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.

  • keepcarrot [she/her]
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    13 days ago

    I think there's also a tonal thing. It's hard to imagine cyberpunk comedy, at least structurally. The cynicism does disclude the matrix and ready player one.

    Maybe a list of concepts and if you tick 7 out of 9 boxes it's cyberpunk. Things like:

    • walking around the internet
    • sapient robots
    • two pistols
    • cynicism
    • Seattle
    • mega-corporations

    I think this winds up being "is a hot dog a sandwich" conversation, trying to cram fluffy social concepts into rigid categories, but even more so with art. Two cyberpunk movies will be a lot further apart conceptually than two separate kilograms of steel.

    But also at some point you have to sort your vhs tapes and whether a movie goes in "Action" or "Sci-fi" is a pragmatic decision and not a deep philosophical one