Hello! Thanks for watching and/or scrolling down into the comments. Here are a bunch of genres and trends that Matt and I noted but that I wasn’t able to squeeze into the final video: *Disaster Movies:* Flight of the Phoenix Cloverfield Knowing The Happening The Perfect Storm Day After Tomorrow Pearl Harbour Poseidon War of the Worlds *Spoof Movies:* Scary Movie (1-4) Epic Movie Disaster Movie Not Another Teen Movie Date Movie Superhero Movie Meet the Spartans The Comebacks Extreme Movie (?) *Nickelodeon Movies:* The Spongebob Squarepants Movie The Spiderwick Chronicles Snow Day A Series of Unfortunate Events *Early Superhero Movies:* X-Men Blade Trinity Spiderman 1-3 Batman Begins Daredevil Fantastic Four Elektra Hulk The Punisher *ALSO, Non-comic book superhero movies:* Catwoman Unbreakable Hancock Push Sky High Zoom My Super Ex-Girlfriend Underdog *ALSO non-traditional comic book movies:* Sin City The Spirit Constantine Hellboy Aeon Flux *White-Lady-Girl-Boss:* Erin Brockovich The Devil Wears Prada The Proposal Miss Congeniality Legally Blonde Mean Girls Hanging Up The Perfect Man The Women In Her Shoes *Dying Breath of 90s Comedy:* Drowning Mona Me, Myself and Irene Committed (Heather Graham) American Pie (American Wedding) Road Trip/Eurotrip *Something about Judd Apatow and/or gross-out comedies* *Disney Theme Park Movies:* Pirates of the Carribean Mission to Mars The Haunted Mansion *Nicholas Sparks:* A Walk to Remember The Notebook Message in a Bottle Nights in Rodanthe What are some movie genres/trends from the 2000s that you miss? Should I revisit the topic? You’re awesome if you made it through the video and left a comment, thank you ❤❤
How could I have forgotten spoof movies and white-lady-girl-boss movies?! I think it was slightly into the 2010s, but I saw the Twilight spoof movie in theaters with my friends in high school. It's such a unique experience to see one in theaters. The audience feels permission to be loud and interact more than during regular movies. Ah the days
I'll admit, as a kid I really loved those dumb spoof movies. You're right, the theatre experience for them was way more of a hang out than anything else!
I born in 2002 but i remember the 2000's movies. I remember the fantastic, like magic movies that looks like low budget and they were weird. The lady in the water, Bedtime Stories from Adam Sandler. That weird genre of fantastics stories on buildings. Or just fantastics stories.
Epic "historical" war films. The trend started probably by Saving private Ryan. Think: Black Hawk Down, We were soldier, flags of our fathers, enemies at the gates, pearl Harbor. They still exist but I don't feel like they are as genre defining.
@@ItsGregKon I write this to You to bring You Eternal Hope from far away."The Rapture"- is A Truly Real Future Biblical Christian Worldwide Event in which Millions of Living True Christian Believers shall be "Transported" into Heaven to meet The Creator Of The World/The Maker Of The World/The Lord Himself and they shall be with him Forever and ever.Also in addition to "The Rapture" another Truly Real Future Biblical Christian Worldwide Event called "The First Resurrection" will also take place,which will "Resurrect" All-Dead True Christian Believers and will also "Transport" them into Heaven to meet The Creator Of The World/The Maker Of The World/The Lord Himself and they shall be with him Forever and ever! "The Rapture" collects All-Living True Christian Believers,while "The First Resurrection" collects All-Dead True Christian Believers.The Dead True Christian Believers shall rise first and then both:The Dead and The Living True Christian Believers shall Together be Transported into Heaven to be Together with The Christian God and to be Rewarded accordingly by The Christian God! This is not a joke.I have seen "The Signs" and these words are "True and Correct".Remember!Jesus Christ said:“You don’t have to wait for the End.I am right now,Resurrection and Life.The one who believes in me,even though he or she dies,will live.And everyone who lives believing in me does not ultimately die at all.Do you believe this?”
y’all are so weird to just say brendan fraser was not cast anymore for a messy divorce and a couple flops. no, he was cancelled by major studios because he was open about being sexually assaulted by a very powerful person in hollywood. 9:04
Another trend that very much died in the 2000s was the apex of 2D animation. Titan AE, Prince of Egypt, Spirit, Sinbad, Treasure Planet, Atlantis, El Dorado, Emperors New Groove, Princess and The Frog. Beautiful movies that showcased the artform to its fullest. And it all died thanks to crude humored, uncanny valley, 3D CGI schlock.
@@neighslayer768 Don't forget Lilo and Stitch. Sure that movie didn't bomb at the box office unlike those movies, but still. In fact, I'm tired of the 3D animation overload as much as you are. People want variety, man.
Not going to lie... having checked in on early characters, later on throughout the series, wondering what Edwin is up to these days occupies a lot more of my mental bandwidth, more than it provably should. Like, did he and Monica ever make up? Is he stuck in a middle management job, telling his kid/s about "Things Edwin knows..."? Does he still have the Momo DC2? Did he do what a ot of guys did and upgrade from that one to something else? Like an eventual MkIV or R35... and is THAT what he drives? Or did he trade it all in for something like a Mercedes sedan to look more professional and hate every minute that he cant go back, longing for the built car that he once had before and what it represented to him?
I remember them as movies where the creators were making movies for us to enjoy, not making us to enjoy movies. Also the unstoppable power of the halter top and flared pants.
The 80's are as far away from today as they are the 40's. If a teenager today sicks down and watches a John Hughes movie, that's literally the equivalent of a teenager in the 80's watching Casablanca.
2000s were great for movies both stand alone and franchises. Some of my favorites being Star Wars prequels, Benchwarmers, Superbad, Hot Rod, Accepted, The Matrix, Spiderman 1-3, Dodge Ball, Batman Begins, Dark Knight, The 40 year old virgin, shrek, monsters inc, and cars. The list goes on
*There was an 2000's kid's spy movie craze.* Cody Bank, Alex Rider, Harriet the Spy, Cat& Dogs, The Pacifier, Catch that Kid, Master of Disguise, Looney Toons: Back in Action, and of course Spy Kids. There were a lot of cartoon shows too Totally Spies, Kim Possible, Martin Mystery, Secret Saturdays, The X's, and Kids Next Door. It was a thing. *There was also a uptick in spoofs and satire movies.* The Scary Movies, Vampires Suck, Epic Movie, Not Another Teen Movie, Team America, Disaster Movie, Shawn of the Dead, Austin Powers, Kong Pow, Superhero Movie, Idiocracy, Tropic Thunder, Meet the Spartans, Enchanted, and just too many to count. But you get the point. *Also, it was the peak of Stoner Comedy Movies:* Super Bad, Pinapple Express, Dude Where's My Car, Harold & Kumar, Super Troopers, Jay & Silent Bob, How High, Smiley Face, All Scary Movies(double dipping into trends), Soul Plane, Dazed & Confused, Half Baked, Knocked Up (Most Seth Rogan movies), Your Highness, Reefer Madness: The Movie musical (2005), Bill & Ted movies, and it all starting with Cheech & Chong.
