Yup…. Watch any of the Marvel movies of today, and not only are many of the actors using substances to increase their muscle tone and size, there’s also a layer of digital effects to increase it to unrealistic proportions… lol or the cgi spray painted abs like in 300 hahaha

@@andysixxlett2632 Even tv today will use digital tools to try and make older women look younger and to try and make muscles look more toned.

@@andysixxlett2632 Just wait until you discover there's also movies out there that aren't made by Marvel!

The 90s were actually flooded with cheap tape that even big movies used to produce an indie effect. There are many movies from the 90s that actually look worse than many films shot in the 80s, but much of it was either intentional or cost cutting.

Don't eat the memberberries

Film.. film... film!! Has a certain feel to it.

Always thought the cinamescope lens used in the 90s looks more better and gave films more mystery. Movies these days look like they were shot from a phone which takes away the movie glitter away.

@@VV15555 what ?

I love his subtle Racial bias and even had the nerve to show Denzel, the only black artist he shows, but not say his name

@@nephiilimAlways the race card. This type of thinking is why most movies suck in comparison. Everyone is so soft and always crying about something. The woke vírus homogenizes art.

yeah we hardly have time to watch a feature film anymore

within the last Month, I opened Netflix and Amazon prime movies almost everyday and haven;t managed to finish one movie to the end.

Hit the nail on the head. Movies these days will drop on Netflix and forgotten about. There’s very little nostalgia for anything made in the last 10 years.

Mankind peaked

Completely disagree. With the internet as widely available as it is now, literally anyone can make whatever they want. If it needs a budget, it can be crowdfunded, if it needs a team, you can easily reach out to and work with people from the entire world who like your vision.

@@plebisMaximus I apologize, I must clarify that I was strictly speaking of mainstream Hollywood and animation studio productions. I don't disagree with your use of Internet / crowfunded projects, but that is not what I was referencing when making the comment.

@@laurens.8475 Yea, fair point then. I'm a foreigner, so to me, Hollywood is far from the dominant power in film you guys see it as. Great movies are still regularly released here in Denmark.

An art style is completely independent of whatever production methods were used. All of Disney's 90s Movies were digitally coloured and no one considers them homogenized.

Damn that’s so true. Now everything has to be a huge franchise wether superhero or action movies

It's called the mid-budget film and I think he should have mentioned this in the video, they were an important source of income for Hollywood in the 90s but has since diminished in popularity. They weren't really low-budget indie films but they didn't have the same huge budget as a big-budget film so they had to focus on plot and characters instead instead of crazy cgi or effects.

exactly it was just a lot of great story telling and imagination with some hidden wisdom to contemplate at times. Nowadays its the opposite. Mostly all about Special effects and characters that act dumb.

Blame the death of home video. Mid-budget movies made their money back on VHS/DVD sales. Steaming doesn’t make as much and thus Hollywood demands high box-office performance or they won’t fund a project.

There are always many smaller moives. But the media don't do the job of relaying film festival awards. Then to invite the directors and actors to talk about the film. When did you see on a Kelly Reichardt or Sian Heder in talk show? Sian Heder after all the Oscars she won should have been invited on every talk show.... And I'm not even talking about the specialty movie shows that don't exist today.

Thought I was the only one!

‘80s and ‘90s

@@malvavisco10 💩

Best example if the fight between the Trex and the Spinosaurus in Jurassic Parc 3, they both looks like cats playing compared to the perfect blend between CGI and animatronic of the Trex in the original

are you kidding? watch some blockbusters from the 60's or even the 50's you homework is to watch "the good the bad and the ugly"" one of the greatest film achievements of the time. you wont see movies made today with hundreds of extras, today you see 6 that are digitally copied to make a crowd

Great point! I didn't think of that. Thanks for the super insightful comment, I really appreciate it.

Wonderfully put and insightful. 💙

I remember some journalist called the 90s the "irony decade". I think this was the time when "so bad it's good" sort of became a thing. For instance, the old Plan Nine From Outer Space became popular.

