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Cyber city oedo 808 comes to mind. Dunno how obscure you mean though

>>3571 I've had it on my watchlist forever. I'll check it out. Doesn't have to be extremely obscure, just not the normal user soykaf

texhnolyze is a great way to get depressed

>>3573 Seconded. Came for the cybernetic implants, stayed for the crushing loneliness. Oh god that ending, makes me wanna die. Okay other stuff I got: AD Police Files (note it's AD Police FILES, the OVA trilogy, not AD Police the series. The series is ass.) Any of the anthology films produced by Katsuhiro Otomo: Neo Tokyo, Robot Carnival, and Memories Ergo Proxy (again, not sure how obscure this is, but it's incredibly atmospheric IMO) I know you didn't ask for printed media, but check out everything ever made by Tsutomu Nihei. They made a couple CG-laden anime of his work; a series for Knights of Sidonia and a Netflix movie for Blame. There's also some very short old OVA for Blame that are actually animated the old-fashioned way. Oh and have any of y'all heard of this cartoon called Serial Experiments Lain?

>>3574 Will definitely be checking these out thanks

>>3575 Whoops, I forgot one. Parasite Dolls is also part of the Bubblegum Crisis universe along with AD Police Files, and that one's pretty good / animated in the gritty old style. I forgot that it was a separate thing.

Key the Metal Idol - 90s curiosity that looks and feels like a shameless ripoff of NGE and Lain... but it came out before either of them. Good music, good art, but the story has a pretty serious case of missed potential. The Silver Case / 25th Ward - Two (technically five) extremely rough Tech Noir stories presented in a very avant-garde style. Lots and lots of characters, vast and borderline incomprehensible conspiracies, a thin line between reality and delusion, all that sprawling postmodern goodness. I/O revision II - Weird ass visual novel about the realness of reality. Full of bizarre mysticism and Jungian psychology. Generally accepted to one of the most complicated stories in visual novels, if not THE most complicated.

Anyone like Aeon Flux around here? The old MTV cartoon, not the newer movie. One of my favorite things to watch stoned.

>>3577 Oh yeah, I love the opening sequence in Key! It's great. Also agree it kind of went wrong in the plot department but hey, what can you do. Haven't seen the other two; I'll check 'em out

Monty Python?

>>3580 Looked it up, that soykaf looks great

Malice@Doll. What happens to the humanity-serving robots of the far distant future, when there are no humans left? What happens to the prostitute-bots when the only intelligent beings, their fellow robots, have absolutely no use for their only skills? And what happens to this robotic society when one of them undergoes a strange transformation that makes her neither robot nor human, and able to infect other robots with a grotesque imperfect variant of her transformation? (It's very early CGI, but I think it kinda words for this, as it gives an uncanny-valley artificiality to the robots.) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NYN0DFuybe8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p_CuRIc_oL0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EQzSNkCi7k8

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Scene_(miniseries)

If you haven't seen Max Headroom: run, don't walk to pirate that soykaf and watch it immediately. I know I know, it's core cyberpunk TV. Especially if you're talking live action from the OG era. But hey, that was a generation ago now. Actually I was reading the other day about why cyberpunk as a genre isn't something we can move on from yet--and it was full of usual trite observations about how all speculative media now is dystopian instead of utopian like in the fifties. As if only positive messages about utopian perfection can steer us toward a better future. As if observations of our errors are worthless. The usual cult of positivity dogshit. Welp. We can't get past cyberpunk because we haven't successfully avoided it. We've spectacularly failed. Cyberpunk was a rare brand of speculative fiction that was actually like 80 percent accurate. Maybe with more boring drugs and less colorful mohawks, but the major parts came true like some kind of eerie prophecy, and now a lot of stuff is mistaken for cyberpunk which actually is just regular old contemporary fiction. Like black mirror. Black mirror is our version of 20 minutes into the future--the slogan of Max Headroom, as it turns out. We don't get to write utopian fiction anymore because none of it came to fruition. Turns out dystopian depictions of technological progress were just plain more useful to humanity, so they persist. Only we used it as an instruction manual instead of a warning. We'll be done with cyberpunk once we do the work these dreams are goading us--begging us--to do. Now we've reached this kind of disgusting post-post-modern nihilist idea that cyberpunk is cool just for the sake of an aesthetic reference, or even that cyberpunk is nostalgic. Which the latter is really the worst thing I can fuarrrking imagine. To accept not only that this world is inevitable, not only that it is preferable, but even that it's wistful. We've been duped. And don't even get me started on post-cyberpunk. Get all the way outta here with that y'all. If you've seen Max Headroom but it's been a while, watch it again. It takes on strange new light now that it's a slightly miscarried yet still prescient vision of our future, present, and hell--recent past. It's weird.

>>3584 Theora Jones best gril

>>3573 I have the theory that: Haibane Renmei- Heaven. Lain- Earth. TExhnolyze- Hell. The fact that Yoshitoshi aBe worked on all three, and Chiaki Konaka also wrote Texhnolyze makes me want to look for connections that may not even be there...

>>3605 Oooo interesting. Yeah, I'd buy that.

>>3584 Man, Max Headroom may be one of the best things I've ever seen. I love it so much, and the whole story behind it and how it ended is cyberpunk on it's own. Seriously, a great experience.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xt4d8asvREY Gasaraki is a cool mecha anime. Maybe not cyberpunk but I'll mention it because nobody ever talks about it. I thought it was good though.

Death Machine (1994) Black Magic M-66 (Video 1987) Hardware (1990) and Nemesis (1992) never get enough love. Repo Man (1984) and Subway (1985) aren't SF, at least not futuristic SF, but have the right attitude.

>>3610 I'd heard of Max Headroom for decades, and always got the impression that it was some dumb cheesy 80s thing. I'm currently binge-watching it and loving it. There's some downright prescient storylines and world holding concepts. The episode "Security Systems" in particular sticks in my mind, given modern "smart" home assistants all over the place.

>>3615 > always got the impression that it was some dumb cheesy 80s thing I was so sure until a minute ago that the character was created as a mascot for Coca Cola commercials. According to the internets, those came a little later. I guess it was the limited number of cable channels in my locale because I just know I saw those commercials before any TV movie or series and thought it was a weird progression for a fictional character. He was on talk shows and stuff too as I recall, as if he was a real guy.

>>3615 >>3616 Yeah, the character Max had a bit of a strange pedigree. I think he existed as a character before the TV series, but he didn't do ads until after the series. That series also had lots of uncredited contributors apparently that went on to do lots of important things in the visual effects world. The show has a very strong following in the VFX community to this day. It's certainly got a bit of the old 80s cheese, but in a good way IMO. It's an interesting view of the future without smartphones or internet--BUT--I think they came up with some predictions that turn out to be good analogues for things in our era of reality despite not having all the data. Which is impressive. Pretty prescient, as you say.

