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[–] Death__BySnuSnu 68 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

All I could hear when I read that...

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Haven't seen this since I was a kid and I can still hear it

[–] gibmiser 17 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Back in the days where you had to stay up late to watch the good stuff on late night TV.

Still a mindfuck that we are 20 years past the punchline of this joke...

[–] flipthetube 6 points 1 year ago

Funniest thing in my opinion was that they continued doing it long after 2000 passed.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The jokes were less stupid

[–] gibmiser 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I know it feels good to believe that but no, we were not better than having dim jokes. Hell, most of my favorite jokes are dumb as hell

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

La Bamba singing that phrase pops into my head about every six months.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

In the year two thousand, in the yeeeear two thouuuussaaaand!

[–] [email protected] 57 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I was there and, while Vin looked fine in Pitch Black, no one wanted those sunglasses.

[–] [email protected] 93 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It was Neo's sunglasses in the Matrix that was the shit back then Even though people wanted Morpheus' sunnies. No one could pull it off except Lawrence Fishburne

[–] [email protected] 28 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Exactly, and the cell phone that could spring open.

[–] theragu40 17 points 1 year ago (2 children)

It boggles the mind why they never released the phone from the first movie. They thought we just wanted anything from the matrix series so they launched the one from the matrix 2 but that one was bulky and unattractive.

It was that sexy slider everyone really wanted and they denied us!

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You could get phones like that overseas. There was way more variety and a bunch more models that never got released in the west.

[–] theragu40 13 points 1 year ago

Well that just further rankles my groingle!

[–] Elektrotechnik 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I think you could actually buy that, but is wasn't spring loaded.

Nokia 8110

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I still want that. Those new folding RAZR phones fall super short by not being able to flip open or slam shut quickly

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[–] MaxVerstappen 4 points 1 year ago

Oh man, I wanted that phone so freaking bad!

[–] [email protected] 53 points 1 year ago (5 children)

I remember I thought he looked fucking huge.

I feel sorry for the boys growing up now looking at all these roided out monsters thinking they need to look like that to be good looking. In the 90's we had actual regular sized people as the peak male specimen.

[–] RobertOwnageJunior 15 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Most women I've talked to don't like it anyway. Just look healthy and fit and you're good. No need to look like the Hulk on steroids.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I can second that. While a little bit of muscle is hot, the weightlifter/bodybuilder/linerback/etc style body does nothing for me and the "roided out" look is a complete turnoff.

That said, you shouldn't do things like that just to attract people. If you wanna be some big muscle guy, do it cause you want to. And if that is the kinda person you wanna be, cool, there will be people who will be attracted to you for the person you are.

... just don't do steroids. That shit's bad for you.

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (4 children)

You're telling me Vin Diesel didn't take steroids back in 2000?

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Well probably. But at least he looks human.

He would look small compared to most male actors that have their arms out today.

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[–] c0mbatbag3l 5 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I was just thinking that. Not trying to toot my own horn but I look pretty damn close to him. I started working out/lifting seriously in 2012.

Now you have to be the Chris Hemsworth performance enhancing actor generation to be "huge." He wouldn't be considered shit nowadays, but back then you could just be dedicated and shredded. Now you have to be on gear too.

[–] ratz30 4 points 1 year ago

Then again there were enormous pro wrestlers in the 80s who made Vin Diesel look tiny, so the performance enhancement look definitely isn't that new to the public.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Look up hugh Jackman from the first X-Men. The dude was cast to play a military super weapon close combat monster

[–] [email protected] 42 points 1 year ago (3 children)

And this year, he got paid millions of dollars to repeat one line for a whole ass movie... for the third time in a row.

[–] MaxVoltage 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)

For a paid employee of the corpos that's winning. They probably want to pay him 25hr

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (2 children)

It's honestly surprising they didn't just record him once and then try to get away with paying him minimum.

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[–] AzuleBlade 11 points 1 year ago

It's crazy he (technically) starred in the top two movies at the box office at the time, Fast X and GotG 3.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

True but he did do the other languages himself so I feel that does justify it some despite the context of his lines.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 year ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 year ago

Not afraid of the dark, are you?

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Name me something cooler in 2023

[–] RGB3x3 51 points 1 year ago (3 children)
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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

Technically the truth

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Frightening...

In the year 2000, Pitch Black was the 62nd highest grossing movie with $39,240,659.

The #1 film? $251,628,705?

https://i.ytimg.com/vi/lk6VABvGMeU/maxresdefault.jpg

Source: https://www.boxofficemojo.com/year/2000/?ref_=bo_yl_table_24

[–] Gradually_Adjusting 15 points 1 year ago

Having wet jeans that touch the ground when you walk was as normal as casual homophobia. Truly a cultural wasteland.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago

Mel Gibson is 15, 16, and 17 on that list, all over $100 million. That's a crazy year for an actor.

[–] Lazerbeams2 10 points 1 year ago

Damn that looks cool

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago

It still is.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

Duke nerdem

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

a lot of people thought he was a massive douchenozzle. still do.

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[–] ryannathans 5 points 1 year ago

I need them goggles

[–] Borscht 5 points 1 year ago

Fuck this gave me the craziest mental whiplash!! My dad watched a ton of movies w/ me and I inevitably told my childhood teacher that "my favorite movie was XXX" thinking it was the most badass shit ever.

On that note, for such a prideful dude he wore some goofy shit

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