Hay, at least we got him streaming and straight to video, and his work their is way better then average then what we get on those platforms. Besides, I don't think movie stars exist anymore and the movie industry as we knew it is dying do to change in the media environment.
The bad movies from the 90s still had some magic. Very few of them were truly unwatchable. Which makes me wonder: Is the industry nowadays even trying?
Matt Damon covered it pretty well in one of those "hot sauce interviews". He pointed out that studios and filmmakers could get away with releasing "bad" movies back in the day because any losses at the box office would be recovered through home video/dvd sales, and that streaming has effectively killed that model off, forcing studios to be more risk averse and go for projects that will make billions at the box office.
@@dungeonsanddobbers2683 It's not just streaming, we also have more content and social media can spoil things. Back in the day we bought VHS/DVD's without knowing if the movie was good just by looking at the cover and reading the back of the case. It helped if a famous actor/actress was on the cover.
I personally like "Spawn" and "Eon Flux" because of their original stories and at the time, the special effects were above average... As you said several times, there were worse films at the time...
Man... You opened a memory with Invincible (2001) that movie was thrown into the forgotten bin of insignificance. I'm glad you unearthed such a gem! Good video!
@@DarkVeghetta hahahahahaa. I've seen it several times myself. I'm not even sure if it's a "bad" movie per se. It's just genuinely such a batshit crazy movie. But the kangaroo mutant make up effects by Stan Winston are absolutely fantastic
It was based on a comic by Jamie Hewlett, who designed the Gorillaz characters. I remember being highly disappointed by it. Absolutely Nothing like the comic. Booga the kangaroo is not supposed to be retarded. The animated sequence in it uses the designs from the comic, which is the only cool part of the entire 90 minute DUMP!
Such a disappointment for one who had all the comics. Had a dog named Booga and people used to call me Tank Girl (pre movie) bc I made all my own clothes from rags and a shaved head with raggedy long bits. Actually I’m now 52 and I still have a shaved head with just a forelock and a long thin plait from a circle at the top of my skull. Getting old is no excuse to go straight and boring lol Gen X punx forever yo! 😂😂
Even the worst of "cool" movies atleast had some fun and ambition behind them. They take themselves completely seriously but being absolutely ridiculous, it's great. Unlike all the current day movies who are filled with quipping characters who seemingly don't want to be in there.
Could be an interesting tragic hero. Never will be made tho, they don't make movies anymore where they can't cram in the stupidest joke possible for every second, which is antithetical to the gothic noir form
Man, I have no shame in admitting that I enjoyed most of these, despite (and sometimes, because) their awfulness! And I even learned about some that I haven't watched! Anyway, yes, milk this thing, mate, I'm here for it!
If you really want to know what was going on in the producers minds when putting "Wild Wild West" together you need to check out the section of An Evening with Kevin Smith where he talks about working on a Superman script in the 90s, things will make a lot more sense!
@@LifeofSlicey1even Neil Gaiman had to deal with that producer obsessed with a giant spider. The guy wanted to add one to a possible Sandman movie back in the day.
15:00 The sad thing is, a standalone Catwoman movie was in planning all the way back to Batman Returns. It was originally supposed to star Michelle Pfeiffer and be a spinoff of the Tim Burton movies! But it got stuck in development hell for a decade, and this is the result.
I'm surprised you didn't include "Godzilla: Final Wars" in either of these videos. It's jam packed with 90's cool: - Martial Arts & Gun Fu - High Octane Action - Black trench coats & sunglasses - Techno & orchestral soundtrack - Futurism - Sword Fighting - Philosophy - Mysterious main lead - Sum 41
@@LifeofSlicey1"Wild Zero" (1999) is another Japanese cult film that I think you would enjoy. It's a zombie movie that features punk band Guitar Wolf, who are laughably cool.
As a huge Spawn fan, I can definitely say that the movie was trash. The acting was awful, the tone was inconsistent, extremely cringey cutscenes, and the horrendous CGI. The old stop-motion monsters from Willis O'Brian and Ray Harryhausen films look so much better than bad CGI Malbogia (who looks more like Kermit the Frog with a wig made of pubes).
Spawn is cool as fuck, a cult classic. I only clicked on the video because of the thumbnail, I thought: "Spawn in a movies best left forgotten list? You have to be fucking kidding me!"
Funny how you started the list because Chow Yun Fat himself (particularly in 1989's The Killer) is basically The Godfather of the 90's Cool movie trend.
Yeah the creation of the "gun fu" genre including John Woo movies really kick started all the "cool 90s" trends here. Before this guns just mowed down bad guys or died instantly in cowboy style shootouts.
I see you're a relatively new content creator. This being one of your first few videos, I'd suggest to just keep up with this type of content! The second I found this video I automatically wanted more. Just wanted to let ya know this was very well made and you deserve more subscribers.
The exact content I've been looking for! I've been going through a big late 90's- early 00's phase recently. And the cheesier the film the better! I had no idea there was even a name for this genre. Thanks! Please make more videos like this!