The 90s was the decade where neoliberalism really, truly won out, strangling authentic culture and ushering in the era of the commodified, purchaseable identity. What you remember isn't people going against the mob or being real, nonconformist individuals. What you remember is people buying the neccessary signifiers to carry the illusion of such, and in so doing, being even more blindly conformist than ever before. 90s nostalgia is paper thin and easily seen through, when you realise your entire childhood (well, my childhood, not sure how old you are) was just people trying to sell you shit you either didn't need, or that was actively harmful to you.

@@coyoteblue4027 I agree

well said... i was just gonna say most everything that comes out today in is dry, and most of characters i don't tend to care about bc there is a strong sense of apathy in most modern movies.

yeah, hollywood thinks its found a formula that works, so they use it for ALL movies. or almost all of them. and that causes its formula to not work at all because we are all sick of it. the lack of creativity, freedom of speech. the fact it all has to 'reflect the world we live in today' and has to worry about not offending anyone. which in turn means there is no humour, and they are always pushing a 'message' or agenda. plus, the overuse of cgi is hard to bear. i have barely watched any new movies in the last year, mostly just watching old movies. there are so many, but sometimes they are hard to find/ remember. bonus thing: i miss going to the video store, lol.

Nope, it’s mainly the film camera and color science were different.

@@socks2441 Don't forget that "the world we live in today" really means "what southern california looks like today". And attacking the fans and calling them istaphobazis is their new main marketing strategy. That too.

That was because if you were young back then, you had syndicated television so it wasn't weird to kick back and watch reruns of sitcoms and movies from the fifties and onward. It was just what you had so alot of our tastes were informed by older media. Anyone born after 1997, when the internet took form and prestige cable tv became the standard and video games started to behave like movies, became a generation of the "now". This is why twenty-and-thirtysomethings are hyper-fixated on media from the past "holding up" and being "dated". Older audiences (gen x and before), through consumption of older media, developed the ability to properly contextualize the past. This is why references in current media seem so shallow.

Yeah! Very true!

All 90s movies look similar as well. Just as all 60s, or 2010s movies look similar

modern movies have too much over editing, no style or ambition

​@@tickledonions9483 and no scripts

@@tickledonions9483and the colors are a little off. They don’t off as natural like.

@@eliasyildiz yes, that's why I am trying to avoid it at maximum... 😌 to keep my impressions pristine

There were blogs then too just most people didn't look them up.

@@gabrielserrano5054 I admit that sometimes I do look for some explanations or analysis of the director's style, but I let time in between to process and enjoy the artistic act...

Whoever said that, doesn't know too much movie history, or they are a Tarantino fanboi. Pulp Fiction is a good movie, but it wouldn't rank in even the top 50 most influential movies., probably not even top 100. There were all sorts of 'weird stories' being told prior to Pulp Fiction, for decades. A major difference between now and the 90s (and earlier) is that a LOT more movies were being made, and more of the movies that were made were story driven. Insofar as 'weird stories', the Coen Brothers were making successful movies before Tarantino, and they're known for being weirder.

I think it's more likely that a Clockwork Orange laid the ground work for fight club

No.

@@DRourkPulp Fiction is 100% one of the top 50 most influential movies. Not only is it on the top 10 highest rated movies of all time but it also changed the way stories are told forever. Not the best movie ever but 100% a top 50 movie. What would be in your top 10?

​@@DRourk Lmao. Hard. It is in the top 100 influential movies of all time. You just know absolutely phukk all about film history.

Those 3 decades are literally the era when CGI got big and became popular lol

​@@krypticunlimited6925the 90s only

Late 80s and 90s I would say (1989-1996)

thank you

a lot of this has to do with 90s directors being people who idolized the New Hollywood films of the 60s and 70s which were similar in regards to what you're describing

Awesome!!!! We're super happy that you found this video useful. Whenever we make these videos we learn a lot as well. These videos also make us feel nostalgic and want to watch more 90s films, hopefully it did the same for you.

@@FilmStack I actually just watched The Rock for the first time in ages and it was definitely nostalgic. I do watch a lot of older films and my next 90's rewatch will be The Arrival. Definitely recommend it if you haven't seen it yet. Take care.

It was also the last decade where you could grow up as a kid with relatively little indoctrination. The use of psychology in entertainment & media to indoctrinate & manipulate people with has grown far too widespread since.

