The 90s is forever. Everything to the current takes from this era. Everything was done in this era. All the “new” stuff we get is just the 90s movies being remade.
Well, that and eighties movies / cartoons / TV shows being remade. But yeah, I agree with the gist of your comment. Entertainment has been stagnant since the 2000s ended.
Same. I'm still all about that shit. I bet Zoomers judge me the same way I used to judge old dudes who peaked in the 1970s and still wore flared pants in the 90s, which I considered hella lame at that time.
Same here, and The Matrix was my favourite movie of 1999. Man, it really did feel like we were moving into the future back then, haha. The late 90s felt that much more futuristic when compared to the early 90s.
Brandon Lee was set to star in both Mortal Kombat and The Matrix. He would have undoubtedly been the face of 90s Cool.
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@LifeofSlicey1 Yeah... I can't get over what happened to him, so unfair. He was so talented, charming and such a lovely person. Sad to think about the what ifs... :(
Well the way things with AI are going, you probably will be able to replace Keanu with Brandon Lee soon. You see? AI agents are not so bad after all!
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@@IbizanHound2 I think I've seen something similar already! AI is advancing like crazy. But it's still Keanu, only with Brandon's face. We can never see what his unique approach would have been sadly.
If you're gonna watch Dark City, make sure you get the director's cut. The studio didn't trust audiences to use their brains, so the version that went to theatres was significantly cut down, with an annoying voice over that spoils everything.
"90s Cool" has it's own sub-genre I would refer to as "Desert Cool": Films like From Dusk Till Dawn, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Tank Girl, Wild Wild West etc
I love this. I'm old so i grew up in the heart of this era and it was all so enticing to watch these movies and hear the music being made around that time. Thanks for all the work you put into this
Love your content. Well articulated. Would really like to see you do a video on how marketing (commercials magazines etc.) changed from 80s to 90s for those disgusting counter culture ads to appeal to the genx millenial audience.
No JCVD movies in this list is criminal. Universal Soldier and Timecop not even getting a mention meanwhile Hard Target is only briefly alluded to? There's so many to choose from his 90s movies
When I was a teenager in the '90s, I wore a brown duster (w/contrasting beige collar) and red circular sunglasses, often with blue or khaki-color jeans, brown hiking boots, and a blue button-front shirt. I was always trying to look like a cross between Michael Biehn and Bruce Campbell (and sometimes Cyberpunk-era Billy Idol), mixing and matching different elements while also putting my own spin on it. An alternative to trench coats and dusters is the Navy-style pea coat (a la The Boondock Saints). They usually come in black or Navy blue. An alternative to the biker jacket is the M-65 field jacket (a la Travis Bickle or Clarence Boddicker). They come in all sorts of colors, including but not limited to: OD green (the classic), black, tan/beige, various shades of blue, all sorts of camo patterns, and red if you really want to make a statement. 11:29 Those are dusters. More rugged than trench coats. Mine was just like that except it was Jedi colors (Earth tones) instead of Sith colors. 12:23 He has an actual reason to be wearing shades since they prevent snow-blindness. 14:36 That's not combat gear. Certainly not the boots. Goth, sure, but not combat. 14:41 That looks more like burgundy. 15:31 / 27:51 No one back then - at least in the domain of pop culture - knew how to do a proper McMillan Tilt. Except Olivier Gruner in 'Nemesis'. He actually did it right. And left-handed, even! Note: The dumb thing actors do with handguns nowadays is they hold them high without aiming down sights properly, almost like they're trying to aim with their "third eye" or something. And not the way Alucard does it in Hellsing. Rick Grimes does it all the time in 'The Walking Dead'. Come to think of it, Detective Mills does it in 'Seven', so it might have started in the '90s. Something that's always irked me in action movies from all eras is how good guys always favor pistols over rifles. Stands as an example of how video game logic often makes more sense than movie logic. 18:43 Weird Science did it back in 1985. Oingo Boingo is the G.O.A.T.! 21:06 He did fine. Imagine Bruce Campbell as Two-Face! 22:37 If you fired that custom "stubgun" (which is of the ye olde "rabbit-ear" sidelock type, "rabbit-ear" being a slang term for double hammers) with a finger on each trigger, it would fly out yer hand! Even if you only pulled one trigger, and certain if you pulled both. 24:51 My '90s shades were a lot like those but with black rims. 28:30 A true "professional" would immediately point out to his protege (played by Natalie Portperson) that she's holding that pistol wrong. Notice the position of the thumb of the support hand. You wanna get slide-bite? Cuz that's how you get slide-bite? Actors hold handguns like that all the time. It's insulting! There's a technique called "cross-thumb," but it's only useful with single-action revolvers or while firing a double-action single-action style (which isn't done in combat, only when shooting for recreation).
