All I could hear when I read that…
Haven’t seen this since I was a kid and I can still hear it
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…
Funniest thing in my opinion was that they continued doing it long after 2000 passed.
The jokes were less stupid
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
Sorry, I wasn’t as clear. I’d meant the jokes told about the future back then were better than how the actual future turned out. The jokes from then were mostly slurs tbh
La Bamba singing that phrase pops into my head about every six months.
In the year two thousand, in the yeeeear two thouuuussaaaand!
I was there and, while Vin looked fine in Pitch Black, no one wanted those sunglasses.
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
Exactly, and the cell phone that could spring open.
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!
You could get phones like that overseas. There was way more variety and a bunch more models that never got released in the west.
Well that just further rankles my groingle!
I think you could actually buy that, but is wasn’t spring loaded.
Nokia 8110
Did anyone mod it with a spring action?
I still want that. Those new folding RAZR phones fall super short by not being able to flip open or slam shut quickly
And such a slider mechanism would also work pretty well for modern smartphones as a protective cover.
Oh man, I wanted that phone so freaking bad!
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.
Literally thought the same thing looking at this picture—“Man, he seemed to much bigger back then!”
Ran into a college student the other day at the gym who had just started lifting. The dude casually dropped that he was taking tren. One month of lifting and you’re on tren… how about like some whey protein to start?!
Holy shit, that’s like… You haven’t even seen beginner gains, haven’t learned proper mind/muscle connection, haven’t gotten form and control down, no guarantee this is a real lifestyle for you yet level of noob.
Yeah I was shocked. It’s just a different world now. Insta fitness models have just ruined it for everyone.
Yet with TREN, they’ll see quick gains that can’t be achieved naturally.
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.
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.
There’s a line where you look at a guy and wonder if he can wipe his own ass. At that point muscles are no longer cool
You’re telling me Vin Diesel didn’t take steroids back in 2000?
Well probably. But at least he looks human.
He would look small compared to most male actors that have their arms out today.
Oh yes some people out there cannot walk straight because of their muscles.
And Brandon Lee wasn’t terribly dehydrated on the set of The Crow?
Abs are not arms. The OP pic, Vin’s arms aren’t that insane, but to have picture perfect abs in a shirtless scene he would’ve been dehydrated to hell because thats the only way your abs show as clearly as Hollywood likes. This also goes for pecs and shoulders/backs. Dehydration only makes your arms look veiny unless you’re like, actual bodybuilder day of competition.
And that is how you kill your kidneys.
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.
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.
Go back a bit, to the rocky 2, predator days
Look up hugh Jackman from the first X-Men. The dude was cast to play a military super weapon close combat monster
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.
It’s crazy he (technically) starred in the top two movies at the box office at the time, Fast X and GotG 3.
For a paid employee of the corpos that’s winning. They probably want to pay him 25hr
It’s honestly surprising they didn’t just record him once and then try to get away with paying him minimum.
They will…with AI ;)
Nope, that happens to the little guys, not to the guys with an army of lawyers.
True but he did do the other languages himself so I feel that does justify it some despite the context of his lines.
JC Denton before the augs
Deep cut.
Not afraid of the dark, are you?
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
Having wet jeans that touch the ground when you walk was as normal as casual homophobia. Truly a cultural wasteland.
Mel Gibson is 15, 16, and 17 on that list, all over $100 million. That’s a crazy year for an actor.
Name me something cooler in 2023
Hell yeah!
Technically the truth
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It still is.
Damn that looks cool
Duke nerdem
Tbh late 90s/early 2000s fashion was… something else.
The endless expanse of Kahki
a lot of people thought he was a massive douchenozzle. still do.
You can’t talk about Iron Giant like that 😭
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
I need them goggles
