Fellow '90s bros, could nostalgia be unhealthy?
Or, even worse, could it lend itself to dishonest filmmaking?
Fellow '90s bros, could nostalgia be unhealthy? Or, even worse, could it lend itself to dishonest filmmaking?
Fellow '90s bros, could nostalgia be unhealthy?
Or, even worse, could it lend itself to dishonest filmmaking?
Nostalgia is fine to feel, to let flow through you before moving on, but to wallow in it is unhealthy.
Nostalgia is necessary because the modern day is shit.
>t. every single aging generation ever
Tons of famous directors have made nostalgia movies, did you find them dishonest?
name 5 such movies from individual directors
In Portugal they have a word for nostalgia for something you never experienced, Saudade.
that's one use for it
but it's primarily a feeling akin to melancholic longing
No, "saudade" is the feeling of absence of something or someone...
American Graffiti (1973) - George Lucas
A Christmas Story (1983) - Bob Clark
Dazed and Confused (1993) - Richard Linklater
The Artist (2011) - Michel Hazanavicius
Once Upon a Time in Hollywood (2019) - Quentin Tarantino
damnit
name 10 more moron
meant for
Goodfellas by Martin Scorsese
Disney's Main Street
American Graffiti
The Fabelmans
Mean Streets
The Wind Rises
Amarcord
meant for
The 90s was a golden era that is placed into even starker contrast with today's hellscape. I wish I could go back and relive it every day.
yes nostalgia is a drug
the further we go into our collective dystopia of aggressive NPCs, degenerate Politicians, and half witted Neo Darwinians the more we long for the future forward thinking and hope from the 80s and 90s.
We should be flying in our cars but instead we get DEI and currency debasement.
I fricking hate it here.
flying cars are severe safety hazard for all parties.
>drunk drivers
if we lived in a white society there might still be drunk drivers but then their church would humiliate the frick out of them and keep them in line
sounds like a hick town dystopia scenario
Nostalgia is inherently dishonest
no. yes, but that's a redundant statement
eh, the 90s is 5 years in the future
Anything that stops you from tending to your responsibilities is unhealthy. You're an adult and shouldn't need to be told that.
the majority of Cinemaphile confuses nostalgia with dread
Could you elaborate? Never heard of such a sentiment.
if i approached a sequel/remake/reimagining, it would be nostalgic to feel that the current view reminds me of how awesome that first feeling developed. on the other hand, if i approach modern culture with dread i'd be a hamsta ass homie just stuck in a loop
That's interesting. Thanks.
to be clear, it isn't bad to be stuck in a loop and expect reality to stop developing. it's dread
>it isn't bad to be stuck in a loop and expect reality to stop developing
that sounds pretty bad anon
furries seem to be the rage. and the hamsta chose me
i don't know what that means but like i said to be stuck in a loop and expect reality to stop is definitely bad.
to be clear, it isn't bad to be stuck in a loop and expect reality to stop developing. it's dread
no, it's definitely bad to expect reality to stop when you do because that's not how reality works. i don't know why you keep bringing up dread now. to be stuck in a loop can certainly be a symptom of dread, yes.
the hamsta chose me. and furries seem to be the rage.
alright
nostalgia is based
it takes so long to marathon long TV series. By the time I've finished a few, I already forgot most of the plot details and I can begin looping again
90's was the peak for women
the fashion was feminine but not overly loose
the makeup style was more subtle
the hairstyles were friends inspired and sensible, unlike the massive israelite fro's or unwashed hippy cuts of the preceding decades or grotesque tumblr radfem inspired shit of the following decades
the obsession with black culture and kim kardashian hadn't happen yet, turning girls into fat assed bog creatures
'90s were the peak for everything
men were androgynous; women were androgenous
everyone was bisexual
9/11 set everything back
>"I hate that Alex and Damon. I hope they catch AIDS and die" - Noel Gallagher
Gallagher was a plonker. Started beef with Starsailor for no reason.
