EPTOn September 11 2010 06:48 Yamoth wrote:
Wtf? No one even give an honorable mention to 5th Element?
Wtf? No one even give an honorable mention to 5th Element?
it was mentioned
What are the best Cyberpunk movies of all time? - Page 3
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freelander
Hungary4707 Posts
it was mentioned | ||
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Holden Caulfield
102 Posts
Labels apart, AKIRA is a must see. | ||
Carnivorous Sheep
Baa?21242 Posts
Also if you watch/don't mind anime Texhnolyze is highly recommended. | ||
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Yamoth
United States315 Posts
So it was, I stand corrected. | ||
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Manit0u
Poland17238 Posts
On September 11 2010 07:01 Carnivorous Sheep wrote: No one mentioned A Scanner Darkly? Love that movie. Philip K. Dick stories/novels just transition very easily to movies IMO, and they're all fairly enjoyable. Except for the fact that in most cases directors/screenwriters fail to grasp what the books are about (vide Next) or use wrong tools to show it - wrong actor choices, unfortunate scenery choices etc. etc. (vide Paycheck) and the original message is twisted or lost completely. | ||
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Carnivorous Sheep
Baa?21242 Posts
On September 11 2010 07:06 Manit0u wrote: Except for the fact that in most cases directors/screenwriters fail to grasp what the books are about (vide Next) or use wrong tools to show it - wrong actor choices, unfortunate scenery choices etc. etc. (vide Paycheck) and the original message is twisted or lost completely. I guess I would agree with Next, haven't seen Paycheck thought. But Blade Runner, Minority Report, and A Scanner Darkly I liked. | ||
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BlackJack
United States10398 Posts
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Manit0u
Poland17238 Posts
Blade Runner is one of the best movies ever, regardless of genre. Minority Report was ok and I didn't really like the visual formula they used in A Scanner Darkly so I won't say anything about it. | ||
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doss
Canada137 Posts
(manga is often underrated as a form of media, a lot of the more sophisticated series have a lot of quality in them) | ||
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Delerium
United States324 Posts
It's infinitely amusing to me that Gibson vaulted the use of the word "matrix" and invented the term "cyberspace," as well as the fact that he was hilariously immortalized in the later phrase "hack the gibson" For a while I debated what I should do with my 250th post, but posting about William Gibson makes me happy enough that I don't care! Thanks for this thread. Even though I have seen many of the suggestions already, some of them I haven't, and I want to make sure that I do. Sorry! but everything I would have suggested is here already, I think. I guess, Domonic, if you liked Neuromancer, I can also suggest Count Zero and Mona Lisa Overdrive, since I've read both. I don't know if you realized they're an interrelated trilogy. I think my best friend liked Virtual Light? but I'm not sure. My same friend also liked GitS Stand Alone Complex a lot, and the original movie and its source manga both come highly recommended. I even tend to shy away from Japanese stuff just because of the otaku fanbase, but I'll make exceptions in this case. | ||
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ZapRoffo
United States5544 Posts
On September 11 2010 01:59 NormandyBoy wrote: All the films listed so far are between decent and great, but this one...it just sucks. It sucks badly. The story is simplistic, the characters are transparent (specially the hero), the dialogues seem to have been written by me when I was 11, the visuals get boring really fast (GITS' ones are WAY better), the final twist leaves no room for any interpretation, it is just a lame moral shit that is SO expected...and the thing is it's French, I'd like to defend it in any way but I fucking can't. It's a matter of what you are looking for in a movie. I didn't have a problem with the dialogue, it's functional, same as the story, and the themes are basically the constant themes of cyberpunk, questioning the interaction of freedom and technological advance in the type of world we live in (corporation dominated and such) and the underworld vs. glossy upper world dynamic. Don't see what was more or less moral than others, sure it has a closed ending rather than open, but it doesn't close it off to disagreement, it doesn't imply or say that if you disagree with the character(s) you are wrong. The key is that the focus isn't on making a super intricate story with witty and memorable dialogue, it's to put you into a certain state, like make the viewer feel like he's experiencing the cyberpunk world, and the visuals are a technique used to enhance that. It's effective for some people and ineffective for others like you, but you have to go into it with the right mindset and judge it by the right criteria or you'll never like it. | ||
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accela
Greece314 Posts
On September 11 2010 10:10 doss wrote: If you can get into manga, blame! is an amazing cyberpunk read. kinda offtopic but still blame! is indeed a masterpiece, highly recommended. Would love to see a proper anime. Actually all Nihei's works are great cyberpunk stories. about movies, most important works have already mentioned, of course Blade Runner is at the very top of the list, tho i'm not a great fan of "Ghost in the Shell", instead i prefer "Serial Experiments Lain" and "Texhnolyze". | ||
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tomatriedes
New Zealand5356 Posts
Oh and this Polish-Japanese movie Avalon. Almost nobody knows of it but it's amazing/ | ||
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tomatriedes
New Zealand5356 Posts
On September 11 2010 07:13 BlackJack wrote: robocop My favorite movie of all time.  | ||
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braammbolius
179 Posts
On September 10 2010 22:28 Tracil wrote: blade runner brazil Obviously the nuts. | ||
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Energies
Australia3225 Posts
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.risingdragoon
United States3021 Posts
On September 11 2010 06:36 freelander wrote: wtf, deus ex was made into a movie? wow no that's just a fan poster a movie was proposed but never made. Deus Ex is too complex for anyone but the best moviemakers to tackle | ||
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setzer
United States3284 Posts
Of mentioned, my favorite are Blade Runner (of course) 12 Monkeys and Brazil. You should also check out the phenomenal manga Eden: It's an Endless World. | ||
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Smorrie
Netherlands2922 Posts
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Delerium
United States324 Posts
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metropolis_(2001_film) I'm glad I had a suggestion for this thread after all : D | ||
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