Is there a Generation 2000s movie?

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I would say "the social network" is a good representative of gen y. I was born in 1980 and the Internet has definitely shaped my generation from the oldest to the youngest in the group.

It depends on the way you look at the question I guess, but Garden State is the most obvious and probably most correct example in my opinion. It's got a 00s vibe, indie feel, soundtrack etc. Influenced a lot of other movies too. Donnie Darko is set in the 80s, and even though it's still a terrific film it's more of 80s nostalgia than 00s.

The Social Network is a bit too recent to judge, but it does capture a lot of the internet generation sensibilities.


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Your question is really good, because it broughts up the lack of young talented actors and actresses nowadays. I was also born in the early 80s and we have grown up with two groups of actors The Brat Pack and the Generation X. They were not all particularly talented, but when they got together they had an excellent chemistry. Today is hard to find a group of actors like these two. You can find (few) isolated good actors like Scarlett Johansson, Natalie Portman, Ellen Page and the young Shia Laboeuf, but they can hardly be considered a group. I experience some kind of desillusionment, because even them are starting to work only on really bad big box-office movies. Scarlett Johansson for instance was suppose to be more mature, but her last movies are quite the opposite from her preview ones (Lost in translations, Landy Windermere's fan etc). I believe that internet and technology have obviously two side: one positive and one negative. The negative one is that movies are so much simpler to make as so as actors. Everyday we have a new face with no acting skills. Good Lord! Take a look at the movies from the 80s! It's such a pitty! I miss Winona Ryder so much!

American Pie - Highschool

Rules of Attraction - College

Pokemon: The Movie.

I was born in 1990. I've recently watched this movie. I didn't like it and it wasn't because I'm a shallow spoiled brat. This movie didn't work for me because I liked the Ben Stiller character. I think we were supposed to like Ethan Hawke.
I think that Generation Y is a generation of cynics and pessimists. Reality Bites is too romantic even for me (and I'm studying to be a teacher!).
I didn't like Social Network but I think that movie represents this generation. It's not a movie about the Internet. I think it tells us something more.

As I'm from Argentina, I'm probably wrong about everything I said. I mean, perhaps it's different over there (USA).

I was born in 1993 so I am probably too young to even be generation Y. But I feel like to group those born in the mid 80s to those in the mid 90s together is wrong because even within the last 5 years technology has come such a long way that my generations lives are completely ruled by it (whereas I'm guessing those born earlier than 1990 are probably less likely to care more about the internet than real life.) Unfortunately my generation is all about creating an online persona and hiding behind that mask. I'm an undergraduate at the moment and my friends will be on twitter/snapchat/facebook in CLUBS for godssake.

In the same way that the John Hughes/Brat Pack films of the 80s depict a completely different generation of young adults (with similarities still of course, all generations since the beginning of time have felt disconnected with the world around them, think about James Dean and Bob Dylan as the poster-children for teen disillusionment in the early 50s and 60s respectively, and have rebelled in some way or thought that they were being different)

I think that since the era of Reality Bites, there should be at least 2, maybe 3 different moments in which the defining films will sum up the times. eg (I'm sure others will disagree but some suggestions) late 90s...charmed (tv show), cruel intentions, 10 things I hate about you.
Mid-late 2000s...Mean Girls, 500 days of summer. (as the latter deals with older characters), a Cinderella Story.
And now-the next few years...The Bling Ring? And some which will hopefully come out.

And to those who feel like these films aren't good enough to define your eras, I'm sure that Reality Bites and even the Brat Pack films are looked back on with mostly nostalgia and none of them are great pieces of cinema like Citizen Kane or The Seventh Seal. There are definitely fantastic cinematic films from every era (Lost in Translation being one of them), but surely that is for another board as Reality Bites is essentially an entertaining but self-pittying teenage/young adult film.