Wow, I have never heard of this movie. I just watched a trailer and it looks very strange. I think I'll take your word for it and skip this one.
I just watched that recently! Yeah, very weird movie. The vast majority of it takes place in a hotel room and all the major events occur off-screen. Such a strange movie. And with that cast, you'd think they could've made it more interesting.
You're right, Strange Days is definitely a classic yet visually it isn't very sci-fi. The themes and plot are extremely sci-fi (and cyberpunk) yet if you just looked at a random frame from the movie you wouldn't really be able to tell.
I wanted to like Mute but I really didn't like Paul Rudd's character in it. Overall, I think it had some good visuals but something about that movie just didn't work for me.
Did you like the movie? What was your favorite part?
Good to know! I guess that explains why I'd never seen kite or mezzo...
And yeah, you're probably right, Virgin Punk might end up being an all-too descriptive name.
From the director of Kite and Mezzo Forte, if that means anything to you. It doesn't mean anything to me though, I've never seen either.
I totally agree. I loved how Tron 2.0 expanded the universe by going to the internet, a tape archive, a low-powered PDA, and making you fight against computer viruses. All awesome expansions of a world inside a computer.
I'm still bitter about how Tron: Legacy threw that all away and just turned it into a computer game Flynn wrote where now all the characters are simply NPCs rather than visual representations of programs and the only thing Flynn didn't explicitly create himself were the iso's...
I used to be active on there. At the time I think it was the most active cyberpunk forum on the internet. But even then I don't think anyone new who Mr. Roboto was. I remember he disappeared for over a year but the forum was still active for awhile without him. No one knew how to contract him back then either. Then the forum finally died and people tried moving to cyberpunkforums.com as a replacement but I don't think it ever really took off.
This won't be made by Studio Trigger so I doubt it'll end up being as good as Edgerunners. Still, I'm a sucker for any cyberpunk anime so I'll be watching this no matter what.
Yeah, "cyberpunk music" definitely has different meanings for different people since music is so subjective. To some people it's the slow jazz of Vangelis in Blade Runner and to others it's more electronic. I don't think there's a wrong answer but I personally prefer the more electronic stuff.
I'm pretty sure this will be fixed in the next release:
https://codeberg.org/Bazsalanszky/Eternity/commit/767e75b7989768d0349fc8f5ea6384505a7ea795
Slyth is a movie about a group of high-tech low-lifes who happen to be the best e-sports team for some virtual reality first-person shooter. All of the establishing shots over the city show that the movie takes place in a cyberpunk world, but the plot is actually about the team hitting someone with their car which gives that person amnesia. They bring him to their house to help him, he falls in love with the main character, and then joins the e-sports team because (of course) he's a natural at this VR game he's never played before.
Now, because they're the best e-sports team ever, they're given an opportunity to beta test some new VR game. Unfortunately, that "VR game" is actually a portal into a different dimension. And then the lizard people show up.
This movie was made in Thailand, so I assume the exaggerated overacting is just part of Thai cinema. And everyone in the movie is a beautiful twenty-something, which gives it a very "young adult" feel. This isn't a dark and gritty noir, it's a fun action romp. The CGI and production value are pretty good though. It doesn't feel like a big budget American movie, but it doesn't feel like some small indie Thai movie either. Overall, the setting may be cyberpunk, but the themes and plot aren't. I've definitely seen worse movies, but I don't know if I'd call that a recommendation.
Here's a trailer, although I warn you, it spoils a lot of the movie. The lizard people don't show up until half-way through the movie yet this trailer makes it seem like a war with the lizard people is the entire plot. You can watch it on Netflix though, and I'm always a sucker for more cyberpunk content.
Darksynth is a sub-genre of Synthwave. And within darksynth, there's a sub-sub-genre for cyberpunk synth music. So if synth music feels cyberpunk to you, these recommendations are a good starting point.
Here's a higher-res version of the image (also here). This guide was created by khroshan over on reddit, I just wanted to share it.
I'm learning a lot by googling these obscure movies. Apparently Welt am Draht was called World on a Wire in its English release and it's based on the same novel that The Thirteenth Floor (1999) was based on. Neat!