>>you can't make a movie about a generation of people using
>the
>>backdrop of a totally different generation.
>
>says who?
>


says the definition of Movie genres. I couldn't make a movie in downtown Chicago tomorrow morning and call it a Western, now could I?


The setting itself, is a character, potna.



>>a Generation X film is made with people and settings that
>>would have still been ( for lack of a better term)
>'relevant'
>>in the 90's. like "Singles" or some other shit like that.
>
>
>weak analysis man... really weak. I'm not saying that Dazed
>didn't tap into the socio cultural atmosphere that surrounded
>the 70s... but the shit also had a foot in the 90s


but you can't call a film set in the 70's a Gen X film. Unless the characters in that film were toddlers or pre-teens. and you'd STILL have to have some 80's shit in there to call it a 'coming-of-age' film. There's NO way you could get it done if it was set in the 70's.


>
>there was nothing uniquely 70s about that movie... with
>slight changes it could have been made about the 80s 90s and
>2000s because it just tapped into timeless youthful angst.


soundtrack and costumes, notwithstanding, I assume?


1. Rock & Roll, Hoochie Koo - Rick Derringer
2. Slow Ride - Foghat
3. School's Out - Alice Cooper
4. Jim Dandy - Black Oak Arkansas
5. Tush - ZZ Top
6. Love Hurts - Nazareth
7. Stranglehold - Ted Nugent
8. Cherry Bomb - The Runaways
9. Fox On The Run - Sweet
10. Low Rider - War
11. Tuesday's Gone - Lynyrd Skynyrd
12. Highway Star - Deep Purple
13. Rock And Roll All Night - Kiss
14. Paranoid - Black Sabbath


dude, ALL that shit was recorded in the 1970's. When most Gen X'ers were kids, if not babies. Are you seriously trying to say that Ted Nugent and Deep Purple were the soundtrack to the Generation X movement? If so we might as well do away with 1989-2000.

Where's the Grunge? Where's the Hip-Hop? Where's the Dance music?


there's NOTHING remotely Gen X about that soundtrack. NOTHING.