And you can't imagine how it was like for kids from former eastern block, you had all those gameboys, playstations, satellite TVs with hundreds of channels, first computers, I was just a little kid (I am born in 1991) but even I remember that feeling of late 90s when people were buying Windows 98 and waited for PS2 to be released, it was so interesting time, everything new was better and more instersting. Today it's exactly vice versa, you are scared of updates and you stay with your good old things as long as possible because you know newer product will be probably worse, it's terrible. All those corporations are leaded not by inovators and programmers like in the past, but by some fasists who want to push their crazy visions of world into their products and force people to accept that even when they don't want it. I really miss those days when you really WANTED to install new Windows version or something, it's such a sad evolution to these days. I hope one day it will change, this crazy situation must end one day.

@@Pidalin It's ridiculous how basic features are disappearing 1 by 1 as well. They force you with a fat windows taskbar with W11 and you need an external 3rd party app to even change it. It's the same across the board with other platforms/devices. Stuff that used to be so basic is now very hard or almost impossible to do.

@@thenonexistinghero Exactly, I totaly hate that fat taskbar with grouped bars without text. I bought 32" 4K screen to have more space, not to have even less space than in 15 years ago. 😀 And you can't imagine how new CNC machines look like, I work as CNC programmer and it's the same evolution - instead of just typing text, which is very effective when you know what you doing, you have to draw it in some cad like software first and then you have to click to geometry and add milling and possibilities what to do with that are very limited compared to older machines, it's trying to do some things instead of you, which sounds good, but in reality, it's mostly better to program it manualy in old school Gcode, but you can't on new machines. And not only it's stupid, that new software is even very bugged, some buttons and features don't work and nobody cares, it's machine for 200 000 eur and half of things don't work and you have to somehow fix it by yourself which you even can't because it's protected by some online password which is changed every 2 weeks on new machines so you can't even go to advanced machine settings when you need to adjust some axis or something, you have to call official service for every bullshit which is pretty annoying and wasting of time when it's something totaly simple, like adjust some drill bit axis when it's not making precisly, you can ofcourse compensate it in programs, but I don't like it, it's pretty messy then, I prefer to fix that axis directly to make it working precisly. On old machines I can do almost everything, when we have some accident and axises are messed up, I can fix it by myself and mostly even better than official service will do it. This evolution will be a massive problem in the future, entire companies or even countries can be turned off just because of some official service from Italy doesn't have time now or part which you need is not produced anymore.

Same bro As a ex sovietice country 90s kid my entire childhood was filled with American movies and music . Still get teary eyed when watching Die Hard, the Matrix, Independance day

I always remembered The Matrix as being very green and was very surprised how natural and not green the colors actually are, when i rewatched it recently

@@rgerber That is what always turned me away from that Movie.

It gave an air of suspense in the beginning. You initially began watching the movie thinking, it's just one more roll-off-the-mill action movies, but when characters start dodging bullets, and doing detailed 3D spinning kicks... you slowly begin to realise that the matrix world isn't what you thought. Subsequent releases didn't have more to reveal as you already knew the basic plot, a computer simulation.

@@JohnFekoloid It was even crazier when you saw the trailers back then but knew nothing about the movie, you had NO idea what it was going to be about, and you had to go watch it just to make the trailers make sense.

@@neoasura what is the Matrix? That’s all we had to go on before it came out lol. That movie saved 1999 for me and my buds after the disappointment of waiting almost 20 years for the new Star Wars

you nailed it

They began to use autotunes and all music started to sound the same because there are only a handful of producers now. Rumors are songs are now written by AI.

Same can be said for every decade/era.

@@Mark_Knight now there is chatgdpt I'm sure that will replace these office workers.

I don't know maybe our 90's is one 1⃣ else's 20 years from now. It's like fashion is recycled every 100 years or so. They wore baggy pants in the 1930s and in the midevil days. I'm sure transitions will happen and before that time it's the 90's.

@@gabrielserrano5054 Fashion changes every 10 years, except we have worn the same fashion since the late 90;s. It;s a a sign of a culture that has stopped advancing.

Don't forget Jurassic Park, one of the greatest film scores of all time, by the unparalleled John Williams.

Yeah, much better than all the synthesizer copycats of the 80s movies.

