There are hundreds of lazy low-budget cyberpunk movies that flooded the (direct-to-video) market in the 80s and 90s. Stuff like Crime Zone, Nemesis, or Omega Doom. So what cyberpunk movies can you admit are objectively bad yet still hold a place in your heart?

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Nemesis sucks, but it’s poster is fuckin amazing

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Prayer for the Rollerboys. My old hair dresser was one of the Rollerboys.

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Some of Corey Haim’s finest work.

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Bad cyberpunk featuring Corey Haim?! I’m watching this!

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Split Second.

Rutger Hauer hams it up in a near future flooded London.

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Super Mario Bros. I like the movie, but I can definitely see why people don’t.

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I just hate the fact that Super Mario Bros. is, indeed, cyberpunk. It’s just so freaking bizarre. lol

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It’s also one of the only moderately successful movies about a plumber.

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I highly recommend you check out the extended cut if you haven’t seen it already. If nothing else, it’s worth it just for the Iggy & Spike rap.

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Hold up, there’s an extended cut, and there’s a Iggy & Spike rap and I’m just finding out about this now? Thank you kind stranger.

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Happy to help! It’s on https://archive.org if you’re interested in checking it out. Go search their movie database for “Super Mario Bros: The Morton Jankel Cut”.

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But Cyberpunk?

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They mean specifically the 1993 movie

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Right, I figured as much, guess I better rewatch it

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King Koopa runs a corporate dystopia in a seemingly slightly futuristic world that is the Mushroom Kingdom. We even see the use of cybernetics in the form of Kuribo’s Shoes, depicted as giant robotic boots.

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Thanks for letting me know about this community!

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Happy to, sometimes instead of loading up one of my myriad streaming services and suffering the algorithms telling me what it thinks I want Ill just scroll through that community till I find something.

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Cyberpunk

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What is Cyberpunk?

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.

Cyberpunk characteristics include:

  • Dystopian city setting where mega-corporations rule
  • Full integration of technology into society, featuring cybernetic implants
  • Outsider protagonists (punks) who often are very familiar with the technology around them
  • Hard boiled detective and film noir vibes and influence
  • Themes dabbling in trans-humanism, existentialism, and what it means to be human.

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