What movies captured the 2000s spirit at best? Listed films don't have to be the best, but must be pop culture defining.
Some movies are great, but they can be made in any other decade and don't define their own decade.
Like when you see a movie you immediately know in which decade it was made.
For example a great 80s movie would be "Back to the future" and a 90s movie would be "Clueless".
Here are my suggestions:
- Superbad (The ultimate coming of age 2000s film)
- The Dark Knight (Good guy fights terrorists - 2000s topic)
- Lord of the Rings 1,2,3 (Good vs. Evil - inspiring film for the times after 9/11)
- V for Vendetta (typical 2000s anti-Bush propaganda)
- Fahrenheit 9/11 (Anti-Bush propaganda at its best)
- The Day After Tomorrow (captures 2000s global warming mania)
- 2012 (captures late 2000s 2012 "end-of-world" craze)
- Spider-Man 1,2,3
- Harry Potter saga (the best 2000s kids films)
- All Pixar movies
- Pirates of the Caribbean 1,2,3 (the adventure films of the 2000s)
- 300 (The good westerners fight the holy war against the evil asian hordes, also started "This is Sparta!" phenomenon)
- Borat
- 8 Mile (captures Eminem and rap music popularity)
- High School Musical (cheesy 2000s musical)

What do you think are the most 2000s looking films out there?

Every movie made in the 2000s.  YAY!  I answered an easy question 8)

Do I win Double Jeopardy?

Garden State
American Dreamz

if you had taken the time to look at the front page of the boards or even the front page of the 2000's section you would see that someone asked a very similar question yesterday.... they asked for different reasons but still its a discussion you could still be having in that thread

http://www.inthe00s.com/index.php?topic=43879.msg2701400

Napoleon Dynamite

Also any of the "Frat Pack" movies (Semi-Pro, Dodgeball, etc). Theres something very 00s about those.

Fast and the Furious 1 and 2
Jackass 1 and 2
Iron Man
Superbad
Juno
The Girl Next Door
Donnie Darko
The Simpsons Movie
Bowling for Columbine
Supersize Me

if you had taken the time to look at the front page of the boards or even the front page of the 2000's section you would see that someone asked a very similar question yesterday.... they asked for different reasons but still its a discussion you could still be having in that thread

http://www.inthe00s.com/index.php?topic=43879.msg2701400

I saw it. Yes, its similar, but its specific just about early 00s.
Basically I modeled the topic on this: http://www.inthe00s.com/index.php?topic=41796.0
Sorry if I made trouble. :-[

Here is another one: White Chicks

it's not making trouble it just gets frustrating to come to the boards and find the same topics posted day after day.

it's not making trouble it just gets frustrating to come to the boards and find the same topics posted day after day.


I know what you mean Q.

bad Teacher

Borat.  In my opinion no movie defines '00s culture more than Borat.  Plus, it touched on all of the hot button social issues of the era.  Really captured the zeitgeist.

Superbad is the definitive movie on what it was like to be an average high schooler trapped in the suburbs in the mid 2000s (minus the extremely unrealistic relationship between Fogell and the cops). I think in 20-30 years its gonna be on the same level as Ferris Bueller in terms of cultural significance.

What movies captured the 2000s spirit at best? Listed films don't have to be the best, but must be pop culture defining.
Some movies are great, but they can be made in any other decade and don't define their own decade.
Like when you see a movie you immediately know in which decade it was made.
For example a great 80s movie would be "Back to the future" and a 90s movie would be "Clueless".
Here are my suggestions:
- Superbad (The ultimate coming of age 2000s film)
- The Dark Knight (Good guy fights terrorists - 2000s topic)
- Lord of the Rings 1,2,3 (Good vs. Evil - inspiring film for the times after 9/11)
- V for Vendetta (typical 2000s anti-Bush propaganda)
- Fahrenheit 9/11 (Anti-Bush propaganda at its best)
- The Day After Tomorrow (captures 2000s global warming mania)
- 2012 (captures late 2000s 2012 "end-of-world" craze)
- Spider-Man 1,2,3
- Harry Potter saga (the best 2000s kids films)
- All Pixar movies
- Pirates of the Caribbean 1,2,3 (the adventure films of the 2000s)
- 300 (The good westerners fight the holy war against the evil asian hordes, also started "This is Sparta!" phenomenon)
- Borat
- 8 Mile (captures Eminem and rap music popularity)
- High School Musical (cheesy 2000s musical)

What do you think are the most 2000s looking films out there?



