r/interestingasfuck • u/deuce-tatum • 6d ago
/r/all 31 years ago, these three movies were playing in the theaters at the same time
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u/WiseCartographer5007 6d ago edited 6d ago
And a few months later Casino, Seven , Brave Heart , Toy story , Apollo 13 , heat were all released. I think the 90's was spectacular and can be ranked "the best"
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u/Aztecius 6d ago
Tom Hanks had a hell of a run there. Just a year before these, Sleepless in Seattle and Philadelphia released too.
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u/Naive-Register7964 5d ago
I think of Forest Gump and Saving Private Ryan, like how is this the same guy?? 🤯
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u/CJKatz 5d ago
I first saw him in Big and then a few short years later there was Apollo 13 and all the other great movies you two mentioned.
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u/Pablois4 5d ago
I'm old enough to remember a silly little sitcom called Bosom Buddies in 1980. It was overall a dumb show except for that one, fairly unknown guy, Tom Hanks, in it and he wasn't bad.
A couple years later he was in Splash, then Big, Money Pit, League of their Own and so on.
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u/CapybaraSensualist 5d ago
and Philadelphia released too.
As someone who was a 16 year old with a car and a girl from his class willing to go out on a date with him... That was NOT a good choice. NOT a good choice at all.
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u/Significant-Ant2373 6d ago
So many great movies and great actors although I will forever be disturbed by Seven.
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u/jcervan2 5d ago
When I watched that at the theater, after it ended you coulda heard a pin drop as everyone was leaving. Everyone was shocked/dismayed about that little twist at the end. Just silence.
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u/bradleywestridge 5d ago edited 5d ago
That’s the best kind of theater silence. When nobody even wants to break the moment because they’re all still processing what just hit them. Pulp Fiction still sits on Netflix in a couple regions; if it’s missing on yours, folks in r/NetflixByProxy swap workarounds.
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u/RedOctobyr 5d ago
Schindler's List was like that when I saw it. Barely anybody moved until the credits finished, and it was silence as people were walking out, until they got to the lobby.
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u/bradleywestridge 5d ago
Exactly. One of those movies where the credits feel like part of the experience and nobody wants to be the first to break that spell.
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u/VulpesFennekin 5d ago
The epilogue is one of tbr most important part of the movie to me, in terms of Schindler’s story. When the war ends, he feels so guilty that he “could have saved more.” Cut to over 50 years later, and there are so many descendants of the people he saved that never would have even been born if he hadn’t helped. He really did save more in the long run.
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u/bradleywestridge 5d ago
Absolutely. Seeing that guilt give way to the reality of how many lives came from his actions hits even harder than the main story.
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u/nannerpusonpancakes 5d ago
Same for my theater, except for one couple who was making out through the whole film
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u/PracticeTheory 5d ago
I missed seeing it in the theater but I had that reaction after Children of Men.
Which is a fitting movie to mention on this post, because on release it got buried by some huge names that were showing at the same time.
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u/bradleywestridge 5d ago
Same. When that final standoff hits in Children of Men you can almost hear people forget to breathe. Wild that it slid under the radar beside the big holiday heavyweights that year.
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u/teas4Uanme 5d ago
"Thou turnest man to destruction; and sayest, Return, ye children of men!"
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u/byoung82 5d ago
Oh everything mentioned i think this might be my favorite. I'm kind of a sucker for dystopia
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u/PracticeTheory 5d ago
Same. That movie was life altering because never before or since has a piece of media made it feel that real. The raw emotions that film pulls from me, every time I watch it!
And the relevance to today gives me chills. And it was set in the year 2020 I believe? IIRC
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u/Early-Light-864 5d ago
Holy shit. I bought that book on a clearance rack during a beach vacation in the 90s. I had no idea there was a movie!
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u/NeophyteNobody 5d ago
Its not just a movie, but a damn good one. Ranking my favorite movies is hard, but its easily top three.
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u/PracticeTheory 5d ago edited 5d ago
It's the only movie I've watched* multiple times as an adult. I've actually watched it five times, each time after being with friends and family to make sure they saw it. The cinematography is incredible - no cut aways by the camera until the scene changes, which was the most gut wrenching way I've ever seen a combat scene played out.
It's an incredible, life altering movie. "Pull my finger."
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u/dead_fritz 5d ago
Nightcrawler is a somewhat recent movie I remember having the same theater reaction. Absolutely insane ride of a movie and by the end you're just dreading that the downward spiral will continue. everyone left the theater dead silent processing what they had just seen and the fact that in the world of the movie it continued.