>>3613 Oh yes, Hardware is fantastic. Love it. I'm a big Fields of the Nephilim fan, so seeing Carl McCoy in Hardware is a treat. I believe the director of Hardware also made some of the Nephilim music videos.

>>3580 >underrated

Rick and Morty GITS: Arise Mr. Robot Danganronpa

Psycho Diver, GunHed and Technotise. if you want the real deep dive look up Kamikaze 89' it's one of the earliest (released in 82) and weirdest cyberpunk movies. it's mostly forgotten to the extent it doesn't ever seem to show up even on sites solely dedicated to the genre, but got a re-release lately to be slightly less so.

>>3621 These are fantastic contributions

Decoder. Weird movie, has William Burroughs and Genesis P-Orddige in it as well as a ton of cult German artists, among other things.

>>3621 >Kamikaze 89 Haven't seen this but the star of it was also a director. He directed this movie for West German TV in the early 70s and it's basically cyberpunk before cyberpunk, with an artificial reality populated by artificial persons.

...and while we're at it, another German TV movie I consider pre-cyberpunk here. The protagonist of this one has to survive one week on a reality TV show while being hunted by real assassins trying to murder him, and members of the public help him along because half the country is cheering for him. There's spoof ads all throughout it reminiscent of the ones in Robocop.

>>3620 >GITS: Arise Not as much of underrated, it just isn't that good compared to the other GitS series. Stand Alone Complex is my favorite by far. >Danganronpa I mean yeah, somewhat? It has some /cyb/ elements but I wouldn't go as far to call it cyberpunk. It's just good fiction

The Blame! movie is actually really well done. I would recommend the manga first, but OP asked for animations.

>>3636 Agreed. I was surprised at how well it turned out. It's obvious that the production team sat down and seriously thought about how to tell a coherent self-contained story in the Blame! universe, instead of just tossing out some generic action story. Even the happier-than-normal-for-Blame! ending seemed like it fit the world.

>>3636 Have you got a link to imdb or something? I get several with same name and different years

>>3641 https://www.imdb.com/title/tt6574146/

>>3613 Watched Subway and I was honestly pretty smitten. I can really see this being cyberpunk that's not actually cyberpunk. The vibe is all there. It's like a little tableau of characters who might live in a cyberpunk universe, yet it doesn't really focus on anything techy. I think we so often concentrate too much on the cyber and forget about the punk; after all, that's how you get meaningless suffixing of things like steampunk and dieselpunk and all that other dogshit which have literally 0% punk influence, but for some reason they call it that anyway because it's the twenty-first postmodern century—nobody understands what punk was for anymore. It's just a sound we make with our face-holes to denote literally any aesthetic. >>3625 Just finished watching Decoder too. Pretty sure all the other leeches on this thing are you dicks. I'll make sure and keep it going for a while, get that ratio up. I really liked it; total beatnik nonsense, very Burroughs—featured his 'dream machine' as well during a short scene. Always wanted to build one of those, even if they're probably total bullshit just like binaural beats or w/e. I do like the cut-up style nonsense plot. It feels almost like a nightmare that you don't realize until waking that it was actually more silly or confounding than scary, but while you are in it you buy it anyway. Christiane F is a total bad bitch, I love her character and style as some kind of strange cyber-future-stripper-witch. And the colors of all the shots. Really puts you in a mood. Both of the movies ended like startlingly abruptly, which I'm really into. Maybe it's pretentious, but I think that's how real stories end. There's no wrap-up, nothing's planned; things just end at strange and awkward times. Death is always ridiculous and undignified. There are no sunsets to ride off into. Just the absurdity of everything carrying on despite you, neither malignant nor benign but totally indifferent. Your greatest plans become merely more detritus to grease the wheels.

Dark City (1998) probably too hip but I like it

A often overseen great cyberpunk movie is called nirvana with christopher lambert, made in 98 i think. It has a very cyber and punk atmosphere to it while at the same time being trippy and spiritual in a way similar to sel. Can highly recommend this movie.

>>3656 Dark City is gorgeous. It's such a shame that it got overshadowed by the only-superficially-similar Matrix a year later. I think Dark City is the better movie. The visual style has really helped it age well.

>>3658 Dark City gave me Lynchean vibes last time I watched it. Anyone else seen Paprika? I love Satoshi Kon's stuff, it's not much about cyber as it is about dream worlds, memory and pysch-ology, but those are big in cybers well.

>>3666 Paprika was cool (and that ost)

>>3666 Sorry for double post. Paprika is not really an underrated movie. It’s one of the best known animated movie.

>>3668 What is underrated ? Stuff I personally liked is below Whether or not they are underrated or cyberpunk is entirely subjective. Johnny Mnemonic https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0113481/ Natural City https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0378428/ Hotel Artemis https://www.imdb.com/title/tt5834262/

>>3669 The City of Lost Children https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0112682/ Ex Machina https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0470752/ Pi https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0138704 Please note all of the 6 movies above, I have actually watched multiple times, and recommended them to people and people have said huh ? what is that ? I have never heard of that. Several of them are on my recommend movies page on my blog, and they all have themes which may not be strictly cyberpunk, are deeper variations on the summary of cyberpunk provided in the GURPS source book https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GURPS_Cyberpunk as well as being high tech and low life. Regarding that source book. GURPS Cyberpunk received notoriety when the Austin headquarters of Steve Jackson Games was raided by the U.S. Secret Service in 1990. The authorities seized the manuscript for the sourcebook, which was under development at the time, asserting that it was a "handbook for computer crime". The book was reconstructed and rewritten from older drafts when the manuscript was not returned. The seizure delayed publication for six weeks. This raid is often wrongly attributed to Operation Sundevil, a nationwide crackdown on illegal computer hacking activities that was occurring about this time. For more choices see https://cyberpunkdatabase.net/movies.php https://www.imdb.com/list/ls000796037/ https://www.listchallenges.com/the-ultimate-list-of-cyberpunk-movies/

>>3670 >GURPS Cyberpunk received notoriety when the Austin headquarters of Steve Jackson Games was raided by the U.S. Secret Service in 1990. The authorities seized the manuscript for the sourcebook, which was under development at the time, asserting that it was a "handbook for computer crime". One of the most important things about that raid is that it lead directly to the founding of the EFF itself. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electronic_Frontier_Foundation#Early_cases

Escape From New York probably shaped the genre as much as Blade Runner.