As a woman in her 30s, the 90s/2000s rom coms will always hold a special place in my heart. I still have a solid DVD collection that I bought mostly from cheap bins at Walmart, and they are such a treasure. ❤️
Looking back it’s actually kinda surprising how FEW “torture porn films” were big in the 2000’s. Like it seemed so genre defining because the media would constantly highlight these films for being so controversial but really you only got the saw franchise, the hostel franchise, and that one movie where the truck driver spends all his time harassing a bunch of kids for some reason. The rest were pretty typical slasher flicks, remakes of foreign films and ghost movies with a emo twist. Not a lot of on screen torturing going on.
@@carlcarlington7317 Because almost no one wants to see the human centipede, bro. They want a safe representation of pain and fear to enjoy it, not to be scarred for years because they watched a shock dismemberment/torture movie.
This video seriously needs more views. Also I find it fascinating that the 2000's were cashing in on the 70's the same way the 2010's was on the 80's. Now we're in the beginning of the 2020's and I already feel the 90's creeping up. ... God all that felt awful to write.
Just endless pop culture recycling lol. I kinda love it tho, even if it's wrong😂 Fascinating to see what pop culture looks back on fondly, and what gets ignored.
@@corymiller536 they need to stay in their 15 second scroll ahh tiktok lane. Next thing you know there's gonna be a cash grab remake or live action adaptation for every 00s IP ever They won't take the millennium from us
I know your channel is cinema focused, but I would love to also see/hear your thoughts about TV during the 2000s. Much of that was a huge influence for me growing up, and while it's different from film, it really does contain a familiar sort of aesthetic and tone. Awesome video!! Gonna actually rewatch it again soon.
Great suggestion! I probably spend more time watching TV than movies, and I think that the difference between the two is increasingly blurry. With that said, I'd love to do a video on early reality TV from the 2000s😂 Also early single cam comedies like Malcolm In The Middle. Hmmm🤔
The 2000s did show one specific trend that wasn't just a refinement of prior aesthetics. The impact of 9/11. After about 2004 9/11 started to impact movie plots themes and even the general look. In fact without 9/11 odds are torture porn would never have gotten popular.
it's fascinating looking at so many 2000s movies through that lens, been rewatching the Nolan batman trilogy and it's maybe one of the most interesting examples, like I'm certain those movies would be wildly different were it not for 9/11
2:33 Thank you for not blaming Twilight for the s3xy vampire trope, I've always argued that the s3xy vampire Trope has been around a lot longer than Twilight and yet people still blamed Twilight. So thank you for clearing things up.
It’s actually even older - Bram Stoker’s novel Dracula is chuck full of sexuality. It’s quite literally a critique on women’s sexuality and the horrors of falling prey to it. That was all the way back in the late 1800s!
So the 00s were were made up of a few big trends and then many small trends. Two noticeable change I notice early on, is the decline in the Action Thriller genre that was a staple of 90s Films and the other being the death of the courtroom Drama trend of the 90s, mostly centring on John Grisham Novels.
The 90’s had so many actions films that no matter how ludicrously high-stakes the action was or how much cocaine the executives were doing it still gave you an absolute thrill!! You had some ridiculous or unrealistic ones like Air Force One that were still an absolute blast but also the really thrilling ones with great story and character development like Terminator 2, The Fugitive, The Matrix and so many others!
I'm a '96 baby, and I just realized courtroom movies started dissappearing during middle school (2007ish). When I was a kid so many movies had a bunch a courtroom scenes: Liar Liar, The Exorcism of Emily Rose, Erin Brockovich, My cousin Vinny, The devil's advocate, etc. and Law & order was HUGE. Glad, though! Those movies were so boooooring 😴😴😴
Born in ‘86, 2000 is when I started high school. I don’t particularly hold a lot of nostalgia for this era in general, probably because I hated high school and hated being that age. But if I can shake the negative feelings for the 2000’s enough I can find nostalgia for specific movies/tv shows. The Lord of the Rings and Saw movies were my most watched franchises of that decade, and of course Daniel Craig’s Bond movies started during this time as well, though his five movies spanned all the way to 2021.
The 90s and 2000s are my favourite decades for movies. I was born in 1999 so I only remember around half of the 2000s unfortunately. Sooo. Many. Bangers. I'll always have nostalgia for this decade. From movies like MI2 and Charlie's Angels to movies like The Bourne Supremacy and The Mist, I loved the variety.
Oh I feel this. I recently made my own video analysing the very specific trend of 'adaptation of children's/YA fantasy book that'll hopefully get a dozen sequels' following Harry Potter's lead.
I LOVE THE BEACH MOVIES!!!!!!!! We're gonna make one together one day, starring Adam Sandler, Matthew McConaughey and Blonde Hair McGee - directed by McG of course, he's my favourite director.
Wow! That was so info packed! In addition to the dance and cheer movies, there were also gymnastics movies that gave us training and ice bath scenes. Also I forgot how many Scooby-Doo movies/shows there were during that time! So many!
Extreme sports and regular sport films were so big in the late 90’s and early/mid 00’s. Surfing, BMX, skating, basketball, hockey, horse racing, Ricky Bobby, etc.
Crucify me but I love how UltraViolet looks. I appreciate high budget and good cgi/color grades, but something about UV just looks so unique and pleasing to my eye
2000’s horror hits different, they’re not bad, but almost never great. I was brought up on that crap so I have a soft spot for Saw, Final Destination, House Of Wax, My Bloody Valentine, Dead Silence, Wolf Creek, Wrong Turn and many, many others.
Great video another 00's trend at least in the early part of the 2000's was street racing movies, like Gone in 60 seconds, Fast and the Furious series, and then you had the video games like Need for Speed Underground games, Burnout,Midnight Club, etc...
Great video topic! We need to bring back mid-tier budget movies. Nowadays we only get like $200 million movies but the 90s and 2000s had so many lower budget gems
Great video! I just wanted to say The Ring coloring was all done in camera and with lighting. It influenced a lot of digital color grading of the decade though but it’s quite interesting how they did it. 🙂
was gonna say the exact same thing! it’s way more interesting and more dynamic than what the other films of that time we’re doing as well that may have also looked similar
Elder Millennial here. When you’re on the border of two generations you feel connected to both, which sometimes makes you feel connected to neither. You’ll realize with each passing year just how Gen Z you are. It’s because like you said you grow up on the older generation’s content
It truly feels as though the 2000's was the last time experimentation played a part in making films profitable, whether good or bad films are made in the future is out of the question, the point is studios know exactly what is profitable and what not and filmmakers most stay on line with the mold if they want to keep a career out of making movies.
You guys are gonna screw me for this but, I have a SOFT Spot for the 2000s and I loved it to death, in terms of Games, Movies, Music and So on. We NEED A Discord Group for fans of the 2000s. ARE YOU WITH ME?
Nah, movies that are made or started post pandemic are weird, apart from those that stood with the standards of the past, most are made for nobody while movies in the early 2000's will forever be a timeless classic whether famous or not.
I’m glad you made this video because I always thought this is true 2000s were definitely a growing period for movies The only thing I think you missed was inclusion of low render CGI in tons of action movies
Whoah big miss with The Ring that colour grading was all done in camera - amazing cinematography! Also we had a really great run with Cronenberg movies, David Lynch with of course Mulholland Drive and Michael Mann with Ali, Collateral and Miami Vice.
