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What are the best 1990s period piece movies? (I.e., made after 1999, set in 90s)

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ebony resort dog poop
  05/27/25
Big Lebowski almost qualifies, released in 1998 but set in 1...
iridescent useless brakes locale
  05/27/25
Who even watches these anymore?
Confused Claret Police Squad Shrine
  05/27/25
I still watch Film
Overrated gunner range
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alcoholic plaza travel guidebook
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ebony resort dog poop
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but yet you know nothing of it
Odious Rebellious Private Investor
  05/27/25
Sir, I attended the Werner Herzog Film Seminar, pretty sure ...
Overrated gunner range
  05/28/25
mean girls was released in 2004 but feels older imo
chest-beating carmine mood
  05/27/25
True Detective season one
wonderful citrine mediation pit
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brilliant diverse round eye kitchen
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Best answer so far
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maize irradiated rehab
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alcoholic plaza travel guidebook
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brilliant diverse round eye kitchen
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The segways are the second biggest unresolved mystery after ...
ebony resort dog poop
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fuchsia slap-happy prole
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Alpha Dog pops into mind first
anal love of her life
  05/27/25
(Nick Cassavetes) (JT)
beady-eyed base
  05/29/25
There are not a lot - certainly no great films. Add The F...
ebony resort dog poop
  05/27/25
How to train your dragon
Confused Claret Police Squad Shrine
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social network.
Maroon trip library knife
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Wolf of Wall Street
know-it-all lodge
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Racy outnumbered regret
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brilliant diverse round eye kitchen
  05/27/25
Mostly an 80s movie though.
ebony resort dog poop
  05/27/25
Speed
Marvelous Kitty
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I don’t think 1994’s Speed meets one of OP&rsquo...
ebony resort dog poop
  05/27/25
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brilliant diverse round eye kitchen
  05/27/25
Nigger Feet
Confused Claret Police Squad Shrine
  05/27/25
"period" is a gross word.
Multi-colored light field
  05/27/25
The Diaper
alcoholic plaza travel guidebook
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brilliant diverse round eye kitchen
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I think this has to do with Klosterman’s theory about ...
ebony resort dog poop
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alcoholic plaza travel guidebook
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brilliant diverse round eye kitchen
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Racy outnumbered regret
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brilliant diverse round eye kitchen
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The Queen (2006) The Fighter (2010) Erin Brocovich (2000) ...
plum weed whacker
  05/27/25
Thanks for asking Chat to give you answers
ebony resort dog poop
  05/28/25
Doesn't qualify with your parameters but Clerks is classic 9...
Bat Shit Crazy Red Potus Mad Cow Disease
  05/27/25
Yes, but not a period piece. Lots of movies reflect their t...
ebony resort dog poop
  05/28/25
I think Superbad is set in the 2000s but it has a 90s aesthe...
ebony resort dog poop
  05/28/25
Same for Napoleon dynamite Technically set in 2003 but ru...
chest-beating carmine mood
  05/28/25
Good one
ebony resort dog poop
  05/28/25
lilo and stitch for the same reason
Adventurous partner
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brilliant diverse round eye kitchen
  05/28/25
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cyberspace is cooked
  06/07/25
Road Trip
Marvelous Kitty
  05/28/25
this is difficult imo because 9/11 really wiped clean our me...
sepia center roommate
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brilliant diverse round eye kitchen
  05/28/25
Pain & Gain Mid90s The Informant!
up-to-no-good volcanic crater station
  05/28/25
Pain & Gain is probably the best answer ITT
erotic walnut fanboi haunted graveyard
  05/29/25
Im a Curator
up-to-no-good volcanic crater station
  05/29/25
Three Kings
fuchsia slap-happy prole
  05/28/25
1999
up-to-no-good volcanic crater station
  05/28/25
One Day (2011) Love and Other Drugs (2010)
histrionic massive gas station
  05/28/25
Black Hawk Down
Laughsome Office Factory Reset Button
  05/28/25
this
Talented crystalline corner
  05/29/25
Lot of nostalgia for 1993 Somalia
ebony resort dog poop
  05/29/25
I remember playing netdoom in an internet cafe in Berbera ar...
Overrated gunner range
  05/29/25
the belgian crime drama 'Maldoror' about the marc dutroux ca...
Heady bronze tanning salon
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I feel like that’s too well known to even bother discu...
ebony resort dog poop
  05/29/25
Is The Departed set in the 1990s? Seemed to be based on the ...
Talented crystalline corner
  05/29/25
No. They were clearly using early 2000s era phones and using...
Marvelous Kitty
  05/29/25
tyvmft
Talented crystalline corner
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The Creek, the in-universe remake of Season 1 of Dawson's Cr...
Insane ivory rigpig jewess
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Harry Potter
Pumonymous
  06/03/25
The OJ Simpson miniseries that was on FX a few years ago - t...
Todd Driskill
  06/03/25
Good one
Pierbattista Pizzaballa
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Trump Tariffs Can Do No Wrong
  06/03/25
tv show but derry girls. wife insisted i watch it. i tho...
Brother Peter Dimond
  06/07/25
It’s criminally underrated
Pumonymous
  06/08/25


