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The Beyond A Netflix review
6 years ago
Thought I'd give this another try
I am getting sick of movies (and some recent games) misusing the term - Cyberpunk.
To quote Wikipedia "Cyberpunk is a subgenre of science fiction in a futuristic setting that tends to focus on a "combination of lowlife and high tech" featuring advanced technological and scientific achievements, such as artificial intelligence and cybernetics, juxtaposed with a degree of breakdown or radical change in the social order"
Good Cyberpunks to me are Blade Runner (1982) or the excellent Johnny Mnemonic. both of which have common use and acceptance of cybernetic enhancement of humans, hell the plot around Johnny mnemonic is that there is a cure for the degenerative condition affecting the augmented.
The recent game "Cyberpunk 2077" is NOT cyberpunk as from a description given to me by a buddy who played the table top game described it as "imaging walking down a street and seeing a fully augmented murder machine sitting on some cardboard with a sign saying 'will murder for x' sign". Now fair credit, you don't see that in the trailer but if it shows up in gameplay fair enough,
Anyway
The Beyond is a Netflix movie that starts off as a found footage style documentary of a member of staff at a International style space agency where during a routine space walk to repair orbiting satellite when an anomaly sucks in and 'kills' the astronaut.
The rest of the film is trying to discover what's on the other side and after first using remote probes they discover a planet and the decision is made to send a crew through. But due to the pressures involved they would go squish so a shady government agency offers the uses of a super solider program - Human 2.0. which involves putting the brain into a robot like body. I'm going to ignore the fact that the people who volunteer for the program are going to have to fake their own death for 'ethical' reasons. The first attempt fails and results in a solider being sent with the astronaut.
Meanwhile strange massive orbs of blackness are forming around the earth (of course the military attack for no clear reason to bugger all effect) and after several days only the Scientist 2.0 returns to Earth.
After much MUCH padding it's revealed that yes their are aliens there and they killed the Solider 2.0 due to him having a weapon and they wanted to protect Earth from cosmic debrie that would kill life on the earth, they then somehow..... create a earth like planet close to Earth (named Earth 2) ignoring any possible effect on Earths tidal system and a mass of Human 2.0's go off to colonize the planet (so much for ethic's)
Overall this movie bored me, the Human 2.0's had a exposed upper face (roughly what would be covered by a pair of goggles) which really irked me, it is shown later that they can form a faceplate over this area but that's not till the END of the film. Also it seems to be their face yet when the 2.0s are introduced it's just the brain supported in gel. but the demo 2.0 has the face. It's very confusing and seems redundant to me, if your cutting out the brain at the spinal cord why leave a fair chuck of skull or even the face ?
They mention the gel contains nano optical fibres which means the optic never isn't a issue
I am getting sick of movies (and some recent games) misusing the term - Cyberpunk.
To quote Wikipedia "Cyberpunk is a subgenre of science fiction in a futuristic setting that tends to focus on a "combination of lowlife and high tech" featuring advanced technological and scientific achievements, such as artificial intelligence and cybernetics, juxtaposed with a degree of breakdown or radical change in the social order"
Good Cyberpunks to me are Blade Runner (1982) or the excellent Johnny Mnemonic. both of which have common use and acceptance of cybernetic enhancement of humans, hell the plot around Johnny mnemonic is that there is a cure for the degenerative condition affecting the augmented.
The recent game "Cyberpunk 2077" is NOT cyberpunk as from a description given to me by a buddy who played the table top game described it as "imaging walking down a street and seeing a fully augmented murder machine sitting on some cardboard with a sign saying 'will murder for x' sign". Now fair credit, you don't see that in the trailer but if it shows up in gameplay fair enough,
Anyway
The Beyond is a Netflix movie that starts off as a found footage style documentary of a member of staff at a International style space agency where during a routine space walk to repair orbiting satellite when an anomaly sucks in and 'kills' the astronaut.
The rest of the film is trying to discover what's on the other side and after first using remote probes they discover a planet and the decision is made to send a crew through. But due to the pressures involved they would go squish so a shady government agency offers the uses of a super solider program - Human 2.0. which involves putting the brain into a robot like body. I'm going to ignore the fact that the people who volunteer for the program are going to have to fake their own death for 'ethical' reasons. The first attempt fails and results in a solider being sent with the astronaut.
Meanwhile strange massive orbs of blackness are forming around the earth (of course the military attack for no clear reason to bugger all effect) and after several days only the Scientist 2.0 returns to Earth.
After much MUCH padding it's revealed that yes their are aliens there and they killed the Solider 2.0 due to him having a weapon and they wanted to protect Earth from cosmic debrie that would kill life on the earth, they then somehow..... create a earth like planet close to Earth (named Earth 2) ignoring any possible effect on Earths tidal system and a mass of Human 2.0's go off to colonize the planet (so much for ethic's)
Overall this movie bored me, the Human 2.0's had a exposed upper face (roughly what would be covered by a pair of goggles) which really irked me, it is shown later that they can form a faceplate over this area but that's not till the END of the film. Also it seems to be their face yet when the 2.0s are introduced it's just the brain supported in gel. but the demo 2.0 has the face. It's very confusing and seems redundant to me, if your cutting out the brain at the spinal cord why leave a fair chuck of skull or even the face ?
They mention the gel contains nano optical fibres which means the optic never isn't a issue
