Taken features an American shooting a bunch of foreigners to save the virtue of a white woman. but maybe that's timeless.
― stay in school if you want to kiw (Gukbe), Saturday, 21 April 2012 21:26 (twelve years ago) link
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.
― does Red Stripe work like poppers? (Abbbottt), Saturday, 21 April 2012 21:27 (twelve years ago) link
yeah was thinking Fast & The Furious would be a good one too, esp for the first half of the decade xxxp
― Chris S, Saturday, 21 April 2012 21:29 (twelve years ago) link
ohmigod that step up trailer
― stay in school if you want to kiw (Gukbe), Saturday, 21 April 2012 21:29 (twelve years ago) link
They missed a trick by calling it Step Up Revolution instead of Occupy Step Up.
― Potty Problems (Deric W. Haircare), Saturday, 21 April 2012 21:30 (twelve years ago) link
that trailer is sooo cheeeesy
― Chris S, Saturday, 21 April 2012 21:33 (twelve years ago) link
so bascially 00s was performance art and 10s is protest art.
― stay in school if you want to kiw (Gukbe), Saturday, 21 April 2012 21:34 (twelve years ago) link
or Dance Dance Revolution: The Movie xxp
― Chris S, Saturday, 21 April 2012 21:36 (twelve years ago) link
Brokeback Mountain
― Jeff, Saturday, 21 April 2012 22:39 (twelve years ago) link
http://www.filmcheck.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/southland-tales-movie.jpg
― johnny crunch, Saturday, 21 April 2012 23:04 (twelve years ago) link
otm
― 1staethyr, Saturday, 21 April 2012 23:11 (twelve years ago) link
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.
― fix it with like some music glue (Trayce), Saturday, 21 April 2012 23:20 (twelve years ago) link
well, not in box office but yeah
― stay in school if you want to kiw (Gukbe), Saturday, 21 April 2012 23:22 (twelve years ago) link
So actually in that line of thinking perhaps the answer should be some Uwe Boll POS. ha.
― fix it with like some music glue (Trayce), Saturday, 21 April 2012 23:23 (twelve years ago) link
i accidentally domed your son, of course
― a big fat fucking fat guy in a barrel what could be better? (Eisbaer), Sunday, 22 April 2012 00:08 (twelve years ago) link
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?
― dell (del), Sunday, 22 April 2012 00:23 (twelve years ago) link
*starts work on four loko: the movie*
― johnny crunch, Sunday, 22 April 2012 00:25 (twelve years ago) link
haha
basically the '00's for me are one huge blur of Paris Hilton, electroclash and four loko
― dell (del), Sunday, 22 April 2012 00:33 (twelve years ago) link
obv answer that fits jaymc's first post is Napoleon Dynamite
― World Congress of Itch (Dr Morbius), Sunday, 22 April 2012 00:38 (twelve years ago) link
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...)
― Toity Troubles (Deric W. Haircare), Sunday, 22 April 2012 00:42 (twelve years ago) link
napolean dynamite is super musically zeitgeisty, the biggest band of the 00s stole their look from the movie
― iatee, Sunday, 22 April 2012 00:44 (twelve years ago) link
arctic monkeys?
― johnny crunch, Sunday, 22 April 2012 00:46 (twelve years ago) link
Oh my gosh, that's who Chris Martin looks like! I can't believe I never saw it before!
― Toity Troubles (Deric W. Haircare), Sunday, 22 April 2012 00:47 (twelve years ago) link
It's like a Magic Eye picture. Totally kicking myself now.
― Toity Troubles (Deric W. Haircare), Sunday, 22 April 2012 00:48 (twelve years ago) link
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...
― Andrew Farrell, Sunday, 22 April 2012 01:27 (twelve years ago) link
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.
― Andrew Farrell, Sunday, 22 April 2012 01:32 (twelve years ago) link
hmpf u know the right answer 2 this is prob Borat
― johnny crunch, Sunday, 22 April 2012 01:35 (twelve years ago) link
As with so much else, the short answer is "the internet."
― improvised explosive advice (WmC), Sunday, 22 April 2012 01:49 (twelve years ago) link
I hate to say it. Garden state.
― Jeff, Sunday, 22 April 2012 01:53 (twelve years ago) link
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)
― Chris S, Sunday, 22 April 2012 02:01 (twelve years ago) link
Less Than Zero (80s)Fear (90s)Havoc (00s)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Souw6eHCruU
― caro's johnson (Eazy), Sunday, 22 April 2012 03:47 (twelve years ago) link
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― yuppie bullshit chocolate blogbait (contenderizer), Sunday, 22 April 2012 03:54 (twelve years ago) link
oh man Havoc is terrible
― stay in school if you want to kiw (Gukbe), Sunday, 22 April 2012 04:39 (twelve years ago) link
Is Havoc JGL?
