Corporations taking over. Aliens was kino not just for it's actions. In the 80s corporations hadn't taken over all health care, water processing, and entertainment completely. It predicted a world where all corporations shoved out the individual for the gain of the military.
Did any films predict that we would side and cheer-lead for corporations like disney for the sake of art in the 90's or 00's? If so I can't think of any.
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Disney's TRON was completely redpilled. The original one, not the shitty remix or restart or whatever it is.
Any proper cyberpunk movie predicted the world we're living in today.
The technology was cooler in the movies though - we are literally stuck in time, things get smaller, thinner, and have more battery life but the fundamental bases for today's internet all existed by the early 1990s and have barely improved. In my house there exists more CPU power than the whole world had in 1990. Everything's in HD and 3D but nothing's actually cool any more.
Maybe that's what's cyberpunk about today - the technology is mostly mundane seeming by now. In some ways it's sad, we've fallen into an Asimovian funk, late Empire style. Did you know that the best digital to analog converter for listening to CDs was discontinued in 1995? Same with new GPS birds, we can make a new GPS satellite and it's smaller and cheaper but it's actually not quite as good at its core function, which is being a GPS satellite.
People talk about the decline, we're literally living on that tangent line where things are going to get worse faster than you'd believe. But the technology will become more insidious, smaller, more mundane, and even less cool.
yup user, there are lots of metaphors in this series. the xenomorph itself represents rape.
holy shit.. an intelligent response on 4channels.
wtf. I have to read that again.
>tfw too retarded fo understand what user was saying
>Any films that predict the future the way ALIENS did?
Outland.
Its basically a remake of High Noon starring Sean Connery set on a corporate owned mining colony on one of Jupiter's moons and its great.
It was made in 1979 so its got the same retro future aesthetic that the original Alien had too.
That DAC's name? Albert Playstation.
Yeah pretty much but better post some ironic meme about gamers rising up or some shit while I think about death
>Everything's in HD and 3D but nothing's actually cool any more.
And nothing in cyberpunk is cool to the people that actually live in the setting. We the reader/watcher look in awe upon virtual reality headsets but in-universe they mean nothing aside from a cheap venue for escaping their dystopian existence. They drive cool flying cars but to them it's the same as cars are now to us.
Your entire post is just lacking awareness of the fact that ALL technology seems mundane when you literally grow up with it and have easy access to it.
Sorry 1981, not 79.
Ok I'm high but that's a great response. even though you didn't suggest a movie per say, lol.
But yes I think the way capitalism kind of feeds off our consumerism to survive and creating personalities and lifestyles to sell to us (something they learned from nazis - corporations that is) it kind of lends itself to this dumbing down of society.
Movies have to get dumber.
Technology has to be less analogue and more button menus.
Speech has to decay.
They have to water things down to turn it into mush to sell it back to us.
I think a film like idiocracy kind of shows that but in a very crude and shitty way without any style. I was never a big fan of that movie but anyway.
There was just something magical about 80s films. The way it blended this real optimism for the space age that we had as kids with the funky sex of a lambo. It was fun and dark and adult. The cartoons, the movies, the comics. They made you think and got your dick hard.
I guess we've lost too much testosterone as a society, at least in the society the media shows us.
all the old spurdo and le american bears
ive actually never seen that user. Ill check it.
I recommended Tron before my blogpost actually. Don't worry too much - I think cottage industry will save us to some degree at least for a while.
Oh cool. Yeah Tron is pretty deep.
Yea Forums shits on it but Children of Men is running right on schedule
I agree.
I think the only way it's ever going to get 'cool' is when we get to cheap cybernetic body augmentation, and 'actual' hologram tech everywhere.
I mean, we have holograms now, but they're pretty expensive and sparsely used outside of very specific venues.
Also more wider spread augmented reality that doesn't suck or require you to wear shitty glasses that make you look like an asshole.
We're getting there. ....though it feels like we've been 'getting there' for a very long time.
Demolition Man?
I'm just hoping for companion androids soon. I'd want a tactile experience over a hologram.
Demolition Man did predict private prisons, owned by the Cocteau Corporation. All restaurants are owned by Taco Bell. Everything belongs to one monopoly or another. And that's before you get into the "scraps". There's a tent encampment in the Sepulveda Basin made up of beggars, thieves, drug addicts, and whores that have no wish to rejoin society. It's on the outskirts but also practically in the sewers.
But VR sex and banana broccoli shakes are no replacement for a good rat burger.
Robocop, the Detroit you see in that is almost the exact same as Detroit is today.
I just noticed for the first time Lt. Drake from Aliens is Boggs the rapist from Shawshank Redemption...