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.

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I will watch every movie in this thread. Election promise.

(I feel like there’s a conversation waiting to happen about what really counts as cyberpunk. Codifying genres is hard, robocop never walks around the internet, blade runner has space travel, is space truckers cyberpunk? I think there does have to be a sort of 80s lo fi vibe of some sort, unless it’s a serious modernisation like Black Mirror.

I feel like you could talk about speculative near future technology being used to critique modern society, but theres also something to be said for trench coats and two pistols. Hypothetically Equilibrium would fill both even though its not particularly cyber. Underworld also checks some of these boxes, despite not being cyberpunk to most people, probably because it pulled a lot of visual style from The Matrix, which is a very trad cyberpunk that transcended (as it were) the genre watching audience.

Is Demolition Man cyberpunk? It has spec tech with both low and high society, but very little walking around the internet and the tech only marginally interacts with the story except as a device to get a 1993 cop into the grim dark future of 2032. It’s not very goth either)

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Cube and The Purge are really pushing the limits here. I’m also running out of hard drive space

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Not sure if it’s obscure but Johnny mnemonic. But Tek Wars is a bit more … B movie esque.

There was some 90s mini series that I haven’t re watched since when it aired. Wild Palms. Maybe not cyberpunk. But future dystopia at least

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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

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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.

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Aeon Flux was a weird one. Had some cool stuff going on, but the execution was shoddy

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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.

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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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