You're closing remarks are the exact reason why I love older movies. They feel like these time capsules that you can pop in and out of whenever you want. I've just been watching psych for the first time. And I'm watching the progression of technology from them using flip phones to having GPS to iPhones.
Ok nice job! But the color grading in the ring wasn’t done in post… it was actual done in camera… therefore it isn’t color grading it’s just good lighting!
Also, Sexy Vampire thing was influenced by Vampire The Masquerade Tabletop rpg, first published in 1991, that influenced and contributed the gothic punk mood of late 90s/early 2000s
Matt Damon recently talked about why there aren't stand alone movies anymore, and it's that studios used to bank on them making their money back on home video and DVD if they didn't do well in theaters. Now that streaming services are dominant, studios don't want to take that risk. Regarding Kung Fu movies, the martial arts films really started gaining traction in the 70s through Bruce Lee, and by the 80s, the gener blew up, and was re-popularized through anime like Dragon Ball-Z in the 90s as well as The Matrix in 1999. I think that was a much longer form regarding popularity and went through several trends that still have some extension today, in movies like John Wick.
There were also a ton of movies trying to cash in that Harry Potter dough. Any book collection that could turn into a movie franchise ...Eragon, Narnia, Maze Runner, Hunger Games, Twilight, Golden Compass, Divergent, etc.
What about the mo-cap movies that Zemeicks was doing in the mid-late 2000s notably Polar Express, Monster House and A Christmas Carol? But it died by the very early 2010s with Mars Needs Moms.
Pirates of the Caribbean, Sin City, Kill Bill, Death Proof, Planet Terror, The dark knight, 3:10 to Yuma, The butterfly effect, American Pie movies, Inglourious Basterds and even the first Jackass movie… I saw so many movies in cinema back then and lots of really great ones, or at least they were fun.
Not sure if i can call it a trend but there is also the downfall of 2d animated movies and the start of dominance for cg animated movies, especially the reference parody pop culture comedys inspired by Shrek such as Shark Tales, Chinken Little, Robots and Madagascar. Also the 00's were the peak of the terrible parody movies such as like Scary Movie, Epic Movie, Disaster Movie, Date Movie, Meet the spartans, etc. Just discoreved your channel recently and i absolutely love it. Also sorry if i wrote anything in a weird way, i'm not a native english speaker LOL.
You're so right. Lot's of great innovation in animation at the time. I was actually thinking of doing a video on 2000s parody movies! There were a lot and then they just disappeared lol. Thank you so much! Your English is great!
This is exactly the kind of video I’ve been looking for! 2000s movies have always held a special place in my heart despite their repetivness and weirdness. I love how you’ve been able to categorise most of them and really shows how similar they all were.
I typed in 2000s movies, super baked hoping no wishing to find a video just like this and I found this. I am so happy I havent looked at your channel but pls make more videos like this. Maybe Video game commercials of 2000s reality tv shows of 2000s, kid reality tv shows 2000's, Humor of the 2000's, fashion of the 2000's, ect
2006-2008 was just an insane stretch for good movies whether you liked indie or mainstream films. I'm probably forgetting a ton, but here are a few: There Will Be Blood, Zodiac, No Country for Old Men, Little Miss Sunshine, Black Snake Moan, Into the Wild, The Dark Knight, Superbad, Tropic Thunder, Iron Man, etc.
Early 2000s movies had the blue/green "swamp filter" just like how a lot of 7th gen games had the yellow/brown "piss filter" The ring & the Matrix, Gears of War & Fallout: New Vegas.
I was born in 1989. It was such a interesting time to grow up. I'm glad I got to experience it. Before things changed to how they are nowadays. There was a sense of Retro-Futurism mixed with vintage vibes. McDonald's had Nintendo 64's, Blockbuster/Hollywood video, you could preview music before buying it. Magazines would come with demo discs for new games coming soon. There's so many reasons why the 90's ruled. Because it had a bit of a 80's vibe and attitude. Such awesome Aesthetics all over in such diverse ways. It was like "okay kids, go have fun, you might get hurt so watch out, but, have fun 👍🏻." Nowadays, it's like they completely got rid of any "fun, goof off, odd stuff." It's like everything is all modernized, minimalism, contemporary, bland, repetitive and if it doesn't make money 💰 then it's gotta go.. so all those old houses, old shops, drive in movie theaters, roller rinks, obstacle courses, bouncy houses, indoor fun zones with r/c speed boats, mini golf ⛳ with loops, bumper cars, ball pits, just weird random stuff. Random weird local shops, stores that you could play halo 1 on big TVs and link up LAN parties. Towns still had older run down sorta house's, duplexes, just unique "lower income living options ya know?") where I live they have literally gotten rid of all of that and just put in cookie cutter type places to live and everything costs ridiculous per month and everything is so bland and stale. I just miss the creativity, the quirkiness that's all. Being born in 1989 I was lucky to get to see the tail end of these things that aren't around anymore and I can't help but wonder what it must be like for kids that never got to experience the stuff the 90s kids got to experience. I wouldn't trade it for anything in the world. Getting to be a teen when wild Boyz, jackass, CKY was a big deal 🤘🏻 a kid when Steve Erwin was literally my idol! Growing up on magic school bus, bill Nye the science guy, captain planet, X-Men the animated series, all the animated series tv shows. All the classic animated movies. Like it was the best time to be a kid and a teenager. It had such a Vibe.
you forgot the teen comedies made popular by the "American Pie" franchise. You may have been too young for R rated comedies, but these were definitely a trend during this time.
The rush of memories while watching this was wild. There was also that trend with crime fighting kids movies, that spy kids seem to make popular. Also I think there was a musical trend like with Hairspray, but I could be wrong
What about those teen movies that everyone loved to hate on, but when watching then for the first time in almost 10 years, theyre actually pretty fun? That usually had a sountrack that we were all familiar with. Like Whatever It Takes, Girl Next Door, Perfect Score, She's The Man, Mean Girls etc. I mean, they're "teen movies" but kind of stood out from previous entries in that genre.
I was born in December of '96, so I'm right there with you in that in-between generation. Pretty soon, people in Hollywood are gonna get more nostalgic for the early 2000's, just like we've seen with the 70's, 80's, and now 90's. I'd day were already beginning to see it with Pixar's Turing Red which takes place in 2002. It's only a matter of time before Hollywood cashes in on our nostalgia just like it did with past generations.
Oh man the beach movies hahah I’m an elderly zoomer too and man the vibes of the beach movies, then going into hollister where the teenagers were just made you feel your destiny was to become a surfer
Movies were not fully popular until around the 1950's. The 2000's i think is where they peaked. Maybe even the 90's. I feel like ever since the 2010's they have become too politically charged and more about visuals rather than unique brands to push and novelty. Nowadays i feel like every movie is either let's see who we can offend with our radical beliefs, or what drop dead gorgeous actor/actress can we put in here to get people hooked on a series. I, as a consumer of occasional entertainment just feel out of touch with most the new trending things in cinema. It's just boring to me these days.
When I was in uni one of the teachers (not professors but people from the media industry) said one of the first question some studios/production companies ask about a script is what kind of sequel/multiplication you see for the project. Which is why standalone, original IP-stuff is becoming so rare.
The main difference between this time and earlier decades and today, as well as the last decade (sort of), is that movies actually cared about _telling a story_ back then. Take superhero and action movies for example, not only is everything more predictable, but also more rushed.
