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 Jun 28 2007, 06:30 PM
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Moving Target  Group: Members Posts: 749 Joined: 28-July 05 Member No.: 7,526  |
youtube it. it's about as cyberpunk as, maybe Tron.
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Jun 28 2007, 06:47 PM
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Anime:
Serial Experiments Lain Texhnolyze Film: Hardware (cheesy, but nice dystopian atmosphere) |
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Jun 28 2007, 08:00 PM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 241 Joined: 14-December 06 Member No.: 10,360 |
Thanks! Updated!
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Jun 30 2007, 03:02 PM
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Target Group: Members Posts: 90 Joined: 25-May 07 From: Florianópolis, Brasil Member No.: 11,747 |
My mistake, i´ve said about a game called Operation Snowblind... the game's name is "Project: Snowblind". Sorry for the mistake.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Snowblind |
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Jul 1 2007, 03:05 AM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 241 Joined: 14-December 06 Member No.: 10,360 |
Thanks for the correction; It's been added to the list.
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Jul 1 2007, 09:02 AM
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Running Target Group: Members Posts: 1,246 Joined: 8-June 07 Member No.: 11,869 |
Harry Harrison's Stainless Steel Rat series of books is very cyberpunk. It's set in the "far future" but by today's forecasts it would easily fit in 2070.
The Max Headroom television series is extremely cyberpunk, a must see. The Aeon Flux tv show (anime) is far superior to the movie. Some people don't know there was a tv show, so you might want to list it. The tv show was a lot more hard boiled and visceral than the Charlize Theron vehicle. I would add The Saint to the cyberpunk list. It's certainly lighter than some on the list since it deals with a very successful criminal instead of a street punk, but it is set in the near future and is about criminals. I would (hesitantly) add I, Robot and Batman Begins to the list of cyberpunk movies or influential movies...maybe as a "Runners Up" list. Both good movies, but not exactly cyberpunk. I would add The Ninth Gate, Constantine, Hellboy, and The Shadow as influential movies and The Dresden Files as an influential tv show for Shadowrun. I might add Firestarter to the list, but it's been so long since I saw the movie, I can't remember if I would recommend it. If you're scraping the barrel and are really hurting from the summer duldrums, you might want to check out The Covenant movie and Wild Palms tv series. The Wild Palms tv series is fairly cyberpunk, emphasizing simsense's effect on society. I wouldn't say either show is well executed, and would put them in the "Runners Up" pile, but it might be worth seeing during the summer duldrums and you've seen everything else on the list. |
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Jul 1 2007, 10:54 AM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 946 Joined: 16-September 05 From: London Member No.: 7,753 |
Wow !!
What a great collection of movies and books !! I find it interesting that several films aren't what most people would consider cyberpunk. I'd add :- The Mission Impossible movies [for their shadow run] Golden Child [for a lighthearted mystical plotline] Bulletproof Monk [for Adepts] Fifth Element [for it's wonderfully realised, gritty future] Books by Richard Morgan [digitally recorded minds sent all over the universe for shadow ops] Books by Rudy Rucker [for ideas and future society] Chung Cuo [for a Chinese technological future] William Shatmer's TekWar [private eyes in the future] Peter F Hamilton's Greg Mandel Books [a Cyberpunk Britain] Stephen Barne's Streetlethal Walter Jon William's Hard Wired [a rigger in the US, in a collapsed USA] Phew !! Just my thruppence.. |
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Jul 2 2007, 02:22 AM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 241 Joined: 14-December 06 Member No.: 10,360 |
Thanks for the suggestions! They've been added!
Please excuse any mis-spellings, I'm a little tipsy ;) |
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Jul 2 2007, 02:28 AM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 116 Joined: 5-May 02 From: Sydney Sprawl Member No.: 2,687 |
Cyber City Oedo is another one I just thought of. Probably one of the most SR list animes I have seen. It has a guy rigging a building, psychic military cyber zombie and a vampire as the goons the team run against.
