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TV/Movies › Re: What Movie Are You Watching Now? by Beorn: 12:20am On Oct 20, 2018
Alaadin:
Imitation game cyberpunk kwa undecided undecided undecided undecided
Don't blame KoiceReloaded, he's like the guy in Get Out, he's locked out somewhere in his subconscious.

TV/Movies › Re: What Movie Are You Watching Now? by Beorn: 12:18am On Oct 20, 2018
KoiceReloaded:
It's espionage, with gadgets. So yeah, they are sci-fis but they are silent, because other themes are louder. And they will be judged and win awards on those loud themes, but it'll be a mistake to forget that there are sci-fi subgenres in there too.
You knew all these yet you chose to classify Searching as sci-fi based on non-existent elements of social science sci-fi.

TV/Movies › Re: What Movie Are You Watching Now? by Beorn: 12:14am On Oct 20, 2018
Koice, you change pass chameleon. grin grin


If subgenres are not important, then why did you classify Searching as sci-fi knowing it's main genre is not sci-fi? That's where the origin of this your post shifting started.

Since then, you've gone from calling its main genre sci-fi to saying it's social studies or is it social science sci-fi.

Not content with that, you changed your excuse to hacking and espionage with electronics. When I was about to expose you that there's no hacking in Searching, you changed the narrative to digital surveillance, and then, primary and university themes. LWKMD. grin


One of your ridiculous and preposterous post shifting was saying hacking is CCTV surveillance. Like, I can't even deal with the joke in that definition. So, someone putting a CCTV in his house, office, or the government placing CCTV cameras at strategic corners to combat crime, means they are carrying out espionage. LMAO. KoiceReloaded, you must be related to Akpos. LMFAO. I don laugh die tonight. Thanks for your jokes.

You don't know the meaning of hacking. Let me help you out with it.

https://www.techopedia.com/definition/26361/hacking

https://m.economictimes.com/definition/hacking

You're welcome. grin
TV/Movies › Re: What Movie Are You Watching Now? by Beorn: 11:44pm On Oct 19, 2018
Ishilove:
I admire your relationship with him. If it were between ladies they would have been tearing at each other's hair and spitting like pythons by now.

Keep up the WWE wink
Koice is the last born in our family but very stubborn. I was entrusted with the looking out for him. If I don't take care of him, who will? grin

Good night, dear. wink
TV/Movies › Re: What Movie Are You Watching Now? by Beorn: 11:40pm On Oct 19, 2018
KoiceReloaded:
Okay, lemme ask you this simple question? What's the primary theme of How To Get Away With Murder?
Let me ask you a question, is the primary theme of James Bond movies hacking? Is the main theme of The Social Network hacking and espionage? But you called it a sci-fi movie.
TV/Movies › Re: What Movie Are You Watching Now? by Beorn: 11:35pm On Oct 19, 2018
Ishilove:
Men and rough play are like
But isn't obvious we've been joking? Lol. It's evident in our post. That meme is better suited for "Koice and post shifting be like" grin
TV/Movies › Re: What Movie Are You Watching Now? by Beorn: 11:33pm On Oct 19, 2018
KoiceReloaded must be taking the piss. Initially, your point was hacking for Searching, when I told you to show me the hacking in Searching, you started twisting your reasons, reeling out new excuses like CCTV surveillance, digital surveillance etc. Telling me about main theme and fake theme. LMAO. You're funny. grin
TV/Movies › Re: What Movie Are You Watching Now? by Beorn: 11:29pm On Oct 19, 2018
KoiceReloaded:
Okay, lemme ask you this simple question? What's the primary theme of How to Get Away With Murder?
Bring links that says the primary theme of any cyberpunk movie must be hacking and espionage.
TV/Movies › Re: What Movie Are You Watching Now? by Beorn: 11:27pm On Oct 19, 2018
KoiceReloaded:
Where did I shoot myself in the foot? Top hackers do the highlighted all the time. Can you explain how I shot myself in foot?



