What is the iconic movie of the '00s?

I'm sort taking it as "Lazy sitcoms of 2030 will use 'you look like you stepped off the set of _______' as a way to signify 'you look very 00s'"

Also yeah iatee completely otm regarding we are being asked to guess who will have 'won' the 00s, there were lots of other 70s/80s/90s.

trying to get a grasp on the 00s... so maybe 911, Paris Hilton, Reality TV, Internet 2.0, mega-Capitalism/pre-recession/bubble, Crunk, Post-Grunge, autotune, Emo/Scene/Mall-__, meme culture, Napster/file-sharing, digitalization, movie/tv remakes, teenpop, RnB, country, American Idol, and a growing awareness of/argument around hipsters/'indie' culture...

oh yeah, and 'metrosexual'

there's probably a Scary Movie sequel that covers most of those bases for you

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No, hold up, I got this:

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Bah

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What sprang to my mind on reading the title befor I'd got the thread open was Avatar.

Knocked Up maybe. Or Remember Me (though it's 2010).

Oh, who are we kidding. It's Twilight.

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― some dude, Saturday, April 21, 2012 12:48 PM (20 seconds ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

think we have a winner

wall-e

― iatee, Saturday, April 21, 2012 11:56 AM (52 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Upon reflection, I think it might be really telling that the task of ferreting out a clearly iconic, low-key iconic comedy/drama film of the '00s is nigh-insurmountable given the huge number of big, dumb, and loud action movies that infiltrated the popular consciousness of the decade.

Avatar is interesting to me because despite being THE BIGGEST MOVIE OF ALL TIME it feels like kind of a lower-mid sized on the pop culture icon radar, like everyone vaguely remembers there were big blue people hahaha but it doesn't actually come up as a reference much since like 3 months after it left theaters

Team America?

Paul Haggis is reading this thread and crying.

apparently there was a movie called Remember Me, which was not aptly named

If you want to know why Transformers wouldn't work in 1986, watch Super 8.

Visually the Transformers films are basically impressive feats in CGI (and, to give Bay credit, shot composition) but have no understanding of editing, sense, or narrative cohesion. The encapsulation of Chaos Cinema, which is much more advanced than even Armageddon's nonsensical style and far more Head-Crushing than Independence Day (which relied a lot on models, which seems so quaint now).

It's also an update of that Spielbergian/80s boy-and-his-alien/robot story, only now the boy is an entitled, annoying late-teenager who complains about the car his father buys for him, and finds something to complain about constantly from there on out (there's a scene where he's riding a bike and its played for lols). Instead of using his alien/robot to understand something about himself, he just defines all of his importance by his association with those aliens (it's also how he wins the girl). Speaking of girls, every female is presented as though she were on a Maxim shoot - all fetishized hotness and cold, sleek machines.

Also you have the gung-ho, hoor-ah military-industrial complex glorifying, and the first two films feature bad-ass but NOBLE American Soldiers kicking ass in the Middle East while making nice with the locals, who love them and the fact that they are there.

So soulless consumerism replaces more traditional heroic virtues, all of which is wholly inconsequential because the entire purpose of these films is bash the audience over the head with SPECTACLE and OH SHIT AWESOMENESS.

Not to mention that this is based on a toy, and its sequel was basically rushed into production and filmed without a finished script. 00s was defined by sequels and genreal studio cowardice when it came to backing original properties.

As far as America's collective dream-life in the 2000s, Hostel and Hostel: Part II.

― caro's johnson (Eazy), Saturday, April 21, 2012 2:18 PM (34 minutes ago)

^^^ One of the Saw or Hostel movies was my first thought.

Looking back in a decade or so, Idiocracy may stand out as iconic of the decade. Although obviously not exactly part of the popular consciousness of the time.

'gerry' or 'brand upon the brain!'

In a decade or so, even Mike Judge isn't going to be able to remember Idiocracy.

Harold and Kumar Go to Whitecastle

this is the correct answer.

'borne movies' is also the correct answer.

is there any '00s movie star who's as iconic of their decade as Travolta for the 70s or, like, Brad Pitt for the '90s? Mean Girls prob gets points for being a time capsule of Lohan as star-not-trainwreck

Double bill of Traffic / Ocean's Eleven?

