COMPUTERS DON'T WORK LIKE THIS: Cyberpunk Movie Night

Hollywood discovered computers, modems, virtual reality, and artificial intelligence—and immediately decided none of them needed rules.
Welcome to COMPUTERS DON'T WORK LIKE THIS: a retro-cyberpunk movie night devoted to neon mainframes, murderous software, brain uploads, evil video games, aggressively confident typing, and futures that became outdated before we reached them.
HOW THE NIGHT WORKS
We start gathering at 6:00 PM. Trailers will probably begin around 6:30, and we ambitiously aim to start the first movie around 7:00.
Six movies enter the mainframe:
• Johnny Mnemonic (1995) — Keanu Reeves stores dangerously too much data in his brain. There is also a dolphin.
• Hackers (1995) — rollerblades, raves, floppy disks, and hacking visualized as glowing digital skyscrapers.
• Strange Days (1995) — black-market technology lets people experience other people's recorded memories.
• Virtuosity (1995) — Denzel Washington hunts a virtual serial killer who has escaped into a synthetic body.
• Brainscan (1994) — an interactive horror game begins turning one teenager's life into something considerably less recreational.
• Arcade (1993) — Full Moon's evil virtual-reality game starts absorbing teenagers, as computers frequently did in the 1990s.
We watch all six trailers. Everybody votes. The top two become our double feature. Democracy will decide whether we get genuine cyberpunk, glorious techno-nonsense, or several hours of both.
THE VIBE
Comments during the movies are allowed. Pajamas, blankets, pillows, snacks, and shameless campaigning for your favorites are encouraged. A snack or drink to share is welcome but never required.
New people are welcome. Come alone, arrive late, leave early, join the vote, or simply get comfortable near other humans. You do not need encyclopedic movie knowledge, flawless social skills, or an existing group of friends.
Content note: These R-rated selections may include strong violence, sexual content, disturbing imagery, and extremely irresponsible computer use.
Six trailers enter the mainframe. Two movies survive the vote. Timekeeping is aspirational. The snacks are real.