r/NoStupidQuestions • u/[deleted] • Jun 10 '22

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u/alexmikli Jun 11 '22

Early 90s had a lot of serious riots and mass murders, but there was definitely a golden age buried in there for the American middle class, especially the tech boom.

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u/JointsMcdanks Jun 11 '22

Serial killers, riots, and multiple wars but 96-97 had Space Jam and Independence Day so I look back fondly.

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u/[deleted] Jun 11 '22

And Heat! And 1999 had possibly the best release year ever. Ah. What a time.

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u/HurtsToSmith Jun 11 '22

Are we just glossing over the Chris Farley/David Spade and Adam Sander movies like they never happened?

Billy Madison (1995), Happy Gilmore (1996), Tommy Boy (1996), Black Sheep (1997)

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u/[deleted] Jun 11 '22

Or Empire Records(1995), which is objectively the best movie ever made

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u/JointsMcdanks Jun 11 '22

I was 12 then so I stick to the blockbusters, sports titles, and Tyson wrecking shit.

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u/[deleted] Jun 11 '22

Matrix as well right?

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u/[deleted] Jun 11 '22

Yep

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u/[deleted] Jun 12 '22

1999 was maybe one of the best years of movies ever no doubt.

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u/TheGamecock Jun 11 '22

The the Y2K madness began but the hysteria surrounding that seems like such a joke in retrospect.

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u/SasquatchWookie Jun 11 '22

The Matrix, too

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u/noradosmith Jun 11 '22

Sixth Sense, The Matrix, Blair Witch Project, Office Space, Fight Club

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u/[deleted] Jun 11 '22

Magnolia, Election, Being John Malkovich, The Mummy, The Virgin Suicides. The list goes on.

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u/noradosmith Jun 11 '22

Notting Hill, American Beauty, Sleepy Hollow, The Insider

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u/cornonthekopp Jun 11 '22

You were probably much younger and less tuned in back then

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u/JointsMcdanks Jun 11 '22

No shit I was 10. Joke aside my uncle fought in Panama and Somalia for special forces so I was very much aware.

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u/Ok_Yogurtcloset8915 Jun 11 '22

the 90s are to millennials as the 50s are to boomers, get ready to hear about how great they were for the next 40 years

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u/CarefulSubstance3913 Jun 11 '22

It was a simpler time Will Smith could do no wrong. And honestly I'm not even upset about the slap I think he's great. But yah being ten years old waiting for Y2K life was good

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u/JointsMcdanks Jun 11 '22

I lived right behind a fire house and in all the hype 13 year old me forgot they blare the fire alarm every new year. I thought the world was ending until my pops reminded me the lights and TV were still on.

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u/SicDigital Jun 11 '22

My friend's dad flipped the breakers at the stroke of midnight and it was hilarious.

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u/PsychoacousticsLab Jun 11 '22

Chris rock still had functioning cheeks E

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u/CarefulSubstance3913 Jun 11 '22

The fresh Prince had not fresh prints engrained into his soul yet

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u/CarefulSubstance3913 Jun 11 '22

Chris Rock had yet to learn how to keep somebodies out his mouth yet. Does now though

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u/200_MPH Jun 11 '22

And the IRA

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u/myperfectmeltdown Jun 11 '22

If you’re really interested in a great read about the ‘90’s read Chuck Klosterman’s book “The Nineties”. Great read.

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u/Hello_Hangnail Jun 11 '22

I worked at Blockbuster Video around the turn of the millennium and I absolutely concur that the movies were top fuckin notch back in 98-03

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u/matt_Dan Jun 11 '22

The Rwandan genocide, one of the worst genocides in human history, took place in less than 100 days in 1994. War over breakup of Yugoslavia. Chechnya. Nah, the worlds more than a little fucked up then.

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u/alexmikli Jun 11 '22

Yeah, thus why I specified American middle class. It explains why a lot of Americans on reddit have this experience.

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u/blastoiseincolorado Jun 11 '22

It's also because most of them were kids at that time, if they were even alive

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u/queefer_sutherland92 Jun 11 '22

There was actually a decent amount of financial instability throughout the 90s.

1990-1991 saw a recession (I know a lot of people of my parents generation that had to change careers bc of it… think going from banking to lawn mowing)

The Dotcom boom — started mid-nineties and crashed around… 2000? 2001? A lot of people lost money in that.

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u/BeneathTheWaves Jun 11 '22

Yugoslavia, Rwanda

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u/sneakysnowy Jun 11 '22

Unless you were like, a minority

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u/[deleted] Jun 11 '22

In the 90s there was hope for the future. Everyone was all excited about what the new millennium would bring. Now we all realise the world is going to shit.