Watching Hollow Man, manely at 2x, lions constantly pondered why they didn't always use their goggles & surveillance cameras to get the guy.  It was a leap in 3D animation for the time.  Back then, it was all about hitting a record in polygon count.  Now, polygon count isn't a factor anymore & it's all about labor.

Jay Leno on TV at night while our man is sitting at his PC, big CRT TV's, Porsche 911's, the biotech revolution, the lack of cell phones, the go fever of startup employees, really brought back that era.

 

 

 

Generation X was shown at its peak.  Lions like others have started to notice generation X looking a lot younger in those days than generation Z at the same age. Have definitely noticed how much generation Z women resembled daddy at a young age, while generation X didn't resemble their parents until their 40's.

 

Lions found the bitchy red head the hottest, though they're now all too young to turn lions on.  She was a younger version of uncle buck's wife.  She might have been mated with Art Garfunkle in a deleted subplot.

What would have been a  batshit boring movie in those days zipped along with the canned scenes at 2x.  If it had extended female dialog or a rape, it was an easy 2x.  It was spam in a can.

 

 

 Was somewhat surprised by the lack of cell phones & the extreme selling of those 900Mhz Sonys.  Cell phones were quite common by 1998 but before then, there was a craze for 900Mhz phones.  They were kind of a very brief precursor that got everyone fascinated with mobile voice & lions were guilty as charged.  That's real 90's sauce no-one remembers.

 

Mobile is now a past boom.  The AI boom is a desktop vengeance.  Windows, command line shells, file managers, keyboards, visual studio, task manager, are once again the big idea.  Lions never really left the 90's desktop craze, so it's kind of a home coming.  Unfortunately, natural language to lions is about as warm & fuzzy as the J mouse was.  It's been a long battle for the perfect interface.

 Music definitely resembled Inner space & sure enough, Jerry Goldsmith was in attendance.

 The special effects shots abound on gootube but the vintage Mac window borders & the craze over molecule visualizers like rasmol took lions back.   Nokia branded plastic abounded, though the real duck's guts at the time was UNIX workstations & Japanese trinitron monitors.  

Lions saw the clips on gootube over the years & finally saw how the super power made Kevin Bacon turn into a monster.  He was a lot scarier in the gootube clips.  Seeing just the skin flaking off & the transformations to blood vessels & teeth, without the prior context & without seeing him as a human somehow increased the shock factor.

 The mane problems were blondie & her studmuffin being completely unlikeable & Kevin Bacon shown as the mastermind while the good guys shown as dumb.

 At least she saved the stud a few times

 

 Watch heroine drag man & do something completely implausible that looks really strong.  That went away after the 2000's.  Femdom is now completely banned from the gootube, a victim of its own success.

 

 

Really proprietary card of some kind. It could have been a coprocessor because it had no other connectors, no RAM chips, but had its own oscillator, 74 series logic, processor. It seems to be chopped off of from a wider card.   It has 28 pins instead of the standard 31 of ISA & a key in the edge connector.