The 90's, the last great decade?

Plainview

Plainview

I am a sinner.
Sep 11, 2013
48,167
25,399
4,279
Anybody else looking forward to this tonight? It's on Nat Geo, which is one of the best stations on cable. I love watching Nat Geo's special series. The 80's one brought back some great memories. I just re-watched it today since there's a marathon on. I can't wait to watch the 90's one tonight.
 
I do not remember Vanilla Ice and Madonna being an item.

My mind is blown!
 
Plainview said:
For every silly 90's thing there was an equally silly 80's thing. For every Ice Ice Baby there's a Wham Rap!
Click to expand...

No, actually the whole 80s is just so silly, and that's why it was so great. It was self-consciously, almost self-mockingly silly. 90s in general had this 'cool' attitude that thought they were smarter and more serious than the stupid 80s, but the end result is another stupidity without the punchline of 80s. Like, how many of the action movies of 90s do we remember compared to the 80s which had some of the most freakin' awesome ones?
 
team56th said:
I know this thread is about a TV show, but the way I see it, everything about 90s is significantly worse than 80s.
Click to expand...

Really? When I think of the 90s I think "cool", when I think of the 80s I think... "not cool"


Edit: Haha, see you just said pretty much the same thing in the above post....
 
team56th said:
No, actually the whole 80s is just so silly, and that's why it was so great. It was self-consciously, almost self-mockingly silly. 90s in general had this 'cool' attitude that thought they were smarter and more serious than the stupid 80s, but the end result is another stupidity without the punchline of 80s. Like, how many of the action movies of 90s do we remember compared to the 80s which had some of the most freakin' awesome ones?
Click to expand...
I think both decades were great, now, the 2000's, that's a decade that has no real identity.
 
Plainview said:
I think both decades were great, now, the 2000's, that's a decade that has no real identity.
Click to expand...
Not sure I agree with that. The 2000's is perhaps the generation with the longest lasting effect on society. The world changed in the 2000's.
 
Access to infinite information, entertainment and communication for billions of people was a negative thing?
 
I associate the 2000s seeing the internet becoming culturally relevant to everybody where it was more of a niche during the 90s. It was there, but it wasn't a part of our lives like it is right now.
 
Last edited:
sharkboy1200 said:
I associate the 2000s seeing the internet becoming culturally relevant to everybody where it was more of a niche during the 90s. It was there, but it wasn't a part of our lives like it is right now.
Click to expand...
I can agree with that but the 2000's was filled with war, awful politics, which has continued into the 2010's, terrorism, horrible reality TV and do nothing 'celebrities,' stock market crash and subsequent depression, etc. Most of 2000 was a big downer. Nat Geo will have a lot of material to work with though.
 
sharkboy1200 said:
I associate the 2000s seeing the internet becoming culturally relevant to everybody where it was more of a niche during the 90s. It was there, but it wasn't a part of our lives like it is right now.
Click to expand...
Yeah that's the point I was getting at. Plainview is also correct with the negatives though, especially the part about reality tv.
 
Plainview said:
I can agree with that but the 2000's was filled with war, awful politics, which has continued into the 2010's, terrorism, horrible reality TV and do nothing 'celebrities,' stock market crash and subsequent depression, etc. Most of 2000 was a big downer. Nat Geo will have a lot of material to work with though.
Click to expand...
Wasn't trying to say there isn't plenty of negative, just pointing out the rise of the internet and everything that's come with it.
 
I only started to appreciate the 80's (especially music) a few years ago. I was born in '78 so the 80's were very strange to me as a kid at the time, though looking back now those feelings were justified haha. The 80's were a strange decade with several distinct time periods within it as far as pop culture in my opinion.

I remember the 90's very fondly, I had the best times of my life during that decade. And the 80's seemed cheesy in hindsight and most agreed it was the worst decade for a lot of things like music, fashion (there was some awful fashion you gotta admit!) etc.

But looking back now it was maybe one of the most creative and interesting decades in modern history. And yes it was super cheesy, but that's better than what we basically have now which is just the feeling that everything's been done before.

I don't know, will people look back on the 00's and feel nostalgia? Maybe it has to do with your age and when you experienced these times in history. Yet I didn't live in the 50's 60's 70's yet I can appreciate the amazing things that were going on in those decades and feel a longing to want to experience them you know?
 
The 2000s saw a large proportion of the population, in western countries at least, start to recognise the need for accepting responsibility. It moved beyond the fringes of the wacky hippies.

It's not a climate change thing, but climate is part of it. Also the responsibility of acting in a way, or choosing products that are better for us, better for the environment, better for the workers who produce them, better for the animals who die to make them etc.
I don't mean that everyone acts on that, but the recognition of that responsibility for the world and the people and life in it is the crucial beginning of a movement towards a more enlightened and advanced society, in my opinion.

We are no longer the self-absorbed infant who cares only for his own desires and leaves a mess in his wake. We are now the teenager who knows right from wrong, but has yet to grow up and fully handle the situation.
 
Last edited:
Li Tan said:
We are no longer the self-absorbed infant who cares only for his own desires and leaves a mess in his wake. We are now the teenager who knows right from wrong, but has yet to grow up and fully handle the situation.
Click to expand...
...or perhaps we are the red headed step child of mother nature who really wants to please her but are often ignored so we wet our beds and break stuff?
or maybe we are the lactose intolerant nincompoop who deliberately drinks milk anyway because we are masochistic?
 
Or the diabetic who has trouble not scoffing ice cream and cake.
 
I do think we have hit peak culture. There seems to be cultural inversion going on. or maybe the inbred idiots of our nation have just gotten louder.
 
Li Tan said:
The 2000s saw a large proportion of the population, in western countries at least, start to recognise the need for accepting responsibility. It moved beyond the fringes of the wacky hippies.

It's not a climate change thing, but climate is part of it. Also the responsibility of acting in a way, or choosing products that are better for us, better for the environment, better for the workers who produce them, better for the animals who die to make them etc.
I don't mean that everyone acts on that, but the recognition of that responsibility for the world and the people and life in it is the crucial beginning of a movement towards a more enlightened and advanced society, in my opinion.

We are no longer the self-absorbed infant who cares only for his own desires and leaves a mess in his wake. We are now the teenager who knows right from wrong, but has yet to grow up and fully handle the situation.
Click to expand...


But in general, people don't seem to be as happy as they used to be given all those advancements. Society is kind of in a weird place right now imo.
 
Dno69 said:
But in general, people don't seem to be as happy as they used to be given all those advancements. Society is kind of in a weird place right now imo.
Click to expand...
You might be right. Ignorance is bliss, after all.
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Top Bottom
Back