Hacking in a more simplistic term is gaining excess to a chip powered electronics device discreetly. Hacking doesn't always have to involve tapping on a keyboard. Hacking can simply involve a digital surveillance like CCTV.

Strike Back and 24 has computers in term, but the principal themes weren't focus on those computers, were they? No. Instead, the themes were focused on the activities of the protagonists.
How does digital surveillance with CCTV equates to hacking? And was espionage and hacking the main theme of Searching. Where is it written that espionage and hacking must be the central theme of a c movie before it becomes a cyberpunk?


What brand of weed have you inhaled this night, senor Koice? The shii is too strong. Quit it. grin grin
TV/Movies › Re: What Movie Are You Watching Now? by Beorn: 11:21pm On Oct 19, 2018
Ishilove:
KoiceReloaded and Beorn, I see the bromance is becoming a little rough this evening, eh, lads?
No o. Na joke o. grin
TV/Movies › Re: What Movie Are You Watching Now? by Beorn: 11:20pm On Oct 19, 2018
KoiceReloaded:
Nah. You're the confused one. Hacking and spying on people with CCTV and spycams and what have you, are doing the same thing, but in different ways - espionage. When I said hacking, I meant everything that has to do with espionage. Too bad you didn't understand, and choose to laugh at your own ignorance. grin grin
How To Get Away With Murder had hacking, spying on people, digital surveillance, cloning of phones in it, therefore it's a sci-fi, a social science sci-fi and a cyberpunk series. Buwahahaha. KoiceReloaded has lost it. grin


Brethren, what we're witnessing now is what Thanos described when he said, "you're not the only one burdened with knowledge," to Ironman. Too much movie knowledge has made KoiceReloaded go bonkers. He needs your prayers. grin

KoiceReloaded is in the Get Out movie situation; something has taken control of account/sense of reasoning, while he's locked away in his subconscious, crying for our help. Hang in there, Koice, help is on the way.

TV/Movies › Re: What Movie Are You Watching Now? by Beorn: 10:57pm On Oct 19, 2018
"Rebellion against large corporations and established organizations is a key aspect of cyberpunk. As such, main characters are often portrayed as alienated and marginalized by society."


Where was this part in Searching, ehn KoiceReloaded?
TV/Movies › Re: What Movie Are You Watching Now? by Beorn: 10:52pm On Oct 19, 2018
KoiceReloaded:
Hacking/digital surveillance/electronics espionage... same sh*t, different day.
You're confused honestly. I said show me the hacking in Searching and you're bringing up more words.

Only you - hacking, digital surveillance, espionage, electronics, electronic espionage, main theme and non main theme.

Even Nigerian leaders don't twist as much as you do. You'll soon include Nairaland to your plethora of examples.

TV/Movies › Re: What Movie Are You Watching Now? by Beorn: 10:48pm On Oct 19, 2018
KoiceReloaded:
From the same forum you quoted:


Sounds like 21st century to me.

And...


Sounds like the average outlaw hackers of the 21st century to me.


24 and Strike Back principal themes were counterterrorism not espionage. Says a lot.
You're shockingly shooting yourself in the foot. From one of the posts you highlighted

"Cyberpunk's protagonists are hackers, rockers, and other cultural rebels, clinging to a cult
of individualism in a culture characterized by corporate control and mass conformity. These
protagonists are adept at appropriating the materials of popular culture and making them
speak to alternative needs and interests; they also know how to tap into the vast digital
database to access information about corporations and their secret conspiracies, or to spread
resistant messages despite powerful mechanisms of top-down control."



