>look, the whole power of dazed and confused and the wonder
>years when they step beyond the timeless issues stuff is that
>they share a perspective with the audience on what those
>things mean.
>
>dazed and confused is dismissive of 70s politics but not 70s
>counterculture, for example. its saying, if we had been around
>then, this is how we would have handled ourselves. or if a
>movie or show is set in the past and the characters commit to
>some sort of behavior or attitude that people in the consuming
>culture wouldn't agree with, its done with a wink at the
>audience. see, forrest gump.
>
>they share that perspective with the audience intended to
>consume that media in 1993 or 1990 or whatever.
>
>understanding how the generation before you is different from
>you, filtering out the parts that don't matter to you,
>creating a narrative of how they got it right and what it all
>meant, thats part of defining YOUR generation.

Seriously. Just stop. This is nonsense. Dazed and Confused would still be loved by Millenials if it came out today and probably would have been loved by the late boomers. (Christ, most films critics are boomers and they loved it).

Your definition of a Gen X movie is basically a movie that people in Gen X like and came out when they were old enough to get it.

So again, Shakespeare in Love might as well count.

EDIT: Oh, and you're wrong about Wonder Years. Baby Boomers loved it as well. They ate that shit up. It wasn't shaped by one generation's POV. THAT'S what you really don't get and apparently can't ever open yourself up to even thinking about.