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Movies in the 1990s were so good it was just an accepted part of life that you went out twice a month to go see them. No phones, very few minorities, everyone was into them. Very few fatties and popcorn was the only snack unless you dared to sneak in candy. It felt like every year movies were evolving, I remember how dead silent the theater was during Jurassic Park because everyone was just so awed. Girls were running out in tears during the Titanic. Lord of the Rings was so packed the staff said fuck it and let kids sit in the aisle. And when a great movie left the theater there was genuine anticipation for when it would come out on VHS, because unlike today you actually had to wait for that shit to release and companies knew how to build hype, so it'd be months before those films hit the shelves and if you hadn't seen it in theaters you were left to stew listening on your friends talk about how awesome the Batmobile looked in neon or how intense the DDay scene in Saving Private Ryan was. And arguments or debates about films were soulful as fuck because everyone was just going off their memory until the tape released to settle it.

Everyone (including me) just took it all for granted. We had no idea we were living through the literal last years of good movies, and we all realised way too late to even enjoy the twilight. It was something no generation will ever experience again, which can be said for most things before 2007. I genuinely feel bad for the smart device generations.