You’re thinking of Predator: Killer of Killers, which will be an animated movie on Hulu by the same director. Not saying it’ll be any better, but it’s a different thing.

Oooo, this is a really tough question for me. I don’t tend to re-visit cyberpunk works, partially because there’s so much new content to consume and partially because I don’t want to get burnt out on those works. For example, when I was younger I watched Hackers and The Matrix so often that I have them both memorized, down to the inflection each line is delivered. Now if I try watching either of those movies I’m really just comparing them to my memory, not really watching them.

To answer your question though, I’ve definitely re-visited Tron 2.0 multiple times. That’s one of the few “cozy” games for me where just the act of playing is fun to me; just the basic core gameplay loop. It doesn’t matter what level I play, I enjoy it. I feel like any other video game I revisit always has “that one part” I really don’t want to replay, but Tron 2.0 has so many great visuals I just love being in that world.

Other than that… hmm… maybe Blade Runner 2049 or Elysium. Those are new enough to me that they aren’t stale but I’m also not obsessive about re-watching them. And I find both of them interesting.

I’ve listened to the Neuromancer BBC Audio Drama multiple times since it’s short enough that I can just listen to it randomly. I don’t tend to re-read books or re-watch anime since it takes so long to get through those and like I said, there’s other (newer) content I could be disappointed by instead!

This is a very good point.

I really wasn’t trying to make a “let’s all shit on Matrix Resurrections” post here. I was hoping for more of a discussion about at what point something stops being cyberpunk. I guess I misjudged things…

Now that’s an interesting question… would the movie have been better if the Wachowskis weren’t involved at all? I’d argue the movie would’ve been better if none of the previous cast came back. The story should’ve been some new incarnation of The One (not Keanu Reeves) as the cycle repeats (the Architect talks about it being the 6th iteration). Or they could’ve even moved the world forward by having humans and machines working together but “oh no! the matrix is breaking/failing for some reason and we have to fix it!”

Unfortunately, we all know it was just WB saying “we need a cash cow… Wachowskis! Make us another!” and they had to scramble to come up with a story.

I’d love for you to add a link to this community, thanks!

As for a description, I don’t know what to say. My goal is to make this a place to discuss cyberpunk as a sci-fi genre and not complaining about the current world turning into a cyberpunk dystopia. So the only news items I’ll post will be about upcoming movies/games, not whatever stupid thing Amazon did recently. But that’s just me, it’s not like I enforce it or anything. Lemmy as a whole is so small that any new content at all is preferable to a dead community.

How do you decide what to add? Is it automated or do you just add things anytime you stumble upon something new?

On the homepage, is the “latest watch”, “latest play”, “latest read” the latest thing you’ve actually watched, played, read or just the latest items added to the website?

Nope, brand new anime. Of course, they could still follow some storyline from the manga, I have no idea.

I agree, I think the story will be the weakest part. Visuals look amazing, soundtrack will be awesome, but I don’t like how they’re just dropping the Sam Flynn/Quorra storyline.

Also, I know this is a nit-pick not worth worrying about but I find it weird having Recognizers (the two-legged floating transports) in the real world. In The Grid, things can float because it’s all inside a computer anyway, gravity is just a function of programming. But you can’t just teleport a Recognizer into the real world and have it float. It’s not like the people within The Grid invented anti-grav technology or something, it’s just a program. For some reason I’m fine with having lightcycles in the real world and yet having Recognizers just breaks my suspension of disbelief. And I’m sure the movie won’t even try explaining things like that; it’ll just be a dumb, fun, action movie.

Sweet Caroline. It’s impossible for the audience to resist shouting “BOP BOP BAAAAA” during that song.

Also, I think I’ve only heard that song during karaoke. I never hear it anywhere else…

Loved his album Dark Metropolis.

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If you’re new, I definitely recommend checking out https://lemmyverse.net/communities for finding new communities to subscribe to, rather than just browsing “all”. There are a lot of weird communities out there when you just browse “all”…

That’s very true. It was much less likely for a cyberpunk novel to be published at all, so anytime you got any cyberpunk it was a big deal. Now we have a flood of mediocre cyberpunk novels uploaded to the Kindle store daily so it takes more to be remembered.

I still think one thing that helps a sci-fi novel stand the test of time is when they accurately predict some aspect of the future. For example, The Machine Stops imagines a world where everyone just sits alone in their bedroom staring at a screen reading other people’s opinions and posting their own opinions. And it was written in 1909. It doesn’t matter what else happens in the story, just that prediction is incredible.

On the other hand, there’s Trouble and Her Friends. I remember seeing some review that said the novel perfectly describes what people in the 90s thought the internet would become in the future. It was open and community-driven with no presence of commerce at all. At the time, it was the dream of what could be. But in hindsight, we know it never happened.

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Not to my knowledge… Does it?

I would say Daybreakers is definitely a sci-fi vampire movie (of which there also aren’t many) but I personally wouldn’t call it cyberpunk. Maybe there’s a twist I don’t remember, but I thought the corporation was simply trying to keep up with demand, not that they were doing anything outright evil to increase profits.

Well, The Breed is an interesting movie. Definitely not cyberpunk at all but it is a noir vampire movie, which I’ve never seen done before.

It was weird how the movie starts by saying “the near future” and yet all clothes, cars, and sets looked like they were from the 1940s. It definitely helped create a “film noir” feel, I just wish they hadn’t mentioned the near future as if this was supposed to be our world when it’s more of an alternate history. Overall, it’s not exactly an award-winner, but like you said, I don’t feel like I wasted my time watching it.

Yeah, as much as I enjoy Blade, I don’t think there’s any way I could justify it being cyberpunk. At least there’s !vampires@lemmy.zip for those movies!