Cyberpunk is lowlife and high tech. It’s completely dystopian. The early 1980s was the height of the Cold War with Reagan in power. People were not optimistic about the future in the 1980s, they were just hoping that it wouldn’t end in a nuclear war.
Terminator (1984), Terminator 2 (1991), and The Matrix (1999) have entered the chat…
Don’t forget Mad Max
Soylent Green. Alphaville. Logan’s Run. A Clockwork Orange.
Planet of the Apes.
Spoiler for Planet of the Apes
Terminator: “War is inevitable.”
Terminator 2: “Actually, maybe not.”
Terminator 3: “Oh yeah, never mind, there it is.”
Me putting the 3rd in to rewatch if it was that bad:
True Names (1981), Software (1982), Neuromancer (1984), Hardwired (1986), Wetware (1988)
Cyberpunk is lowlife and high tech. It’s completely dystopian. The early 1980s was the height of the Cold War with Reagan in power. People were not optimistic about the future in the 1980s, they were just hoping that it wouldn’t end in a nuclear war.