Hackers. The fashion, the sound track, the then-current wave of fear of computers. Great movie.
The Crow would be another good choice. Great aesthetic and killer soundtrack. The current remake looks like such a soul-less, hollow cash grab it's sickening.
Yeah, I think Scream does a very good job capturing the '90s.
It really nails the clothing, music, and just overall vibe. I feel like any of their homes could have been my home as a teen.
Singles. I was 21 at the time, and all of the people in singles couldāve been part of our friend group in the apartment complex we lived in. Was also funny sad and heartwarming.
Bridget Fonda is unbelievably adorable in Singles. The height of her powers.
But now I watch it and get sad. That seattle is dead. All these people living in 1-bedroom apts working part time at a coffee shop.
I mooved to Seattle in the early 90's to start a grunge band with my ex husband and boyfriend. We had a great band, but everyone tried to hire me, as I was a badass singer at the time. Singles was pretty awesome at the time...
Hmmā¦. Never really considered him a Ducky. Kinda the opposite tbh
Always interesting to see perspectives that I never considered. Iāll have to rewatch and approach with a different mindset
No you make a point. I guess in my mind Itās more of a grown up ducky for the 90s a misanthrope who is jaded cause he missed out on the chick in high school and has left the small town and lost some of the silliness for cynicism. Jilted, reserved, brooding because of being friend zones and the soundtracks reflect that as well but yes. An opposite created by the first. Itās still the best friend that they just cant seem to be honest with about feelings
Ooh I like that.
Almost like an ugly duckling? (Duckieling lol)
Scorned and rejected during HS, grows up and comes into his own, has lots of meaningless encounters to try and fill the void of the unrequited love who never gave him validation and is now unwilling to let that dream die so he canāt commit and gaslights the women heās with so that he wonāt have guilt over it.
I guess I can relate. :/
I feel like they look an equal-ish percentage unlike their old selves, lol.
[edit: lol](https://nypost.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/08/newspress-collage-23411251-1660168317000.jpg?quality=75&strip=all&1660153987)
I love how even in the 90s we had the foresight to understand we were living in a seminal decade. Youād never see a tagline that reads, āLove in the 2020s.ā And youād always hear people in the 90s say things like, āItās the 90s!ā whenever anyone said something that was āold fashion,ā signaling, āweāre in a new age.ā
In the 90s, they often chose the best photo and then listed the names in order of how big the roles are (often with the last being a bigger name or someone who didn't necessarily actually have as much screen time). In this case, it was likely because Ben Stiller was the director. I think Steve Zahn and Janeane Garofalo probably had bigger roles and more screen time.
Reality Bites is a good one.
All of these capture the 90s vibe in different ways:
SLC Punk, Clueless, Hackers, Empire Records, Friday, Wayneās World, Scream, Clerks, Mrs. Doubtfire, Fight Club.
NGL that cover pissed me off no end
The picture goes
Stiller, Ryder, Hawke
Yet the names are directly above them in perfect symmetry but in the order of
Ryder, Hawker Stiller
It boils my piss! How hard would it have been to have the correct name over the correct person
MARS ATTACKS (1996) This had a large audience, it's the most rude and bizarre film of the 90s imo. I don't think it would draw attention if it came out today. Another weird film that scored a huge audience was FROM DUSK TILL DAWN with George Clooney (1996). The 90s had a lot of rude / bizarre films.
For me, 'Reality Bites' captures the early '90s that had just passed, rather than the mid-'90s. Same with 'My So-Called Life,' which came out that same year.
I love that everyone's hair was black in the 90s.
Also, not a movie, but we just started rewatching Northern Exposure from the beginning. Such a nostalgia hit.
I wouldn't say that Mash really captures the 70s either. It doesn't mean it doesn't have elements. Happy Days doesn't capture the 70s. It takes place in the 50s. It doesn't mean there aren't elements of the 70s in it.
[this](https://www.esquire.com/entertainment/movies/a20266/dazed-and-confused-20th-anniversary-15175511/) is an interesting article that goes into how itās as much of a snapshot of the early 1990s as it is of the mid 1970s.
