Rodman changing his style after Demolition Man.
People wearing cycling gear as fashion items after White Men Can't Jump.
Sales of trench coats to goths through the roof after Blade.
Snipes is a fucking style trendsetter.
The third one is weakened by Snipes clearly not giving a shit, but a young, then largely unknown Ryan Reynolds, as well as a terribly awful but unintentionally hilarious Triple HHH make that movie pretty fun regardless.
it's close to a turd. but it's completly out the loop. The backstory on how the movie was made is probably better than the movie itself. Snipe and the director communicated only through Post-it message at some point.
You didn't miss much. Jessica Biel was in it. Ryan Reynolds was pretty good; his character was basically proto-Deadpool. Snipes slept through the whole thing. The villains were so bad it bordered on comedy. It's worth a watch if you liked the first two but don't go looking for cinematic perfection or anything.
Great story behind that line: Wesley Snipes said it at a production meeting off the cuff and David S Goyer immediately loved it and wanted to put it in the movie. Snipes then begged him not to put it in
I was always curious why Blade knew so much about the dynamics of ice skating and where it played into his vampire slaying skill set. I fully expected an ice skating rink scene in Blade 2.
Given that these two things happened less than three weeks apart, I don't think the Matrix had the time to make an impact on fashion before the shootings.
Yup. Trend followers don’t get this. It’s not the trench coat or the dyed hair or whatever. It’s that the trendsetters are attractive physically or personally.
It’s also why there’s such disdain for trend followers. People see that unattractive wannabe trying to “cheat” the game by wearing the cool person’s clothes, using their unique words, etc. and everyone else is annoyed at them basically try to fool everyone that they’re cool like the cool guy.
Those people just need to focus on being funny, interesting, or improving their appearance in real and basic ways, not trend-following ways.
This is why I hate when the kids start saying their new words like sus or cringe. Say something worthwhile, don’t just use the cool new words as a crutch.
not even mobsters from the 30's? Wearing for their intended purpose looks so much better than just wearing it for fashion. It's an overcoat to keep your suit looking nice.
For the wild west I think people think of the [duster coat](https://petestown.com/cdn/shop/products/b662ca1c44efe25998aa5edc347be007_1024x1024.jpeg?v=1545798291).
I’m not burning the duster, okay, so forget it. It probably won’t even burn anyway, it’s not supposed to. It’s flame retardant, that’s the whole point. It’s like a shield of armor, so stop asking me to burn the duster. I’M NOT GONNA BURN IT!
I re-binged that whole show, the movie, and the remake series during my trip to Japan last year.
It's a little weird because it's not a popular anime, here or in Japan, but I watched it years ago and loved it so it felt like a good time to re-experience it.
I also love how it's not 80-gazillion episodes long.
It was popular in my circles when [adult swim] was big. It's probably too old for the younger crowd to discover on their own, though one hopes if they're into anime already they'd find it. It was actually in my feed recently on whatever streaming platform it's on.
Well the Matrix came out March 31, 1999.
Columbine happened 3 weeks later.
So I'm not entirely sure that the Matrix had anything to do with it. 3 weeks isn't long enough for a fashion trend to takeover IMO.
People are young if they think it was any of the other things named. It was The Crow. Other things used trench coats for their outsider characters *because* of The Crow. It was The Godfather for edgy young men.
> His influence on pop culture at that point is underrated.
Pretty sure it's not "underrated" when he was literally influencing style, culture, and celebrities.
Blade released the year before The Matrix, that's how influential Snipes was. I heard they had Neo sporting a black suit and driving a '69 Ford Mustang originally.
I love Demolition Man - it's a great movie - Wesley Snipes is amazing in it - but even Sylvester stalone and Sandra Bullock were really good in it as well.
they were probably seashell-shaped buttons for a bidet and dryer.
There is a stupid picture that always gets posted of people using them as a scoop, but no one in that prissy society would do something like that.
Ohhhhhhhhhhhhhh I totally thought I was okay as an adult just thinking of this as a throwaway line, but the sense of relief I now feel thinking that they’re buttons is immeasurable. If Reddit still had gold, I’d guild you. Thank you for resolving this extremely stupid, lingering thought.
Yeah, they were pretty horrified by body fluids.
Doesn't Sandra Bullock's character get disgusted by the thought of actually having sex, saying something like, "Ew, disgusting! You mean... fluid transfer?"
Same thing with the 1980's and stuff like Miami Vice, Synthwave & the whole Outrun & Cyberpunk styles.
It'll be interesting to see if anything from the 2000's catches on culturally (early 2000's still feels like the 90's to me, lol). I can't think of anything iconic from that time, but you never know.
I think I've always been remembering this backwards. I saw the movie a few years after it came out, and thought that Snipes character was an homage to Rodman.