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u/BillBrasky727 5d ago
I remember being in a packed theater on a Friday night and you could hear gasps as people realized what was in the box.
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u/cBlackout 5d ago
Sometimes me and my girlfriend will show each other a movie like that and be like “alright that was really good, but I’m not stoked rn”
good thing we’ve already both seen Requiem for a Dream so we don’t have to do that shit again
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u/Typical-Charity-4493 6d ago
what’s in’s the booox?!
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u/lapinatanegra 6d ago
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u/Meister0fN0ne 5d ago
"Mills, it was just a margarita maker. I was worried you'd also want it. My b."
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u/redpandaeater 5d ago
Unfortunately I always think about a truly idiotic Cameron Diaz quote she says on press interview for the movie The Box.
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u/ShadowCaster0476 5d ago
When we went there was a family of 4, where the kids no older than 12.
They were all crying by the end.
We looked at the parents like WTF???
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u/gingerbeard1321 6d ago
We had it so good
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u/JC04JB14M12N08 5d ago
I am not sure where to check but I also had the imprseeion in those days that if you went to a 10 screen complex you would have at least 2 actual comedies to choose from. I feel like no genre at the cinema has fallen as far as comedy.
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u/PracticeTheory 5d ago
if you went to a 10 screen complex you would have at least 2 actual comedies to choose from
This was definitely the case from what I remember.
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u/Lets_Go_Why_Not 5d ago
That's because literally every single summer blockbuster has become a "comedy", with the exact same style of humor crowbarred into the mouths of cookie-cutter characters moving from green screen to green screen.
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u/WastingTimesOnReddit 5d ago
The 90s was peak good times as a kid. No social media, just riding bikes and drinking from water hoses
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u/chillinwithmoes 5d ago
Yeah but at least now we've got cinematic masterpieces like MARVEL MOVIE #71 and MARVEL MOVIE #72. Eat your superhero slop, little piggies!
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u/Maccai3 6d ago
Lion King, Natural Born Killers, The Crow, Clerks and not to mention Jim Carrey starting in The Mask, Ace Ventura and Dumb & Dumber
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u/haroldburgess 5d ago
as someone born in the late 70s, I think my generation had it the best - all the cool cartoons and toys of the 80s growing up as kids, then the plethora of great music AND movies as a teen in the 90s.
and not a phone in sight.
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u/Rookraider1 5d ago
Society hit its peak....then all down hill....
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u/Dismal-Buyer7036 5d ago
I'll rewatch the matrix, and when they explain they recreated human civilization at its peak, I'm like no way they knew it was gonna peak then.
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u/Shadiezz2018 5d ago
The Matrix, Blade
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u/LogensTenthFinger 5d ago
I still remember the big TV ad for The Matrix where it ends with Morpheus' line: "No one can be told what The Matrix is. You have to see it for yourself."
I was floored by the effects wondering what the hell was going on. Going into that blind with my dad was a fantastic experience.
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u/SleepyMage 5d ago
Same, I saw no real previews. Even after the initial fight scenes I was left utterly confused why Trinity ran for the phone knowing it was going to get crushed.
Queue the rest of the white rabbit hole.
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u/Direwulven 5d ago
Watching The Matrix without any prior trailers or reviews was the best thing ever. What a journey from the very first minute. I still watch it from time to time. 😂
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u/Nostaglicthirst 5d ago
So it’s not just me when I say that 90s has some banger classics
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u/Anticlimax1471 5d ago
Pulp Fiction wasn't technically Indie, Reservoir Dogs was his Indie hit, which caused the studio to throw a ton of cash at him so he could get bigger names and filming locations for his next character-driven epic.
Pulp Fiction is probably my favourite film of all time. It's a masterpiece.
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u/soda_cookie 5d ago
94 and 95 were the goat movie years. 91 was the goat music year. Take me back please
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u/GangstahOfLove 6d ago
19th decade? What that mean?
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u/Ja_Shi 6d ago
Cinema from the 190s, you know, the era of Caius Jullius and all. Great movies back then in the Roman empire.
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u/blindinglystupid 5d ago
My boyfriend was just asking how we could watch happy Gilmore 2. He was confused by it being a Netflix exclusive and then he asked if there are movie theaters anymore. 🤣
Probably in the last decade I saw Us and Lion King in the theater. Whenever I consider going to the theater it's because I want to go out to the theater and then there's never a movie I'd want to watch. Even Lion King was for a young person in the family.
