Like what film would you show an alien to really capture the essence of boomer? Grease was the movie that prompted this question, but I think we can find boomier
Like what film would you show an alien to really capture the essence of boomer? Grease was the movie that prompted this question, but I think we can find boomier
I think we decided a while back that is probably forrest Gump
quick summary for OP: the movies thesis is just good things come to people who keep their head down and dont disrupt the status quo.
With that in mind, the Xer equivalent of Forrest Gump is definitely PCU.
I think this is the one
On another note, did anyone else hate this movie without even seeing it just from asshole kids at school shouting "run Forest, run" if you happened to be running past them?
Seriously hated this shit since middle school, never gave it a chance until a year ago and it ended up being even worse than I ever imagined
There's a more obscure one that speaks to the Vegas :grillman: Hate The Wife mindset called "Let It Ride." It's about gambling, glorifying gambling, and glorifying wife hating.
"The Wolf of Wall Street" is a bit like that too and is a solid contender for :grillman: association, even if that wasn't the writer or director's intent. I know a lot of boomers that love that movie's quaalude-blue curtains and wish they were the main character.
Come to think of it the old "Wall Street" movie with Martin Sheen is also a contender.
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The Xer equivalent of Forrest Gump is definitely PCU.
That has to be one of the stupidest movie plots I've read in my life. Anti "PC" rhetoric has not moved an inch in 30 years.
They just make up a new term for the same ideas every few years to see who they can peel off.
PCU was on Comedy Central approximately forty times a week when I was a kid, but I think I escaped the treacherous aspects of its influence. It taught me to appreciate George Clinton, hate David Spade, and to not wear the shirt of a band I’m going to see. Plus it has the great Jessica Walter.
I did know one kid, also raised by Comedy Central, who let it influence his perception of feminism, though. It’s definitely a bad movie, with bad ideology, but don’t be deceived by how ugly the plot reads, because it’s not smart enough to give its critiques any teeth. A very minor rewrite with a Find-and-Replace function - instead of PC caricatures, make the antagonists the football team or a wealthy donor trying to tear down the house to build a statue with his name on it or some shit - yields pretty much the same stupid Animal House wannabe. The PCU people merely read a propaganda article about “political correctness run amok at Oberlin,” or wherever, they didn’t write it.
All of that is just to say that we need a different candidate for Most Gen-X movie. My first suggestion is Clerks, but Richard Linklater probably directed the other nominees.
(Next week’s essay in the series of Vaguely Remembered Films Wertheimer Saw Too Many Times on Comedy Central in the ‘90s: Johnny Dangerously.)
The Most Gen X Movie title should go to Reality Bites. It's the Gen X equivalent of The Big Chill.
Ye gotta be more terminally online @glimmer_twin
Yeah this is the only correct answer.
A similar alternative candidate: Back To The Future
Thread's over, folks.