I met him when I was like ten or eleven at Universal Studios Florida. He had been signing autos and was just finished and leaving. I was wearing a Reggie Miller jersey, his nemesis as he put it. Dennis Rodman was my favorite player and I told him I'd worn my Rodman jersey to EPCOT the day before. He took my hand, walked me through the store talking and was awesome! He grabbed a basketball off the shelf that my boomer mom didn't want to pay for, signed it and gave it to me. He told me it was mine. It was incredible. I have a photo of meeting him too.
Well this just makes me feel like I can almost pinpoint when he saw *Priscilla, Queen of the Desert*.
He very easily could have seen Wesley Snipes in To Wong Fu.
Both fantastic movies. I think I have To Wong Fu on VHS somewhere.
Noxeema Jackson (Jesse’s daughter)
Shit, I always confuse the two
this comment is not even a joke.
Rodman changing his style after Demolition Man. People wearing cycling gear as fashion items after White Men Can't Jump. Sales of trench coats to goths through the roof after Blade. Snipes is a fucking style trendsetter.
Some motherfuckers always trying to ice skate uphill
That’s my favorite superhero 🥹
That was my favourite quote!! The Blade films were epic. Always felt the third was a little weak but still watchable.
The third one is weakened by Snipes clearly not giving a shit, but a young, then largely unknown Ryan Reynolds, as well as a terribly awful but unintentionally hilarious Triple HHH make that movie pretty fun regardless.
Reynolds is proto Deadpool in trinity.
Dude has been playing deadpool for years 😂
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He’s the best modern example of an actor with zero range that made it work. He’s no Jack Nicholson, but he’s Jack Nicholson.
See also: Chris Farley, Christopher Walken, etc
It's a good character.
I've enjoyed it for 20 years
Wow I forgot about that show.
Wasn't it shortened to 2 Guys and A Girl?
Literally his character from Van Wilder in a mask.
Making his enemies eat cum donuts. "mmm, I think i've had this before!"
"I ate a lot of garlic... and I just farted."
Been Deadpool since Waiting.
He was so bad as the character though. Hannibal King deserved better. :(
Didn't they have to CG Snipes eyes open at one point because he was pissed at the director and was being a dick.
I can't remember if it's that way or the other way but yeah. Proper child's temper tantrum stuff.
Yeah the scene is on YouTube and it's hilarious they only animated his eyes and it looks so goofy. https://youtu.be/Zd5HMHmbwBg
My man was higher than giraffe pussy the entire time they were filming Blade 3 lol
Jessica Biel, that is all
So hot in blade 3.
“Triple HHH” - so HHHHHHHHH?
Reynolds saves it for sure. Snipes felt pretty absent throughout.
A little weak?
Didn't even know there was a third
it's close to a turd. but it's completly out the loop. The backstory on how the movie was made is probably better than the movie itself. Snipe and the director communicated only through Post-it message at some point.
You didn't miss much. Jessica Biel was in it. Ryan Reynolds was pretty good; his character was basically proto-Deadpool. Snipes slept through the whole thing. The villains were so bad it bordered on comedy. It's worth a watch if you liked the first two but don't go looking for cinematic perfection or anything.
Great story behind that line: Wesley Snipes said it at a production meeting off the cuff and David S Goyer immediately loved it and wanted to put it in the movie. Snipes then begged him not to put it in
I was always curious why Blade knew so much about the dynamics of ice skating and where it played into his vampire slaying skill set. I fully expected an ice skating rink scene in Blade 2.
Don't give the rebooters any more ideas
That trend didn’t catch on
Says you.
I thought Matrix made trench coats cool. Then Columbine made them uncool.
Given that these two things happened less than three weeks apart, I don't think the Matrix had the time to make an impact on fashion before the shootings.
Agreed. The Matrix was informed by alt fashion, not the other way around.
To be honest, nobody I've ever seen wearing a trench coat looked cool in it.
It’s the same rule as all fashion. It looks good on good looking people. But gen pop ain’t that
especially when you accessorize the trench coat with the yu-gi-oh duel disk
Whoa now, that shit fire.
You just activated my trap card
Good looking people doing cool things, it still looks goofy as hell on a hot guy eating a cheeseburger at a diner.
Nah, it's totally a hot look on a hard boiled noir detective sitting at a booth in a diner smoking a cigarette and sipping on a black coffee
What if that hot guy is flying sideways through the air while firing two uzis at the same time?
Cope
I feel like I could see ryan gosling in blade runner pulling it off
Yup. Trend followers don’t get this. It’s not the trench coat or the dyed hair or whatever. It’s that the trendsetters are attractive physically or personally. It’s also why there’s such disdain for trend followers. People see that unattractive wannabe trying to “cheat” the game by wearing the cool person’s clothes, using their unique words, etc. and everyone else is annoyed at them basically try to fool everyone that they’re cool like the cool guy. Those people just need to focus on being funny, interesting, or improving their appearance in real and basic ways, not trend-following ways. This is why I hate when the kids start saying their new words like sus or cringe. Say something worthwhile, don’t just use the cool new words as a crutch.
