Lemmy needs more content that isn’t about US politics right now so I’m making a random post.

What’s the most obscure cyberpunk movie you’ve seen? Name a cyberpunk movie you don’t think anyone else has heard of.

I’m not saying you have to think it’s a good movie (or that you even like it), I just want to discuss obscure, unknown cyberpunk movies. Come on, let’s talk about something other than politics here.

  • Kit@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    2 months ago

    I saw a Cyberpunk movie around 2014 that I’ve been searching for since then. Maybe the folks in this thread can help me find it. I only remember one scene:

    It’s nighttime, and our protagonist (a white male) walks down a subway-style staircase into an underground (literally and figuratively) VR cafe of sorts. He meets with a woman who takes him down a hallway, and they glance into several of the rooms. We can see people in their VR worlds - some of them are men playing simulations of making love to groups of attractive women. Some are engaging in violent fantasies. They come to the room the protagonist will use to enter the VR space, and it looks like a dentist chair with the headset dangling from the ceiling on a metal contraption. There’s CRT displays all around that will allow the woman to monitor the protagonist as he’s in his VR world on a mission.

    Likely English but possibly a foreign film.

    That’s all I can remember. Does it ring a bell for anyone? I’ve spent countless hours trying to track this one down.

    It’s not Johnny Mnemonic or Strange Days.

    • Hammerjack@lemmy.zipOPMEnglish
      3·
      2 months ago

      Are you sure it wasn’t Minority Report with Tom Cruise? There’s a scene where the precog takes Cruise to a seedy club to use a VR headset to view his memories. He looks in on the other customers as he walks by.

      • Kit@lemmy.blahaj.zone
        1·
        2 months ago

        Hmm, I don’t think that’s it. Don’t suppose you can find a clip of this scene on YouTube? I tried searching but came up empty handed

          • Kit@lemmy.blahaj.zone
            1·
            2 months ago

            You’re the absolute GOAT for hunting that down, thank you! But the movie I’m thinking of was dingy, low-tech looking.

    • fum@lemmy.world
      2·
      2 months ago

      I have a very similar memory but can’t for the life of me remember anything else about the movie!

      For a while I was convinced it was A.I. Artificial Intelligence the scene had Jude Law’s character Gigolo Joe in it. But from a quick search that doesn’t seem right.