UtSGFoOG – Wild Card!

We’re almost done! The years’ respective winners have been announced! They are:
Home Alone, The Mighty Ducks, Point Break, Jurassic Park, Speed, Independence Day, and I Know What You Did Last Summer
I find it satisfying that each year’s winner has been my pick, except the Point Break year (I still vehemently and ridiculously stand [...]

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UtSGFoOG – 1997

1997, y’all!  How’s it feel to be 14??  Pret-ty good.

Chris has given us 5 movies from this fine year for us to choose as the ultimate generation-defining, not really that good, but we love it to this day, movie of 1997.  The official post is here.
After reading his post, I went straight to Netflix and [...]

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Media-Fest

Jim and I are watching TV this year. It’s nuts. I guess now that he has stuff to grade all the time, it gives us a more time to watch TV than we used to.

I’m using the term “TV” loosely, as we got rid of our TV set in favor of a computer screen that [...]

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UtSGFOOG – 1996

1996, 1996, 1996! Being 13!
I think in 1996, I was mostly concerned with watching and re-watching Clueless, that I really didn’t hit the theaters much. Or maybe it’s proof, as Chris has said, that as the years progress the quintessential generation-defining movies wind slowly down to a screeching halt of boring-ness.  I guess we were [...]

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