For me it’s the fact anything could be a movie. Look at movies like bubble boy, Joe Dirt, dodgeball, etc. It was almost like any idea could be brought to life. Additionally, with new movies, everything is perfectly lit, perfectly in focus, perfectly colored etc. Movies feel like movies today. Back in the 2000s(and all the movies that came before the 2000s) were not perfectly lit, in focus, colored. It felt like you were apart of the movie or journey. Today they look and feel like they were made on a set in Hollywood.
Great video! For me what's missing is the American Pie legacy, raunchy, hyper sexual comedies with high school n college kids...the AP sequels and spin offs, films such as road trip, euro trip etc.
I'm a decade older than you, and I really loved watching all kinds of movies from the 90's and 00's. They were fun, exciting, relatable, gripping. But then since the 2010's started I lost my taste for new movies. Suddenly everything just felt theatrical and political, overdone and overhyped. Some things even made a mockery of. The amount of new movies I've watched and liked in the past 15 years, I can probably count on one hand. There was that "Crimson Peak" and "The Orphan" and Leonardo Dicaprio had some great moments with "Shutter Island" and "Inception" but that's pretty much it. I think 2000's movies increased my expectations really a lot and now very few new movies can live up to my standards on character development and story telling. It's all just a ton of CGI splattered all over a bunch of meandering stories and shallow, 2-dimentional characters telling cringe jokes. Very disappointing. So I consider the 2000's as the last decade of good movies. Not really a genre, but movie adaptations of books, and remakes of older movies, really started to become a thing back then (because technology could finally allow for better graphics including much better CGI), starting with Harry Potter and The Lord of the Rings, and it's something people are starting to get tired of by now. Like we've heard these stories a gazillion times now, give us something original. But they were cool in the 2000's.
One thing I recall is horror elements in non-horror films, wuch as high contrast light and jump scares. I think it was popularised by Lord of the Rings. But after that, many films that weren't horror films had jump scares. For example, Pirates of the Caribbean had horror elements and I remember going to see Passion of the Christ with my dad and brother and being surprised that it was a horror movie for the first half hour or so. There's even this out if nowhere scene where Mary and Mary Magdelen get startled by Peter busting through the door to tell them about the arrest. It's an Easter movie for crying out loud.
When I think of the 2000s I also think of those movies that were trying to be clever twisty turny thriller/heists. The Oceans movies, Lucky Number Slevin, 16 Blocks. To a lesser extent see Shoot Em Up, Wonderland and The Brothers Bloom.
The 90s was the boom of the indie film, that then fizzled throughout the 00s. Now we are mostly left with sequels and remakes, unless you're like me and drive an hour away to see a limited released indie or foreign film. If you were around 13 in 2008 you should watch Didi. The situations in the movie are very similar to mine during that age.
I really liked the "niche indie film" brought to you by the big studios in the 2000s. Universal's Focus Features, Sony Pictures Classics, Disney's Miramax, and others.
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Hello! Thanks for watching and/or scrolling down into the comments. Here are a bunch of genres and trends that Matt and I noted but that I wasn’t able to squeeze into the final video:
*Disaster Movies:*
Flight of the Phoenix
Cloverfield
Knowing
The Happening
The Perfect Storm
Day After Tomorrow
Pearl Harbour
Poseidon
War of the Worlds
*Spoof Movies:*
Scary Movie (1-4)
Epic Movie
Disaster Movie
Not Another Teen Movie
Date Movie
Superhero Movie
Meet the Spartans
The Comebacks
Extreme Movie (?)
*Nickelodeon Movies:*
The Spongebob Squarepants Movie
The Spiderwick Chronicles
Snow Day
A Series of Unfortunate Events
*Early Superhero Movies:*
X-Men
Blade Trinity
Spiderman 1-3
Batman Begins
Daredevil
Fantastic Four
Elektra
Hulk
The Punisher
*ALSO, Non-comic book superhero movies:*
Catwoman
Unbreakable
Hancock
Push
Sky High
Zoom
My Super Ex-Girlfriend
Underdog
*ALSO non-traditional comic book movies:*
Sin City
The Spirit
Constantine
Hellboy
Aeon Flux
*White-Lady-Girl-Boss:*
Erin Brockovich
The Devil Wears Prada
The Proposal
Miss Congeniality
Legally Blonde
Mean Girls
Hanging Up
The Perfect Man
The Women
In Her Shoes
*Dying Breath of 90s Comedy:*
Drowning Mona
Me, Myself and Irene
Committed (Heather Graham)
American Pie (American Wedding)
Road Trip/Eurotrip
*Something about Judd Apatow and/or gross-out comedies*
*Disney Theme Park Movies:*
Pirates of the Carribean
Mission to Mars
The Haunted Mansion
*Nicholas Sparks:*
A Walk to Remember
The Notebook
Message in a Bottle
Nights in Rodanthe
What are some movie genres/trends from the 2000s that you miss? Should I revisit the topic? You’re awesome if you made it through the video and left a comment, thank you ❤❤
How could I have forgotten spoof movies and white-lady-girl-boss movies?!
I think it was slightly into the 2010s, but I saw the Twilight spoof movie in theaters with my friends in high school. It's such a unique experience to see one in theaters. The audience feels permission to be loud and interact more than during regular movies. Ah the days
I'll admit, as a kid I really loved those dumb spoof movies. You're right, the theatre experience for them was way more of a hang out than anything else!
I born in 2002 but i remember the 2000's movies. I remember the fantastic, like magic movies that looks like low budget and they were weird. The lady in the water, Bedtime Stories from Adam Sandler. That weird genre of fantastics stories on buildings. Or just fantastics stories.
Epic "historical" war films. The trend started probably by Saving private Ryan.
Think: Black Hawk Down, We were soldier, flags of our fathers, enemies at the gates, pearl Harbor.
They still exist but I don't feel like they are as genre defining.
@@ItsGregKon I write this to You to bring You Eternal Hope from far away."The Rapture"- is A Truly Real Future Biblical Christian Worldwide Event in which Millions of Living True Christian Believers shall be "Transported" into Heaven to meet The Creator Of The World/The Maker Of The World/The Lord Himself and they shall be with him Forever and ever.Also in addition to "The Rapture" another Truly Real Future Biblical Christian Worldwide Event called "The First Resurrection" will also take place,which will "Resurrect" All-Dead True Christian Believers and will also "Transport" them into Heaven to meet The Creator Of The World/The Maker Of The World/The Lord Himself and they shall be with him Forever and ever!
"The Rapture" collects All-Living True Christian Believers,while "The First Resurrection" collects All-Dead True Christian Believers.The Dead True Christian Believers shall rise first and then both:The Dead and The Living True Christian Believers shall Together be Transported into Heaven to be Together with The Christian God and to be Rewarded accordingly by The Christian God!
This is not a joke.I have seen "The Signs" and these words are "True and Correct".Remember!Jesus Christ said:“You don’t have to wait for the End.I am right now,Resurrection and Life.The one who believes in me,even though he or she dies,will live.And everyone who lives believing in me does not ultimately die at all.Do you believe this?”
y’all are so weird to just say brendan fraser was not cast anymore for a messy divorce and a couple flops. no, he was cancelled by major studios because he was open about being sexually assaulted by a very powerful person in hollywood. 9:04
@@cameronprice3063 yes! Thank you for saying that, he's gone through so much pain and he's done so much healing. It's an incredible story.
