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Despite all the negative reviews it got I thought Johnny Mnemonic was a fun 90s cyberpunk film.
I hated it mainly for having Keanu Reeves in it doing the same role he always does: Keanu Reeves. And because I loved the original short story. If I didn't, I probably wouldn't have cared.
I don't think there was a single good "cyberpunk" film or any good "cyberpunk" anything after, say, the Mirrorshades anthology or Gibson's third book or so, or Bruce Sterling stopped writing it, or any of a half-dozen or so other dividing lines between brilliant, descending rapidly to derivative but okay, to utter crap to wtf even is this shit.
There's a reason pretty much anyone associated with the early stages of what became known as cyberpunk would, if you asked them about it now, be pretty much "Cyberpunk? Never heard of it."
Yeah it's an enjoyable romp through a bunch of cyberpunk-type set pieces. And it's a good place for Keanu to Keanu it up.
Electric Dragon 80000v might count? It has a lot of the punk even if it's light on the connectivity parts of the cyber.
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As much as I dig Cyberpunk, I don't really think that any of the newer Cyberpunk-ish movies have been good. Total Recall reboot was mediocre as fuck. Last enjoyable movie that I remember was A Scanner Darkly.
Hell even in the animation area there hasn't been much good stuff. Shit like Psycho Pass was really great in the beginning, but then became shit. Ergo Proxy was kind of the same way.
Really you're better off just checking out Cyberpunk games if you're into them. Pretty decent amount of old and new stuff there that's worth checking out.
Hell even in the animation area there hasn't been much good stuff. Shit like Psycho Pass was really great in the beginning, but then became shit. Ergo Proxy was kind of the same way.
Really you're better off just checking out Cyberpunk games if you're into them. Pretty decent amount of old and new stuff there that's worth checking out.
If anyone is looking for games suggestions, Syndicate and Syndicate Wars were great.
I enjoyed Ergo Proxy, the first Ghost in the Shell movie had a cyberpunk vibe to it and there's a myriad of 80s/early 90s stuff like Dominion Tank Police and AD Police floating around.
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Not a fan of Neal Stephenson? I quite liked the books of his I read.
Not very great, and ahead of the curve for cyberpunk
Imagine if Ed Wood got a two paragraph description of Blade Runner and tried to make it twenty years early.
After the atomic war humanity's breeding is down and robots are up. Jerk from the FutureKlan hates them damn dirty clickers, even as society at large is accepting of robots. But there's mounting evidence that the FutureKlan's concerns about the uppity clickers plotting something may be justified...
Moderately preachy sci-fi cliches ensue.
Legends say it was a favorite of Andy Warhol.
After the atomic war humanity's breeding is down and robots are up. Jerk from the FutureKlan hates them damn dirty clickers, even as society at large is accepting of robots. But there's mounting evidence that the FutureKlan's concerns about the uppity clickers plotting something may be justified...
Moderately preachy sci-fi cliches ensue.
Legends say it was a favorite of Andy Warhol.
Was anything after Snow Crash really "cyberpunk?" I liked Cryptonomicon but I haven't read anything of his since.
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That's a good question. I was subconsciously attributing Virtual Light to Stephenson when it's a Gibson creation. I do not consider Cryptonomicon even remotely "cyberpunk", though Snow Crash was cool.
The Tank Girl comics are way way more interesting, I suggest you check them out if you're a fan of the whole grungy yet colorful punk late-80's / early-90's schtick. As a whole the art (as I remember it) is very similar to what @_blank_ draws with "The Real Sonichu".
I would say that Reamde is like hard cyberpunk or something. Cryptonomicon/the Baroque Cycle I wouldn't really call cyberpunk at all.
I hear the Diamond Age also falls in the genre? I haven't read it though.
Ghost in the Shell.
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Diamond Age is cyberpunk at its core in terms of overall setting and technology level of the future, but much of the story takes place in these societies where the people use all the advanced technology to recreate anachronistic cultures and aesthetics like steampunk or classical China. So big chunks of the book are written in this really stylized Victorian prose from the POV of those steampunks, but the driving force behind the plot and everything they're doing is facilitated by nanotech and 3D printing
If we're veering towards the anime ghetto then Akira's worth mentioning, a little light at times on the cyber but great on the punk, even if it's a bit of a clusterfuck storywise from mashing random cool scenes from the comics together.
Also there's the fun trashy cyberpunk OVAs of back in the day like Cyber City Oedo, which had the best goddamn dub that any cocksucker ever fucking made.
Theresa film called Avalon, directed by Mamoru Oshii (iirc) which is kinda GitS-esque in that it asks questions about the nature of reality against a nominally cyberpunk backdrop.
Would Transmetropolitan count?
Would Transmetropolitan count?
This is actually a good point, in that weebshit actually ended up doing cyberpunk better than Hollywood ever did.
After pondering the subject for all of a couple minutes, I still can't think of a single overtly cyberpunk Hollywood movie that didn't just amount to dropping trou and shitting on the floor.
If we're talking OVAs now, then Battle Angel Alita is as Cyber Punk as it gets. Too bad they're only like an hour long combined and don't really cover much of the manga.
And on the video game front, Shadowrun for the SNES or the Genesis, preferably SNES if you're in it for the story, Genesis version if you prefer the more tabletop style which Shadowrun started as.
Oh man, Syndicate Wars, that brings me back. One of the coolest intros to a 90s PC game ever.
The new Shadowrun games are also quite good! Dragonfall and Hong Kong are distinctly better than Dead Man's Switch (the original Shadowrun Returns campaign)
