I fixed code for Y2K. Mostly it involved changing the year from two digits to four digits, and of course updating all archival copies of databases to have 4 digit years. And testing, testing testing. It sounds easy but it took over a year. Why didn't the use four digit years to begin with? Because memory and storage then was very expensive per byte. They even went further, storing numbers as 'packed decimals', to save an extra few precious bytes. Anyway, when things went wrong, programs just crashed, aka 'abended'. No monsters, or whatever.
That was an example of not planning long-term, IMO. I would much rather find memory savings elsewhere than to make changing the fundamentals a herculean task later on.
Is this the funniest comedy of 2024? No. Could it have been better had the absurd plot not been so absurd? Sure. But this movie knows what it is, it doesn't take itself seriously and makes it clear that you shouldn't either. The jokes and cultural references are more hit than miss, if you get them. If you're under 30, you might not get the majority of them.
If you’re 29, you would have been 4-5 years old in 99. Why would this movie be for those people? It should be aimed at people my age (mid 40s)…although Tubthumping was 1997…
“Boy you ain’t done shit, I done said worse, flip your fitted cap back like Fred Durst”, 😂 I can’t help thinking of that Weezy line whenever I hear his name.
Thank you both as always for the delicious reviews. Sometimes of course the most interesting ones are for films that didn't work for you or on which you disagree. Alonso, I very much enjoyed that little run of Poseidon Adventure/Stella Stevens/left with (the) E(a)rnest Bor(gnin)e(s)! How's that punctuation mode for late 90s style.
I had significantly more fun with this than they did, but I agree that it squanders Y2K as a premise and backdrop. Some of the expected Y2K business happens very quickly but then it basically becomes an alien invasion movie. Could have done more to tap into the actual fears and hopes of that moment.
One of four A24 releases I watched today. Certainly the most disposable of the bunch but I still had some fun with it. Dìdi hits many similar cultural beats but is a much more quality movie.
There was a customer, that frequented the place I worked, that went into full bore "I'm stocking up a bomb shelter." mode right before the big day. Never saw him again. Seriously. I mean I worked at that place for another two years. What do you think happened to him?
I would love to see that. Cutting & pacing was the main issue for me. Great to see Tim Heidecker but really underused. It felt like a long 1.5 hrs. So theres a pacing issue there in the middle. But regardless of that I still thought it was hilarious. All the nostalgia worked on me. One of the best comedies ive seen in awhile. This was my life in 99/00. I was obessed with Limp Bizkit & Korn lol, Lots of funny little bits. But as a movie, it needed to be fleshed out & edited better.
Didn't expect you both to get this. I saw this at a festival and it was so funny it played like gangbusters in the theater. This movie captures a lot of teen angst of the time and Kyle Mooney's stoner dude character also remined me James Franco in Pineapple Express. Everyone should go see this!
@@nicholasmorre7371 It's a Kyle Mooney film, I don't think anyone should expect it to be well made. His style is wild hip and zany humor, what you see is what you get. 🤟
@@nicholasmorre7371I don’t think they “got it” when one of their major gripes was it didn’t capture the anxiety they felt as adults, when there’s no way teenagers at that time felt the same level of dread
Your review is pretty much what I thought when watching the trailer. Kyle Mooney is funny in small doses, "Brigsby Bear" was just ok but he does have plenty of content that is funny floating out there.
This movie was almost the live-action Emoji Movie. Standard everyman main character trying to get out of his box, comic relief buddy, even the queen/hacker combo love-interest. Chased by robots most of the film. Also hollow and vacuous watching experience.
Zegler fan here, but sorry to say I did not relate to or like any the characters and did not remotely remind me of anybody I knew back then. I was on the Y2K team for my company, pager and all. The movie too often retreated to or substituted crudity for its attempts at humor/cleverness, boring. Just not enough of the isolated bright spots (e.g. the brick joke) to save the film for me. Although I confess the outhouse scene was funny. Zegler was the best part of the film and I saw WSS and TBOSAS. multiple times but once was enough for Y2K. Zegler needs to find a well written comedy film to be in, I think she has a hidden comedic streak in her. Hope it is not too late
"Rachel Zegler’s latest film, Y2K, is crashing and burning at the box office, looking to open to a lackluster $2.1 million (hopefully) and earning a dismal “C-” CinemaScore, which is horrible." #ZeglerEffect
@@BreakfastAllDay claiming all "moviegoers" is a huge stretch when the hunger games movie did quite well. But some corners of the Internet have made her their new Brie Larson and they lose their minds over her because she dares have opinions.
@@BreakfastAllDayZegler described the 1937 *Snow White* as “dated” on TikTok and the internet can’t decide if this warrants stoning or burning at the stake. While they make up their minds, she’s been branded with a scarlet W.
A24 produced this?! It feels more like a Blumhouse movie
People forget that during 1999 the IT guys around the world patched everything so Y2K wouldn't be an issue.
I fixed code for Y2K. Mostly it involved changing the year from two digits to four digits, and of course updating all archival copies of databases to have 4 digit years. And testing, testing testing. It sounds easy but it took over a year. Why didn't the use four digit years to begin with? Because memory and storage then was very expensive per byte. They even went further, storing numbers as 'packed decimals', to save an extra few precious bytes. Anyway, when things went wrong, programs just crashed, aka 'abended'. No monsters, or whatever.
That was an example of not planning long-term, IMO. I would much rather find memory savings elsewhere than to make changing the fundamentals a herculean task later on.
They knew the world was gonna end but they got the date wrong, it's gonna end in the year 10K because computer dates only have 4 digits!
Is this the funniest comedy of 2024? No.
Could it have been better had the absurd plot not been so absurd? Sure.
But this movie knows what it is, it doesn't take itself seriously and makes it clear that you shouldn't either.
