What was the most 90s movie in the 90s?

[Savonarola]

Nirvana is on the radio, coffee houses are popping up everywhere, you're wearing flannel and everyone is making an Indie film.  What movie most exemplifies this decade to you? 

[garbon]

I'd have to say Reality Bites or Clueless. For the toss, I'll give it to Clueless.

[Admiral Yi]

Voted Clerks.

I think it's telling that none of these movies has a memorable sound track.

[crazy canuck]

Voted Pulp Fiction. 

[Eddie Teach]

Sticking with Reality Bites. The 90s was about finding reasons to be unhappy in a world where everything seemed to be improving.

[Savonarola]

Voted Clerks.

I think it's telling that none of these movies has a memorable sound track.

Pulp Fiction did:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y4cLmXml8O0

[Ideologue]

Almost voted Fight Club, but the lazy bitching and endless tedium inherent to the lives of the characters in Clerks won out. Fight Club is the better document of Gen X insecurities, but Clerks is the truer reflection of them as they are, and the world they inherited and signally failed to improve.

Bearing in mind that I found Reality Bites so grating I turned it off 30 minutes in.

I also considered arguing for Speed. It's no generational document, but it does capture the "Die Hard on a blank" filmmaking that absolutely dominated action cinema for much of the decade.

[Ideologue]

(For the same reason, one could reasonably vote for Howard's End. UGH.)

[Admiral Yi]

Pulp Fiction did:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y4cLmXml8O0

Meh.  It's a purposefully retro soundtrack.  That doesn't count for generation defining purposes.

[frunk]

I think it's telling that none of these movies has a memorable sound track.

I'd say Clerks, Pulp Fiction, Fight Club and The Matrix do.  Of those only Clerks has what I would call a "90s" soundtrack.

[Admiral Yi]

I'd say Clerks, Pulp Fiction, Fight Club and The Matrix do.  Of those only Clerks has what I would call a "90s" soundtrack.

I guess now it would be appropriate to admit I've never seen any of these movies. 

Seriously, I can't remember a single tune from any of those except Pulp Fiction.  I though Clerks was music-free.

[crazy canuck]

Pulp Fiction did:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y4cLmXml8O0

Meh.  It's a purposefully retro soundtrack.  That doesn't count for generation defining purposes.

The question isn't what movie defined generation in the 90s.  You would first have to figure out what generation you were talking about.  90s music was largely derivative of past decades.  That is, in part, what makes Pulp Fiction the perfect choice.

[Savonarola]

Meh.  It's a purposefully retro soundtrack.  That doesn't count for generation defining purposes.

Ah, then "Reality Bites," a spectacularly mediocre soundtrack for a spectacularly mediocre generation.   

[Eddie Teach]

Crazy Canuck is clearly too old to be voting on this.

[garbon]

Meh.  It's a purposefully retro soundtrack.  That doesn't count for generation defining purposes.

Ah, then "Reality Bites," a spectacularly mediocre soundtrack for a spectacularly mediocre generation.   

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