Recommend me a movie and tell me why I should watch it
 

Just watched (from most recent to least):
Blade Runner (remastered version) I've seen it before but not for a long while
Children of Men
A Scanner Darkly
Volver
Pan's Labyrinth


Make a recomendation based on what I've been watching. Tell me about a surreal sci-fi film that has passed under the radar but it really worth watching and sort of cyber-punk.

Oh, and while I have your attention. . . I've seen Blade Runner, A Scanner Darkly, and Minority Report. I want to read a PKD book but I don't know which book I should start with. Ubik?

Watch Babel. It ain't no cyberpunk, but it's a beautiful movie nonetheless.

Babel is good.

I was going to recommend some Australian films, but they're nothing along the line of the films you've apparently been watching.

Haha.

Good choice, even if it weren't what I was thinking and you were taking the piss.

little miss sunshine- funnny!!!

A Boy and His Dog. Excellent surreal sci-fi. Stars a very young Don Johnson, too.

Cronos. Made by the same guy that did Pan's Labyrinth, but infinitely better.

Liquid Sky is the ultimate punk/new wave psychedelic surreal SF movie from the '70s. Given your list, you should definitely watch that.

Also, Brazil, though much less obscure due to the Monty Python connection, pure genius.

If you really want "surreal science fiction", you might want to give Alphaville by Goddard a try. Be prepared for it to be frustratingly French, but it does fit that bill perfectly.

Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind is surprisingly along the lines of A Scanner Darkly thematically. Jim Carey was surprisingly likeable and engaging in it (usually he's a funny asshole, here he's much more human).

Videodrome is a classic of the genre you seek, if a tad dated (betamax tapes and all.) Still quite good in it's own right.

Aeon Flux was way better than I would have guessed it would be, and the original cartoons are worth renting too. Charlize Theron looked damn good in the costume as well.

Soylent Green is another classic, though you may have seen it. If not, it should be up on your list. Weird how Charlton Heston was in this and Planet of the Apes which are seemingly such liberal political agenda films, while he is such a loonie right winger.

The Quiet Earth is a nice little post-holocaustish surreal SF flick from Australia.

The Man Who Fell to Earth is one of my favorite movies period. Nicholas Roeg's direction of Bowie creates the most realistic feeling alien on Earth movie ever.

All I can do for now, I've got to run to work. Worth digging around a bit here too, though admitedly the SF message board I help admin is better with books than movies.

North by Northwest, Hitchcock. Cary Grant. Good stuff, classic. Drama, humor, cool and hot American landscape and icons, cold war 1950s-era paranoia. Not sci-fi, but I am sure you'd like it.

Akira-Its cyberpunk in the form of animation.

I did not like Children of Men, I just could not stand it, but I thought it was shot beautifully, but the story sucked.

Dune. The Lynch version, preferrably.

If you aint watched Dr Strangelove before, do so.
Sellars does 3 Best Actor performances. That Eddie Murphy dared to try and perform more than one role in a film after this leaves your writer sick to the stomach.

Ghost World: It is the only thing in the world that actually cheers me up, and as such i use it sparingly.
The Wind That Shakes The Barley: Film about the start of Irish nationalism in the early 20th century, starring the bloke from 28 days later.

Agree with Akira and Videodrome.But ...Body Melt
Electric Dragon 80000v
Pinnochio 964
Possession
Rubber's Lover
Tetsuo: The Iron Man
Tetsuo: Body Hammer
might be up your alley..

akira was fantastic

Factory Girl - I just watched it. Drugs, warhol, fashion, etc.

mutual appreciation

indie as fuck, cute amateur-ish cast, good music.

You must spread some Reputation around before giving it to the ikara cult again.

I've seen Little Miss Sunshine, Akira, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, North By Northwest, Dr. Strangelove, and Ghost World.

I sort of agree with you on Children of Men Synthetically. I think it was well done, but a little lacking in many departments. As cliche as it is, I feel it almost needed a revelationary chapter. The movie and the way that chaos seems to drive the events reminded me a lot of the Half-Life series.

I'm actually downloading a torrent of Dune right now. I have yet to see it, so I'm going to watch it tomorrow.

audition, bad boy bubby, la haine all of these films are very good and well worth watching.

OK, this is my favorite stuff. true sci-fi expands the mind, inputs new ideas and thought patterns into one's brain.

Some cyberpunky movies

HARDWARE - low-budget cyberpunk movie. post-a[pocalyptic scavenger finds an old army robot in pieces and brings it home for his girlfriend, a sculptor, to use. the robot rebuilds itself as programmed and chaos ensues. very claustrophobic and beautifully shot. washed out colors. guest appearances by Lemmy Kilmister and Iggy Pop. Great soundtrack includes PIL, Motorhead, ministry...

