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I wouldn't mind at all if the Neuromancer movie adopted a retro-cyber-punk aesthetics to its tech. For the irony, if nothing else...
So, do you electrocute yourself when you wash your hands? Also, it would seem to make mastrobation a bit more painful.
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I am so torn with this. On one hand I go, "WooHoo we are going to see Molly Millions!" Then I think about it and then go, "I don't want to see someones crappy interpretations of Moll!" (confession: One of the things I complained about when Johnny Mnemonic was no Molly; But I'm over that)
I also know they are going to try to do the whole trilogy and really I think they should be left alone.
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@Someguy yeah that was a mixed thing - bad she wasn't there (being the other main character and all it made me say WTF) but on the other hand she wasn't there so they couldn't mess her up
Me? I thought it was the button on a solid gold pair of Levis. For realz.
You know what, though? I sort of dig it. Considering the issues that have already been mentioned, about making a cyberpunk movie in a post-cyberpunk reality - the way to go with this thing is a full-on Grindhouse-style homage to the trenchcoat-wearing cyborg movies of the early 1990s. Movies writen by guys who read the back cover of Neuromancer and said "I'm goin' straight to video, BOOOY-EEEE!"
And i'm only being half-snarky, here (maybe 3/4. I can't even tell any more) - have any of you ever read the Gibson short story "The Gernsback Continuum"? IIRC - A photographer goes on assignment to shoot some art-deco landmarks, and begins to halucinate he's in a idylic, 1950s vision of the future. This could be like that. Adapt to works at once, it'd be a double-dip, post-modern meta-meta mashup!!!
*pant* *pant*
then again, i'm the only person in the world who liked Johnny Mnemonic. And the only person in the multiverse who prefered it over The Matrix.
the story's great (Burning Chrome is prob'ly my fave Sprawl short) but i have some sort of mad, irrational, unhealthy love for the movie!!
And the only person who prefered the Bridge trilogy to the Sprawl trilogy.
Soderberg's Idoru, hollah!
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I always preferred the behind-the-ear biotech port design; failing that, Shirow's back-of-the-neck version worked too. Functionally reachable but easily concealable, plus in proximity to the brain.
Don't like the poster. A more intriguing approach would've been a boy on a beach with a nebulous city in the background. Enigmatic but benign to those unfamiliar with the novel, but a nod to those who have.
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My first thought was that this was a bullet...guess I have some sci-fi reading to catch up on. Unless someone wants to break it down for me right now?
@Canadian.Scott That was my first thought, too. Worst thing is, you can;t even read the goddamn thing, so it's utterly pointless.
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Welcome to the future? Not me. I'm living in the past so much, I glanced at the poster and thought it was an eye on someone's finger until I actually read the description.
By the way, the past rules.
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@vangald yeah but it's in your thumb because in the future total inter-connectivity between your sneakers and your thumb will be a reality!
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Why would anyone design a human-computer interface for someone's fingertip? Ease of use, even though there are so many other easily-accessible parts of the human body available? There goes your sense of touch, buddy.
Rob, I'm going to miss you at Tobless Robot. Io9 has deemed this poster "pure cyberpunk awesome", instead of "pure cyberpunk stupid".
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The easiest way is to have it installed in our genitalia. Better privacy. Though I would imagine there would be moisture issues.....
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@Minix Maybe Rob will lord over them and bend the writers to his will, you know, for the better.
I was hoping that the close up to the head/neck area was just massive, a thumb jack looks like a dumb idea...
I'm so glad you told me what the poster was of, I really couldn't tell and thought the finger print was some kind of marking in bronze or something.
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It has been a while since I read it but I recall it as something akin to a shotgun blast of neat ideas strung together with a shoestring of plot.
The thumb jack is stupid but probably easier to work as an effect than the head jack. Why they wouldn't just update the story slightly and say it was a wireless implant connection, I haven't a clue.
Lastly it may be the most important of Gibson's works but it is not the best IMO.
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@Gallen_Dugall I've been trying to remember the book. I swear it was electrodes on the head that they used, hook up to their deck. But even just doing the jack in the back of the head would have been better. (and easier to keep clean)
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@Someguy I know that if you cosplay it then you glue the snaps to your temples (most everyone uses the male side of metal snaps which look way more convincing than the sneaker lace eye they superimposed over a thumb)
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@Gallen_Dugall Updating Neuromancer is a slippery slope. When Gibson wrote it, wireless and cellphones were sci-fi. Once you start pulling at that thread, the entire thing unravels quickly.
I guess the trick with Neuromancer is to make it matter in an age where its technological futurism seems "quaint."
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@sunstreaker84 I was just talking about the practicality of the effects. Overcrowded wireless channels could explain the return to optical for high speed transfers if you wanted to go that route - personally I doubt even that much thought was put into the script
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@vangald @Gallen_Dugall Thumbjack and Case...they fight crime.
...OH SHIT! MOVIE EXECUTIVES, DON'T READ THAT! GO BACK TO YOUR COCAINE!
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@Gallen_Dugall @sunstreaker84 Or a police detective from the 70's with a Mediterranean ethnicity.
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@sunstreaker84 Thumbjack sounds like masturbation for people missing most of their digits
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Does cyber punk matter in a world where we all exist in a perpetual state of connection through smart phone ipads and anything else every parent now gives a six year old? Steam punk creates an alternate reality at least, but doing the future is so connected thing now just seems, well you nailed it with "quaint."
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@10glfan59 I enjoyed Wild WIld West - but then I always find Wil Smith entertaining even if the scripts he's connected to are awful crap
Ok Wild Wild West I can totally understand that was a abomination of any type of movie.
But the 10 min of Steam punk in Sucker Punch was fantastic.
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@10glfan59 you may indeed but all you get is Wild Wild West
although
I guess the Sherlock Holmes movies count as steampunk and they're pretty entertaining
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I would love to have a great steam punk movie. There are just so many great stories out there I have never understood why Hollywood is so scared of the idea.
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@vangald @giantjapanesemonster @Gallen_Dugall Wait...did I just disprove my own point in the same comment? I'VE BEEN HACKED!
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@vangald @giantjapanesemonster @Gallen_Dugall Very true - but the trick is to make fear mongering part of the background signal, not the point of the story. I think that's what draws me back to Neuromancer still, the sociological scenery is fascinating long after the main characters have been relegated to the cliche pile.
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@giantjapanesemonster @sunstreaker84 @Gallen_Dugall Don't need to be deep to do fear mongering. Turn on the news and you will see that at play.
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Do you think anyone in hollywood is deep enough to even consider doing that?
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@giantjapanesemonster @Gallen_Dugall At the same time, it's a bit invigorating to come up with a set of circumstances where we're forced back to hardwired connections and wetware hookups. Envisioned as a security-paranoid alternate future, Neuromancer gets a bit of traction back.
