Poll
Question:
What film most defined Generation X?
Option 1: Breakfast Club
votes: 10
Option 2: Heathers
votes: 3
Option 3: Slacker
votes: 0
Option 4: Dazed and Confused
votes: 3
Option 5: Before Sunrise
votes: 0
Option 6: Empire Records
votes: 0
Option 7: Do the Right Thing
votes: 0
Option 8: Clerks
votes: 6
Option 9: Singles
votes: 0
Option 10: Reality Bites
votes: 6
Option 11: Kids
votes: 0
Choices come from a BBC Article: The Films that Defined Generation X. (http://www.bbc.com/culture/story/20190606-the-films-that-defined-generation-x)
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)
Dazed and Confused is a great movie, but it's about Boomers.
Before Sunrise? :wacko:
Trainspotting would be another good choice.
Quote from: Eddie Teach on August 27, 2019, 01:17:33 PM
Dazed and Confused is a great movie, but it's about Boomers.
Before Sunrise? :wacko:
Yeah, the BBC went Linklater wild; I was tempted just to stop at "Slacker."
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.
Quote from: Barrister on August 27, 2019, 01:21:51 PM
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.
Quote from: Barrister on August 27, 2019, 01:21:51 PM
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.)
I voted Heathers, based purely on the fact that I enjoyed it back in the day. :D
"Eskimo".
Quote from: crazy canuck on August 27, 2019, 01:35:21 PM
Quote from: Barrister on August 27, 2019, 01:21:51 PM
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.
Quote from: Malthus on August 27, 2019, 01:41:21 PM
I voted Heathers, based purely on the fact that I enjoyed it back in the day. :D
"Eskimo".
But not really "defining" though ... I mean we didn't go around killing ourselves. At least I didn't.
Quote from: Josephus on August 27, 2019, 01:49:41 PM
Quote from: Malthus on August 27, 2019, 01:41:21 PM
I voted Heathers, based purely on the fact that I enjoyed it back in the day. :D
"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).
Quote from: Malthus on August 27, 2019, 02:11:40 PM
Quote from: Josephus on August 27, 2019, 01:49:41 PM
Quote from: Malthus on August 27, 2019, 01:41:21 PM
I voted Heathers, based purely on the fact that I enjoyed it back in the day. :D
"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".
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.
Quote from: crazy canuck on August 27, 2019, 01:35:21 PM
Quote from: Barrister on August 27, 2019, 01:21:51 PM
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+.
Quote from: Josephus on August 27, 2019, 01:47:32 PM
Quote from: crazy canuck on August 27, 2019, 01:35:21 PM
Quote from: Barrister on August 27, 2019, 01:21:51 PM
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.
Quote from: Eddie Teach on August 27, 2019, 01:19:06 PM
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.
Not sure I see Trainspotting as a Gen X movie myself.
More of an "idiots in Glasgow" movie.
Conan the Barbarian
Quote from: Josephus on August 27, 2019, 02:34:12 PM
Not sure I see Trainspotting as a Gen X movie myself.
More of an "idiots in Glasgow" movie.
Colonized by wankers!
Scotland seems pretty fucked up. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T8wIgQB9GIA
I feel very much like a millennial now, I haven't watch any of those.
Quote from: Liep on August 27, 2019, 04:55:37 PM
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. :P
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.
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 :blush:
Breakfast Club and pretty much all John Hugues films mean nothing to me, I was too young when they came out.
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.
Repo Man was better than all those flicks, starting with the soundtrack.
Definitely the Breakfast Club
Quote from: celedhring on August 27, 2019, 05:48:39 PM
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 :blush:
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.
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).
I have not heard of any of the movies on the poll list.
I voted Clerks for no reason.
Quote from: saskganesh on August 27, 2019, 06:25:00 PM
Repo Man was better than all those flicks, starting with the soundtrack.
Repo Man is indeed an awesome film, but I see it more as a monument to Punk, even though it was made in 1984.
Office Space.
I get Dazed and Confused. It's set in the 70s but it's not about the 70s. I think Linklater's reason for setting it then was just the music.
Quote from: Sheilbh on August 28, 2019, 05:33:05 PM
Office Space.
I get Dazed and Confused. It's set in the 70s but it's not about the 70s. I think Linklater's reason for setting it then was just the music.
:o
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Quote from: Malthus on August 28, 2019, 08:31:16 AM
Quote from: saskganesh on August 27, 2019, 06:25:00 PM
Repo Man was better than all those flicks, starting with the soundtrack.
Repo Man is indeed an awesome film, but I see it more as a monument to Punk, even though it was made in 1984.
It's that, but its also a coming-of-age movie, which many of the the listed flicks flail at. It ages better, tho on rewatching, Otto is more of an asshat than I remembered or am comfortable with.
On a footnote, it also passes the Bechdel test, which is surprising.
Singles had some nice tracks.