“Bright and colorful was out, and dark and mysterious was in.” I’m going to argue with you a bit here. 90’s still had bold and colorful (especially with geometric flourishes) but it also had the darker and grungier side running in parallel. Stone-washed Levis and Oakley Blades were still everywhere; black Levis and Oakley Romeos were more turn of the millennium. At least in my experience “colorful cool” was the norm and “dark cool” was more of a movie thing. The real enduring style that grew out of this was cyberpunk. Cyberpunk let “90’s dark cool” remain both cool and timeless, combined with technology before it got too consumerized and-if you were into Shadowrun-even magic and mysticism. Cyberpunk lets you watch Blade Runner and read Neuromancer every year and still feel like you’re researching the future instead of trying to relive your past.
I was thinking of the cinematic cool with that sentence, or the "wrestling" cool with Hulk Hogan moving from yellow and red to all black. But that's a good point, there was still lots of color in the 90s. It was still the era of the Fresh Prince of Bel Air and Friends. Thanks for the feedback and your insightful perspective as always. That last sentence is quite profound.
@ I should’ve added, thank you for another excellent video. You approach these topics with thought and care, and I always think about them for days after-plus of course add some movies to my watch list. The essays I write in your comments are only the first of the thoughts that your videos provokes!
Blade will always be in that limited few things of 90s cool that legitimately will never age poorly I know im late but a figure i cannot separate from 90s cool is Jet Li. His style of Martial Arts Films legitimately were the backbone of everything i thought was cool as a kid and his Film Tai chi Master(released in America as Twin Warriors) was my favorite film of his for close to 5 years.
The 90s were really cool when it comes to its time period and when we look back on it all in terms of fashion, movies and video games, its like we've done it all up to that point if the world really was gonna end. I just never knew the world was gonna devolve into what it has became now in terms of us becoming more dissociated, while being connected at the same time in terms of tech
I just remembered some video games in that time frame had a lot of 90s cool going on. Resident Evil 4 comes to mind. for a horror game, it has so many cool moments that takes from the Matrix and other films. Devil May Cry is also another big one, Guns, Swords, cool protag. has it all. edit: Just remembered i watched your vid on 90s cool in video games. no wonder i kept feeling like i watched a video on this subject.
I can name several movies with Y2K Attitude aesthetics: *American Pie *Barnyard *Freddy Got Fingered *Harold and Kumar go to White Castle *How High? *Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius *Max Keeble's Big Move *Not Another Teen Movie *Shrek As for TV Shows: *Malcolm in the Middle *Recess *Dragon Ball Z For video games: *Bully *Tony Hawk's Pro Skater *Viewtiful Joe
Although I miss that era A LOT, I doubt we can return to it. Audiences and culture back then were not yet completely ruined by internet and reality trash tv. Now we've been through 20 years of turning everything into a dry realistic version of everything. Nolan's Batman compared to Tim Burton's for example. People have been so tainted by this true to life treatment of movies, that stylized movies would seem cringy and childish to them. We have a much more vulgar culture now and movies of the 90's had a bit of romanticism in them. Now it would be laughable.
I don't think 90s Cool itself will ever come back, but I think we're headed towards another light attitude era. An era that could be a good breeding ground for dark action again.
Doberman! That's some deep cut. I'd be more shocked if you know Man Bites Dog, and Nirvana starring Christopher Lambert, along with some 90s neo-noirs.
