Sardukhar;1137796
Neither of these are /great/ movies - I'll let someone else post those. Both are kind of interesting for ideas and influences. And the odds are most of you haven't seen one or even both.
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Meh, I'd say Hardware is a great movie :/ Sure, not the most originat out there, but one of those films who stands out of the crowd.
Sure, it's low budget (10 000$ at all for the whole movie), don't expect a "Transformer" kind of blockbuster but I've seen bigger movies way worst than this one, and for the budget, it's one of a great cyberpunk movie...
I'd rather watch 10 000 times Hardware than 1 times Elysium.
In fact Hardware is way better than Elysium on every aspects, if you can get beyond the "low budget side", the visual are really artsy and the whole thing is packed, the story is somewhat credible.
Elysium is like a bimbo girl, freaking gorgeous, but once she starts to speak, you want to beat her down and drown her so much she's dumb. It's a stupid movie, like an empty shell of a project "Ok the guy is angry about his boss, so he's gonna save a lil girl", "wow cool and then what?"
"...Then nothing, just figure out how to strech that stupid idea for 2hours, it's what you're payed for".
That's what Elysium is, and the budget was way better than the Hardware's one.
Now, just imagine Hardware with Elysium's budget.
It would have been awesome.
As a warning, I point people to
Death Machine. This is exactly what I don't want in a Cyberpunk story.
-- Ben
I'd disagree
DEATH MACHINE
Is a low budget too, not as good as Hardware tho, but it's just pure cyberpunk, a bunch of edgerunner try to take over a corporation, but they end chased by their cyborgs prototype, still not the most original movie out there, but it's pure cyberpunk, the kind of movie to see at least once, it's not bad, and not "awesome" either", just a standard movie to watch if you have 2hours to fill.
But you can't say it's not what a cyberpunk story can give, it has edgerunners, corporation, etc...
It's closer to a cyberpunk book than Strange Days or Matrix, and can absolutely be adapted as a quest for Cyberpunk 2020, replacing the cyborg by a cyber-predator, sure, I'm not saying it's the best movie out there, Strange Days is waaaaay better, but if you like cyberpunk, it's a movie to see, even if it has it's bad moments at time.
The bald edgerunner with some kind of futuristic indian tatoo on his face is how I'd depict a futuristic street punk, the movie has this kind of "edge", because, IMO, cyberpunk is more than "scifi and hacking", it's about the "edge", and Death Machine is full of it, still it's made with a crappy budget and have it's crappy moments too.
The thing is that there are never have some "really big budget cyberpunk movie", I mean there are movie that are "close", but not "really what you get when reading Neuromancer or Hardwired" so you have to deal with low budget most of the time, which doesn't mean they're "that" bad either :/
I'm still waiting for a real cyberpunk movie tho, because even Blade Runner isn't Cyberpunk, it's like alcool-free beer, you have the taste and all, but it lacks of "crazyness".
Don't get me wrong, I love Blade Runner and watch it every now and then, it's a great stone in the Cyberpunk wall, but... you know, it lacks the "chaos" in the street that Strange Days has, characters are all dead serious, no crackhead or whatever, it lacks the "crazyness of the everyday life", maybe because of the time the movie has been released, but for me a real cyberpunk movie would be Strange Days having place in the Blade Runner world.