When did the 90's begin?

[Joe Molotov]

I think it was with the release of MC Hammer's single "U Can't Touch This" in June 1990.

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I think the 90's were finally delivered a death blow by the Wachowski Brothers on November 5, 2003 with the release of the second part of a one-two punch of Matrix Reloaded/Revolutions, crushing not only fanboy dreams for the last great (potential) movie franchise of the 90's, along with the Sci-Fi/Hacker/Black Leather Fetish/Cyber Punk/Neo-Noir fad that brought us such films as Barb Wire, Johnny Mnemonic, Dark City, Hackers, The Net, Equilibrium, Judge Dredd and more, but it also killed Keanu Reeve's career. The 90's would never recover from that.

Discuss.

[Rman]

I hated the 90s.  Thank god that era is done with.  Not due to pop culture, but more due to grade school and junior high. 

Regarding memorable media, I did love Batman: The Animated Series, which remains my one of favorite cartoons.

[MyNameIsMethodis]

Keanu Reeves was good in Scanner Darkly

[FlameOfCallandor]

90s


Blind Melon

[xnikki118x]

I loved the 90s.

[pilonv1]

how could anyone hate the 90s. well maybe the late 90s but 90-96 was fucking awesome

[lordmaji]

I loved the 90s.

Amen.

[xnikki118x]

how could anyone hate the 90s. well maybe the late 90s but 90-96 was fucking awesome

Excuse me sir, but Hanson and the Spice Girls were huge in 1997. How could you not love that? Halloween that year was the best--everyone was a Spice Girl!

Plus 1999 was like hilarious because people thought the world would explode or something when the OMGMILLENNIUM happened. How could you not look back on that and laugh?

[xnikki118x]

2000s

Yeah pretty much, man.

[evilromero]

If not for the video games I would have completely written off the 90s. The 80s pisses all over it from the Saturday morning cartoon themes to television advertisements.

[Great Rumbler]

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90's

Mind's Eye

[Himu]

anyone remember demolition man?

[Himu]

and some weird ass movie starring this pasty white guy that looked like chalk wtf

[Vizzys]

anyone remember demolition man?

You're gonna regret this the rest of your life... both seconds of it.

[Himu]

hahha

yeah

[max_cool]

"Smells Like Teen Spirit" was released on September 10, 1991 as the lead single from Nevermind

9/10 NEVER FORGET!!!!!

[Eric P]

ecstasy was a hell of a drug, wasn't it?

[lordmaji]

In 1991, when Street Fighter 2 released to arcades.

h8er!

It all began w/ this.

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[tiesto]

I'd say it started upon the release of Smells Like Teen Spirit and ended with 9/11...

[lordmaji]

I'd say it started upon the release of Smells Like Teen Spirit and ended with 9/11...

Freedom Hater. America started at 9/11.

[Debaser]

It was the 90s when there was time for

[muckhole]

and some weird ass movie starring this pasty white guy that looked like chalk wtf

Haha, that was Powder.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0114168/

I never saw it, I just remember the big uproar after the movie came out because I'm pretty sure the director was a convicted pedo.

[Eric P]

I'd say it started upon the release of Smells Like Teen Spirit and ended with 9/11...

that's a fairly good white assessment, actually

[Himu]

Are you serious?

[Eric P]

Are you serious?

for white suburbanites in the 90s, it sounds about right.

[Himu]

In 1991, when Street Fighter 2 released to arcades.

for me, it's this. it ended with 9/11 though, because I knew at that moment my childhood - the 90's - was over, and I was right.

[Himu]

Are you serious?

for white suburbanites in the 90s, it sounds about right.

I'm talking about the director of Powder! You posted too fast!

[muckhole]

Are you serious?