I AGREE!!! 2000s were almost a continuation of the 90s, 2010s was almost like a middle child decade. And the co-vid chaos of 2020 was almost the real start of the 21st century
Man, I hated Romeo & Juliet. Both the movie and the Shakespeare play. We had to study it in middle school and then twice in high school. I got so sick of it. I don't ever want anything to do with Romeo & Juliet ever again. haha. Anyways, now I get to watch movies I missed out on while growing up. Thanks!
Thank you for at least giving "Drive" an honourable mention - it's a massively underrated martial arts film. Great cinema? Nah, but it's fun and the choreography is really good.
I was meaning to ask, would you consider Sonic Adventure 2 and Shadow the Hedghehog (2005) as "90s cool?" For Shadow, you not only had the over the top gun action and SA2, including extreme sports with the grinding rails mechanic, but both included black clad ant-heroes doing over the top mid-air action with techno and hard rock. But as with the other vids on 90s cool, this is great! It makes me happy we are seeing 90s era of cool get appreciated and not disregarded as "cringey" or "edgy and tryhard."
My sister still has my X-mas list for '92: A dirtbike, sunglasses, a leather jacket, black boots, and a b.b gun. I was 6. Guess what my favorite movie was.
Love your Channel bro🫶😎 Also I’m glad u also did a short mentioned on “Drive”, I used to tell people about that movie and it seems like no one has ever heard of it . 90’s movies soundtrack was big for me , The Crow & Spawn soundtrack was on my discman everyday haha I still prefer the “grunge cinema” guess u can say it’s bedded and ingrained in me 😅 Oh and I always wanted Brad Pitt’s sunglasses in “fight club”
Red Letter Media started really missing their mark after they stopped making their popculture and Star Wars spoofs. Their jokes stopped being funny, and just turned bitter. Your channel is much more optimistic and enjoyable because you actually talk about the things you apprand like.
One of my favorite videos of all time is Arnold smoking a stogie in a black shirt and sunglasses telling you how much of a loser you are. It's the best.
Terminator 2 forever feels like a period piece. It’s ironic it came out in 91 and really had John Connor look like the typical grunge kid right before it exploded or was exploding and it takes place in 95. Everything from the film style, the special effects that still hold up solidly, the fear of the future and machines, the now scary accurate way computers and technology are in ever facet of life and easily could cause a apocalypse, the soundtrack, Arnie just being at the epitome of badass cool. Matrix is right up there at the tail end of the 90s, pretty much defining the end of the 20th century. The movie itself even says 1999 the year humanity peaked as a civilization, even the concept of the world being a simulation is a theory some ppl believe, looking at how crazy and innovative video games are now wondering how far we would be from creating a world totally unrecognizable from a game, and sentient machine AI taking over and running the world. Fight Club also…so much great cinema
Glad you said it. It’s not being diff or reaching for hot takes. Val is the best Batman. He had the look the voice etc. HES Batman. I’ve yet to see any other portrayal as accurate.
I can never watch "Leon: the Professional" again, after seeing the extended cut, where it's made very clear that Matilda is coming on to Leon and he's basically into it. No surprise, given that the director was "married" to a 16 year old he'd started dating a couple years prior. It scarred Natalie Portman for life.
Some more Honorable Mentions could be Escape from L.A., The Rock, Mission Impossible, Barb Wire (96) The Saint (97), Payback (99), Carlitos Way (93), Deathwish 5 (94) and the Gargoyles cartoon.
The guy from red letter media is a small example of a bigger issue. We live in a gynocentric society everything that was masculine, edgy and cool is considered poorly aged. It was all replaced with Sex In The City, Glee, Drag Race, Twilight, Hunger Games and whatever corny adaptation created for the female audience...
You have it backwards. El Mariachi is the first film of Rodriguez's Mexico Trilogy. Desperado is considered a direct sequel to El Mariachi, but Antonio Banderas replaced Carlos Gallardo. Still the same character.
