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I FUCKING LOVE CYBERPUNK! what are some good movies other than
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I FUCKING LOVE CYBERPUNK!

what are some good movies other than classics. I've probably watched the classics. But you can recommend some obsecure and good ones.

btw I love that robots trying to be like human kind shit. Like Ghost in the Shell
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stop writing like you're on tumblr, faggot
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>>71225895
dude FUCK YOU

OP watch mister robot it's cyberpunk
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>>71225851

Lawnmower Man and Johnny Mneomnic are underrated tbqh
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>>71225922
I've already watched it yo
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>>71225924
Thanks. I've watched Johnny Mneomnic but not Lawnmower Man. I'm gonna check it
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>>71225944
how about bubblegum crisis
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underrated/underseen flick directed by Katheryn Bigelow and written by James Cameron. really worth checking out.
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>>71226048
*ghost-directed by James Cameron
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>>71225851
Blade Runner is Tech Noir not Cyberpunk you cuck.

There's nothing even remotely Cyberpunk in it.
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GenHed

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cumAfzuUKbc
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Nemesis

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=brgyI20dnaM
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eXistenZ considered cyberpunk?
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>>71226668
biopunk desu
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>>71226668
Biopunk.
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Class of 1999

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xOM2jgzBBhs
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>>71225851
Asians are gross and creepy.
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Snatcher.
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>>71225851
pretty sure this counts
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>>71226814
That movie is too silly to be considered hard cyberpunk
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Is cyperpunk themes or an aesthetic?
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>>71226902
both

Blade Runner defines it aesthetically, but the best thematic example of cyberpunk is still the novel that created the trend: Neuromancer

the best example of the blending of the two is probably Ghost in the Shell 2
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>>71226902
Aesthetic comes with the theme.
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Split Second

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A-M8PbnAiTc
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Blade Runner

Aside from that, Akira.
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Why does every thread about cyberpunk devolve into bickering about what it is and isn't?

It makes me think it isn't a real genre.
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>>71225851
Burst City
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>>71227086
It's a real genre of science fiction literature. Anything else... not so much.
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what about ghost in the shell?
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>>71227086
it's very specific, and some people get irritated about what constitutes cyberpunk

for example, Inception is technically a cyberpunk film, even though you wouldn't think so initially. on the other hand, when most people think cyberpunk, the first movie to come to mind is Blade Runner, which doesn't actually qualify.
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>>71227222
>the first movie to come to mind is Blade Runner, which doesn't actually qualify

It it has the aesthetic.
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>>71227318
the aesthetic, but literally none of the themes.
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>>71227222
It absolutely qualifies. Look at the plot from the replicants' point of view and it's as Cyberpunk as it gets.
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>>71227723
sure, but the film isn't from the replicants' point of view. it's from Deckard's, which is about as film noir as it gets.
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>>71227212
mentioned in the OP

although yeah, I think GitS is quintessential cyberpunk, as much as if not more than blade runner
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>>71226116
Blade Runner is Cyberpunk and Tech Noir.

You're being like an autistic music snob
>One of my favorite classic rock bands is Pink Floyd
>Pink Floyd is Progressive Rock you cuck
>There's nothing even Progressive about it, it's Psychedelic Rock.
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>>71227343

What themes would that be?
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>>71227791
This. Blade Runner is from the POV of The Man. Cyberpunk is not. Escape from New York is more cyberpunk than Blade Runner
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>>71226048
>>71226113

It's a snoozefest.
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>>71225851
is that a gtr?
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>>71227916
cyberpunk is generally from the perspective of street thugs or criminals fighting against corporate/governmental corruption, and generally focuses on the societal impact of technology rather than the philosophical implications