Shockingly, this style doesn't have a name. So these videos are my attempt to group them together into the term "90s cool", which was said in a video by Jay from Redlettermedia. Thank you for the support!
10:34 Guy Ritchie's 'The Man from U.N.C.L.E.' is pretty good. 11:12 Have you seen the original from the '70s? 12:34 Speaking of Dennis Hopper, have you seen Space Truckers? 16:04 It was originally going to be based on the first game which was set in the 1920s and leaned heavily into a Lovecraft influence. Uwe Boll shot down that idea because he makes video game-based movies lame on purpose. He's capable of making competent movies, though. It's only too bad that's not this primary modus operandi. 18:41 Or in the words of Bruce Campbell: "I'll catch ya on the flip-flop."
Spawn soundtrack is probably my soundtrack to nineties. It is responsible for music I listen to until today. I managed to see that movie many, many years later, but that soundtrack was more hard and to certain extent futuristic then Matrix, XxX, or any other 90s/early 2000s movie.
alone in the dark in the video has background music from house of the dead!which fun fact was another awfull uwe boll "horro" movie but an awesome game..great video!
i specifically clicked on the chapters to see if you included Ghosts of Mars. Thank you, kind sir. It’s one of my favorite Pam Grier / Jason Stathem combos out there. Edit: Fun Fact: Assault on Precinct was actually Carpenter’s hard crime version of Night of the Living Dead
FANTASTIC! i just watched your tribute to the 90's yesterday and was mesmerized! you helped me remember such wonderful movies that i'll show to my gf, which is too young to have seen them. She absolutely loved the Matrix and now started to dress like Trinity. I was hoping for this video since you talked about making it, and i can't believe it's already here. much love man!
I'm floored by this comment. I really appreciate it man! Makes the grind to make this video worth it! I hope your girlfriend enjoys these kind of movies too.
More of this please. I want that xtreme 2000s documentary someday. I think harold and kumar parodied it. Extreme doritoes and Extreme soda and sports 😅
Highlander: The Source is my pick for the WORST MOVIE EVER MADE. I rented it of 99 cents from a gas station once, and never returned it. I snapped the disc in half, so no one else would be subjected to its horror. Thats how bad it was. ... The funny thing is, the video rental people never did anything about it. They probably hated it that much too. Holy fuck ...Invincible? I remember watching that when it was the "movie of the month" on (was it TBS? Spike? some cable channel) . "Here watch this same shitty made for TV movie 10 times in a month, yo!" LOL..... It was better than Highlander The Source though
So upset i have not found your channel sooner!!! your deep dive is straight forward and accurate. you dont talk to fast. you just enjoy the breakdown and offer it to us. cant say thank you enough. im 34. just subbed gonna watch all you have. thank you!!!
these 2 videos are just great! i'd love to see you talk about 90s cool in videogames, stuff like Oni (2001), Psi-Ops, Max Payne, 10.000 Bullets and so on and so forth
I love this series! 90s cool is a total guilty pleasure of mine, both good and bad. I feel like another movie that could have made this list was Swordfish. That has one of my favorite Travolta goofball performances ever
The fact that you went through the entire two parts of this video without mentioning the Monolith of 90s Cool, Godzilla Final Wars, a movie that could have very easily topped both lists, is shocking.
Thank you for not including Judge Dredd 1995 in the list despite it being in the opening sequence. It's not a great movie but it's one of my absolute guilty pleasures...
@11:10 "the late 90s fashion it captured really well" - Omar Epps said all the costumes were provided for product placement and were not fitted and were very uncomfortable which you can see at times in his expressions
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The avengers... I NEVER watched it in it's entirety... Why? Because I FELL ASLEEP EACH TIME! That's the level of boredom it created! It isn't even a shadow of what the typical British TV-series was like...
So many comments here not getting the "90s cool" idea. It's not about being made in the 90s! Was sad to see Queen of the Damned on the mentions list, it was great 😅
Hahaha Awesome list. Just subscribed imediately. (Even the almost entires are spot on) I would had imagined 'Matrix 2 or 3' on here as well, but hey! Big fan here. Keep this stuff coming
Thanks man. I like the Matrix 2. 3 was disappointing, but I still think its a decent movie. I'm going to talk about them at some point in a "special mentions" video.
Great video, mate! I have to admit I haven't seen many of these movies, but their clichés and tropes are so obvious to people who grew up in the 90s that I can't help but sort of feel I did watch them all, heh.
What a great list. This is gonna sound hipster asf but once you watch enough good movies you genuinely get an appetite for bad movies that just try as hard as they can to be cool. It's weirdly spectacular
Many of these "coolbad" movies also had terrible licensed video games to go with them filling up the Blockbuster store shelves, that have most definitely been purged from most gamers' memory banks.
This pair of movie lists is incredible. Well done! I notice the clip from Fallen (2008), one my unironic favorites among the bad ones, but that's OK, I get why it's there. You may have heard of these, but if you haven't you might be interested: Razor Blade Smile (1998) is like Underworld on a micro-budget. Diva (1981) is sort of a precursor, very stylized but missing a lot of the elements like double guns and alternative rock.