​@@PowerControlthose synthesiser copycats are not even remembered all the 80s iconic prolly better than 90s

Thank you! I really appreciate it. We just need to focus on making good videos and thumbnails and hopefully one day the algorithm does it's thing 😄

Totally agree

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They actually put real effort in things like that back then...

Every single film seemed to have orchestral scoring back then, which made even a simple drama feel epic and a big deal.

Why is that called the hat trick?

@@Cinnamun52 it means something like "three consecutive successes", of the same kind. It's often used in sports, when a player scores three times in the same night.

Same here.

How did you not mention "The Sandlot"????

I was born in 84, but I still prefer 80s movies to 90s movies overall

​@@84paratizeno ,90s are the best

@@SRBOMBONICA86no

I grew up in the 90's and believe me i understand you very well, but we can't explain that to the new generation they still don't get it.

@@andrius11 exactly. They will think the only difference is that there where no smartphones. Or social media. And netflix. But that isn’t the reason why it was different,

@@jdnrotterdam2150 You are right. True real in person friendships in the 90's what a time was to be alive.🇱🇹

I grew up in the 90s, I understand it, and unfortunately I can explain it. 9/11 shattered our innocence and the internet made the world a smaller place. The 90s were this weird time when we had a lot of what we'd recognize as modern technology, but most of the world was still over a digital horizon and we had every reason to believe that, with the exception of the occasional small regional skirmish, wars were something that would only ever be mentioned in history books. I'm not sure what impact having the internet removing almost all barriers to communication would have had in a world where 9/11 didn't happen and we still had our optimism about the future and instead of optimism combined with a world larger than we could imagine, we had optimism combined with a world that we could access at our fingertips. That's actually an interesting thought experiment.

@@smileyeagle1021 exactly. In the 90s we thought we had futuristic technology. But it was still very innocent. And we civilians were innocent. War was far from our bed. Terrorist was there but not so heavy. And after 9/11 the war in Afghanistan… iraq. Later syria . And the terrorist attacks .. the hate.. the immigration because of the wars. And we saw more because social media. Family gatherings became different because social media… because there wasn’t much to tell anymore. We knew everything. People couldn’t tell something new anymore… because everyone already knew. Online hate…. Global climate discussions. The financial crisis. People lost their homes. Their jobs. All those crap. We didn’t had that in the 90s. Family gatherings where special. Because we had things to tell. We didn’t seen each other for a while. We didn’t knew everything. We had our fantasy. Because movies and tv shows. People had their jobs their houses cars no economic crisis. Christmas was something something special more than nowadays. More magic ! And events were something special because people truly experienced it! Without their smartphones filming. Just to show other people the cool things they are doing and how cool and not boring they are

yeah, in the 90s we felt like we were the culmination of the Civil Rights movement and everything from the 60s. We felt like we were the least racist, sexist or homophobic version of America there had ever been. And we were. We were quite proud of that and looking forward to the peaceful enjoyment of that progress over the next several decades. What we didn't anticipate is people born after us would refuse to register how much steady progress had been made, and would burn everything down out of anger anyways, instead of sticking to the model of steady improvement that we had mastered.

@@William-the-GuyI’d argue that what we didn’t anticipate was everyone and their brother getting a megaphone to spread their bad ideas and then making it easier to find like minded people to form groups of individuals who normally would’ve been seen as crazy, crackpot, extremists that everyone would’ve avoided before social media came on the scene. That goes for every extreme end of any ideology. People have gotten too hyped up and opinionated about everything. Obviously I’m no different by typing long comments on YT 😅

@@linmonPIE that is an excellent point. I agree. I have nothing to add to that, except to say you nailed it.

American Beauty!

An innocence back then . I miss it

Wasn't there some new retro B&W filmstock released back then too?

@@gunfighterzero likey the same tech. It would be just as impactful in B&W as it was in color

Sometimes tech shows us too much. The sets of National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation seen on Blueray look obviously like fake sets, but you didn't see that in the theater or on VHS.

Thank you! ☺️

Wow! That is an amazing insight that we completely overlooked when making out video. Rush Hour is a gem and I agree, there hasn't been many movies like it since. I think that when creators/artists have more limited resources (less CGI/special effects) they tend to get more creative with what they have and Rush Hour is definitely a product of that. Thank you for the comment!

