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What are the defining films for each generation?

I guess Gen X gets Star Wars right?

>>213994817 (OP)
Jaws
Terminator 2
V for Vendetta
The Emoji movie

>>213994817 (OP)
Fight Club

>>213994817 (OP)
Easy Rider
When Harry met Sally
Fight Club
Minecraft movie

>>213994817 (OP)
Generational labels are astrology for people who think they're too smart to believe in astrology

>>213994817 (OP)
For Gen Z it's Cat in the Hat
>t. actual zoomer
All the other ones posted are Gen Alpha movies

>>213994937
Problem Child II

>>213994937
Millennials get the prequels

>>213996086
since tech is driving the X/Y classifications it assumes a baseline of middle class income.

>>213994817 (OP)
accurate

>>213994817 (OP)
Gen X panel is more like pic related

>>213994817 (OP)
Fellowship of the Ring or Phantom Menace
Star Wars
Minecraft
Fight Club

>>213994817 (OP)
>>213996163
Not accurate. Alphas are barely sentient, and wouldn't be aware that an argument is happening at all. The last panel should be replaced with a dog contemplating eating its own feces.

>>213994817 (OP)
>Boomers: Westerns
>Gen X: Sci-fi/fantasy
>Millennials: Horror
>Gen Z: Action

>>213994817 (OP)
All 4 generations are Jew slaves.

>>213994817 (OP)
Zoomers have the Spongebob movie

Eveyrhing else than Gen Z is gay and retarded

>>213994937
Gen X would be Breakfast Club or Ferris Bueller's Day Off.

>>213997603
Or Fast Times at Ridgemont High

>>213997585
Ironic considering Gen Z is the least heterosexual generation in history.

>>213997624
Technically, yes, but it didn't have much staying power so really only the small segment who were in high school when it came out were huge fans. Everyone eventually saw it on cable and most liked it, but it wasn't a cultural touchstone after it left theaters. A lot about the movie feels 70s rather than 80s, regardless of its actual release date, which gives it a boomer flavor. Cameron Crowe, pic related, wrote it based on going back to high school in 1979 when he was 22, which is why it feels so boomer.

>>213994817 (OP)
>muh generational divide
Fuck off with your stupid commie bullshit, faggot.

>>213994817 (OP)
No clue
DBZ
Harry Potter
Naruto

>>213994817 (OP)
You’re an idiot

>>213994817 (OP)
I'm born -95 and have no fucking clue about this generarion bullshit. I say everyone older me is boomer and younger zoomer.

Boomers - American Graffiti
Gen X - The Breakfast Club
Millennials - Dazed and Confused
Gen Z - The Emoji Movie

>>213999057
How is Dazed and Confused millennial? People graduating in 1993 would have been born in 1975.

>>213999143
The movie came out in 1993.

Jaws
Jurassic Park
Spider-Man 2
Top Gun: Maverick

>>213997649
>1/7th of those born on the last 40 years are fags
grim

>>213999271
Yeah so the graduating class of that year would have been born in 75.

Boomers - The Seventh Seal
Gen X - Rocky, Taxi Driver
Millennials - The Fast and The furious
Gen Z - Project X

>>213999374
Jurassic Park is millennial.

>>213999677
What about Alpha?

>>213994937
That transcends generations.

>>213997649
>be millennial
>be more straight and more gay than zoomies at the same time
What movie best encapsulates this kafkaesque feel?

>>213994937
Ghostbusters.

boomers have claim to the first and third back to the future as well as forest gump. Peak boomer nostalgia movies. They get BTTF 3 since cowboys and indians hadnt been played by kids in the united states since 1968.

>>214002263
Her

>>214002428
Forrest Gump sucks though.

>>213994817 (OP)
Gen X: Star Wars OT, Superman 1 and 2, Jaws, ET, Back to the Future, Apocalypse Now, Deer Hunter, Close Encounters, Alien, Blade Runner, Aliens, Die Hard, Robocop, Predator.......

>>214003738
Robocop is millennial.

