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We've changed themes for movie nights. We are now on a Cyberpunk theme.
As you all know I like to use a poll for these but I need nominations. So that's what this thread is for. What are your favorite cyberpunk films or ones on your bucket list to watch?
I'm hoping to get this poll up fast so there is time for folks to vote and get movies ready for Saturday.
Also nominate new theme ideas.
Demolition Man
Blade Runner
Liquid Sky
Robocop
Buckaroo Banzai
Edit forgot about this super rare awesome movie with an original soundtrack by Cabaret Voltaire.
Johnny Yesno
Available on YouTube https://youtu.be/LjU0l3LkOxM
And Decoder with a great monologue by Genesis P'Orridge from Psychic TV / Throbbing Gristle and starring FM Einheit. Monologue here https://youtu.be/4gkCHQTyAe8
Anime:
Akira
Ghost in the Shell
Psycho Pass
Angel Cop (this is a great classic if you haven't seen it)
I nominate that for movie-night we split cyberpunk in two:
And maybe if folks like, we could have any-time series running 24/7:
Folks could vote if they want live-action, animated, or a mix.
If separated folks could vote if they want back-to-back cyberpunk months, or different theme/genre(s) between.
I recommend labeling the "previously viewed on movie night" so we don't repeat.
My contribution:
Hackers https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/10428-hackers
Ghost in the Shell (1995)
Terminator series
Avalon (2001)
Cypher (2002)
eXistenZ (1999)
Screamers (1995)
I watch them regularly, but movies I've not seen a while and would recommend, in no particular order:
Liquid Sky (1982)
12 Monkeys (1995)
Akira (1988)
Brazil (1985)
Strange Days (1995)
Naked Lunch (1991)
Tokyo Gore Police (2008)
eXistenZ (1999)
Tetsuo: The Iron Man (1989)
Thomas est amoureux (2001)
Metropolis (2001, interpretation of Lang's)
World on a Wire (1973)
Great recommendations. Liquid Sky and Brazil are personal favorites. I got Liquid Sky on DVD as well as two copies of the soundtrack on vinyl! Haven't seen World on a Wire. Might need to check that out.
Strange Days is a good addition. Wouldn't ever consider Naked Lunch cyberpunk.
Also
TIL. I just discovered that the music video Front Line Assembly - Mindphaser 4k w/ HQ audio (6:55) ~ DigitalDMZ, does not use footage from the movie Tetsuo II: Body Hammer, but actually uses clips from Gunhed. IMO this music video would also be a good intermission addition to the cue. So would Sigue Sigue Sputnik - Love Missile F1-11 (3:44), not to mention the absolutely fantastic short tracks on Billy Idol's terrible Cyberpunk album (all 7 are great soundscapes, each a minute or shorter). And then there's Björk - All Is Full of Love (Radio Strings Mix) (4:17)
Kind of neat, from the movie Bad Influence (1990), the club scene with Skinny Puppy go-go dancers (3:29) was cyberpunk-ish back on the edge of the 80s/90s.
Bonus 80s/90s/2000s cyberpunk/industrial music (even if some of the videos aren't):
Though the Naked Lunch screenplay includes the process of writing the book, the Naked Lunch (rather than adapt only the book's plot), book has been considered dystopian science fiction, postmodern, parodic, and picaresque. Its experimental techniques have been highly influential on rock music and the cyberpunk genre. The Cyberpunk Project includes the book: http://project.cyberpunk.ru/idb/naked_lunch.html Perhaps you do not consider the movie sufficiently cyber-related, which is partially David Cronenberg's fault. The book is one of the earliest to explore a virtual reality (albeit not electronic in origin) in a manner influential on later cyberpunk stories.
I read the book. I worked with many who worked on the movie. I love the movie. You could argue the body-horry bio-hack stuff it a kind of tech. IMO Naked Lunch would be great for a drug/mindfuck and/or literary theme.
I was tempted to add many more movies and music to my cyberpunk (or cybergoth) lists here but edgy as they are/were I don't think they belong because there's no cyber or even hi-tech.
If we watch any of The Terminator series, I'm going to recommend the short film The Awareness (2014) as a bumper video.
https://gvid.tv/v/acrCP9
I tried to stay away from Internet movies that weren't far in the future. But maybe that's what folks want.
I referenced those in 1995/96 when making a WaffleCrisp commercial where the kids hacked into the grandma factory to steal the secret recipe.
Bonus:
IMO, these are all painful movies to watch, but I suppose are worth seeing once.
Freejack https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0104299/ (Trailer)
Haven't seen it for decades, but was pretty entertaining in a campy way. Curious if it holds up at all.
Cyberpunk dystopian movies:
Thank you for getting ahead on this. I have it on my agenda to start a thread for nominations. I'm going to need to get the poll started quickly to be read for a movie night.
Edit: For context Jason posted this in a different thread ahead of this one. Via his permission I moved it to here.
Can you/we copypasta matrixdown text?
Why? You could just copy it if I provided more info with links. Thus, I and others could help out more. But there's little point if it just means more work to re-format, though we could at least get the links.
Food for thought: For better or worse, SaidIt had a wiki, seldom used. GM doesn't need one, especially when I have one, but there might be use for something similar. Imagine if posts and/or comments could have some kind of permission setting whitelist where added users could also edit and modify the posts and/or comments. The big problem solved with a wiki history is important if two users edit at the same time and save over each other's new content, then requiring conflict resolution with another edit. A badge would be a simple indicator for users to know if they were whitelisted with co-editor ability.
I do have a far off goal of being able to invite more than one person to edit a text post.
At the end of the day the only think that helps me information-wise is a tmdb link. That's how I get poll consistency now. I have a command line interface I submit tmdb links to and that adds to the poll after grabbing the title, score, year, and formats it. So any extra information you add is really just for people.
Also FYI, there has been a trend of folks making lists extra fancy. It does look nice. But I feel bad if people are doing that extra work trying to help me source the information. There was a time when that extra information would end up in the poll. But now I automate grabbing that info with a TMDB api for the sake of consistency so I don't end up using the extra info myself. But it does look very professional.
I guess I do benefit slightly from the year info because it helps me pick out which item is the right one in a TMDB search a little faster. But if anyone is dead set on doing extra work to help me the actual TMDB link does more and might be less work than trying to format the data off of a site by hand only for me to re-lookup the link.
Also there may be some cross over from the space poll. If anyone wants to scour that and decide what in there qualifies as cyberpunk feel free to steal ideas from the old poll.
Why is jewbotjase the only one to have mentioned Johnny Mnemonic? It is the ultimate cyberpunk movie.
It's definitely A cyberpunk movie, being a William Gibson short story adaptation. But it's not a great movie and I wouldn't recommend it.
It is cyberpunk as it is meant to be. If you added shamans it would be shadow run and that is the best. I dont recommend you.
Because there isn't much value it mentioning something twice. I'll end up having to dedupe everyone's suggestions when I turn it into a poll.
Every one should be talking about it as the main point of cyberpunk