Cyberpunk
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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if you're someone who can enjoy art partially made by not-so-great to awful people, give it a watch. NIN fucking killed it with the soundtrack, it looks awesome, the writing is weirdly decent (good writing in a TRON movie? wtf??), and the acting is better than it has any right to be. thoroughly enjoyable imo
my favorite franchise is Firefly so I'm used to stuff I like being made by awful people :(
Firefly made by awful people? I guess you mean whedon? Or are there others?
Adam Baldwin has been pretty far-right/anti-feminism/anti-LGBTQ/anto-“woke” for a long time. He’s MAGA. He was even a GamerGater back in the day.
TBF, Baldwin didn't "make" Firefly. He just starred in it.
Adam was the one who started the term GamerGate to begin with. (Not that that's some amazing leap of creativity. I hate how some unoriginal hack always has to throw "-gate" on any drama to make it sound juicy.)
Calling Inara a removed every chance he gets now finally makes sense.
Whedon, you mean? Oh, it gets worse.
A few years after the series ended, Tim Minear, IIRC, put up a page where he outlined what the plans which never got fulfilled were. Or maybe it was a transcript of an interview, or something. I forget exactly what.
What I do remember, however, is the resolution to the Mal/Inara will-they-won’t-they.
So. Remember in the pilot when they think they’re going to be boarded by reavers? There’s that shot where Inara opens up a wooden box to reveal a syringe. Now, most people assumed that that meant she was going to kill herself rather than be taken alive.
No no no no no.
Oh no. That was a special Companion syringe full of a special Compaion drug. What does the drug do? It makes her vagina toxic. So anybody who has sex with her will die.
Cut to a future episode. Serenity is overrun by reavers. “Hundreds”, IIRC. Inara is the only person trapped aboard. The episode focuses on the rest of the crew trying to rescue her. They eventually get on board to find her in a bad way, surrounded by corpses. Every single reaver raped her and died as a result.
Mal picks her up and carries her to sickbay, and is then very attentive and loving while she recovers.
Yup, that’s what brings them together in the end.
I love Firefly. But, having read the ideas for the future (and knowing what I now know about Whedon), I’m glad it only had 13 episodes. It can be this beautiful little jewel of a show, before they had the chance to fuck it up.
That's wild, this companion drug should be used for lyrics in a hip hop song.
oh god i hope it's just whedon
Ok, spoiler time. Don't click. You've been warned.
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Don't worry. It was just WhedonI warned you.
I have to disagree on the NIN soundtrack. I am a big fan of theirs but this was just a complete let down. There were maybe two notable tracks, and even then they were nothing to share with anyone. Trent Reznor has done way better music for movies in the past.
I hate to say it, but I agree. It felt mostly like a Trent Reznor soundtrack with a few proper NIN songs added on. It wasn't bad, but it didn't live up to my expectations. Oh well, at least it got NIN back together for a tour. I thought I'd never be able to see them live again.
Agreed that only 2 tracks are notable (Infiltrator and Target Identified), because the majority of the soundtrack is cinematic ambient pieces. Which, those are just ok (especially compared to Daft Punk whose ambient tracks were exceptional in addition to the action pieces Derezzed and the End Titles)
I just like ambient music, haha. I do kinda wish there were more bumpin industrial pieces but if that was the entire movie soundtrack it would have gotten old quickly and made the entire movie seem like an overly long music video, I think. Also my mom wouldn't have liked it as much I bet, lol
I liked it but I totally get why a lot of people were disappointed. Actually my sister agrees with you ("there wasn't enough NIN!" she said iirc)
I do think the daft punk 2010 movie was nailed hard. This was more mellow and not memorable, though that is normal for most movies. I think the "pop single" track release promoted by the movie is a decent song, but its also a cheezy marketing stunt for it, and not "real sountrack" or well integrated into the movie.
OTOH, I liked the mixed reality motorcycle game reboot.
He's an elderly geezer now, not an energetic creative youth.
First of all, check out !nin@lemmy.world
Second, I like this mix that re-frames the soundtrack as an EP:
So you got the 4 lyrics songs, introduced by the instrumentals that echo them, and with a 5th instrumental song as the end credits. It's basically an EP, so you can compare it to the events/violence/witch EPs.
It's a slight step down. With the previous EPs, I get the feeling Trent and Atticus had new ideas they wanted to explore. For this EP, it sounds like they were hired for a job. (hey nothing wrong with that, but the motivation's different.)
"Init/Shadow Over Me" is ok, kinda standard. "I Know You Can Feel It" is probably the best of the four, though still just re-hashing older ideas. "Target Identified/Infiltrator/As Alive As You Need Me to Be" is a great song but I associate it too much with that trailer involving the guy from Morbius. "Who Wants to Live Forever?" really should be the best song, BUT by all the gods that woman's voice is so weak! Is that some kinda post-ironic thing they're going for that I just don't get? "New Directive" is just another instrumental, the person who remixed this coulda left it off. Tho I do gotta say I like how the instrumentals reference both Daft Punk 's and Wendy Carlos' soundtracks.
Soundtrack on the ~~Deadmau5~~ Daft Punk Tron was banging as well. NIN did the soundtrack for this one? How did I not know this. Gonna crank the sub to 11.
I know my next pick for family movie night.
I'm 99% sure you mean Daft Punk, unless there's some obscure non-film Tron soundtrack that the internet is nearly completely unaware of.
You're right! Guess it's the helmets and the mouse head that got me confused.
That did get me wondering what a Deadmau5 Tron soundtrack would be like, though
That would have been pretty sick.
Been listening to a fair amount of Outrun/Synthwave. Timecop1983, Gunship, Kavinsky, The Midnight. Some of it is kind of silly, but it's a lot of fun to zoom down a backroad with the radio cranked.
A huge part of my "work music" playlist is Outrun/Synthwave, and those artists are all in there.
all the EDM heads like me would love it and EVERYONE ELSE would FUCKING HATE IT lol
I still don't want to encourage Leto to do anything. When he does things it's a 50/50 chance he'll do something reprehensible.
I'll wait until it can be watched through socialized culture distribution.
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You may have just convinced me to give it a watch. This is the first comment I find on Lemmy stating that the soundtrack was on-point and not shitting on the writing.
I mean, the writing is still "wE gOtTa Go InSidE tHe CoMpuTeR!" because it's TRON, lol. But this one's plot was surprisingly straightforward and devoid of contradictions and inconsistencies.
The original and moreso Legacy has some absolutely convoluted plot bullshit (especially with the ISO programs) going on that didn't ruin it or anything (at least for me because I'm mainly here for cool CG and Jeff Bridges) but a more self-aware writing team could have kept it tighter.
The worst writing of the series was in that short-lived show where they un-self-awarely had Elijah Wood be corrupted by the One Ring. Er, One Frisbee. 🤦♀️