I miss the 90's thread

[Khev]

I love 90's movies. That would be a long list.

Yep. Some of the best of the decade off the top of my head:

1. Unforgiven
2. Princess Mononoke
3. Pulp Fiction
4. The Shawshank Redemption
5. Schindler's List
6. Toy Story

 

[karamazov80]

Yep. Some of the best of the decade off the top of my head:

1. Unforgiven
2. Princess Mononoke
3. Pulp Fiction
4. The Shawshank Redemption
5. Schindler's List
6. Toy Story

Khev, Imma give you a few minutes to edit that post to include the Big Lebowski before I put you on the Ignore list. Just FYI.

 

[Khev]

Khev's Master Plan:

1. Don't care much for The Big Lebowski
2. Become a mod so karamazov80 can't place me on ignore
3. World Domination

2/3 of the way there!!

 

[karamazov80]

Kheeeeeeeeeeeev!!!

Seriously though, how can you not care for the Big Lebowski? But you do like Sucker Punch. . .Khev, I'm afraid that you may have what professionals refer to as "issues."

 

[Khev]

Liking a movie /= ranking it as one of the top movies of a decade.

And for whatever reason the Coen Brothers' films just never really struck a chord with me. Fargo impressed me the most, but that was pretty much it.

 

[karamazov80]

Well similarly, I never got all the hoopla over Shawshank,* so I guess it all balances out





*speaking of Coens, I prefer the Hudsucker Proxy, though it is one of their lesser movies

 

[devilof76]

Tombstone
Reservoir Dogs
Dead Man
Apt Pupil
Henry & June
Chaplin
Godzilla vs. Destroyah
The Iron Giant
Jacob's Ladder
Queen Margot
Natural Born Killers
Se7en
The Usual Suspects
Sleepy Hollow
Rob Roy
The Fifth Element
Bram Stoker's Dracula
The Doors
Boyz N The Hood
Apollo 13

 

[Blackthornone]

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Surprising that people share that view.

It's a great movie, though.

 

[crows]

the waiting list for mortal kombat was a mile long at the local game rental place here in town & my mom acted like she didn't want me to have it

then she came home with it after work

my parents would have never bought me that

but I spend countless hours in the arcades, wasting coins, I would also just watch my friends play and learn the combos, so I would spend hours watching everyone play and then I would play, it was fun

 

[Khev]

The Fifth Element was awesome until Chris Tucker showed up. From then on it was irrevocably ruined. He was the *original* Jar Jar Binks.

 

[DarthBakura]

my parents would have never bought me that

but I spend countless hours in the arcades, wasting coins, I would also just watch my friends play and learn the combos, so I would spend hours watching everyone play and then I would play, it was fun

On one hand, I can understand that... to a point. On the other... I kinda don't get it. I mean, the outright denial of such content that is. Although, perhaps your parents thought, from experience, you couldn't be trusted with that type of material?

Anyway, I was 9 or 10 when I got Mortal Kombat 2. I turned out fine. I haven't mass murdered a bunch of people or whatever. I was raised well enough to be able to handle that type of stuff. I wasn't "mature" per se, I just knew better, if you will. That said, I had a lot of positive reinforcement in the form of superheroes like Batman and other sources of good influences, like Star Wars.

Hell, I'm not even as desensitized as a lot of other folks seem to be these days and I played many, many violent and bloody video games and watched many, many violent and graphic movies as a kid. Does that mean I generally prefer my games and movies to be of the same caliber, to this day? Yes. However, I like plenty of "less adult" displays of entertainment and am perfectly fine watching stuff like Wall-E and playing kid-friendly video games.

Now, I can certainly see how people like myself might be the exception. For instance, my youngest cousin acts like a raving lunatic and I don't understand how the hell his parents are okay with him playing Call of Duty Black Ops at age 9, when he throws a temper tantrum and starts spouting off, sometimes at his elders, profanities I would've been hanged for saying, prior to entering high school.

