The 90s Was The Last Great Decade

[IronicBeet]

We've gone through a little over one decade since the '90s finished, I think it's a little early to be making that assumption.

 

[Fieldy409_v1legacy]

oh and the action movies! goddamn, we need some new action stars that are as good as arnold schwarzenegger! These new action stars are pretty lame and their movies always try(halfassedly) to be intellectual action movies.

Im not sure which is my favourite, escape from L.A or terminator 2. Then theres universal soldier to consider.

edit: oh and remember the cartoons awesome action cartoons? gargoyles, batman the animated series, street sharks, teenage mutant ninja turtles and tons more. Im rewatching the gargoyles now, and wow, theres some dark themes in it. Not a lot of blood, but still. couple of examples.

Goliath got turned to stone for a thousand years along with a little gang of other gargoyles. His wife demona was the only surviving gargoyle that we knew of from their castle who wasnt killed or turned to stone for a thousand years. She blamed the humans and took to murdering them(in a kids cartoon) in sick plots for revenge, and ended up becoming immortal. So goliath comes out after a thousand years stuck as stone to discover his wife is nothing like the woman he remembers and has to fight her, and that makes him really miserable.

And theres one episode where on of the gargoyles, i cant remember his name. But hes playing with this cops gun(the cop is their friend and keeps the gargoyles secret) and then HE ACCIDENTLY SHOOTS HER AND SHE NEARLY DIES. Like shes in the hospital and the gargoyle goes all emo and starts raging on random thugs he finds on the street who have guns and trys to hide from the other gargoyles from shame because he thinks he killed her. Now thats a message you should be putting in kids cartoons these days, but its too dark and youd never see it.

 

[Ninjat_126]

Stop watching things for kids and start viewing adult stuff. Or at least stop watching stuff that's bad and start looking for good things. Simple, right?

If digital medias still prove too placid for your sophisticated tastes, start reading books. The power of your own imagination would be the fuel to give life to the pretty damn disturbing content in some novels.

If all else fails, you could always just become one of those newfangled "retro-hipsters" that everyone finds a killjoy.

Gentlemen, meet the Anti-Hipster, who thinks that being a hipster is too mainstream for them.

(While we're at it, meet the Anti-Anti-Hipster, who thinks that being an Anti-Hipster is too mainstream for them. You really can't criticise hipsters can you?)

I barely remember the 90s, it seemed to just blur in with the early 00s. Then again, I was just a kid, didn't watch TV much and kept playing my PS1 until 2004 when I upgraded to PS2.

 

[Lord Kloo]

Times have changed, that is all.. perhaps you liked everything about the 90s but then again perhaps you liked everything in the 00s.. personally I find there's something from every era that I like, the alternative music was good in the 90s, games in the 00s were somewhere between platformers and serious shooters, I can't really think of an decade in the past when the clothes were better than now.. but thats all personal preference and so I don't think any decade is the best..

 

[Cuacuani]

Man, nostalgia isn't what it used to be.

The 90s were largely conflict free for the UK and US (at least compared to the present), so there is that.

We had Kosovo, Somalia (Black Hawk Down and all that) and the Gulf War. Oh and the Omagh Bombing, the one described as 'the worst attack in Northern Ireland'. Add to that the Moscow Coup (the start of the fall of the Soviet Union), the breaking up of Yugoslavia and actually, the nineties weren't as peaceful as we all remember. Probably because all of that stuff was early nineties and the late nineties were more stable, I guess.

 

[maninahat]

Man, nostalgia isn't what it used to be.

The 90s were largely conflict free for the UK and US (at least compared to the present), so there is that.

We had Kosovo, Somalia (Black Hawk Down and all that) and the Gulf War. Oh and the Omagh Bombing, the one described as 'the worst attack in Northern Ireland'. Add to that the Moscow Coup (the start of the fall of the Soviet Union), the breaking up of Yugoslavia and actually, the nineties weren't as peaceful as we all remember. Probably because all of that stuff was early nineties and the late nineties were more stable, I guess.

Most of those weren't exactly prolongued conflicts, at least for the Americans. In Somalia, for instance, the real conflict only happened around a few months in 1993. The Gulf War was less than a year. Even in regards to the troubles, the 90s were seen as the end of conflict between Ireland and the UK. Sure there were was conflict, but they were short bursts of violence compared to the continuous conflict in Afghanistan (2001 to present) and in Iraq (2003 to 2010-ish).

 

[badgersprite]

In response to your assertion, I present this:


I also could have gone with Achey Breaky Heart, but I thought that would just be cruel to thrust on people.

 

[Glademaster_v1legacy]

Does today's music and television really "suck"? Or is it just the popular stuff? Yeah, more nostalgia, not saying modern times don't suck, but things were probably lame in the 90's too...

There are shit bands every decade thank god there is no more S Club 7.

 

[Cuacuani]

Man, nostalgia isn't what it used to be.

The 90s were largely conflict free for the UK and US (at least compared to the present), so there is that.

