The Lawnmower Man Quotes

  • Jobe Smith: You realize, Dr. Angelo, that my intelligence has surpassed yours...

  • Jobe Smith: ...my birth cry will be the sound of every phone on this planet ringing in unison.

  • Jobe Smith: By the year 2001, there won't be a person on this planet who isn't hooked into it, and hooked into me.

  • Jobe Smith: This universe is mine. I am GOD here!

  • Caroline Angelo: Falling, floating, and flying? So, what's next, fucking?

  • Dr. Lawrence Angelo: ...so I'm taking my work underground. I can't let it fall into the wrong hands again.

  • Jobe Smith: I sense your thoughts. What are you HIDING?

  • Jobe Smith: I saw God! I touched God!

  • Patrolman Cooley: Two bizarre murders in one night.

    [Shortly thereafter he sees Jobe staring at him]

    Patrolman Cooley: Two bizarre accidents in one night.

  • Dr. Lawrence Angelo: Jobe, listen to yourself right now. The first sign of psychosis is a Christ complex.

    Jobe Smith: CyberChrist.

  • Jobe Smith: Ah, there he is. The "good" Father McKeen. Took in the poor idiot nobody wanted.

    Father Francis McKeen: The devil has gotten inside you, Jobe. I can see it. It's that Dr. Angelo. He's corrupted you.

    Jobe Smith: JUDGEMENT DAY IS HERE!

  • Jobe Smith: Mind over matter Dr. Angelo, not a miracle - a fact.

  • Dr. Lawrence Angelo: All this power isn't meant to be in the hands of one person!

    Jobe Smith: You're wrong! You need to be led, just like everyone else, it's a basic need.

    Dr. Lawrence Angelo: This technology was meant to expand human communication, but you're not even human any more! What you've become terrifies me. You're a freak!

    Jobe Smith: Your naive idiocy makes me VERY ANGRY!

  • Dr. Lawrence Angelo: This is all so new.

    Jobe Smith: It's not new. I realized that nothing we've been doing is new. We haven't been tapping into new areas of the brain - we've just been awakening the most ancient. This technology is simply a route to powers that conjurers and alchemists used centuries ago. The human race lost that knowledge and now I'm reclaiming it through virtual reality.

    Dr. Lawrence Angelo: You're moving too fast. Even with all these new abilities, there are dangers. Man may be able to evolve a thousand-fold through this technology, but the rush must be tempered with wisdom.

  • Jobe Smith: This technology has peeled back a layer to reveal another universe. Virtual reality will grow, just as the telegraph grew to the telephone - as the radio to the TV - it will be everywhere.

    Dr. Lawrence Angelo: You're having delusions, Jobe. Struggle for reason!

  • Dr. Lawrence Angelo: He

    [Jobe]

    Dr. Lawrence Angelo: absorbed Latin yesterday in less than two hours. It took me a year just to learn the Latin alphabet.

  • Jobe Smith: I'm sorry you hate... what you have created.

  • Jobe Smith: I'm giving you one final game to play, i find a way out or i will die in this diseased mainframe

  • Jobe Smith: [after he possesses Jake's mind] Lawnmower Man is in your head now, Jake. There is no escape, ever.

Extended Reading
  • Keagan 2022-03-16 09:01:05

    I saw it when I was young. Today I remembered again after watching Super Body. When I was young, I envied the rapid learning of pig's feet. As for the violent tendency, the virtual sex was basically not obtained. I only remember that the male pig's feet turned into a barrel and shot the sexual partner in the virtual scene. Later, I was shocked when the male lead made the phones all over the world ring at the same time.

  • Hailey 2022-04-21 09:02:55

    The purpose of sci-fi movies is not to be an audiovisual spectacle. Deeper Loss explores how humans respond to any situation. It's testing our humanity. The "Christ Complex" arises when a person's power surpasses everything around him. But no matter how strong you are, you are only human. Film is to reflect, to think about "anthropocentrism". But what is slavery and what is freedom?