>>3636 >>3637 Is the Blame movie an original story or is it adapted from the manga? I'm going through the first volume of the manga and I don't wanna spoil me anything, I'm absolutely in love with it so far

>>3672 >>3670 Holy hell, what an amazing piece of history. Thanks for sharing lain

>>3674 love that movie. I also like Escape from L.A.

>>3675 I don't think it's necessarily verbatim from the manga, but it does include a pretty major plot point for an important character which could be considered a spoiler. I'll say no more.

>>3682 Oh soykaf, I guess I'll wait till I finish reading the manga. Thanks lain!

>>3683 You're welcome. It's one of my favorites as well. Try to find the one-shot "Net Sphere Engineer" after you're done—it's a nice little palette cleanser. Also worth reading through Nihei's other stuff to see the references and possible (though not always stated as canon) shared-universe stories. I'm currently reading Aposimz as it comes out, it's pretty interesting.

>>3666 >Dark City gave me Lynchean vibes last time I watched it. It's the best David Lynch movie that David Lynch never made.

Shows: Spicy City Captain Power and the Soldiers of the Future Johnny Mnemonic Mad Max 1 Frame 137 Games: Neocron Max Headroom Hacker Neuromancer Ripper Observer Syndicate Comics: Shatter Iron Man: Crash Cyberella Frame 137 Slave Cylinder Ashen Victor Hard Boiled Donna Matrix

Hypernormalisation is a pretty great cyberpunk movie. Bit long though. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fh2cDKyFdyU

ODDSAC - Animal Collective https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tC-0yVR6uSI Mumblecore - Tao Lin the 4chan famouswriter films him and his girlfriend doing things in new york with laptop camera. https://youtu.be/Mcj0wrLBDoE

>>3702 Wow, Spicy City is hilarious. Like they tried to channel some of the old-fashioned filthiness of Roger Rabbit into a cyberpunk world.

Strange Days This movie was conceived by James Cameron but directed by Katheren Biglow (hurt locker). The basic premise is people can live through other peoples memories. There is a whole black market dedicated to 'extreme' stuff like living out a homicide or bank robbery. Lots of twists and turns to the story. Its pretty good but mostly overlooked for some reason.

>>3709 Fantastic movie. And I've always liked the theory that it takes place in the same universe as Neuromancer. Though I must say, not a great date movie. I royally messed up a date night by suggesting we watch this. She was into cyberpunk stuff, so I thought she might like it. I forgot about the bathroom scene. She walked out halfway through that scene - completely understandably. I was pretty dumb.

>>3716 Ha, I've done one of those. Whoops. Date movies bear a pre-screening unless you already are pretty comfortable and know what's cool and what's not between all people involved.

>>3706 Wow, great documentary highly recommended

Old school flicks: Hardware(first ~30 minutes, rest is garbage) Nirvana Boring: Puzzlehead Crimes of the Future Shows: Years & years(propaganda-y as fuarrrk but worth a watch as a silly semi-realistic dystopian flick)

>>3626 "Welt am Draht" is based on the same novel as "The 13th Floor", but a typical Rainer Werner Fassbinder movie. It's a must see!

Apologies if someone has already posted this. A Scanner Darkly is a really good movie, and it's kind of cyberpunk. It's rotoscoped, where they shoot the movie and then animate back over it. Very neato, I think. Also I don't know how cyber these two anime's are, but they're kind of in the same vein - the Battle Angel Alita OVA's and Armitage the Third, or Armitage III. I enjoyed both of them a lot.

Tetsuo: The Iron Man

I wish Oni would get rebooted...

>>4537 no you dont it would be thoroughly cyberhumped in the CY

>>3577 Oh fuarrrk, Key was the series I was thinking of earlier but couldn't remember the s=name of. Thanks man

>>3657 watched nirvana last night, amazing, thanx a lot

>>3636 I honestly didn't like it, they just took the theme from Blame! and wrote the classic hero saves the village. I aknowledge that the entire manga can't get inside, but this time it was just a generic anime

>>4537 Reboots are bad

>>3577 >>3582 Very baste thread thanks for the recs

>>3670 Pi is a fantastic movie. The fact that it was filmed without a license makes it even better in my eyes.

>>3574 Cyberpunk dystopian, emphasis on the existential angst. I hate how the only anime series I ever like were made as faux abrahamic shows. I don't even like abrahamic religion, but it's annoying. I won't list the others I like but it gets hard to ignore once you notice how prevalent they are. Ergo Proxy leeches off of religious word usage and symbolism in a pointless ADD manner too.

Time of Eve. In the not-too-distant future, androids have come into common usage. Rikuo Sakisaka, who has taken robots for granted for his entire life, one day discovers that Sammy, his home android, has been acting independently and coming and going on her own. He finds a strange phrase recorded in her activity log, "Are you enjoying the Time of Eve?". He, along with his friend Masakazu Masaki, trace Sammy's movements and finds an unusual cafe, "The Time of Eve". Nagi, the barista, informs them that the cafe's main rule is to not discriminate between humans and androids. Within the cafe, androids do not display their status rings, and, when patrons depart, the door is automatically locked for two minutes to prevent someone from following them to discover their true nature.- Wikipedia

>>5194 Thanks for the recommendation. I really enjoyed it (appropriately enough...). It was nice to see some genuine sci-fi, the sort where the writers ask a simple "what if this technology existed?" question and see how it plays out through relatable characters with contemporary mores.

>>5164 It's because cyberpunk anime tends to be based on transhumanism, and transhumanism is ultimately just a modernized retelling of Abrahamic apocalyptic faiths. Instead of waiting for God, we're building God so she can whisk us into Cyber-Paradise. Transhumanism is Christianity for the 21st century, just like how communism was Christianity for the 20th. And most cyberpunk anime directors can see the connection.

>>3570 >lain >underrated

>>5248 I'm not sure who are you quoting, only one person said that Lain is underrated in jest

>>3584 This is a good observation. Although, there was actually a brief period where "utopian cyberpunk" was kind of a thing... to the extent that the term isn't an oxymoron anyway. I'm mostly thinking about Charles Stross's Accelerando and Neil Stephenson's Diamond Age. The worlds they depict aren't actually that different from Gibson's early dystopias, it's just framed differently. Both sides of the coin agree that the world is changing extremely quickly and people are subject to fresh unimaginable horrors seemingly every day. However, the optimistic side sees the situation as a well of opportunity as the new world becomes too chaotic for the old power structures to control. These books were written before the tech crash and economic recession so the authors were seeing one old industry fall after the other as they failed to keep up with the times. They envisioned an anarchic kind of utopia where everyone lives in constant future shock and power flows and shifts like water. Clearly there are some issues here because all that didn't really happen, and it turns out megacorps are more adaptable organisms than anyone counted on. (Also, this was the late 90s/early 2000s after all so there was definitely a naive thread of "post scarcity is just around the corner" throughout.) Even so, there is some truth to these optimistic predictions and it is interesting to consider the possible benefits of a cyberpunk dystopia, particularly in how the opportunities it presents can be leveraged. After all, the chaos of our age killed the Sears corporation. A small victory, sure (and not to mention somewhat diminished by the awful things that replaced it) but this is a company that sold mail order houses in the mid century. I wouldn't fault anyone for seeing a glimpse of utopia there. Remember, the East India company once controlled 60% of the world's trade, and they too were destroyed by the erosion of accelerating time.

