# Aren't we due a 90's nostalgia movie? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [December 6, 2008, 8:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/arent-we-due-a-90s-nostalgia-movie/475976 "2008-12-06T08:05:55Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![MyFootsZZZ](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/myfootszzz/32/12580_2.png) [@MyFootsZZZ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MyFootsZZZ)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2008, 9:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/arent-we-due-a-90s-nostalgia-movie/475976/21 "2008-12-06T21:38:50Z")
> [@Rodgers01](#): > > In 1998 [The Wedding Singer](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0120888/) came out, and was (IIRC) the first major 80’s nostalgia movie. It’s now ten years later, 2008 is almost up, and we have not, to my knowledge, had a major 90’s nostalgia movie. (Or did I just miss it?) Assuming there hasn’t been one, isn’t it about time? > > So if we were to make a 90’s nostalgia movie, what fashions/trends/slang/music/hairstyles would have to be included? Off topic; Holly sh\*t I read this and felt F’n old. I’m sorry I had to say that. I don’t know if it’s just that I’m ‘not with the times’, but it seems to me, fads don’t have expiration dates. They don’t always end when decade ends. I was born in 1980, any pictures I find of myself or my brother, (4 years older) during the most 90’s don’t make me remark on how silly I used to dress back then. I’m sure there are a lot that can, but, imho nothing like the 60’s 70’s or 80’s. Of course I’m bias. ---
**Author:** ![kasuo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/8c91f0/32.png) [@kasuo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kasuo)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2008, 10:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/arent-we-due-a-90s-nostalgia-movie/475976/22 "2008-12-06T22:11:17Z")
Don’t forgot those buttoned-down silk shirts. ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2008, 10:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/arent-we-due-a-90s-nostalgia-movie/475976/23 "2008-12-06T22:12:24Z")
> [@Rodgers01](#): > > So if we were to make a 90’s nostalgia movie, what fashions/trends/slang/music/hairstyles would have to be included? Depends on when in the 90s you want to set your movie, of course, but here are some optional cultural milestones: The OJ trial Jokes Bill Clinton being a redneck and Hillary running the country People cracking wise about Newt Gingrich (and/or Bob Dole depending on the time period) Situations in which a character needs to send or read an important email but gets kicked offline because of an incoming phone call The ubiquity of Mike Myers - Austin Powers or Wayne’s World “Talk to the Hand” Other major TV shows included The X-Files and Friends ---
**Author:** ![ToeJam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/dfb087/32.png) [@ToeJam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ToeJam)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2008, 10:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/arent-we-due-a-90s-nostalgia-movie/475976/24 "2008-12-06T22:18:07Z")
Actually, the Simpson’s did a parody of the 90s REALLY well a while back. It was the episode where Marge goes to college, before she and Homer had Bart. That was a GREAT nostalgic look at the 90s I had to say. ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2008, 10:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/arent-we-due-a-90s-nostalgia-movie/475976/25 "2008-12-06T22:35:25Z")
Yeah, that was the first real work of mid-90s nostalgia I’ve seen, and I liked it a lot. ---
**Author:** ![Lakai](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/9de0a6/32.png) [@Lakai](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lakai)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2008, 11:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/arent-we-due-a-90s-nostalgia-movie/475976/26 "2008-12-06T23:11:52Z")
> [@Ro0sh](#): > > Actually, the Simpson’s did a parody of the 90s REALLY well a while back. It was the episode where Marge goes to college, before she and Homer had Bart. > > That was a GREAT nostalgic look at the 90s I had to say. Can someone come up with a name for this episode? It sounds interesting. ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2008, 11:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/arent-we-due-a-90s-nostalgia-movie/475976/27 "2008-12-06T23:30:31Z")
> [@Lakai](#): > > Can someone come up with a name for this episode? It sounds interesting. [That 90’s Show.](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/That_90%27s_Show) ---