>>213994817 (OP)
Boomers: Easy Rider (or even the original Star Wars)
Gen X: The Breakfast Club
Millennials: anything by Pixar
Gen Z: Joker

Great movie for UK Gen X, however it shows why UK is in the current state its in. Gen X spent their whole early adult hood french frying their fucking brains and now they are waking up wondering what the hell happened.

>>214003824
it was an 80's movie retard

>>214004119
It took a few years for it to become popular with young millennials in the 90s.

>>214004119
They played the censored version on TV all the time and it got lots of TV shows and merchandise for kids.

Is a movie's generation based on who enjoyed it or who made it?

>>213994937
Star Wars is one of the most boomer movies ever

>>213999677
Project X is absolute millennial core

>>213994817 (OP)
>most millennial movie
Scott Pilgrim
>most boomer movie
Pick anything from Scorsese’s filmography except TWOWS
>most zoomer movie
Infinity War/Endgame
>most Gen X movie
Pick anything from John Hughes’ filmography

>>214004926
It was a kid's movie though.

>>213994817 (OP)
Best: Boomers
Medium: Generation X
Top So-So: Millennials
Weakest: Zoomers

Zoomers are the fucking worst at mixing DQ blizzards. TWO COOKIE DOUGH PIECES I got in my ice cream tonight. TWO

Star wars
The Matrix
MCU
A24

>>213997649
Why are zoomers such bisluts?

>tfw genx started all of shitstorm and just ran away flawlessly somehow
truly nigger of generations

>>213994817 (OP)
Fuck both zoomers and xoomers are shit

>>213994937
every one gets starwars

My best stab at this:
Boomers - The Big Chill
Gen X - Risky Business
Millennials - The Dark Knight
Zoomers - Parasite
>>213999057
Dazed and Confused's audience was Gen X, not millennials.
>>213999677
Rocky and Taxi Driver are boomer films.

>>214007093
Unlike Marcellis Wallace, you looked like a bitch.

>>213999514
Why are you so obsessed with graduating classes? You're an adult at that point. I'd say the defining movie when I was growing up was Jurassic Park, also 93, when I was ten. Failing that, maybe Men in Black 97. I'd say both of these are more defining than anything in 2001. I love Fellowship of the Ring, but I didn't watch it at the movies. Most people don't really care that much about going to the movies when they've just turned 18.

The Matrix is up there for Millennials

>>214007809
Because Dazed and Confused is about a graduating class, so it resonated with high school seniors who were graduating themselves.

>>214007809
nta but the youngest millennials were 10 when Dazed and Confused was released. It's old enough for Jurassic Park, but Dazed and Confused is one you have to be a bit older to appreciate, or even like. Honestly, I'm an older millennial and when I watched Dazed and Confused as a middle schooler, I was sort of confused by how meandering it was.

>>213994817 (OP)
As a millennial I'll give my vote to the matrix.

>>214007987
I considered this, but the thing is, the Matrix is very much Gen X in spirit. A lot of late 90's, early 00's portray disillusioned white collar workers, living in a time of general prosperity. This really doesn't capture the millennial experience, which is why I went with the Dark Knight instead.

>>214007261
It's posturing from dumb girls who aren't even bi
It's a studied phenomenon

harry potter is clearly the defining movie (and books) for millennials. millennials love that shit and it defines a lot of their personalities. that's why trannies are so butthurt about jk rowling when she's just the dumb author of a children's book

>>213996298
Wouldn't millennials be comedy?

>>213994817 (OP)
Superbad and 21 Jump Street are the ultimate Millennial movies

Just for horror:
Boomers: Monster movies
Gen X: Slashers
Millennials: Torture porn
Gen Z: Jump scare

The millenial delegation chooses Superbad

>>214008517
Zoomers are mascot horror.

>>214008517
Nah, for zoomies it's liminal space horror. For millennials it's prestige horror, the A24 garbage.

>>214007261
They aren't. They're just attention whores.

>>213994817 (OP)
idk but saying anything other than animated movies for millennial or zoomer is wrong

>>213994937
Gen X were teens in the 90s weren't they? I would say probably stuff like Terminator 2 more than Star Wars, since Star Wars came out in the 70s.

