Summing up a decade in a single film

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1970's: Smokey and the Bandit

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Okay... I'll go along with that

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1980's: Rocky IV

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Not a terrible Choice, although I'd throw in Ferris Bueller and Breakfast Club

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1990's: Clerks

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Of all the movies in the 90's, Clerks?
In no particular order:
- Cant Hardly Wait
- 10 Things I Hate About You
- Fight Club
- You've Got Mail

If I'm feeling a little saucy, I'd thrown Varsity Blues and American Pie in the mix.

EDIT: My opinion could be skewed based upon the fact that I was in high school in the 90's, so for me your high school comedies are what resonates to that decade.

Terrible choices

You would pick the matrix to tell people how the 2000s felt like? That seems confusing

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My opinion could be skewed based upon the fact that I was in high school in the 90's, so for me your high school comedies are what resonates to that decade.

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Yeah I was trying to avoid John Hughes and 90's high school stuff as they all kind of seem to blend together to create one product, picking one out of the haystack doesn't do the genre justice.

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1970s - Dazed and Confused

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is a period piece from the 90's and while about the 70's is stylistically very much a 90's film.

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Yeah I was trying to avoid John Hughes and 90's high school stuff as they all kind of seem to blend together to create one product, picking one out of the haystack doesn't do the genre justice.

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I disagree. While Breakfast Club and Can't Hardly Wait are both high school movies, they are very much representative of their time periods. CHW is a very 90's movie.

I chose You've Got Mail because of the subject matter. Late 90's, online romance, email, and the character all kind of poke a little fun at the concept. Yet today, all of that is commonplace. Hearing "you've got mail" was a big part of a whole lot of people's lives from around '96 on.

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While Breakfast Club and Can't Hardly Wait are both high school movies, they are very much representative of their time periods. CHW is a very 90's movie.

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I agree with all this, I think both films represent their respective decades well. The reason I wouldn't choose either is because I feel like most people don't look at the films as singular entities but rather part of a larger product. Breakfast Club is good, but it's in a pile with 16 Candles, Pretty in Pink, Ferris Bueller, etc. And Can't Hardly Wait is in a pile with She's All That, 10 Things I Hate About You, Varsity Blues, etc. I think choosing one as more representive of it's time than another is an impossible task due to their similarities, hence my choice to avoid the category entirely.

1970's: Apocalypse Now
1980's: Back To The Future
1990's: The Matrix
2000's: American Beauty
2010's: The Social Network

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1990's: Clerks

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Way better movies sum up the 90s than Clerks. Bad choice, in my opinion.

Go with something like Office Space. Office Space is pretty 90s. Also, some of the teen movies can sum up 90s culture well like 10 Things I Hate About You or Clueless.

The 90's is tough to pick just one because the decade had a different feel in the early 90's than it did in the late 90's. Just my 2 cents.