What film Most Defined Generation X?

[Savonarola]

Choices come from a BBC Article:  The Films that Defined Generation X.

[HVC]

Voted Dazed and confused, because it's the only one I actually like (though I come close to like the breakfast club, but I don't think it aged well)

[Eddie Teach]

Dazed and Confused is a great movie, but it's about Boomers.
Before Sunrise?   

[Eddie Teach]

Trainspotting would be another good choice.

[Savonarola]

Dazed and Confused is a great movie, but it's about Boomers.
Before Sunrise?   

Yeah, the BBC went Linklater wild; I was tempted just to stop at "Slacker."

[Barrister]

Breakfast Club seems too old for this list.  Dazed and Confused is set in the 1970s - not sure how that qualifies either.

I'm going to vote Clerks, but I'm not sure why.

[crazy canuck]

Breakfast Club seems too old for this list. 

The bulk of the gen x cohort were in their late teens when breakfast club came out.  Pretty much the perfect gen x movie.

[Savonarola]

Breakfast Club seems too old for this list.  Dazed and Confused is set in the 1970s - not sure how that qualifies either.

I'm going to vote Clerks, but I'm not sure why.

Breakfast Club was 1985; if you were a teenager then you'd be a Gen-Xer.  (Though, as the article notes, the director, John Hughes, was a Baby Boomer.  Though I think most of the directors of the films listed, except for Kevin Smith, were Baby Boomers.)

[Malthus]

I voted Heathers, based purely on the fact that I enjoyed it back in the day. 

"Eskimo".

[Josephus]

Breakfast Club seems too old for this list. 

The bulk of the gen x cohort were in their late teens when breakfast club came out.  Pretty much the perfect gen x movie.

Yeah Breakfast Club is the classic Gen X movie, so yeah, my vote, if this was a popularity poll.

I might add St. Elmo's Fire, perhaps as a "defining movie." Fairly wealthy middle class kids, graduating school, not entirely sure where they're heading.

[Josephus]

I voted Heathers, based purely on the fact that I enjoyed it back in the day. 

"Eskimo".

But not really "defining" though ... I mean we didn't go around killing ourselves. At least I didn't.

[Malthus]

I voted Heathers, based purely on the fact that I enjoyed it back in the day. 

"Eskimo".

But not really "defining" though ... I mean we didn't go around killing ourselves. At least I didn't.

Nor did anyone in that movie. People just thought they did. 

(I was thinking more about the type of dark humour being typical of the era).

[Josephus]

I voted Heathers, based purely on the fact that I enjoyed it back in the day. 

"Eskimo".

But not really "defining" though ... I mean we didn't go around killing ourselves. At least I didn't.

Nor did anyone in that movie. People just thought they did. 

(I was thinking more about the type of dark humour being typical of the era).

Yeah. I guess I'm getting hung up on the meaning of "defined". 

[Darth Wagtaros]

Grave of the fireflies. 

For we are adrift in a hopeless, cruel, world. Created by our elders then discarded in favor of their frenemies - the millennial.

[Eddie Teach]

Breakfast Club seems too old for this list. 

The bulk of the gen x cohort were in their late teens when breakfast club came out.  Pretty much the perfect gen x movie.

Hardly. That's 5 years out of 15+.