When Is a Movie About the `90s Gonna Be Made?!

[Catman]

So, last year it was Hot Tub Time Machine and this year it's Take Me Home Tonight. So, how long before Hollywood starts making movies that take place in the 1990s?

 

[Carnotaur3]

So, last year it was Hot Tub Time Machine and this year it's Take Me Home Tonight. So, how long before Hollywood starts making movies that take place in the 1990s?

When people incorrectly label the 90's as cool.

 

[DACrowe]

Scream 4 count?

The '90s were way better than the '80s, by the way.

 

[Rocketman]

I don't think it's too early... BUT, I don't think there was anything too memorable about the 90s. There wasn't anything very distinct, except for some certain things that every joke has already been made about, and other things that could be considered distinct:

Spice Girls
Titanic
NSync
Backstreet Boys
WWF getting huge with Stone Cold and The Rock
Bill Clinton / Monica Lewinski
Columbine
The Matrix
Princess Di's death
Kosovo
Jurassic Park
Wayne's World
Mighty Morphin Power Rangers
Friends
Seinfeld
90210
Nirvana
Sega Genesis (Sonic the Hedgehog)
Super Nintendo
Nintendo 64 (Mario Kart and GoldenEye)
PlayStation
MC Hammer
Vanilla Ice
Beavis and Butt-Head
Little Mermaid, Beauty and the Beast, The Lion King, Aladdin, Pocahontas
Radiohead's "OK Computer"
Fresh Prince of Bel Air
Full House
Family Matters
Reading "Goosebumps"


I can't think of anything else that "defined" the 90s. This was pretty much it, lol. If a well-written movie could be made based on this list, I'm 100% behind it, but I don't think there's anything too brilliant that could come from it.

 

[Octoberist]

The 80s is a funner decade to show off in a modern movie unless you're gonna do a 90s film about Gangsta Rap or Grunge, or the birth of 'the Internet. otherwise the 90s looks fairly modern along with kids lifestyles aren't too far removed from today.

 

[Sawyer]

Does Definitely, Maybe count?

 

[Catman]

I don't think there was anything too memorable about the 90s. There wasn't anything very distinct.

The entire grunge movement disagrees with you.

 

[Catman]

kids lifestyles aren't too far removed from today.

The `90s were radically different than today. The internet was very primitive. Social networks were just a dream. Playing video games online with friends and strangers hadn't even become a dream yet. In those days, people interacted...IN PERSON! Crazy concept? I know. The mall was the best place to interact with people.

 

[Rocketman]

The entire grunge movement disagrees with you.

I mentioned that with Nirvana. But you can't make a great movie based on that.

I'd like to see something like The Social Network, but with the birth of the internet.

 

[bullets]

The Wackness ... set in the 90's but not about them


We'll still be on the 80's kick for a while

 

[Catman]

you can't make a great movie based on that

Why not? The `80s were a fairly conservative decade. Regan was in office. Wall Street was planting the seed that would eventually hurt us in the late `00s/early `10s. The `90s, by comparison, was much more liberal. The grunge movement was really no different than `60s folk music. Nirvana was the Bob Dylan of the decade.

 

[DACrowe]

The `90s were radically different than today. The internet was very primitive. Social networks were just a dream. Playing video games online with friends and strangers hadn't even become a dream yet. In those days, people interacted...IN PERSON! Crazy concept? I know. The mall was the best place to interact with people.

Yeah watch any of the early Kevin Smith movies (Clerks, Mallrats and Chasing Amy) and tell me you don't get all nostalgic. Or the Scream movies, House Party movies, anything Luc Besson ever made. I was very young then but the '90s were awesome.

Remember when we had an economic surplus and the worse thing a president could lie about was getting a job done while getting the job done? Those were great times for this country.

 

[Rocketman]

Why not? The `80s were a fairly conservative decade. Regan was in office. Wall Street was planting the seed that would eventually hurt us in the late `00s/early `10s. The `90s, by comparison, was much more liberal. The grunge movement was really no different than `60s folk music. Nirvana was the Bob Dylan of the decade.

Well, this is strictly my own personal taste, but the grunge music of the 90s was mostly crap. It's easier to make a movie about Bob Dylan's era than Kurt Cobain's.

