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[Hit the post]

Because people used to pour their lives into making them. I think we've finally hit a wall with technology - or at least a critical point in human history. The billionaires are basically vying to own the Matrix or go to f***ing Mars as if some Serlingian romantic notion of that ever working out

AI has its fingers in everything. f***ing everything. There's about to or is a huge boom happening with it. But now I think people are finally pushing back. Best part of Christmas was remembering family. People who taught you important and hard lessons in life.

Man, I used to be captivated by trailers. There used to be a site where you could just scroll thru them and I'd sit in my granny's old leather chair, stiff as a PGHJ that thing. Just ADHD as shit, losing hours. But the old internet really was magic.

They tried to spiff this place up, but the forum is really one of the last bastions of the old internet. Reddit has lost the plot completely.

Don't even have to go that far back. Back when the Phantom Menace (or was it the following one?) trailer came out...people would just go to see a movie where that trailer would be playing before it.......watch the trailer & leave.

 

[Reverend Mayhem]

Don't even have to go that far back. Back when the Phantom Menace (or was it the following one?) trailer came out...people would just go to see a movie where that trailer would be playing before it.......watch the trailer & leave.

I'm born when I'm born so I've had the experience I've had, I suppose.

My mum and I just watched the Philosopher's Stone for the first time in...22 or 3 years? My parents love to boast I'd read it to myself when I was 6. I couldn't really read because novels, so I had to ask every 8 or 9 words I'd come across. Taught me how to read, that book, though.

I wonder how much banging my head against the wall to learn something I've been doing compared to the way they want you to learn in school.

 

[Hit the post]

I'm born when I'm born so I've had the experience I've had, I suppose.

My mum and I just watched the Philosopher's Stone for the first time in...22 or 3 years? My parents love to boast I'd read it to myself when I was 6. I couldn't really read because novels, so I had to ask every 8 or 9 words I'd come across. Taught me how to read, that book, though.

I wonder how much banging my head against the wall to learn something I've been doing compared to the way they want you to learn in school.

I miss the good old days of the Capital 6 (before the owners let it rot). Where you could see multiple movies for "free". I snuck into the R rated version of Saturday Night Fever.. Or maybe I'm one of the reasons they let that theater decay.

 

[Reverend Mayhem]

I miss the good old days of the Capital 6 (before the owners let it rot). Where you could see multiple movies for "free". I snuck into the R rated version of Saturday Night Fever.. Or maybe I'm one of the reasons they let that theater decay.

I couldn't possibly relate, but I'll ask my parents! They both went to college at UVIC and Camosun.

 

[RandV]

Don't even have to go that far back. Back when the Phantom Menace (or was it the following one?) trailer came out...people would just go to see a movie where that trailer would be playing before it.......watch the trailer & leave.

I think you guys are getting caught up on some nostalgia. Like for the Phantom Menace if people were doing what you say that's because it was the return of Star Wars everyone was excited about, and before you had youtube to watch it whenever you please.

And we're talking about a movie trailer style that really only started at about that time. Into the 90's and before movie trailers were pretty shitty as it would usually be just some guy narrating while they showed sequential clips of the movie. For example, here's the original Star Wars trailer:



I don't know but I feel like the first 'great' movie trailer was probably Alien, and it took almost two decades for Hollywood to start catching up. If there was a peak age of it through the 2010's that's probably less about the trailers themselves and more people still being hyped for nerd stuff like the MCU. Also a funny sidenote on the topic, growing up starting int he 80's I always remember trailers at the theater to be a matter of annoyance. You'd show up late to skip them if you could. Then they started inundating you with commercials at start time, and suddenly getting to the trailers got so much more appealing.

 

[Hit the post]

I think you guys are getting caught up on some nostalgia. Like for the Phantom Menace if people were doing what you say that's because it was the return of Star Wars everyone was excited about, and before you had youtube to watch it whenever you please.

And we're talking about a movie trailer style that really only started at about that time. Into the 90's and before movie trailers were pretty shitty as it would usually be just some guy narrating while they showed sequential clips of the movie. For example, here's the original Star Wars trailer:



I don't know but I feel like the first 'great' movie trailer was probably Alien, and it took almost two decades for Hollywood to start catching up. If there was a peak age of it through the 2010's that's probably less about the trailers themselves and more people still being hyped for nerd stuff like the MCU. Also a funny sidenote on the topic, growing up starting int he 80's I always remember trailers at the theater to be a matter of annoyance. You'd show up late to skip them if you could. Then they started inundating you with commercials at start time, and suddenly getting to the trailers got so much more appealing.

I wasn't even a teenager when I saw a movie theatre trailer (Jackson County Jail - apparently a favourite of Quentin Tarantino) where they showed the rape scene in slowmo...........Jeebus.

 

[Mr. Canucklehead]

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[Mr. Canucklehead]

Because people used to pour their lives into making them. I think we've finally hit a wall with technology - or at least a critical point in human history. The billionaires are basically vying to own the Matrix or go to f***ing Mars as if some Serlingian romantic notion of that ever working out

AI has its fingers in everything. f***ing everything. There's about to or is a huge boom happening with it. But now I think people are finally pushing back. Best part of Christmas was remembering family. People who taught you important and hard lessons in life.

Man, I used to be captivated by trailers. There used to be a site where you could just scroll thru them and I'd sit in my granny's old leather chair, stiff as a PGHJ that thing. Just ADHD as shit, losing hours. But the old internet really was magic.

