I am surprised it hasn't been greenlit already considering how prevalent 90s nostalgia is but what films would it be based on? I know Stranger Things wears its influences Stephen King kids movies like Stand by me as well as the Goonies proudly but no films come to mind immediately for the 90s. 3 ninja kids? No thanks.
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If there was a 90s Stranger Things, what films would inspire it
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Ninja Scooter
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Hackers
The Matrix
The Net
The Matrix
The Net
teruterubozu
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Jacob's Ladder
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Pulp Fiction
metalslimer
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Yeah the original Matrix definitely feels like the movie I would say encapsulates the 90s best
family_guy
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The Wizard.
Edit: Darn it. That was 1989.
Edit: Darn it. That was 1989.
Random Human
They were trying to grab your prize. They work for the mercenary. The masked man.
Coming this fall to Netflix, Bangarang Things
DontBeThatGuy
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It should involve kids and sports. (or a fat camp)
water_wendi
Water is not wet!
The Crow.
ProtomanNeo
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The 90's just didn't have the same kind of art that could inspire such a thing. If you absolutely had to pick something I guess maybe
The X-files
Hackers
The Matrix / Dark City
The X-files
Hackers
The Matrix / Dark City
cj_iwakura
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Terminator 2.
DiipuSurotu
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Tim Burton
TickleMeElbow
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The Faculty.
Shit would be dope as a TV series.
Shit would be dope as a TV series.
Sibersk Esto
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Postmodern and meta.
Skellig Gra
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Point Break
Con Air
Home Alone
Terminator 2
Scream
Jurassic Park if it didn't take place on a tropical island.
Con Air
Home Alone
Terminator 2
Scream
Jurassic Park if it didn't take place on a tropical island.
Not at all. It came out in '99.
ElBoxyBrown
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It captures the late 90s. The Matrix was looking towards the future of the turn of the millennium.
MrCunningham
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What year? Early 90s, mid 90s, late 90s? Early 90s would have been set in the 1960s instead of the 1980s. If were done in the later 90s, I could see it based in the early 1970s.
If Stranger Things was concieved in he 1980s it would probably be set in the mid 1950s.so many throwback TV shows and movies were inspired by 1950's sci-fi and horror schlock.
I think an early 90s Stranger Things would be very different from a mid to late 90s Stranger Things. Hard for me to say what the top influences would be?
If Stranger Things was concieved in he 1980s it would probably be set in the mid 1950s.so many throwback TV shows and movies were inspired by 1950's sci-fi and horror schlock.
I think an early 90s Stranger Things would be very different from a mid to late 90s Stranger Things. Hard for me to say what the top influences would be?
What the hell is that kids movie that has a kid on a big wheel in the opening? The bully kid that has a racoon tail tied to an antenna on the big wheel?
Nm I found it. It was The Boy Who Could Fly not a 90's movie though
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wpqgTnvWR1w
Nm I found it. It was The Boy Who Could Fly not a 90's movie though
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wpqgTnvWR1w
greycolumbus
The success of others absolutely infuriates me.
It would probably take a lot from Jurassic Park and Terminator 2. I don't remember a lot of kids movies where it felt like a group coming of age together. Any films that were like that felt like 80s transplants.
JP and T2 had kids most stereotypically reminiscent of the 90s.
Honestly I think a 90s Stranger Things would pull more from television.
JP and T2 had kids most stereotypically reminiscent of the 90s.
Honestly I think a 90s Stranger Things would pull more from television.
JoJoShabadoo
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Are people here just naming their favorite movies?
Anyways I think it would have more of a focus on high school kids. And a murder mystery. Twin Peaks would probably be a major source of inspiration.
Anyways I think it would have more of a focus on high school kids. And a murder mystery. Twin Peaks would probably be a major source of inspiration.
TheGreatDirector
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TMNT.
Stranger Things is about grade school kids though. Why would a 90's one be about high schoolers?
George Oscar Bluth II
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I think it would pull from a mix of film and television.
The story of Stranger Things can very much work in the '90s so if we were to just make a '90s version, it would probably pull from something like Jurassic Park (film) and Buffy the Vampire Slayer (TV). With all the teen movies that released back then, I think the core characters would be teenagers.
The story of Stranger Things can very much work in the '90s so if we were to just make a '90s version, it would probably pull from something like Jurassic Park (film) and Buffy the Vampire Slayer (TV). With all the teen movies that released back then, I think the core characters would be teenagers.
old manatee
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Kindergarten Cop
JoJoShabadoo
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The idea is to go for nostalgia, and the 90s had a ton of teen dramas. Especially on TV.
Yeah I was thinking that came out in the 90's but newp
Yeah but it had a lot of kid movie nostalgia too. You just may be more familiar with the high school stuff due to aging out of the kids movies. I guess it largely depends on who they're targetting with it.
Ninja Scooter
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It'd have to be a lot more cynical and edgy, and probably feature older kids (high school?). Stranger Things does a good job of capturing the feel of youthful optimism that is displayed in a lot of the more popular/memorable 80s movies scifi/fantasy movies (Goonies, Back to the Future, Indiana Jones).
kunonabi
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Yeah, im having hard time thinking of movies in that sort of age range with that material. At least with tv you could mine goosebumps, are you afraid of the dark, and Eerie Indiana.
When i think of coming of age kind of films my mind pretty much goes to my girl and gold diggers.
Reading this thread has got me thinking of how wild a clueless/craft mashup could be.
Actually the overall 90s vibe to me would be clueless and clarissa explains it all but i tuned most of that decade out to be honest.
When i think of coming of age kind of films my mind pretty much goes to my girl and gold diggers.
Reading this thread has got me thinking of how wild a clueless/craft mashup could be.
Actually the overall 90s vibe to me would be clueless and clarissa explains it all but i tuned most of that decade out to be honest.
I feel if we can find any kind of overlap, the sci-fi movies of the 90's seemed to have a theme of questioning the nature of reality, where "reality" wasn't real - or at least real in the way we perceived it, but rather a hidden manipulation or simulation, occasionally mixed with the whole 90's fixation on "cyber" / cyberpunk. Think the following 90's movies:
The Matrix
Total Recall
The X-Files
Dark City
The 13th Floor
Strange Days
Jacob's Ladder
Existenz
Flatliners
Men in Black (sorta fits into the whole "what is real? / real world behind the curtain" theme)
The Matrix
Total Recall
The X-Files
Dark City
The 13th Floor
Strange Days
Jacob's Ladder
Existenz
Flatliners
Men in Black (sorta fits into the whole "what is real? / real world behind the curtain" theme)
HP_Wuvcraft
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The X-Files, hands down.