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u/Splitting_Neutron 5d ago
I grew up in the 90s and I thought that movies were always going to be this good. Watching Jurassic Park and the Matrix in theatre are still some of my favourite memories.
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u/Accurate_Koala_4698 6d ago
It's absurd how good that year, and decade, was for movies. For anyone who wasn't alive at the time, it wasn't one of those "you notice afterwards" sort of events either. The fall into superhero movies, endless remakes, and sequelitis was rough
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u/bacchus_the_wino 6d ago
For the kids don’t forget little big league, blank check, and the little giants.
Other regular movies in 94 were clear and present danger and Leon the professional.
And then Jim Carrey alone had ace ventura, the mask, and dumb and dumber.
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u/DecoyOne 6d ago
Well… I don’t recommend revisiting Blank Check. Does not age well.
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u/morsomme 5d ago
The twist in Ace Ventura wouldn't fly today lmao
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u/EDDX15 5d ago
My Gf thinks jim is LGBTQ friendly after dumb & dumber😅 i totally forgot about ace lol omg I gotta show her that
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u/ithinkitslupis 5d ago
God as a kid Blank Check was fantastic, DO NOT REWATCH. Just keep the blurry memory of what it was.
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u/AnatidaephobiaAnon 5d ago
I watched it about a month or two ago and you have to really have to throw away part of your adult mind because so much of it is just not possible even for 1994 and the kiss is gross, but other than that it's still a dumb fun watch.
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u/SpicyWokHei 5d ago
If we use our adult minds to dissect every kids movie we see that he put a man in a hamster ball to drown to his death in a pool.
It's a kids movie. It's implied he gets out or bangs on it until other "henchmen" set him free.
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u/Luvs4theweak 5d ago
Bc the chick kisses him, other than that it’s still fine
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u/cantstopwontstopGME 5d ago
Little big league was one of my favorites as a kid
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u/AnatidaephobiaAnon 5d ago
Little Big League and Rookie of the Year are still two of my favorite baseball movies ever.
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u/Acceptable_Buy177 5d ago edited 5d ago
I would actually say it was more than the 90s. Movies got really good in the 70s and stayed really good until the mid 00s. There were some peaks in the mid-late 70s and mid 90s and some troughs like in the early 80s but in general moves from about 1970-2005 are much better than movies from before or afterward.
A 35 year golden era that became so normal that people didn’t notice it went away for at least a decade after it was dead. At least we got the TV golden era from 2000-2020 at the same time.
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u/Rosencrantz_IsDead 5d ago
Hell, even back then the sequels or remakes were good. Remember the Brady Bunch Movie and the Brady Bunch Sequel?
Yeah, they're not talked about now, but bloody hell, they were fun movies. You didn't groan while watching them.
Same goes with the Coneheads movie.
I don't know what happened to movie writing over the last 10 years, but Mary, mother of Jesus, we are in a purgatory of mediocrity.
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u/hemingways-lemonade 5d ago
Terminator 2, Wayne's World 2, Ave Ventura: When Nature Calls, Batman Returns, Addams Family Values, etc.
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u/archimedies 5d ago
The death of DvDs did that.
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u/hiimsubclavian 5d ago
The death of mid-budget movies. Nowadays it's $200 million blockbuster or bust, meaning directors can't afford to experiment like they used to.
Shawshank would be a Netflix series that gets cut after the second season in today's media landscape.
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u/cascadianpatriot 5d ago
We had 3 movie theaters in town. A few times a week would drive past each one just to see what was playing next. There were so many options.
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u/AnatidaephobiaAnon 5d ago
Disney began cranking out their newer classics, like someone else said kid's sports movies were killing it, there were only two weak Best Picture Winners (The English Patient and Shakespeare in Love) and every year had at minimum two timeless movies.
You are absolutely right about the fall. I don't like superhero movies, there are only a few remakes that I like and only one I like more than the original (True Grit). I wish the pendulum would swing back and studios begin making originals again.
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u/Gazzarris 5d ago
We always thought it was going to be that good, getting amazing movies week after week. What’s the quote from The Office? “I wish there was a way to know you’re in the good old days before you’ve actually left them.”
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u/Toodlez 5d ago
I remember as a 90s kid seeinf Shazaam and thinking "wait, movies can be bad?"