They tried to spiff this place up, but the forum is really one of the last bastions of the old internet. Reddit has lost the plot completely.

I love (loved) movie trailers. I don’t know if any trailer ever got me more hyped for a movie than the trailer for The Phantom Menace back in the day. Loading it up to run on QuickTime and just on repeat.

I find they’re pretty formulaic these days, as I alluded to before - but the odd great one still comes along.

 

[Reverend Mayhem]

QuickTime! Thank you! Core memory unlocked!

 

[Mr. Canucklehead]

QuickTime! Thank you! Core memory unlocked!

Oh, the late 90s/early 00s.

QuickTime, WinAmp, WinMX, Limewire, Napster, Angelfire, Lycos, AltaVista, WebCrawler, Ebaumsworld, Newgrounds, Somethingawful, Homestarrunner, badgers badgers badgers…lots of memories.

 

[Reverend Mayhem]

Oh, the late 90s/early 00s.

QuickTime, WinAmp, WinMX, Limewire, Napster, Angelfire, Lycos, AltaVista, WebCrawler, Ebaumsworld, Newgrounds, Somethingawful, Homestarrunner, badgers badgers badgers…lots of memories.

My grandma would sit in the sunroom of her house in Sechelt, working through a pack of Canadian Classics and a perpetually hot coffee playing casino games on Pogo.com.

Being alive to remember the .com boom and remembering it is wild. f***, Limewire was Russian Roulette. I can't tell you how many songs I thought were by different artists.

 

[Hit the post]

Oh, the late 90s/early 00s.

QuickTime, WinAmp, WinMX, Limewire, Napster, Angelfire, Lycos, AltaVista, WebCrawler, Ebaumsworld, Newgrounds, Somethingawful, Homestarrunner, badgers badgers badgers…lots of memories.

I'm from the 80s...so my "doubler" (which unlike that fakeware, it actually worked!) was this:

 

[bandwagonesque]

Oh, the late 90s/early 00s.

QuickTime, WinAmp, WinMX, Limewire, Napster, Angelfire, Lycos, AltaVista, WebCrawler, Ebaumsworld, Newgrounds, Somethingawful, Homestarrunner, badgers badgers badgers…lots of memories.

My grandma would sit in the sunroom of her house in Sechelt, working through a pack of Canadian Classics and a perpetually hot coffee playing casino games on Pogo.com.

Being alive to remember the .com boom and remembering it is wild. f***, Limewire was Russian Roulette. I can't tell you how many songs I thought were by different artists.

I'm from the 80s...so my "doubler" (which unlike that fakeware, it actually worked!) was this:

____ Ate My Balls!

My conspiracy theory about late 90s internet culture is that just one person ate all those balls then blamed it on people, entities or concepts that were unlikely to contradict their claims.

Just spotted this - I’m not sure about the answer to it. You could try asking the question in the support form, and one of our more tech savvy mods might have an explanation for it.

I posted there, thank you. I'm surprised no one else ever brings this up.

Maybe no one else ever gets disgusted with their posting and logs out.

 

[Reverend Mayhem]

I may have just shown my age with the my balls joke. I don’t remember that one. Kids have a one track mind and that was probably the dinosaur phase lmao

 

[Reverend Mayhem]

I posted there, thank you. I'm surprised no one else ever brings this up.

Maybe no one else ever gets disgusted with their posting and logs out.

People my age need to do this about a great…many things. Taking a break from here instead of being stuck in the echo chamber really helped my self-esteem. Kinda realized all the lessons the older guys gave me were brilliant, and the way I watch hockey - no judgment, just observation is the best gift I’ve given myself.

So, I’d been absorbing them subconsciously. I just didn’t know it.

 

[bandwagonesque]

I may have just shown my age with the my balls joke. I don’t remember that one. Kids have a one track mind and that was probably the dinosaur phase lmao

Mr. T Ate My Balls Home Page

Charles Bukowski Ate My Balls!

Ate my balls - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

"The fad was started in 1996 by Nehal Patel, a student at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign with a "Mr. T Ate My Balls" web page. Later, the meme also featured subjects like Chewbacca, Monica Lewinsky, Mr. Spock, Britney Spears, Pokémon, eBay, and Mexican archaeology, among others."

In the late 90s memes weren't imbued with much political or in/out group meaning. It was basically just, 'look what I did." Practically the entire internet was that way, in fact. No one was really trying to convince anyone of anything or make money. It's very hard to imagine today unless you were there to see it.

 

[Reverend Mayhem]

Man, how many of you did that 23andme thing? I’m having little lightbulbs go off reading my health report. Kinda cool. I didn’t even know white people could get Asian glow.

 

[Mr. Canucklehead]

Anyone remember mrcranky.com? Used to shred movies.

His review of Spice World: The Movie always killed me.

Spice World : Mr. Cranky Rates the Movies : Spice World

 

[Mr. Canucklehead]

Also, watched Wicked with my family on NYE. I saw the play in 2011 and was a big fan, didn't have high expectations for the movie - was very pleasantly surprised. It was great.

 

[rypper]

Man, how many of you did that 23andme thing? I’m having little lightbulbs go off reading my health report. Kinda cool. I didn’t even know white people could get Asian glow.

Better not commit any MURDERS now...