>>5247 This is my favorite observation to throw at LessWrong types. "How's the singularity apocalypse cult going these days? Once you raise AI Jesus I'm sure we're all going to be sorry we doubted you."

>>5247 nice, i'm just wondering when people will have brain-in-the-robot related tombstones... "Here lies X, they didn't make it to the singularity, but they believed in it while they were alive."

Dennou Coil

>>3577 uugh, i want to read I/O revision II so much, but can't manage to run it neither in wine or on a win7 VM (tried vista, too).

>>5342 That looks interesting

>>5342 I absolutely love Dennou Coil and I recommend it. One thing that really made me fall in love with this show are the parts where they enter those glitchy spaces, or spaces that existed before but now only exists in the virtual word. I don't know, I always wanted to find weird, unexplored places like these and explore them, both physically or virtually, but nowadays a large part of the internet is already known, and on the physical world it is practically impossible unless you own a farm in the middle of nowhere that happens to be near (but not too near) an interesting geological formation or an old building. The closest thing I found that gave me this feeling was Janus VR, but I do not own VR glasses, and I wish the avatar creating process was updated, since many of the tools necessary to do it to not exist anymore. But other than that I really liked the plot overall.

Syfy a few years ago did a series that got canceled after one season of only 10 episodes called Incorporated. Seemed like a mix of cyberpunk and post-cyberpunk. It took place in what's best described as an AnCap dystopia where many governments collapsed from climate change and other problems and the corporations act as the government in some areas and others are left to themselves. Too bad it didn't last since i was interested in seeing where they were going to take it so we never will know how good or bad it could have been since first season mainly talked about prostitution and lack of medical care for the poor majority iirc.

>>5504 I remember that one! It's a shame it didn't get more episodes. >>3570 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=75fqyhMLUUU Here is an animated video by lifemovesat24fps, for THYX song Robots don't lie. Lifemovesat24fps had a larger project in mind for the cyberpunk story but it sadly never came to fruition. THYX is a solo project from the cyberpunk music duo mindinbox.

>>3570 Serial Experiments Lain (an anime)

>>3578 >Aeon Flux Yes, I love everything about it; the details, the way it elegantly unites the subconscious and the rational, the universe it's set in. I'd die to have sex with Aeon Flux.

>>3583 This is great, thank you

>>5907 >elegantly unites the subconscious and the rational >I'd die to have sex with Aeon Flux Fuсk yeah, dude. Respect. For real. I like the way you explained that lol. Honestly the final scene of the final episode is one of my favorite things I've ever seen or thought about in my life. It's so crazy.

>>3582 This is the good soykaf.

>>5248

>>6279 >no genocyber trash

>>6279 Megazone 23 was really disappointing. Cyber City 808 on the other hand was great. Also Black Magic has nothing to say, it might as well not be cyberpunk.

>>3570 Not sure what it says about me that I've seen just about every rec in this thread >_>. That being said I never see any discussion for Malice@Doll.

>>3583 1st season is pretty cool, but the second never gripped me

>>6283 autism completely incapable, just make an updated pic with your one choices >>6287 eh

The lawnmower man is a pretty cool movie too. Idk if it counts as cyberpunk, but i think it sorta does if in anything.

>>3968 >Armitage pretty fuarrrking cyber

Kin-dza-dza! Soviets teleported to the planet Plooke, where a single match is worth a fortune.

>>6465 indeed!

>Fast paced action >Black humor (+gore) >Corporate style cyber tech 6 Underground

Something newer: Expelled from paradise

>Obscure kino >80s retro feel >Cyberpunk aesthetic lighting Acceleration

>Short film crowd funded into full length feature >Realistic robocops >Transhuman underclass

Anon. >inbuilt Google glasses >Reality hacking >Murder mystery

>>3570 >>3605 >Haibane Renmei- Heaven. There is a theory that all the angels are in purgatory trying to find out how to atone for their sins >Lain- Earth. This makes sense >TExhnolyze- Hell. The subterranean nature and infinite suffering seems plausible Some other ones I did not see mentioned >Code 46 (2003) a cleverly disguised cyberpunk movie about fuarrrking your sister or cousin or something that had some nice cinematography >Kein system ist sicher (2014) a modern hacker movie did someone say fight club? >Blackhat (2015) Another hacker movie about cyberterrorism, more an action movie with hollywood hackerman themes. The main character is Thor.

>>6512 >Blackhat (2015) i remember watching that movie holy soykaf it was so boring.

>>6513 >Blackhat The /k/ action was on point though and soy free. Hacker (2019)

>>6512 >Code 46 (2003) >Kein system ist sicher (2014) Didn't know about these, thanks. Added to the DL-queue.

Upgrade

Take a break from watching and listen to this masterpiece

>>3570 I found some other cyberpunk/post cyberpunk series of shine finger paints that were nice to kill time: >Fractale Similar to the matrix meets google glass- the whole world lives in VR in some kind of VR cult/anti VR rebels, themes of separation from the machine and platos allegory of the cave type soykaf (obviously not the greatest story, but it was something to binge watch besides angsty teen vampire movies). Most of the story takes place in the real world instead of the virtual, and the emphasis is on regressing to traditional living. >No Guns Life Like texhnolyze but not as depressing, pretty much the same premise with more action and less artistic emphasis: Augmented humans and their various problems living in the underworld with being augmented, dealing with the anti-enhancement humans, massive corporations and some GITS type stuff that is really downplayed, this series is still ongoing. Fun fact, the the same quote from NGE "Gods in his heaven- all's right in the world" from a poem is written in one of the scenes.

>>6468 >6 Underground only thing that came to mind was the song by sneaker pimps

>>6521 Respect Love finding some older stuff in here I haven't caught yet. I don't like any of the newer stuff, really. I think a genre eventually gets flattened into a caricature of itself, and that's all I see lately. There's nothing being explored, nothing interesting. "Cyberpunk" itself is the subject, and that's just pure putrefaction, so sad.