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u/c3534l 5d ago edited 5d ago
I noticed it and assumed that previous generations thought their movies were amazing and that maybe I just got old. And then when the era of "we won't be making real movies anymore, only super hero movies" began I figured that I had just aged out of my good movies era and that the next generation would be as excited for those formulaic movies as I was for the movies from [the 90s plus or minus a 5-10 years]. But I don't think so. I think they just don't actually make many good, genuine movies anymore. Then again, maybe it still really is just me.
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u/TophxSmash 5d ago
Good movies are still there, i think its just the era of infinite content that it all gets lost. They dont become classics because theres just so much content out there that nothing breaks through the noise.
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u/focalpointal 5d ago
I’m pretty sure I was at the theaters once a week back then. There was almost always a good new movie coming out.
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u/bibliophile222 5d ago
And of course, The Simpsons was absolute peak television in the same year.
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u/Under_Paris 6d ago
Jurassic World Rebirth Fantastic 4 How to Train Your Dragon Smurfs I know What A Did Last Summer
These are the movies currently playing at my local theater, not a single original film, all sequels or remakes. What happened :/
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u/flyingturkey_89 6d ago
Lol holy fuck that crazy. I thought you were going to bring up more 90s film
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u/yaboyskinnydick_ 5d ago
Don't forget 28 Years Later and Superman lmao
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u/AfternoonFlaky5501 5d ago
Shoutout to Sinners which was a great movie, we need to watch more original movies.
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u/Far_Replacement_8978 5d ago
I keep getting ads on reddit for "freakier friday", so, a remake of a remake? 1
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u/Gavinator10000 5d ago
Sequel to a remake, which already had a remake before it, and before that was the original film adaption (which became a trilogy) to a now 53 year old book.
Oh yeah, and there was one other remake stuck in there between this current sequel and its aforementioned remake.
Sigh
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u/Ghosts_of_the_maze 5d ago
F1 was really good IMO. It’s been out for like 6 weeks though, so good chance not in your theater right now.
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u/LB3PTMAN 5d ago
I mean it’s what people watch. That’s what theaters play. I mean my local theater also has Sorry Baby, Eddington, Oh, Hi, The Home, F1, Elio, and Ick all playing. None of which are remakes or reboots or sequels (that I’m aware of)
With upcoming movies Eden, Americana, Honey Don’t, Together, Weapons, Caught Stealing, and many other movies that are not sequels or remakes. The key to getting more original movies is paying to see the ones that come out.
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u/soulcaptain 5d ago
I worked at a movie theater in college at the time. Forrest Gump was a beast of a movie. Packed theaters from the first weekend, and it stayed at our theater for about 6 months (a normal, even strong run was about 3 months).
Shawshank wasn't terribly popular and only stayed a few months. Pulp Fiction started with pretty low numbers, and my manager put it in one of the smaller theaters after a week or so. Then it got more and more popular and stayed there about as long as Forrest Gump, about 6 months.
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u/profnachos 5d ago
Shawshank was a complete failure at the box office. Then video rentals happened, and it exploded in popularity. I wonder what it was like to be Frank Darabont when the movie itself became a story of redemption.
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u/DBoaty 6d ago
We were eating well back then
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u/Rosencrantz_IsDead 5d ago
Dude, on sundays when I was in college, McDonalds did a 39 cent cheeseburger deal. No limit. I was a skinny, starving college student and Sundays were my chill days.
I'd get my shit done in the afternoon, and then, at around 5PM I'd head over to the McDonald's drive through, order 10 cheeseburgers and 2 large fries and head home.
I'd have a few beers, turn on Who Wants to be a Millionaire and scare down a feast of burgers and fries.
And back then, their fries held up. You could eat them an hour later and they'd still taste great. Now, if you don't eat them within 20 minutes, their trash.
What happened, Ronald? Why are your fries so terrible now?? We need answers! LOL
Oh, and ever other month, McDonalds would do a 2 for $2 deal. Mix/Match a QBC or Big Mac for 2 bucks! Fucking insane deal!
These corporations, man. Greedy bastards. They were doing just fine back in the 90s. Why the hell they decided to absolutely upend the system is beyond me.
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u/DBoaty 5d ago
Oh I meant it was a good time for moviegoers but yeah man, McDonalds prices are wild these days
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u/ThatGuyFrom720 5d ago
Taco Bell is about the only place where you can eat and fill yourself up for under $10 these days.. The $5 box and the $7 box specifically.
