ten films that define you as a generation

[sweetcell]

- jesus of montreal (first movie that made me realize that they can do more than just entertain)
 - le grand bleu
 - empire strikes back
 - best in show (first movie ever that i finished watching and immediately hit rewind to watch again)
 - napoleon dynamite (long story)
 - withnail and i (please please please add this to your netflix queue if you have never seen it)
 - fear and loathing in las vegas
 - the song remains the same (probably the movie i have seen the most often... yeah yeah, lemme guess: "that sure explains a lot"   :roll:   )
 - the dark crystal
 - so i married an ax murderer
 
 honorable mention: amateur german sluts vol. 14

[Vas Deferens]

Neverending Story
 Being There
 Mulholland Drive
 Raising Victor Vargas
 State and Main
 All About My Mother
 Edward Scissorhands
 Go
 Topsy Turvy
 Seven

[Relaxer]

Repo Man - all-time #1
 
 Polyester - all-time #2, and the funniest movie ever made
 
 Hedwig & Angry Inch - Brilliant movie, great soundtrack
 
 Dawn of the Dead (2004) -- don't hate, visuate
 
 Aliens
 
 Dr. Strangelove - Never gets old
 
 Blue Velvet
 
 Happiness - Hurts so good
 
 Lost in Translation -- Only saw it once, and have not wanted to see it again, but was very taken by that one viewing, with the J&MC at the end the perfect close.
 
 Saving Private Ryan -- Changed the way I think about war

[sonickteam2]

ok, in no order (of course) and i could probably change a few if i had hours to think on it.
 
 1. A Clockwork Orange
 2. Fight Club
 3. Suburbia (the old one, with Flea)
 4. Seven
 5. Blue Velvet
 6. American History X
 7. Four Rooms
 8. the Big Lebowski
 9. Wild At Heart
 10. National Lampoons Vacation

[edbert]

Brazil
 City Lights
 High Plains Drifter
 Fisher King
 Wizard Of Oz
 Clockwork Orange
 Sin City
 Grand Prix
 Fistful Of Dollars
 Planet Of The Apes (original)

[Mobius]

1. Vacation
 2. Drugstore Cowboy
 3. Dr. Strangelove
 4. Breathless
 5. L.A. Confidential
 6. Aguirre Wrath of God
 7. Happy Gilmore
 8. Anchorman
 9. Seven Samurai
 10. Pulp Fiction
 11. This is Spinal Tap

[PigIron]

I don't know if these are in perfect order - I didn't put enough time into it - but close.  They define me I guess more than "me as a generation" - although I'm not entirely sure what that means.
 
 Raising Arizona
 Office Space
 Jaws
 Animal House
 Trading Places
 Vacation
 Star Wars
 CB4
 Good Bad, and the Ugly
 Easy Money

[bellenseb]

No love for Kicking & Screaming? In terms of movies of "a generation" this has gotta be up there...

[Frank Gallagher]

I bet I've not been to the movies 10 times in 20 years...but these movies stick in my mind for one reason or another.
 
 Midnight Express
 One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest
 The Shining
 Easy Rider
 The Exorcist (original)
 *Pink Floyd live at Pompei
 **Driller Killer
 **I Spit On Your Grave
 Dead Man Walking
 Leaving Las Vegas
 
 
 * Not a Floyd fan but saw that movie 10 times in 5 days because I was collecting for charity during the intermission
 
 ** These were banned in the UK for violent content so we just HAD to get them onboard ship. Kind of lame really, both of them.

[Sage 703]

Originally posted by Mobius:
 11. This is Spinal Tap

Clever.

[vansmack]

Originally posted by vansmack:
  1. Star Wars
 2. Say Anything
 3. The Breakfast Club
 4. Super Troopers
 5. Bull Durham
 6. Slapshot
 7. Some later Western, probably Tombstone.
 8. Some WWII movie, maybe Patton or the Big Red One
 9. Swingers
 10. Singles

I'm already editing mine.
 
 
 1. Star Wars
 2. Say Anything
 3. The Breakfast Club
 4. Super Troopers
 5. Bull Durham
 6. Slapshot
 7. High Fidelity
 8. Clerks
 9. Swingers
 10. Singles

[Venerable Bede]

Originally posted by bellenseb:
  No love for Kicking & Screaming? In terms of movies of "a generation" this has gotta be up there...

yeah, i had completely forgot about that movie until last night when i was going over my list in my head.  and for some reason i missed holy grail and office space. . .

[ratioci nation]

Originally posted by Ever Circling Skeletal Family:
 
 **I Spit On Your Grave
 

that one scarred me, was fucked up

[HoyaSaxa03]

Originally posted by HoyaSaxa03:
  zoolander, especially, is a film that emotionally affects me on each viewing
 
 zoolander
 swingers
 rounders
 election
 the sting
 donnie darko
 full metal jacket
 the thin red line

EDIT (i dont know how i forgot office space, high fidelity, lebowski, and spinal tap)
 
 office space
 big lebowski
 zoolander
 swingers
 rounders
 election
 billy madison (good call callat)
 the thin red line
 this is spinal tap
 high fidelity
 
 'the new world' might replace 'the thin red line' in a couple of years ... both are pretty equally stunning, but i just haven't watched 'the new world' as much as 'the thin red line' yet

[Shadrach]

Movies I never get tired of and can watch time and time again:
 
 Raising Arizona
 Stalag 17
 The Great Escape
 True Romance
 O Brother, Where Art Thou?
 Wedding Crashers
 Black Hawk Down
 Cool Hand Luke
 Caddyshack
 The Professional