10:16 if your initial thought was "Sick Boy from Trainspotting" you are immediately 90s cooler than me because I instantly went (correctly but less cool-ly) "oh that's Dade Murphy from Hackers!!"
Keep going. Great videos. 90s Cool forever. I am a teacher and when I look at kids they often look like straight out of my high school time in the 90s with oversized shirts and trousers, belly bottom free ladies shirts, boot cut trousers, beige and black colours, grunge look the list goes on and we are straight in a 90s craze. I think most young people don’t know it.
SPAWN rocked, GHOST OF MARS, introduced me to Jason Statham, Aion Flux was an interesting view in a shitty and possible future. ULTRAVIOLET too. Dracula 2000 had Gerard Butler. Obviously, you were too young to understand or appreciate the fun factor of some not so great but nevertheless entertaining movies, after a long day of 12 hours of hard work.
Last video was: The Path of Neo Soundtrack in the Library 1 The Path of Neo Soundtrack in the Key 1 X-Men Legends OST 103 X-Men Legends OST 105 X-Men Legends OST 112 Pool Paradise OST Track 13 Trickstyle OST Japan Race 1 Trickstyle OST Japan Race 3 Trickstyle OST USA Race 4 Fantastic 4 The Game track 2 Fantastic 4 The Game track 5 Fantastic 4 The Game track 15 Mission Impossible PS2 - Action Scene 3 Mission Impossible PS2 - Main Menu Theme Goldeneye N64 Main theme Ghost Rider the game soundtrack: in blackouts wake Ghost Rider the game soundtrack: Flooded Depths Rob Zombie Dragula micromort Remix Baroque Remake Soundtrack 04 Slap Happy Rhythm Busters Boom Chocer Fuzion Frenzy OST main theme Ace Combat Zero Ending Credits Dark City - Sway Nightshade PS2 track 15 Flame in the Rain Master Rallye Soundtrack Chemical Master Perfect Dark - Chicago Stealth Drake of the 99 Dragons Soundtrack Section 10 I don't have time to make the list for this video right now, but I will later if you want to know!
Darn… I was hoping to hear you rip into Queen of the Damned. Great soundtrack and… not a whole lot else except unintentional laughter. I only saw Mortal Kombat: Annihilation because I was hanging out with a friend, and he stopped in front of the theater and told me he was going in to watch it. I couldn’t believe how terrible it looked even at the time. But what else should I have expected from a movie whose tagline is “Destroy All Expectations?”
5:07 lol Kevin Smith actually talks about why the spider was there in one of his "An Evening with Kevin Smith" films. the producer tried to shoehorn spiders into everything 😂
Hi, Life of Slice. I'm not sure if you will read this, but do you have a comprehensive list of 90s Cool films (both good and bad)? Or even possibly a criteria checklist for each film of how well they fit into the genre? I'm exploring the genre as well to see how each film did in the box office, with audiences, etc. Not sure if I will make a video of it. On a side note, some of my research shows that most of the films fit into the Dystopian Fiction genre described by John Truby in his book, The Anatomy of Genres. As he explains, Dystopian Fiction is a combination of two genres: Science Fiction and Horror, and a third modifier Epic. It may be that 90s Cool is a subgenre of Dystopian Fiction. Just wondering if this is useful. Amazing video, by the way. So much nostalgia!
Hey dude. If you watch my "best of" video, I get into my criteria. I never did any academic research. It's just a series tropes and patterns in entertainment I noticed over my lifetime. I have a bigger list of everything that is still a work in progress. I like your idea on it being a branch of dystopian fiction. Let me know if you make a video about it!
Giant spider robot in Wild Wild West was actually taken from cancelled Tim Burton's Superman Lives movie, where it's producer Jon Peters insisted that Superman would fight with a giant spider robot in it's climax.
Nod do a video about the best and whorst "90's cool" video games because there's A LOT of they and this is becoming a trend now because of the sonic 2 movie introducing shadow in the post credit scene and everybody was searching about who is shadow and discovering his solo game and danm, that game is the epitome of every single "90s edgy cool" trope in one game and people are now realising that most of the early 2000's games are like that and this is a meme now lol!
One fact I think a lot of people Overlook is that movie is released in 2001 two or three most likely started pre-production in 99 or 98 so a lot of movies in the transition period between decades were actually entering pre-production before the decade was up thus making them part of that decade even though they were released years later kind of overlooked in my opinion
I'm with you on many of these choices but it makes me sad to see such disrespect for Dracula 2000. I loved that movie when it came out. In fact, it's one of the few movies I went to see twice at the theater! It's also the movie that out Gerard Butler on the map for me. The Crow: Wicked Prayer definitely sucks badly, though. Oh, and now I need to track down Invincible. I definitely need to see that.
I thought that Dracula 2000 might ruffle some feathers. I felt it didn't go hard enough on the horror, or the action, and felt a little bland. There are good ideas in the movie though.