>>6520 >NGL The manga is great, highly recommend

>>6279 I didn't know metropolis had a anime adaption

>>6641 To call it an adaptation is a stretchy stretch, Lain.

>>6766 What's wrong with it? Looks quite pretty, at least.

probably doesn't count as one wargames dead code

>>6641 Less "adaptation" and more "inspired by". But it is pretty good. Nice soundtrack too.

>>6767 It's cool but not an adaptation. It's based on a manga which was inspired by a Metropolis poster though.

>>3706 thx for the rec lainon, just finished century of the self

Paranoia: 1.0 (originally One Point O, also known as 1.0, One Point Zero, Version 1.0, and Virus 1.0) is a 2004 cyberpunk dystopian horror mystery[1] written and directed by Jeff Renfroe and Marteinn Thorsson. The film is a Kafkaesque nightmare[2] in which a young computer programmer is...........

>>6956 Was reading the wikipedia page for this and found >The film was given a score of 9 out of 10 on the website Cyberpunkreview.com Which is a great source to find more media: https://www.cyberpunkreview.com/cyberpunk-movies-by-decade/

>>3570 World on a Wire. Definitely what the cultural conception of the matrix should have been. Amazing cinematography and peak German film autism (AKA worth the ~3 hour watch)

>>6957 Wow, their domain just expired.

Cybersix, a weird-and-wonderful short animated series based on an early 1990s comic book series. The survivor of genetic engineering experiments hides her identity by crossdressing as a male teacher by day, and moonlights as a Batman-esque leathered-up caped vigilante hell-bent on taking down the mad scientist who created her. Argentinian source material, Japanese animation, Canadian voice work, and a beautiful opening song ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Ajz2IH0eXc ).

These are somewhat low-key, but: >Un-Go Everyone seems to forget this one is technically cyberpunk, and IMO a fairly realistic one aside from the few magical elements (which themselves can be taken as metaphors). >Dimension W Drops the ball in a few places, but is pretty good on average. It's also an example of the rarer post-cyberpunk genre which I feel itself is underappreciated. >Solty Rei Hard to describe, and even more subtle than the others until the last act. Alongside the questionable character designs, I feel this one filters a lot of people by accident. >NaissanceE Free game inspired by Blame!.

>>7243 >Dimension W I liked how the anime captured the concept of not going along with the latest technology, and how the protagonist used antique gas vehicles instead of the latest future fuel vehicles. It was not an isolated rejection of technology, in fact the MC lived in the middle of a high tech society.

>>7243 I remember Un-Go. I never watched it in the end but I do remember it.

This was mentioned a few times in this thread, but I love the movie Hardware. It can be watched on YouTube for free :-) and it Its asthetic and music is awesome. The movie is the embodiment of what can be done with a small budget. It implies the world around it because building all those sets would have been too expensive. So no excuses

Any Coruscant segment in Star Wars is unknowingly cyberpunk

This thread has really gotten big, dont know if anyone mentioned sneakers before. Its a old hacker movie, but i must say it aged well, came out in times where dos was still the norm, but it brought out the hacking atmosphere of its time real well. Might not classify as cyberpunk in the current sense, but it was is pretty cyberpunk in the era were cyberpunk wasnt big.

*Robot Carnival *Blade Runner 2022 *Animatrix *Ergo Proxy

>>7249 >Robot Carnival This is a fantastic suggestion. (And episode 7 is one of the funniest things I've ever seen.)

>>3570 There are a few standalone anime movies that I thought captured the cyberpunk aesthetic, or at least a transhumanist one. >Harmony (2015) >To prevent new horrors, the world has been divided into several smaller states. Each state is defined as an ethical solidarity and futuristic society controlled by "admedistration", facilities where nanotechnology is used for medical purposes to improve quality of life. In Japan, the young Tuan Kirie and her friends Miach Mihie and Cian Reikado protest against this society and seek true personal autonomy from the system, attempting suicide by refusing food and medication in an effort to openly reject this supposed "utopia". However, when the time comes, Tuan and Cian fail to follow through on their commitment. The movie also delves into some transhumanist themes, but some people may not like the ending. There was also an anime that I cannot remember that I saw back in 2010? the story was that people instead of going to prison get placed in a body suit that was called a laminate, that turns them into slaves or robots, the people can't speak or move freely unless given an order to, and they are used for free labor. IIRC it was a romance/mystery anime where the MC tries to solve a conspiracy with the help of his new female slave. Maybe someone knows the name of this anime. >AUTOMATA (2014) Trying to rebuild the world again, a robot company named ROC Corporation create Automata Pilgrim 7000 with two security protocols: 1st, a robot cannot harm human beings, and 2nd, a robot cannot alter himself or another robot. But this situation changes when police officer Sean Wallace shoots and destroys a robot claiming that it was altering himself. With the company worried by the possible implications if the case were known by the people, insurance agent Jacq Vaucan is chosen to investigate the happened. Had a lot of cyberpunk themes including black market sex bots and robot mechanics.

>>6519 Del is baste

Does someone remember the name of that cartoon about a futuristic post-apocalyptic society where the protagonists are a boy and a girl (siblings?) and a boomerang to "save the world"? I have fond memories of it, just don't remember the name, thought this thread would be the place to ask.

>>7257 Can you describe it more? Country of origin, art style, likely year of first airing, etc?

>>7257 I can think of at least 2 animes (assuming japenese cartoon) that somewhat fits that description, please give more detals.

>>6520 >>No Guns Life >Like texhnolyze but not as depressing "Not as depressing as Texhnolyze" is like "Warmer than an Antarctic winter". But I'll check it out.

>>7251 Automata was really good, thanks. Might not be the most original sci-fi idea, but they absolutely nailed the world building and visual ambience.

>>7258 >>7276 I think it was on Nickelodeon so I'm assuming it's American or something. If you post titles that come to mind I'll check out the screens and recognize it immediately probably, since it was the style and environment that really made it stand apart

>>7319 I've found it! It's Skyland (2005)

>>3570 Everyone who made a suggestion about Neuromancer has either made a suggestion about the movie or the game. About cyberpunk everyone should read Neuromancer. but if it will surely be underrated >Ergo Proxy >Battle Angel Alita >Metropolis Movie >The Animatrix >Strange Days (neuromancer lol)

>>7331 animatrix really is underrated. I thought it was better than the matrix to be honest

>>7319 >>7320 oh nvm, it's really bad... sweet memories ruined

First novel from Memories, absolutely beautiful

>>6466 I wouldn't call Kin-Dza-Dza cyberpunk, but its certainly worth a watch.

Appleseed, Patlabor, and Roujin-Z are all a good watch/read

>>7519 God damnit this is literally how I lived as a student.

