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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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Metropolis (2001)
How's The Peripheral?
The aestethics of the future was more interesting than the story plus the show was cancelled after one season that ended on a cliff hanger.
Kinda sucked that they didn't continue it. But then again, the book is better and complete.
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It was ok. Not nearly as good as the book though.
So so good
1995 The Net
Johnny Mnemonic
Ghost in the Shell
Elysium
If good is not a requirement go get Freejack.
"Mars express", "Ghost in the shell", and "Alita"; Brazil is a classic; The most recent Dredd movie is a lot of fun. I like Existence tho it veers more into "biopunk" if you make those distinctions. "Tetsuo the iron man" Is probably my favorite cyberpunk movie; It also has one of the best industrial soundtracks ever made. "Elysium" and "District 9" were very high regarded at the time. Brandon Cronenberg's movies are also pretty rad as well. More subdued but they easily get under your skin. I really love "antiviral" and "possessor" ; again like daddy Cronenberg they tend to veer into biopunk territory.
I'd add "Tokio gore police."; "Full metal yakuza" and "Electric Dragon 80.000 V" from some good ol' Japanese craziness.
Possessor is one of my all time faves. Brimming with fun sci-fi ideas, amazing performances, terrifying, brilliant
Great list, thanks. I get freaked out by Existenz, so good.
I love Blomkamp's films, not sure why they're not tagged as cyberpunk in Jellyfin but I can fix that.
I will check out the rest.
A bit of a stretch for cyberpunk, but Alphaville (1965) is awesome (and has lemmy in it's alternative tilte).
Also THX 1138 (1971)
Here are my cyberpunk categories on my Plex server, for both movies and TV shows. Please let me know if you think I should edit any of these; I was a little loose in my definition of "cyberpunk" for some of these.
Movies:
TV Shows:
EDIT: My library is in alphabetical order, except where a series of related films or TV shows pop up; then they're sorted in viewing order by a common name. That's why some of these aren't in alphabetical order. Like Futureworld on the movie list, which is a sequel to Westworld, so it's at the end of the list.
Blade runner: Black Lotus?
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Yo, a new episode of Costco Fahrenheit just came out on YouTube! Honestly the best cyberpunk I've seen in a while.
pretty good community list so far
adding
the creator save the green planet a scanner darkly split second
Nice I have over 160 so far on my server. But yours is impressive list.
Well timed post. I was about to start a collection myself and have a great list ready now. The Bubblegum Crisis etc stuff is really good, awesome cyberpunk vibe
So many titles here to add to my library...
Going for 6000 titles now