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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.

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

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

American Pie
Superbad
Saturday Night Fever
The Big Chill
The Graduate

Fight Club

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

DancesWithWerewolves wrote: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.

Headhunter wrote:

DancesWithWerewolves wrote: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

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.

Headhunter wrote: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.

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.

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.

Headhunter wrote: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.

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.

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

Clerks and The Breakfast Club

Singles for the early 90s.

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

Fast Times At Ridgemont High!

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