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What is the most quintessential 90s movie? (lemmy.world)

submitted 2 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Personally I'd go with Independence Day if I had to pick a movie that felt the most 90s.

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[–] [email protected] 21 points 2 months ago (2 children)

I had a "back to the 90s" chill day with my brother this spring. Johnny Mnemonic got us in the feels the hardest :).

[–] [email protected] 16 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Just rewatched that as well. Some of my favorite parts:

It's set in 2021
His brain implanted hard drive holds a whopping 80GB. He uses a "doubler" to increase his capacity to 160GB. The whole plot of the movie is that he loads 320GB in, which leaks into his brain, and he has to get it back out before it kills him.
The encryption key to the data is photos of a tube television screen that have to be faxed to the recipient.
One futuristic aspect to his hotel room is that the TV wakes him up with a personal message on screen and then he uses it for a video call.
The local rebels are a group called the Low-Teks - led by Ice-T. They end up having the highest end tech.
The best doctor around is Henry Rollins.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Johnnys head would probably explode if he even heard of the data storage clusters I was (and still am) working with on a daily basis in 2021.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

I read the story once. Didn't know there was a movie!