― sockless in moccasins (jaymc), Sunday, 22 April 2012 09:02 (twelve years ago) link
OK wait Barbara Kopple of Harlan County USA fame directed a remake of Thirteen starring Anne Hathaway as Evan Rachel Wood?
― sockless in moccasins (jaymc), Sunday, 22 April 2012 09:04 (twelve years ago) link
By the screenwriter of Traffic??
Channing Tatum AND Laura San Giacomo? What?
Does Havoc get all Crazy/Beautiful at any point?
― sockless in moccasins (jaymc), Sunday, 22 April 2012 09:06 (twelve years ago) link
I think this question is difficult because there are a shitload of movies from the 00s that are actually consciously reaching for iconic status, if not in a Saturday Night Fever way then certainly in a Breakfast Club/Ferris Bueller's day off way. Donnie Darko being probably the most obvious example. There are also films like Superbad that have an iconic character but aren't necessarily iconic in their own right.
This is excluding the massive blockbuster action adventure films because it clearly isn't one of those.
Napoleon Dynamite is a pretty good call actually. If there's any one cinematic or socio-cultural narrative I'd use to sum up the 00s it's 'geeks inherit the earth'.
― Homosexual Satan Wasp (Matt DC), Sunday, 22 April 2012 12:46 (twelve years ago) link
Juno is a good nom for 'modern zeitgeisty soundtrack. I went to see my friend's high school students perform music and short plays at a downtown street fair on Friday. That anemic little Moldy Peaches song from Juno came on between plays and EVERY SINGLE KID sang along with it really loudly. I thought, oh shit, it's a generation anthem (surprising to me since the song sounds like it's embarrassed to exist, but these kids were BELTING IT).
― does Red Stripe work like poppers? (Abbbottt), Sunday, 22 April 2012 15:19 (twelve years ago) link
Yeah, I feel like we should probably be deferring to teenagers on this one. I doubt somewhat that the olds in the '80s were suggesting The Breakfast Club as an iconic movie of that decade ("Well, clearly, the correct answer is Hannah and Her Sisters.")
― Toity Troubles (Deric W. Haircare), Sunday, 22 April 2012 16:15 (twelve years ago) link
the scene in havoc where anne hathaway and bijou phillips sing along to "can i get a..." is definitely emblematic of *something* about the 00s.
― jesus christ (strongo hulkington's ghost dad), Sunday, 22 April 2012 16:18 (twelve years ago) link
we should probably be deferring to teenagers on this one.
Yeah. They have more of a tribal identity thing going, so they are more likely to even have an answer to this question. For contrast, would any of us be able to pick an 'iconic movie' for the decade of the 1930s? And if we did name one, would anyone who was alive then agree with us?
My own sense of the 00s is completely disengaged from the few movies I saw in theaters. To me they were just a means of spending 100 to 130 minutes being entertained. I never expected to be given a dose of the zeitgeist for the price of my ticket.
― Aimless, Sunday, 22 April 2012 16:34 (twelve years ago) link
I suggested people in their 20s/30s--I think you need some historical perspective for a question like this.
― clemenza, Sunday, 22 April 2012 16:54 (twelve years ago) link
ask generation spongebob, the answer will be spongebob.
― Philip Nunez, Sunday, 22 April 2012 17:06 (twelve years ago) link
isn't it more comforting to find that there is no longer a single movie to speak to a generational audience, though? i'd feel really bad if any of sat night fever, breakfast club, or reality bites encapsulated anything about me or my peers.
― Philip Nunez, Sunday, 22 April 2012 17:11 (twelve years ago) link
http://allthatcomeswithit.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/8003-262282.jpeg
― yuppie bullshit chocolate blogbait (contenderizer), Sunday, 22 April 2012 17:14 (twelve years ago) link
This is a really puzzling question. All of the biggest grossing films tend to be pulp exercises. In that Roger Corman documentary by the end of it they say that Hollywood has focused on previously cult-level exploitation pop films.
― Emperor Cos Dashit (Adam Bruneau), Sunday, 22 April 2012 21:21 (twelve years ago) link
King of Kong
― Jeff, Sunday, 22 April 2012 22:53 (twelve years ago) link
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."
Based on this, I would say that the most "LOL 00s" movie is Live Free or Die Hard, where the bad guys are able to manipulate to entire American infrastructure, including every traffic light and some random lights in a traffic tunnel, via hacking them through the internet. Also, it's a sequel that turns a late 80s/90s action hero who was defined as an everyman character into a cool, badass übermensch, which seems apt for 00s blockbusters.
― Tuomas, Monday, 23 April 2012 12:12 (twelve years ago) link