-Strobe |
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Jul 2 2007, 03:34 AM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 162 Joined: 27-January 06 From: Norfolk, Ma Member No.: 8,202 |
Influential Movies
Children of Men Heat Payback Suicide Kings Many of the David Mamet movies (Heist, The Spanish Prisoner, Spartan) |
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Jul 2 2007, 03:52 AM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 101 Joined: 30-December 06 Member No.: 10,493 |
It's "Chung Kuo" not 'Chung Cuo' (the pinyin is Zhong Guo, 'Middle Kingdom' or 'China').
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Jul 2 2007, 04:07 AM
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I'm pretty sure it's spelled "Chung King", I'm looking at the menu right here.
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Jul 2 2007, 01:04 PM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 458 Joined: 28-March 05 From: NA/UCAS/IN/ Member No.: 7,246 |
Them's fightin' words pardner! The Microsoft SR FPS is NOT Shadowrun IMO. |
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Jul 2 2007, 01:23 PM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 325 Joined: 24-February 06 From: Kansas Member No.: 8,304 |
Bladerunner :) not sure if that was mentioned since i havn't peeked into the thread in a bit heheh.
< edit> ok I just looked it was mentioned... but we shall mention it AGIAN MWAHHAHAHAHAHAHA becouse I like it :grinbig: |
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Jul 2 2007, 03:43 PM
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Pistols at dawn? :cyber: Anyway, I realized I didn't have Sin City on the influential list. I mean, WTF. What was I thinking? |
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Jul 2 2007, 03:59 PM
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anime: Wonderful Days http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0353014/
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Jul 2 2007, 04:41 PM
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Cowboy Bebop, both the series and the full length movie. You don't get much more shadowrunny than this series - it's a little more in the future, there's space travel involved - but space travel while you bitch about how tired you are of eating ramen and being broke while waiting for a big job to break free. That's gritty. |
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Jul 2 2007, 05:26 PM
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*is embarrassed yet again* Another one I can't believe I missed. Bebop rocks. |
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Jul 2 2007, 06:00 PM
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For video games, Perfect Dark probably counts.
Dark Angel counts as far as Tv goes - I'm not saying it's good, I'm just saying it counts. Wikipedia credits it as cyberpunk, we might as well too. |
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Jul 3 2007, 06:14 AM
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Jul 3 2007, 02:37 PM
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I was joking! I'll add more smiley faces next time.... :D :D :D :D :D |
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Jul 3 2007, 06:42 PM
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Jason Alexander's "Empty Zone" Thematically "100 Bullets" Books: Marianne De Pierres' "Parrish Plessis" books (three ATM) cyberpunk + magic Justina Robson's "Keeping It Real" and it's sequel elves, magic, cybernetics Jonathan Stroud's "The Barimaeus Trilogy", England ruled by mages (so mages and spirits/demons) Thematically Andy McNab's "Nick Stone" books for getting feel how to do runs |
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Jul 3 2007, 09:05 PM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 104 Joined: 19-June 07 From: Florida Member No.: 11,950 |
Check out Burn Notice. It's a new detective show on usa. It's about a freelance spy who gets cut off from the espionage game and has to find a way to make money while trying to find out what caused him to get burned.
I liked it. It's not exceptionally gritty but it was really nice for all the spy stuff in it. |
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Jul 4 2007, 05:53 PM
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The Way of the Gun - Nice shooting sequences and criminals.
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Jul 6 2007, 06:14 AM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 114 Joined: 9-February 07 From: Pohjois-Sawo, Kuopio, Finland Member No.: 10,964 |
Movie: The Warriors (influen.) by Walter Hill 1979.
Plot: A gang called The Warriors are framed for killing a gang leader trying to unite all the gangs in the area. With other gangs gunning for them they must get back to the home turf of Coney Island... Alive http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0080120/ |
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