The 90s thread

[Scotland]

Sliding Doors

before footy media took the term using it ad nauseam

If Sliding Doors with Gwyneth Paltrow isn't released...

...then Damian Barrett is still a massive flog who doesn't understand the concept.

 

[Gough]

Damon Albarn wrote all their songs.

Damon bought a house and a bar in Reyjkavik. When she came over to visit, there was a sketch on an Icelandic TV show where every woman in a hospital was giving birth to a little Damon. She broke him up with him and Elastica put out a s**t second album and then she moved to America to become a painter.

No idea why he went out with her for the whole of the 90s. She's got a very... strong face.

Meanwhile he was one of the prettiest blokes ever

Looks hotter now than he did then, he's aged look a good red.

 

[Cleavy]

What happened to the living end?

they still make music, released an album last year.

 

[brucetiki]

Cinemas are "going fine" like newspapers were "going fine" in 2005. It's already "120+ minutes and CGI explosions" just to get people to go. Home experience has improved out of sight (pun?) with reasonably cheap widescreen high definitition TVs and the cinema experience has gone down the toilet with people playing around on their phones.

I saw The Lion King the other week with a mate and he spent the whole movie checking footy scores on his phone.

 

[revo333]

People remember the big names and "speccys!!". They forget the delayed games finishing at 11:30 at night.

Average Grand finals and the standard in the late 90's was as bad as I've seen.

 

[revo333]

The Bulls intro in the 90's is the best I can remember

 

[Bomberboyokay]

90s Chicago Bulls were like Manchester United and the New York Yankees. As famous as the sport they played. Now nobody outside Chicago thinks about them. One guess which sport has a salary cap.

 

[Silent Alarm]

90s Chicago Bulls were like Manchester United and the New York Yankees. As famous as the sport they played. Now nobody outside Chicago thinks about them. One guess which sport has a salary cap.

I still think if you asked anyone over the age of about 20, 25 to name a basketball team, they're going to say the Chicago Bulls. As in, just about every old boomer or woman who works in reception down the local mini-mall will tell you the Chicago Bulls are a team who play basketball.

I wonder why more young players don't request trades there? It'd be a buzz to go back there and try and be the face of a franchise again, bring a ring back to Chi-city. All that shit buzzy bravado that Americans love. Certainly more interesting than going to some shallow bland franchise like Oklahoma City Thunder or the Miami Heat.

 

[peternorth]

sophie formica

 

[Bomberboyokay]

First aired March 28, 1999 in the US




Rumour/Internet has it Fox ordered this from Matt Groening and David X Cohen expecting The Simpsons 2.0. It wasn't that. Set in the far future, an unfrozen pizza delivery boy, a one-eyed woman, a talking robot, aliens, sci-fi plots every episode. If The Simpsons had ended in 1998 like it should've people would call this the spiritual successor as it feels like something made by staff from The Simpsons.




Originally ended at 72 episodes (came back in the late 00s-early 10s for 3 seasons on Comedy Central), which is a lot in these streaming times but in 2003 was an inglourious end for something with The Simpsons connection and compared to the phenomenal success of South Park which started a year and a half earlier.

 

[Lethality]

Cinemas are "going fine" like newspapers were "going fine" in 2005. It's already "120+ minutes and CGI explosions" just to get people to go. Home experience has improved out of sight (pun?) with reasonably cheap widescreen high definitition TVs and the cinema experience has gone down the toilet with people playing around on their phones.

Plus TV shows have gotten a lot better since the 90s.

People usually credit the Sopranos for the invention of long form TV, but obviously they just popularised it in a big way. Long form storytelling was around since at least the 60s, if not earlier.

Movies can't tell these kinds of long stories, even in a shared universe. Even the Marvel storyline, although it takes place over 10 years, is really just three or four movies of main plot.

 

[The Dice Man]

Plus TV shows have gotten a lot better since the 90s.

People usually credit the Sopranos for the invention of long form TV, but obviously they just popularised it in a big way. Long form storytelling was around since at least the 60s, if not earlier.

Movies can't tell these kinds of long stories, even in a shared universe. Even the Marvel storyline, although it takes place over 10 years, is really just three or four movies of main plot.

What are those strange buildings Ive never seen before.... Said no-one born pre-2000.

 

[peternorth]

 

[Scotland]

I wonder why more young players don't request trades there? It'd be a buzz to go back there and try and be the face of a franchise again, bring a ring back to Chi-city. All that s**t buzzy bravado that Americans love. Certainly more interesting than going to some shallow bland franchise like Oklahoma City Thunder or the Miami Heat.