@@FilmStack Thank you for the video, it has many insights and was very entertaining.

Thank you!

@@FilmStack I recently re-watched Rush Hour and that movie is so much fun. The world was legitimately better at that time - and no, it's not just nostalgia...it really was.

Absolutely. Hip-hop hit its zenith in the 90s as far as I'm concerned. And rock music was in a great place too, with the rise of the grunge era and the bands that followed.

Those successful UK films were all indie films, funded by channel 4 (4film) and the national lottery, something that did not exist before the 90s. These films were too controversial and younger audience targeted to get funding by traditional studios.

Oh interesting, I'll try to find that. Thanks for sharing.

Thank you! I really appreciate the kind words.

Jacob's ladder remains under appreciated by too many

The soul not there because of the popcorn?

@@jefftakesdscakes30that’s what you decided to comment on? None of his other good points, but the popcorn?

@@adewilson132 ye

My thoughts exactly. I honestly think humanity in general peaked in the 90's.

It's hard to be creative and innovative when we live in a sterilized society full of people who have very little life experience.

@@SageDog Very true. And on top of that it's also busy, depressed, distracted people lacking the life energy to be creative. Altogether means bleh

​@@SageDog very well put. I grew up in the 70s 80s and the 90s. Culture was more creative and tangible. You experienced life through what was in front of you! I resisted the technology a little at first when mobile phones were changing so fast. The last two decades are hardly distinguishable from each other. No personality.

@@Cinnamun52 I resonate with that. "You experienced life through what was in front of you." These days everyone experiences life through their cell phone. They will go to a concert and record the whole thing, instead of actually living it.

Yeah the movie theaters felt special back then Not so much now because of all the options

My all time favorites 🖤

Awesome list! 12 Monkeys with one of my favorites

@@JozeeWalz Thanks

@@LukeLovesRose You could probably add 100 more honorable mentions. We got movies like "Scream" that kind of brought back the horror genre and memorable kids movies like "The Sandlot" which 90's kids still quote today. It was a great decade for movies for sure.

@@Mr.White10-65 First of all, Scream is on the list. But you're right. Movies like Sandlot, Ransom, Pelican Brief, etc are all honorable mentions

true

You soft bro

Maybe it's just me being Gen X but pretty much every film post 2000 is boring and unwatchable. They've been making superhero/Marvel movies now for 20 years or more and I guess they're all the same...I managed to sit through 15 minutes of a Transformers film back in 2008 and haven't even bothered trying to watch that type of crap since.

Thank you!

That “70 year span” is nearly the entire history of movies created after the silent era. That’s like saying your favorite food is what they sell at the grocery store.

@@bobcobb3654 exactly, I mean that more of my favorite movies come from that 70 year span than the last 20 years.(my point being made)

I don't agree with, actually I think it's the total opposite! :O

​@@simonabattaglia7522 it's not literally same tech, music and movies and blurred together. The last century all of the decades were very distinct from one another. So far in this century it's all blurred together.

The technology is always getting faster and more powerful, but it was good enough to meet most peoples' daily needs decades ago. I'm still using an operating system from 2009, a drawing tablet from 2008, and a pickup truck from 2003. If I woke up tomorrow and found that I'd gone ten or even fifteen years back in time, I don't think I'd need to adjust my daily routine at all, and I wouldn't be out of place visually either.

Mass communication / information homogenized culture. Cultural nuances don't get traction to take shape. We're all literally on the same page.

I’m 28 and also agree. Not just with films but stuff like design. A vehicle design from the 80’s looks very different to one in the 90s whereas one from the 00’s doesn’t always look dated compared to a vehicle from the 10’s except if you look at the lights and technological stuff. I don’t think it’s that change is slower but more that the change is in things that are less visual and the things that are changing is how things are done, what is seen as right and wrong in society. Maybe things will noticeably change a lot in 10-20 years when it feels like we have learnt more on how to properly integrate the internet with society. I actually feel like we are still working this out even if we don’t think we are.

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I realize these aren't from the 90s, but that's precisely why the LOTR trilogy still looks so incredible today. The use of practical effects and miniatures, and CGI when necessary.