Being born in 1980 and being 21 when 9/11 happened I remember very vividly as an adult and not a "90's Kid" what it was like pre 9/11. The world really has gone downhill ever since that day. And Has just got worse over time.

The 90's truly were much more care free back then and it's not even nostalgia for me and I never dream about reliving those days. But i do look back on them fondly.

So Below is a good List of Movies to watch if you want a true feel for what it was like pre 9/11. Most of these are late 90's to very early 2000's right before 9/11.

1. - You've Got Mail - Tom Hanks movie. Good movie that captured the late 90's really well, when your biggest concern was how your "coffee" represented who you were as a person. And how fun and unique the internet was back then and just how "New" it was. The movie is the epitome of life in New York pre 911. Also gave a great showing of how big "Chat Rooms" were.

2. - Office Space - Great Movie on what it was like working a 9 - 5 in the tech field. And what it was like worrying about the "2K Bug"

3. American Pie 1/2 - Both Great Movies of what that era was like for a teen. Does a good job at showing how kids were just worried about getting laid back then and no one that age cared about "social Issues" or anything political. Also what it was like without cell phones and social media.

4. American Beauty - Middle-American family dealing with hidden insecurities, boredom and failed ambitions. Problems that seemed so poignant and significant before 9/11.


I'm Sure theres more but those ones are truly defining moments for what it was like just pre 9/11

Watch Hey Arnold

Home Alone 1 and 2

Milk money (forgot about this for a while)

camp nowhere

billy madison

airborne (awesome movie about cali surfer kid moving to ohio suburbs if I remember right, was about skating)


^ I was like 10-12 when these came out, goat moviesI tried watching ren and stimpy again, holy crap that chit is for crackheads lmao..

Was actually checking out old episodes of kenan and kel, hilarious

You forgot dirty work...severely underrated and 90s AF. The 90s had such a promising happy go lucky vibe that 9/11 absolutely destroyed. I was young, but everything was different. The commercials were even more wholesome/happy. Go watch compilations of 90's commercial on youtube and you'll be blown away. Everything just seemed much more positive overall. Now its just infighting, politics, and constant anxiety.

If you want to watch old nick, paramount plush streaming service has everything afraid of the dark, salute your shorts, guts, nick arcade etc... it's really good

bruh, salute your shorts was my favorite show for a minute

1999 alone saw The Matrix, Fight Club, Office Space, the return of Star Wars after 16 years (Phantom Menace), South Park, Sixth Sense, American Pie, Galaxy Quest, Cruel Intentions, Being John Malkovich, The Mummy, The Green Mile, Austin Powers, Varsity Blues, Wild Wild West, The Bone Collector, and Analyze This. All classic movies. Sometimes I wonder how my wife and I went out to see movies almost every weekend, then looking at a list like this reminds me how many fukking great movies there were then.

I've seen all those movies in the OP. American Beauty and American Pie are some of my favs

I like watching old movies. Chit like Caddyshack, Ferris Bueller's Day off, and Beverly Hills Cops. They just made them different back then.

A lot of people romanticize the 00s and things were better but I do remember vividly being scared of terrorism and the WMD fiasco was a huge deal. Wasn't as bad as post-2012, but there wasn't anything major to be worried about prior to 9/11.

I'm 30 so although I watched alot of the kids movies from the 90s like Almighty Ducks, Free Willy, Lion King, etc I wasn't actually there for it. Either way the further we get from those days the more distant it feels. Glad I was born close enough for it to feel real.Yeah the commercials were way more exciting and catchy. It honestly wasn't that bad sitting through them.

Idk what happened to the upbeat, positive, wholesome culture. It was there until 2012 when this song came out then things got weird






Here's a song from 2011 when the culture was still wholesome

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Especially since 9/11, we have been living in extremely insecure times. There is an unacknowledged war going on, and in times of war and leading up to war, people duck duck and duck again. They don't want to catch any bullets. But there is also a rise in calls for heroism.

