Before Sunrise

[BradStevens]

The defining Gen-X movie?

Listening to this really takes me back. IYKYK. The WC Movie Club will be shortlisting this for its inaugural selection:



Maybe instead of a mountain, I’ll move to Europe and live on the train.

 

[mrhighlife]

The defining Gen-X movie?

Listening to this really takes me back. IYKYK. The WC Movie Club will be shortlisting this for its inaugural selection:

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Maybe instead of a mountain, I’ll move to Europe and live on the train.

Maybe. I'd say Reality Bites is probably more regarded in that sense. Or The Breakfast Club.

 

[mcmurtry66]

Maybe. I'd say Reality Bites is probably more regarded in that sense. Or The Breakfast Club.

My daughter and I randomly watched some kind of wonderful. She liked it.

 

[mattndallas]

I liked "Singles" better than "Before Sunrise"...at least I could relate to it more in my 20's.

Replace the Seattle locale with Dallas, and it was almost a carbon copy of our early 90's existence. I even lived in a 1930's retro complex...except we would hang at the San Francisco Rose bar instead of a coffee shop. 😄

 

[BradStevens]

Maybe. I'd say Reality Bites is probably more regarded in that sense. Or The Breakfast Club.

I wouldn't qualify The Breakfast Club as a Gen X movie. Think it has to be released in the 90s.

 

[Ohio Guy]

The defining Gen-X movie?

Listening to this really takes me back. IYKYK. The WC Movie Club will be shortlisting this for its inaugural selection:

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Maybe instead of a mountain, I’ll move to Europe and live on the train.

I saw that with my college girlfriend. I had quite the thing for Julie Delpy. To be fair, I'm sure my college girlfriend had a thing for Ethan Hawke too.

 

[Cortez88]

Singles, Clerks, and Slacker apply here.

 

[BradStevens]

Singles, Clerks, and Slacker apply here.

Dazed and Confused as well. Linklater is the director or our generation.

 

[mcmurtry66]

Singles, Clerks, and Slacker apply here.

I think those are 80s right? And @BradStevens i think quintessentially Gen. X movies are better captured with 80s movies. 90s is way different types. Pulp fiction goodfellas

 

[WhyisIUBBcursed]

I wouldn't qualify The Breakfast Club as a Gen X movie. Think it has to be released in the 90s.

Mid 80’s definitely gen X. If I’m gen X, that is. I was born in 1970 so I think I am?

 

[BradStevens]

I think those are 80s right? And @BradStevens i think quintessentially Gen. X movies are better captured with 80s movies. 90s is way different types. Pulp fiction goodfellas

Bruh, they're 90s movies.

Damn your movie knowledge is for shit.

 

[Baller23Boogie]

Singles, Clerks, and Slacker apply here.

You ever seen Hackers?

 

[BradStevens]

You ever seen Hackers?

Angelina's lips on the VHS cover in Blockbuster would excite me every time I saw it.

 

[mrhighlife]

I wouldn't qualify The Breakfast Club as a Gen X movie. Think it has to be released in the 90s.

Gen Xers were born from 1965 to 1980. the 80s highschool flicks would be Gen X coming of age stories.

 

[Cortez88]

Gen Xers were born from 1965 to 1980. the 80s highschool flicks would be Gen X coming of age stories.

Upon further reflection, I believe you are correct here.

 

[WhyisIUBBcursed]

Upon further reflection, I believe you are correct here.

You may be the first person in the history of these boards to admit you were wrong.

 

[BradStevens]

Gen Xers were born from 1965 to 1980. the 80s highschool flicks would be Gen X coming of age stories.

I get it, but just am thinking 90s movies.

This site agrees with you, though:

The Movies That Defined Generation X

We were an angsty lot with no internet to express our teenage selves on. These are the movies that meant everything.

www.denofgeek.com

 

[mcmurtry66]

I get it, but just am thinking 90s movies.

This site agrees with you, though:

The Movies That Defined Generation X

We were an angsty lot with no internet to express our teenage selves on. These are the movies that meant everything.

www.denofgeek.com

Ethan hawke was the face of that time

 

[mattndallas]

I get it, but just am thinking 90s movies.

This site agrees with you, though:

The Movies That Defined Generation X

We were an angsty lot with no internet to express our teenage selves on. These are the movies that meant everything.

www.denofgeek.com

"Swingers" also resonated.

Replace swing dancing with occasional forays into the country bars to two step and jitterbug, and the rest of it was kinda how we operated.

 

[mattndallas]

Singles, Clerks, and Slacker apply here.

Slacker...

Saw that at the Emerson Theater in Indy. Had to be the first Gen X introspective flick, right?