A crew of low-lifes working with an android in a dirty old spaceship for a faceless corporation that treats them as expendable.

Obviously the movie is really scifi horror, but it does hit a lot of cyberpunk themes. So do you consider Alien to be cyberpunk? If you don’t, what would need to change to make it cyberpunk?

I usually include a trailer for the movies I reference but come on, it’s Alien. You already know about this movie.
It’s streaming on Hulu if you haven’t watched it recently.

  • WhoRoger@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    There’s more biopunk here than cyber.

    It’s set on a spaceship… I’m not saying you can’t have cyberpunk in space, but it takes a lot more than just a big corporation to turn a monster horror into cyberpunk.

    Aliens, the sequel has more of the aesthetic I guess, and which sequel was that with the crazy doctor… That one might fit a tad more but it still has more bio in it.

    • identity-disc@lemmy.villa-straylight.socialOP
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      1 year ago

      Interesting, I would’ve said Aliens was less cyberpunk due to the military being the main characters. The first Alien is the only one that centers around a group of nobodies, which I think makes it more of a candidate to be cyberpunk.