>>3577 I'm on episode 7 of Key The Metal Idol, liking it so far. The music is great, I keep watching the opening in a loop. The only thing I'm not enjoying is the unnecessary nudity, the anime is so fuarrrking nice and then out of nowhere some tits appear on the screen for no reason at all, the r*pe-ish scenes are really not cool and just ruins the mood imo.

>>7529 It's been a while since I watched that and I didn't remember there being much nudity after the first few epsiodes so I could be wrong with the following? >unnecessary nudity I felt that nudity in media in general makes me feel more protective of a character, like I've been brought into a trusted inner circle of theirs. And that in Key The Metal Idol some of the violent scenes were pretty impactful and the mood would've been pretty sparse without it maybe? I'm curious, what kind of predictions do you have about how it'll end being at the end of the first program?

>>7530 I'm fine with violent scenes, what ruins the mood is the weird r*pe fetish scenes that are so long and unnecessary that it's hard not to assume the writers are getting off to it. I already know the guy is a creep, you don't need to make more sexual assault scenes to show me that. It pisses me off because Miho is so cool in the opening when she slashes her face off with her bare hands, I love the aesthetic of the character but half of her screen time so far have been nothing but BDSM fetishism. I'm hoping to see more of her.

>>3577 >The 25th ward Good choice, anon.

>>7535 Ok I just finished episode 13 and what the fuarrrk is going on here? They keep mystery mongering and not going anywhere and it's pissing me off. What is the connection between Ajo and Key's grandfather? Why is Key so special? She isn't actually a robot? Why the fuarrrk Ajo and D keep trying to take her? What was all that bullshit about getting 30000 friends? Why is Ajo making robots that sing and dance? I thought he was going to make war robots like in the first episode. What the fuarrrk is that pink gel? They keep adding more and more mystery elements and not going anywhere with them or the characters. Episode 14 it's 1h30min long so I'm not gonna watch it end now, but I hope they put an end to all this bullshit.

>>5342 This anime is a hidden gem. I don't know if it is quite cyberpunk but I feel like people on this site would appreciate it. This is a pretty accurate review: "I like to think of Dennō Coil as sort of a spiritual successor to last decade's Serial Experiments Lain - just like in Lain, the protagonists are kids, and just like in Lain, they're using technology to push the envelope of human experience. Lain explored the idea of a cyberspace alter-ego, but Dennō Coil opts to examine the dangers of one's online self being separated from their physical self." - Michael Toole

>>5342 I know somebody recommended me this show back when i had a PS3. I feel bad on not watching it.

>>3709 What a trip, holy soykaf. Killer soundtrack too. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fZDFbzz-dLg A quote from Roger Ebert's review struck me: >The central paradox of virtual reality: You cannot share someone else's reality without abandoning your own. Then I decided to look up where real-life tech is now regarding BCI and VR, and Valve/Neuralink/Facebook seem to be making headway and have some serious ambitions. Pretty scary: >>>/r/23938 If real-life continues going to soykaf, escaping to another reality might really become the best (or only) choice for a lot of people.

>>3570 Shiki

>>7529 soy.

Don't really know if this counts as cyberpunk but videodrome is a really good movie and the themes are pretty similar to Lain.

>>7592 Id say it falls in as proto cyberpunk, it has the theme and atmosphere, but in a time where computers werent huge yet. Its a great movie for sure.

>>6466 Лол

"WOW" a 1994 Polish-German TV series for kids about a self aware intelligent computer virus that breaks free from computer of a computer maniac teacher in his early 30s due to machination of a villain that is spying on his computer and tries to "suck it out of his computer" with his device. Later it's all about friendship, virus being able to remote control electronic device and villains trying to steal it. Dunno if you would consider it cyberpunk as it has an opposite then usual trope - here software enters real realm and gains somehow a real body that is not robotic or biological in nature. These series was technologically outdated like few years after it come out BTW if not on arrival. Dunno if it was ever aired in Germany. I have seen it on Polish TV back in the '90s. https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wow_(serial_telewizyjny) Youtube fragment that has a scene when WOW (name of the virus) breaks free https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UN--fR4_OyI

>>7619 Plus Polish-Ausralian TV series called Mission Top Secret (Tajna Misja in Polish) 1993-1995 about international group of kids using pocket satellite audio-video communication devices forming some sort of kid detectives with secret base on Australian farm where was located mainframe computer that runs some sort of artificial intelligence. I would say it was pretty cyberpunk for the time. This series seems like was aired internationally in at least Poland, Germany and Australia. Maybe it's familiar also to lainons from other parts of the world. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mission_Top_Secret https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0112076/ https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Series/MissionTopSecret It looks like season one was uploaded to youtube in English 1st episode: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RdHX_914DA4 channel with other episodes: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UClt6hXZzH1lluUvEDMgL8ig/videos Intro of 2nd season: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sAGsQISLjH8

>>6519 related to this also, i haven't seen psycho-pass mentioned here, thematically more related to morality but still very cyber imo

Don't know how underrated they are in the absolute sense but I never saw anyone else talk about them so I'd say Minami-ke and Papakiki. Also Sister Princess is pretty good. Quantum Theory is a pretty bad game but its aesthetic is top notch. Titan Maximum is one of my favorite western shows thought everyone I've shown it to in real life wasn't impressed.

>>7535 Ok just finished Key, the two last episodes are boring AF because it's almost 2h of "guy with laptop inside trenchcoat" explaining things to Tataki. The end is good but it could be better. I still enjoyed it a lot, the aesthetic and music are fuarrrking fire, definitely worth watching. (Really sad that Miho from the opening never appears on screen.)

>>3570 I'm watching Ergo proxy. I'm 8 episodes in. The beginning of each episode starts off with nonsensical philosophy. These last few episodes have been set outside the dome and have been so slow, not advancing the plot. Is this pretentious, or is this meaningful, lains?

>>7690 When I started watching Ergo Proxy I was expecting a dystopia inside the dome, so when Vincent just walked out I was very shocked. Ergo Proxy is really cool because of the aesthetic, it gives an odd feeling of emptiness and it's super fun to watch because of that. I think it's pretentious and the ending was lame, but I did loved every second of it (specially the awesome opening with emo song.)

>>7691 I've never understood openings or closings, and will always skip them. If I wanted to rewatch some visuals, I would go back episodes to rewatch it. If I wanted to hear the lyrics to something, I would do just that. I neither want to listen to music chosen by someone else nor rewatch the same visuals with no plot driving force twice every episode. Anyways, as long as I'm not just misunderstanding it all I can accept it and continue watching. As I'm watching I find myself questioning if I don't understand something or if something that has occurred simply doesn't make sense yet, but at least with your agreeance I know it's the latter to some extent.