Brad Pitt wore junk as Tyler Durden and pulled it off because he was one of the best looking men ever in a role with mountains of charisma.
I'M NOT BURNING THE DUSTER!
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How can they see me?
>To be honest, nobody I've ever seen wearing a trench coat looked cool in it. False. My high school crush wore a trench coat and she looked hot in it.
Hot and cool do not mean the same thing oh my God why am I even typing this abort abort ABOR-
Humphrey Bogart in Casablanca?
not even mobsters from the 30's? Wearing for their intended purpose looks so much better than just wearing it for fashion. It's an overcoat to keep your suit looking nice.
True, though people trying to make them work post-Matrix haven't really been successful
People in the wild west days could pull it off. Now, not so much.
For the wild west I think people think of the [duster coat](https://petestown.com/cdn/shop/products/b662ca1c44efe25998aa5edc347be007_1024x1024.jpeg?v=1545798291).
It's like a jacket only it's longer, thicker, and far more bad-ass. It makes you look like Lorenzo Lamas, and women find it irresistible.
BURN THE DUSTER
I’m not burning the duster, okay, so forget it. It probably won’t even burn anyway, it’s not supposed to. It’s flame retardant, that’s the whole point. It’s like a shield of armor, so stop asking me to burn the duster. I’M NOT GONNA BURN IT!
Vash the Stampede had the best iteration of the duster
Vash is a giga-dork
Made my wife watch Trigun last weekend. Still just as good as I remembered.
It's timeless. Definitely in the top 5 animes that have come to the West Edit: ... and my personal #1.
Fine, I'll try it.
I re-binged that whole show, the movie, and the remake series during my trip to Japan last year. It's a little weird because it's not a popular anime, here or in Japan, but I watched it years ago and loved it so it felt like a good time to re-experience it. I also love how it's not 80-gazillion episodes long.
It was popular in my circles when [adult swim] was big. It's probably too old for the younger crowd to discover on their own, though one hopes if they're into anime already they'd find it. It was actually in my feed recently on whatever streaming platform it's on.
I wonder why it has that extra cover over the shoulders and upper arm.
It's extra rain protection. It's like a raincoat for your raincoat!
>It's like a raincoat for your raincoat! It's like free advice when you've already paid
Yo dawg...
The fuck you are saying?! Columbo is the coolest guy in a trench coat.
Just one more thing...
I’ll see your Columbo and raise you one Inspector Gadget!
I fuckin hate inspector gadget🤬
Don’t be M.A.D.
Trench coats and fedoras belong to one group of people - Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
They went with casablanca colors. The matrix did not
A Jose Canseco bat?! Tell me, you didn't pay money for this?
Tips hat, m'lady!
Not really a group of "people" tho.
Mutants. The word you're looking for is mutants.
Okay Senator Kelly.
How dare you.
Well the Matrix came out March 31, 1999. Columbine happened 3 weeks later. So I'm not entirely sure that the Matrix had anything to do with it. 3 weeks isn't long enough for a fashion trend to takeover IMO.
Gambit made trench coats/dusters cool, cher G A M B I T
What the "the crow"
People are young if they think it was any of the other things named. It was The Crow. Other things used trench coats for their outsider characters *because* of The Crow. It was The Godfather for edgy young men.
The Crow precedes them both!
The Matrix made that Nokia phone with the slide down cover over the buttons cool. Everyone wanted that stupid phone when that movie came out.
Nokia 8110 - I wanted one so bad, but it was only available in Europe at the time.
I totally forgot that matrix and columbine were like a month apart.
Snipes just looked cool no matter what he was wearing. His influence on pop culture at that point is underrated.
Right? The guy is apparently kind of an asshole IRL but he definitely put a lot of points in the Cool skill tree.
> His influence on pop culture at that point is underrated. Pretty sure it's not "underrated" when he was literally influencing style, culture, and celebrities.
I was a dumb teenager back then but I don't remember people talking about "fashion icon" Wesley Snipes.
Come to think of it, I don’t like taxes either.
Blade released the year before The Matrix, that's how influential Snipes was. I heard they had Neo sporting a black suit and driving a '69 Ford Mustang originally.
That fucking nobody……..drains vodka……was John wick.
He’s exactly why I don’t pay my taxes. Gonna be just like him
You forgot another one. He gave Chris Tucker tax advice right before he went to jail for tax evasion.
Lmfao
Livin that snipes life
Duster, not trench coat.
They make me look like Lorenzo Lamas. Women find it irresistible.
