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The Big Fat Mine Field Thread of 90s Nostalgia

CaptainWacky said:
"WAY COOL."



I had the VHS tape and it came with a booklet writen by Wayne and Garth which I thought was brilliant. YOU DON'T GET BOOKLETS ANYMORE.
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You do if there's a big Blu-Ray reissue of something, like from the Criterion Collection...
 
How could I possibly have forgotten this one?

 
Thank you Cassie for the walk down memory lane with Wayne's World. I was thinking about SNL and then I was thinking about radio BUT I DON'T HAVE A CLIP TO SUPPORT IT!
 
It's a pity that its legacy is forever stained by the evil man who ran the studio, but dayum... Miramax was the place to get your film made or distributed in the 90s...

Cinema Paradiso
Pulp Fiction
Clerks
Bullets Over Broadway
Sirens
Heavenly Creatures
Mrs. Parker and the Vicious Circle
The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover
Tie Me Up! Tie Me Down!
The Krays
Mr. & Mrs. Bridge
The Grifters
The Long Walk Home
Ju Dou
Paris Is Burning
A Rage in Harlem
Madonna: Truth or Dare
Reservoir Dogs
The Crying Game
Strictly Ballroom
Like Water for Chocolate
Muriel's Wedding
Priest
Smoke
Blue in the Face
Mighty Aphrodite
Il Postino (The Postman)
Belle de Jour
Flirting with Disaster
Trainspotting
Emma
Basquiat
Swingers
Sling Blade
The English Patient
Velvet Goldmine
Princess Mononoke
The Cider House Rules
The Talented Mr. Ripley
Chasing Amy
Dogma
Shine
Cop Land
Good Will Hunting
Jackie Brown
54
Life Is Beautiful
Antonia and Jane
Kafka
Prospero's Books
The Double Life of Veronique
High Heels
Mediterraneo
Delicatessen
Enchanted April
Johnny Suede
Bob Roberts
Sarafina!
The Efficiency Expert
Passion Fish
Ethan Frome
Just Another Girl on the I.R.T.
Map of the Human Heart
The Night We Never Met
Into the West
Farewell My Concubine
The Piano
The Snapper
Three Colours: Blue
Three Colours: White
Little Buddha
Tom & Viv
Queen Margot
Ready to Wear
Three Colours: Red
Exotica
The Englishman Who Went up a Hill but Came down a MountainUnzipped
A Month by the Lake
The Star Maker
The Crossing Guard
Two Bits
Things to Do in Denver When You're Dead
Georgia
Four Rooms
Restoration
Don't Be a Menace to South Central While Drinking Your Juice in the Hood
Beautiful Girls
Chungking Express
Jane Eyre
Dead ManEveryone Says I Love You
Citizen Ruth
Victory
Marvin's Room
Kolya
The Substance of Fire
Cosi
Brassed Off
The Wings of the Dove
Welcome to Sarajevo
Sliding Doors
Smoke Signals
Next Stop Wonderland
Rounders
Monument Ave.
The Bear
The Mighty
Celebrity
Little Voice
Shakespeare in Love
Down in the Delta
Children of Heaven
Get Bruce
She's All That
Central Station
A Walk on the Moon
An Ideal Husband
Rogue Trader
My Life So Far
B. Monkey
Happy, Texas
Music of the Heart
Mansfield Park
Holy Smoke!
 
And I say again: At first Miramax was owned by Disney because they wanted a studio to market films for adults that didn't fit in the Disney brand. And apart from the unfortunate studio head, it was a brilliant move. Like buying Star Wars and Marvel because traditional Disney movies tend to skew towards little girls and that way they could attract the older boy market.

And now back to your regularly scheduled programming (apologies for the picture quality, finding the version I was looking for was more work than you'd expect):
 
The Black Crowes Shake Your Moneymaker, and The Southern Harmony and Musical Companion albums have so many great 90s songs. I don't even know what my fav is.
 
Cassie said:
The Black Crowes Shake Your Moneymaker, and The Southern Harmony and Musical Companion albums have so many great 90s songs. I don't even know what my fav is.
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Hmm. This would be more 2001 I think but I ran into Kate Hudson and her then-hubby Chris Robinson from the Black Crowes sitting outside a Thai noodle shop downtown one afternoon. Chris had a show going on across the street later on that evening. Kate was a total sweetheart, Chris didn't say much, he was busy mowing through his lunch or dinner or whatever it was.
 


It might be Remedy, but She Talks to Angels is in my head more often.

I loved their slightly updated 60s hippy aesthetic. Less dirty, more velvet. lol
 
Cassie said:


It might be Remedy, but She Talks to Angels is in my head more often.

I loved their slightly updated 60s hippy aesthetic. Less dirty, more velvet. lol
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Volpone said:
And I say again: At first Miramax was owned by Disney because they wanted a studio to market films for adults that didn't fit in the Disney brand. And apart from the unfortunate studio head, it was a brilliant move. Like buying Star Wars and Marvel because traditional Disney movies tend to skew towards little girls and that way they could attract the older boy market.

And now back to your regularly scheduled programming (apologies for the picture quality, finding the version I was looking for was more work than you'd expect):
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And on the note of Loktar's reply to the Barney image:
 
The Red Dwaf episode 'Back to Reality' first aired 26/3/1992.



