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PapaBear

03-20-2007, 07:12 PM

This may be one of the hardest, most embarrassing confessions I've ever made. When the buddays talk about all the great movies of the 1990's, I cringe. For no particular reason, I just didn't go to the theater in the 90's. I tended bar for most of that time, and I guess I just spent too much time partying. I didn't rent movies either, because I rarely turned on a TV, other than the one we played in the bar. I can only remember going to 3 movies from 90-97 (all 3 were because various girls wanted to go). Here's the list. Please have mercy on me.Forrest GumpNellOutbreakI've since seen many of the good movies, but I've still missed a lot. What's your most culturally embarrassing decade?

Sarge

03-20-2007, 07:20 PM

I'm in the same boat, if not worse.  The last movie I saw was Snow Falling On Cedars, of course because a girl wanted to see it. Before that I could not tell you a movie I saw, I just wait for them to hit DVD.

Fez4PrezN2008

03-20-2007, 07:25 PM

PapaBear wrote: This may be one of the hardest, most embarrassing confessions I've ever made. When the buddays talk about all the great movies of the 1990's, I cringe. For no particular reason, I just didn't go to the theater in the 90's. I tended bar for most of that time, and I guess I just spent too much time partying. I didn't rent movies either, because I rarely turned on a TV, other than the one we played in the bar. I can only remember going to 3 movies from 90-97 (all 3 were because various girls wanted to go). Here's the list. Please have mercy on me.Forrest Gump (<---- One of the best movies ever)NellOutbreakI've since seen many of the good movies, but I've still missed a lot. What's your most culturally embarrassing decade? Not to worry, you didn't miss much ... Bio Dome... Look Who's Talking 1 through 12 etc...My most embarassing decade so far, was the 60's cuz I still peed in my pants.The 2030's looks bad due to high probability of return to peeing in my pants again.

Yuppie_Scum

03-20-2007, 07:40 PM

I think the 2000s are shaping up pretty badly for me -- last movie I saw in the theatre was "For Your Consideration", which was a piece of shit. Big disappointment after Best in Show, Mighty Wind, etc.  There are so many movies I've never seen. When they come up in conversation, just nod and say something ambiguous like -- "Good flick".

hedges

03-20-2007, 08:07 PM

[quote]<hr color="cococo" align="left">Yuppie_Scum wrote: I think the 2000s are shaping up pretty badly for me -- last movie I saw in the theatre was "For Your Consideration", which was a piece of shit. Big disappointment after Best in Show, Mighty Wind, etc.  

As far as going out to see movies, the 2000s for me are pretty dismal. I went to see the Departed not too recently. But I've caught alot of good stuff on DVD, some of which is a little dated. American Beauty, Snatch, The Cooler, Sideways, The Matador, and then Westerns like The Searchers, and Pat Garret and Billy the Kid. I almost always wait for the DVD now.

RoseBlood

03-20-2007, 08:59 PM

Yuppie_Scum wrote: I think the 2000s are shaping up pretty badly for me -- last movie I saw in the theatre was "For Your Consideration", which was a piece of shit. Big disappointment after Best in Show, Mighty Wind, etc.  There are so many movies I've never seen. When they come up in conversation, just nod and say something ambiguous like -- "Good flick". Why would you imply you've seen a movie you haven't seen? Why not just say you haven't seen it? I'm confused.

This message was edited by RoseBlood on 3-21-07 @ 1:21 AM

Chigworthy

03-23-2007, 06:13 AM

The last time we went to the movies on a weekend, some fuckfaced little pricks threw a whole cup of soda onto a girl's head a few seats from my wife.  We left and got refunded, and I felt old.

EliSnow

03-23-2007, 06:16 AM

PapaBear wrote: I can only remember going to 3 movies from 90-97 (all 3 were because various girls wanted to go). Here's the list. Please have mercy on me.Forrest GumpNellOutbreakAt least take comfort in the fact that you got to see Jodi Foster's breasts.  Hinckley shot the President in hopes of doing that.  

This message was edited by EliSnow on 3-23-07 @ 10:18 AM

underdog

03-23-2007, 06:18 AM

I have an almost opposite problem. I've seen almost no movie from before like 1990. I just cannot stand to watch old movies. They always look so bad and so fake. The picture quality is usually just terrible.There are some exceptions to this, though. Like the Godfathers for instance. But even a great movie like Scarface loses something because some scenes are just so cheesy.