The first video I saw of yours was the Attitude era one and I've enjoyed all of them. Me and a mate of mine have discussed similar things. We're both in our late 30s, interested in pop culture, and have both noticed the shift in our culture away from edginess. Its so strange to me that wholesomeness became an aesthetic that was considered cool by young people because when I was in my teens wholesomeness was lame. Edginess was where it was at and watching this video has given a few films to watch that I missed back then like Strange Days. Its cheesy as fuck but can't believe you missed the original Mortal Kombat.
Dude I grew up in the '90s nobody thought that was cool back then anyone who dressed that way was immediately made fun of, the media thought it was cool not people.
The 90s is forever. Everything to the current takes from this era. Everything was done in this era. All the “new” stuff we get is just the 90s movies being remade.
Indeed!!! I still love and long for the 90s!!! Best decade of cool ever
Well, that and eighties movies / cartoons / TV shows being remade.
But yeah, I agree with the gist of your comment. Entertainment has been stagnant since the 2000s ended.
The one aesthetic that I can't get enough of. There's a reason Deus Ex, System Shock 2, and FEAR are among my top 10 favorite games.
I was born in 86. I lived thru all of this and absolutely loved it!!! Still do. 😎
Same. I'm still all about that shit. I bet Zoomers judge me the same way I used to judge old dudes who peaked in the 1970s and still wore flared pants in the 90s, which I considered hella lame at that time.
Same here, and The Matrix was my favourite movie of 1999. Man, it really did feel like we were moving into the future back then, haha. The late 90s felt that much more futuristic when compared to the early 90s.
@@trentslater2000I'm the same age and I never saw old dudes wearing flared pants in the 90s. Was that a regional thing?
@RobotDCLXVI probably, I grew up in Eastern Europe. I think fashion was slower to change back then in that region.
As a kid who was born in the 2010's, i can proudly admit that i enjoy the 90's (and 80's) way too much
Then you really know The Good Stuff!
Young as you are,you have good taste👍😁
It was just that good.
The 90’s were the coolest era imo 🔥 ill go back ANY DAY
I love Keanu to bits, but I can't help but wonder what Brandon Lee would have been like as Neo.
Brandon Lee was set to star in both Mortal Kombat and The Matrix. He would have undoubtedly been the face of 90s Cool.
@LifeofSlicey1 Yeah... I can't get over what happened to him, so unfair. He was so talented, charming and such a lovely person. Sad to think about the what ifs... :(
Well the way things with AI are going, you probably will be able to replace Keanu with Brandon Lee soon. You see? AI agents are not so bad after all!
@@IbizanHound2 I think I've seen something similar already! AI is advancing like crazy. But it's still Keanu, only with Brandon's face. We can never see what his unique approach would have been sadly.
I honestly think that the movie would work out well with Brandon Lee as well, I can see the movie working with either actors.
If you're gonna watch Dark City, make sure you get the director's cut. The studio didn't trust audiences to use their brains, so the version that went to theatres was significantly cut down, with an annoying voice over that spoils everything.
Sage advice here. I'm lucky enough to have heard that before I saw it the first time.
Ty for the heads up
“The Matrix is the best there was, the best there is, and the best there will be.” PREACH BROTHER.
Amen praise the lord
Nah overrated movie
Us millennial boys were left in this cold era with Terminator 2 looks and ambition of Forest Gump.
"90s Cool" has it's own sub-genre I would refer to as "Desert Cool":
Films like From Dusk Till Dawn, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Tank Girl, Wild Wild West etc
Parasite Eve II
That's an interesting observation. Lots of desert movies in the 90s and early 2000s. The Mummy and Tremors as well.
Ah yes, the late 1990s the only time when wearing sunglasses inside and in the dark was cool.
I love this. I'm old so i grew up in the heart of this era and it was all so enticing to watch these movies and hear the music being made around that time. Thanks for all the work you put into this
I could have sworn I had already seen this video - but I haven't!
This is more of a deep-dive into the history of 90s cool than previous videos.
Deja Vu. It means they changed something in the program.
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Well played.
*tips hat
I always look forward to these videos man. Thank you for taking out the time to make them
I appreciate that man, thank you.
I feel like I saw all of these movies on repeat in the 90s and 2000s on TBS, TNT, and USA 😂
Sitting here watching this, wearing all black.