Chicago is considered a big market in the NBA but they haven't been a force since the Jordan era finished 20 years ago. They had a pretty good team in the mid 2010s when Rose, Butler, Gasol, Noah etc. were all there but by that time Miami were the team to beat and then the Golden State/Cleveland thing came along and Chicago fell apart with injuries etc. anyway. They're sort of in no man's land. Not good enough to attract players on that basis and not the new shiny thing that everyone wants to play with any more. They don't seem to have the same aura that the Lakers (people expect them to come good) and Knicks (people don't) do.

Playing for 'big' teams doesn't have the same allure it did 10, 20 years ago. LeBron moved to Miami so he could get his squad together with Dwyane Wade and Bosh (meant to be Carmelo but that fat idiot chased the money). Then he went back to Cleveland once they had Irving and Kevin Love to keep him company. He joined the Lakers last year because he is all about brand LeBron in LA. The Lakers are still the team in LA but really the motivation for going there is to grow his business empire and play for a team where he can call the shots in who they sign, who the coach is etc. That they didn't get Ty Lue was a big surprise.

Durant and Irving joined the Nets, Kawhi and Paul George joined the Clippers. In the 90s these guys would've just moved to a the Knicks or the Lakers or the Celtics, no chance MVP calibre players join the second team of these cities that no one cares about. As Durant showed if you just up and leave and join a top team like he did then people judge you for chasing easy rings. Star players want OK teams with low salary cap commitments so they can get maximum money and assemble star rosters with their guys.

It's an interesting dynamic that doesn't really translate to footy which is an 18 a side game. Instead of someone like Tom Lynch joining Richmond who are a top 4 side or whoever else he spoke to it would be more like Lynch deciding to join North or St Kilda but only if they also trade in Steven May and sign Scott Lycett with a handshake agreement to bring in Stephen Coniglio as a free agent this year.

 

[Gough]

Remember this?

 

[beez]

Remember this?

I just finished watching In The Name Of The Father for the umpteenth time. I studied it in Year 9 media and remember having a discussion about both the Guildford Four and Birmingham Six; can't remember me taking too much of an interest though...

Emma Thompson ♥

 

[Papa G]

All posts have to end with a 90s song now.



This song is youth.

Gaz Coombes was like 17 or something when this came out. What a life he found himself. The diamond geezer.

What a great pop song too, absolutely embodies all it wants to. Arrogant and all-knowing.

Chuck a bit o Disco 2000 on and then play this scene from a great film and you'll pull tonight (directed to any punk on the forum).

Geez this brings back memories. Lived in London late 90s. Saw Supergrass 3 times. Pills were 4 quid....

 

[Gough]

I just finished watching In The Name Of The Father for the umpteenth time. I studied it in Year 9 media and remember having a discussion about both the Guildford Four and Birmingham Six; can't remember me taking too much of an interest though...

Emma Thompson ♥

I saw Gerry Conlon on a speaking tour before the film came out, I've still got my copy of Proved Innocent that he signed to me, I cried real tears when he died. If you're interested, Paddy Joe Hill from the Birmingham 6 also wrote a book about his experiences.

 

[Plugger35]

Geez this brings back memories. Lived in London late 90s. Saw Supergrass 3 times. Pills were 4 quid....

You were getting ripped off, we could get 3 pills for 10 quid, was about the cost of a pint. Here you would pay about 50 bucks for one and they'd be half as good.

 

[Silent Alarm]

You were getting ripped off, we could get 3 pills for 10 quid, was about the cost of a pint. Here you would pay about 50 bucks for one and they'd be half as good.

Sounds like you were getting ripped off, you street-smart shark.

Even these days it's 50 bucks for two.

 

[Bomberboyokay]

A$25 a piece in my experience.

We're talking about MDMA/things purporting to be MDMA right?

 

[peternorth]

 

[Plugger35]

Sounds like you were getting ripped off, you street-smart shark.

Even these days it's 50 bucks for two.

Don't recall them being that cheap here 20 odd years ago, there's probably more around these days which brings the price down, it's all about supply and demand.

I preferred this Ratcat song.




They are the only two Ratcat songs I can remember, they were a two hit wonder.

 

[peternorth]

Don't recall them being that cheap here 20 odd years ago, there's probably more around these days which brings the price down, it's all about supply and demand.



I preferred this Ratcat song.




They are the only two Ratcat songs I can remember, they were a two hit wonder.

That is also an excellent song.

 

[Silent Alarm]

Don't recall them being that cheap here 20 odd years ago, there's probably more around these days which brings the price down, it's all about supply and demand.

Plugger at the Hip-E club in 1997: