Dude, who even knows.

20th June 2023

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Honestly cyberpunk’s not that insightful about or even really about neoliberalism so much as that a lot of the early defining stuff should really be counted as part of the “neon noir” 80s detective renaissance, so obviously “a client hires a private agent to resolve some shady issue in a world too complex and multilayered for legitimate authorities to exercise hegemony over” is the basic narrative drive

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25th December 2012

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Listening to Miami Vice: The Complete Collection. Jan Hammer was the shit. Miami Vice was the shit! A little uneven sometimes, especially the first season. Some of it still feels cutting edge today, some of it feels like it must’ve been outdated even then. I hear the later seasons just got flat ridiculous.

Michael Mann does some great dialogue, at least until he has the characters talk.

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25th September 2011

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saw the first part of Drive. I’d heard it was neoneonnoir and it really is, wow those credits

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