The Spawn movie is a guilty pleasure of mine and Micheal Jai White should've been a bigger star. The Spoony "Betrayal" was a nice touch.
I love him too and I can’t help that he’ll always be Black Dynamite to me!
Hay, at least we got him streaming and straight to video, and his work their is way better then average then what we get on those platforms. Besides, I don't think movie stars exist anymore and the movie industry as we knew it is dying do to change in the media environment.
Spoony is my favorite OG content creator. Still holding out hope he will make a comeback.
He's been doing some streams with the actor for Curtis in Phantasmagoria 2
Priest: A little late for Halloween 🎃
Spawn: Where you are going everyday Is Halloween 🎃
The ‘90s officially didn’t end until 2004.
Which was the year I was born, lots of classic up to that time.
*Y2K
When I realized it was working at Walmart in 2007 and watching an excess number of copies of Ultraviolet sit on the shelf and never sell
Yeah apparently.
I'd say culturally the 90s died on sept 11 2001 though a few movies and games still in production came out a few years after that.
The bad movies from the 90s still had some magic. Very few of them were truly unwatchable. Which makes me wonder: Is the industry nowadays even trying?
Matt Damon covered it pretty well in one of those "hot sauce interviews". He pointed out that studios and filmmakers could get away with releasing "bad" movies back in the day because any losses at the box office would be recovered through home video/dvd sales, and that streaming has effectively killed that model off, forcing studios to be more risk averse and go for projects that will make billions at the box office.
@@dungeonsanddobbers2683 It's not just streaming, we also have more content and social media can spoil things. Back in the day we bought VHS/DVD's without knowing if the movie was good just by looking at the cover and reading the back of the case. It helped if a famous actor/actress was on the cover.
@@dungeonsanddobbers2683 Fuck streaming
Nah bro
@@dungeonsanddobbers2683 Being more risk averse doesn't seem to be working.
I personally like "Spawn" and "Eon Flux" because of their original stories and at the time, the special effects were above average... As you said several times, there were worse films at the time...
wot?? the special effects in Spawn was worse than N64 graphics. Ugliest movie ever and I've seen 2012s Foodfight lol
Man... You opened a memory with Invincible (2001) that movie was thrown into the forgotten bin of insignificance. I'm glad you unearthed such a gem!
Good video!
Geez....Tank Girl has to still be one of the weirdest movies to ever get made and get a mainstream release.
And yet, I somehow watched it 3 times due to late-night reruns.
I regret nothing.
@@DarkVeghetta hahahahahaa. I've seen it several times myself. I'm not even sure if it's a "bad" movie per se. It's just genuinely such a batshit crazy movie. But the kangaroo mutant make up effects by Stan Winston are absolutely fantastic
I remember the poster was everywhere at the time. Hot girl on a cover will convince any executive it will sell.
It was based on a comic by Jamie Hewlett, who designed the Gorillaz characters. I remember being highly disappointed by it. Absolutely Nothing like the comic. Booga the kangaroo is not supposed to be retarded. The animated sequence in it uses the designs from the comic, which is the only cool part of the entire 90 minute DUMP!
Such a disappointment for one who had all the comics. Had a dog named Booga and people used to call me Tank Girl (pre movie) bc I made all my own clothes from rags and a shaved head with raggedy long bits.
Actually I’m now 52 and I still have a shaved head with just a forelock and a long thin plait from a circle at the top of my skull. Getting old is no excuse to go straight and boring lol Gen X punx forever yo! 😂😂
Even the worst of "cool" movies atleast had some fun and ambition behind them. They take themselves completely seriously but being absolutely ridiculous, it's great. Unlike all the current day movies who are filled with quipping characters who seemingly don't want to be in there.
Spawn deserves a reboot, imagine how awesome the CGI could be with the suit and all of the Hell/Supernatural stuff.
There's supposed to be a reboot in the works
Todd McFarlane is working on it. It’s just taking time
Could be an interesting tragic hero. Never will be made tho, they don't make movies anymore where they can't cram in the stupidest joke possible for every second, which is antithetical to the gothic noir form
Man, I have no shame in admitting that I enjoyed most of these, despite (and sometimes, because) their awfulness!
And I even learned about some that I haven't watched!
Anyway, yes, milk this thing, mate, I'm here for it!
Almost every movie on this list is worth watching for one reason or another. 90s cool was never short on entertainment factor. Thanks for the support!
WHat is there to admit? This Moron just posted his opinion! His Video is more cringe than anything that came out inthe 90s!
If you really want to know what was going on in the producers minds when putting "Wild Wild West" together you need to check out the section of An Evening with Kevin Smith where he talks about working on a Superman script in the 90s, things will make a lot more sense!
I remember watching that a while ago but forgot the details. I'll need to check that out again!
Came here to mention that, he’s gonna love it
Don't have to be a genius to know old Kevin Smith was permanently stoned.