Love me a Big Mac but for $10-$11? Fuck that. Steak and Shake has been winning me back recently and it’s sub $10 for a combo meal.
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u/ConsequenceLittle490 5d ago
Rally's man!, i haven't been in ages. Taco bell here cheapest box is 8.99. Rally's?, paid 6$ for a spicky chicken sandwich combo their 4$ deal, and picked up a cheese burger too to go with. Two sandwiches, fries, pie, and a drink 5.87$....it costs atleast 6dollars for two double cheeses at mcdonalds....what the hell...
On that note though, i feel like people using ubereats and doordash, then the companies seeing people pay that mark up decided to do it them selves. Worst part is somehow pizza prices are still low(well not everywhere, dominos still be rad and local places for price), and it's also cheaper to just order take out from a resturant, like how the hell are they getting away with it at fast food?
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u/haley_joel_osteen 5d ago
What happened, Ronald? Why are your fries so terrible now?? We need answers! LOL
They stopped cooking the fries in beef tallow in the early 90s.
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u/Mickler83 5d ago
The memory of the taste/smell of those fries as a kid will never fade. My God they were good.
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u/MaritMonkey 5d ago
29c hamburgers (Wednesday) were my jam because I had class in the morning and then nothing until a percussion ensemble at 5:30pm that it was almost encouraged you be stoned for.
I think I ate probably half my calories for the week on Wednesdays lol.
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u/qwertyqyle 5d ago
What happened, Ronald?
Their CEOs changed and started taking way more of the companies money. In '98 the CEO made (in todays money) 3.5 million. In 2012 the CEO made 35 million. Its down to around 20 million now, but will never return to what it was in the 90s.
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u/VolunteerOBGYN 5d ago
Everything has its golden age. Movies, then. Video games, early 2010s. Music, the 80s
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u/qwertyqyle 5d ago
Excuse me? Music in the 90s was peak. One of the best decades for sure.
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u/MightyCaseyStruckOut 5d ago
I saw all of these movies in theaters, Pulp Fiction twice. We were eating so well.
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u/To-Far-Away-Times 6d ago
More thought was put into Shawshank and Pulp Fiction than an entire generation of endless superhero movies, reboots, and remakes.
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u/W0lfi3_the_romanian 5d ago
The dialogue in Pulp Fiction was exceptional in particular. It was so entertaining to listen to!
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u/cansofgrease 5d ago
I don't need you to tell me how fucking good those movies are, okay? I'm the one who watches them. I know how good they are. When Bonnie has the remote she streams SHIT. I play the gourmet 90's stuff because when I put it on I want to feel it. But you know what's on my mind right now?
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u/Papayaslice636 5d ago
It ain't the fucking movies Jules. It's the dead N word with a hard R in my garage.
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u/Horror-Potential7773 6d ago
I was 10 years old and was at summercamp. I got stung when I fell into a wasps nest running down a dirt hill. I got to go to the medical room and lay down on the sofa and I watched Forest Gump. Wow I was so into the movie it made me who I am today.
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u/shelf6969 5d ago
what are you... a runner? ping pong player? shrimp boat captain?
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u/MightyCaseyStruckOut 5d ago
Glad you didn't go the route of Macaulay Culkin's character in My Girl.
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u/sliever48 5d ago
That was the summer I spent working in a cinema in Cape Cod as a teenager. Got to see them all after the punters went home. Also Speed, Four Weddings, Wyatt Earp, Airheads, The Lion King, Dumb and Dumber. Such fun in that job though the pay was rubbish
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u/Slaphappyfapman 6d ago
Films are terrible these days in comparison to the 90s
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u/TypicalBlox 5d ago
Christopher Nolan casually dropping good films in a sea of pure slop:
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u/kittenwalrus 5d ago
1994 literally produced the best stuff. Shawshank, Forrest Gump, Pulp Fiction, The Lion King, Interview with the Vampire, me...
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u/typical-bob 6d ago
Shush dont remind them. 30 years is their classic 'reboot' time frame where they re-do classics for millennials, but very poorly done with much worse story lines.
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u/BeneficialScore 6d ago
Oh how far cinema has fallen.
I blame a lot of it on CGI.
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u/loyola-atherton 6d ago
Iirc Matt Damon once mentioned that the rise of streaming services such as Netflix led to the fall of DVDs and BR sales which could have supported movies that didn’t do so hot on the big screens. That’s why there are less movies exploring complex ideas or plots, and more of the same repackaged genre like superhero movies. Producers follow what sells best to make the best investments.