Although I grew up reading comic books, I will say that the rise in superhero movie franchises has gotten seriously out-of-hand, and added to that all of the supernatural-based themes with people with superpowers also, it's ridiculous. We don't have as many movies in which art and philosophy and poetry and sentimentality and emotional exploration take center stage the way they used to, at least not in the USA, and this definitely makes an impact on the mentality of a people at the time. In Europe it's still somewhat different, but American movies far dominate European ones in the box office worldwide.

At different times during different historical periods, different kinds of art/literature will be more prominent. Actually, leading up to and during World War II, there was an extremely disproportionate amount of American popular culture that was created. Superheroes and comic books got their starts then (Superman in 1938, Batman in 39, Wonder Woman in 41, and for Marvel - Human Torch and Sub-Mariner in 1939 and Captain America in 1940), and the movies, on my gosh the movies. FOUR of the top 6 on the AFI's initial "100 years, 100 Movies" from 1998 came out from 1939-1942, including the #s 1 & 2, respectively "Citizen Kane" and "Casablanca", also #s 4 and 6, respectively "Gone With the Wind" and "The Wizard of Oz". Out of the total of 123 movies that have been listed on that list in the initial 1998 list and the revised version in 2007, 20 are from 1935-1944, and considering the 100 years that Hollywood had been turning out movies until 2007, you would expect that only about 12 or 13 would be from any one decade, but a full 20 were from 1935-1944. More specifically, pay attention to years 1939-1941 which were the years that most of the comic book Superheros I just mentioned debuted (Superman, Batman and Wonder Woman are the only 3 superheros that have been published continuously since the golden age with no more than a few months gap, and then Marvel started during this time too from 1939-1941 like I just mentioned) - 11 of those movies on that list of 123 were from 1939-1941, and there is no other 3-year span where that many movies came out than have been listed on either version of the AFI "100 Movies 100 Years" list.

Misc needs more threads like this

90s was goat

2001 is the definitive turning point from American exceptionalism to MIC/corporate tyranny

In mainstream American society pre-9/11, far fewer people had tattoos.

I am stunned at the increase of tattoos on people in recent years. Not saying whether that's a good thing or bad thing, but consider us as a society getting ready for a civil war. Well, the increase of tattoos could be considered an increase in WAR PAINT.

On the left is 90's. On the right is what came after.

Funny thread to me growing up in the 80s, as the 80s were WAY more carefree than 90s. Think Stranger Things where kids rode bmx bikes alll over town until dinner time. I actually remember when the news broke about someone tampering with asprin bottles in stores. It was such a big deal, like what kind of psychopath would do something like that? Before that, no products had tamper resistant caps or safety seals, no need. And people rarely locked house or car doors. (Car door locks were originally created to keep doors from opening in a crash)

90's were great and all but 80's will always be the GOAT

Just look at the clips in this vid..no other decade compares

epic songs dude ty for nostaliga

Was going on 18 when it happened. Feelz bruh.

Yeah the 80s and 90s were GOAT, but in a way it proves that none of us live in the moment, theres things today that exist in our present time that will be seen as GOAT in the future

Oh yea man Hollywood peaked in the 90 for sure. Braveheart, Titanic, Shawshank, Pulp Fiction, just all fukking bangers.

There ised to be some, can’t remember if it was one of the TVLAnd or MeTV, mainly showed 70s and 80s shows.

9/11 and patriot act. Crazy that we have just accepted that the gov spies on us all the time.

Pre-9/11 was pretty fun

"If you don't like us spying on you, you're with the terrorists."

"oh oh ok ok, definitely not one of those turrists!"

That was all it took. lol we are so fooking easily manipulated.

Not much different from the whole covid bullchit

9/11 and covid are the worst things that have happened since the 60s and looks like a lot of us itt are old enough to know this.

As an 18yr old when the towers came down, I wish I knew how good we had it in the 90s and how chit it would become after the towers came down. Government took over and divided this country.

The beginning of the internet was crazy exciting.

The 80s/90 might have been better in some ways, maybe even overall for society in terms of being more of a "feel good era", but some individuals being bullied more...WAY more than most...is a pretty timeless theme, unfortunately.

It's not even comparable with how social media is today IMO. Children are bullied both on campus and online..way worse now than ever before. Social media has done far more harm than good in so many aspects.