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Started by Eddie Teach, March 06, 2011, 09:29:27 AM

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Valmy

Quote from: Barrister on December 16, 2019, 04:44:48 PM
Celedhring: you should get writing a script. :ph34r:

Somebody has to write that Friends remake.
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The Brain

Quote from: The Brain on December 15, 2019, 03:36:19 PM
Hold the Dark. Iceman from Generation Kill is still in the sandbox, but gets wounded and shipped home around the same time his Alaskan home village has a wolf problem. One of those slow movies, where everything. Is. Slow. As. Fuck. I was keeping at it because there was at least some interesting stuff happening, but then during [spoiler]the world's slowest and most drawn out shootout scene, which also happened to be farcical[/spoiler] I couldn't take it anymore. I may or may not finish it at a later time.

Finished it. Not essential viewing.
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Syt

Started watching the MCU movies again. I haven't watched anything since Age of Ultron, but thought I'd revisit the previous movies to refresh my memory.

Iron Man. Still fun, though starting to show its age as pre-smartphone movie that name drops MySpace.

Hulk. Hadn't seen it before, and was expecting bad things. It was ok, though. Mark Ruffalo is a better Banner than Ed Norton.

Iron Man 2. Kinda like Iron Man 1, but with a bigger budget and slightly more futuristic design.

Thor. Hiddleston and Hemsworth carry the movie. Love the design of Asgard. Light entertaining fun with equal measures of silly humor and melodrama.
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Barrister

Quote from: Valmy on December 16, 2019, 04:46:30 PM
Quote from: Barrister on December 16, 2019, 04:44:48 PM
Celedhring: you should get writing a script. :ph34r:

Somebody has to write that Friends remake.

Nah: you know a That 90s Show needs to be set in Seattle.

Actually: someone needs to license the TV rights to Microserfs.  Sell it as a cross between, well Happy Days/That 70s Show, The Office, and Silicon Valley.  :cool:
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Syt

We already have a 90s Seattle show.  :mad:

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Eddie Teach

Quote from: The Minsky Moment on December 16, 2019, 03:47:44 PM
Quote from: Tonitrus on December 16, 2019, 02:55:57 PM
I like him a lot, but agree that he is one of those actors where all of his characters feel like different shades of the same guy.  :P

He played Atticus Finch and Joseph Mengele, among others.  Seemed different to me.

Well, Mengele is certainly out of character but he played quiet, dignified heroes like Atticus in many films.
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Admiral Yi

What happened in the 90s besides grunge?

Eddie Teach

Y2K panic, Clinton, ecommerce, tupac... Meh, the last 30 years seem to bleed together, hard to say any of them has a specific feel.
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Josephus

I figure it starts in 1997, or so. The last season will be 2001, ending with the twin tower 9-11 thing...the end of innocence sort of thing.

So what did late teens do in the late 90s, that can be parodied?
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The Brain

Some late teens did porn.
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Admiral Yi

I guess that was peak rave/ecstasy time, wasn't it?

crazy canuck

Quote from: Josephus on December 16, 2019, 05:21:01 PM
I figure it starts in 1997, or so. The last season will be 2001, ending with the twin tower 9-11 thing...the end of innocence sort of thing.

So what did late teens do in the late 90s, that can be parodied?

I think it needs to start at the start of the decade.  The wall has come down, everything is possible, the West has won, all will be sunshine rainbows and lollipops, and then it isnt.

Barrister

Quote from: Admiral Yi on December 16, 2019, 05:07:09 PM
What happened in the 90s besides grunge?

The internet.  Early cellphones.  Boybands.  The balkans.  Waco seige.  Columbine.  Starbucks. 

Doesn't have to be teens - I was suggesting more of a workplace comedy set at Microsoft at the height of its powers.  Bill Gates almost an unseen extra cast member.
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Barrister

Quote from: crazy canuck on December 16, 2019, 05:24:02 PM
Quote from: Josephus on December 16, 2019, 05:21:01 PM
I figure it starts in 1997, or so. The last season will be 2001, ending with the twin tower 9-11 thing...the end of innocence sort of thing.

So what did late teens do in the late 90s, that can be parodied?

I think it needs to start at the start of the decade.  The wall has come down, everything is possible, the West has won, all will be sunshine rainbows and lollipops, and then it isnt.

Start it around 93-94.  Economy is still kind of depressed.  They you get the rise of the internet / dot com boom, then Y2K, dot come bust, and 9/11.
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The Brain

Quote from: crazy canuck on December 16, 2019, 05:24:02 PM
Quote from: Josephus on December 16, 2019, 05:21:01 PM
I figure it starts in 1997, or so. The last season will be 2001, ending with the twin tower 9-11 thing...the end of innocence sort of thing.

So what did late teens do in the late 90s, that can be parodied?

I think it needs to start at the start of the decade.  The wall has come down, everything is possible, the West has won, all will be sunshine rainbows and lollipops, and then it isnt.

It needs to start in the middle of the decade. Alanis at the height of her powers.
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