>"surely not challenger? cherynobl? reagan? aids? tear down
>this wall? cable television?"

>Why not? Kurt Cobain was only the end of Gen X. And here's a
>key mistake. You did an INTERNET SEARCH! Most Gen Xers aren't
>blogging or writing pop culture stuff and the ones that are
>remember the 90's better than the 80's.

maybe i phrased that poorly. i was saying challenger doesn't seem like it was important enough, but i hear it a lot. the i didn't mean a "surely not" for everything else that followed

and of course generation x uses the internet.


>
>>i mean i basically define my own generation as "people who
>>grew up with aids, sexual revolution, post-affirmative
>action
>>politics, environmentalism, etc as realities and not
>>movements, who understood people were scared of the cold war
>>but don't remember any of the tension personally, and came
>of
>>age as the internet came of age" but i don't have a precise
>>definition of x other than i'd think you'd have to remember
>a
>>good chunk of the cold war.
>
>So say a high school movie based in 1986 comes out that had
>some timeless themes but took place in a time of casual sex,
>Reagonomics, no internet, the new technology was the microwave
>and Atari, homosexuals were still deep in the closet, no AIDS.
>
>
>Again, even if that movie had some timeless themes of angst,
>love, what have you, would you think it defines your
>generation? Would you say "Now that is a Millenial Movie!"

my point is if a movie set in 1986 had come out when i was in high school, i can guarantee it would have approached that setting from a perspective that i could relate to, which would ultimately have a huge impact on how it told the story of "1986."

whether it was a millenial movie would depend entirely on how good a job was done with it. the moment for my generation has passed though. i'd consider 24-hour party a movie that people in my generation (that've seen it) would see as a movie that fit generation y sensibilities. same for boogie nights or blow.

i know a lot of kids in their teens and their teachers in the 2000s who idenitified with remember the titans, and it is very much a movie of this era, not a movie of the 1960s.