>>213994817 (OP)
Gen X is the gayest generation by far and it’s not even close. Fucking melodramatic faggots. Millennials dunk our balls in your mouth. What the fuck are you going to do about it, bitch? You’re in your 40/50’s, weak and gay. Time to hit you and fuck you up THATS ME IN THE CORNER THATS ME IN THE SPOTLIGHT GETTING MY ASS BEAT

>>213996298
There have been very few good action movies in the past 20 years. Unless you mean watching old action movies in which case every other generation also did that.

>>214009215
Nah, those films appealed greatly to kids. T2 was monumental for me a kid, and I'm an older millennial.

>>213997790
Gen x would have been like 30 for dbz.

>>214009241
>THATS ME IN THE CORNER THATS ME IN THE SPOTLIGHT GETTING MY ASS BEAT

>>213994817 (OP)
Boomers defining film-age would be 1970-1989. That'd be Godfather, Star Wars, Indiana Jones, Ghostbusters.

Gen Xers would be 1990 - 2005. That'd be Jurassic Park, Toy Story, Titanic, the Matrix, Prequel Star Wars.

Millennials would be early 2005-2019. That'd be Avatar, Hunger Games, Avengers, Nu-Star Wars.

Gen Zers would be 2020- current. That'd be Barbie, Parasite, Oppenheimer, Sinners.

>hey, but I'm [generation] and I don't like those
These are the culturally relevant films of your generation, not a dissertation on what you may or may not like as a member of it.

>>214005474
>most millennial movie
>Scott Pilgrim
that's late millennials. the definitive early millennial movie is the matrix.

>>214009400
Dumbest post in this thread. Go to bed, zoomie.

>>214007313
They’re like satan they convinced everyone they don’t exist.

>>214009400
>Boomers defining film-age would be 1970-1989
if you were born in 1945 you would be 25 years old in 1970.

>>214007822
>>214007987
>Millennials
>Matrix
Millennials were born 1981-1996. The Matrix came out in 1999. It is firmly a Gen X movie.

>>214009400
>Toy Story is Gen X
WHAT?!

>>214009484
Make an argument against it then, faggot.

>>214009506
Correct. The defining film-age is for when the people of your generation are around 25 years old. Boomers were born 1946-1964, that makes their film age 1970-1989.

Gen Xers were born 1965-1980, that makes their film age 1990-2005. And so on.

>>214009400
Really bad post.

>>213997603
This

>>214009533
don't fall for this shit

>>214009587
>Make an argument against it then
Gen Xers were all adults when Toy Story came out you fucking manchild

>>214009576
Toy Story came out in 1995. Millennials were still being born AFTER the movie was released. It's a Gen X film. If it helps, Toy Story 3 and 4 are Millennial films.

>>214009587
>The defining film-age is for when the people of your generation are around 25 years old.

>>214009630
Ah yes, only 20 year olds watched Toy Story in 1995, no children saw it. You're very smart.

>>214009619
The Matrix was popular with millennials, but it's Gen X coded all the way.

>>214009677
>coded
Gen x pushing more faggot shit.

>>214009664
Toy Story is Gen X. Deal with it.

>>214009627
>young adults weren't the primary viewers of Toy Story, it was unborn children!
Retard.

>>214009619
It's not bait, I explained the math and reasoning. You just don't like the films made for your generation. You understand it's not an indictment on you or your tastes to be born between a certain set of years, right?

>>214009646
Yes. From the 1970s to today, the median movie-going age is 25. Yes, some 2 year olds were probably brought by their Gen X parents to see Toy Story. Yes, some grandparents to those Millennials from the boomer generation came too. But it's still a Gen X movie.

>>214008762
A24 didn’t exist until millennials were 30

>>214009664
>I was -1 years old and saw toy story when it was released, it was made for me and my millennial age group

>>214009703
It depends if we're picking out movies based on who they were popular with, or based on what movies best capture the zeitgeist or the ethos of a given generation. If it's the former, the Matrix is a millennial movie. The latter, it's a Gen Xer movie. Millennials weren't in the work force by 1999, outside of Mcjobs after school.

>>214009766
So gen x was still playing with toys in their 20’s?

>>214009721
>some 2 year olds were probably brought by their Gen X parents to see Toy Story
They weren't, no one born after the 1970s saw Toy Story.

