I just saw this movie on TV for the first time since seeing it in the theater when it was released. The early 90's grunge style of the 'present' in this movie seems very old fashioned and dated now, just like the early 70's style of the Bradys. It was like two different cheesey fashions competing: one pessimistic, the other optimistic.
shareWell, the movie is almost 15 years old now...
shareIt was good!
shareTrue, but the good thing is they were making fun of the 90s at the same time, instead of being blind enough to think the things that defined the then-present time were lasting. So, it still works rather than being truly dated.
shareHow did they portray the 90s as not lasting? Quite the contrary: the 90s were portrayed as de facto normal, without even an eye to the future that all of its grungeness would ever be "a thing of the past".
shareI did think of this watching this movie. I have a nephew that was born in the late 90s, after this movie was made. Although I wasn't alive when the original Brady Bunch was on the air, I grew up with the reruns in the 80s and 90s so it still kinda felt like it was mine. This movie from 1995 would be nostalgia to him, that's nuts to me.
And even a movie made "today" or within the last 2-3 years, would still have a mentality that 2009-2011 is "normal" and "absolutely correct". Justin Bieber will always be cool to children and middle school kids, the Twilight Saga will always be cool, Lady Gaga will pull a Madonna and continue to be relevant 20 years down the line...
People always have the mentality that the "now" is correct over everything else and will last forever. This was the attitude in 1985, 1995, and 2005.
Time to rethink your sagacious Gaga prediction, Joel. But you are the PERFECT internet poster.
shareWell grunge is back in style again but only as a fashion statement with no attitude and without the music.
shareCreepy
shareI noticed the irony of that, watching it today in 2010. How what was "modern day" when this movie was made has changed so much.
shareYeah, that's a trip, I was thinking the same thing recently...I was also wondering if it would even be possible to parody the 90's. Aside from cell phones the size of bricks, smaller TVs, less computers and some other subtle things, it doesn't seem like anywhere near as much has changed since the 90's as had changed from the 70's to the 90's.
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70s memorabilia was produced ad nauseaum in the 90s and I think a lot of it had to do with this movie. As a kid, I remember T-shirts with Day-Glo daisies, Halloween costumes with Afro wigs and disco suits, big sunglasses, platform shoes, etc. There were notebooks and pencils with peace signs and flowers. Every sitcom must have had a cheesy flashback so we could see how silly and unrealistic the characters looked in the 70s. It was just as bad, if not worse, than the 80s throwbacks today. Don't get me wrong--I love this movie, but there have to be other people who know what I mean. I really thought the 70s nostalgia would never end.
shareI remember it. The 90s and even a bit of the early '00s went full blast with 70s nostalgia. Way worse then 80s nostalgia you see in the '00s or 2010/'11. 80s nostalgia is light compared to the 70s nostalgia. And it did seem to last forever, starting around late 1991 and going seemingly never ending strong till about 2001-2002...when 80s nostalgia really started to hit a stride for the first time.
So I guess we can expect a new 90s nostalgia, which would be AGAIN a nostalgia of the 70s...in the next couple of years, judging by how the cycle tends to work. MY GOD HERE WE GO AGAIN WITH THE DAMN 70s nostalgia!!! It will be back, hell it's already back, people are already getting 90s nostalgic, I mean 1991 was 20 years ago.
OMG me too. I had so much day-glo hippie stuff when I was in elementary/middle school. Daisies, sunflowers, rainbows, psychadelic stuff.... loved it. Lisa Frank FTW.
But really.... the 70s weren't exactly like that style. Think more like Woodstock. The Brady Bunch took that style and magnified it and made it kitsch. I asked my parents what it was like being in high school/college in the 70s, and they said it was more like Dazed and Confused. Everyone smoked pot, everyone drank and no one got hurt. They also lived in Texas (like in Dazed and Confused) and the drinking age there was 18, and back in the 60s, if you were under 18 and married, and your husband was over 18, you could legally drink with him at the bar. And you could also be a passenger in a car and drink beer. And ride in the bed of a truck and drink. Hell, they're still relaxed in their drinking laws in Texas. About 8 years ago when I was 17 and with my aunt, we went to a bar in downtown Ft Worth and the all the bouncer asked was if I was over 21 (no), and if my aunt was responsible for me (yes) and requested that I don't get too drunk. It was, needless to say, awesome. Texas is great in that respect.
I'm not American so can't relate to D&C, tbh I didn't like it very much. It was hard to empathize with any of the characters.
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Cellphones the size of bricks? Do you even remember the 90s? Cellphones then weren't very big, just thicker than phones of today. In fact so many phones today are bigger than the ones in the 90s. The cellphone the size of brick was the 80s, not the 90s.
shareI thought it was funny since at the time the movie came out, 70's fashions, etc. were 'in vogue' so, in reality, the Bradys would fit right in! So, I guess they focussed on the whole 'grunge' aspect of the 90's instead...
In any event, the movie was hilarious and the actors were 'spot on' with their characterisation!
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I absolutely agree, it kind of gets me down in a way that the 90s look so old, they feel like yesterday but they clearly don't look too recent anymore- which is why this movie is so weird that it portrays mid-90s culture as so recent in comparison to the early 70s bradys yet looking at all the extras in the high school scenes makes me realize how dated the mid 90s look to today.
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p.s. by the way can anybody tell me how to view a whole thread rather than having to open up each posting individually? thanks.