Does the New ‘Y2K’ Comedy/Disaster/Horror Film Give the ’90s the Ending It Deserved? – Slashdot
The new movie Y2K is either a comedy or a disaster/horror film, according to Wikipedia. The film “imagines a turn of the century where the machines don’t just glitch or stop working,” writes the Hollywood Reporter. “They go full homicidal.” With a cast that includes 1990s icons like Alicia Silverstone and the lead singer for the Napster–loving 1990s metal band Limp Bizkit, the movie “gives the ’90s the ending it deserved,” according to the article.
They interviewed the film’s director (and co-writer and co-star) Kyle Mooney, best-known for SNL, starting by complimenting this fidelity to the tech of its day. “The film opens with a high schooler getting home and logging into AOL Instant Messenger, which is not a scene I think I’ve ever seen in another movie.
Mooney: All of my relationships, between 17 and 22 years old, were short-lived and spawned because I was most confident flirting on Instant Messager….
Q: The tech here is such a huge part of the story. Were there any logos or brands you had a tough time getting on camera?
Mooney: Definitely. This isn’t really a spoiler, but Jaeden Martell’s character’s computer — the one that we open up with him logging into AOL — eventually turns into a robot. That was supposed to be an iMac. But I don’t think Apple wanted their machines strangling people or whatever the robot does — so we had to change the look of it by, like, 30 percent. There were a few instances like that, where we couldn’t get the exact thing, but we were allowed to get as close as possible.
Deadline‘s article includes a spoiler about the film, but also this interesting note about two of its young actors, Julian Dennison and Jaeden Martell”
[A]lthough Dennison and Martell were both born after 2000, they enjoyed slipping into the “lack of convenience and the lack of technology” that came with the era.
“I wish I got to experience that. I wish I didn’t live in the age of everything being so accessible,” said Martell.
And apparently the movie also incldues a quick shout-out to Myspace co-founder Tom Anderson.