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Date: May 27th, 2025 11:15 AM
Author: ebony resort dog poop



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Date: May 27th, 2025 11:30 AM
Author: iridescent useless brakes locale

Big Lebowski almost qualifies, released in 1998 but set in 1991.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5730305&forum_id=2)#48964673)



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Date: May 27th, 2025 11:31 AM
Author: Confused Claret Police Squad Shrine

Who even watches these anymore?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5730305&forum_id=2)#48964678)



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Date: May 27th, 2025 11:31 AM
Author: Overrated gunner range

I still watch Film

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Date: May 27th, 2025 9:59 PM
Author: alcoholic plaza travel guidebook



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Date: May 27th, 2025 10:01 PM
Author: ebony resort dog poop



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Date: May 27th, 2025 10:29 PM
Author: Odious Rebellious Private Investor

but yet you know nothing of it

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Date: May 28th, 2025 10:33 AM
Author: Overrated gunner range

Sir, I attended the Werner Herzog Film Seminar, pretty sure I know about Film.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5730305&forum_id=2)#48967267)



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Date: May 27th, 2025 11:32 AM
Author: chest-beating carmine mood

mean girls was released in 2004 but feels older imo

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5730305&forum_id=2)#48964686)



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Date: May 27th, 2025 11:34 AM
Author: wonderful citrine mediation pit

True Detective season one



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5730305&forum_id=2)#48964695)



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Date: May 27th, 2025 1:22 PM
Author: brilliant diverse round eye kitchen



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Date: May 27th, 2025 10:02 PM
Author: ebony resort dog poop

Best answer so far

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5730305&forum_id=2)#48966429)



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Date: May 29th, 2025 5:48 AM
Author: Talented crystalline corner



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Date: May 27th, 2025 10:23 PM
Author: maize irradiated rehab



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Date: May 27th, 2025 10:28 PM
Author: alcoholic plaza travel guidebook

tp

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Date: May 27th, 2025 10:39 PM
Author: brilliant diverse round eye kitchen



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Date: May 28th, 2025 6:52 AM
Author: ebony resort dog poop

The segways are the second biggest unresolved mystery after the lawnmower

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5730305&forum_id=2)#48966872)



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Date: May 28th, 2025 10:34 AM
Author: fuchsia slap-happy prole



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Date: May 27th, 2025 11:38 AM
Author: anal love of her life

Alpha Dog pops into mind first

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Date: May 29th, 2025 5:44 AM
Author: beady-eyed base

(Nick Cassavetes)

(JT)

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5730305&forum_id=2)#48969853)



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Date: May 27th, 2025 12:19 PM
Author: ebony resort dog poop

There are not a lot - certainly no great films.

Add The Fighter and Spring Breakers

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5730305&forum_id=2)#48964843)



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Date: May 27th, 2025 12:22 PM
Author: Confused Claret Police Squad Shrine

How to train your dragon

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5730305&forum_id=2)#48964851)



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Date: May 27th, 2025 12:23 PM
Author: Maroon trip library knife

social network.