I think a movie about Reagan's presidency would be interesting. The dude was an actor who become the president. There's got to be a great political biopic hiding there somewhere. Plus, with the Berlin Wall, and the birth of Reaganomics, it could be something Oscar-worthy.

 

[Catman]

Remember when we had an economic surplus and the worse thing a president could lie about was getting a job done while getting the job done?

I think that's what might hurt a movie about the `90s getting made. That decade had no real controversy. There was no major wars (the Gulf War is nothing compared than the so-called War on Terror). The economy was great. There was no crack or AIDS epidemic. It was pretty tame. It was like the `50s if you ignore Black people.

 

[Rocketman]

I think this is a good thread, because there really could be a great movie that spawns from the 90s era. It's just hard to pin-point a specific topic. If we're going with silly comedy, it's pretty easy. Characters could walk around with giant cell phones and beepers.

But on the Oscar-bait side, there could be something seriously kick-ass with Clinton and Lewinsky, or Reagan.

I would looooove a Clinton/Lewinsky movie in the style of Frost/Nixon.

OH CRAP. END THREAD. Make a serious courtroom drama about the OJ Simpson trial. Chronicle the entire case from beginning to end, and treat it like Fincher's Zodiac. I would completely flip out for that. Based on factual information and eye-witness accounts, it's up to the audience to decide what really happened.

or JonBenet Ramsey. That would be an AMAZING movie too.

 

[Timstuff]

The 90's were basically like what the world is like today, except it was more boring and the cellphones sucked. People were even nostalgic about the 80s back then.

The 80's were a truly transformational time period, though. Everything from technology to pop culture was in a state of rapid change, and when you look back at the 80s they were a very distinct decade. If you see something from the 80s, you can instantly identify it.

I don't think there is going to be a whole lot of nostalgia for the 90s any time soon, at least not until the kids who grew up during the 90's, who are too young to remember and appreciate the 80s begin to feel nostalgic about the things from their youth. Maybe by then, the world will have changed enough that the 90s seem more distinct. The only part of the 90s that really sticks out to me are the early 90s, but that's mostly because they were riding on the coattails of the 80s.

 

[Mace Bloodstone]

The Real World MTV. How reality TV started...

 

[Catman]

If we're going with silly comedy, it's pretty easy. Characters could walk around with giant cell phones and beepers.

A comedy about the `90s could very easily be made. It would just have to focus on a particular group. There's the slackers that Kevin Smith did movies about. Or the urban crowd like in House Party. The skateboarding crowd could be an interesting one. There hasn't been that many movies about them. And they were like "surfer dudes" of the `90s.

 

[Timstuff]

The Real World MTV. How reality TV started...

AKA, "The Day TV Died."

 

[Catman]

The 90's were basically like what the world is like today, except it was more boring

The `90s were less boring, really. People hadn't yet become dependent on technology. Ultimately, I think that's what the `90s will be remembered for. It was the last decade where the outdoors and real life interactions were a common thing. 15 years ago if you wanted to play video games with a friend you actually had to go to their house or vice versa. If you wanted to rent a movie you actually had to go to a store. If you wanted to meet a girl or guy you actually had to go to a club. There was no online dating or eHarmony.

 

[Brother Jack]

Sometime this decade definitely, probably later on. They always seem to be made 20 years later. American Graffiti was made in the 70's about the 50's, Dazed and Confused was made in the 90's about the 70's and so on.

 

[Brother Jack]

doubles get

 

[HighFivingMF]

I can't wait until movies based on events of the '90s and set in the '90s start getting pumped out. I was born in 91 and wish I had been born a few years earlier so I could truly experience it.

 

[Rowsdower!]

The entire grunge movement disagrees with you.

Well, I don't know if it counts since it was made during the grunge era, but Singles is a great movie. You've probably seen it but if not, check it out. One of Cameron Crowe's best, with cameos by Pearl Jam, AIC and Soundgarden. One of the best soundtracks of all time, too.

 

[JAK®]

So, as expected, this thread is full of 80's kids talking about how the 90's sucked.

The 80's gets a lot of unwarranted praise because the majority of people on the internet were kids back then.

It's time for the 90's kids to be stupid now.