We were an angsty lot with no internet to express our teenage selves on.
These are the movies that meant everything.
Gen X are a funny lot.
Generally acknowledged to be made up of folks born between 1965 and 1980.
This means Gen Xers were teenagers between the 80s and the late 90s.
Every generation has movies that are iconic to them heres to the ones that shaped todays 40-somethings+.
Its beautiful, talky and aching with wish fulfillment in an era before dating apps and email addresses.
We all wanted to be Jesse or Celine.
Were pickingThe Breakfast Clubto start, and Joel ShumachersSt.
Demi Moore, Andrew McCarthy, Rob Lowe and Andie McDowell join the gang, struggling with young adulthood.
It all looks terribly glamorous and grown up to youngster desperate to make a impact on the world.
See also:Pretty in Pink,16 Candles,Some Kind of Wonderful,Say Anythingand countless more.
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Heathers (1988)
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Its dark, its acerbic and its wonderful.
Heather isMean Girlsbefore there wasMean Girls.
), but in 1990 it was rad.
Inspiring and unifying for people without the internet.
There he finds spirited young men who he teaches to express themselves through poetry.
Mallratshad a bigger budget and a starrier cast, but a similarly childish sense of humor.
Then he madeDogmaand we were no longer interested.
The plot ofEmpire Recordshas all the edginess of a Hallmark Christmas movie.
So why did it feel like counter-culture back in 1995?
One of many lukewarm reviews from the time describedEmpire Recordsas a soundtrack in search of a movie.
You could go one further and call it more poster than movie.
Its just a love triangle story, its just a normal small story, its not Generation X.
This will she choose the yuppie or the slacker?
romance is definitively of its time, as well as definitively dumb the yuppie or the slacker?
Its cartoonishly violent, nasty, simplistic and… possibly the coolest film ever made?
Its no wonder its considered legendary the sequels, less so.
And the 30th anniversary remake starring Bill Skarsgard?
Is it Gen X?
Yet that made every 80s and early 90s kid who discovered it later feel like theyd unearthed lost treasure.
Layered with mystery upon mysterywas Deckard a replicant?
By comparison,The Karate Kids story of a young man battling bullies feels relatively humble.
Yet, its the movie that has outlived so many of its peers and crossed over into other generations.
Well, its partially because karate was, and will forever remain, pretty awesome.
Many of its themes and ideas are resonating with young audiences today.
