Cyberpunk is a science-fiction sub-genre dealing with the integration of society and technology in dystopian settings. Often referred to as “low-life and high tech,” Cyberpunk stories deal with outsiders (punks) who fight against the oppressors in society (usually mega corporations that control everything) via technological means (cyber). If the punks aren’t actively fighting against a megacorp, they’re still dealing with living in a world completely dependent on high technology.
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Lemmy needs more content that isn't about US politics right now so I'm making a random post.
What's the most obscure cyberpunk movie you've seen? Name a cyberpunk movie you don't think anyone else has heard of.
I'm not saying you have to think it's a good movie (or that you even like it), I just want to discuss obscure, unknown cyberpunk movies. Come on, let's talk about something other than politics here.
Aeon Flux was a weird one. Had some cool stuff going on, but the execution was shoddy
Aeon Flux was a weird one.
Are we talking about the cartoon or the live-action movie? Either way, yes.
Had some cool stuff going on, but the execution was shoddy
Ah, the live-action movie then. Yeah, very shoddy execution.
Hotel Artemis (2018) Caught this on Netflix a few years back, pretty decent 'takes place in one night' movie. Really good cast and a cool premise.
I saw a Cyberpunk movie around 2014 that I've been searching for since then. Maybe the folks in this thread can help me find it. I only remember one scene:
It's nighttime, and our protagonist (a white male) walks down a subway-style staircase into an underground (literally and figuratively) VR cafe of sorts. He meets with a woman who takes him down a hallway, and they glance into several of the rooms. We can see people in their VR worlds - some of them are men playing simulations of making love to groups of attractive women. Some are engaging in violent fantasies. They come to the room the protagonist will use to enter the VR space, and it looks like a dentist chair with the headset dangling from the ceiling on a metal contraption. There's CRT displays all around that will allow the woman to monitor the protagonist as he's in his VR world on a mission.
Likely English but possibly a foreign film.
That's all I can remember. Does it ring a bell for anyone? I've spent countless hours trying to track this one down.
It's not Johnny Mnemonic or Strange Days.
I have a very similar memory but can't for the life of me remember anything else about the movie!
For a while I was convinced it was A.I. Artificial Intelligence the scene had Jude Law's character Gigolo Joe in it. But from a quick search that doesn't seem right.
https://youtu.be/sJzEoso_qJw?si=b6E5K1E95SxMNb4I
Is this it?
That is Nirvana by Gabriele Salvadores, probably not the one op had in mind. But it's a good fit for this thread. If you want to watch it, get the Italian version with the eng subtitles, I'm told the English voiceover is utter crap.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nirvana_%281997_film%29?wprov=sfla1
Lol the left arm on the middle poster is so loooong
I can't read that title now except for "The Gene Gene-Ration"
I'm just talkin' 'bout my gene-generation.
Well great, now I can't un-see that...
Nirvana by Gabriele Salvadores. But if you want to watch it, get the Italian version with the eng subtitles, I'm told the English voiceover is utter crap.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nirvana_%281997_film%29?wprov=sfla1
...not super-obscure in its day but very much a product of the mid-eighties, i doubt many folks are familiar with it fourty years later: michael crichton, tom selleck, gene simmons, peak kirstie alley...
(set in the near future-shock of 1991!)
Liquid Sky
Most obscure one I can think of is William shattner Tek war. I dunno if that is obscure to others, but it is to me