/cyber/ - Cyberpunk & Science Fiction

For the average normie, what is t least aesthetically seen as "cyberpunk" feels dated, 80s-90s tier, while the themes and problems seem as modern as being present day issues.

So if anything, you'll get plenty of "cyberpunk" themes in present day settings, without the flavor, over-the-top, cheesy-ness of the previous cyberpunk incarnations.

Get with the times, fossil-man.

>>37058

All the Tetsuo movies are great

>>37041

>i don't really see any cyberpunk narratives in modern tv/movies without the cyberpunk aesthetics

Because you are tying the genre to much with the appearance. Its like saying you don't see sci-fi narratives because the series happens to have a western-styled planet.

>>36765

>seen as "cyberpunk" feels dated, 80s-90s tier

You could say the same about any sci-fi, 90% of it its dated as shit, stuff like 2001 was the future of the 1960s

That doesn't means you can't make new cyberpunk with todays aesthetics, like District9

>without the flavor, over-the-top, cheesy-ness of the previous cyberpunk incarnations.

>implying that was the "flavor"

Get the fuck out shazbot

>>37041

>ultra violence is great

We are never getting that back, we live in the most nanny age of all, its like the 1950s all over again when you had censors, except now they are called "PR agents"

You can't even make anything over PG13 without the beancounters talking shit about how you're going to lose the kids, as if the kids go to the movies anymore, little fuckers just watch pewdiepie or some other bottom-tier shit until the movie its on netflixor they torrent a CAM if they're not total retards

>>37041

What movie is the "harry made a big mistake" image from?

>>37292

Total Recall

>>36723

Elysium is totally cyberpunk, it's badically neuromancer.

Chappie was bretty good (I think) and can use the -punk without much questioning

There isn't really any cyberpunk movies at all. It's all high tech with no low life.

The closest I've found is:

Strange Days

Nirvana

Dredd

One Point O (this is on the edge, but I'll include it anyway)

>>37878

Building on this, I'd also recommend Law and Order Total Recall 2070. Only the first few episodes, it gets shit pretty quickly. The first two episodes basically remake Blade Runner and Total Recall, together.

>>37879

honestly i liked the whole thing except for the ending and that episode where they're obviously just flaunting "Its HBO! We can show sex and stuff!" without much substance

it was cheesy and the main character kind of sucked, but his android partner and some of the other characters made up for it.

Cyberpunk is more about the psychological + tech related settings, story, tropes and buildups than the visuals.

You are losing it.

Anybody see A Scanner Darkly? Its adapted from Phil K Dick and its cyber as fuck.

Aight, I'll give you my list. Ignoring the really obvious ones like Blade Runner and The Matrix…

Nemesis (1992)

Max Headroom: 20 Minutes into the Future (TV Movie 1985)

Hardware (1990)

Akira (1988)

Ghost in the Shell (1995)

Death Machine (1994)

Tetsuo, the Iron Man (1989)

Black Magic M66 (1987)

>>38240

Speaking of Matrix, we're watching it right now.

http://www.livestream.com/sysnetntp

>>40424

The one about gamification (dat pic) was incredibly depressing

>>37432

>>37865

The problem with those movies is that the director went 100% SJW with the themes and didn't know how to end them

Elysium was literally "world is fixed guise!" at the end, and chappie was just shit

The irony for me is that in both cases you had white people as messiah/protagonist in a setting where everybody else but a few bad guys were non-white

I guess the director was projecting

>>37864

>they're thinking about the family audience

Nah they are literally thinking about "unaccompanied minors" who can't get into any R-rated movies and their parents will obviously not take them

Ironically chappie had a lot of families going due to the retardedly childish posters they used making them think it was like wall-e

They obviously all walked out once the dismembering and cursing began

>>38009

True but as any sci-fi set in the future you need visuals

The irony here is that todays UI's look better than the CGI-heavy UIs from 90s movies

>>40426

I think I saw russian characters on tech in Neill Blomkamp's movies.

Just checked trailer and sure, computers on exosceletons from Elysium had russian markings "ДИСТ" on the side.

I wonder why though. Russia isn't really known for developing super-advanced tech (even best military stuff is usually pretty "dumb"), or strong presence in Africa.

And he even managed to make them look schway. Usually IRL slavic runes in computers are designer's nightmare.

>>40424

>>40425

great series. if you watch screenwipe you'll see a few real life products/events from which he got some of his ideas. newswipe was funnier tho.

>tor users can't upload images

i have no idea why i still come here. if the NSA/FBI really do upload so much cp on 8chan (strange that they don't do this elsewhere), how about tor user pics are not shown until a mod approves of them?

>>40426

I disagree.

IMO, at the end of Elysium it was just "well, that nifty technology might actually be used to help people now." and chappie, though it would have been much better without those dumbfucks from die antwoord, was a pretty solid movie about a robot trying to learn what it means to be human, an trying to learn compassion.

>>40434

Elysium didn't take place in africa. It was supposed to be essentially a dustbowl version of Los Angeles.

Kind of makes sense that the dudes would have russian shit though. There's a lot of it out there on the market now, and with the direction that russian military tech is going, one could concievably extrapolate that following the shitshow of whatever cataclysmic event turned the world into a wasteland, a bunch of russian tech would show up on the black market.

Zero Theorem was pretty good.

If you're into that kind of thing.

I am.

It's basically just an autistic wageslave who has a love affair with a prostitute while trying to prove that life is pointless with epic code skills.

>>40464

Zero Theorem is nice. Terry Gilliam made lots of good films, including the cyber- and steampunk classic Brazil (1985).

>>40593

I heard these two movies are set in the same world?

Anyway I highly recommend both.

Zero Theorem was a clusterfuck

>>40593

Brazil was closer to dieselpunk.