Show me where the emboldened happened in Searching. Being a hacker but not in the setting described in that highlighted part, doesn't qualify a movie to be cyberpunk. None of what you highlighted happened in Searching except that there's use of computers or surveillance. If using camera makes films, cyberpunk, then every romance movie out there with as much as use of a phone becomes cyberpunk movie as well. Strike Back and 24 had computers and hacking in them. Don't know what you're on about. Is hacking the main theme in Searching? It's no longer about hacking but now about it being the main theme or not. Oga, stay one place and stop bending your points anyhow. grin
TV/Movies › Re: What Movie Are You Watching Now? by Beorn: 10:17pm On Oct 19, 2018
BTW, KoiceReloaded, can you kindly point out the hacking that happened in Searching. I'm curious to know where the hacking came from.
TV/Movies › Re: What Movie Are You Watching Now? by Beorn: 10:11pm On Oct 19, 2018
KoiceReloaded:
Notice that I highlighted the hacking and espionage part. And cyberpunk doesn't always have to have a futuristic settings or advance technology. Sometimes, hacking is enough.

Die Hard 4 is cyberpunk. Imitation Game is cyberpunk, and Hackers (both 1995 and 2016) were cyberpunk.

Don't take my word for it, check the link below for these movies:

- Cyberpunk Galore and Related Interests

I think I have successfully dug myself out. cheesy

PS: The tv show, Mr. Robot is also cyberpunk.
Cyberpunk is often described as "high tech and low life" - a dystopic world, in which hyper-capitalism (or the corporate state) has created a tiny upper class and a massive, disenfranchised lower class. This lower class is inhabited by sleazy characters who have limited access to the technological advances that have benefited the upper class, and so the poor masses are forced to find their own improvised versions of these tools. These improvised resources generally include jury rigged cybernetic enhancements, which is where the "cyber" part of "Cyberpunk" comes from.


Note: Almost all Cyberpunk media is futuristic , but most futuristic media is not Cyberpunk.
https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/114587/what-separates-a-cyberpunk-setting-from-a-futuristic-setting


See highlighted, where are those parts in Searching? One minute you dismiss the hacking and espionage in Strike Back and 24 when I trying to point out the error in your assertion, next minute you're using hacking to categorize Searching as cyberpunk. You can't eat your cake and have it. Searching can't be classified as a cyberpunk. Impossible!! Even if you remove the futuristic angle, other branches of cyberpunk rendered your argument invalid. grin
TV/Movies › Re: What Movie Are You Watching Now? by Beorn:
Seunpaul01:
The only plot that failed the movie was the Funeral Association or whatever that sent the guy mail. We don't know who owns the association or how it come on. And the lady was found at the funeral without the man of the dead.
The inspector's son who's been using a fake picture of Hannah to stalk the girl on Youcast as fish_chips is the owner of the fake site because the Funeral Association still had the fake pic of the model.
TV/Movies › Re: What Movie Are You Watching Now? by Beorn: 9:26pm On Oct 19, 2018
KoiceReloaded:
Cyberpunk is a combination of low life and high tech in a futuristic setting, but in a broader definition, can also include elements of hacking and espionage, involving electronic devices.

Sounds familiar? Yup. SEARCHING cheesy
With the involvement of electronic devices, suffice it to say every modern film with people making use of phones, automatically qualifies it as cyberpunk. LMAO. Try another excuse. grin grin

There's no futuristic setting or advanced technology that's out of the ordinary. If you continue in this path, na to dig your E-grave remain. grin
TV/Movies › Re: What Movie Are You Watching Now? by Beorn: 8:38pm On Oct 19, 2018
KoiceReloaded:
Don't worry about JeromeBlack. I'd just throw him a curve ball, he wouldn't even know when I'm out. grin
Oya, Dig your way into more blunders out of that blunder make we see.

TV/Movies › Re: What Movie Are You Watching Now? by Beorn: 8:34pm On Oct 19, 2018
alexistaiwo:
I am 15 years old but we aren't here to deliberate on my age, are we?

That anonymity is the source of your fear, he might be closer to you than you think.


