Cultural Landmarks

[zombie]

which movies do you feel like defined a certain period of time, or were very significant culturally to that time?

like clerks, scarface (pacino/depalma), star wars, breakfast at tiffany's.

[Headhunter]

Some good 70s ones: Serpico, Three Days of the Condor

[Headhunter]

Also, must be made in the era it captures. So no Dazed and Confused.

[Headhunter]

American Pie
Superbad
Saturday Night Fever
The Big Chill
The Graduate

[DancesWithWerewolves]

Fight Club

[Headhunter]

Quentin Tarantino and Kevin Smith made pop cultural references a fixture. Film's become so self-aware in the last 25 years.

[Headhunter]

Fight Club

Interestingly, you could also say American Beauty for mostly the same reasons. The Matrix in the early internet and Y2K era too. 1999 was crazy.

[DancesWithWerewolves]

Fight Club

Interestingly, you could also say American Beauty for mostly the same reasons. The Matrix in the early internet and Y2K era too. 1999 was crazy.

Yeah, I tempted to list the fantastic four of the stuck-in-a-cubicle-awareness-y2k-era movies, might as well list that last one: Office Space :p

[Headhunter]

I'm struck by how few 2000s movies I can make a case for. We consume so many "true story" War on Terror movies, but that doesn't fit the spirit of the question. For all the social commentary that's written about Milennials, I don't see those ideas depicted noticeably in movies.

[DancesWithWerewolves]

I'm struck by how few 2000s movies I can make a case for. We consume so many "true story" War on Terror movies, but that doesn't fit the spirit of the question. For all the social commentary that's written about Milennials, I don't see those ideas depicted noticeably in movies.

Plus I think an potential ones need the time to simmer to see if the impact took hold.

[Monster]

I Was a Teenage Werewolf

Teenage angst is hardly unique to the 50's, but this movie was the Clockwork Orange of it's time in a way.

[Headhunter]

Ghostbusters. Academic baby boomers go out and start a successful unregulated business in New York and the EPA comes to shut them down.

Also Rocky IV.

[zombie]

I'm struck by how few 2000s movies I can make a case for. We consume so many "true story" War on Terror movies, but that doesn't fit the spirit of the question. For all the social commentary that's written about Milennials, I don't see those ideas depicted noticeably in movies.

the best i can come up with are more social. interpersonal type stuff, like 500 days of summer, her, or eternal sunshine. that kind of thing. maybe.

[Jason]

Superbad became ice cold for me over the years. Probably because a hundred comedy movies came out with similar humor.

There's only so much Seth Rogen or Jonah Hill I can handle.

[Jason]

The Girl Next Door captured high school nicely for that time period (2004).

[Tiggnutz]

Clerks and The Breakfast Club

[Headhunter]

Singles for the early 90s.

[Foo]

Swingers,Saturday Night Fever, Easy Rider, Do the Right thing, Cooley High, Bully, Boyz in the Hood, Midnight cowboy

[Jmac Attack]

Fast Times At Ridgemont High!

[Foo]

Clueless