The first of many cyberpunk movies, Ridley Scott’s Blade Runner embodies all the subgenre has to offer. Despite lukewarm box office performance in 1982, Blade Runner has earned its place as one of the most important films in science fiction cinema.
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We know cyberpunk movies, so let us tell you what you’re missing. What’s timeless? What didn’t age so well? Share this article, and we’ll make the case for Johnny Mnemonic.
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Matt Hawkins is a familiar name in the annals of independent comic book history. Having been with Image Comics almost since its initial launch in 1992, Hawkins famously asked for a job from Rob Liefeld while in line at an Extreme Studios event in the summer of 1993. Now president and COO of Top Cow comics, he has also written several books that explore the relationship between humanity and technology.
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Snowpiercer was the first English-language film for Korean director Bong Joon Ho. Long before his work cleaned up at the Academy Awards, he was the talented director with great takes on genre film. Snowpiercer is a lot like his most recent film Parasite, but with more fights on a train.
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We know cyberpunk movies, so let us tell you what you’re missing. What’s timeless? What didn’t age so well? Share this article, and we’ll make the case for Hackers.
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If you got your nerd game on point then obviously you know all about Neill Blomkamp cinematic hits like District 9 and Elysium. But what you’ve gotta see is Chappie. The 2015 hit coming-of-age tale with a remarkable twist spotlights a robot being raised by gangsters. The film itself did well and more than doubled its budget of $49 million. It was another successful feather in the film making cap of Blomkamp as a writer and director. The film is a bad-ass fun watch with crazy characters and insane action. Chappie is well worth anyone’s time to check out.
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Directed by the legendary Steven Spielberg, Ready Player One is one of the coolest movies ever made. Universal Pictures was so interested in this project that they bought the film rights roughly a year before the book the film is based on was even published.
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We know cyberpunk movies, so let us tell you what you’re missing. What’s timeless? What didn’t age so well? Share this article, and we’ll make the case for Robocop.
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We know cyberpunk movies, so let us tell you what you’re missing. What’s timeless? What didn’t age so well? Share this article, and we’ll make the case for Children of Men.
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The film did very well at the time in the box office and has met the test of time with a current Rotten Tomatoes score of 86%. This is rather impressive for a movie that even according to Michael Crichton had the audience laughing at the wrong times. The movie doesn’t stand up to the two successful seasons of the HBO show, but it remains very watchable for its own reasons.
