deff pre 9/11
the plane crash scene in the beginning made me instantly imdb the date the movie came out and i wasn't surprised by april 2001.
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Funny thing is, I remember moments after watching this movie, finding out that Aaliyah had been killed in a plane crash, on the news. It was kind of ironic...maybe she too, discovered the subliminal messages behind her music.
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Yep, cause there were absolutely no plane crashes after 9/11. Good call.
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I thought the OP was going to make reference to the Working Girl poster instead which prominently features the Twin Towers. Obviously Working Girl was an old movie, but I don't think a post 9/11 film would show that same poster, much like how the Twin Towers disappeared from the Sex in the City opening credits.
shareI don’t know why, but I’ve always thought of JATP as the last pre-9/11 movie. There were bigger movies released later that summer, but JATP seemed to capture that weird late-Clinton/very-early-Bush era feeling of being at the end of history and pop culture being serious-but-not-serious. We had won, the Internet was this hot new thing, and other than maybe some minor speed bumps everything was going to be onward and upward. Oops.share
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Has any early 2000s film simultaneously captured the zeitgeist and remained so radically ahead of its time as "Josie and the Pussycats"? Would it have slipped through the studio cracks in a post-9/11 America with its timely skewering of the rise of brand capitalism and TRL-approved tastemakers? Is it possible to pick a single MVP in a movie so stacked with great performances and faux-pop songs that you'd actually listen to in real life?share