**Author:** ![Skylark](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e274bd/32.png) [@Skylark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skylark)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2008, 12:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/arent-we-due-a-90s-nostalgia-movie/475976/28 "2008-12-07T00:46:04Z")
Remember pogs? Those were neat. I had about a thousand of those little bastards, waiting for it to hit a revival. Sports stars trying to be rap stars. Shaq wanting to be a rap star and a movie star. I remember seeing his movie in the theater. Waiting for dial-up. WTC 1993. “I bet we’ll hear more from those guys later on.” When caring about politics meant how outraged you were the President was getting a beej. I dunno, I got nuthin’. Maybe it’s too early to tell the differences? > [@Martini\_Enfield](#): > > It’s not a “Nostalgia Movie” but \* The Big Lebowski\* is set in 1991. The only thing that pegs the movie as not being set in the present (besides the TV interview right at the start) is A) The enormous cellphones and B) the Cassette-playing Ghetto Blaster the Nihilists have. Besides that, you could say the movie was set on Tuesday last week and I think 99% of people wouldn’t think anything of it. Even more tellingly, _The Big Lebowski_ was made in 1998- before the '90s were even over- and still seems “modern” 10 years later at the close of the first decade of the 21st century. > > There was a '90s style, but it’s hard to pin down; kind of the tail end of the '80s Leisure Suit And Funky Colours look. I’ve always felt _Parker Lewis Can’t Lose_, for example, was very much a product of its time, but still a great TV series nonetheless. 🙂 I read an interesting article once (I’ll try to find it for you if you want) on _The Big Lebowski_. The writer argued it was a remarkably prescient movie, predicting the rise of the neo-cons by several years. ---
**Author:** ![Simplicio](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c37758/32.png) [@Simplicio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Simplicio)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2008, 12:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/arent-we-due-a-90s-nostalgia-movie/475976/29 "2008-12-07T00:54:40Z")
> [@Ro0sh](#): > > Actually, the Simpson’s did a parody of the 90s REALLY well a while back. It was the episode where Marge goes to college, before she and Homer had Bart. > > That was a GREAT nostalgic look at the 90s I had to say. Kinda depressing how close I’m getting to Homer’s age though. I was like Bart’s age when the Simpsons started, now Homer’s depicted as getting out of HS about the same time as when I was starting as a Freshman ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2008, 1:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/arent-we-due-a-90s-nostalgia-movie/475976/30 "2008-12-07T01:20:46Z")
Heck, I’m waiting for the seminal 2001 nostalgia flick, which I figure will be the 2034 remake of _The Final Countdown_. Advanced stealth hypersonic space plane with a crew of eight falls through a time vortex and, well whaddyaknow, it’s the morning of September 11th! ---
**Author:** ![AlsoNamedBort](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alsonamedbort/32/3213_2.png) [@AlsoNamedBort](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AlsoNamedBort)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2008, 6:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/arent-we-due-a-90s-nostalgia-movie/475976/31 "2008-12-07T06:20:40Z")
I think a 1990s nostalgia movie would actually be really similar to the The Brady Bunch Movie. It tried to show how ridiculous the 70s were by comparing it to the 90s, but you watch it now and it shows how ridiculous the 90s were. Someone else mention how the 90s were characterized by there no longer being a threat of nuclear war or terrorism. I really consider the end of the 90s to be 9/11, and I guess you could consider the start to be the first WTC bombing. I think the 90s were sort of filled with a general uneasiness, as opposed to outright fear during the Cold War. ---
**Author:** ![BMax](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bmax/32/4267_2.png) [@BMax](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BMax)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2008, 6:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/arent-we-due-a-90s-nostalgia-movie/475976/32 "2008-12-07T06:53:31Z")
> [@AlsoNamedBort](#): > > I think a 1990s nostalgia movie would actually be really similar to the The Brady Bunch Movie. It tried to show how ridiculous the 70s were by comparing it to the 90s, but you watch it now and it shows how ridiculous the 90s were. > > Someone else mention how the 90s were characterized by there no longer being a threat of nuclear war or terrorism. I really consider the end of the 90s to be 9/11, and I guess you could consider the start to be the first WTC bombing. I think the 90s were sort of filled with a general uneasiness, as opposed to outright fear during the Cold War. Interesting, because I think of the 90’s as starting sometime between August 2nd 1990 and January 17, 1991, with the US bombing of Baghdad. Operation Desert Storm kicked off the 90’s for me. So the 90’s were a decade of Economic propserity, Saddam Hussein thumbing his nose at the rest of the world, dialup internet access with ISDN considered broadband, cell phone technology became practical, hard rock came back with those Seattle bands and everyone who tried to sound like them, everyone was wearing flannel shirts and jeans with holes in the knees, my friends started experimenting with heroin and cheap speed and I got clean. ---
