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.
Don’t forgot those buttoned-down silk shirts.
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
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.
Yeah, that was the first real work of mid-90s nostalgia I’ve seen, and I liked it a lot.
Can someone come up with a name for this episode? It sounds interesting.
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?
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.
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
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!
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.
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.
CollegeHumor made a pretty funny short mocking the “early” internet not too long ago.
That’s pretty funny! And with surprisingly good production values, too.
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.
Just go back and watch Singles 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.)
And the Spice Girls were huge for a few years.
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.