Blade Runner is from the perspective of a detective working for a corporation, and focuses on the philosophical/moral ramifications of the replicants, not the societal impact
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>>71227863
The movie contains no Cyber nor Punks. Therefore it's not Cyberpunk.
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>>71227791
>>71227917
What is Nueromancer?
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>>71228232
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neuromancer
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>>71228232
Told from the POV of a burnout hacker. Bottom-up pov is cyberpunk.
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>>71228232
There's a better argument for Count Zero.
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Tykho Moon (1996)
1.0 (2004)
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>>71228069

Can it work for a MC who works for the corporation but rebels against it after seeing the bullshit for themself?
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>>71225922
>mister robot
What? No it isn't.
Its a modern-day setting drama show about hackers
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>>71228632
yes. it can even work with a protagonist who works for a corporation for the duration of the story, as in Neuromancer. what matters is the perspective of the character. it works in Neuromancer because Case is a burned-out hacker who gets blackmailed into a corporate job.
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>>71228661
It has the trappings of cyberpunk (characters rebelling against the establishment with technology being a key factor).

Truth is we're already living in a cyberpunk world but it just doesn't seem that way because we're used to it.
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>>71228691
and Deckard is a burned out detective who gets threatened into a corporate job
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>>71228763
>already living in a cyberpunk world
We're living in a cyberprep world. We're moving toward Demolition Man, not Blade Runner
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>>71225851
The matrix.

You're welcome.
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>>71228069
ummm neuromancer has a bunch of philosophical shit in it
I feel like real good cyberpunk incorporates both societal and philosophical impacts, it's kind of hard to separate the two
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>>71226116
>There's nothing even remotely Cyberpunk in it.

Except that William Gibson himself was worried that people might think that the descriptions of Chiba City and the Sprawl in "Neuromancer" were influenced by Blade Runner.

Also: Implanted memories, artificial intelligence, transhumanism and influences from the "hardboiled fiction" genre are all cyberpunk hallmarks.
That's why "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep" has often been referred to as "proto-cyberpunk".
Hence it's only fair to call Blade Runner a style-forming cyberpunk movie – even if referring to the look and feel alone.
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>>71225851
Strange Days

>>71229617
The movie that killed cyberpunk.
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>>71229966
THERE ARE NO PUNKS NOR CYBER THEREFORE NOT CYBERPUNK.

JUST BECAUSE AESTHETICS OVERLAP DOESNT MEAN SQUAT

FUCKING NORMIES REEE
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>>71229595
I haven't used three seashells for wiping my arse yet, have you?
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>>71230015
I'm not a normie. You're just an idiot, that's the problem.
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>>71227938
You know a movie is good when a pleb (like this one right here) says it's "boring"
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>>71225851
I love Cyberpunk too; specifically when its more futuristic with a shitlaod of aliens like Star Wars and Mass Effect.

However, we don't really have a ton of these movies because they're very risky to pull off and not a lot of people enjoy them, especially when its a new movie based on something original.
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Step aside plebs, cult classic coming through.
>tfw the only sci-fi movie made in Italy
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Not a film but Serial Experiments Lain is fantastic. I would definitely watch it if you liked GitS
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>>71225851
The real problem is that cyberpunk in film is deader than disco. It had its heyday in the 80s and early-to-mid 90s and most of the movies sucked.

I recommend you rather delve into literary cyberpunk. Gibson's Sprawl trilogy, Pat Cadigan's "Synners" and maybe Richard Morgan's "Altered Carbon" should keep you entertained for a while.
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>>71230121
Holy shit this looks awesome. How have I never heard of this.

Is it good?
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>>71230268
No
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>>71225851
I can't enjoy cyberpunk anymore because it either became retro (late 70s early 80s neon vector graphix fetishism regurgitated by hipsters today) or a flimsy tech noir (later Gibson work like Spook Country) but above all, no matter how you put it - it's anti intellectual because every tenet it relied upon became futurology kool aid. In a sense best cyberpunk work is Tetsuo because it shows an insane metal fetishist driven to its ultimate form. I can't take seriously cyberpunk's solispsistic world view especially when denoting 'ghost in the shell' - that is the notion that the mind can maintain the same form while being independent from body, completely neglecting most of analytical philosopy for a simplified 'explanation' or psyche. Sticking implants into skull usb ports I won't comment on.

