I'm losing faith in film as a vehicle for good science fiction.

[Thoth]

Are there any good cyberpunkish movies out there other than Blade Runner? Every one I've come across is either about secret military superhuman killing machines or robots/androids/replicants trying to become more human.

No.

Movies bite. So does TV.

Spend your money on books instead.

[FrostyBoy]

pron sux

That reminds me, Tron will be coming soon. You can look forward to that one maybe.

[Dis]

Avatar is coming soon which maybe will fit into the Transhuman category?

I don't follow sci-fi that much. Problem is as you can see with Blade Runner. Films like that don't do well commercially despite being great reviews and a cult fan base.

So what we get are hollywood films of robots blowing **** up. Am I the only one tired of all these robots in movies now days?

[Lorizael]

Have you looked at Ghost In The Shell?

I was impressed by the imagery in GITS more than anything else. The plot itself was rather simple, and everything wrapped up way too quickly. But that is the type of science fiction I'd like to see more of out there. Japan seems to have a lot more of it than the US does.

[loinburger]

Videodrome

[Elok]

Have you looked at Ghost In The Shell?

Are you recommending it as sci-fi or as porn? Or both?

Total Recall had promise, I suppose, but the execution was hysterically bad. Especially the ending.

[Dr Strangelove]

There were two TV series sequels to Ghost in the Shell that have more extended plots. You can get them via Netflicks, either by renting the CD or by streaming.

[SpencerH]

Videodrome

Young Debbie Harry

[loinburger]

Are you recommending it as sci-fi or as porn? Or both?

It doesn't count as anime porn if there aren't any tentacles.

[Jon Miller]

http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/ErgoProxy I haven't watched it, but it might be good.

Really, I watch a lot of anime/etc. And half of the reason why is because that is where most of the better SF is.

JM

[loinburger]

It's weird but good.

[CrONoS]

I understand.

While Babylon Babies was a really good cyberpunk novel (IMO). The movie (Babylon A.D.) which was looking promising didn't really had any good review(main actors Van Diesel and directed by Mathieu Kassovitz), even Mathieu Kassovitz was very critical of his own movie.

Kassovitz starts off this tragic tale by explaining that "the scope of the original book [that this is based on] was quite amazing." But unfortunately the result is not the same. "It's pure violence and stupidity," Kassovitz says. And that's not a good thing that he's describing. "The movie is supposed to teach us that the education of our children will mean the future of our planet. All the action scenes had a goal: They were supposed to be driven by either a metaphysical point of view or experience for the characters… instead parts of the movie are like a bad episode of 24." If a director is saying that about his own movie, you definitely know something went wrong, very wrong. Kassovitz attempts to explain how the entire film slipped out of his hands and into Fox's, which is where all the problems began.

http://www.firstshowing.net/2008/08/25/babylon-ads-mathieu-kassovitz-opens-negatively-up-about-fox/

[Tattila the Hun]

There were two TV series sequels to Ghost in the Shell that have more extended plots. You can get them via Netflicks, either by renting the CD or by streaming.

Plus a movie. Not really sequels, more like, erm, alternate histories. No Puppetmaster, just daily jobs of Public Security Section 9. An excellent series, I might add.

[loinburger]

I enjoyed Dark City

[Fve Crathva]

The reason nobody makes cyberpunk films is that cyberpunk was a niche subgenre that became irrelevant nearly 20 years ago. You'll have to wait another 5 to 10 years for the nostalgia factor to bring it back to the popular consciousness.

The reason nobody makes transhumanist or posthuman films is that transhumanism and posthumanism are pretty silly, and again, hardly anybody cares about them. I don't think they'll ever be popular, because it's too weird, unless you expand posthuman to include things like Wall-E and 9.

SP