The jokes and cultural references are more hit than miss, if you get them. If you're under 30, you might not get the majority of them.
If you’re 29, you would have been 4-5 years old in 99. Why would this movie be for those people? It should be aimed at people my age (mid 40s)…although Tubthumping was 1997…
“Boy you ain’t done shit, I done said worse, flip your fitted cap back like Fred Durst”, 😂 I can’t help thinking of that Weezy line whenever I hear his name.
I specifically remember what I was doing on Y2K, b/c we had no school, and I finished Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban haha.
Thank you both as always for the delicious reviews. Sometimes of course the most interesting ones are for films that didn't work for you or on which you disagree.
Alonso, I very much enjoyed that little run of Poseidon Adventure/Stella Stevens/left with (the) E(a)rnest Bor(gnin)e(s)! How's that punctuation mode for late 90s style.
I had significantly more fun with this than they did, but I agree that it squanders Y2K as a premise and backdrop. Some of the expected Y2K business happens very quickly but then it basically becomes an alien invasion movie. Could have done more to tap into the actual fears and hopes of that moment.
We are left with the Ernest Borgnines (who was actually quite funny in McKale’s Navy).
One of four A24 releases I watched today. Certainly the most disposable of the bunch but I still had some fun with it. Dìdi hits many similar cultural beats but is a much more quality movie.
The movie is a bit like the Stephen King movie Maximum Overdrive?
Do kids even know who Fred Durst is these days? "Nookie" was a long time ago.
Limp Bizkit is riding a huge wave of popularity again.
There was a customer, that frequented the place I worked, that went into full bore "I'm stocking up a bomb shelter." mode right before the big day. Never saw him again. Seriously. I mean I worked at that place for another two years. What do you think happened to him?
He is still in his bunker…. 😂😂😂
There's a complete other cut of the movie that's much better
Interesting, how do you know that?
I would love to see that. Cutting & pacing was the main issue for me. Great to see Tim Heidecker but really underused. It felt like a long 1.5 hrs. So theres a pacing issue there in the middle.
But regardless of that I still thought it was hilarious. All the nostalgia worked on me. One of the best comedies ive seen in awhile. This was my life in 99/00. I was obessed with Limp Bizkit & Korn lol, Lots of funny little bits.
But as a movie, it needed to be fleshed out & edited better.
@@BreakfastAllDay Chris gore said it on his podcast
Didn't expect you both to get this. I saw this at a festival and it was so funny it played like gangbusters in the theater. This movie captures a lot of teen angst of the time and Kyle Mooney's stoner dude character also remined me James Franco in Pineapple Express. Everyone should go see this!
I think they "got it" just fine. They just don't think it was well made.
@@nicholasmorre7371 It's a Kyle Mooney film, I don't think anyone should expect it to be well made. His style is wild hip and zany humor, what you see is what you get. 🤟
@@nicholasmorre7371I don’t think they “got it” when one of their major gripes was it didn’t capture the anxiety they felt as adults, when there’s no way teenagers at that time felt the same level of dread
Murrell and Jahns were down on it too so maybe your audience was mostly high?
What’s to get?
The millennium was such an amazing exciting moment yet no one has done it justice yet.
So Alonso... Hallmark Channel's A 90s Christmas or A24's Y2K?
In the right hands, this could have been a fun and dark series.
are you gonna review werewolves? some say it's fun b-movie cheese
Hard pass. What's going on with A24?
Zegler is so iconic. She makes me warm.
Your review is pretty much what I thought when watching the trailer. Kyle Mooney is funny in small doses, "Brigsby Bear" was just ok but he does have plenty of content that is funny floating out there.
I was in my twenties during Y2K. Was hoping this would be a fun movie. That's disappointing. Thanks for the review!
This movie was almost the live-action Emoji Movie. Standard everyman main character trying to get out of his box, comic relief buddy, even the queen/hacker combo love-interest. Chased by robots most of the film. Also hollow and vacuous watching experience.
Zegler fan here, but sorry to say I did not relate to or like any the characters and did not remotely remind me of anybody I knew back then. I was on the Y2K team for my company, pager and all. The movie too often retreated to or substituted crudity for its attempts at humor/cleverness, boring. Just not enough of the isolated bright spots (e.g. the brick joke) to save the film for me. Although I confess the outhouse scene was funny. Zegler was the best part of the film and I saw WSS and TBOSAS. multiple times but once was enough for Y2K. Zegler needs to find a well written comedy film to be in, I think she has a hidden comedic streak in her. Hope it is not too late
This movie would have been much more entertaining if Stephen King had directed it.
1980s coked out Stephen King, yeah
Lord Farquaad is a terrible actress
"Rachel Zegler’s latest film, Y2K, is crashing and burning at the box office, looking to open to a lackluster $2.1 million (hopefully) and earning a dismal “C-” CinemaScore, which is horrible."
#ZeglerEffect
My god these two are insufferable lol
Who’s paying you to say nice things about Rachel Zegler?
Really scraping the bottom of the barrel for ideas
Unfortunately Rachel is radioactive to moviegoers so this movie will fall on deaf ears and. Blind eyes
That's weird, why?
@@BreakfastAllDay claiming all "moviegoers" is a huge stretch when the hunger games movie did quite well. But some corners of the Internet have made her their new Brie Larson and they lose their minds over her because she dares have opinions.
lol I don't think that's true, Hunger Games was a hit largely because of her and is the main reason I wanted to see this film.
One of the bigger diaappointments I've seen this year.
@@BreakfastAllDayZegler described the 1937 *Snow White* as “dated” on TikTok and the internet can’t decide if this warrants stoning or burning at the stake. While they make up their minds, she’s been branded with a scarlet W.
Zegler is so iconic. She makes me warm.