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What is the absolute best Cyberpunk movie of all time?
- Thread starter Black Chamber
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As cyberpunk? Never once thought of it as anything other than scifi/fantasy. It, The Matrix and Ghost in the Shell are in my top ten favorite films from the 90s though. I just recently purchased The Fifth Element for the fourth time too.
It makes me sad. :(
Even streaming licenses seem weird; the brief time we had it in Canada, it was the French Canadian version.
Sadly no North American release. Such an underrated film that desperately needs one. Though if you have a region free player, the German release is pretty solid.
With James Cameron being involved, who knows when we'll get one. Almost nothing produced by his Lightstorm company has a definitive blu-ray release (and some like True Lies or The Abyss have never gotten one). Just doesn't seem to be of much interest to Cameron.
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Correct me if I'm wrong, but I think it's legal for you to upload it, but illegal for us to download it.
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I have the North American region DVD of that movie, since there wasn't a Blu-Ray release over here and it's horrible. The movie is awesome; but the quality of the DVD is horrible. It's encoded to the disk in a bizarre fashion that gives it black bars on all sides of the screen and if you stretch it or try to correct it to where it has the normal black bars, it squishes the image.
It's just abysmal and I really hope they get a decent release over here soon.
Ah, sucks. Here (the Netherlands) I've got this one:
This also included the 3 hour long making of documentary. This doc also features the main actors and production crew (even Ridley himself). I'm currently in the middle of watching it, it's very informative. The making of this movie sure wasn't a walk in the park!
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Lol - I was talking about Strange DaysšAh, sucks. Here (the Netherlands) I've got this one:
This also included the 3 hour long making of documentary. This doc also features the main actors and production crew (even Ridley himself). I'm currently in the middle of watching it, it's very informative. The making of this movie sure wasn't a walk in the park!
I have every edition of Blade Runner ever released and the 4K is absolutely stunning!!
It is the best reference-quality 4K I've seen to date.
The Dangerous Days documentary is incredible - enjoy!
It's cyberpunk in aesthetic, but I agree, I'm not quite sure it works in terms of themes.
I guess Testuso has transhumanist attributes as his body starts incorporating wires and metal to replace the body parts he's lost.
haha oops... I feel dumb now.
Strange Days is awesome though. That opening scene blew me away. The sexual assault scene is still too fucked up though, can't watch it. Almost Irreversible levels.
Well Do Androids Dream has the empathy boxes which is some crazy VR tech from a cult like leader.
But yeah the movie is missing all that.
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It looks like Blade Runner is the hands-down winner so far.
While I agree with the poll results as they stand today; I was honestly expecting The Matrix to fare much betterš¤
While I agree with the poll results as they stand today; I was honestly expecting The Matrix to fare much betterš¤
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Blade Runner isn't really cyberpunk, strictly speaking. The "punk" part requires a protagonist pushing back against the corporate powers, and while the Nexus 6 characters do that, Deckard doesn't, really, and is more a part of the system until his battle with Roy. It defined the aesthetic but it's a fairly weak example of cyberpunk as a genre of storytelling. Blade Runner is more of a neo-noir.
GitS is arguably not cyberpunk, either. It uses the window dressing but, like Blade Runner, its protagonist is the system, not fighting it. Eventually she leaves the system but that's not really the same thing. Cyberpunk is more than an aesthetic choice, unlike steampunk.
GitS is arguably not cyberpunk, either. It uses the window dressing but, like Blade Runner, its protagonist is the system, not fighting it. Eventually she leaves the system but that's not really the same thing. Cyberpunk is more than an aesthetic choice, unlike steampunk.
Also GITS is an incredibly simplistic and juvenile film, and the sequel is vastly superior.
Agree to disagree on the GITS as cyberpunk (I'd argue "close enough" even if I agree with you lol)
But GITS 2 is so damn underrated; Batou made a great lead.
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Agreed.
It is truly timeless in both it's aesthetics and atmosphere.
Very hard decision, between Blade Runner (and the sequel) and the OG Ghost in The Shell. Picked Blade Runner in the end but if you told me GitS I wouldn't fight you on it
Some fans of cyberpunk really have the most incredibly strict definitions. It's almost like the genre isn't a genre but a handful of titles that can only feature the same setting, characters, and ideas repeated ad nauseam
I would say it absolutely does but that doesn't seem to be the popular opinion for some reason.
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It has some of the tropes, but it's narrative is more Sci-fi/Adventure.
I voted Johnny Mnemonic since it really delivers that 80s-90s Cyberpunk vibe. That said, Blade Runner deserves the win, but its more dystopia for me vs Cyberpunk. You got to have some hacking in Cyberpunk!
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The Fifth Element is a great movie; but despite some of it's aesthetics, it is not a Cyberpunk film.
I think Ghost in the Shell is the film with the most pertinent outlook or take on AI and trans humanism as it relates to our reality. The atomized individual artificial humans of Blade Runner aren't really relevant to the direction AI is heading in reality, even though they're great films.
I put both blade runner movies above the rest
I appreciate the Brazil mention, one of my all time faves
I appreciate the Brazil mention, one of my all time faves
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