A Group dedicated to the movies of the early 90's - mid 00's! Recently, I watched 'The Faculty', 'Scream', 'The Lost World' and 'L.A. Confidential' and it got me thinking about what a fun time it must have been for kids and teens growing up throughout the 90's and mid-00's! Being influenced by films which were packed with imagination, realness, innovation, originality and entertainment, from Home
Alone to the Matrix to Jurassic Park to Casino to True Lies to Pirates. It could be a nostalgic thing, but we feel cinema right now is becoming so commercially massive that its becoming too much and too fast to appreciate. Films grossing billions, 3D, movies being airbrushed beyond belief (so much so that the result ends up being un-believable), crass humour, 5 sequels being the norm, 90% of films being adaptations, films being passed by if they 'can't be a game'. We don't mean cinema in general, there are still great films being made all the time. Why does commercialism always dwarf them out of the picture and why are most commercial films getting worse? Hollywood cinema, entertainment cinema...is it really as entertaining as it used to be, not even a decade ago? When films didn't look as if they'd been shot, edited and airbrushed in computers, the best screen villains, when you had to wait 6 months to get Jurassic Park on video, practical special effects, when Disney movies were King, queueing half a mile to see your favourite movie, when comedy wasn't all about s*x jokes, Jack Sparrow, hand-drawn animation, monster movies with physical animatronic monsters, when 3D didn't cost an extra £1.50 and when nobody cared!, when Titanic sank, when independent films broke and set the bars, when all dogs went to heaven, LOTR, when American Beauty proved simple is everything, the return of Kong, indie Horrors, dinosaurs, when we all watched Blair Witch and said we can do this too!, good old-fashioned slasher movies, when directors didn't bow down to studio concerns and broke convention, Alien movies!, when there were just enough summer blockbusters and not 500, when movies thrilled us without forcing themselves, when they inspired us and sometimes our futures and even more reasons (post them on the wall!)
In our opinion, ten or fifteen years ago, there would never be such a thing as the bombastic mess that looks set to be 'Transformers: Dark of the Moon', a film which by all accounts probably cost more than the GDP of Botswana to Produce and which will probably have less originality than the just announced 'Pirates of the Caribbean 5'. A loud, over-blown, over-hyped mess of non-stop and unnecessary explosions, dismal acting, the casting of models over real actors because they're 's*xier', a rushed seen-it-all-before sequel which once again features unintelligible machines bombing some prominent U.S. city so fast, we won't even be able to see them properly. The list goes on, and sadly this list is very much becoming the norm for the majority of Hollywood films being released today. So rather than celebrate that, we say here's to the good old days of 90's/early 00's cinema, and those who grew up being inspired by it! =D
