I wonder if the producers realized that the scene in the Boiler Room rock club was already a bit dated, even as they filmed it? Nirvana was changing the music scene BIGTIME, probably while they were filming this.
Hey, I'm not knocking it, I still love 80s music, to this day! I'm just saying, grunge was sort of taking over, by 1992.
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Two reasons.
1. Grunge may have been on the rise, but that doesn't mean that nobody liked any other kinds of music. New York City is populous enough that a club of any kind would end up packed.
2. Grunge wouldn't have fit the film. I just can't picture sadomasochism meshing well with a Nirvana concert. Can you?
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I get your point but having been to Miami I can tell you there are parts of the USA that never caught onto the fact that the 80's are dead and gone LOL
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Neither do I, so... sounds like a place to be in my case
I would love to have been in that club as a VIP member before *beep* hit the fan ofcourse :P
Keeping the 80s up to date
Could also be that they probably shot the thing a year or more prior to it being even released thus making it a bit more dated.
shareSo glad it had an 80s vibe, and rocked true metal as opposed to depressed art fag sh!t.
shareGrunge music was on the rise. But back in the early 90's, hair bands were still being hired to perform in nightclubs. Nightclubs would hire hair bands because they knew who they were. At the start of grunge, outside of Nirvana and Pearl Jam. Nobody knew one grunge band from another.
My problem with the nightclub was they had a great bar with rock music playing. And in another part of the club, it was a high end restaurant. Maybe that part of the club was the VIP section.
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The strung up babies and barbed wire and such was more 90's than 80's.
My problem is its 10 bucks to get in, which would have been relatively expensive cover at the time, even in a big city club, and it connects to a real classy restaurant next door. But plenty of times I saw people running walking around in jeans and plain cotton sweatshirts. Any club that thinks its that exclusive would probably not let in bluejeans and sweatshirts.
I don't think it was that weird. The 90s had basically just started, just like how the early 80s still looked a bit 70s.
Good point, DesperateHouseboy. I thought it looked very "90s" actually. It had that blend of late 80s & early 90s like you said.
The thing I thought was weird about it was...well, did they really have huge rock clubs like that back then? Maybe it's a stupid question but I was a teenager in the mid to late 1990s and pop & hip hop were the biggest things. It's hard for me to imagine rock being popular enough for a huge club like in this movie.
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Am I the only one who thinks the fact that they had babies on the wall with barbed wire round them was the weirdest bit?
If I went into a club and they had that, my first thought wouldn't be; "My god, the music they're playing is a few years old."
As someone born in the mid-80s, my first thought on seeing this movie in the early 2000s was "damn, this movie is 90s."
I suppose it's a matter of perspective.