I was originally going to ask whether you consider Running Man to be cyberpunk or not. But then I figured, that’s a stupid question, of course it is. Just look at how they depicted Los Angeles:

We can argue whether or not it’s a good movie, but it’s definitely cyberpunk.

I was just thinking this movie has a police state with a small rebellion rather than a megacorporation that didn’t care about human life. Typically, I would say it’s just dystopian fiction if the nation is run by a police state and it’s cyberpunk if the nation is run by megacorporations. But that’s probably too narrow a view when everything else in this movie fits a cyberpunk setting. Especially a game show that doesn’t care about human life.

Anyway, here’s a trailer. You can watch it on Pluto or Hoopla.

  • tacosanonymous@lemm.ee
    4·
    8 months ago

    I would lean a little more dystopian. I think it’s missing some of the cooler aspects of cyberpunk.

    • HammerjackOPMEnglish
      3·
      8 months ago

      Thank you, that makes me feel better about questioning it myself. It has a lot of things that could definitely be considered cyberpunk but other things that really don’t fit.