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