Plus he broke his back so he couldnt take the action roles he was offered despite the black listing
No he wasn't. That's just a misconception of ppl who don't do any research spread.
@@cameronprice3063 and he hurt his back
Factz!!!
2000s movies are weird because high school students in those movies are 28 years old
lmao true😂 Took a while before they started casting actual kids as high schoolers
Lol a lot of movies from the 80s had +30 actors posing as teenagers
@@karolaina7969 Grease is the shining example where the “High School Seniors” are damn well pushing 40 🤣🤣🤣
Lol that's still the same way
They are in most movies now.
my favorite weird 2000s movie genre has to be the sports movies that involve an animal somehow, like the most valuable primate series
Hell yeah, get some skates on a chimp and I'm in!
My god so true also all that Air bud sequels and what not.. also these weird kids movies like Cats & Dogs, Stuart Little etc..
That was a 90s genre that limped into the 00s. Air bud 😂
@@ChicCanyon true lmao
Don't forget the Air Buddies movies started in 2006 those are my favorite films 🐶
Another trend that very much died in the 2000s was the apex of 2D animation. Titan AE, Prince of Egypt, Spirit, Sinbad, Treasure Planet, Atlantis, El Dorado, Emperors New Groove, Princess and The Frog. Beautiful movies that showcased the artform to its fullest.
And it all died thanks to crude humored, uncanny valley, 3D CGI schlock.
@@neighslayer768 Don't forget Lilo and Stitch. Sure that movie didn't bomb at the box office unlike those movies, but still. In fact, I'm tired of the 3D animation overload as much as you are. People want variety, man.
@@matthewmorvillo8662 Easy solution, just watch asian and european animated movies !
Toy story and it's consequences have been a disaster for the human race
@@alshabib5849 Yeah. It's a shame that even the most beloved things leave the worst impact. In fact, the same can also be said for Shrek.
I was born in 1996, and I barely remember ANY of those movies 😂😂😂
I think you missed fast and furious and those rap stars starring in movies.
@@shortydancer He missed a lot of things but that's Gen Z as he said himself, haha
Not going to lie... having checked in on early characters, later on throughout the series, wondering what Edwin is up to these days occupies a lot more of my mental bandwidth, more than it provably should. Like, did he and Monica ever make up?
Is he stuck in a middle management job, telling his kid/s about "Things Edwin knows..."? Does he still have the Momo DC2? Did he do what a ot of guys did and upgrade from that one to something else? Like an eventual MkIV or R35... and is THAT what he drives? Or did he trade it all in for something like a Mercedes sedan to look more professional and hate every minute that he cant go back, longing for the built car that he once had before and what it represented to him?
The original F&F (2001) was kind of a beach movie without the beach.
DMX in Exit Wounds, Ja Rule in Half past Dead
I remember the 2000s as lots of teen movies with pop punk soundtracks, mostly centered around the plot of getting laid
Yep, that's why "not another teen movie" was so popular
Facts
@@Alienkiwi730 the raunchy genre
I remember them as movies where the creators were making movies for us to enjoy, not making us to enjoy movies.
Also the unstoppable power of the halter top and flared pants.
@@Sylmarys24 low rise bottoms for me... hehe
The fact that 2000s media is now as old as 80s media was in the 2000s is kind of jarring.
Time only moves forward that's true, but still.
very
The 80's are as far away from today as they are the 40's. If a teenager today sicks down and watches a John Hughes movie, that's literally the equivalent of a teenager in the 80's watching Casablanca.
@@davidmhh9977 thats so gnarly to me all i can think about is all the extra fluff and pop culture shit of their time that is floating in their head.
Why do you guys need to make me feel so old
@@lemongreed7916 I'm 28, definitely a youngin though. Don't worry, I''ll eventually get old too, lol. Everyone ages.
I absolutely hate going to the beach, but loved all of those beach movies. Lol
Something I noticed from 2000s was that everyone looked so smooth, though it may just be the Video Quality of the time.
2000s were great for movies both stand alone and franchises. Some of my favorites being Star Wars prequels, Benchwarmers, Superbad, Hot Rod, Accepted, The Matrix, Spiderman 1-3, Dodge Ball, Batman Begins, Dark Knight, The 40 year old virgin, shrek, monsters inc, and cars. The list goes on
actually 2001 2002 were the best years in history, amelie, ice age, lord of the rings training day, mosters inc mulholand drive , etc . gems!
Wow you have awful taste.
@@BradleySherlock-n4x you have an awful name
Benchwamers is one of my comfort movies
@@BradleySherlock-n4x rude but agree
*There was an 2000's kid's spy movie craze.*
Cody Bank, Alex Rider, Harriet the Spy, Cat& Dogs, The Pacifier, Catch that Kid, Master of Disguise, Looney Toons: Back in Action, and of course Spy Kids. There were a lot of cartoon shows too Totally Spies, Kim Possible, Martin Mystery, Secret Saturdays, The X's, and Kids Next Door. It was a thing.
*There was also a uptick in spoofs and satire movies.*
The Scary Movies, Vampires Suck, Epic Movie, Not Another Teen Movie, Team America, Disaster Movie, Shawn of the Dead, Austin Powers, Kong Pow, Superhero Movie, Idiocracy, Tropic Thunder, Meet the Spartans, Enchanted, and just too many to count. But you get the point.
*Also, it was the peak of Stoner Comedy Movies:*
Super Bad, Pinapple Express, Dude Where's My Car, Harold & Kumar, Super Troopers, Jay & Silent Bob, How High, Smiley Face, All Scary Movies(double dipping into trends), Soul Plane, Dazed & Confused, Half Baked, Knocked Up (Most Seth Rogan movies), Your Highness, Reefer Madness: The Movie musical (2005), Bill & Ted movies, and it all starting with Cheech & Chong.
As a woman in her 30s, the 90s/2000s rom coms will always hold a special place in my heart. I still have a solid DVD collection that I bought mostly from cheap bins at Walmart, and they are such a treasure. ❤️
Looking back it’s actually kinda surprising how FEW “torture porn films” were big in the 2000’s. Like it seemed so genre defining because the media would constantly highlight these films for being so controversial but really you only got the saw franchise, the hostel franchise, and that one movie where the truck driver spends all his time harassing a bunch of kids for some reason. The rest were pretty typical slasher flicks, remakes of foreign films and ghost movies with a emo twist. Not a lot of on screen torturing going on.
it started with saw lol
There's always more horror.
That truck movie is Joy Ride with Paul Walker. Really underrated great thriller
@@carlcarlington7317 Because almost no one wants to see the human centipede, bro. They want a safe representation of pain and fear to enjoy it, not to be scarred for years because they watched a shock dismemberment/torture movie.
@@Locadel2003i was certain they were referencing jeepers creepers lol
The ring used physical filters and was shot on film and It used minimal digital colour grading
Man I miss the 2000’s. Such a time to be alive, it was so lively and fun.
Yeah perfect blend of tech
90’s and 2000’s were the coolest and fun times to be alive ever. No argument
3:56 it was definitely matrix that started the leather/ latex trend in 99.
@@scottmatznick3140 Blade came before that though
@@tshidi129 yeah I just don't think it really had the same cultural impact on style as the matrix did.