Parents should treat the ratings system(s) like an experiment. Throw them in the water and see how they react. If it's a somewhat healthy response, let them be, with a degree of moderation. If they flip out or their behavior takes a drastic turn, obviously seek an alternate approach... e.g. cut them off at the source, get psychiatric help or just pay ****ing attention to your child more often and you might be able to thwart life-altering psychological warps.

Sorry, I get a little preachy about the whole "mature content vs children" debacle. Hate seeing it's downright exclusion, but also hate seeing it's blatant misuse.

 

[devilof76]

The Fifth Element was awesome until Chris Tucker showed up. From then on it was irrevocably ruined. He was the *original* Jar Jar Binks.

But he was a perfect representation of how ridiculous the world had become. Kinda the flip side of Zorg. The two best ways to measure a society's character are to look at the kind of man who can get rich, and the kind of man who can get famous.

 

[floppy hat jon]

Here's one '90s show that I really loved and miss like all hell:

Oh, man, Space Ghost Coast to Coast! I completely forgot about it. I may spend the rest of the night on YouTube.

 

[Khev]

But he was a perfect representation of how ridiculous the world had become.

Like I said, the original Jar Jar.

 

[DarthBakura]

The Fifth Element was awesome until Chris Tucker showed up. From then on it was irrevocably ruined. He was the *original* Jar Jar Binks.

Hahahaha!

Hmm, it's hard to imagine the film without him at this point, but you may be right.

 

[devilof76]

Like I said, the original Jar Jar.

He was much worse than Jar Jar.

 

[crows]

On one hand, I can understand that... to a point. On the other... I kinda don't get it. I mean, the outright denial of such content that is. Although, perhaps your parents thought, from experience, you couldn't be trusted with that type of material?

Anyway, I was 9 or 10 when I got Mortal Kombat 2. I turned out fine. I haven't mass murdered a bunch of people or whatever. I was raised well enough to be able to handle that type of stuff. I wasn't "mature" per se, I just knew better, if you will. That said, I had a lot of positive reinforcement in the form of superheroes like Batman and other sources of good influences, like Star Wars.

Hell, I'm not even as desensitized as a lot of other folks seem to be these days and I played many, many violent and bloody video games and watched many, many violent and graphic movies as a kid. Does that mean I generally prefer my games and movies to be of the same caliber, to this day? Yes. However, I like plenty of "less adult" displays of entertainment and am perfectly fine watching stuff like Wall-E and playing kid-friendly video games.

Now, I can certainly see how people like myself might be the exception. For instance, my youngest cousin acts like a raving lunatic and I don't understand how the hell his parents are okay with him playing Call of Duty Black Ops at age 9, when he throws a temper tantrum and starts spouting off, sometimes at his elders, profanities I would've been hanged for saying, prior to entering high school.

Parents should treat the ratings system(s) like an experiment. Throw them in the water and see how they react. If it's a somewhat healthy response, let them be, with a degree of moderation. If they flip out or their behavior takes a drastic turn, obviously seek an alternate approach... e.g. cut them off at the source, get psychiatric help or just pay ****ing attention to your child more often and you might be able to thwart life-altering psychological warps.

Sorry, I get a little preachy about the whole "mature content vs children" debacle. Hate seeing it's downright exclusion, but also hate seeing it's blatant misuse.

I don't know, my dad didn't care but then again he was barely home, he drove a truck so he would be gone for months sometimes, and when he came he barely talked to me, but he never hit me or even punish me ever,

as for my mom, she would freak out by anything, I didn't even ask because when I Asked for the terminator game for the SNES, she didnt get it for the violence, she just didn't want me to play violent games,
they did the same with music, I had to listen to metal without her knowing, I would tape the music into blank tapes,
I never misbehaved either, like ever, I hated feeling like I Was in trouble,

you are right about what you said, in my case it was different, my mom just did not want me to play that, she didn't like it, just like she would not let me listen to Marilyn Manson,
but I did both LOL

 

[ZaCHw117]

Ed, Edd and Eddy. Even though it was mostly in the 00's still awesome.

 

[Gary23]

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[CelticPredator]

I would hang out with Ruby Rod.

Never would hang out with Jar Jar.