And most of it likely went to the 5-10 minutes of the footage that made up the "cyberpunk" hellscape future. The nightclub was just a normal nightclub.
Anon has a point though. Anons are acting like it would cost $100 million to make a decent cyberpunk film. True, the original Blade Runner, in today's money, would cost $95 million... but there are lots of great-looking, atmospheric, and cheap movies. Intelligently and cautiously produced, by talented artists instead of Indian CGI monkeys, I don't see why a cyberpunk movie need be too expensive.
The founding film of the genre was bladerunner, and it flopped in theaters. After that the aesthetic was picked up by anime like akira, but like other anons have said, sci-fi in general is usually pretty niche, and cyberpunk requires a decent budget when it’s done correctly in live action.
>jews offer you what looks like tasty treat in exchange for your cooperation >bite into it and its actually disgusting and poisonous
I don't know what you expected
"Cyberpunk" in the 80s and 90s was just normal sci-fi. By the time sci-fi had evolved from that it was a niche thing and only fans of those specific aesthetics knew what it was.
The point of cyberpunk was that it doesn't matter how much technology we fill our lives with, we're still shitty people who ruin the world for ourselves daily. Ooh you live in a city with giant holograms and flying cars. You're still poor, the streets are still dirty and you'll still probably get robbed if you're not careful.
The technology doesn't improve life, it just adds another layer of bullshit
Porn is not an all encompassing aspect of society. I want all buildings and products and activities specifically modeled after sex organs and sexual intercourse.
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>Porn is not an all encompassing aspect of society.
Disagree but I understand what you mean. Art Deco without the art. Stone breasts and wangtowers.
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And a sexualist economy with a sexocracy government
I know, but often sci-fi in general does that without being called cyberpunk. in movies and TV shows it now encompasses specific visual and musical aesthetics that were just normal back in the 80s and 90s.
I see what you mean. Although William Gibson was way ahead of his time in envisioning the nature of the net... and what we're doing right now. He saw the future of computers better than most.
ARPANET predates Gibson's fiction by years, and the technicalities of his internet weren't anything novel. His real insight was that internet would be a locus of counter-culture, and even here he was just writing about the world he knew.
it's a remarkably specific and niche genre. so much so that it has lost all meaning and morons call anything featuring a computer or the future cyberpunk.
Ghost in the Shell.
The comics, the films, and Stand Alone Complex are about as good as cyberpunk has ever gotten. The later anime are okay.
Told from the perspective of government agents, whose morality ranges from nonexistent, to basically being Law and Order cops.
Psycho Pass (season one, mostly)
If you liked Minority Report, this is more of that concept. But told through Japanese sensibilities where necessary evils are far more tolerated.
Planetes
Not conventional cyberpunk, but probably counts.
Space hicks protect Earth against Kessler Syndrome by cleaning up garbage in orbit. Things grow from there.
Cyberpunk: Edgerunners.
Not very heady or deep, but an energetic and emotionally heavy romp through a colorful sci-fi setting.
Not particularly grounded, but well made. Technically is a tie in for a game, but who gives a shit about video games.
Agree with every show description except Stand Alone Complex. Just felt overly expositionary, like it underestimated it's audience. The cop procedular format didn't sit with me either. I only watched the first few episodes, though. Maybe it gets better.
niche genre that requires big budget to pull off
The Terminator had a budget of just four and a half million dollars
And most of it likely went to the 5-10 minutes of the footage that made up the "cyberpunk" hellscape future. The nightclub was just a normal nightclub.
the cyberpunk was the contemporary parts
I disagree brah
Anon has a point though. Anons are acting like it would cost $100 million to make a decent cyberpunk film. True, the original Blade Runner, in today's money, would cost $95 million... but there are lots of great-looking, atmospheric, and cheap movies. Intelligently and cautiously produced, by talented artists instead of Indian CGI monkeys, I don't see why a cyberpunk movie need be too expensive.
It was impossible to recreate the aesthetic after the 90s ended
Good question. Literally everything is kino. Even the shit.