I also think Britney Spears wearing that red latex suit in her video Oops I did it again, that came out in 2000 was influential
Yall forgetting Batman had Latex first in the Tim Burton movies.
Latex started its fad in the 70’s with Disco, then Batman made it cool again in 89
Blade was definitely the start of the slo-mo action and leather coat and/or catsuit trend.
Movies where dogs and other anime talk. There are thousands of movies with talking dogs
This video seriously needs more views.
Also I find it fascinating that the 2000's were cashing in on the 70's the same way the 2010's was on the 80's.
Now we're in the beginning of the 2020's and I already feel the 90's creeping up.
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God all that felt awful to write.
Just endless pop culture recycling lol. I kinda love it tho, even if it's wrong😂 Fascinating to see what pop culture looks back on fondly, and what gets ignored.
The 2020s are chasing the 00s
@@corymiller536 they need to stay in their 15 second scroll ahh tiktok lane. Next thing you know there's gonna be a cash grab remake or live action adaptation for every 00s IP ever
They won't take the millennium from us
One thing comes to mind is how much all of the horror movies still hold up today, more than just about anything else from the 2000s.
@@corymiller536for real, the 2020s are so much like the 2000s
2000s movies >>> 2020s movies
@@deaddenied92 Agreed
All these trends were actually very popular in the 80's movies as well!
I know your channel is cinema focused, but I would love to also see/hear your thoughts about TV during the 2000s. Much of that was a huge influence for me growing up, and while it's different from film, it really does contain a familiar sort of aesthetic and tone.
Awesome video!! Gonna actually rewatch it again soon.
Great suggestion! I probably spend more time watching TV than movies, and I think that the difference between the two is increasingly blurry.
With that said, I'd love to do a video on early reality TV from the 2000s😂 Also early single cam comedies like Malcolm In The Middle.
Hmmm🤔
The 2000s did show one specific trend that wasn't just a refinement of prior aesthetics. The impact of 9/11. After about 2004 9/11 started to impact movie plots themes and even the general look. In fact without 9/11 odds are torture porn would never have gotten popular.
What do you mean?
it's fascinating looking at so many 2000s movies through that lens, been rewatching the Nolan batman trilogy and it's maybe one of the most interesting examples, like I'm certain those movies would be wildly different were it not for 9/11
8:40
That always makes me angry. Shame on Hollywood for side lining him, he’ll always be my ideal leading action hero
I think it's about time he had a major Hollywood comeback
@@ItsGregKon I heard he's gonna be the villain in Batgirl
@@dimitrescu182 That's gonna be awesome!!
@@ItsGregKon Aaaaaaaaaand it's been canceled. But, he did just win Best Actor for the Whale.
@@ItsGregKon your comment aged very well haha
2:33 Thank you for not blaming Twilight for the s3xy vampire trope, I've always argued that the s3xy vampire Trope has been around a lot longer than Twilight and yet people still blamed Twilight. So thank you for clearing things up.
It’s actually even older - Bram Stoker’s novel Dracula is chuck full of sexuality. It’s quite literally a critique on women’s sexuality and the horrors of falling prey to it. That was all the way back in the late 1800s!
So the 00s were were made up of a few big trends and then many small trends. Two noticeable change I notice early on, is the decline in the Action Thriller genre that was a staple of 90s Films and the other being the death of the courtroom Drama trend of the 90s, mostly centring on John Grisham Novels.
The 90’s had so many actions films that no matter how ludicrously high-stakes the action was or how much cocaine the executives were doing it still gave you an absolute thrill!!
You had some ridiculous or unrealistic ones like Air Force One that were still an absolute blast but also the really thrilling ones with great story and character development like Terminator 2, The Fugitive, The Matrix and so many others!
I'm a '96 baby, and I just realized courtroom movies started dissappearing during middle school (2007ish). When I was a kid so many movies had a bunch a courtroom scenes: Liar Liar, The Exorcism of Emily Rose, Erin Brockovich, My cousin Vinny, The devil's advocate, etc. and Law & order was HUGE.
Glad, though! Those movies were so boooooring 😴😴😴
Born in ‘86, 2000 is when I started high school. I don’t particularly hold a lot of nostalgia for this era in general, probably because I hated high school and hated being that age. But if I can shake the negative feelings for the 2000’s enough I can find nostalgia for specific movies/tv shows. The Lord of the Rings and Saw movies were my most watched franchises of that decade, and of course Daniel Craig’s Bond movies started during this time as well, though his five movies spanned all the way to 2021.
@beau5265 what's up fellow '86er... I'm august.. what about you?
July
@@beau5265 damn, that's crazy.. got a brother born in july
The 90s and 2000s are my favourite decades for movies. I was born in 1999 so I only remember around half of the 2000s unfortunately. Sooo. Many. Bangers. I'll always have nostalgia for this decade. From movies like MI2 and Charlie's Angels to movies like The Bourne Supremacy and The Mist, I loved the variety.
I just watched THE MIST last night. Sooooo goood. One of 2007's best and that year along had too many great films to count
Oh I feel this. I recently made my own video analysing the very specific trend of 'adaptation of children's/YA fantasy book that'll hopefully get a dozen sequels' following Harry Potter's lead.
Oh I'll check that out! The HP franchise had a massive influence on the industry in so many ways.
I LOVE THE BEACH MOVIES!!!!!!!! We're gonna make one together one day, starring Adam Sandler, Matthew McConaughey and Blonde Hair McGee - directed by McG of course, he's my favourite director.
Yes! Our Masterpiece
Please cast me in it as a shirtless stoner surfer dude !!! :))))
Wow! That was so info packed!
In addition to the dance and cheer movies, there were also gymnastics movies that gave us training and ice bath scenes.
Also I forgot how many Scooby-Doo movies/shows there were during that time! So many!
So true! This video could have easily gotten out of hand if I included everything😂
Stick It
I'm not sure if this was already mentioned, but disney channel original movies were big back then too, really enjoyed them back in the day
Agreed! Halloweentown was my absolutely favorite
Extreme sports and regular sport films were so big in the late 90’s and early/mid 00’s. Surfing, BMX, skating, basketball, hockey, horse racing, Ricky Bobby, etc.
I didn't like many of the 2000 styles at the time. But what's interesting is that media (and trends) where much more diverse back then.
Crucify me but I love how UltraViolet looks. I appreciate high budget and good cgi/color grades, but something about UV just looks so unique and pleasing to my eye
I was a teenager during the 2000s this really brings me back thank you for the nostalgia
2000’s horror hits different, they’re not bad, but almost never great. I was brought up on that crap so I have a soft spot for Saw, Final Destination, House Of Wax, My Bloody Valentine, Dead Silence, Wolf Creek, Wrong Turn and many, many others.
Great video another 00's trend at least in the early part of the 2000's was street racing movies, like Gone in 60 seconds, Fast and the Furious series, and then you had the video games like Need for Speed Underground games, Burnout,Midnight Club, etc...
Ohhh that's a good one, I love the street racing movies and games. They're a great mixture of 2000s style and music!
Great video topic! We need to bring back mid-tier budget movies. Nowadays we only get like $200 million movies but the 90s and 2000s had so many lower budget gems
Brendan Frazer wasnt dropped. He had a major injury on Mummy 3.