@@LifeofSlicey1even Neil Gaiman had to deal with that producer obsessed with a giant spider. The guy wanted to add one to a possible Sandman movie back in the day.
Or watch "The Death of Superman Lives" documentary.
15:00 The sad thing is, a standalone Catwoman movie was in planning all the way back to Batman Returns. It was originally supposed to star Michelle Pfeiffer and be a spinoff of the Tim Burton movies! But it got stuck in development hell for a decade, and this is the result.
"It feels like you turned a Playboy article into a feature length movie" - my favorite line. Amazing
I'm surprised you didn't include "Godzilla: Final Wars" in either of these videos. It's jam packed with 90's cool:
- Martial Arts & Gun Fu
- High Octane Action
- Black trench coats & sunglasses
- Techno & orchestral soundtrack
- Futurism
- Sword Fighting
- Philosophy
- Mysterious main lead
- Sum 41
Nice suggestion. To be honest, never saw it.
Well maybe you could include it in a third video dedicated to forgotten/underated 90's cool films.
@@LifeofSlicey1 it's so worth the watch, godzilla fights everyone
@@LifeofSlicey1"Wild Zero" (1999) is another Japanese cult film that I think you would enjoy. It's a zombie movie that features punk band Guitar Wolf, who are laughably cool.
As a huge Spawn fan, I can definitely say that the movie was trash. The acting was awful, the tone was inconsistent, extremely cringey cutscenes, and the horrendous CGI. The old stop-motion monsters from Willis O'Brian and Ray Harryhausen films look so much better than bad CGI Malbogia (who looks more like Kermit the Frog with a wig made of pubes).
Spawn deserves a proper reboot.
Spawn is cool as fuck, a cult classic. I only clicked on the video because of the thumbnail, I thought: "Spawn in a movies best left forgotten list? You have to be fucking kidding me!"
Funny how you started the list because Chow Yun Fat himself (particularly in 1989's The Killer) is basically The Godfather of the 90's Cool movie trend.
Yeah the creation of the "gun fu" genre including John Woo movies really kick started all the "cool 90s" trends here. Before this guns just mowed down bad guys or died instantly in cowboy style shootouts.
I was itching for the flip side after seeing the first vid
Did you predict I would say "catch you on the flip side" at the end? Nice call.
@@LifeofSlicey1 call me psychic lol, thank you so much for highlighting Blade in your last vid. To this day it’s my favourite Marvel film :)
Double Team is such a guilty pleasure lol new sub btw!
It's pure entertainment if nothing else.
Double Team and Simon Sez will always be Top Tier action movies... I love them both💪💙
My favorite part is when Rodman misses his aim with a grenade and then says, "air ball!"
Hope you make videos on 90s cool live action TV shows, cartoons and video games. Growing up in the 90s and 2000s,I find this stuff really nostalgic.
growing up in the 2000's agent cody banks, spy kids, and ultraviolet was peak pre-teen fun.
I see you're a relatively new content creator. This being one of your first few videos, I'd suggest to just keep up with this type of content! The second I found this video I automatically wanted more. Just wanted to let ya know this was very well made and you deserve more subscribers.
Thank you! More is on the way. Just need more time in my day haha. Comments like this really help with the grind. The games are up next.
The exact content I've been looking for! I've been going through a big late 90's- early 00's phase recently. And the cheesier the film the better! I had no idea there was even a name for this genre. Thanks! Please make more videos like this!
Shockingly, this style doesn't have a name. So these videos are my attempt to group them together into the term "90s cool", which was said in a video by Jay from Redlettermedia. Thank you for the support!
10:34 Guy Ritchie's 'The Man from U.N.C.L.E.' is pretty good.
11:12 Have you seen the original from the '70s?
12:34 Speaking of Dennis Hopper, have you seen Space Truckers?
16:04 It was originally going to be based on the first game which was set in the 1920s and leaned heavily into a Lovecraft influence. Uwe Boll shot down that idea because he makes video game-based movies lame on purpose. He's capable of making competent movies, though. It's only too bad that's not this primary modus operandi.
18:41 Or in the words of Bruce Campbell: "I'll catch ya on the flip-flop."
Space Truckers was awesome. Cube Pigs !!!
@@achimdemus-holzhaeuser1233 Those pigs show up early on and then they're gone, more's the pity. They're one of the best "gags" in the movie!
Spawn soundtrack is probably my soundtrack to nineties. It is responsible for music I listen to until today. I managed to see that movie many, many years later, but that soundtrack was more hard and to certain extent futuristic then Matrix, XxX, or any other 90s/early 2000s movie.
Much of the harder music didn't get played on the radio in the 90s. Early 2000s changed that and made it very mainstream as a consequence.
alone in the dark in the video has background music from house of the dead!which fun fact was another awfull uwe boll "horro" movie but an awesome game..great video!
Nice catch! I couldn't find any tracks from Alone in the Dark that fit the video's vibe, so I went with House of the Dead.
