Altered Carbon 10 Other Great Cyberpunk Productions You Need To Watch
Altered Carbon: 10 Other Great Cyberpunk Productions You Need To Watch
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Cyberpunk is a genre that’s only come into mainstream light recently. But for fans of Altered Carbon, here are some great productions to watch next.
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Cyberpunk is a genre that’s only come into mainstream light recently, as for a long time it was just the neglected younger sibling of sci-fi, but thanks to mainstream works like Netflix’s Altered Carbon it’s beginning to find more of an audience. Cyberpunk focuses on futuristic, often dystopian worlds with advanced technology; it’s often designed to make you think, posing all sorts of brain-crunching questions on topics such as determinism, human morality, the passage of time, the future of artificial intelligence, and the meaning of life.
Here are 10 classics of the cyberpunk genre with similar themes and ideas to Altered Carbon.
10 Minority Report
Directed by Steven Spielberg, starring Tom Cruise, and, like many early works in the cyberpunk genre, based on a short story by Philip K. Dick, 2002’s Minority Report is a certified classic with both fans of sci-fi and film critics. It takes place in the year 2054, where a group of “precogs”, mutated humans who are able to predict the future, assist the police department in stopping crimes before they happen.
When one of the precogs gets a vision of officer John Anderton killing a man in just 36 hours, Anderton ends up on the run for his life, all while trying to prove the prediction wrong.
9 Total Recall
Total Recall, starring Arnold Schwarzenegger, was released in 1990 to critical acclaim. It was lauded as one of the highest budget films ever made at the time as well as one the most visually stunning (it ended up winning a Special Achievement Academy Award for its special effects).
The film follows Douglas Quaid, an average construction worker who discovers his memories are false “implants” and that, not so long ago, he was a secret agent.
It was remade in 2012, with Colin Farrell in the lead role; the remake received mixed-to-negative reviews.
8 RoboCop
A cyberpunk masterpiece, complete with copious dealings of violence and a witty, socially relevant narrative, 1987’s RoboCop follows Alex Murphy, a police officer who dies in a shoot-out only to be revived as a cyborg.
RoboCop became a box office hit and was hailed as one of the year’s best films; it spawned a franchise including two sequels, a remake, and three television shows.
7 Battle Angel Alita
Yukito Kishiro’s groundbreaking cyberpunk manga series Battle Angel Alita was a new take on post-apocalyptic fiction that has wowed critics and readers ever since it first appeared in Business Jump back in 1990. It centers on Alita, a cyborg who becomes a bounty hunter in her literal-scrap-heap of a city as she tries to discover the truth about her past.
It received a brief OVA adaptation in 1993, as well as a theatrical film adaptation in 2019, which was helmed by Avatar director James Cameron.
6 The Matrix
One of the most influential cyberpunk-themed films of all time – a sci-fi dystopia masterpiece inspired by anime, The Matrix was created by visionary directors Lilly and Lana Wachowski. It stars Keanu Reeves as Neo, a computer hacker who discovers his world is a simulation created by super-intelligent robots. Along with other rebels who have escaped “the Matrix”, he plans to become the “One” who will overthrow the machines.
The film’s heavy philosophical themes continue in its two sequels, although they were met with substantially less critical praise; a third sequel is set to be released in 2021.
5 Ghost in the Shell
Also known as Mobile Armored Riot Police, the Japanese media franchise Ghost in the Shell started off with the 1989 manga of the same name; it now encompasses several tankobon volumes as well as multiple television series and films. The post-cyberpunk narrative follows Motoko Kusanagi, a skilled crime-prevention specialist who became an almost-completely prosthetic cyborg after a traumatic accident. She fights primarily against cyber-criminals, including those that plan to hack and reprogram cyborgs to do their nefarious bidding.
An English-language live-action film adaptation was released in 2017 to mixed critical reviews.
4 Cowboy Bebop
A revolutionary anime series that can’t really fall into one genre or another, as it’s kind of “its own thing,” Cowboy Bebop combines spiritual and philosophical themes such as existentialism with sci-fi action and western drama tropes. The plot primarily follows the bounty hunter crew aboard the spaceship Bebop, as they fight criminals across the Solar System.
The series has been praised for its groundbreaking ideas, as well as for introducing anime to a more mainstream audience; a live-action film adaptation has been in development since 2008.
3 Black Mirror
Black Mirror is an anthology series that’s all sorts of weird; in fact, it might be some of the most original sci-fi TV in years. The show takes complex looks at alternate universes and futuristic worlds. Episodes often involve sci-fi technology and multiple plot twists.
Some of the most popular episodes are “White Christmas”, a Christmas special that ends on a killer plot twist, “San Junipero,” a love story set in a simulation, and “Be Right Back,” a tear-jerking story about love, death, and artificial intelligence.
2 Akira
The 1988 anime film Akira was a landmark piece of sci-fi and a triumph for Japanese pop culture. A cyberpunk-heavy thriller set against a post-apocalyptic background, the film takes place in a world where a psychic entity known only as “Akira” destroyed all of Tokyo in 1988. Thirty-one years later, Tetsuo Shima, a gang member, begins to experience similar psychic powers – and they quickly begin taking hold over him.
A live-action remake has been in development since 2002.
1 Blade Runner
Perhaps the original cyberpunk film, Ridley Scott’s 1982 masterpiece Blade Runner focuses on ideas such as human morality, mass paranoia, and genetic engineering. It is set in a futuristic version of 2019 Los Angeles where bio-engineered humans (known as “replicants”) are created for slave labor on other planets and then terminated by “blade runners”. It follows Rick Deckard, a former blade runner who is asked to track down four replicants who somehow made it back to Earth.
A sequel, Blade Runner 2049, was released in 2019 to positive critical reviews.
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