Day 9: The Internet

Have you ever seen THE NET? It's a mid-90s "cyberthriller" starring Sandra Bullock about how anybody can use the internet to do anything they want. It's a fucking awesome movie. (Remember, my taste is suspect; I voluntarily watch a FAST AND THE FURIOUS movie every day.)

There are a lot of "oh wow the internet" movies that came out in the 90s, and even flicks that weren't about the internet would inevitably have characters that made references to this new internet shit, just because it was the big new pop culture thing.

Like in all facets of entertainment, trends die hard. And so in the summer of 2001, THE FAST AND THE FURIOUS arrived, and in the film, Vin Diesel proudly proclaims to Paul Walker that he found his criminal record on the internet, because "you can find anything on the internet -- anything about anybody."

He says this in a movie geared toward teenage bros who'd been jacking off to pictures of lesbians on the internet for at least a couple years. In fact, from the perspective of the old motherfuckers running the movie studios, most of the target audience (young people) are the bad guys, or will be the bad guys, because they understand that ridiculous computer mumbo jumbo that the old bros don't.

I have completely forgotten where I was going with this -- because I tried to write this while watching 2 FAST 2 FURIOUS and something in my brain broke -- so I'm just gonna show you folks some pictures of Vin Diesel's face photoshopped onto some women's bodies. I found these on the internet (aha!), and so technically I'm still on topic.