Great video! I just wanted to say The Ring coloring was
all done in camera and with lighting. It influenced a lot of digital color grading of the decade though but it’s quite interesting how they did it. 🙂
@@kara1084 came here to say the same thing!
Also, the Matrix original theatrical release didn’t have a green look.
was gonna say the exact same thing! it’s way more interesting and more dynamic than what the other films of that time we’re doing as well that may have also looked similar
Elder Millennial here. When you’re on the border of two generations you feel connected to both, which sometimes makes you feel connected to neither. You’ll realize with each passing year just how Gen Z you are. It’s because like you said you grow up on the older generation’s content
It truly feels as though the 2000's was the last time experimentation played a part in making films profitable, whether good or bad films are made in the future is out of the question, the point is studios know exactly what is profitable and what not and filmmakers most stay on line with the mold if they want to keep a career out of making movies.
I think what stood out the most for ME, was movies with heroes wearing long black coats 😂 from the late 90's and throughout the 2000's😂
The beginning of the 00s are a lot different than the late 00s
The whole decade was a party 🎉
You guys are gonna screw me for this but, I have a SOFT Spot for the 2000s and I loved it to death, in terms of Games, Movies, Music and So on. We NEED A Discord Group for fans of the 2000s. ARE YOU WITH ME?
@@primevalyautja1305 yeah all media was ground breaking back fhsn
Yes! Long live Chan the Man! (He had his best performances in this decade in A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints and Stop-Loss).
Forever a Channing Tatum fan
Nah, movies that are made or started post pandemic are weird, apart from those that stood with the standards of the past, most are made for nobody while movies in the early 2000's will forever be a timeless classic whether famous or not.
I’m glad you made this video because I always thought this is true
2000s were definitely a growing period for movies
The only thing I think you missed was inclusion of low render CGI in tons of action movies
Whoah big miss with The Ring that colour grading was all done in camera - amazing cinematography! Also we had a really great run with Cronenberg movies, David Lynch with of course Mulholland Drive and Michael Mann with Ali, Collateral and Miami Vice.
You're closing remarks are the exact reason why I love older movies. They feel like these time capsules that you can pop in and out of whenever you want.
I've just been watching psych for the first time. And I'm watching the progression of technology from them using flip phones to having GPS to iPhones.
Ok nice job! But the color grading in the ring wasn’t done in post… it was actual done in camera… therefore it isn’t color grading it’s just good lighting!
Also, Sexy Vampire thing was influenced by Vampire The Masquerade Tabletop rpg, first published in 1991, that influenced and contributed the gothic punk mood of late 90s/early 2000s
Matt Damon recently talked about why there aren't stand alone movies anymore, and it's that studios used to bank on them making their money back on home video and DVD if they didn't do well in theaters. Now that streaming services are dominant, studios don't want to take that risk.
Regarding Kung Fu movies, the martial arts films really started gaining traction in the 70s through Bruce Lee, and by the 80s, the gener blew up, and was re-popularized through anime like Dragon Ball-Z in the 90s as well as The Matrix in 1999. I think that was a much longer form regarding popularity and went through several trends that still have some extension today, in movies like John Wick.
There were also a ton of movies trying to cash in that Harry Potter dough. Any book collection that could turn into a movie franchise ...Eragon, Narnia, Maze Runner, Hunger Games, Twilight, Golden Compass, Divergent, etc.
Yooo no, Brendan was blacklisted bc he came out Abt being SA'd. Not about divorce or flops because they wouldn't cast him after that.
yeah looking at the thumbnail there was a weird trend in the 2000's where every movie had a joke about "being naked"
Today's movies are weird. In 2000s we had quality.
What about the mo-cap movies that Zemeicks was doing in the mid-late 2000s notably Polar Express, Monster House and A Christmas Carol? But it died by the very early 2010s with Mars Needs Moms.
Ouuu good point, you're so right. Zemeckis was really pushing the mo-cap tech hard. I could probably do a whole video on mo-cap movies alone, hmm...
Pirates of the Caribbean, Sin City, Kill Bill, Death Proof, Planet Terror, The dark knight, 3:10 to Yuma, The butterfly effect, American Pie movies, Inglourious Basterds and even the first Jackass movie… I saw so many movies in cinema back then and lots of really great ones, or at least they were fun.
Fantastic video, subscribed and keep up the good work.
Thank you so much!
Not sure if i can call it a trend but there is also the downfall of 2d animated movies and the start of dominance for cg animated movies, especially the reference parody pop culture comedys inspired by Shrek such as Shark Tales, Chinken Little, Robots and Madagascar. Also the 00's were the peak of the terrible parody movies such as like Scary Movie, Epic Movie, Disaster Movie, Date Movie, Meet the spartans, etc.
Just discoreved your channel recently and i absolutely love it. Also sorry if i wrote anything in a weird way, i'm not a native english speaker LOL.
You're so right. Lot's of great innovation in animation at the time. I was actually thinking of doing a video on 2000s parody movies! There were a lot and then they just disappeared lol.
Thank you so much! Your English is great!
This is exactly the kind of video I’ve been looking for! 2000s movies have always held a special place in my heart despite their repetivness and weirdness. I love how you’ve been able to categorise most of them and really shows how similar they all were.
"Something about Judd Apatow and/or gross-out comedies" - well said 🤣🤣🤣
1:17 literally had Higher stuck in my head all day
7:02 cant have a movie with orange actors without the most famous orange man in the world 😂
I typed in 2000s movies, super baked hoping no wishing to find a video just like this and I found this. I am so happy I havent looked at your channel but pls make more videos like this. Maybe Video game commercials of 2000s reality tv shows of 2000s, kid reality tv shows 2000's, Humor of the 2000's, fashion of the 2000's, ect
Ahahaha yessss! My next video is on a niche 2000s trend so I hope you enjoy it. Also, there's a whole playlist of similar videos on my channel 😊
x2 I searched 2000's movies, I needed an analyisis of this decade in film
2004’s Thunderbirds was everything that shiny, round 2000’s aesthetic was made for
I never noticed the whole beach movie stuff!
Great movie!
2006-2008 was just an insane stretch for good movies whether you liked indie or mainstream films. I'm probably forgetting a ton, but here are a few:
There Will Be Blood, Zodiac, No Country for Old Men, Little Miss Sunshine, Black Snake Moan, Into the Wild, The Dark Knight, Superbad, Tropic Thunder, Iron Man, etc.
Didn’t even cover the action movies where someone’s kidnapped or the day in the life stories of junkies
The 2000s sound like "Crazy In Love" to me also. I appreciate the song choice.
The beach thing transcended movies. Games did it too. Final Fantasy X & X2, Mario Sunshine, etc.
cartoons have had body swap episodes as well. and they still do it to this very day
Early 2000s movies had the blue/green "swamp filter" just like how a lot of 7th gen games had the yellow/brown "piss filter"
The ring & the Matrix, Gears of War & Fallout: New Vegas.
I think the word you’re looking for is Fun
I was born in 1989. It was such a interesting time to grow up. I'm glad I got to experience it. Before things changed to how they are nowadays. There was a sense of Retro-Futurism mixed with vintage vibes. McDonald's had Nintendo 64's, Blockbuster/Hollywood video, you could preview music before buying it. Magazines would come with demo discs for new games coming soon.
