This was mentioned on the recent "What's your favorite bad cyberpunk movie?" post.
@[email protected] had a great writeup about it: https://lemmy.world/comment/9152402
this post was submitted on 19 Apr 2024
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What is Cyberpunk?
Cyberpunk is a science-fiction sub-genre dealing with the integration of society and technology in dystopian settings. Often referred to as “low-life and high tech,” Cyberpunk stories deal with outsiders (punks) who fight against the oppressors in society (usually mega corporations that control everything) via technological means (cyber). If the punks aren’t actively fighting against a megacorp, they’re still dealing with living in a world completely dependent on high technology.
Cyberpunk characteristics include:
- Dystopian city setting where mega-corporations rule
- Full integration of technology into society, featuring cybernetic implants
- Outsider protagonists (punks) who often are very familiar with the technology around them
- Hard boiled detective and film noir vibes and influence
- Themes dabbling in trans-humanism, existentialism, and what it means to be human.
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I love this movie, its horrible but dam was it always a fun ride
Poster looks dope as hell.. May have to check this one out this weekend.
Wtf does all that extra gun do, Tom? Looks like a whole NES with a grip and trigger welded on.
If I remember right that's actually the bad guy's gun and it fires bullets that chase you! (At approximately the speed a human can run). Its silly and great and if I was remaking it for a modern setting, it'd be some kind of launcher/targeter for tiny suicide drones.
Wonder what you thought?
I just watched it, and it was pretty cliche-ridden. But it's worth remembering that it came out in 1984, and a lot of tech in it that seems standard now, didn't actually exist (at least as consumer electronics) at that time:
- tablet-like portable computers
- earbud cellphones / walkie-talkies?
- door camera recordings
- retinal biometrics
- text-to-speech
- voice user interfaces to databases
- mobile phones
This was written by Michael Crichton, after Congo and before Sphere, and about 9 years before Jurassic Park. I don't know if I'd classify it as cyberpunk primarily; more like a techno-thriller, which is the sort of thing Crichton was known for.
Besides the obvious stars, the music was composed by Jerry Goldsmith:
He composed scores for five films in the Star Trek franchise and three in the Rambo franchise, as well as for films including Logan's Run, Planet of the Apes, Tora! Tora! Tora!, Patton, Papillon, Chinatown, The Omen, Alien, Poltergeist, The Secret of NIMH, Medicine Man, Gremlins, Hoosiers, Total Recall, Basic Instinct, Air Force One, L.A. Confidential, Mulan, and The Mummy.
According to the movie end titles, the music was "performed on Yamaha Digital Instruments". At the time was still fairly novel, and this is the type of sound that would go on to inspire various modern electronic music movements, such as synthwave.