re: 1994 Year In Movies

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Hell, $20 wont buy you a coke and popcorn now

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If I remember right, $20 would get us into 2 movies, a medium popcorn and coke, candy, and enough left over to play a few video games.

I think the tickets were $3 each. Popcorn coke, and candy added up to about $10, and that left about $4 to play arcade games.

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I just look at that 94 list, and though there are some great movies on it, other than Forrest Gump and Dumb & Dumber, I really don't see any generation defining movies. 84 was full of them.

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I mean, I consider the generational defining movie of the 80's to be The Breakfast Club. 84 was a great year, but I don't consider Ghostbusters to be generation defining. GOAT comedy, yes. But being GOAT =/= Generational Defining.

I guess were arguing over definitions here.

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When I think 90's movies, there are only 3 from 94 I think of. Forrest Gump, Dumb & Dumber, and Pulp Fiction

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No Shawshank Redemption? Speed? Lion King?

Just thinking about this makes me sad, though. There has been a remarkable drop in the quality of Music/Movies/TV in the last 15 years, and I'm not just saying that because I'm getting older. Every decade seems to have a unique "sound" to it.

I mean, if you can usually tell an 80s song when you hear it. Hair Rock and 80's Pop were pretty awesome. You had the beginnings of hip hop. There are definitely 80's movies, like Back To School, Sixteen Candles, Ferris. 80's TV like Magnum.

The 90's brought your grunge/alt rock, some solid pop music, and of course boy bands. Movies like 10 Things, Cant Hardly Wait, and American Pie are definitely 90s movies. Seinfeld, Friends on TV.

Then the 00's came. Whats the defining music from that decade? Beiber? What movie defined that decade? Superbad? Isn't that move just as applicable in the previous 2 decades? Quality TV started moving away from networks to cable. Sure you had some solid sitcoms, but what about them made them 00's sitcoms? The internet?

Its just sad. Everything as a whole is suffering in quality. I think its a reflection of the instant gratification culture. We want a hit now. We want $$$ now. If Seinfeld is released today, does it make it past the first season? Does NBC give it a chance to find its audience?

I'm a little off-topic I know. But going to the movies has always been a big deal in my life. It's been a few years since there has been a stretch where I just had to get to the theater to see something not involving a comic book.

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Then the 00's came. Whats the defining music from that decade? Beiber? What movie defined that decade? Superbad? Isn't that move just as applicable in the previous 2 decades? Quality TV started moving away from networks to cable. Sure you had some solid sitcoms, but what about them made them 00's sitcoms? The internet?

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shite-pop defines the music of the 00s and it's sad.

TV though 2000-2010 has The Wire, LOST, Heroes, Breaking Bad, Arrested Development, Mad Men, The OFfice, THe Shield, Battlestar, Futurama, How I met your Mother, Chappelle Show, The IT Crowd, Peep Show.

I think the defining element of TV from that decade is we got higher quality stuff in terms of being smart and more thought provoking.

Music, yea music sucks after 1999, the only good new shite is people that are still lingering from the 90s IMO.

Movie: I really can't list a defining movie from the 2000-2010 decade. I guess the Pixar ones (incredibles, wall-e) are the most defining. Or No Country and There will be blood.

It's probably The Dark Knight just for Ledger's performance alone.

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There has been a remarkable drop in the quality of Music/Movies/TV in the last 15 years,

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I disagree. The TV medium has switched to HBO, AMC, and even Netflix. Some of the best shows ever made have been made over the past 15 years.

In music, the 00's saw indie music go more mainstream, though that trend started in the 90's. Also saw broader appeal of At-country/Americana music.

I don't follow movies as closely anymore, so can't comment on them, but TV and music have definitely been fine over the past 15 years.

80's music was not looked on favorably by my parents and their friends.

Think about a product that was released in the early 00's that may help give the impression rock died.

Rock did not die. The way we discover and listen to rock died. There is still a lot of good rock music being made. It's just not delivered right to your car or home radio, you have to get out and find it.

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What's even more telling to me is that they now play stuff like Nirvana and Soundgarden on Eagle 98.1 classic rock.

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Thats just cause were getting old, bro.

Pearl Jams Ten was released in 1991, 23 years ago. When I was growing up listening to Queen and Led Zeppelin on "Classic" rock stations in the 80s, those albums were around the same age as Ten, Nevermind, etc. I know, its hard to believe.

I have a 1994 thread in the music board....take the music discussion there. I proposed someone to give me a year that beats it.