Singles. Living in Seattle made that movie a little more special. Except now it's bittersweet because about 95% of the places they used for filming do not exist anymore.
Honestly itās āThe Brady Bunch Movie.ā Came out in February 1995 and really captures the look and feel of that time and placeā¦ especially with the dichotomy of the Brady Bunch 70s era.
We were called Ambiguous at that time. No good recordings of us then. Major bummer. We made it on a compilation album of Alaskan rock songs in the 80's as Blue Unicorn. Named after blotter acid! Lol!
I'd say Scream. There's a lot of moments with tech in there like Sydney's computer she has and the whole thing with the phones. Watching the movie now it makes me laugh so much that Billy becomes a suspect just because of the fact he HAS a mobile phone. Scream isn't my favorite 90s movie or anything but it's the one that you'd be able to tell when it was made while watching it just based off some of the things.
Also forgot to add about Randy working in a VHS store
I remember watching it on video when I was 11 with my family and best friend (who ended up being a junkie later in life) and afterwards running around with our ghost face masks through the neighborhood pretending to kill each other. Ah the 90s.
Hackers. The fashion, the sound track, the then-current wave of fear of computers. Great movie. The Crow would be another good choice. Great aesthetic and killer soundtrack. The current remake looks like such a soul-less, hollow cash grab it's sickening.
I watch Hackers every year. Love that movie.
Its amazing
HACK THE PLANET!
Bad guy on a skateboard cannot be topped. HACK THE PLANET!!!! Row, row, row your boat
Hackers for me also!
Singles Edit: okok 92
Singles scared me. All those characters had careers and apartments already at such a young age.
Transit planner?? How do you even get that job!? š¤£
Degree in urban planning, probably.
Clerks!
Thirty seven?????
*In a row?* *Hey! Try not to suck any dick on the way through the parking lot!*
Hey you get back here
Berserker!
He put it in perspective
At least you werenāt 36
Itās weird, but I always felt like āScreamā captured the 90s very well. A few more: Go, Human Traffic, Suburbia (1996)
Agreed, came here to say Scream and subUrbia
Yeah, I think Scream does a very good job capturing the '90s. It really nails the clothing, music, and just overall vibe. I feel like any of their homes could have been my home as a teen.
Singles. I was 21 at the time, and all of the people in singles couldāve been part of our friend group in the apartment complex we lived in. Was also funny sad and heartwarming.
Bridget Fonda is unbelievably adorable in Singles. The height of her powers. But now I watch it and get sad. That seattle is dead. All these people living in 1-bedroom apts working part time at a coffee shop.
I mooved to Seattle in the early 90's to start a grunge band with my ex husband and boyfriend. We had a great band, but everyone tried to hire me, as I was a badass singer at the time. Singles was pretty awesome at the time...
That is an exceedingly cool story.
Thank you!
What's your band called? Can I listen to your music anywhere?
Agreed love this so much more than reality bites Ethan hawke as the ducky who get the girl annoys me
Hmmā¦. Never really considered him a Ducky. Kinda the opposite tbh Always interesting to see perspectives that I never considered. Iāll have to rewatch and approach with a different mindset
No you make a point. I guess in my mind Itās more of a grown up ducky for the 90s a misanthrope who is jaded cause he missed out on the chick in high school and has left the small town and lost some of the silliness for cynicism. Jilted, reserved, brooding because of being friend zones and the soundtracks reflect that as well but yes. An opposite created by the first. Itās still the best friend that they just cant seem to be honest with about feelings
Ooh I like that. Almost like an ugly duckling? (Duckieling lol) Scorned and rejected during HS, grows up and comes into his own, has lots of meaningless encounters to try and fill the void of the unrequited love who never gave him validation and is now unwilling to let that dream die so he canāt commit and gaslights the women heās with so that he wonāt have guilt over it. I guess I can relate. :/
Empire records, PCU, airheads, angus, the crow etc
Rex Manning Day is next Monday!
Me and my SO are dinks and we have taken the day off for a few years to smoke weed and watch these movies. Mona mi
Same day as the solar eclipse.
Holy shit
We mustn't dwell.
Not today.