One misstep and you are flushed by TissuePaper grin

TV/Movies › Re: What Movie Are You Watching Now? by Beorn: 8:33pm On Oct 19, 2018
KoiceReloaded:
It doesn't indeed, but if I were the guy, and I committed this blunder, I know exactly how I'm gonna dig myself out of it. cheesy
No matter the shovel, there's no way can dig yourself out of such an appalling blunder, not when Jerome is around to call you out. grin
TV/Movies › Re: What Movie Are You Watching Now? by Beorn: 8:30pm On Oct 19, 2018
KoiceReloaded:
Well, tbf, you did say his detailed analysis is like a take-home assignment. grin grin grin

TV/Movies › Re: What Movie Are You Watching Now? by Beorn: 8:20pm On Oct 19, 2018
alexistaiwo:
Don't be shy.

It is okay to be afraid.
It only proves that you are human albeit a weak one.
I'm afraid of an unknown character on the Internet? How old are you again?

TV/Movies › Re: What Movie Are You Watching Now? by Beorn: 8:18pm On Oct 19, 2018
samuelchimmy:
Finished 'searching' also
Quite boring for me.... But the twist at the end made it a good movie to watch, don't expect too much though
Genre cyberpunk
Rating 5/10
Searching doesn't belong to cyberpunk subgenre of sci-fi. I doubt you understand what cyberpunk is all about.
TV/Movies › Re: What Movie Are You Watching Now? by Beorn: 8:14pm On Oct 19, 2018
alexistaiwo:
Pray tell, why are you scared of going up against TissuePaperhuh
I was just joking.
TV/Movies › Re: What Movie Are You Watching Now? by Beorn: 5:58pm On Oct 19, 2018
KoiceReloaded:
As an unlicensed internet doctor, my professional diagnosis as pertains to the highlighted is that this is quite a savage burn. OMG!! shocked
You're trying to pit me against TissuePaper_ by making a mountain outta molehill, your plan will not work. grin grin
TV/Movies › Re: What Movie Are You Watching Now? by Beorn: 11:48am On Oct 19, 2018
KoiceReloaded:
Well, he did an ace job on The Apostle, didn't he? It's a no brainer that he's the perfect man for the job. I mean, why waste your mb on an old movie when a synopsis machine like Oyetpel can tell you everything you need to know with just a few words, heh? grin
From 'synopsis expert' to 'synopsis machine' LMAO. grin grin


I think Oyetpel did a shoddy job compared to TissuePaper. With Oyetpel's, there's still something to look forward to in the movie. But with TissuePaper's analysis, one can tell everything that happened in the film, scene by scene. It's like watching the premiere of the movie. The analysis be like project work. grin grin
TV/Movies › Re: What Movie Are You Watching Now? by Beorn: 11:04am On Oct 19, 2018
KoiceReloaded:
Lmao grin grin

You wouldn't mind a quick synopsis, would you? The synopsis expert, Oyetpel, is on standby to give you a quick summary. grin grin
Oyetpel don suffer for your hand. LOL @is on standby.

TV/Movies › Re: What Movie Are You Watching Now? by Beorn: 10:56pm On Oct 18, 2018
TissuePaper, I've not watched the said film, hence I didn't read your analysis because it's filled with spoilers and will ruin the fun for me when I finally decide to watch it. Can't comment on your analysis for now.
TV/Movies › Re: What Series Are You Watching Now? Part 2 by Beorn: 8:39pm On Oct 18, 2018
Iyajelili:
Can someone tell me what happened to suits. Has it been canceled or what? cc koiceloaded
Mid-season break.
TV/Movies › Re: What Movie Are You Watching Now? by Beorn: 8:21pm On Oct 18, 2018
KoiceReloaded:
Piss poor film. Probably the first time I fail to laugh or smile while watching a comedy film, and I've watched tons. The action was decent enough though, like you said.
You must have not watch Sorry To Bother You. The driest comedy I've seen in a while.
TV/Movies › Re: What Movie Are You Watching Now? by Beorn: 8:15pm On Oct 18, 2018
KoiceReloaded:
Ask Beorn when he wakes up. He's in coma right now. grin grin
KoiceReloaded:
Beorn felt it more. Just look at his face grin grin
sod09:
felt it too grin
Who dey follow una shine teeth?

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