No soldier from a 90s playground can resist the Wild Wild West theme song
Wikki wikki wild wild west.
i specifically clicked on the chapters to see if you included Ghosts of Mars. Thank you, kind sir. It’s one of my favorite Pam Grier / Jason Stathem combos out there.
Edit: Fun Fact: Assault on Precinct was actually Carpenter’s hard crime version of Night of the Living Dead
Can we have a best "modern 90s cool revival" movie list plz
It's in the cards! I'll get there eventually.
Hello Mr Wick...
FANTASTIC! i just watched your tribute to the 90's yesterday and was mesmerized! you helped me remember such wonderful movies that i'll show to my gf, which is too young to have seen them. She absolutely loved the Matrix and now started to dress like Trinity. I was hoping for this video since you talked about making it, and i can't believe it's already here. much love man!
I'm floored by this comment. I really appreciate it man! Makes the grind to make this video worth it! I hope your girlfriend enjoys these kind of movies too.
If your girlfriend can dress like Trinity and pull it off, you’re a lucky, lucky man. 😁
My parents took my brother and me to see Mortal Kombat Annihilation in the theater as kids. Growing up, I've never been able to apologize enough.
Hey man you're attacking my middle school years now all those movies were awsome 😂
Hey, spiders are the most dangerous predators in the animal kingdom....😂
Feels like I just watched the start of a great UA-cam channel. Great work.
I was a huge Spawn fan when the movie came out, and even as a kid I thought it sucked. 😢
10:30 and ofcourse it's Gerard Butler as Dracula
More of this please. I want that xtreme 2000s documentary someday. I think harold and kumar parodied it. Extreme doritoes and Extreme soda and sports 😅
Highlander: The Source is my pick for the WORST MOVIE EVER MADE.
I rented it of 99 cents from a gas station once, and never returned it. I snapped the disc in half, so no one else would be subjected to its horror. Thats how bad it was. ... The funny thing is, the video rental people never did anything about it. They probably hated it that much too.
Holy fuck ...Invincible? I remember watching that when it was the "movie of the month" on (was it TBS? Spike? some cable channel) . "Here watch this same shitty made for TV movie 10 times in a month, yo!" LOL..... It was better than Highlander The Source though
Okay young man , after watching your 90s cool series I'm going to give you a sub , "but you're on probation" !
Keep up the good work and Godspeed !
So upset i have not found your channel sooner!!! your deep dive is straight forward and accurate. you dont talk to fast. you just enjoy the breakdown and offer it to us. cant say thank you enough. im 34. just subbed gonna watch all you have. thank you!!!
Thanks dude! That means a lot. I'm glad you found the channel too.
Kevin Smith can tell you exactly where that giant spider robot came from.
these 2 videos are just great! i'd love to see you talk about 90s cool in videogames, stuff like Oni (2001), Psi-Ops, Max Payne, 10.000 Bullets and so on and so forth
I love this series! 90s cool is a total guilty pleasure of mine, both good and bad. I feel like another movie that could have made this list was Swordfish. That has one of my favorite Travolta goofball performances ever
At least you didn't include Elektra, Barb Wire, Anaconda, Vampirella
Totally forgot about Barb Wire! Probably should have been on the list.
Some of these🎬flicks are unique and entertaining...🤘🏼💯✔️
The youtube algorithm showed me your channel. I always love a good review channel!
The fact that you went through the entire two parts of this video without mentioning the Monolith of 90s Cool, Godzilla Final Wars, a movie that could have very easily topped both lists, is shocking.
Thank you for not including Judge Dredd 1995 in the list despite it being in the opening sequence. It's not a great movie but it's one of my absolute guilty pleasures...
@11:10 "the late 90s fashion it captured really well" - Omar Epps said all the costumes were provided for product placement and were not fitted and were very uncomfortable which you can see at times in his expressions
Even the worst 90s song, film, series is far better than todays stuff.
I'll watch and like every "90s cool" related videos you make
And it's very much appreciated. Thank you.
/agreed
What I wouldn't give for a decent Spawn adaptation, like they did for Deadpool
Please make more 90s cool- this is the basis for my whole channel
The fact you said "yeah that's phat that's phat" got me feeling HELLA nostalgic 😂
A recommended topic
Edgy 2000s looking anime
Notable things about it are its heavy use in dark shading being overly violent and dealing with heavy themes and having a somewhat gothic artstyle
Examples
Gatnz
Gilgamesh
Texhnolyze
Vampire hunter D
Ghost in shell standalone complex
The animatrix
Blood plus
Blood type c
Hellsing ultimate
Black lagoon
Death note
Afro samurai
I'm going to tackle the anime eventually.
The avengers... I NEVER watched it in it's entirety... Why? Because I FELL ASLEEP EACH TIME! That's the level of boredom it created! It isn't even a shadow of what the typical British TV-series was like...
I don't blame you. They should put that on the box. "Puts you to sleep". At least then "The Avengers" can be used for a positive purpose.
😅 there are so many of these movies that are on my aunt's favorites list.
This is a really good idea for a channel man I look forward to what’s next
Thanks man. Video games are next.
