What is the iconic movie of the '00s?

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

Sisterhood of the Travelling Pants will surely be a campus staple in the late 2010s.

Superbad/Hangover/Knocked Up

I think comedies have a larger effect on mass culture than other genres

Anchorman kinda fits. Although, again, it pretty heavily references a different time period. Nostalgia is fairly prevalent in '00s (and '10s) culture, though.

My personal answer for this is STEALTH because the ridic intelligent plane is suddenly "downloading all the music on the entire net!" Or maybe Fast & The Furious first for similar reasons, remember the VW dude was famed for being able to "find out anything about anyone on the internet."

At least we have the '10s one settled early:

http://youtu.be/gdamC7jUrjs

Fast and the Furious probably represents a specific 00s culture better than anything else. Also its very racially progressive.

Thought Mean Girls was a good suggestion, too.

'10s is surely FRED: THE MOVIE

Dammit.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gdamC7jUrjs

Taken features an American shooting a bunch of foreigners to save the virtue of a white woman. but maybe that's timeless.

I really love all the Fast & the Furious movies! I was defs having some p disgusting 10 years ago nostalgia the other night after too much wine, watching Missy and Luda clips on vid, wishing I had a copy of 2 Fast 2 Furious.

yeah was thinking Fast & The Furious would be a good one too, esp for the first half of the decade xxxp

ohmigod that step up trailer

They missed a trick by calling it Step Up Revolution instead of Occupy Step Up.

that trailer is sooo cheeeesy

so bascially 00s was performance art and 10s is protest art.

or Dance Dance Revolution: The Movie xxp

Brokeback Mountain

http://www.filmcheck.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/southland-tales-movie.jpg

otm

Scott Pilgrim is a good suggestion, pop zeitgeist wise. After all, this was the decade video gaming really became a big, mainstream thing and it kinda reflects that.

well, not in box office but yeah

So actually in that line of thinking perhaps the answer should be some Uwe Boll POS. ha.

i accidentally domed your son, of course

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).

Now hold on just a dad-blamed minute there. Are you really suggesting in good conscience that a film based around AriZona Iced Teas is a bad thing?

*starts work on four loko: the movie*

haha

basically the '00's for me are one huge blur of Paris Hilton, electroclash and four loko

obv answer that fits jaymc's first post is Napoleon Dynamite

Yeah, but there's nothing very musically zeitgeist-y about Napoleon Dynamite. Although I have trouble thinking of a single movie from the '00s with a soundtrack that stands out in the iconic way that, say, easily a dozen '80s movie soundtracks did.

(Witness a flood of examples of iconic '00s soundtracks in 3...2...)

napolean dynamite is super musically zeitgeisty, the biggest band of the 00s stole their look from the movie

arctic monkeys?

Oh my gosh, that's who Chris Martin looks like! I can't believe I never saw it before!

It's like a Magic Eye picture. Totally kicking myself now.

Although I have trouble thinking of a single movie from the '00s with a soundtrack that stands out in the iconic way that, say, easily a dozen '80s movie soundtracks did.

See this is where Philip Nunez's suggestion of sneaking in The Matrix works...

Zeitgeisty by fiat: High School Musical.

But yeah I don't think music in film works the same way as it used to, though I couldn't say why right now.

hmpf u know the right answer 2 this is prob Borat

But yeah I don't think music in film works the same way as it used to, though I couldn't say why right now.

As with so much else, the short answer is "the internet."

I hate to say it. Garden state.

yeah trying to think of a movie that was known for its soundtrack or a particular (new) song, and all I can think of is maybe Garden State with that Shins song

as far as something more pop, eh maybe Fast and the Furious w a Ludacris song or something?

I dunno, maybe the 00s are an unusual case, because as open-minded as you want to be, pop culture from the Hilton/reality tv era may have been so lame/embarassing/insubstantial/moronic/derivative that what mattered really wasn't at the center, and looking there could be missing the point... (I like Ludacris, but the bloated crossover dreck the film industry produced for the pop audience in the 00s seems to be the kind of bloated trash you can only enjoy in the way that you might enjoy a big budget Nic Cage flick. hard to say still, but I think that the 80s were maybe just objectively better at making loveable pop movies)

Less Than Zero (80s)
Fear (90s)
Havoc (00s)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Souw6eHCruU

hmpf u know the right answer 2 this is prob Borat

― johnny crunch, Saturday, April 21, 2012 6:35 PM (2 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

oh man Havoc is terrible

Is Havoc JGL?

OK wait Barbara Kopple of Harlan County USA fame directed a remake of Thirteen starring Anne Hathaway as Evan Rachel Wood?

By the screenwriter of Traffic??