The iconic movie of the popular imagination isn't going to be one whose crappiness reflects the currently perceived crappiness of the decade - it's going to be one that we nostalgize over, which is why it's connected with youth.

The iconic movie of the popular imagination isn't going to be one whose crappiness reflects the currently perceived crappiness of the decade - it's going to be one that we nostalgize over, which is why it's connected with youth.

― Träumerei, Saturday, April 21, 2012 1:01 PM (1 minute ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

then... LOTR or Spirited Away?

Oh Bring It On then.

Actually yeah, the question's wrong, and the answer's Buffy.

i dunno. lots of 'iconic' movies of the 80s feature some lol80s aesthetics that i think people define with the decade more than the quality of the film. xpost

the question is wrong and the answer is the youtube clip 'the evolution of dance'

also surely 00s is the decade that saw the death of the Big Star who can carry any movie. Ocean's films feel like a throwback because of their starpower.

http://www.entertainmentwallpaper.com/images/desktops/movie/448.jpg

what are like the 00s equivalents of Labyrinth, Princess Bride, Goonies, Ferris Bueler etc, nostalgia/cult-wise

I'm sort taking it as "Lazy sitcoms of 2030 will use 'you look like you stepped off the set of _______' as a way to signify 'you look very 00s'"

So, Napoleon Dynamite.

in 2030 we'll always be watching a 4 minute video out of the corner of our google glasses and we'll be asking "wtf is a moovee?"

that fits the pattern jaymc set more than most itt xp

The Hangover kinda feels like it could fit the bill.

I'm finding it way easier to think of iconic '00s TV shows (Lost, The Wire, The Sopranos, 24, any number or reality shows (ugh)) than movies.

I'm sort taking it as "Lazy sitcoms of 2030 will use 'you look like you stepped off the set of _______' as a way to signify 'you look very 00s'"

So, Napoleon Dynamite.

― Andrew Farrell, Saturday, April 21, 2012 1:11 PM (1 minute ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

yeah, I'm kind of thinking that 00s mass culture was so generic that people are more likely going to look to hipster culture for 00s cues - so yeah Napoleon Dynamite and Royal Tenenbaums

for the time being I'm still thinking my answer would probably be Transformers on one pole, Royal Tenenbaums on the other

I'm finding it way easier to think of iconic '00s TV shows (Lost, The Wire, The Sopranos, 24, any number or reality shows (ugh)) than movies.

surely because of content and production methods this would be the case for any decade?

would it be cheating to say Hannah Montana The Movie or The Lizzie McGuire Movie?

Can we not just settle on this question meaning "what is the lol 00s movie?"?

Prolly something with dancing like Step Up or Stomp The Yard or Stick It or Come At Me, Bro.

'lol 00s': 300

Allowing for historical movies. Actually, I withdraw it.

doesn't fit the criteria of this thread, but Children of Men was a very 00s movie from a gloomy perspective

little miss sunshine might be aiming for this, idk

but looking at youth culture, yeah juno or superbad or maybe scott pilgrim

The most iconic movie of the '00s is probably whichever remake was the most unnecessary and perfunctory and yet still hugely popular. Actually, the Pirates of the Caribbean movies kinda fit that bill in a way, inasmuch as it marked the point when the remake/adaptation virus devolved to the point of adapting amusement park rides (a devolution which continues with the upcoming slew of films based on Milton Bradley board games and then, one assumes, different varieties of soft drinks).

inception, the dark knight?

The Hostels have both lolbros and lol-technology and the big xenophobia.

but looking at youth culture, yeah juno or superbad or maybe scott pilgrim

― diafiyhm (darraghmac), Saturday, April 21, 2012 4:40 PM (9 minutes ago) Bookmark

or youth in revolt, or year one, or paper heart

Anyway, Reality Bites might've been the 90s movie for Americans, but for Europeans it was surely Trainspotting, right? I can't remember any other movie whose themes, style, soundtrack, etc were so iconic of its era.

otm

So true. CF every student's bedroom wall.

(Reality Bites was a tongue in cheek suggestion though right? Like, even back then wasn't it seen as try-hard..?)