What is the iconic movie of the '00s?

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

or Dance Dance Revolution: The Movie xxp

Brokeback Mountain

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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)

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hmpf u know the right answer 2 this is prob Borat

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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??

Channing Tatum AND Laura San Giacomo? What?

Does Havoc get all Crazy/Beautiful at any point?

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'.

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).

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.")

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.

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.

I suggested people in their 20s/30s--I think you need some historical perspective for a question like this.

ask generation spongebob, the answer will be spongebob.

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.

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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.

King of Kong

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.

Batman!

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.

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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..?)