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Date: May 27th, 2025 12:44 PM
Author: know-it-all lodge

Wolf of Wall Street

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Date: May 27th, 2025 1:23 PM
Author: Racy outnumbered regret



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5730305&forum_id=2)#48965026)



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Date: May 27th, 2025 1:24 PM
Author: brilliant diverse round eye kitchen



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Date: May 27th, 2025 9:58 PM
Author: ebony resort dog poop

Mostly an 80s movie though.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5730305&forum_id=2)#48966409)



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Date: May 27th, 2025 12:45 PM
Author: Marvelous Kitty

Speed

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Date: May 27th, 2025 10:01 PM
Author: ebony resort dog poop

I don’t think 1994’s Speed meets one of OP’s criteria.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5730305&forum_id=2)#48966424)



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Date: May 27th, 2025 1:24 PM
Author: brilliant diverse round eye kitchen

Autoadmit.com

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5730305&forum_id=2)#48965030)



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Date: May 27th, 2025 9:59 PM
Author: Confused Claret Police Squad Shrine

Nigger Feet

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5730305&forum_id=2)#48966411)



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Date: May 27th, 2025 9:59 PM
Author: Multi-colored light field

"period" is a gross word.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5730305&forum_id=2)#48966412)



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Date: May 27th, 2025 9:59 PM
Author: alcoholic plaza travel guidebook

The Diaper

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5730305&forum_id=2)#48966413)



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Date: May 27th, 2025 10:39 PM
Author: brilliant diverse round eye kitchen



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Date: May 27th, 2025 10:01 PM
Author: ebony resort dog poop

I think this has to do with Klosterman’s theory about the vanishing future. The internet has made it so the 90s never left. There’s no clear break with the past like Nirvana ending the 80s. So the era continues to live on in the culture (e.g. Friends and Seinfeld still Top 5 tv shows by hours watched) preventing us from developing a collective Nostalgia for the 1990s.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5730305&forum_id=2)#48966422)



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Date: May 27th, 2025 10:01 PM
Author: alcoholic plaza travel guidebook



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Date: May 27th, 2025 11:08 PM
Author: brilliant diverse round eye kitchen



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Date: May 28th, 2025 9:44 AM
Author: Racy outnumbered regret



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Date: May 28th, 2025 9:49 AM
Author: brilliant diverse round eye kitchen



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Date: May 27th, 2025 10:18 PM
Author: plum weed whacker

The Queen (2006)

The Fighter (2010)

Erin Brocovich (2000)

I, Tonya (2017)

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5730305&forum_id=2)#48966468)



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Date: May 28th, 2025 6:50 AM
Author: ebony resort dog poop

Thanks for asking Chat to give you answers

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5730305&forum_id=2)#48966869)



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Date: May 27th, 2025 11:03 PM
Author: Bat Shit Crazy Red Potus Mad Cow Disease

Doesn't qualify with your parameters but Clerks is classic 90s.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5730305&forum_id=2)#48966568)



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Date: May 28th, 2025 6:52 AM
Author: ebony resort dog poop

Yes, but not a period piece. Lots of movies reflect their times (Clerks is great), but the 90s are massively underexplored by people from another, later time reflecting on the historical era and what it MEANS now that culture has some distance.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5730305&forum_id=2)#48966871)



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Date: May 28th, 2025 6:54 AM
Author: ebony resort dog poop

I think Superbad is set in the 2000s but it has a 90s aesthetic and is based on Rogen and Stone’s high school years.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5730305&forum_id=2)#48966875)



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Date: May 28th, 2025 7:05 AM
Author: chest-beating carmine mood

Same for Napoleon dynamite

Technically set in 2003 but rural Idaho was still in 1990

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5730305&forum_id=2)#48966880)



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Date: May 28th, 2025 9:43 AM
Author: ebony resort dog poop

Good one

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5730305&forum_id=2)#48967107)



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Date: May 28th, 2025 9:52 AM
Author: Adventurous partner

lilo and stitch for the same reason

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5730305&forum_id=2)#48967127)



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Date: May 28th, 2025 9:55 AM
Author: brilliant diverse round eye kitchen



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Date: June 7th, 2025 4:43 AM
Author: cyberspace is cooked



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Date: May 28th, 2025 9:59 AM
Author: Marvelous Kitty

Road Trip

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5730305&forum_id=2)#48967148)



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Date: May 28th, 2025 10:04 AM
Author: sepia center roommate

this is difficult imo because 9/11 really wiped clean our memories of problems in teh 90s. the late 90s movies (office space, american beauty, fight club) were all about the purposelessness of american life and culture.

kind of hard to reset a 90s film knowing what is going to happen

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5730305&forum_id=2)#48967167)



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Date: May 28th, 2025 10:14 AM
Author: brilliant diverse round eye kitchen



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Date: May 28th, 2025 10:10 AM
Author: up-to-no-good volcanic crater station

Pain & Gain

Mid90s

The Informant!

