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re: Summing up a decade in a single film
Posted on 3/12/15 at 8:53 am to AngryBeavers
Posted on 3/12/15 at 8:53 am to AngryBeavers
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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.
Was just about to say the same thing. I feel a different kind of nostalgia and otherness with the early 90s as compared to the late 90s (or, in my world, pre and post-ATL Olympics/Braves World Series win).
So, Jurrasic Park vs Independence Day vs Star Wars Episode I are all different feels and periods of my childhood.
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Posted on 3/12/15 at 8:54 am to tylerdurden24
And as for overall 90s film, it's fricking Space Jam.
Posted on 3/12/15 at 9:03 am to MadMaxwell
Does it matter what year the movie was released? I wouldn't think so.
Posted on 3/12/15 at 9:09 am to GetCocky11
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Way better movies sum up the 90s than Clerks. Bad choice, in my opinion.
Here's why I was ok with that one.
It was part of that first wave of independent films that came out in the early 90's and ushered in a slew of films that centered around real world dialog rather than what we had come to expect. it was very representative of it's time.
Personally, I was at the right age for it to resonate with me. I was at the end of college and working at a video store. Easy job, fun job at times, complained about customers and was always pissed on days when I "wasn't supposed to here here."
Clerks screams early 90's for me.
I didn't think of it earlier, but I'd also choose Singles.
Posted on 3/12/15 at 9:15 am to MadMaxwell
Disagree on Clerks and Fight Club for the 90's.
1990's - Reality Bites, Clueless
1980's - Risky Business, Breakfast Club
2000's - Superbad, Old School
For some reason I lean towards comedies for this exercise.
1990's - Reality Bites, Clueless
1980's - Risky Business, Breakfast Club
2000's - Superbad, Old School
For some reason I lean towards comedies for this exercise.
Posted on 3/12/15 at 9:19 am to Rohan2Reed
1970's: Apocalypse Now
1980's: Top Gun
1990's: Pulp Fiction
2000's: The Bourne Identity? IDK
2010's: The Social Network
1980's: Top Gun
1990's: Pulp Fiction
2000's: The Bourne Identity? IDK
2010's: The Social Network
This post was edited on 3/12/15 at 9:27 am
Posted on 3/12/15 at 9:21 am to wildtigercat93
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You can say this about every decade
I feel like the 90's is different because there was such a boom in technology from 90 - 99. It really was the biggest decade of transition we have had to date. Everything we have now is a direct result of that tech boom.
Posted on 3/12/15 at 9:25 am to MadMaxwell
1960s - The Graduate
Posted on 3/12/15 at 9:27 am to MadMaxwell
70s: Taxi Driver. If there's one thing that always strikes me about the 70s, it's how much society just let themselves go. Just look at old highlights and look in the crowd. Everyone looks disheveled. It's amazing. White flight hit its high point, and our cities sort of stagnated. Just a depressing decade (Nashville has a good case as well).
80s: Wall Street. Greed is good was supposed to be a warning, not a slogan, people. The Yuppie generation summed up in one film (Runner up: St Elmo's Fire... God, do I hate those people).
90s: Singles. Idealistic yet still lost. For all of the 90s talk of irony and cynicism, Gen X can still be summed up by a romantic comedy. There was a lot of earnestness under the cynicism. (Runner up: Trainspotting... some of the cynicism was right on point, though)
00s: 25th Hour. Few movies capture how broken we were after 9/11 as well as this, and this movie isn't even about 9/11, though Ground Zero plays a part. (Runner up: Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind. I think they biggest theme of the 00s was a loss of connection with our fellow humans. This explores the concept to the nth degree)
80s: Wall Street. Greed is good was supposed to be a warning, not a slogan, people. The Yuppie generation summed up in one film (Runner up: St Elmo's Fire... God, do I hate those people).
90s: Singles. Idealistic yet still lost. For all of the 90s talk of irony and cynicism, Gen X can still be summed up by a romantic comedy. There was a lot of earnestness under the cynicism. (Runner up: Trainspotting... some of the cynicism was right on point, though)
00s: 25th Hour. Few movies capture how broken we were after 9/11 as well as this, and this movie isn't even about 9/11, though Ground Zero plays a part. (Runner up: Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind. I think they biggest theme of the 00s was a loss of connection with our fellow humans. This explores the concept to the nth degree)
Posted on 3/12/15 at 9:27 am to JawjaTigah
I'll offer up The Big Lebowski for 90's as well. Maybe Mallrats too 
Posted on 3/12/15 at 9:33 am to Baloo
Good list, some obscure ones that are spot-on.