Ghosts Of Mars is the only movie where I walked out of the theater during the movie.
Keep tweaking the formula, love the content!
I will. I think I've landed on the general forumla for these videos. Just needs a little improvement here and there.
Holy S**T! That was it! I was spending this whole video trying to remember that weird Billy Zane movie I saw once.
It deserves more recognition.
1:40 YES! KATANAS, BLACK LEATHER and VAMPIRES!
‘an instructional in how to not make a sequel to your successful movie’
_heartily chuckles in Joker 2_
So many comments here not getting the "90s cool" idea. It's not about being made in the 90s!
Was sad to see Queen of the Damned on the mentions list, it was great 😅
Hahaha Awesome list. Just subscribed imediately. (Even the almost entires are spot on)
I would had imagined 'Matrix 2 or 3' on here as well, but hey! Big fan here. Keep this stuff coming
Thanks man. I like the Matrix 2. 3 was disappointing, but I still think its a decent movie. I'm going to talk about them at some point in a "special mentions" video.
@@LifeofSlicey1 Cool looking forward to more awesome Y2K content;)
Great video, mate! I have to admit I haven't seen many of these movies, but their clichés and tropes are so obvious to people who grew up in the 90s that I can't help but sort of feel I did watch them all, heh.
Escape from LA - whether you consider this the best or worst of 90s cool is totally up to you
Dude, your script is extreme, cool, badass, and well written.
What a great list. This is gonna sound hipster asf but once you watch enough good movies you genuinely get an appetite for bad movies that just try as hard as they can to be cool. It's weirdly spectacular
Well ...sometimes you just want to get wasted...😂😂😂
@@cmbaz1140 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
Many of these "coolbad" movies also had terrible licensed video games to go with them filling up the Blockbuster store shelves, that have most definitely been purged from most gamers' memory banks.
This pair of movie lists is incredible. Well done! I notice the clip from Fallen (2008), one my unironic favorites among the bad ones, but that's OK, I get why it's there.
You may have heard of these, but if you haven't you might be interested: Razor Blade Smile (1998) is like Underworld on a micro-budget. Diva (1981) is sort of a precursor, very stylized but missing a lot of the elements like double guns and alternative rock.
Tank Girl and Spawn were both great.
😂
10:16 if your initial thought was "Sick Boy from Trainspotting" you are immediately 90s cooler than me because I instantly went (correctly but less cool-ly) "oh that's Dade Murphy from Hackers!!"
breaking news!!! anything after 1999, is not a "90s Movie".
Awesome list!
Even my beloved Jason X got a mention. 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻
..and yes, Spawn would definitely deserve a modern reboot.
Bulletproof Monk is awesome
Keep going. Great videos. 90s Cool forever. I am a teacher and when I look at kids they often look like straight out of my high school time in the 90s with oversized shirts and trousers, belly bottom free ladies shirts, boot cut trousers, beige and black colours, grunge look the list goes on and we are straight in a 90s craze. I think most young people don’t know it.
SPAWN rocked, GHOST OF MARS, introduced me to Jason Statham, Aion Flux was an interesting view in a shitty and possible future. ULTRAVIOLET too. Dracula 2000 had Gerard Butler. Obviously, you were too young to understand or appreciate the fun factor of some not so great but nevertheless entertaining movies, after a long day of 12 hours of hard work.
"Yes, I know most of these are from the 2000s"..."let me know if there's anything I missed"... yeah, the 90s
THAT LAST VIDEO WAS DOOOPE
(edit: NOT TANK GIRL NOOOO! Lol)
Thanks bro. Sorry about Tank Girl.
@@LifeofSlicey1 lol i totally get it. love the Lost Boys génesis theory. So accurate
Spawn, Mortal Kombat: Annihilation (1997), Spawn (1997), Aeon Flux (2005) so much of my childhood condensed into one video!
Yo, what's the music you used in the last video?
Last video was:
The Path of Neo Soundtrack in the Library 1
The Path of Neo Soundtrack in the Key 1
X-Men Legends OST 103
X-Men Legends OST 105
X-Men Legends OST 112
Pool Paradise OST Track 13
Trickstyle OST Japan Race 1
Trickstyle OST Japan Race 3
Trickstyle OST USA Race 4
Fantastic 4 The Game track 2
Fantastic 4 The Game track 5
Fantastic 4 The Game track 15
Mission Impossible PS2 - Action Scene 3
Mission Impossible PS2 - Main Menu Theme
Goldeneye N64 Main theme
Ghost Rider the game soundtrack: in blackouts wake
Ghost Rider the game soundtrack: Flooded Depths
Rob Zombie Dragula micromort Remix
Baroque Remake Soundtrack 04
Slap Happy Rhythm Busters Boom Chocer
Fuzion Frenzy OST main theme
Ace Combat Zero Ending Credits
Dark City - Sway
Nightshade PS2 track 15 Flame in the Rain
Master Rallye Soundtrack Chemical Master
Perfect Dark - Chicago Stealth
Drake of the 99 Dragons Soundtrack Section 10
I don't have time to make the list for this video right now, but I will later if you want to know!