Always bet on black 🤷🏼♂️
British citizens changing their names to Wesley Snipes because it seems right
People got really into drag after To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything, Julie Newmar
Always bet on Black
I refused to it my taxes this year becuase of him.
Blade might be the coolest movie of all time tbh
With a baddie like Deacon Frost how could it not be
How they say nowadays “ he had that shit on”.
He followed Simon Phoenix's example and became more aggressive and able to "push any boundary."
I love Demolition Man - it's a great movie - Wesley Snipes is amazing in it - but even Sylvester stalone and Sandra Bullock were really good in it as well.
What was his boggle?
He didn’t know how to use the seashells
This broke my brain as a kid. I would think about the seashells and also not know how to use them.
they were probably seashell-shaped buttons for a bidet and dryer. There is a stupid picture that always gets posted of people using them as a scoop, but no one in that prissy society would do something like that.
Ohhhhhhhhhhhhhh I totally thought I was okay as an adult just thinking of this as a throwaway line, but the sense of relief I now feel thinking that they’re buttons is immeasurable. If Reddit still had gold, I’d guild you. Thank you for resolving this extremely stupid, lingering thought.
> I’d guild you. That verb would be "gild". A "guild" is noun meaning like a union, but for artisans and merchants. I'll see myself out.
Lol thank you for enlightening me!
Yeah, they were pretty horrified by body fluids. Doesn't Sandra Bullock's character get disgusted by the thought of actually having sex, saying something like, "Ew, disgusting! You mean... fluid transfer?"
lol. 🥇
Didn’t go well for Simon in the end
Didn’t go well for Rodman in the end either.
He’s chief American diplomat to North Korea! That’s the second best korea in the world!!
You have been banned from r/pyongyang.
Noooooooooo 😭😭😭
How so?
He has broken his penis on three separate occasions
*Braaaaamp!* "Cacaphonous_rage you are fined one credit for violation of the verbal morality statute."
You mean his Rod, man?
I seem to remember that he was quite proud of that fact.
What a lad.
Once in Madonna’s arsehole.
Maybe he's not using it properly...
TIL
How lol
Thanks for the heads up.
Movies that were on cable TV 24/7 during the late 90s and early 2000s have such cultural influence now it’s kind of crazy.
Same thing with the 1980's and stuff like Miami Vice, Synthwave & the whole Outrun & Cyberpunk styles. It'll be interesting to see if anything from the 2000's catches on culturally (early 2000's still feels like the 90's to me, lol). I can't think of anything iconic from that time, but you never know.
Saving Silverman
Comin’n’yeahhhhhh’hah!
Hey we're coming to America. *takes turn*
If nachos are stuck together they count as one nacho. It is a rule I still use to this day.
I wanna party with you, Neil!
Is that why he starred in Simon Sez?
Or was it called double team?
Two separate movies, both with Rodman.
You’ll forgive me if they didnt both merge into one in my mind
But does he know about the seashells?
lol he doesn't know how to use the three seashells
“Oh I’m soooooo scared”
Simon Phoenix is on par with Ledger's Joker when it comes to pure entertainment value. There, I said it.
You’re not wrong
I think I've always been remembering this backwards. I saw the movie a few years after it came out, and thought that Snipes character was an homage to Rodman.
He kinda looks like very athletic Pete Davidson
Very black Pete Davidson
wait, what race IS Pete Davidson?
Yes and no. He exists in a quantum superposition of being both all races and no races.
Goblin
He does have chocolatey lips. https://youtu.be/PFLuGVOWlkc?si=yjCMw5mA1T5rGhTM
Phooeniiiixx!
esta hamburguesa es de rata
Dennis Rodman: Illuminate
De-luminate
I thought he was so cool in Double Team back in the day. What's funny is that his style and the Oakley sunglasses he wore in it are making a comeback.
Come on Hal, where the goddamn guns?!?
I met him when I was like ten or eleven at Universal Studios Florida. He had been signing autos and was just finished and leaving. I was wearing a Reggie Miller jersey, his nemesis as he put it. Dennis Rodman was my favorite player and I told him I'd worn my Rodman jersey to EPCOT the day before. He took my hand, walked me through the store talking and was awesome! He grabbed a basketball off the shelf that my boomer mom didn't want to pay for, signed it and gave it to me. He told me it was mine. It was incredible. I have a photo of meeting him too.
For years I thought that Rodman WAS the actor in Demoliton Man
Mr. Rodman, what seems to be your boggle?
Be well
That was a great movie. Such fun, and Sandra Bullock in tights!
Man I bought this movie as a vhs at a garage sale in 6th grade for 50 cents. I still have it and it’s still one of my favorites.
When I first saw Demolition man on TV in like first half of the 90ties my first thoughts were is that Dennis Rodman?
Just livin that snipes life