There's so many reasons why the 90's ruled. Because it had a bit of a 80's vibe and attitude. Such awesome Aesthetics all over in such diverse ways. It was like "okay kids, go have fun, you might get hurt so watch out, but, have fun 👍🏻." Nowadays, it's like they completely got rid of any "fun, goof off, odd stuff." It's like everything is all modernized, minimalism, contemporary, bland, repetitive and if it doesn't make money 💰 then it's gotta go.. so all those old houses, old shops, drive in movie theaters, roller rinks, obstacle courses, bouncy houses, indoor fun zones with r/c speed boats, mini golf ⛳ with loops, bumper cars, ball pits, just weird random stuff. Random weird local shops, stores that you could play halo 1 on big TVs and link up LAN parties. Towns still had older run down sorta house's, duplexes, just unique "lower income living options ya know?") where I live they have literally gotten rid of all of that and just put in cookie cutter type places to live and everything costs ridiculous per month and everything is so bland and stale. I just miss the creativity, the quirkiness that's all. Being born in 1989 I was lucky to get to see the tail end of these things that aren't around anymore and I can't help but wonder what it must be like for kids that never got to experience the stuff the 90s kids got to experience. I wouldn't trade it for anything in the world. Getting to be a teen when wild Boyz, jackass, CKY was a big deal 🤘🏻 a kid when Steve Erwin was literally my idol! Growing up on magic school bus, bill Nye the science guy, captain planet, X-Men the animated series, all the animated series tv shows. All the classic animated movies. Like it was the best time to be a kid and a teenager. It had such a Vibe.
you forgot the teen comedies made popular by the "American Pie" franchise. You may have been too young for R rated comedies, but these were definitely a trend during this time.
The rush of memories while watching this was wild. There was also that trend with crime fighting kids movies, that spy kids seem to make popular. Also I think there was a musical trend like with Hairspray, but I could be wrong
The beach Leonardo DiCaprio movie is so underrated but such a great movie
What about those teen movies that everyone loved to hate on, but when watching then for the first time in almost 10 years, theyre actually pretty fun? That usually had a sountrack that we were all familiar with.
Like Whatever It Takes, Girl Next Door, Perfect Score, She's The Man, Mean Girls etc. I mean, they're "teen movies" but kind of stood out from previous entries in that genre.
I was born in December of '96, so I'm right there with you in that in-between generation. Pretty soon, people in Hollywood are gonna get more nostalgic for the early 2000's, just like we've seen with the 70's, 80's, and now 90's. I'd day were already beginning to see it with Pixar's Turing Red which takes place in 2002. It's only a matter of time before Hollywood cashes in on our nostalgia just like it did with past generations.
Oh man the beach movies hahah I’m an elderly zoomer too and man the vibes of the beach movies, then going into hollister where the teenagers were just made you feel your destiny was to become a surfer
I love both your writing and your voice over, super great video!
There were a lot of "college" humor type movies in the late 90's and early 2000's like Van Wilder, Dude Where's My Car, Road Trip, etc...
Movies were not fully popular until around the 1950's. The 2000's i think is where they peaked. Maybe even the 90's. I feel like ever since the 2010's they have become too politically charged and more about visuals rather than unique brands to push and novelty.
Nowadays i feel like every movie is either let's see who we can offend with our radical beliefs, or what drop dead gorgeous actor/actress can we put in here to get people hooked on a series. I, as a consumer of occasional entertainment just feel out of touch with most the new trending things in cinema. It's just boring to me these days.
When I was in uni one of the teachers (not professors but people from the media industry) said one of the first question some studios/production companies ask about a script is what kind of sequel/multiplication you see for the project. Which is why standalone, original IP-stuff is becoming so rare.
The main difference between this time and earlier decades and today, as well as the last decade (sort of), is that movies actually cared about _telling a story_ back then.
Take superhero and action movies for example, not only is everything more predictable, but also more rushed.
I recently discovered (thanks to WatchingTheAerial’s video) that the color grade in The Ring is not digital, and my mind was blown!
The return of goof Comedies. Scary Movie, Meet the Spartans, etc. Really any of the National Lampoon franchise. The Naked Mile, etc.
For me it’s the fact anything could be a movie. Look at movies like bubble boy, Joe Dirt, dodgeball, etc. It was almost like any idea could be brought to life. Additionally, with new movies, everything is perfectly lit, perfectly in focus, perfectly colored etc. Movies feel like movies today. Back in the 2000s(and all the movies that came before the 2000s) were not perfectly lit, in focus, colored. It felt like you were apart of the movie or journey. Today they look and feel like they were made on a set in Hollywood.
Great video! For me what's missing is the American Pie legacy, raunchy, hyper sexual comedies with high school n college kids...the AP sequels and spin offs, films such as road trip, euro trip etc.
I've been watching the show 24 for the first time, and it really takes me back to the early 2000s. The editing style, the music, the cellphones etc :)
I'm a decade older than you, and I really loved watching all kinds of movies from the 90's and 00's. They were fun, exciting, relatable, gripping. But then since the 2010's started I lost my taste for new movies. Suddenly everything just felt theatrical and political, overdone and overhyped. Some things even made a mockery of. The amount of new movies I've watched and liked in the past 15 years, I can probably count on one hand. There was that "Crimson Peak" and "The Orphan" and Leonardo Dicaprio had some great moments with "Shutter Island" and "Inception" but that's pretty much it.
I think 2000's movies increased my expectations really a lot and now very few new movies can live up to my standards on character development and story telling. It's all just a ton of CGI splattered all over a bunch of meandering stories and shallow, 2-dimentional characters telling cringe jokes. Very disappointing. So I consider the 2000's as the last decade of good movies.
Not really a genre, but movie adaptations of books, and remakes of older movies, really started to become a thing back then (because technology could finally allow for better graphics including much better CGI), starting with Harry Potter and The Lord of the Rings, and it's something people are starting to get tired of by now. Like we've heard these stories a gazillion times now, give us something original. But they were cool in the 2000's.
One thing I recall is horror elements in non-horror films, wuch as high contrast light and jump scares. I think it was popularised by Lord of the Rings. But after that, many films that weren't horror films had jump scares. For example, Pirates of the Caribbean had horror elements and I remember going to see Passion of the Christ with my dad and brother and being surprised that it was a horror movie for the first half hour or so. There's even this out if nowhere scene where Mary and Mary Magdelen get startled by Peter busting through the door to tell them about the arrest. It's an Easter movie for crying out loud.
1999 and 2001 movies feel so different that it seems like they was made in different timelines.
Solid, concise, and engaging! Well done! Not common for the realm of video essays these days!
When I think of the 2000s I also think of those movies that were trying to be clever twisty turny thriller/heists. The Oceans movies, Lucky Number Slevin, 16 Blocks. To a lesser extent see Shoot Em Up, Wonderland and The Brothers Bloom.
The 90s was the boom of the indie film, that then fizzled throughout the 00s. Now we are mostly left with sequels and remakes, unless you're like me and drive an hour away to see a limited released indie or foreign film.
If you were around 13 in 2008 you should watch Didi. The situations in the movie are very similar to mine during that age.
I really liked the "niche indie film" brought to you by the big studios in the 2000s. Universal's Focus Features, Sony Pictures Classics, Disney's Miramax, and others.
Finally someone acknowledges the Beach movie! I thought I was crazy for thinking the 2000s where somewhat beach themed!