We Millennials will forever occupy an awkward space.
Others, however, reflect a longing to turn the pageor to burn the whole book down.
They got style, class and crass, and just may yet make fetch happen.
So without further ado, here are some quintessentially Millennial movies.
(And to cover their eyes when Mufasa fell into that stampede.)
These movies hold up, especially the first four listed above.
And save forThe Lion King, all had the heavy influence of Broadway songwriter Howard Ashman.
Perhaps not coincidentally director Christopher Columbus and writer John HughesHome Alonelikewise proved a VHS staple for millions of children.
Of courseJurassic Parkwas also a savvy thriller derived from Michael Crichtons paranoia about commercialisms creeping influence into technology.
Soon the modern franchise would ensure that all dead things constantly returned from extinction, including this story.
In fact, John Lasseter co-founded Pixar Animation Studios after being fired from Disney proper for pursuing computer-generated animation.
Contrary to director James Camerons wishes, it was commonly shown in theaters with an intermission.
Because of its size,Titanicgot stuck in the pop culture pipe and just stayed there.
Its less a movie than a presidential term we all lived under.
will mean that the last of us finally died out.
Daniel Day-Lewis as the Last of the Mohicans.
Its a postmodern daydream for the Ren Faire set.
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*We are arbitrarily ruling Clueless to be a Gen-X movie.
It pioneered viral marketing in the process.
The answer can be found in the quality of the movie itself.
There were a lot of them in the 2000s, and even more in the decades that followed.
Yet Peter JacksonsThe Lord of the Ringsadaptation remains the one movie series to rule them all.
Thankfully, they did not.
In fact, they were very good!
Alec Bojalad
Moulin Rouge!
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Spider-Man (2002)
Spider-Manwasnt the first superhero movie, for Millennials or otherwise.
In short: its all about IP, baby.
Book-turned-movie-turned-abandoned-video-game-turned-made-for-TV-sequel-turned-stage-musical-turned-back-into-a-movie… even frogs have a simpler time of it.
This she does by becoming the thing she initially fears the most: a plastic bitch.
You go, Glen Coco.
(For almost a decade, ITV2 played almost nothing butShaun of the Deadand its Cornetto Trilogy follow-upHot Fuzz.
It did stop, eventually, but by then streaming had been invented, so crisis averted.)
People are buying tickets to seeShaun of the Deadfor the billionth time because its our film.
Cut us and we bleed youve got red on you.
Happy birthday, Shaun.
Released during an election year, MooresFahrenheitwas advocacy filmmaking aimed at discrediting the current U.S. President George W. Bush.
Yet the film itself is ultimately a persuasive work of political oppo-research… up to a point.
Its a takedown of the pretentiousness of the fashion industry and a loving look at its mystique and value.
Perhaps the movies ability to effectively cover so many seemingly contradictory concepts helps explain its incredible reach.
More often than not, it was merely that brand name being provided.
No Apatow-produced effort, however, typifies the Millennial era as keenly as 2007sSuperbad.
More importantly though it speaks to two hallmark Millennial experiences: 1.
Being a massive loser, and 2.
Booping your buddy on the nose.
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Juno (2007)
Are you OK there, homeslice?
Youve barely touched your hamburger phone.
Its no secret that Millennials are known for having a, lets say, unique vocabulary.
Theyve grown up watching his career in real-time, as opposed to seeing it as something handed down.
It tackles questions of national security, social collapse, and paranoia.
It also achieved this with one of the all-time great film villain performances, courtesy of Heath Ledger.
And to be sure, they became the sparkling face of a movement, from libraries to multiplexes.
Robert Pattinson plays that dude with aching broodiness opposite an equally gloomy Kristen Stewart.
That ugly overreaction doesnt necessarily meanTwilightis good, but theres something almost charmingly wholesome about its squareness.
Its also a terrific parable about American capitalism drenched in the paranoia and despair usually associated with Fincher.
It also is both scathingly satirical and heartwarmingly sweet about this subculture.
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Get Out (2017)
By 2017, most Millennials were approaching or crossing 30.
He tapped a nerve in American life and gave it a name: the Sunken Place.
The daughter tangibly resents it.
It also reflects a generation who might just have begun recognizing the mortality of another.