I just fell down a rabbit hole trying to figure out when I started to watch Red Dwarf. MY MEMORY was that I watched 'Back to Reality' randomly on tv one night and had absolutely NO idea what it was and what the fuck was going on. But I knew that I kind of liked it and was interested in watching more. And then the BBC started repeating the first series (possibly the next week) and I started watching it from the beginning and become obsessed with it. It's a good memory. But it's total smeg. I just found this broadcast guide for the show: https://cwickham.blogspot.com/2016/12/the-red-dwarf-bbc-broadcasts-guide.html

'Back to Reality' was first broadcast in March 1992, but series 1 was not first repeated until 7/1/1994, two years later. So it couldn't have happened the way I remember it. Now, 'Back to Reality' was repeated in February 1993, so maybe that's the broadcast I remember, but that's still a year before series 1 was repeated (why did they wait SIX YEARS to repeat series 1, by the way? The mysteries of the BBC!) And, to be honest, I think it is more likely that I saw the 1993 broadcast of 'Back to Reality': I'm late for everything. I DEFINITELY watched series 6 when it was first broadcast (October1993) because I distinctly remember that. I also got some of the episodes on video tape. They did two episodes per tape, and I got them from Woolworths after asking my mum. Maybe I watched all the early series on tape between the repeat of V and first broadcast of VI? EXCEPT AGAIN, I know that I first watched the series 2 episode 'Thanks for the Memories' on its repeat broadcast on 11/3/1994. I know because I watched it with a friend who was a bit older and cooler than me, and he was sceptical that Red Dwarf would be any good but after watching it he was very impressed by my tv taste and I felt cool for a moment. I vaguely recall that maybe I got the tapes of III and IV before the first two series because I STUPIDLY believed the first two weren't as good as Kryten wasn't in them or some shit. I definitely didn't have every episode on VHS. So, to summarise, I can't really remember what order I watched Red Dwarf in.

ANYWAY...

Red Dwarf started in the eighties but 'Back to Reality' was first broadcast in 1992 and I think it's very possibly the best episode. It's very funny, yes, with some memorable comedy (first AND BEST appearance by Dwayne Dibley) but it also has a very strong sci-fi story and is a great character episode for all four main characters. And it's pretty dark and probably made me feel ADULT whenever I first watched it.

 
Remember the big swing dancing fad?
 
...and ska:
 
Volpone said:
Remember the big swing dancing fad?
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I was so there for it too... lol
 
And the "Saturday Mornings" cartoon song cover album. Not a bad song on the whole thing:
 
"IT'S *MORPHIN'* TIME!"
 
CaptainWacky said:
The Red Dwaf episode 'Back to Reality' first aired 26/3/1992.



I just fell down a rabbit hole trying to figure out when I started to watch Red Dwarf. MY MEMORY was that I watched 'Back to Reality' randomly on tv one night and had absolutely NO idea what it was and what the fuck was going on. But I knew that I kind of liked it and was interested in watching more. And then the BBC started repeating the first series (possibly the next week) and I started watching it from the beginning and become obsessed with it. It's a good memory. But it's total smeg. I just found this broadcast guide for the show: https://cwickham.blogspot.com/2016/12/the-red-dwarf-bbc-broadcasts-guide.html

'Back to Reality' was first broadcast in March 1992, but series 1 was not first repeated until 7/1/1994, two years later. So it couldn't have happened the way I remember it. Now, 'Back to Reality' was repeated in February 1993, so maybe that's the broadcast I remember, but that's still a year before series 1 was repeated (why did they wait SIX YEARS to repeat series 1, by the way? The mysteries of the BBC!) And, to be honest, I think it is more likely that I saw the 1993 broadcast of 'Back to Reality': I'm late for everything. I DEFINITELY watched series 6 when it was first broadcast (October1993) because I distinctly remember that. I also got some of the episodes on video tape. They did two episodes per tape, and I got them from Woolworths after asking my mum. Maybe I watched all the early series on tape between the repeat of V and first broadcast of VI? EXCEPT AGAIN, I know that I first watched the series 2 episode 'Thanks for the Memories' on its repeat broadcast on 11/3/1994. I know because I watched it with a friend who was a bit older and cooler than me, and he was sceptical that Red Dwarf would be any good but after watching it he was very impressed by my tv taste and I felt cool for a moment. I vaguely recall that maybe I got the tapes of III and IV before the first two series because I STUPIDLY believed the first two weren't as good as Kryten wasn't in them or some shit. I definitely didn't have every episode on VHS. So, to summarise, I can't really remember what order I watched Red Dwarf in.

ANYWAY...

Red Dwarf started in the eighties but 'Back to Reality' was first broadcast in 1992 and I think it's very possibly the best episode. It's very funny, yes, with some memorable comedy (first AND BEST appearance by Dwayne Dibley) but it also has a very strong sci-fi story and is a great character episode for all four main characters. And it's pretty dark and probably made me feel ADULT whenever I first watched it.

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I've been watching these two Canadians watching it for the first time. An excuse to watch the entire series (slowly) again!

 


This reminded me of DARE which was 80s and 90s. lol
 
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