r-michael@cup.portal.com (03/06/88)
I am wondering, since all the talk about alt.cyberpunk.....
I believe "A Boy and his Dog" qualifies as cyberpunk, but since
Don Johnson (the "star" of the movie) has become commercial (a la: Miami
Vice), does that disqualify the whole movie as cyberpunk, or just Don
himself.....
Now remember, the voice of Blood was also in a very bad movie called
"The Gumball Rally" (dont tell me THAT qualifies as cyberpunk!!!), but
also Raul Julia was in the Gumball Rally, but nobody seems to remember
that when they are praising Julia (and that ANOTHER subject I'll take up
somewhere else......). By the way, I cant remember the actors name who
did Blood.
What definitions of cyberpunk are we following today??? Maybe Nancy ("Your
Mafia Dollars At Work") Sinatra MIGHT have been considered cyberpunk back when
she was popular in the 60's, but no person worth their sense would watch
her old video that "VH-1" occasionally plays without reaching for the
remote control and changing the channel to "The Prisoner"......
Com'on. It's the old "what I like, you don't" arguement, but that's
what cyberpunk is all about.............I hope.
(Did I make any sense ????)
r-michael@cup.portal.com