[Rob Instigator]

OK, this is my favorite stuff. true sci-fi expands the mind, inputs new ideas and thought patterns into one's brain.

Some cyberpunky movies

HARDWARE - low-budget cyberpunk movie. post-a[pocalyptic scavenger finds an old army robot in pieces and brings it home for his girlfriend, a sculptor, to use. the robot rebuilds itself as programmed and chaos ensues. very claustrophobic and beautifully shot. washed out colors. guest appearances by Lemmy Kilmister and Iggy Pop. Great soundtrack includes PIL, Motorhead, ministry...

EVENT HORIZON - Lawrence Fishburn stars in this movie about a ship that travelled to the far reaches of the universe and has returned. His crew go to explore it. extremely taut and freaky movie. I had to stop it a couple of times to chill out. maybe I am a pussy but it scared me!


Dark City - A man awakes to find the world around him shifting and chaniging while everyone else sleeps. Crazy fucking movie.

I second a lot of the choices listed above. all good stuff.

Akira
Soylent Green
Ghost In The Shell
Dr. Strangelove

[fugazifan]

Originally Posted by schizophrenicroom

mutual appreciation

indie as fuck, cute amateur-ish cast, good music.

dig, that movie was cool. very cute and relatable, even if the characters where annyoing as fuck (as they were supposed to be).
if you want sci fi i agree with whoever said Brazil. great movie. i also like rollerball....

regular movies-
have you ever seen anything by jules dassin? he is a brilliant director formthe 50s. i recomend Night in the City, THe Naked City
or his masterpeice
Riffifi, which was one of the greatestr films i have ever seen. brilliant film noir in french.

as for PKD
i have read
THe man in the high castle
flow my tears, the policeman said
a scanner darkly
radio free albemuth.
i would either start with TMHC or mabe radio free albemuth. those being my favorite, but i think anything by him would be interesting. ubik is also supposed to be great. and Valis.

you could also watch classic so good its bad movies, like Plan 9 From Outer Space

[!@#$%!]

Originally Posted by SpectralJulianIsNotDead

Just watched (from most recent to least):
Blade Runner (remastered version) I've seen it before but not for a long while
Children of Men
A Scanner Darkly
Volver
Pan's Labyrinth


Make a recomendation based on what I've been watching. Tell me about a surreal sci-fi film that has passed under the radar but it really worth watching and sort of cyber-punk.

Oh, and while I have your attention. . . I've seen Blade Runner, A Scanner Darkly, and Minority Report. I want to read a PKD book but I don't know which book I should start with. Ubik?

cyberpunk 70s/80s/90s/ movies:

max headroom

alien (the 1979 riddley scott one, not the crap that followed)

hardware (an underrated, trashy gem from 1990)

strange days

lawnmower man (h ah aha)

terminator (of course)

the man who fell to earth (not "cyberpunk" but who gives a shit? or maybe it is. starring david bowie)

tetsuo, the iron man

robocop

akira

ghost in the shell actually is much more cyberpunk than akira

thx 1138 (the first george lucas movie)... you could call it...

tron! but of course...

the one w/ mathew broderick... wargames-- wargames? hello joshua...

the *cough* matrix

and of course-- hackers!!! angelina's boobies in all their latex-clad glory. a ridiculous, yet charming movie.

[SpectralJulianIsNotDead]

I Love Hackers!

[atsonicpark]

sorry dudes, hardware kinda sucks. boring and stupid and goes nowhere and means nothing.

scanners is great though, as is dark city.

[LifeDistortion]

Tron-Haven't seen it in years, but despite the outdated effects, I think it still holds up.

[Rob Instigator]

Hardware is actually more true to "cyberpunk" than any movie out there but for Blade Runner.

and it is not perfect but I like it!

[Washing Machine]

Bejing Bicycle - Such a beautiful film, seen it in an art centre recently

The Quasi Trilogy - A must see classics, The films require patience but if you give them the time of day you won't be sorry.

Crossing The Bridge: The Sound of Istanbul: Einstürzende Neubauten's Alexander Hacke presents an impressive look into the music scene in Istanbul. Even if Documentary film is not your idea of light entertainment you should definately check out this film.

[!@#$%!]

Originally Posted by atsonicpark

sorry dudes, hardware kinda sucks. boring and stupid and goes nowhere and means nothing.

scanners is great though, as is dark city.

balls.

dark city is overrated in my opinion-- some people think it's the greatest movie ever but cmon....

scanners though, rules

hey i thought cronenberg "left you cold"??

make up your mind :P

oh yeah. cronenberg fucking rules.

which reminds me, Existenz would be a kind of cyberpunk movie

and hardware, yes i've said that before, may be a bit trashy, but it's damn good in its own low rent way!

[atsonicpark]

yeah, existenz! though it's probably cronenberg's worst film.

[!@#$%!]

Originally Posted by atsonicpark

yeah, existenz! though it's probably cronenberg's worst film.

i liked spider the least. but the man is a fucking genius. has he ever made a bad movie? most definitely not.

[Savage Clone]

The most Cyberpunkinest movies I have seen are Tetsuo The Iron Man and Electric Dragon 80,000v.

[Rob Instigator]

tesuo iron man is good

I thought it more of an excercise than an enjoyable film experience though

[Savage Clone]

Indeed. High on tension, low on plot.
I once asked a friend what he thought that movie was about exactly, and he said "What do you mean? He's turning into metal; that's what it's about!"

[!@#$%!]

Originally Posted by Savage Clone

The most Cyberpunkinest movies I have seen are Tetsuo The Iron Man and Electric Dragon 80,000v.

Originally Posted by Rob Instigator

tesuo iron man is good

I thought it more of an excercise than an enjoyable film experience though

tetsuo blew my frikkin mind when i saw it around 1991. holy fuckin shit, extraordinary.

[atsonicpark]

i already reccomended those films!

anyway, my thoughts.. iron man is good but overrated.. body hammer is good and underrated... and everything else that guy directed is probably a little better.. he's nuts...

anyway, as i said a few posts back, pinnochio 964... that's THE cyberpunk movie, friends..

[!@#$%!]

Originally Posted by Savage Clone

Indeed. High on tension, low on plot.
I once asked a friend what he thought that movie was about exactly, and he said "What do you mean? He's turning into metal; that's what it's about!"

he & the guy he ran over who's jamming an iron bar into his leg-- that image is pure fucking brutal poetry

they end up having a fight/fuck & become one CRAZY monster.

plus his sex dreams? holy motherfucking shit! s/m human/machine sex, baby.

that's where we're all going.

[atsonicpark]

drill dick.

[SpectralJulianIsNotDead]

Ok, I'm gonna watch Tetsuo Iron Man this weekend.

I watched Dune last night (that is what inspired me to notice that the hummus box had the word melange) and I liked it. It seemed though that there was simply way too much in that plot for just 137 minutes. It seems like the pressure of Hollywood success made the movie suffer. I think Lynch wanted to make it as literal and straightforward for main stream audiences as possible, and I think that hurt it as well.

[SpectralJulianIsNotDead]

Originally Posted by fugazifan

you could also watch classic so good its bad movies, like Plan 9 From Outer Space

I've watched that many times I have it on VHS somewhere. My older brother and I used to watch MST3k, USA Up All Night, and TNT Monstervision all the time.

I remember watching Ed Wood movies before the movie Ed Wood came out. So when I was about 7 or 8 is when my brother and I started watching schlock. Good times.