Love your content. Well articulated. Would really like to see you do a video on how marketing (commercials magazines etc.) changed from 80s to 90s for those disgusting counter culture ads to appeal to the genx millenial audience.
what an amazing video! to go through my life's moments by reminding me of fantastic movies and vibes!
I've never had an issue wearing a trench coat.
Dude I love these videos. Good job
I appreciate the support, thank you!
Damn, man. Your redo of the movie list is good. That Bret Hart quote at number 1 was such a good reference.
What. An. Amazing. Video! Wow, thank you
I rewatched Dark City the other day and it really hammered home how The Matrix was the apotheosis of 90s cool.
Oh I clicked on youtube just in time! I go get some popcorn 😎🤘
Goddamn I love my boy Slice and his reminiscences on the GOAT era of action
Millennium Odyssey The Web Series brings back 90's cool. It's kino
you are posting that everywhere lol nah I've seen it, you did a good job. whens s2?
@EmberQuestTheGame when its ready 😎
@@thomascarroll5750 ...but I wants it now
@@thomascarroll5750 haha nah take your time all good. what's your x?
@@thomascarroll5750 just i know when s2 is coming out
No JCVD movies in this list is criminal. Universal Soldier and Timecop not even getting a mention meanwhile Hard Target is only briefly alluded to? There's so many to choose from his 90s movies
Ah the 90s. It really did start with terminator 2 and end with the matrix. Good times. 👍🏻
Kitana's leather outfit, Johnny Cage's sunglasses, & the techno syndrome theme from that MK movie in '95 lol good times
The 90s were a totally super awesome radical way pass cool decade💪😎👍
Great vid
Thank you for this video, Slice. Would you consider making one of these based on nineties rock music videos?
When I was a teenager in the '90s, I wore a brown duster (w/contrasting beige collar) and red circular sunglasses, often with blue or khaki-color jeans, brown hiking boots, and a blue button-front shirt. I was always trying to look like a cross between Michael Biehn and Bruce Campbell (and sometimes Cyberpunk-era Billy Idol), mixing and matching different elements while also putting my own spin on it.
An alternative to trench coats and dusters is the Navy-style pea coat (a la The Boondock Saints). They usually come in black or Navy blue. An alternative to the biker jacket is the M-65 field jacket (a la Travis Bickle or Clarence Boddicker). They come in all sorts of colors, including but not limited to: OD green (the classic), black, tan/beige, various shades of blue, all sorts of camo patterns, and red if you really want to make a statement.
11:29 Those are dusters. More rugged than trench coats. Mine was just like that except it was Jedi colors (Earth tones) instead of Sith colors.
12:23 He has an actual reason to be wearing shades since they prevent snow-blindness.
14:36 That's not combat gear. Certainly not the boots. Goth, sure, but not combat.
14:41 That looks more like burgundy.
15:31 / 27:51 No one back then - at least in the domain of pop culture - knew how to do a proper McMillan Tilt. Except Olivier Gruner in 'Nemesis'. He actually did it right. And left-handed, even!
Note: The dumb thing actors do with handguns nowadays is they hold them high without aiming down sights properly, almost like they're trying to aim with their "third eye" or something. And not the way Alucard does it in Hellsing. Rick Grimes does it all the time in 'The Walking Dead'. Come to think of it, Detective Mills does it in 'Seven', so it might have started in the '90s. Something that's always irked me in action movies from all eras is how good guys always favor pistols over rifles. Stands as an example of how video game logic often makes more sense than movie logic.
18:43 Weird Science did it back in 1985. Oingo Boingo is the G.O.A.T.!
21:06 He did fine. Imagine Bruce Campbell as Two-Face!
22:37 If you fired that custom "stubgun" (which is of the ye olde "rabbit-ear" sidelock type, "rabbit-ear" being a slang term for double hammers) with a finger on each trigger, it would fly out yer hand! Even if you only pulled one trigger, and certain if you pulled both.
24:51 My '90s shades were a lot like those but with black rims.