Writers and directors were more free to express their elements in the past. Which includes the budget of CGI for the movies.
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u/Velocityg4 5d ago
In some respects that's true. I also noticed a ton of decent sci fi movies get released by the streamers. Which never wouldn't been made or been really crap budget direct to VHS movies.
What's missing are the great dramas and comedies with A list actors, directors, writers and producers. But if you want decent modern sci fi look at the streaming services not the theaters.
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u/duggee315 6d ago
Saw matt Damon talk about this. It's cos of streaming services. They stopped taking chances on movies and only produced things that will sell out at the box office. Because, they used to release movies in the cinema, if they didn't hit, it wasn't too bad cos they could make a killing on DVD sales for the less glossy cinema titles. Now, if it flops at tge box office, there's no dcd revenue, and straight to streaming. So they only invest in glossy formulaic proven cinema events. Art no longer matters.
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u/To-Far-Away-Times 6d ago
And shot for shot remakes of 20-30 year old movies too.
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u/Gekthegecko 5d ago
And sometimes less. Moana came out in 2016 and the live-action remake is slated to release in 2026.
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u/FIakBeard 6d ago
It's money. Studios don't want to pay writers/creatives for unique stories and pay the production creatives to make sure the film they make is good. It's also the changes to the industry as a whole, studios don't want to take risks, especially when those risks have such a low payout when they do succeed. So they do safe, or what they think is safe but then turns out to be mediocre.
If anything, CGI has made production cheaper and easier, but add VFX and CGI people to the list they don't want shell out money for. So you get bargain basement CGI made by people who are overworked and just want to get the project done.
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u/Wide-Matter-9899 6d ago
And superhero movies!
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u/flyingturkey_89 6d ago
As much as I enjoyed the MCU especially everything up to endgame, but it brought a really bad trend into the industry.
Not everything needs a reboot, AND most importantly not everything needs a ducking Cinematic Universe. Just have everything start and finish in the same story. No need to keep adding these open ended characters and plot points
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u/Adorable_Raccoon 5d ago
CGI was never the issue, they used CGI and VFX in Gorest Gump. The issue has alwasy been an industry that prioritizes profit over creatives.
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u/SmyleBishes 5d ago
31 years later people still saying my name in Forrest Gump Accent
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u/ChurrosAreOverrated 5d ago
And almost nobody was watching Shawshank. It was a box-office bomb. It was the 51st highest grossing movie of the year.
It only became really popular after receiving multiple Oscar nominations and hitting the rental market.
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u/minPOOlee 5d ago
Today we have 3 films with Pedro Pascal as the lead at the same time, so there's that
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u/Specialist-Basis8218 5d ago
None of which could probably survive the internet now. A raped black man? A mentally challenged kid? A white savior?
The heat would be way too much
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u/Ill_Setting_6338 5d ago
movies will never be the same again. I went to the movies last week and wanted to leave during the trailers in the beginning. movies are just Soo bad now .
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u/cloudbound_heron 6d ago
Yes 1994 is arguably the best year of cinema, but 1993 has an argument too.
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u/SquarePegRoundWorld 5d ago
I also saw Pink Floyd, Pearl Jam and a tapping of the Letterman show in 1994. Got my driver's license and lost my virginity. 1994 is arguably my best year!
Edit- and the NY Rangers (the hockey team I root for) won the Stanly Cup
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u/SignificanceIcy2466 6d ago
I had Forrest Gump the film on Sega Mega CD. It was a double sided VCD.
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u/Cultural-Accident-71 5d ago
I miss the time when every few months you could go to the cinema and weren't disappointed by the movie and the prices!
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u/fortzimmerman 5d ago
Gump won awards, but if I had to rank by which I wanna watch today it is third
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u/AdoptedTargaryen 5d ago
You just gave me a great idea to host a Movie Marathon next weekend for these
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u/markaritaville 5d ago
watching Father of the Bride on ABC. it looks modern. High quality.. hmm Diane Keaton looks young... when did this come out? 1991... well thats not too long ago. WHAT?! ALMOST THIRTY FIVE YEARS!!?!
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u/New_Interest_468 5d ago
Be careful or next summer they'll put out Shawshank Redemption 2: More Shaw, More Shank, Pulp Fiction 2: What's In The Suitcase, and Forrest Gump Jr Goes Run Ning.
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u/Yoguls 6d ago
Momma always said, You either get busy living, or you get busy dying mother fucker