'90s Movies That Became Unwatchable With Age

While many films from the '90s hold up to this day, others are, sadly, so of their time that there's little reason to revisit them, save for a quick dose of nostalgia. From sci-fi to prestige dramas, here are some '90s films that haven't aged well.

Released at the very onset of early internet culture, Iain Softley's Hackers isn't just an ode to the Oregon Trail generation. It's a bright, shiny encapsulation of mid-'90s computer technology, in all its rollerblading glory.

The film centers on a group of teen hackers in New York, led by Dade "Zero Cool-slash-Crash Override" Murphy and Kate "Acid Burn" Libby. Along with their friends "Cereal Killer," "Lord Nikon," and "The Phantom Phreak," Dade and Kate unite a worldwide network of hackers to take down Ellingson Mineral Company computer security officer Eugene "The Plague" Belford and Secret Service Agent Richard Gill.

Hackers worked in 1995, if for no other reason than the fact that the internet was still such a new commodity. Many households had little to no interaction with the world wide web outside of a few AOL emails. And the idea that the internet actually looked like something — in this case, it's a mix of virtual cityscape and those old Magic Eye posters — was totally believable because people had no idea that it didn't actually look like anything. Add to that a group of high schoolers who exemplify the very height of '90s rave fashion, and you've got a film that's pretty impossible to watch outside of nostalgia's sake.

Like Hackers, 1995's The Net was a reflection of a time when it was clear that Hollywood had no idea what the internet was actually like. Unlike Hackers, however, The Net took a far less optimistic approach to computers. In this film, systems analyst Angela Bennett stumbles upon a cyber conspiracy that revolves around the use of a computer security system called Gatekeeper. Once involved, Angela becomes the target of Gregg Microsystems, the software company that owns and operates Gatekeeper. Her identity is erased, replaced with that of a woman wanted by the FBI for, among other things, prostitution. It's a movie that spends two hours trying to make a piece of malware look like it can take down the entire US government. Keep watching the video to see all the '90s movies that became unwatchable with age.

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Hackers (1995) | 0:00
The Net (1995) | 1:30
Mortal Kombat (1995) | 2:33
Chasing Amy (1997) | 3:52
Reality Bites (1994) | 4:55
Johnny Mnemonic (1995) | 6:07
The Lawnmower Man (1992) | 7:19
American Beauty (1999) | 8:31
American Pie (1999) | 9:16

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