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Movies of Milennials
Posted: Wed January 25, 2017 1:51 am
by 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
Re: Movies of Milennials
Posted: Wed January 25, 2017 1:56 am
by lennytheweedwhacker
the dark knight
Re: Movies of Milennials
Posted: Wed January 25, 2017 1:58 am
by E.H. Ruddock
Project X
Re: Movies of Milennials
Posted: Wed January 25, 2017 1:58 am
by doone
All the Harry Potters.
Re: Movies of Milennials
Posted: Wed January 25, 2017 1:58 am
by E.H. Ruddock
We are your Friends. Lol holy shit you lose
Re: Movies of Milennials
Posted: Wed January 25, 2017 1:59 am
by tragabigzanda
Steve Albini wrote: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.
Re: Movies of Milennials
Posted: Wed January 25, 2017 2:00 am
by lennytheweedwhacker
pulp fiction is eternal
Re: Movies of Milennials
Posted: Wed January 25, 2017 2:01 am
by tragabigzanda
Steve Albini wrote: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.
Re: Movies of Milennials
Posted: Wed January 25, 2017 2:02 am
by LoathedVermin72
Holy shit what a godawful group
Re: Movies of Milennials
Posted: Wed January 25, 2017 2:02 am
by tragabigzanda
Steve Albini wrote: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.
Re: Movies of Milennials
Posted: Wed January 25, 2017 2:03 am
by tragabigzanda
Steve Albini wrote: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.
Re: Movies of Milennials
Posted: Wed January 25, 2017 2:03 am
by tragabigzanda
Steve Albini wrote: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.
Re: Movies of Milennials
Posted: Wed January 25, 2017 2:04 am
by tragabigzanda
Steve Albini wrote: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.
Re: Movies of Milennials
Posted: Wed January 25, 2017 2:05 am
by tragabigzanda
Steve Albini wrote: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.
Re: Movies of Milennials
Posted: Wed January 25, 2017 2:10 am
by LoathedVermin72
tragabigzanda wrote: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.
Re: Movies of Milennials
Posted: Wed January 25, 2017 2:11 am
by The Argonaut
E.H. Ruddock wrote: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.
Re: Movies of Milennials
Posted: Wed January 25, 2017 2:12 am
by E.H. Ruddock
LoathedVermin72 wrote:tragabigzanda wrote: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
Re: Movies of Milennials
Posted: Wed January 25, 2017 2:13 am
by 96583UP
tragabigzanda wrote: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'
Re: Movies of Milennials
Posted: Wed January 25, 2017 2:15 am
by The Argonaut
I love how people pretend that millennials aren't the best generation, yet.
Re: Movies of Milennials
Posted: Wed January 25, 2017 2:16 am
by 96583UP
clearly those born in the years 1850-1870 are the greatest generation