Movies of Milennials

[The Argonaut]

I was thinking about a few posts I made denigrating Gen-X movies like Caddyshack and Indiana Jones, and it got me wondering about what the movies of my generation are. What are the essential movies of the Milennial Generation (b.~1980-1999)?
I'm talking about movies that especially resonated with that age group, perhaps even to the exclusion of older generations. Movies that are unlikely to live forever, and are unlikely to have as much of an effect on any younger generations. Movies that just about everyone saw, could quote from, and had a passionate opinion about (love it or hate it).
Obviously, older people will have seen and perhaps enjoyed these movies, but not to the wide extent that I mean. Movies that are and will remain more or less unique to milennials. Movies that we may still look back on fondly, despite the flaws that everyone else so easily sees.
Quintessential movies of the milennial generation. (I'm sorry rudd and others who are immediately incensed when they hear the word milennial, but you need to chill out.)

I think these definitely qualify:

The Matrix
Mean Girls
The Notebook
Napoleon Dynamite
Superbad

[lennytheweedwhacker]

the dark knight

[E.H. Ruddock]

Project X

[doone]

All the Harry Potters.

[E.H. Ruddock]

We are your Friends. Lol holy shit you lose

[tragabigzanda]

Whenever there's active promotion on the part of somebody else, whenever I see somebody all dolled up for a fancy photograph and someone's handing out flyers or whenever there's active promotion for something like that, as an imposition on my day, I hate all those people and I want them to fail. I have a visceral reaction to advertising and promotion. There's just something about salesmanship that grates on me on a very base level and I react very negatively towards it. I want those people to suffer and I want their enterprises to fail.

[lennytheweedwhacker]

pulp fiction is eternal

[tragabigzanda]

Whenever there's active promotion on the part of somebody else, whenever I see somebody all dolled up for a fancy photograph and someone's handing out flyers or whenever there's active promotion for something like that, as an imposition on my day, I hate all those people and I want them to fail. I have a visceral reaction to advertising and promotion. There's just something about salesmanship that grates on me on a very base level and I react very negatively towards it. I want those people to suffer and I want their enterprises to fail.

[LoathedVermin72]

Holy shit what a godawful group

[tragabigzanda]

Whenever there's active promotion on the part of somebody else, whenever I see somebody all dolled up for a fancy photograph and someone's handing out flyers or whenever there's active promotion for something like that, as an imposition on my day, I hate all those people and I want them to fail. I have a visceral reaction to advertising and promotion. There's just something about salesmanship that grates on me on a very base level and I react very negatively towards it. I want those people to suffer and I want their enterprises to fail.

[tragabigzanda]

Whenever there's active promotion on the part of somebody else, whenever I see somebody all dolled up for a fancy photograph and someone's handing out flyers or whenever there's active promotion for something like that, as an imposition on my day, I hate all those people and I want them to fail. I have a visceral reaction to advertising and promotion. There's just something about salesmanship that grates on me on a very base level and I react very negatively towards it. I want those people to suffer and I want their enterprises to fail.

[tragabigzanda]

Whenever there's active promotion on the part of somebody else, whenever I see somebody all dolled up for a fancy photograph and someone's handing out flyers or whenever there's active promotion for something like that, as an imposition on my day, I hate all those people and I want them to fail. I have a visceral reaction to advertising and promotion. There's just something about salesmanship that grates on me on a very base level and I react very negatively towards it. I want those people to suffer and I want their enterprises to fail.

[tragabigzanda]

Whenever there's active promotion on the part of somebody else, whenever I see somebody all dolled up for a fancy photograph and someone's handing out flyers or whenever there's active promotion for something like that, as an imposition on my day, I hate all those people and I want them to fail. I have a visceral reaction to advertising and promotion. There's just something about salesmanship that grates on me on a very base level and I react very negatively towards it. I want those people to suffer and I want their enterprises to fail.

[tragabigzanda]

Whenever there's active promotion on the part of somebody else, whenever I see somebody all dolled up for a fancy photograph and someone's handing out flyers or whenever there's active promotion for something like that, as an imposition on my day, I hate all those people and I want them to fail. I have a visceral reaction to advertising and promotion. There's just something about salesmanship that grates on me on a very base level and I react very negatively towards it. I want those people to suffer and I want their enterprises to fail.

[LoathedVermin72]

LV, what do you think of Napolean Dynamite?

I think it's great. Totally weird and idiosyncratic and hilarious and original and wonderful. Jared Hess is an interesting filmmaker. But Nacho Libre is his masterpiece.

[The Argonaut]

We are your Friends. Lol holy shit you lose

This doesn't even come close to qualifying. No one has seen this movie, and it's certainly not important to anyone.

[E.H. Ruddock]

LV, what do you think of Napolean Dynamite?

I think it's great. Totally weird and idiosyncratic and hilarious and original and wonderful. Jared Hess is an interesting filmmaker. But Nacho Libre is his masterpiece.

God I love Nacho Libre

[96583UP]

I should clarify that I was born in 1980, and all of these movies are a part of the film zeitgeist of my age group. But 1980 kids are right on the cusp of Gen X and Millenial, and so anyone born just several years later may not have had the same experience.

yes the grouping of the early 1980 people in with the MiIllenials isn't really appropriate, IMO

if you went to college when cars were still being made with cassette decks in them (or a combo CD / tape player) then you should be spared being grouped in with 'those people'

[The Argonaut]

I love how people pretend that millennials aren't the best generation, yet.

[96583UP]

clearly those born in the years 1850-1870 are the greatest generation