The founding film of the genre was bladerunner, and it flopped in theaters. After that the aesthetic was picked up by anime like akira, but like other anons have said, sci-fi in general is usually pretty niche, and cyberpunk requires a decent budget when it’s done correctly in live action.
before Akira there was Bubblegum Crisis
see
>The founding film of the genre was bladerunner
lol zoomie alert
Not him but what are you on about? French comic books? Even Gibson cites BR as his primary influence.
>Gibson
Zoomie alert
>guy creates new genre using such and such as influences
>therefore these influences were <genre>
????
we're living in it
I wanted shiny cyber prosthetics. Not ftm troony wieners.
>jews offer you what looks like tasty treat in exchange for your cooperation
>bite into it and its actually disgusting and poisonous
I don't know what you expected
Because it's depressingly bleak with no chance of redemption.
Because everyone got a computer and realized "cyber" shit really isn't that cool
"Cyberpunk" in the 80s and 90s was just normal sci-fi. By the time sci-fi had evolved from that it was a niche thing and only fans of those specific aesthetics knew what it was.
Technically, the genre explored man and machine convergence and computers specifically.
The point of cyberpunk was that it doesn't matter how much technology we fill our lives with, we're still shitty people who ruin the world for ourselves daily. Ooh you live in a city with giant holograms and flying cars. You're still poor, the streets are still dirty and you'll still probably get robbed if you're not careful.
The technology doesn't improve life, it just adds another layer of bullshit
I just want one pornpunk movie where the world is pumped with sexuality and nothing else to the point of absurdity
We give children microtablet computers so they can get exposed to unlimited porn at like 8. No need for a movie
Porn is not an all encompassing aspect of society. I want all buildings and products and activities specifically modeled after sex organs and sexual intercourse.
>Porn is not an all encompassing aspect of society.
Disagree but I understand what you mean. Art Deco without the art. Stone breasts and wangtowers.
And a sexualist economy with a sexocracy government
That's called hentai and 3d porn.
The point of cyberpunk was "What if the future was... exactly like the 1970's"
>High Tech
>Low Life
Nothing more, nothing less. Death to gibsongays, BRgays and zoomoids
I know, but often sci-fi in general does that without being called cyberpunk. in movies and TV shows it now encompasses specific visual and musical aesthetics that were just normal back in the 80s and 90s.
I see what you mean. Although William Gibson was way ahead of his time in envisioning the nature of the net... and what we're doing right now. He saw the future of computers better than most.
Right, we're living in a cyberpunk world as far as literature is concerned right now and maybe visually in places like Asia.
ARPANET predates Gibson's fiction by years, and the technicalities of his internet weren't anything novel. His real insight was that internet would be a locus of counter-culture, and even here he was just writing about the world he knew.
it's a remarkably specific and niche genre. so much so that it has lost all meaning and morons call anything featuring a computer or the future cyberpunk.
Real life caught up to fiction
Because zoomies and other plebs got confused and thought cyberpunk was an asthetic and not a type of story
Because it lost its anti-capitalist routes
*anti-corpo
*roots
Anti corporate is anti capitalist
Also, frick off its not a spelling bee
>Respect my opinion even though I disrespect your language and discourse
Nope, you buzzword-spewing npc moron
How much larger could it have been?
Like every sci-fi film made for 20 years, that wasn't called Star Wars, was cyberpunk.
Cyberbros, can anyone suggest some cyberpunk anime tv shows?
Ghost in the Shell.
The comics, the films, and Stand Alone Complex are about as good as cyberpunk has ever gotten. The later anime are okay.
Told from the perspective of government agents, whose morality ranges from nonexistent, to basically being Law and Order cops.
Psycho Pass (season one, mostly)
If you liked Minority Report, this is more of that concept. But told through Japanese sensibilities where necessary evils are far more tolerated.
Planetes
Not conventional cyberpunk, but probably counts.
Space hicks protect Earth against Kessler Syndrome by cleaning up garbage in orbit. Things grow from there.
Cyberpunk: Edgerunners.
Not very heady or deep, but an energetic and emotionally heavy romp through a colorful sci-fi setting.
Not particularly grounded, but well made. Technically is a tie in for a game, but who gives a shit about video games.
Agree with every show description except Stand Alone Complex. Just felt overly expositionary, like it underestimated it's audience. The cop procedular format didn't sit with me either. I only watched the first few episodes, though. Maybe it gets better.