From what I remember, that James chap came in & interrupted an interview he & Liam were doing, and Liam threatened to kick his ass.
The 90s was soulless trash.
Why is it that the 90s is only ever defined through children's media like shitty Nickelodeon cartoons and shit? Every other decade has actual music and aesthetics to it but the 90s is just "muh heckin' cartoons."
I define the 90's by two things: Dana Scully's face in season 1 of The X-files and the intro to The World has Turned and Left me Here by Weezer. Nothing more, nothing less.
europop
because the people who talk about the 90s were children in the 90s so all they remember is cartoons and toys
>nostalgia
You Black folk don't remember what it was like to not have high speed internet. I do and no i don't want to go back, no fricking way.
>just watch what the tv tells you to watch goy!
no thanks, not again.
4 minutes on 56k to download a megabyte.
Getting 512k ADSL was amazing. 900mpbs now. No going back.
>he cant imagine a life outside of internet and watching [thing]
genuinely sad. stop being fat. go outside more.
this, but probably in the reverse order.
go outside more, stop being fat, genuinely sad?
where do you think you are moron
i remember downloading a few webcam recordings that were around 100-150mb each, having to leave it downloading all night for one of them and hoping the connection wasn't severed at any point
consider doing something else than sitting by the computer your entire life
Nostalgia makes me sad and depressed - I don’t know why or how people can relish it.
to be clear, it isn't bad to be stuck in a loop and expect reality to stop developing. it's dread
Same here man, I have no idea how people can relish in it for more than 5 mins. i et way too sad, my past was better than current year 🙁
>No, no, sweetheart. It-it just felt good ‘cause it was familiar. That's just sort of what us old people do.
>le epic 90s
>born in 88.
Most nostalgiagays are larpers.
If you were born in 88 and didn't form memories of the 90s there would be something legitimately wrong with your brain.
you can only be nostalgic for things experienced after age 12. those are the rules.
them's the rules*
If you weren’t a teenager in the 90s you were playing in the sandbox.
i'm glad the trend of nipple and clit piercings that was fashionable in the late 90's and early 2000's died
would be glad tramp stamps are basically over too except the epidemic of tatted up prostitutes has only worsened
why do /misc/cels have such burning hate for tattoos?
They're disgusting. Your body isn't a canvas and those scribbles aren't art. You wanna remember something? get a post it note
why do tattoos evoke the feeling of disgust in you?
acne and bad dental hygiene is disgusting. if you want a body mod thing that's disgusting it's those hoops in people's earlobes. you don't wanna touch that. i don't get what's disgusting about tattoos. it's just inked skin.
it's the mark of a moron, and you've just outed yourself as one
you go to Cinemaphile every day of your life. you should get a tattoo to mark yourself as a moron.
i come to Cinemaphile because i find it entertaining
you come here to promote your cancerous worldview and hate every moment of it
which is the moron again?
you've entered a thread about 90's nostalgia screeching about current day and raving about your anti-tattoo semantic totally unprovoked and now you're pissing your pants in seething anger because i asked a question about your little outburst.
are you entertained?
a lot of projection and hyperbole in this post
your moronation and defensiveness is somewhat entertaining
This
Absolute seething tattooed trannie. Show your ink, homosexual. Is it a triforce? It's a triforce, isn't it.
It's been 30 fricking years, you need to move on.
You've become your dad.
Nostalgia is the only thing holding me together. The modern world is literally gay and brown. It's a reminder that things were better and can be better agian.
90's was peak video games, peak music (outside of black crap like r&b and rap), peak movies, stuff was affordable, and people didn't really care that much about sex or race but weren't moronic about not being careful around blacks or letting homosexuals near children, the Internet still had intelligence as a barrier to entry and there was no social media bullshit ruining the world. It legit was a better time.
Nostalgia would only be unhealthy if there were anything worth experiencing in the modern world.