We had Kosovo, Somalia (Black Hawk Down and all that) and the Gulf War. Oh and the Omagh Bombing, the one described as 'the worst attack in Northern Ireland'. Add to that the Moscow Coup (the start of the fall of the Soviet Union), the breaking up of Yugoslavia and actually, the nineties weren't as peaceful as we all remember. Probably because all of that stuff was early nineties and the late nineties were more stable, I guess.

Most of those weren't exactly prolongued conflicts, at least for the Americans. In Somalia, for instance, the real conflict only happened around a few months in 1993. The Gulf War was less than a year. Even in regards to the troubles, the 90s were seen as the end of conflict between Ireland and the UK. Sure there were was conflict, but they were short bursts of violence compared to the continuous conflict in Afghanistan (2001 to present) and in Iraq (2003 to 2010-ish).

Agreed, most of the conflicts were short interventions/peace-keeping efforts rather than protracted campaigns. I suppose that inbetween the end of the Cold War and the start of the War Against Terror, the nineties seem calmer. Also, like I said, the late nineties seem to have been calmer and that's what we remember from them.

 

[BanicRhys]

You're daft, sonny Jim. The fifties was the last great decade, this young generation knows nothing.

 

[CodeOrange]

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Gentlemen, meet the Anti-Hipster, who thinks that being a hipster is too mainstream for them.

(While we're at it, meet the Anti-Anti-Hipster, who thinks that being an Anti-Hipster is too mainstream for them. You really can't criticise hipsters can you?)

I barely remember the 90s, it seemed to just blur in with the early 00s. Then again, I was just a kid, didn't watch TV much and kept playing my PS1 until 2004 when I upgraded to PS2.

Please don't get the anti-hipster (which is more of a state of mind than a movement) confused with the hipster-hipster.

Search it up on your urban dictionary if you're confused. Should be there.

 

[Spygon]

Yes i agree the 90s were awesome and i am fed up with people using that "the 90s sucked" tag line from the wrestler.As unless they were living in a different decade the 90s were really good

 

[Vault Citizen]

The 90's the last great decade? I was born in the 90's (1990) and as much fun as I had back (with things like Batman the animated series) then I can't agree with that.

Sure there were a lot of fun video games but comics went through a lot of bad stuff back then and the superhero movies I love so much didn't really find their feet until the 2000's.

The internet wasn't around like it was today and neither was a lot of stuff that is taken for granted today.

 

[MelasZepheos_v1legacy]

The 90s suuuuucked.

Yeah, I can only remember about the last six years, but Jesus what a miserable six years it was. Remember the comics? Early Image comics? X-Force and shit like that? As for 'Political Correctness' ruining children's movies etc, have you seen The Princess and the Frog? You know, with the undercurrent of racial commentary, and the first on-screen Disney death ever? yeah, that was made in 2009.

And the music, don't even get me started. N*Sync, Tori Amos, Michael Bolton, CHER, Kenny Chesney.

Fucking hell, the music in the 90s was shit, even worse than the 80s. Also, most of the Political Correctness bullshit is exactly that, bullshit.

 

[SpaceArcader]

I was so expecting this to be a thread of a prepubescent teen fapping to Nirvana, and for not being that, I will give OP A cookie.

Its not that I agree with you, my expectations were just soooooo low when I entered this thread.

Can I just say my universal opinion to all of these threads dealing with decades. *ahem* ALL DECADES SUCK AND THE ONLY REASON ANY DECADE DOESN'T SUCK IS THE VERY MINUTE DETAILS YOU CAN COME UP WITH THAT AT ANY TIME DIDN'T MATTER AS MUCH AS YOU THINK THEY DID, SERIOUSLY, BEETLES WERE A BIG DEAL, THEY WEREN'T THE END ALL BE ALL OF HAPPINESS AT THE TIME, THE AMOUNT OF ENJOYMENT YOU GET OUT OF ANY DECADE, GIVEN THE CHOICE TO LIVE IN IT, IS ALL UP TO YOU, SO STOP COMPARING THEM.

Pretty much agree to this. I hate people obsessed with the 90s and 80s and previous decades for that matter. Most reasons why people say the 90s or 80s was a great time to be in was because we were born in that decade and try and remember old things and comparing them to now. I hate when people come up to me and say things like you are not worthy of this band like Motorhead or The Smiths because you weren't born then so therefore you cant appreciate it fully. That's like saying you can't listen to Mozart because you weren't born in the 18th Century?

Seriously everyone stop being nostalgic for just a moment and enjoy the now.

 

[Tallim]

Yeah the 90's were pretty good. Those Romans did some really wacky things.

 

[RussetRanger]

Does today's music and television really "suck"? Or is it just the popular stuff? Yeah, more nostalgia, not saying modern times don't suck, but things were probably lame in the 90's too...

There are shit bands every decade thank god there is no more S Club 7.

Starland Vocal Band, anyone? Does that make the 1970s redundant?