From IMDB:

Victor Salva's career has been one of moderate commercial success flooded with controversy. Salva is a B-filmmaker making movies with basic plots and characters. Salva grew up outside of San Francisco watching schlock horror films on television. A self-confessed "Jaws baby", he began channeling his filmmaking ambitions while in high school. In 1986 he made the short film Something in the Basement (1986), a low-budget chiller he made in his own backyard. The short caught the attention of filmmaker Francis Ford Coppola, who in turn helped Salva finance his feature-length debut, Clownhouse (1989). The film, shot for $200,000, centered on three young boys who are terrorized by mental patients-turned-clowns. During filming of this low-budget schlock, Salva molested the underage star - a 12-year-old boy, Nathan Forest Winters. It would be five years before Salva made another film. He began with the The Nature of the Beast (1995). Filmed in 1994, the film followed a salesman who comes into contact with a mysterious, drugged-out drifter, while traveling along the isolated desert landscape. Then came the Disney financed Powder (1995), about a young albino with special powers. While it had moderate box office profits, the film was ultimately deterred by revelations of Salva's past as convicted sex offender. The media coverage surrounding Salva's conviction sent the filmmaker back into seclusion, and it was 4 years before the director was heard from again with Rites of Passage (1999). It centered on a family threatened by both repression and two escaped convicts which took the Grand Prize at the Santa Monica Film Festival. Salva followed that with rubber monster movie Jeepers Creepers (2001). And the sequel. Jeepers Creepers II (2003).

Holy shit. Jeepers Creepers indeed.

[Himu]

http://jp.
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holy shit

i haven't heard this in YEARS

[Eric P]

Are you serious?

for white suburbanites in the 90s, it sounds about right.

I'm talking about the director of Powder! You posted too fast!

oh

and they they let the guy do two teen horror films as well

sooo


uh, i guess he would know what scares underage kids, right?

[Himu]

maybe the little liked it

[Himu]

i mean, if the guy can molest little kids maybe he knows they like hell if i know

[Joe Molotov]

Another sign that the 90's had officially begun:

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[hyp]

don't front.

[Joe Molotov]

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Go ninja go ninja go!

[Himu]

NINJA! NINJA RAP!

okay, i was wrong. the 90's started for me with the release of TMNT the original movie

that was 90's right? i saw it day one in theatres.

[Himu]

[drew]

also:  pogs

[lordmaji]

the 90's peak was when 2pac hit the scene.

2pac 2pac 2pac 2pac 2pac

[Great Rumbler]

This is where the 90's began:

[MyNameIsMethodis]

Only a dumbfuck nerd would equate the 90's to fucking video games.

[Great Rumbler]

Only a dumbfuck nerd would equate the 90's to fucking video games.

Well aren't you just a little ball of sunshine and lollipops.

[Olivia Wilde Homo]

It started with MC Hammer and ended in 9/11.

Fuck the rest of you, the 90s were awesome.  Almost all genres of music had its time to shine, the revival of James Bond, Presidents getting blowjobs, the rise of internet porn, etc.  Who can hate that?

The 2000s suck.  Nothing but emo feggits running rampant and a worthless President.  These aren't our glory years.

[Joe Molotov]

9/11 is a good answer for the end of the 90's. 9/11 and the events that transpired in it's aftermath have had a huge impact on the pop culture of this decade. Books, comic books, movies. Just look at summer popcorn epics like Iron Man and Transfomers, even they have a dash of terrorism and middle-eastern strife thrown in for flavor.

[xnikki118x]

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also:  pogs

OH MY GOD. I HAD the Super Soaker 50. Then I had the 150. Then I had the one that you wore the water tanks on your back. BADASS.

Oh, pogs were awesome, too.

This is where the 90's began:

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Hells yeah.

9/11 is a good answer for the end of the 90's. 9/11 and the events that transpired in it's aftermath have had a huge impact on the pop culture of this decade. Books, comic books, movies. Just look at summer popcorn epics like Iron Man and Transfomers, even they have a dash of terrorism and middle-eastern strife thrown in for flavor.

I agree.

[tiesto]

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also:  pogs

OH MY GOD. I HAD the Super Soaker 50. Then I had the 150. Then I had the one that you wore the water tanks on your back. BADASS.

Oh, pogs were awesome, too.

Me too, I still have some of my waterguns buried somewhere around in my garage... We should have a watergun fight, Nikki, but make sure to wear a white shirt!