@@LifeofSlicey1 Thanks🥰
Bruh great video. The whole time I was basically the Rick Dalton meme, each one better than the last lol That brings me right back to my childhood
Visualizing someone doing the "Rick Dalton" thing to this video made me laugh. Thanks for the support man!
Darn… I was hoping to hear you rip into Queen of the Damned. Great soundtrack and… not a whole lot else except unintentional laughter.
I only saw Mortal Kombat: Annihilation because I was hanging out with a friend, and he stopped in front of the theater and told me he was going in to watch it. I couldn’t believe how terrible it looked even at the time. But what else should I have expected from a movie whose tagline is “Destroy All Expectations?”
You have to give them points for honesty...
I think this list was only big enough for one bad Y2K vampire movie.
That's one of my absolute favorite guilty pleasure movies😂
@@LifeofSlicey1 Glad to hear that you are going to do more of “90s Cool” videos. There’s a lot of untapped nostalgic potential in that era.
5:07 lol Kevin Smith actually talks about why the spider was there in one of his "An Evening with Kevin Smith" films.
the producer tried to shoehorn spiders into everything 😂
Yeah I saw that after someone pointed it out. Too funny.
Disagree HARD about Wild Wild West.
Playing drinking games with friends to these older cheesy movies is so fun lol
The robot spider from Wild Wild West was a leftover idea from Tim Burton's Superman Lives with Nicholas Cage.
I wonder how Resident Evil (2002) ranks in your list.
The movie is an honorable mention, but the games will fare much better.
Wish would could get movies like these again. When you get a bad movie now, it usually doesn’t come with any good action to at least make it fun
Hi, Life of Slice. I'm not sure if you will read this, but do you have a comprehensive list of 90s Cool films (both good and bad)? Or even possibly a criteria checklist for each film of how well they fit into the genre? I'm exploring the genre as well to see how each film did in the box office, with audiences, etc. Not sure if I will make a video of it. On a side note, some of my research shows that most of the films fit into the Dystopian Fiction genre described by John Truby in his book, The Anatomy of Genres. As he explains, Dystopian Fiction is a combination of two genres: Science Fiction and Horror, and a third modifier Epic. It may be that 90s Cool is a subgenre of Dystopian Fiction. Just wondering if this is useful. Amazing video, by the way. So much nostalgia!
Hey dude. If you watch my "best of" video, I get into my criteria. I never did any academic research. It's just a series tropes and patterns in entertainment I noticed over my lifetime. I have a bigger list of everything that is still a work in progress. I like your idea on it being a branch of dystopian fiction. Let me know if you make a video about it!
When people make videos saying to forget these types of movies is inept to me because these movies are my whole childhood.
Thanks! Now i will watch all these movies. they honestly sound fun and better than what's on the program these days
Giant spider robot in Wild Wild West was actually taken from cancelled Tim Burton's Superman Lives movie, where it's producer Jon Peters insisted that Superman would fight with a giant spider robot in it's climax.
The inclusion of it in the film was a bizzare choice.
@@anubusx yeah, but that's what you get when you make a soulless remake of an old tv show
The spawn movie was a let down but the soundtrack was the epitome of “90s cool” and the comic as well set the tone of the 90s anti hero
Amazing soundtrack.
Nod do a video about the best and whorst "90's cool" video games because there's A LOT of they and this is becoming a trend now because of the sonic 2 movie introducing shadow in the post credit scene and everybody was searching about who is shadow and discovering his solo game and danm, that game is the epitome of every single "90s edgy cool" trope in one game and people are now realising that most of the early 2000's games are like that and this is a meme now lol!
I will do videogames eventually. There is an overwhelming amount of material to cover, but I will get there!
17:08
Oh my god, yes! I remember watching this on TV when I was a kid...
The "We have the Matrix at home" of movies.
The only reason why I remember Ultraviolet is because I used to watch the Final Fantasy VII movie trailer on the DVD trailer menu all the time. Lol
One fact I think a lot of people Overlook is that movie is released in 2001 two or three most likely started pre-production in 99 or 98 so a lot of movies in the transition period between decades were actually entering pre-production before the decade was up thus making them part of that decade even though they were released years later kind of overlooked in my opinion
Thanks for this list, this was HIGHLY entertaining 😆💯the Dennis hopper scene killed me with a cringe 🤦🏾♀️🤣
I'm with you on many of these choices but it makes me sad to see such disrespect for Dracula 2000. I loved that movie when it came out. In fact, it's one of the few movies I went to see twice at the theater! It's also the movie that out Gerard Butler on the map for me.
The Crow: Wicked Prayer definitely sucks badly, though.
Oh, and now I need to track down Invincible. I definitely need to see that.
I thought that Dracula 2000 might ruffle some feathers. I felt it didn't go hard enough on the horror, or the action, and felt a little bland. There are good ideas in the movie though.