28:30 A true "professional" would immediately point out to his protege (played by Natalie Portperson) that she's holding that pistol wrong. Notice the position of the thumb of the support hand. You wanna get slide-bite? Cuz that's how you get slide-bite? Actors hold handguns like that all the time. It's insulting! There's a technique called "cross-thumb," but it's only useful with single-action revolvers or while firing a double-action single-action style (which isn't done in combat, only when shooting for recreation).
Great job, being around during this era was very fun. I miss it. lol
This video is so up my alley! Very well made!
You should make one of these but focused on music and another one focused on videogames.
The videogame one happened already.
hey man that was a great video and I thought i can see the list of music i like to listen
Big fan of this, great video man!
“Bright and colorful was out, and dark and mysterious was in.” I’m going to argue with you a bit here. 90’s still had bold and colorful (especially with geometric flourishes) but it also had the darker and grungier side running in parallel. Stone-washed Levis and Oakley Blades were still everywhere; black Levis and Oakley Romeos were more turn of the millennium. At least in my experience “colorful cool” was the norm and “dark cool” was more of a movie thing. The real enduring style that grew out of this was cyberpunk. Cyberpunk let “90’s dark cool” remain both cool and timeless, combined with technology before it got too consumerized and-if you were into Shadowrun-even magic and mysticism. Cyberpunk lets you watch Blade Runner and read Neuromancer every year and still feel like you’re researching the future instead of trying to relive your past.
I was thinking of the cinematic cool with that sentence, or the "wrestling" cool with Hulk Hogan moving from yellow and red to all black. But that's a good point, there was still lots of color in the 90s. It was still the era of the Fresh Prince of Bel Air and Friends. Thanks for the feedback and your insightful perspective as always. That last sentence is quite profound.
@ I should’ve added, thank you for another excellent video. You approach these topics with thought and care, and I always think about them for days after-plus of course add some movies to my watch list. The essays I write in your comments are only the first of the thoughts that your videos provokes!
Blade will always be in that limited few things of 90s cool that legitimately will never age poorly
I know im late but a figure i cannot separate from 90s cool is Jet Li. His style of Martial Arts Films legitimately were the backbone of everything i thought was cool as a kid and his Film Tai chi Master(released in America as Twin Warriors) was my favorite film of his for close to 5 years.
Jet Li is definitely one of the defining actors of 90s Cool.
@@LifeofSlicey1 if you ever do a film on the 2000s cool,I'd love to see you discuss Jet Li and Jackie Chans popularity in the 2000s
Feel like Dylan and Eric kinda ruined trenchcoats and sunglasses for us 80/90s kids....
Indeed. They ruined a lot of things sadly.
The homie's back with another banger! 🔥😎
I always called that style "leather trenchcoat techo karate"
Can’t wait for you to do 70s cool 2010s cool and even 60s cool!😮💨😂
Those segues between the top 20 was the real 90s cool.
Finally some respect for Strange Days 😭
It's long overdue! It's a great movie. Sorry I didn't get it the first time.
The 90s were really cool when it comes to its time period and when we look back on it all in terms of fashion, movies and video games, its like we've done it all up to that point if the world really was gonna end. I just never knew the world was gonna devolve into what it has became now in terms of us becoming more dissociated, while being connected at the same time in terms of tech
Good theme for video and Nice work
I just remembered some video games in that time frame had a lot of 90s cool going on. Resident Evil 4 comes to mind. for a horror game, it has so many cool moments that takes from the Matrix and other films. Devil May Cry is also another big one, Guns, Swords, cool protag. has it all.
edit: Just remembered i watched your vid on 90s cool in video games. no wonder i kept feeling like i watched a video on this subject.
Make videos about Y2K Attitude shows and movies. I am enthusiastic about your takes on that aesthetics.
Batman and Robin
@MadPaperMario What's that got to do with the Y2K Attitude aesthetics?
@ its kinda has it in the movie another one is WWE
I can name several movies with Y2K Attitude aesthetics:
*American Pie
*Barnyard
*Freddy Got Fingered
*Harold and Kumar go to White Castle
*How High?
*Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius
*Max Keeble's Big Move
*Not Another Teen Movie
*Shrek
As for TV Shows:
*Malcolm in the Middle
*Recess
*Dragon Ball Z
For video games:
*Bully
*Tony Hawk's Pro Skater
*Viewtiful Joe
@ id say most of them were popular around the era rather than actually have the aesthetic
Although I miss that era A LOT, I doubt we can return to it.
Audiences and culture back then were not yet completely ruined by internet and reality trash tv.
Now we've been through 20 years of turning everything into a dry realistic version of everything.
Nolan's Batman compared to Tim Burton's for example.
People have been so tainted by this true to life treatment of movies,
that stylized movies would seem cringy and childish to them.
We have a much more vulgar culture now and movies of the 90's had a bit of romanticism in them.
Now it would be laughable.
I don't think 90s Cool itself will ever come back, but I think we're headed towards another light attitude era. An era that could be a good breeding ground for dark action again.
Highlander II had a great 90s cool look.
Doberman! That's some deep cut.
I'd be more shocked if you know Man Bites Dog, and Nirvana starring Christopher Lambert, along with some 90s neo-noirs.
I AGREE!!! 2000s were almost a continuation of the 90s, 2010s was almost like a middle child decade. And the co-vid chaos of 2020 was almost the real start of the 21st century
The 90s, truly the last great decade.
Everyone in the movies was cool, everybody smoked, and there was still originality.
Nice video 👍👍👌👌🙌🔥
*chaostician
(brilliant video btw)
90s Cool? More like 90s Kino!
Gonna be a good day with a slice of life post
Man, I hated Romeo & Juliet. Both the movie and the Shakespeare play. We had to study it in middle school and then twice in high school. I got so sick of it. I don't ever want anything to do with Romeo & Juliet ever again. haha. Anyways, now I get to watch movies I missed out on while growing up. Thanks!
Thank you for at least giving "Drive" an honourable mention - it's a massively underrated martial arts film. Great cinema? Nah, but it's fun and the choreography is really good.
Blade is one of my all-time favorite movies, and Devil May Cry 3 is my all-time favorite video game.
25:56
One of my favorite movies ever
I see you out here, with the reference to Mainframe's flagship series Reboot. Alphanumeric!
13:45 Strange days! He listened!
I was meaning to ask, would you consider Sonic Adventure 2 and Shadow the Hedghehog (2005) as "90s cool?" For Shadow, you not only had the over the top gun action and SA2, including extreme sports with the grinding rails mechanic, but both included black clad ant-heroes doing over the top mid-air action with techno and hard rock. But as with the other vids on 90s cool, this is great! It makes me happy we are seeing 90s era of cool get appreciated and not disregarded as "cringey" or "edgy and tryhard."
I would say yes. Both have strong elements of 90s Cool. Shadow is pretty much the 90s Cool Sonic character.
My sister still has my X-mas list for '92: A dirtbike, sunglasses, a leather jacket, black boots, and a b.b gun. I was 6. Guess what my favorite movie was.
Love your Channel bro🫶😎
Also I’m glad u also did a short mentioned on “Drive”, I used to tell people about that movie and it seems like no one has ever heard of it .
90’s movies soundtrack was big for me , The Crow & Spawn soundtrack was on my discman everyday haha
I still prefer the “grunge cinema” guess u can say it’s bedded and ingrained in me 😅
Oh and I always wanted Brad Pitt’s sunglasses in “fight club”
Red Letter Media started really missing their mark after they stopped making their popculture and Star Wars spoofs. Their jokes stopped being funny, and just turned bitter. Your channel is much more optimistic and enjoyable because you actually talk about the things you apprand like.
It's still cool The 90's taught Us much 🕶🙏🏿🕶
One of my favorite videos of all time is Arnold smoking a stogie in a black shirt and sunglasses telling you how much of a loser you are. It's the best.