>>214009735
As I said in this post >>214009781 it's really a question of what we mean when assign movies to a generation. A24 is very much targeted to millennials and reflects their vain brand of intellectualism and cynicism.

>>214009804
...you understand that Toy Story was a film, and that you're not actually playing with toys in it, right? Pixar films were and are viewed by adults. Just like anime is for kids, but you know you waddled your fatass down to watch Demon Slayer too.

>>214009804
>millennials didn't watch into the spiderverse, that's kid stuff

>>213994937
I guess probably Star Trek TNG
They would have been actual babies when Star Wars came out.
Though it was always around in pop culture when they grew up

>>214009917
>They would have been actual babies when Star Wars came out.
Where do you zoomies get these weird ideas about the past?

>>213995095
no need to read further

>>214009951
Because Star Wars came out in 1977 and Gen X'ers were born '65-80, making a chunk of them either not born or literally babies at the time?

>>214007499
>Millennials - The Dark Knight
Finally someone with an accurate answer

>>214009981
The majority of them were kids, and they were what made Star Wars wildly successful.

Boomers: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
Gen X: Star Wars
Millennials: Jurassic Park
Gen Z: The Avengers

>>214010023
The purchasing power of -2 to 12 years old is what made Star Wars popular? I'd have guessed it was their parents that took them to movies, bought them toys, etc.

>zoomers in this thread seriously acting like Toy Story was watched by babies and not young Gen Xers
It came out in 1995, millennials were in diapers

>>214010038
Why do you think they bought them? Fucking braindead. By your logic, TMNT and Power Rangers were Gen X.

>>214009868
A film for kids. And no I don’t watch any of that other shit. We used to bully the anime kids.

>>214010087
Anon, if you were there at the time you would know it was much more popular with young college students

>>214010114
I was ten so I didn’t interact with college students but every kid at my school saw it.

>>214010081
Because the parents liked it, retard. Do you think parents were dropping off their babies in bassinets at the movie theater and telling them to have a good time? The kids who didn't grow up with Star Wars weren't the ones who disliked Star Wars, their parents were. Kids don't pick out what they get exposed to and what they get to watch, their parents do.

And if you're too retarded to understand the different between free children's television cartoons on public channels and big budget movies, then you're not equipped to have this conversation.

>>214010081
>TMNT and Power Rangers were Gen X
They were, dipshit

>>214010087
Toy Story was a film for everyone and it was watched primarily by young Gen X'ers when it came out. Millennials grew up years later watching it on the VHS.

>>214010165
This is some weird revisionism. This thread is so jewish.

>>213994817 (OP)
Boomers= Gone with the wind
Xoomers= RoboCop
Moomers= Phantom Menace
Zoomers= Minecraft

>>214010136
Again, by your logic, Toy Story was popular because parents happened to love it. You realize advertising existed back in the past too? Zoomies and their crazy revisionist history.
>free children's television cartoons on public channels
TMNT was introduced as a toy line before it was a cartoon show.

>>214010164
Zoomie troll thinks he's smart, thinks he's clever.

>>214010205
>toy story didn't come out in 1995
>you're just trying to gaslight me fampai frfr

>>214010217
>movie studios make movies for people who haven't even been born yet, not for the movie-going audience

>>214009400
Consider suicide

>>214010466
Once your mom told me she wasn't going to abort, I did consider it. And now here we both are.

>>214010217
TMNT is Gen X

Why is gen x so obsessed with kids shows?

>>214010633
They're kino

>>214010655
Gen x show

>>214010241
This thread has gotten pretty funny

>>214010792
Are you saying Millennials didn't watch Pokemon?

>>214010026
This is pretty accurate

Test.

>>213995095
Nailed it in one.

>>213994817 (OP)
>Boomers
>Gen X
>Millennials
>Zoomers

>>213994817 (OP)
Lowkey I don't think genz will ever have a defining film, dead medium

>>214011368
What about Minecraft?

>>214011391
Lol

>>214011545
You have to admit, that's probably what they're be remembered for.

