why was the aesthetic so kino
>>219388758>hear this movie is irredeemable dogshit for years>finally get around to watching it>it's absolute unfiltered kinoIt's just a solid cyberpunk adventure film, with amazing visuals. I don't get what people don't like about it.
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>>219389028the acting is kinda shot but the aesthetics are kino
>>219389255Yeah the chick from Starship Troopers was really a weak point in the film, which is saying something when it's headlined by 90's Keanu and Beat Takeshi when he hasn't learned a single syllable of English yet. Ice-T was pretty bad too now that I think about it. I liked this guy though
the director worked on a black and white cut of the movie that was released on bluray a few years ago, it looks pretty good. he said it was closer to his vision.
>>219388758Based. 5x5 is the most AESTHETIC collage format too
An episode of "Movie Magic!" Talking about the design work on this movie, The Net, and Virtuousity. https://youtu.be/xBJmBiVnBXo
>>219389411Dina Meyer is weird in that she's a good actress who has been completely miscast in almost everything she's ever been in.
I watched this after decades of hearing it was a bad movie and it’s litty. Even the dolphin.
>>219389028Never repeat the opinion of another.
>>219388758>we'll live to see CRT aesthetics become as interesting and novel as they were in the beginningwild
>>219394018Weirdly, this is even more adorably dated than the movie itself
One of my fav vhs tapes.
>>219394452there's even a name for it. It's called Cassette Punk. Basically just Cyber Punk, with big, clunky, analog technology
>>219388758The aesthetic was on point. The screenplay and acting are flawed, to say the least.God, how I wish we got the 90s-era big budget Neuromancer that we were promised.
>>219396880dont get me started on neuromancer, the idea of a 2026 hollywood wokeslop neuromancer makes my skin crawl. i hope it gets cancelled before they can butcher it like they butchered LoTR
Anyway, it's kinda funny that this movie and pic related are the only Gibson film adaptations afaik. A lot of his oeuvre (especially the pulpier novels he did later in his career) strikes me as fairly cinematic in tone.
>YOU GOT PARENTS N STUFF???
>>219397055imagine an early/mid 00s bridge trilogy adaptationcould have been so kino
>>219389028Waterworld is good and the world can fuck off.
90s futurism is bestplanet sized cities and space dreadnaught armadas
>>219389028Ice T can't actKeanu barely can actDizzy from Starship Troopers doesn't take her shirt offWe didn't appreciate cyberpunk back then, and nobody knew what the fuck half the stuff they were talking about was.