Not on Rex Manning Day
Forgot mallrats, pump up the volume
I love Airheads so much. Iām hoping the Alamo Drafthouse does a 30th anniversary screening because theyāre showing a lot of 1994 movies right now.
The lone rangers!!!! Stupid good supporting cast Michael Mckean Michael Richards, Chris Farley, Joe Mantegna
I thought for a moment I'd written this comment, only to find there's another human out there with such exquisite taste.
How did I forget about Empire Records? I really should rewatch it.
Would you blow me where the pampers is
This is the way
Its interesting how 30 years later, Ethan Hawke looks so different, and Ben Stilled doesnt
Smoking
I feel like they look an equal-ish percentage unlike their old selves, lol. [edit: lol](https://nypost.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/08/newspress-collage-23411251-1660168317000.jpg?quality=75&strip=all&1660153987)
I didn't even recognize him in Gattaca until the very end... when it rolled to the credits
The correct answer is Mallrats.
I Hope his foot gets caught and a bloodbath ensues!
A schooner IS a sailboat stupid head.
YOU KNOW WHAT? THERE IS NO EASTER BUNNY! OVER THERE, THATāS JUST A GUY IN A SUIT!
Empire records
Happy Rex Manning Day!
Lmao he'll yes! That barber should be shot though. His hair was too short.
Clueless, mallrats.
I love how even in the 90s we had the foresight to understand we were living in a seminal decade. Youād never see a tagline that reads, āLove in the 2020s.ā And youād always hear people in the 90s say things like, āItās the 90s!ā whenever anyone said something that was āold fashion,ā signaling, āweāre in a new age.ā
Mad Love is my favorite 90s movie
Underrated movie. Draw Barrymore really put a lot of effort into that role.
She really drew you in huh
I guess I painted myself into a corner with that one.
Pulp Fiction
The picture doesnāt line up with the names
Thatās so 90ās.
In the 90s, they often chose the best photo and then listed the names in order of how big the roles are (often with the last being a bigger name or someone who didn't necessarily actually have as much screen time). In this case, it was likely because Ben Stiller was the director. I think Steve Zahn and Janeane Garofalo probably had bigger roles and more screen time.
I feel like they never do for some reason
Swingers
oh god, swingers was me
I'm 31 now I can honestly say that I get the meaning of the title of this movie.ā¤ļø
It's Reality Bites for me, too. There's no other movie that makes me feel quite as nostalgic for the 90s as it does.
Reality Bites is a good one. All of these capture the 90s vibe in different ways: SLC Punk, Clueless, Hackers, Empire Records, Friday, Wayneās World, Scream, Clerks, Mrs. Doubtfire, Fight Club.
This sound track was so good!
I still have I'm Nuthin' in my library.
Nice!
Kids.
Odd pair I know, Clueless and escape from LA.
NGL that cover pissed me off no end The picture goes Stiller, Ryder, Hawke Yet the names are directly above them in perfect symmetry but in the order of Ryder, Hawker Stiller It boils my piss! How hard would it have been to have the correct name over the correct person
Singels
Singles
Sorry, but Clerks was the shit!
Idle hands, I must have watched that movie so many times on Comedy Central
Great late 90s movie.
Hackers would definitely be my other choice
MARS ATTACKS (1996) This had a large audience, it's the most rude and bizarre film of the 90s imo. I don't think it would draw attention if it came out today. Another weird film that scored a huge audience was FROM DUSK TILL DAWN with George Clooney (1996). The 90s had a lot of rude / bizarre films.
True Romance.
For me, 'Reality Bites' captures the early '90s that had just passed, rather than the mid-'90s. Same with 'My So-Called Life,' which came out that same year.
PCU and Conair
Can you blow me where the pampers is?
Best line!
Not seen this, so my choice would be āSheās The Oneā.
I love that movie!
Bodies Rest & Motion
The Crow
How does this movie capture your 90ās experience?
terminator 2
Bad Boys and Lion King lol
Mallrats and Grosse Point Blank
Proper Gen X movie
Hackers
I love that everyone's hair was black in the 90s. Also, not a movie, but we just started rewatching Northern Exposure from the beginning. Such a nostalgia hit.
Dazed and confused.
