I was scrolling movies last night when I came across this movie, came out in 95, set in a cyberpunk world where a guy called Johnny starring Keanu reeves has just days to save his own life from a deadly implant 🤔 remind you of anything ?
I was scrolling movies last night when I came across this movie, came out in 95, set in a cyberpunk world where a guy called Johnny starring Keanu reeves has just days to save his own life from a deadly implant 🤔 remind you of anything ?
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It’s a stupid and disjointed movie and I absolutely love it.
From the mind of William Gibson himself. I rewatch this about once a year.
Watched this film randomly one night and I’m still recovering from the pure insanity of it
I WANT ROOM SERVICE!!!
This movie was a big inspiration for the games, one of the coolest cyberpunk implants is even a direct reference to it (the Slice n’ dice, and by extension, the monowire which is just a bigger slice n’ dice)
It’s wild to me how many times Keanu has played a man named John or Johnny. Even weirder that’s my deadname and have been told I look like him.
It’s such a terrible movie, but it’s one of my favorites of all time. Right up there with the likes of Hackers.
Script co-written by William Gibson. It’s literally as Cyberpunk as cinema ever got.
For a close #2, I recommend watching Freejack, if you can find it.
Just ignore the time-travel and its a perfect cyberpunk film.
One of my favorite cyberpunk films ever. Up there with blade runner, robocop, running man, demolition man… yeah that shit
This movie rocks. Obviously super inspirational, gotta love the monowire
when i first watched this i was shocked to find out william gibson had written the screenplay himself given how bad it is and how brilliant the short story it’s based on is. turns out that it was meddled with by the studio to a frankly insane degree. my favourite part being that the studio insisted that they include a scene of johnny riding a bus “because people flocked to theatres to see reeves on a bus in speed” (not kidding)
more information here: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dA0jWbm4xjs](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dA0jWbm4xjs)
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First time I saw this movie was a few years ago, and I was tripping acid. It is now one of my favorite movies ever.
There is actually an old FMV adventure game that goes along with the movie.
Yeah Keanu is in quite a few of the most famous cyberpunk (genre) properties. Obviously the game, and the matrix. But also lesser known stuff like Johnny M. and A Scanner Darkly
As a big Gibson fan I really didn’t like this movie. Why wasn’t Molly in it? She’s like the best character. It would sting alot less if they actually made a neuromancer movie but you know dam well if they did case would be played by fucking Chris Hemsworth or someone really clean and attractive and wouldn’t even slightly resemble the strung out fuckin junky he is. Molly definitely wouldn’t have the bug eyes. The tech would be futuristic and not the cheesy 80s idea of future tech. There’s just no chance they wouldn’t ruin it.
This movie is amazing still like it.
Theres a great scene showing off the fiber wire!
Neuromancer was the source that influenced the cyberpunk TTRPG the most. and this movie is an adaptation of the novel Johnny Mnemonic which is set in the Neuromancer universe. From Wikipedia ” In Gibson’s 1984 novel [*Neuromancer*](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neuromancer), the first of the Sprawl trilogy, Molly relates the rest of Johnny’s story to the protagonist, Case. Molly claims that after achieving success, Johnny was murdered by a vat-grown yakuza ninja. .”. Now I’m not saying we wouldn’t have Cyberpunk as a genre without Neuromancer . But we would definantly wont have any recognizable form of the Cyberpunk TTRPG universe or the Shadowrun TTRPG universe, a lot of concepts that are basic to this form of cyberpunk like cyberspace net runners and the “street samurai” character archetype (literally a class in Shadowrun, and practically the stereotypical solo in Cyberpunk 2020 [https://tropedia.fandom.com/wiki/Street_Samurai](https://tropedia.fandom.com/wiki/Street_Samurai) )were popularized by Gibson’s Sprawl trilogy .
The Johnny Silverhand unofficial prequel
It’s based on a William Gibson book. Watched it when it came out. You should also watch Hackers.
I enjoyed this movie so much as a kid. I try and rewatch it once a year. The soundtrack is really good. No More Love by God Lives Underwater gets stuck in my head all the time.
[https://www.reddit.com/r/cyberpunkgame/s/qpJSRm0J7w](https://www.reddit.com/r/cyberpunkgame/s/qpJSRm0J7w)
There is direct reference to Johnny Mnemonic movie in Cyberpunk 2077 game.
https://preview.redd.it/7o2v4rsqwwcf1.jpeg?width=640&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=3b6d76bbf53d6bc9a953ec4821622cf01d3d0e47
Strange days, with Ralph Finnes, is another Cyberpunk movie…The origin of the braindance
What a soft spot I have for this movie. I might rewatch this week!
John Wick 3 and 4 both have Cyberpunk vibes too.