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Y2K
2024 · Film · 91 min
Directed by Kyle Mooney
Two high school nobodies make the decision to crash the last major celebration before the new millennium on New Year's Eve 1999. The night becomes even crazier than they could have ever dreamed when the clock strikes midnight.
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I was paid to do code analysis on medical systems coming up to Y2K. Yes, there were Y2K related bugs which would have munged patient data, including exam data and results. Yes, we analyzed every point in the code having anything to do with dates and fixed the issue. Yes, this needed to be done to avoid injury to people. It was a months long effort due to the size of the code base.
I went to see the film tonight. I went into the theater not knowing what to expect, but keeping an open mind since this was a "Kyle" film. Meh. It's goofy, mildly entertaining, and well, just like a film from before Y2K. But I somehow managed to enjoy it.
> Y2K is a 2024 American disaster comedy film. The film depicts an imaginative version of the Year 2000 problem. While two loser friends crash a high school party on New Year's Eve 1999, the bug causes all technology to come to life and turn against humanity.
Mate, I'm probably older than you. It was 90 % overblown nonsense. Countries like Russia spent pretty much zero 'fixing' it and had no issues. Meanwhile the US had 'Y2K consultants', shysters selling $20 'patches' to fix your windows install, breathless documentaries about how your toaster and VCR would explode, planes would drop from the sky, the financial system would collapse...