What film Most Defined Generation X?

[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.

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.

St. Elmo's fire would be a very good choice.

[Iormlund]

Trainspotting would be another good choice.

That would be my choice as well. In Spain heroin was way down from the 80s epidemic, but as a devoted fan of electronic music I spent quite a few years around drugs.

I was way too young for Breakfast Club, and the American high school experience doesn't really translate that well anyway. Clerks was great, but I saw it in my 20s.

[Josephus]

Not sure I see Trainspotting as a Gen X movie myself.

More of an "idiots in Glasgow" movie.

[Tonitrus]

Conan the Barbarian

[Malthus]

Not sure I see Trainspotting as a Gen X movie myself.

More of an "idiots in Glasgow" movie.

Colonized by wankers!

[The Brain]

Scotland seems pretty fucked up. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T8wIgQB9GIA

[Liep]

I feel very much like a millennial now, I haven't watch any of those.

[Tonitrus]

I feel very much like a millennial now, I haven't watch any of those.

To be fair, as a Gen-Xer myself, I've only really sat through one of those films (The Breakfast Club).  They all mostly rather insist upon themselves.   

[dps]

Voted Heathers, but I think a good case, based on what I've heard about it, could be made for Reality Bites.  I haven't seen that one, though, so I couldn't vote for it.

[celedhring]

Oddly enough Reality Bites was a smash at my high school (Larchie maybe can confirm if that was a Spain-wide thing). Like everybody saw it, the girls tried to look like Wynona Rider, people asked to learn the song's lyrics during English class... That's the film I think of when I think of Gen X, but it's probably just for biographical reasons.

I personally for a while had a massive crush on Janeane Garofalo 

Breakfast Club and pretty much all John Hugues films mean nothing to me, I was too young when they came out.

[Valmy]

I went with the Breakfast Club. Those movies tended to resonate a lot with Xers and have since aged rather poorly. Definitely things of their time.

[saskganesh]

Repo Man was better than all those flicks, starting with the soundtrack.

[jimmy olsen]

Definitely the Breakfast Club

[Iormlund]

Oddly enough Reality Bites was a smash at my high school (Larchie maybe can confirm if that was a Spain-wide thing). Like everybody saw it, the girls tried to look like Wynona Rider, people asked to learn the song's lyrics during English class... That's the film I think of when I think of Gen X, but it's probably just for biographical reasons.

I personally for a while had a massive crush on Janeane Garofalo 

Breakfast Club and pretty much all John Hugues films mean nothing to me, I was too young when they came out.

Reality Bites was pretty big, yes. I seem to remember some song featured in the movie appearing in the charts back then.

Clerks had a cult following. Very few people know about Breakfast Club. The rest I have never even heard of.

[Sophie Scholl]

Went with Reality Bites.  Empire Records is probably my favorite of the movies listed, though I almost consider it more of a late X, early Millenial movie (aka my generation).