None of the guys have cell phones, they use answering machines, and they play NHL on Sega.
If the movie took place in 2009, the guys would have been on their cell phones texting every five seconds, playing Xbox live, and looking up all these girls from the bars on facebook.
The best part of the 90s technology was all of them using The Club on their steering wheels.
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Nowadays, people might as well be tethered to their cell phones and the internet by an umbilical cord. The mid-90s was the sunset of a time simpler for its lack of communications overload, where our daily routines allowed us more time unto ourselves, and our interactions with others were more personal...more human.
shareIt would be pretentious, but i see your point. You couldn't really make it now.
shareYeah, 1997 doesn't seem that long ago, but looking at the technology makes the film look ancient. I was a kid ruing the 90's but watching it now I feel nostalgic, there's something charming about the 2D sprites of the NHl game on the SEGA GENESIS, writing down numbers on pieces of paper etc.
sharereggie182 - well stated, you are exactly right.
shareBut that's part of the charm.
shareLooking at back at the latter half of that decade makes me nostalgic for that time. It was a period when mass communication was entering the brink of what we are all doing now. But, even more than that there was a genuine excitement about entering the new century, as opposed to today when all the talk is about the end of the world, and if not that the non-future for our children.
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The internet was around in 96/97. I was a senior in college and I remember using the web quite a lot. And email was just starting to gain critical mass. But those were tools we used for a purpose to make our lives a little easier. Now email/text/facebook/twitter...they're not tools anymore. They ARE our lives. You can't have a conversation these days lasting more tahn 2 minutes without someone needing t
The scene where Mike calls Nikki and leaves all those messages....that was funny because it was realistic. Today, you'd text Nikki and not even bother with a call.
Yeah, but in 96 the only people on the net were people in college. It didn't hit regular people en masse for another year or two.
I want the doctor to take your picture so I can look at you from inside as well.
Hmm, rose tinted spectacles I see, you do remember Y2k and all the fuss about that and I believe it was around 1997 that that was just starting to make news. There were other problems in the world in '97 too but Justin Bieber et al weren't yet there. I remember the song Barbie Girl for example.
If there is a god, then how come there is a Simon Cowell?
I remember Y2k. We made fun of the IDIOTS that thought it would be a problem.
Or my name isn't....
So true Reggie.
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