The movie is about low-lifes and there’s a strong (overwhelming?) anti-consumerism theme, but it’s really an alien invasion movie and the only high-tech comes from the aliens. Otherwise, it’s a “modern day” scifi.

So what do you think? Do you consider They Live to be cyberpunk?

Here’s a clip if you haven’t seen the movie: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_z9hMartaFc
As far as I can tell, it’s only streaming on Starz right now.

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It doesn’t exactly have the cyber part of cyberpunk. I wouldn’t say that alien tech, especially that of an invading species humanity doesn’t even know about, would count.

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Yeah I’ve seen it listed along with Repo Man as one of the few punk movies.

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