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5730305&forum_id=2)#48967189)



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Date: May 29th, 2025 4:23 AM
Author: erotic walnut fanboi haunted graveyard

Pain & Gain is probably the best answer ITT

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5730305&forum_id=2)#48969811)



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Date: May 29th, 2025 7:11 AM
Author: up-to-no-good volcanic crater station

Im a Curator

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5730305&forum_id=2)#48969916)



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Date: May 28th, 2025 10:35 AM
Author: fuchsia slap-happy prole

Three Kings

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5730305&forum_id=2)#48967282)



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Date: May 28th, 2025 10:38 AM
Author: up-to-no-good volcanic crater station

1999

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5730305&forum_id=2)#48967300)



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Date: May 28th, 2025 10:44 AM
Author: histrionic massive gas station

One Day (2011)

Love and Other Drugs (2010)

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5730305&forum_id=2)#48967320)



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Date: May 28th, 2025 8:48 PM
Author: Laughsome Office Factory Reset Button

Black Hawk Down

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5730305&forum_id=2)#48969241)



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Date: May 29th, 2025 5:13 AM
Author: Talented crystalline corner

this

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Date: May 29th, 2025 7:49 AM
Author: ebony resort dog poop

Lot of nostalgia for 1993 Somalia

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5730305&forum_id=2)#48969956)



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Date: May 29th, 2025 8:44 AM
Author: Overrated gunner range

I remember playing netdoom in an internet cafe in Berbera around then, it was 180.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5730305&forum_id=2)#48970015)



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Date: May 28th, 2025 8:54 PM
Author: Heady bronze tanning salon

the belgian crime drama 'Maldoror' about the marc dutroux case.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5730305&forum_id=2)#48969260)



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Date: May 29th, 2025 4:08 AM
Author: ebony resort dog poop

I feel like that’s too well known to even bother discussing

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5730305&forum_id=2)#48969800)



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Date: May 29th, 2025 5:14 AM
Author: Talented crystalline corner

Is The Departed set in the 1990s? Seemed to be based on the tech used

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5730305&forum_id=2)#48969841)



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Date: May 29th, 2025 6:44 AM
Author: Marvelous Kitty

No. They were clearly using early 2000s era phones and using the number pad for texting. Also Alec Baldwins character mentions the Patriot Act

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5730305&forum_id=2)#48969890)



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Date: May 29th, 2025 6:44 AM
Author: Talented crystalline corner

tyvmft

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5730305&forum_id=2)#48969893)



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Date: May 29th, 2025 5:25 AM
Author: Insane ivory rigpig jewess

The Creek, the in-universe remake of Season 1 of Dawson's Creek.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5730305&forum_id=2)#48969850)



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Date: June 3rd, 2025 1:22 AM
Author: Pumonymous

Harry Potter

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5730305&forum_id=2)#48982501)



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Date: June 3rd, 2025 3:07 AM
Author: Todd Driskill

The OJ Simpson miniseries that was on FX a few years ago - the drama with Cuba Gooding Jr. as OJ, not the documentary one.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5730305&forum_id=2)#48982587)



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Date: June 3rd, 2025 10:09 AM
Author: Pierbattista Pizzaballa

Good one

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5730305&forum_id=2)#48983011)



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Date: June 3rd, 2025 11:41 AM
Author: Trump Tariffs Can Do No Wrong (TDNW)



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5730305&forum_id=2)#48983314)



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Date: June 7th, 2025 4:39 AM
Author: Brother Peter Dimond

tv show but derry girls.

wife insisted i watch it. i thought it would suck but it’s 180

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5730305&forum_id=2)#48994100)



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Date: June 8th, 2025 8:34 PM
Author: Pumonymous

It’s criminally underrated

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5730305&forum_id=2)#48997950)