Aeon Flux was a weird one.

Are we talking about the cartoon or the live-action movie? Either way, yes.

Had some cool stuff going on, but the execution was shoddy

Ah, the live-action movie then. Yeah, very shoddy execution.

I can’t find the scene with Tom Cruise entering with the precog, but here’s a clip of the club being introduced before they show up.

Definitely obscure. It’s hard to find online anywhere. I’ve only been able to find it on the internet archive. It’s got a weird plot but amazing cyberpunk visuals.

Well great, now I can’t un-see that…

Actually, this is an interesting one to me… Max Headroom was everywhere in the 80s (even in coke commercials) and yet his popularity dropped off so quickly, it wouldn’t surprise me if most people born after the 80s would never have even heard of him. If you didn’t grow up with Max Headroom, I don’t know how you would find out about him today. Definitely a product of the time.

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.

Since someone else just mentioned this movie, is it possible you were thinking of Avalon (2001)?

Absolutely! That one’s super obscure to me. I’m pretty sure I’ve seen it yet I don’t remember anything from it.

At least Cyber Tracker has a Rifftrax for it, which could make the movie bearable. (RiffTrax is from the guys who made Mystery Science Theater 3000)

https://www.rifftrax.com/cyber-tracker

Oh man, that’s a movie i haven’t thought about in a long time… I know I’ve seen it and I’m pretty sure I liked it but I don’t remember a single thing about it. Time to go see if it’s streaming anywhere…

eXistenZ definitely counts! Cronenberg being weird in a way that only Cronenberg can.

I agree, I think it’s worth a watch. It’s the only real “cyberpunk horror” movie I can think of. I mean, there are plenty of body horror cyberpunk movies (especially in Japanese cyberpunk) but Hardware is the only one I know that really follows a “slasher” horror movie format.

Another one I’ve never heard of! Awesome!

Of the movies I put in the picture above, I think Crime Zone is the most fun. It’s still not a good movie, but it isn’t nearly as painfully bad as Cyber Wars or Gene Generation. Here’s a trailer. You can watch it on amazon and tubi right now.

I’m learning a lot by googling these obscure movies. Apparently Welt am Draht was called World on a Wire in its English release and it’s based on the same novel that The Thirteenth Floor (1999) was based on. Neat!

Wow, I have never heard of this movie. I just watched a trailer and it looks very strange. I think I’ll take your word for it and skip this one.

I just watched that recently! Yeah, very weird movie. The vast majority of it takes place in a hotel room and all the major events occur off-screen. Such a strange movie. And with that cast, you’d think they could’ve made it more interesting.

You’re right, Strange Days is definitely a classic yet visually it isn’t very sci-fi. The themes and plot are extremely sci-fi (and cyberpunk) yet if you just looked at a random frame from the movie you wouldn’t really be able to tell.

I wanted to like Mute but I really didn’t like Paul Rudd’s character in it. Overall, I think it had some good visuals but something about that movie just didn’t work for me.

Did you like the movie? What was your favorite part?

Good to know! I guess that explains why I’d never seen kite or mezzo…

And yeah, you’re probably right, Virgin Punk might end up being an all-too descriptive name.