>>7692 Openings usually are there to set the mood, and I think that's important so I don't skip them (sometimes I do but only if it's boring). Closings are credits with music, there's not much to it.

>>7692 Openings mostly just exist to waste the viewer's time and cut costs on animation.

>>7692 People like anime openings for the same reason that people like music videos. Thats it, they're music videos with anime set to them, people just don't want to admit that the reason they like openings is because they're music videos with anime set to them. They mostly exist as an excuse to cut runtime as >>7695 says. The Simpsons is a very open example of this where the length of the opening would actually change based on the how much of an episode they actually had to show. The episodes with really long couch gags had long couch gags because they couldn't get the length up to the full time slot, be it for monetary reasons (cutting costs) or because they struggled to write it long enough (classic example of this is Cape Feare where the writers admitted they couldn't stretch the episode out to a full length so they filled with a long opening and various overly long gags).

>>7690 There is no deeper meaning or grand reveal, but it's a great journey I enjoyed for its atmosphere and visuals.

Is he allowed in? Certainly no punk, but cyber.

>>3571 Just watched it. Was cowboy bepop inspired by it at all? There's a lot of similarities.

>>7691 Just rewatched it, not pretentious at all. Really good soykaf, still not a fan of Daedalus and Weird white Re-L with wings and space humans vs pseudo-humans ending but is really cool and I almost cried when Raul died. 9/10 super recommend it, episode 16 is my favorite.

>>7751 I has a lot of rewatchability too. Knowing some of the twists you can spot Proxy One skulking around in shadow. Episode 16 is such an excellent character episode and it has that desolate feeling the series is so good at. It's hard for me to choose a favorite, but the mysteries they happen upon while roaming the wastelands are where it's at for me. 10, 11, 14, 15 are all really strong contenders for me.

Tetsuo the Iron man and Tetsuo 2: body hammer. The first movie is pretty light on story. a metal fetishist infected with metal gets hit by a car and stalks the salary man who hit him as they both become metalic monsters. It was shot on a pretty small budget, has pretty cool stop motion effects and a kickass soundtrack. Tetsuo 2 has a little bit more story, a cult of metal worshipers kidnap a fathers son and the father starts to develop powers . More of a light remake of the first but really entertaining and has really good special effects. Tetsuo soundtrack: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=0gwRG9uForA

>>3780 Nirvana is so underrated, which is sad 'cause it's probably one of the more pure cyberpunks films in this thread

>>3605 Didn't they work on Haibane Renmei, in order to get distracted from the dark theme that is TExhnolyze? might be the reason you see a connection.

I watched "Come True" last night - I was deeply impressed with the movie. It's kinda light 'current' cyberpunk, with a lot of 80's inspiration. Well worth a watch. Great soundtrack too. I'm watching "Possessor" tonight

>>5342 Revisiting thread year later no one yet suggested Wonderful Days or Vexille, so here you go. To be honest it was quite hard to even find a good picture anywhere.

>>3577 >>3579 Thanks. I downloaded this 2 years ago (when I saw your post) and forgot about it until I was cleaning up my drives this weekend. Watched the whole thing in a day, fuarrrking fantastic thanks lainon.

I saw one mention of Mr. Robot. I had managed to go this long without seeing it, and then binged the entire show in a week. Are there any similar shows, at least in that they deal with a big world wide conspiracy?

>>7775 >>3605 Calling Haibane Renmei "heaven" isn't quite right. Purgatory maybe? Calling Texhnolyze "hell" seems an exaggeration too until you get to the end, when it seems very apt indeed. >>8252 Utopia (channel four). Not cyberpunk exactly though.

>>7777 >Nice digits lain Wonderful days was pretty good, I had forgotten how to call the name of this anime, but it kept coming to mind. Does anyone know the anime i am talking about? >The government uses a new technology to imprison people instead of jail. >It is called laminate IIRC. >People who are laminated become slaves/robots for people. >The MC get a "laminate" girl to work for him >She cannot talk or from the imprison technology. >The MC finds out he can order her to type messages on a PDA and it won't violate the imprison protocol. >The MC grows attatched to the girl who is laminate. The MC finds out that the girl is a scientist and there is a conspiracy about the laminates being used to create a cheap disposable workforce. the MC falls in love with the scientist girl.

>>3570 Does Gunslinger girl count? I think it at least has cyberpunk elements in the same way GitS does: 1. The protagonists are all cyborgs 2. Heavy organized crime elements 3. Protagonists fight crime. >Special Ops is itself divided into Sections 1 and 2, the latter of which employs young girls who have experienced traumatic and near-death experiences fitted with cybernetic implants as agents. The implants, which consist of synthesized muscles and carbon fiber frames, result in heightened strength and reflexes as well as high resilience to damage and pain.

>>8265 I haven't seen gunslinger girl in forever, have they came out with anything new?

>>8252 Hard to compare anything I know to Mr Robot but being a fan I can list a few things that come to mind on what you're looking for or maybe not. Damnation actually produced by same network that did Mr Robot but definitely not cyberpunk or even tech related more a Western but not the cowboy kind. Unfortunately it was cancelled after first season. Possibly for being too historically honest about capitalist evils. There also is Incorporated which was a SyFy cyberpunk show about well basically a guy trying to deal with AnCapistan lol Also unfortunately cancelled after first season so it doesn't really go anywhere with the plot. There also was a Comedy Central show called Corporate and while not cyberpunk it had a couple episodes or at least one that were like a light cyberpunk such as the episode Pickles for Breakfast . Also eventually cancelled but at least it was after third season. Hmm noticing a pattern here.

>>8268 There was a cash-grab sequel series which is so different in tone and visuals and so shallow in story that it might as well be a different show entirely.

>>3666 I really hope "He's called the chairman because he's in a wheelchair" was meant to be a joke, since that's the only thing I can remember when I think of that movie.

Wolf's Rain is incredible in its artwork and setting concept. The story and lore are mysterious, although shojo-ish at times (my HS girlfriend got me into it actually).

>>8427 Yeah its a great show I watched that and RahXephon recently. Both have great stories, visuals, and ost.

>>4537 They would only globohomo it up

>>6767 Dunno if you're still around, but I've watched it. I must admit that the animation and CGI was stunning for 2001, but - assuming you've watched it too - didn't you get the sense that at the last quarter of the movie things suddenly took a giant leap in plot? Like you were missing a page or two or something? I suspect the directors dried up their budget out, so they had to skip some great details or events as far as plot development goes. That's just the feeling I got from it, but it could just as easily be that I wasn't paying enough attention to what was going on. Either way, it was more of a visual spectacle than a story-telling masterpiece.