Biopunk is the offshoot of cyberpunk that needs all attention it can get - it's plausible, it's organic AND synthetic at the same time, or at least synthesized and presents a vision of the future that rings with greater clarity due to how true it can become.
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>>71230015
it really is referring to a genre placed in a machine controlled future set around an oppressed counterculture subgroup which is where the punk comes form.
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>>71228069
>cyberpunk is generally from the perspective of street thugs or criminals fighting against corporate/governmental corruption, and generally focuses on the societal impact of technology rather than the philosophical implications

"underground, the julian assange story" is definitely cyber in that case
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>>71226902
Literary cyberpunk is built upon noir stylistics and plotting of your average caper novel. Visually it's about theme of high tech and low life wrapped in glass towers bleeding neon over the urban sprawl.

Think gypsies with iphones jacking chargers into street lights.
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>>71230268
It's not THE BESTEST but it captures the Gibson feel alright, worth a watch.
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>>71230233
and what is blade runner 2?
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>>71230528
That remains to be seen.
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>all these people arguing blade runner is not cyberpunk

i want summer to be over
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>>71230121
Wow. Good thing I'm fluent in Italian. Gonna give this one a go right away.
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>>71226668
More like shitpunk.

Worst movie ever.

That's what you get when you let your 70 year old grandpa make a movie about what he thinks video games are about.
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>>71226794
>onenightinneokobecity.flac
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>>71225924
>"This is a story about fear and flatulence"

I like Johnny Memorandum.
Dudeballs is rad.
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>>71228783
Yeah, this.

>You know the score, pal! If you're not a cop, you're "little people."
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I want to get online.

I NEED a COMPUTER!
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>>71232376
Sorry guys. I let the drugs do the talking there for a moment. I did like a, uh, freewheelin Jimmy Jack Kerouac Joyce Joyceson there. Not good enough, unfortunately but this is delivered as-is.
I know full well that John Mnemosyne is not about flatulence. It's still not a great movie -
Fuck. This post took me close to an hour or so.
Not even once, boys, NOT EVEN ONCE

pic unrelated
post unretarded
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>>71230282
>trap
EEAUEHAUEA
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>>71229595
i think we are goin towards a children of men world, minus the fertility thing
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>>71226902
Well the term punk alone has both physical and ideological connotations, so cyberpunk probably should as well.

Though I would say it's mostly an aesthetic.
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>>71232643
A-alright

I already think caffeine, coffee, is a hard drug, mate, what the fuck are you doing
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Cypher
Tetsuo: The Bullet Man
Sexmission
A Scanner Darkly
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>>71225895
>>/b/
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>>71229966
>That's why "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep" has often been referred to as "proto-cyberpunk".

By people who haven't read any cyberpunk or any Philip K Dick?
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>>71230282
WOAH nice cyberpunk outfit
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>>71226116
>>71227222
>>71227343
>>71227791
>>71227917
>>71228069
>>71228123
>>71228444
>>71228691
>>71230015
>taking the phrase 'cyber punk' literally
>blade runner isn't cyberpunk
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>>71231722
It was made in 1999 and is still pretty accurate to what an RPG is.
How old are you?
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>>71226723
my nigga love this fucking movie. the protag was great. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QvO4NuUBsFI
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>>71225851
circuitry man I would say sort of fits as well cherry 2000
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>>71230282
>you will never live in a cyberpunk dystopian world surviving along your trap gf narcissa
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>>71235033
Old enough to party
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Metropolis (2001)

This, Akira, Steamboy, and the movies from Studio Ghibli are all the Japanese film you'll ever have to watch if you want to escape being a weaboo, like me.
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