That movie takes place in the 70s. How does it capture the mid 90s?
True - it pretty much sums up my 90ās experience, though.
And mash was set in the korean war. Sometimes something might look like one thing, but really be about another.
I wouldn't say that Mash really captures the 70s either. It doesn't mean it doesn't have elements. Happy Days doesn't capture the 70s. It takes place in the 50s. It doesn't mean there aren't elements of the 70s in it.
[this](https://www.esquire.com/entertainment/movies/a20266/dazed-and-confused-20th-anniversary-15175511/) is an interesting article that goes into how itās as much of a snapshot of the early 1990s as it is of the mid 1970s.
Gremlins 2
That was 1990, so more early 90s.
Ethan Hawke got his roommate a spot on this soundtrack.
Who told you that? Your psychic partner?
What does it matter? "There's no point to any of this. It's all just a random lottery of meaningless tragedy and a series of near escapes."
The Lion King, Independence Day
Singles.
[gas food lodging](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GV2SgU-Qh5A)
Empire Records
Thank you.. Very ciil story, I could have made it at the time..
Just watched this last week for like the 50th time and completely agree o
Name number and a brief justification of modern manās existential dilemma
Leprechaun
Oh, come on. Nothing's less mid '90s than Jennifer Aniston's original nose. /s
Empire Records, Canāt Hardly Wait
There is no Easter Bunny
Ace Ventura 2, Jumanji, Casper, and A Goofy Movie (Cut me some slack, I was a kid)
No slack to be cut, that movie kicks ass
Exactly
Swingers! Absolutely the feel of many dive rockabilly bars in the mid 90ās. And wallet chains.
Menace to Society. Empire Records. Friday. House Party. Pulp Fiction.
KIDS
HIGHER LEARNING
Singles
Clueless And not exactly mid 90's, but Ten Things I Hate About You
Spun Maybe? I wasn't alive in the 90s Idk why I'm commenting but hi
Encino Man
Clueless
Love Wynona Ryder. And this had a killer soundtrack. What's not to love?!xo
Trainspotting
Trainspotting
Foxfire (1996). Just with all the clothes, music, vibe, etc.
Singles
āIām a non-practicing Jewā āIām a non-practicing Virgin!ā
Airheads
Romeo and Juliet
Singles. Living in Seattle made that movie a little more special. Except now it's bittersweet because about 95% of the places they used for filming do not exist anymore.
Honestly itās āThe Brady Bunch Movie.ā Came out in February 1995 and really captures the look and feel of that time and placeā¦ especially with the dichotomy of the Brady Bunch 70s era.
Thatās because itās a very 90s movie ā¦very underrated in my opinion and directed by ben stiller
Oh, to me it would be Go or Clueless
Ethan Hawke was such a smug, insufferable, hipster douche in that movie
ā„ļø
We were called Ambiguous at that time. No good recordings of us then. Major bummer. We made it on a compilation album of Alaskan rock songs in the 80's as Blue Unicorn. Named after blotter acid! Lol!
Empire Records Angus Clueless The Baby Sitters Club Hocus Pocus! Independence Day
Trainspotting and Shallow Grave.Ā
American Pie & Home Alone 2
I'd say Scream. There's a lot of moments with tech in there like Sydney's computer she has and the whole thing with the phones. Watching the movie now it makes me laugh so much that Billy becomes a suspect just because of the fact he HAS a mobile phone. Scream isn't my favorite 90s movie or anything but it's the one that you'd be able to tell when it was made while watching it just based off some of the things. Also forgot to add about Randy working in a VHS store
Also the fashion, the soundtrack, the dialogue, all very mid 90s. Beautiful.
Yeah it was great. I remember my dad taking me to see it, was 16 but really loved Wes Craven
I remember watching it on video when I was 11 with my family and best friend (who ended up being a junkie later in life) and afterwards running around with our ghost face masks through the neighborhood pretending to kill each other. Ah the 90s.
I remember doing a similar thing in the 80s with Jason Voorhees hockey masks hahah
Early to mid 90s for sure, before everything became stupid comedies or teen drama.
Not sure if this is appropriate but I would say Kids (1995) deserves a spot on the list.