More than Spawn, Image comics as a whole were unbelievably influential on 90s cool. Rob Liefeld is the comic book poster boy of 90s cool
Terminator 2 forever feels like a period piece. It’s ironic it came out in 91 and really had John Connor look like the typical grunge kid right before it exploded or was exploding and it takes place in 95. Everything from the film style, the special effects that still hold up solidly, the fear of the future and machines, the now scary accurate way computers and technology are in ever facet of life and easily could cause a apocalypse, the soundtrack, Arnie just being at the epitome of badass cool. Matrix is right up there at the tail end of the 90s, pretty much defining the end of the 20th century. The movie itself even says 1999 the year humanity peaked as a civilization, even the concept of the world being a simulation is a theory some ppl believe, looking at how crazy and innovative video games are now wondering how far we would be from creating a world totally unrecognizable from a game, and sentient machine AI taking over and running the world. Fight Club also…so much great cinema
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“Strange Days”
Glad you said it. It’s not being diff or reaching for hot takes. Val is the best Batman. He had the look the voice etc. HES Batman. I’ve yet to see any other portrayal as accurate.
Val Kilmers voice was perfect for Batman. I love his speech to Robin about what it means to take a life.
@ perfect voice!!! Very similar to Conroy’s. Great suit as well. Didn’t notice the nipples till UA-cam. Not sure why ppl cared tht much.
I feel like with the 80s being well the 80s . The 90s came and was like alright hold my drink 😎
Ok, ya terminé de ver tu video pero where is "wild at heart"? anyway, great show
Twilight tuck dark fantasy to another level
@ 14:12 where is that animation from ??
Cybersix. An underrated gem of a cartoon from 1999.
I can never watch "Leon: the Professional" again, after seeing the extended cut, where it's made very clear that Matilda is coming on to Leon and he's basically into it. No surprise, given that the director was "married" to a 16 year old he'd started dating a couple years prior. It scarred Natalie Portman for life.
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I haven't seen most of those movies. So many of them have this cultural osmosis that I had to think about it.
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What song plays at the honable mentions?
Commenting to please the algorithm.
Some more Honorable Mentions could be Escape from L.A., The Rock, Mission Impossible, Barb Wire (96) The Saint (97), Payback (99), Carlitos Way (93), Deathwish 5 (94) and the Gargoyles cartoon.
I still remember
The guy from red letter media is a small example of a bigger issue. We live in a gynocentric society everything that was masculine, edgy and cool is considered poorly aged. It was all replaced with Sex In The City, Glee, Drag Race, Twilight, Hunger Games and whatever corny adaptation created for the female audience...
Fight Club is basically Heathers for guys. Heathers doesn't really fit in that list, but it was prophetic of the 90s attitude in many ways.
Not watched the video yet. If this video doesn't talk about rivethead culture and Vampire The Masquerade, it's a miss.
Bro great content , I was entertain...
That's not desparado. That's mariachi the remake of desperado.
You have it backwards. El Mariachi is the first film of Rodriguez's Mexico Trilogy. Desperado is considered a direct sequel to El Mariachi, but Antonio Banderas replaced Carlos Gallardo. Still the same character.
The first video I saw of yours was the Attitude era one and I've enjoyed all of them. Me and a mate of mine have discussed similar things. We're both in our late 30s, interested in pop culture, and have both noticed the shift in our culture away from edginess.
Its so strange to me that wholesomeness became an aesthetic that was considered cool by young people because when I was in my teens wholesomeness was lame. Edginess was where it was at and watching this video has given a few films to watch that I missed back then like Strange Days. Its cheesy as fuck but can't believe you missed the original Mortal Kombat.
Hell yeah dude. Glad other people feel the same way.
Mortal Kombat was an honorable mention.
I miss those days
Dual Wielding Handguns.... One Handed Shotgun Action....!!!
How can you not have die hard with a vengeance!? I know John mcclane doesn’t wear the black leather and glasses but the Germans do!!
What about the fifth element or Batman and robin or Star wars the phantom menace
Might I suggest the anime "Ergo Proxy" as an example of 2000s flavor of 90s cool?
Dude I grew up in the '90s nobody thought that was cool back then anyone who dressed that way was immediately made fun of, the media thought it was cool not people.
Is this a reupload or am I going mad?
It's more like a reboot.