Hands down IMO:
60s/70s: Forrest Gump. Probably more 70s. Some early 80s too.
80s: Fast Times at Ridgemont High. Although it focuses on high school, it's too hard to pass up.
I can't stop from gravitating toward teen/high school movies for the 80s, I guess because that's when I was that age.
Hands down IMO:
60s/70s: Forrest Gump. Probably more 70s. Some early 80s too.
80s: Fast Times at Ridgemont High. Although it focuses on high school, it's too hard to pass up.
I can't stop from gravitating toward teen/high school movies for the 80s, I guess because that's when I was that age.
Posted on 3/12/15 at 9:40 am to ATLsuTiger
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Does it matter what year the movie was released? I wouldn't think so.
Absolutely. A movie made today that is set in, say, 1930, will still unintentionally say more about the present than 1930, if only how modern people view the past. It reflects our current values.
Posted on 3/12/15 at 9:44 am to MadMaxwell
These are based on my thoughts of the decade
1970's Deer Hunter.. Gloomy time period coming out of Vietnam
1980's Wall Street.. for the excess and The Goonies.. It reminds me of what being a kid in the 80's was like
1990's Fight Club
2000's The Hangover.. Hits on a lot of points for me during that time
1970's Deer Hunter.. Gloomy time period coming out of Vietnam
1980's Wall Street.. for the excess and The Goonies.. It reminds me of what being a kid in the 80's was like
1990's Fight Club
2000's The Hangover.. Hits on a lot of points for me during that time
This post was edited on 3/12/15 at 9:52 am
Posted on 3/12/15 at 9:44 am to wildtigercat93
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I'll go empire records for the 90s
Thats a damn good choice right there.
Posted on 3/12/15 at 9:48 am to Rohan2Reed
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1970's: Apocalypse Now
Set in 1969.
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1980's: Back To The Future
Although its pretty 80's, mostly takes place in 1955.
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1990's: The Matrix
Takes place in post-apocalyptic future.
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2000's: American Beauty
Made in 1999.
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2010's: The Social Network
About a book written in 2009 that takes place in 2003.
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Rohan2Reed
Posted on 3/12/15 at 10:24 am to MadMaxwell
For the 00's, it has to either be The Dark Knight or Superbad.
Posted on 3/12/15 at 11:14 am to elprez00
especially: quote:
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1980's: Back To The Future
Although its pretty 80's, mostly takes place in 1955.
quote: 1990's: The Matrix
Takes place in post-apocalyptic future.
Posted on 3/12/15 at 11:26 am to USMCTiger03
I think there's something to be said about what you can infer from a period of time based on what they thought the future would look like, but yeah, a little off the mark.
Posted on 3/12/15 at 11:29 am to Baloo
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70s: Taxi Driver. If there's one thing that always strikes me about the 70s, it's how much society just let themselves go. Just look at old highlights and look in the crowd. Everyone looks disheveled. It's amazing. White flight hit its high point, and our cities sort of stagnated. Just a depressing decade (Nashville has a good case as well).
80s: Wall Street. Greed is good was supposed to be a warning, not a slogan, people. The Yuppie generation summed up in one film (Runner up: St Elmo's Fire... God, do I hate those people).
90s: Singles. Idealistic yet still lost. For all of the 90s talk of irony and cynicism, Gen X can still be summed up by a romantic comedy. There was a lot of earnestness under the cynicism. (Runner up: Trainspotting... some of the cynicism was right on point, though)
00s: 25th Hour. Few movies capture how broken we were after 9/11 as well as this, and this movie isn't even about 9/11, though Ground Zero plays a part. (Runner up: Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind. I think they biggest theme of the 00s was a loss of connection with our fellow humans. This explores the concept to the nth degree)
Baloo at it again, giving just about the perfect answer. I just thought of Singles too and was coming here to post it.
Posted on 3/12/15 at 11:36 am to MadMaxwell
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I think there's something to be said about what you can infer from a period of time based on what they thought the future would look like, but yeah, a little off the mark.
Oh yeah, I love old (70s, 80s) space movies because they're so dated. Recently watched The Black Hole. Movie scared the shite out of me when I was a kid.
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