**Author:** ![Nicest\_of\_the\_Damned](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/8baadc/32.png) [@Nicest\_of\_the\_Damned](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nicest_of_the_Damned)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2008, 7:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/arent-we-due-a-90s-nostalgia-movie/475976/33 "2008-12-07T07:20:15Z")
Rock Star came out in 2001, it starts with Mark Wahlberg in a heavy metal hair band and ends with… His girlfriend (Jennifer Aniston) moving to Seattle to open a coffee house, he eventually joins her and starts doing grunge style music Ok, that probably didn’t really need a spoiler box but someone might have just gotten it delivered from Netflix. ---
**Author:** ![Max\_the\_Immortal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/6de8d8/32.png) [@Max\_the\_Immortal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Max_the_Immortal)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2008, 10:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/arent-we-due-a-90s-nostalgia-movie/475976/34 "2008-12-07T10:09:18Z")
> [@Rigamarole](#): > > It wasn’t a “non-entity”, it was a _growing_ entity. E-mail was a _buzzword_, and if you knew what it meant you were really tech savvy. CollegeHumor made a pretty funny [short](http://www.collegehumor.com/video:1788161) mocking the “early” internet not too long ago. ---
**Author:** ![Martini\_Enfield](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/martini_enfield/32/11123_2.png) [@Martini\_Enfield](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Martini_Enfield)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2008, 10:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/arent-we-due-a-90s-nostalgia-movie/475976/35 "2008-12-07T10:27:27Z")
> [@Max\_the\_Immortal](#): > > CollegeHumor made a pretty funny [short](http://www.collegehumor.com/video:1788161) mocking the “early” internet not too long ago. That’s pretty funny! And with surprisingly good production values, too. ---
**Author:** ![Walloon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/fbc32d/32.png) [@Walloon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Walloon)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2008, 10:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/arent-we-due-a-90s-nostalgia-movie/475976/36 "2008-12-07T10:44:49Z")
> [@CaptMurdock](#): > > Slightly offT: One of my perennieal faves, _Free Enterprise_ set in “The near present” 🙂 (it was released, or it escaped depending on who you asked, in 1999), has all the characters buying laserdiscs. Now, I had thought DVD’s were a little more prevalent in the mid-90’s but maybe I’m remembering wrong. The DVD-Video format was introduced first in 1996 in Japan, and test-marketed in the United States in March 1997. Mass retailer sales of DVD-Video titles and players in the U.S. began in late 1997. ---
**Author:** ![Spoke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a88e57/32.png) [@Spoke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoke)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2008, 5:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/arent-we-due-a-90s-nostalgia-movie/475976/37 "2008-12-07T17:29:31Z")
Just go back and watch [Singles](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0105415/) again until an official 90s nostalgia movie comes out. I guarantee you will get a strong nostalgic vibe. (Look for the Eddie Vedder cameo and the early Paul Giamatti appearance.) ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2008, 5:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/arent-we-due-a-90s-nostalgia-movie/475976/38 "2008-12-07T17:34:11Z")
> [@Ro0sh](#): > > Also there was a huge shift in Music from early 90s to the later 90s (and not just in rap). > You had the shift away from Grunge and the angstier Generation X’ers sort of music, to the more poppy and happier Teenboppers. You had the rise of Boy Bands, and Britney, Christina, Mandy Moore, Jessica Simpson, and all those other pop stars rising up And the Spice Girls were huge for a few years. ---
**Author:** ![VarlosZ](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/d78d45/32.png) [@VarlosZ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VarlosZ)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2008, 5:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/arent-we-due-a-90s-nostalgia-movie/475976/39 "2008-12-07T17:45:33Z")
[Obligatory Onion article.](http://www.theonion.com/content/node/29830) ---
**Author:** ![Cubsfan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f4b2a3/32.png) [@Cubsfan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cubsfan)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2008, 5:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/arent-we-due-a-90s-nostalgia-movie/475976/40 "2008-12-07T17:55:41Z")
I think you don’t see much in 90’s nostalgia now as you did 80’s in the 90’s because more of the “stuff” from then that made the 90’s the 90’s has held on into today for the most part. Cellphones, rap, internet, grunge are all still around and haven’t changed a HUGE amount since the 90’s other than size of cell phones. There was alot about the 80’s that was abandoned lickety split in the 90’s, never to be looked at again. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/arent-we-due-a-90s-nostalgia-movie/475976.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/arent-we-due-a-90s-nostalgia-movie/475976.md?page=3)