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No Mr. Robot?
I haven't seen enough of the titles on the list to know if any of them are series, but AFAIK this is only a list of movies.
Needs "The Conversation". A near perfect movie about surveillance, that doesn't feature a single computer.
No Real Genius? Shame.
Off topic: Does anyone else get annoyed at bossy articles telling them what they must watch, or must read, or must do? I know it's just an expression, but it bugs me...
Curation indicates that there is a selectivity involved. That is not evident with this list, that or they're using a pretty un-obvious criteria.
(note the original title of the story indicated that this was a "curated list", and the actual repo still contains that language).
Missing Elysium and Children of Men.
Children of Men was awful, and it had nothing to do with hacking or cyberpunk, from what I remember.
Seeing this list inspired me to write about the list I keep for the books I read, many of them cyberpunk/scifi. After reading so many of these types of books, you can't help notice their elements in other media. It's interesting in seeing the print inspirations for many of these movies. The term "The Matrix" was first coined in William Gibson's Neuromancer and considered to be the seminal Cyberpunk novel, even predat…
Just read Neuromancer this summer. One of the benefits of renting random people's places are the libraries you run across; that was a great read (though somehow disturbing, mystical/mind blowing, and hollow inducing all at the same time).