>>8466 Not him, I got that feeling from it too though. I really enjoyed the emotion and the visuals. The (quite literal) stratification of society via the layers of the city was also interesting and well-done, even if it's an obvious analogy. Sometimes the worthwhile ones are obvious precisely because they need to be repeated. I do wonder about that plot gap you mentioned. Maybe during development the editor got screwed, no idea. But I would wager there's something left on the cutting room floor.

Ghost in the Shell: SAC_2045 by Netflix I still can't believe how trash this show was.. This is one of the reasons why everyone thinks that Netflix has no quality control for its house-made movies & tv... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5HK_l9NHBw4

>>3570 >Eden: It's an endless world While this is a manga, it is visually impressive, with most of the story revolving around the son of a mob boss in a post apocalyptic cyberpunk world, it also delves into a lot of other character stories. The cybernetics look exactly like the concept art from the cyberpunk rulebook. Some of the darker themes deal with suicide, rape, prostitution, ethnic cleansing, and drug addiction

>>8268 >>8352 Season 2 follows the manga more closely and if you go into it expecting season 1 but better youll be disappointed. Its good in its own right but it can get dull since they only focused on the pinocchio arc which was more or less open and shut case even in the manga. WOuld highly reccomend you read the manga since the following arcs are better since they focus more on the relationships between the girls and their handlers.

I am looking for an "artificial reality" film of the likes of The Matrix, Truman Show, Dark City, Futurological Congress. Looking up IMDB using these as similar did not yield any results. The film is Australian, artificial reality is set in retrofuturist 50's, main character suffers from a car accident in the beginning and probably has memory loss, this is how he's introduced into this world, in the end he meets the "overseer", there is a conveyor belt sequence similar to Dark City, conveyor is unmanned and delivers briefcases, and finally he comes to realization living in post-apocalyptic destroyed world heavily hallucinating from some kind of drug/TV brainwashing like in Lem's Congress, and basically everything is made out of cardboard: his parents' house, even food. I gave a pretty much elaborate description, the film definitely was made in Australia, it probably has an article on TV Tropes, but I hadn't found it yet. Hope someone helps me.

>>4537 a boy can dream my friend

>>8532 Could you be talking about Predestination? I suspect not because things you seem confident in don't line up - but there were a few too many parallels for me not to mention.

>>3573 Texhnolyze is still one my favorite anime.

>>8532 could it be soylent green?

>>8567 No, it's a movie from late 1990's. It definitely had low-budget Australian feel in it's scenery. I remember seeing it on TV and quickly checking online to find out it was made before The Matrix. I watched it after Dark City, but before Truman Show, and can assure it resembles both of them. Could I just make it all up in my head? >>8570 No way. Soylent Green is a mix of neo noir, conspiracy fiction and 70's perceptions of dystopian future.

Didn't watch it, but I guess some lainons have so it's worth mentioning >Reboot

>>8573 could it be westworld?

>>8532 Finally found it. Virtual Nightmare, 2000 https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0244290/ IMDB is such an idiotic catalog. There is no sort by country, but you can fish for "Australian Science FIction" label somewhere, adding "Virtual Reality" on top of that was a no-brainer then. And even after all that, result list is polluted with Matrix which had two scenes filmed in Sydney arghh. Wikipedia calls it American film. There is no text search for labels (booru sites figured this out 17 years ago, Amazog still has not), no way to exclude labels, only add, so you have to juggle these silly user-submitted(!) conjunctions.

>>8657 Glad you found it lainon.

>>7331 Okay... Ill just say it, Gibsons story was trash, and I kept falling asleep reading it. Ended up having to listen to it on an audiobook while going about my day to get through it. Not saying it didn't have a good plot and theme, but the execution was odd, like the random sex scene at the beginning that seemed really out of place. His other stories were better imo

>>3570 The Lone Gunmen. It's an X-Files spin-off, and if you liked X-FIles including it's rather cringy "cyberpunk" episodes written by Gibson, you will adore this haxploitation show. Y2K aesthetic all over, filmed in British Columbia, "hacking" scenes look decently plausible, computers have actual GUIs and terminal windows instead of nonsensical cartoon graphics. All three main characters seem like computer whiz hacktivist/whacko journalist munchkins at first glance, but each of them actually has distinct team roles down the plot. You will see some parallels with another popular sci-fi show at the time, Dark Angel. The girl they got there definitely seemed like some sort of discount Jessica Alba femme fatale. First episode alone is worth watching.

>>8947 I love you and also I would like to remind that the tv-serie Total Recall 2070 exists which is/was dope

>>3674 >>3681 Just started watching all of Carpenter's movies. I'm fuarrrking loving it. Guy's movies hold the perfect amount of violence, cheesyness (which is necessary, the world is bad without cheese), horror, aesthetics and soundtrack is awesome. Any lainons recommend any other /cyb/ director that I can look around?

>>7773 Any good torrents of Nirvana with original audio and english subtitles? Is nearly impossible to find this stuff.

>>8947 All of chris carters shows are top grade in every category, it just takes a lot of background knowledge to even get what is going on. >>8948 Its slow and somewhat confusing and the bland atmosphere makes it hard to keep interest sometimes, but it definitely has a lot of great scenes in it, also the chicks are really hawt, i had to choke the chicken after almost every sex scene. >>9160 Dunno, its the net there has to be one around someplace, otherwise if you can give me a good upload host i could try dumping a copy.

>>9160 https://rutracker.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=1428594 Аудио: Russian (Dolby AC3, 6 ch) / Italiano (DTS, 5 ch) / Russian (DTS, 5 ch) Субтитры: Русские, английские Additional amendment to this thread: Thomas est amoureux (Thomas in Love) Belgian-French film from 2000. Shot entirely from perspective of an agoraphobic man who spends his time at computer/videophone screen. On soyberpunk scale of "predicting" future this is one of my favourites in addition to being hikkycore. Everyone uses videophone was considered tacky science fiction in 2010, a mundane reality now, cybersex with crappy CGIs, chatting with sad and tired "models" from e-brothel, chatting with girls from a dating site, having a crush on an e-girl, delivery man in full hazmat suit, robot vacuums, helicopter mother who calls too often, and of course, every adult sports a crappy oriental tattoo on visible parts of their body, this is definitely a film about 2020's. https://thepiratebay10.org/torrent/36550349/Thomas_in_Love_-_Thomas_est_amoureux_[2000_-_Belgium]_cybersex https://rutracker.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=4584072 English subs: https://www.podnapisi.net/en/subtitles/en-thomas-est-amoureux-2000/uZQ

>>9156 I would like to know more as well. Where does one find such things?