>>213994817 (OP)
Boomers: The Big Chill
Gen X: Rules of Attraction
Millennials: Scott Pilgrim
Gen Z: Ready Player One

Notice how the movies become more anti-social, meta, and detached from reality with each generation. Boomers is this youthful and narcissistic drama about friends. Rules of Attraction is similar but more cynical and begins to be about detachment as characters find themselves disassociating. Scott Pilgrim is childish and new earnestness where the MC grows by treating life like a video game. Gen Z is completely absorbed in nostalgia for the past of other generations (particularly Gen X). The world is dystopic and people prefer virtual realities.

>>213994937
They were like 8 when it dropped, that's more late boomer.
I'd say Clerks is the most representative of Gen X.

>>213996086
I tend to agree with that, but the baby boom was a real phenomenon that had real social implications so at least early boomers can be agued to be a worthwhile cohort to study.

>>214011963
One of the biggest movies in 2025 was an open rejection of cynicism and anti-social ideation, so gen A is probably going to be just fine.

>>214009400
>Literally every single one is wrong

Boomers movies are actually Gen X
Gen X movies are actually Millennials
MIllennials movies are actually Gen Z. We're not claiming anything made after 2008, it was all clown world after that.

>>214009587
Nobody has time for TV when they're 25, Anon, you work 8-12 hours a day, go home, pass out, eat, shit, shower and go back to work.

Primary television consumption is 8-18 or so. Maybe 20 if you're a late bloomer going to a faggoty community college. All of your generational films are a generation late.

>>214012288
2009 was pretty kino

>>214009241
Millennials are in their 40s now.

boomers - star wars
gen x- forest gump
millennials - tdk
gen z - dune

>>214009533
It's hard to get it just right. I was born 85 so matrix was very defining for me, obviously it's probably not for someone born 96. I'm never gonna agree with someone born 10 years later than me what was defining for "our" youth.

>>213994817 (OP)
>boomers
Star wars i guess, they were teens when the first one came out right?
>gen x
ET
>millenials
Lion King
>zoomers
Avengers

>ITT: anons throwing random ass movies that came out in a certain range of years
DEFINING films got to have some sort of a message. It's not just a blockbuster of a certain year. The Breakfast Club is such a movie. American Graffiti as well. They perfectly catch the vibe of an era, the style of a generation.
>>213999057
Dazed is set in the 70s and came out in 93. It has nothing to do with millenials who were 12 at most when it came out.
>>214009215
Millenials are 1981-1996 so most gen-X were not teens in the 90s.
>>214012188
Gen-Z are the first generation born into the internet so they deserve recognition as well. Us millenials and xoomers have softer definitions I would say.

>>214011963
>notice how the films I cherry-picked fit the narrative I'm trying to disseminate

>>214012991
>they were teens when the first one came out right?
you can't do math?

>>214012223
>One of the biggest movies in 2025 was an open rejection of cynicism and anti-social ideation
What is he talking about?

>>214013717
thunderbolts*

It's a Wonderful Life
Back to the Future 2
Encino Man
Jack & Jill

>>213994817 (OP)
Mandingo
Catalina Video series
Monster Cock and BangBus
BLACKED

In my opinion.
Boomers: Star Wars: A New Hope & Dazed and Confused (positive messages of achieving success or coolness through circumstance and no real work on one's own)
Gen-X: Clerks and The Breakfast Club (cool hip rebellious vibe of teens/early adults lackadaisically and sarcastically attempting to subvert authority)
Millennial: Fight Club and Office Space (main protagonists dissociate from society based on the unhappiness crisis of meeting societal expectations and "doing everything right")
Zoomer: Ready Player One and Space Jam 2 (completely retreating from reality into total fantasy because of how untenable everyday life has become).

>>213994817 (OP)
Young millenials - Superbad and it’s not even close. So fucking goated still

>>213997603
>>213997624

Nah it's reality bites or maybe Heathers

>>213998018
i am from 96, we are zillenials

>>214014647
nah youre wrong

>>213996086
if a certain range of people grew up during the same years and had the same shared cultural events happen during their youth theyre more similar than not. this is just common sense. youre just taking the MBTI-astrology meme and applying it to generations because youre stupid