EVENT HORIZON - Lawrence Fishburn stars in this movie about a ship that travelled to the far reaches of the universe and has returned. His crew go to explore it. extremely taut and freaky movie. I had to stop it a couple of times to chill out. maybe I am a pussy but it scared me!


Dark City - A man awakes to find the world around him shifting and chaniging while everyone else sleeps. Crazy fucking movie.

I second a lot of the choices listed above. all good stuff.

Akira
Soylent Green
Ghost In The Shell
Dr. Strangelove

dig, that movie was cool. very cute and relatable, even if the characters where annyoing as fuck (as they were supposed to be).
if you want sci fi i agree with whoever said Brazil. great movie. i also like rollerball....

regular movies-
have you ever seen anything by jules dassin? he is a brilliant director formthe 50s. i recomend Night in the City, THe Naked City
or his masterpeice
Riffifi, which was one of the greatestr films i have ever seen. brilliant film noir in french.

as for PKD
i have read
THe man in the high castle
flow my tears, the policeman said
a scanner darkly
radio free albemuth.
i would either start with TMHC or mabe radio free albemuth. those being my favorite, but i think anything by him would be interesting. ubik is also supposed to be great. and Valis.

you could also watch classic so good its bad movies, like Plan 9 From Outer Space

cyberpunk 70s/80s/90s/ movies:

max headroom

alien (the 1979 riddley scott one, not the crap that followed)

hardware (an underrated, trashy gem from 1990)

strange days

lawnmower man (h ah aha)

terminator (of course)

the man who fell to earth (not "cyberpunk" but who gives a shit? or maybe it is. starring david bowie)

tetsuo, the iron man

robocop

akira

ghost in the shell actually is much more cyberpunk than akira

thx 1138 (the first george lucas movie)... you could call it...

tron! but of course...

the one w/ mathew broderick... wargames-- wargames? hello joshua...

the *cough* matrix

and of course-- hackers!!! angelina's boobies in all their latex-clad glory. a ridiculous, yet charming movie.

I Love Hackers! :)

sorry dudes, hardware kinda sucks. boring and stupid and goes nowhere and means nothing.

scanners is great though, as is dark city.

Tron-Haven't seen it in years, but despite the outdated effects, I think it still holds up.

Hardware is actually more true to "cyberpunk" than any movie out there but for Blade Runner.

and it is not perfect but I like it!

Bejing Bicycle - Such a beautiful film, seen it in an art centre recently

The Quasi Trilogy - A must see classics, The films require patience but if you give them the time of day you won't be sorry.

Crossing The Bridge: The Sound of Istanbul: Einstürzende Neubauten's Alexander Hacke presents an impressive look into the music scene in Istanbul. Even if Documentary film is not your idea of light entertainment you should definately check out this film.

balls.

dark city is overrated in my opinion-- some people think it's the greatest movie ever but cmon....

scanners though, rules

hey i thought cronenberg "left you cold"??

make up your mind :P

oh yeah. cronenberg fucking rules.

which reminds me, Existenz would be a kind of cyberpunk movie

and hardware, yes i've said that before, may be a bit trashy, but it's damn good in its own low rent way!

yeah, existenz! though it's probably cronenberg's worst film.

i liked spider the least. but the man is a fucking genius. has he ever made a bad movie? most definitely not.

The most Cyberpunkinest movies I have seen are Tetsuo The Iron Man and Electric Dragon 80,000v.

tesuo iron man is good

I thought it more of an excercise than an enjoyable film experience though

Indeed. High on tension, low on plot.
I once asked a friend what he thought that movie was about exactly, and he said "What do you mean? He's turning into metal; that's what it's about!"

tetsuo blew my frikkin mind when i saw it around 1991. holy fuckin shit, extraordinary.

i already reccomended those films!

anyway, my thoughts.. iron man is good but overrated.. body hammer is good and underrated... and everything else that guy directed is probably a little better.. he's nuts...

anyway, as i said a few posts back, pinnochio 964... that's THE cyberpunk movie, friends..

he & the guy he ran over who's jamming an iron bar into his leg-- that image is pure fucking brutal poetry

they end up having a fight/fuck & become one CRAZY monster.

plus his sex dreams? holy motherfucking shit! s/m human/machine sex, baby.

that's where we're all going.

drill dick.

Ok, I'm gonna watch Tetsuo Iron Man this weekend.

I watched Dune last night (that is what inspired me to notice that the hummus box had the word melange) and I liked it. It seemed though that there was simply way too much in that plot for just 137 minutes. It seems like the pressure of Hollywood success made the movie suffer. I think Lynch wanted to make it as literal and straightforward for main stream audiences as possible, and I think that hurt it as well.

I've watched that many times :) I have it on VHS somewhere. My older brother and I used to watch MST3k, USA Up All Night, and TNT Monstervision all the time.

I remember watching Ed Wood movies before the movie Ed Wood came out. So when I was about 7 or 8 is when my brother and I started watching schlock. Good times.