Its only natural to yearn for 1938 germany.
America is Sodom and Israel is Gomorrah. Both must be destroyed by fires burning hotter than the surface of the sun to prepare them for the eternity in hell that awaits them.
Every country in the world likes having sex. You're the only one who's not getting any.
You can no longer search for teen, young or barely legal in porn sites
Maybe you should stop going to porn sites and have sex.
You should save your vocal cords for the eternity of screaming that lays before you.
You should have sex.
What country are you from
Things I miss from the 90s:
>underground rave culture
>pirate radio
>emerging internet that wasn't a normie shitshow as it is today
>anime was actually cool
>explosion of electronic music
>movie production renaissance (see Quentin's view on this)
>CD-R
>MiniDisc
>No prajeets
>Console war
>No woke shit
>No troon worship
>You could still afford a home on a wagie salary
>underground rave culture
>explosion of electronic music
Anon these two 10000% still exist.
Back then everything was underground because there was practically no choice (depending were you lived). And electronic music was an uncharted territory humanity has never experienced before. People did fricking crazy things and sometimes shocked conservative music establishment (for lulz check Who Killed the KLF). None of the mainstream establishments wanted to touch electronic music for the most part you could only hear cutting edge stuff by climbing over rubble and hear it at a dirty abandoned warehouse.
It's different today. Electronic music ubiquitous. I chuckle to myself when I hear a banging track I used to get absolutely munted to 25 years ago when buying groceries at a supermarket. This would've been unheard of in the 90s.
Yes new stuff is made today. Yes underground still kicking around. But the vibe has changed. Not that there is anything wrong with it.
I always think of this quote from Ghost Dog. Something about that movie coming out in 1999 feels so apocalyptic. It’s like Jarmusch thought it would be his last movie.
I can't get over it how I lived in the past and yet I was unable to appreciate it and now I can't go back anymore with the newfound perspective and truly savor it. My past self feels like an NPC who was blind to the beauty of these times.
It feels strange how at the core it seems like we are just animals and even appreciating something complex like art is in the end just triggering happy chemicals but I can't help but feel like there is something magical about this time period I was born in where art and technology was steadily advancing but has not reached peak soulless optimization that I imagine it will in the near future.
How many thousands of years on this earth have humans spent with no movies, modern technology, the variety we have in art now? It's so bizarre for me to imagine. And in the near future it might again all be gone as everything will become digital and optimized by AI.
take phones for example
how many thousands of years were there no phones?
then you got the telegram
then rotary phones
then bam we got all these cool designs
and now phones are all the same borderless piece of screen
anyone else feels like this?
A burning hatred for israel? Yes all people feel like that.
I miss watching a movie with a girl who isn't playing on her phone. After the movie, you had something to talk about.
The 90s felt like the last time where things weren't stunted. There was money, designs were colorful and there was a general cheerfulness to things in general.
Growing up, artstyles were profound and sold to people with grandiose detail. Kids were sold these hyperrealistic scientific looking animals and things, and it was super cool. A big part of why things are shit these days, are designs. Everything's super simple, everything's colored digitally with single tones. Films are either super dark or super lit. There's no rainbow of colors with everything seen.
Aesthetic being stunted and all technology being black rectangles stunts the soul. And fashion feels like everybody's just wearing a dirty t-shirt.
I think it's unhealthy in that I feel a lot of people especially here long for things that clearly led to the dire state of things in the present and wonder how we got to this point.
elaborate on that
People treat popular films 80s/90s film and video games and music like they were they were the second coming of christ when the majority of them while yes very good compared to now (mostly by virture of not overtly pushing agendas), and I understand why it is easy to reminisce on these, led to a vast infantilization and pacifying of the population which is a large reason culture is a massive trash heap now. Spiderman 1&2 are fun as is the LOTR trilogy but let's not kid ourselves as to their value of pushing humanity forward.
melancholy is the death of memory