Pretty much those movies you listed, plus Napoleon Dynamite. I can't think of any other ones to add. Maybe Wedding Crashers, The 40 Year Old Virgin, and Anchorman. Also the movie Just Friends took on the celebrity obsession that was big in the mid-00's.

Wes Anderson's films and the similar "quirky-indie" films that popped up throughout the 2000's would be typical for that decade I'd say. Juno, Lost in Translation, Little Miss Sunshine and Sideways are prime examples.

Then probably anchorman, 40 year old virgin and superbad will be the 3 comedy's which are associated with the time and the comedy style of that decade.

Supersize Me and Fahrenheit 9/11 for big documentaries.

Then for the big films that will be remembered or associated with the decade; A Beautiful Mind, Slumdog Millionaire, The Departed, The Wrestler, Brokeback Mountain, The Aviator, There Will Be Blood.

Then all the big biopics too; Ray, Capote, The Queen, Milk and Ali.

There what I would say will be associated with the decade in various genres. It is not so much one film which will define the decade but collections of similar genre films which gained great popularity. Quirky-indie pics, Frat-Pack Comedies, American pop-docs, Big-budget oscar winners and bio-pics.

In the more art house end of things the most memorable are probably; The Pianist, The White Ribbon, The Class and The Wind That Shakes the Barley.

I forgot about Avatar, since I almost thought it was a 2010's movie, but it was released in late 2009. It pretty much culturally defined the end of the decade, and it's now the top grossing film of all-time, taking the previous title from Titanic.

forrest gump was from 1994......

one non western animation that stands out is spirited away!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=6az9wGfeSgM

forrest gump was from 1994......

one non western animation that stands out is spirited away!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=6az9wGfeSgM


Sorry Fred that one was my fault.

Animated Movies:
Lilo & Stitch
Spirit Stallion of the Cimarron
Spirited Away
Wall-E
UP
Ice Age

Non-animated Movies:
Mean Girls
John Tucker Must Die
Bring it On
The Lizzie McGuire Movie
The Princess Diaries
Freaky Friday
Napoleon Dynamite
Little Miss Sunshine

nobody mentioned finding nemo!!!!

nobody mentioned finding nemo!!!!


LOL He did said "All Pixar Films".

Some of the biggest Pixar films during the decade were Monster's Inc. (2001), Finding Nemo (2003), Up (2009), WALL-E (2008), The Incredibles (2004), Ratatoullie (2007), Chicken Little (2005), and Bolt (2008)

Some of the biggest, most pop-culturally defining movies of the 2000's imo are The Lord of the Rings Trilogy, I Am Legend, Borat, Fahrenheit 9/11, An Inconvienent Truth, World Trade Center, Transformers, Spiderman Trilogy, 2012, Avatar, Halloween (2007), 300, the Pixar films, High School Musical, Drumline, Stomp The Yard, Romeo Must Die, The Dark Knight, King Kong (2005), Like Mike, The Day After Tomorrow, The 40-Year Old Virgin, Jackass 1 and 2, The Hangover, Rush Hour 2 and 3, Final Fantasy:The Spirits Within, Pirates of the Caribbean 1-3, Rugrats in Paris, Shrek 1-3, Ice Age 1-3, Madagascar 1 and 2, Hancock, The Chronicles of Narnia 1-2, Iron Man, Mamma Mia, Harry Potter, Twilight, The Passion of the Christ, Gladiator, Remember the Titans, March of the Penguins, Happy Feet, Snakes On A Plane, Casino Royale, War of the Worlds, Night At The Museum, Spirited Away, Resident Evil, Underworld, The Cheetah Girls, Death at a Funeral (2007), Dreamgirls, Fantastic Four, This Is It, Flags Of Our Fathers, Letters from Iwo Jima, Pearl Harbor, Gangs of New York, Harold & Kumar, Slumdog Millionaire, etc. I could go on and on and on!!!!  8)

Fast and the Furious 1 and 2
Jackass 1 and 2
Iron Man
Superbad
Juno
The Girl Next Door
Donnie Darko
The Simpsons Movie
Bowling for Columbine
Supersize Me


Absolutley The Fast And Furious and 2 Fast 2 Furious. I'd chuck in Tokyo Drift as well to represent the 2nd half of the decade.