am
Someone filled this poor fellow’s helmet with water when he wasn’t looking. When he put it on he was unpleasantly surprised to be dripping wet. That’s not a nice joke!
April 19th, 2016 at 8:25 am
I’ve seen FREEJACK… it’s one of those “pre-Internet”, “pre-cellphone” early-90s stories where society is going to hell while people are spellbound by some shitty Virtual Reality that would bore you to tears in today’s real world.
August 16th, 2016 at 12:13 pm
@A.R.Yngve. Wasn’t that the plot of basically *everything* in the early 90’s?
August 16th, 2016 at 12:16 pm
I thought that movie was STRANGE DAYS.
August 16th, 2016 at 12:25 pm
@Tom Noir. It was every movie.
August 16th, 2016 at 1:10 pm
And every single cover of OMNI Magazine.