Movies of Milennials

[Simple Torture]

When I talk to my students (aged 18-22, so née 1995-1999), it's like they've never seen a movie in their life. It's not that they haven't seen "the classics" or "good" movies; when I ask what the last film they've seen was, they say, "Oh, I don't watch movies."

[lennytheweedwhacker]

When I talk to my students (aged 18-22, so née 1995-1999), it's like they've never seen a movie in their life. It's not that they haven't seen "the classics" or "good" movies; when I ask what the last film they've seen was, they say, "Oh, I don't watch movies."

are they into drugs or something?

[BurtReynolds]

I think movies are going the way of plays and novels. No longer the center of culture.

[Orpheus]

They watch youtubers now mostly.

[BurtReynolds]

and vidya games

[lennytheweedwhacker]

howbow dah

[BurtReynolds]

And sweet, sweet memes.

[96583UP]

the visceral reaction tweet is the new 10-sentence paragraph

[Citizen Dick]

Born 1980. There's probably a ton of movies that were loved as a kid that don't hold up and don't resonate much with kids these days either. Top of my head would be Goonies.

Others that came a bit later...

The Mask (and probably everything by Jim Carrey)
Billy Madison (and everything by Adam Sandler)
Space Jam
Blair Witch Project

[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.

[The Argonaut]

Goonies is probably for older people, yeah. The others are good calls, yeah.

[LoathedVermin72]

Fucking SHREK.

[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.

[Citizen Dick]

Born 1980. There's probably a ton of movies that were loved as a kid that don't hold up and don't resonate much with kids these days either. Top of my head would be Goonies.

Others that came a bit later...

The Mask (and probably everything by Jim Carrey)
Billy Madison (and everything by Adam Sandler)
Space Jam
Blair Witch Project

I think Billy Madison and TBWP are great calls. I was also born in '80, and The Mask and Space Jam struck me as movies for little kids even back then.

Yeah, I included Space Jam and The Mask because I remember kids a few years younger who loved them.

For me The Mask was an intro to Cameron Diaz ... before she became annoying.

[Citizen Dick]

Boondock Saints! I really can't see anyone give a shit about that movie unless they were in college at a very specific time.

And should the Star Wars prequels be included here? I've only ever seen fellow millenials be stupid enough to try to defend them (ducks).

[E.H. Ruddock]

So this is just a list of good movies then? So far a lot of these are looked at as great/influential by Gen Xers as well

[daft twat]

American pie
Austin powers
South Park
Sixth sense

[The Argonaut]

So this is just a list of good movies then? So far a lot of these are looked at as great/influential by Gen Xers as well

Yeah, not all the movies mentioned really work. They should only be movies of special relevance to people only of a certain age. Mean Girls might be the best example.

[Citizen Dick]

So this is just a list of good movies then? So far a lot of these are looked at as great/influential by Gen Xers as well

Haha - We got him guys! Finally a Gen Xer admits that Millenial taste is great.

[The Argonaut]

Thanks for having my wife and me to your dinner party