i wish that i could bake a cake made out
of rainbows and smiles and we'd all eat
be happy she doesn't even go here
welcome to watch mojo
and today we're counting down our picks
for the top 10 millennial movies
wow your shorts are like especially gold
today
my mom uses color safe bleach go carol
wait who are you
you know who i am i do you're friendly
neighborhood spiderman
for this list we'll be looking at films
that best represent generation y
which generally consists of people born
between 1981
and this doesn't just pertain to high
school comedies but also films that
showcased growing pop culture trends and
tech advances
what's your go-to millennial flick let
us know in the comments below
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number 10 easy a i'm never going to go
to puberty of course you will baby
but we're a family of late bloomers i
didn't until i was 14
nor did olive why does that matter i'm
adopted
what oh my god who told you
this teen comedy derives its title and
premise from the scarlet letter
although it arguably shares more in
common with the works of john hughes
easy a references films like the
breakfast club and ferris bueller's day
off but its mindset is more modern
this is reflected through the film's
framing device which finds emma stone's
olive addressing her audience via webcam
due in part to the internet millennials
are more open to broadcasting their
feelings and secrets compared to past
generations
i don't know what your generation's
fascination is with documenting your
every thought
but it can assure you they're not all
diamonds
olive uses this platform to clear up a
lie about her personal life
and critique the notion that losing
slash taking one's virginity is like
winning a prize
i don't know when it'll happen you know
maybe five minutes from now or
tonight or six months from now or maybe
on our wedding night
but the really amazing thing is
it is nobody's goddamn business she also
explores how young adults struggle with
self-esteem which can easily influence
their public perception
number 9. napoleon dynamite it was an
unlikely cultural phenomenon but for a
period in the mid-2000s
everyone under 30 was quoting napoleon
dynamite
tina you fat lard come get some dinner
chances are you saw more than one person
wearing a vote for pedro shirt as well
so why did this comedy click with
millennials in particular
the film came out around the same time
viral videos really started taking off
and its brand of offbeat humor
definitely seems like something you'd
see on early youtube
as strange as napoleon's world is it
captured a zeitgeist composed of online
dating and the backstreet boys
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the comedy spoke to a generation of
nerdy underdogs who were seen as losers
in high school but went on to be
extremely successful
napoleon does kind of look like mark
zuckerberg
number eight juno there was a time when
teen pregnancy was rarely talked about
in popular media
and when the subject did come up it
usually led to melodrama
by the late 2000s though more people
started to see teen pregnancy in a
progressive light
and juno reflected that shifting
attitude a key example is when juno
tells her parents of the bun in her oven
i'm gonna give it up for adoption and i
already found the perfect couple
they're gonna pay for the medical
expenses and everything and
what 30 or odd weeks we can just pretend
that this
never happened you're pregnant
they don't shame juno or tell her what
to do they're caught off guard
but juno's parents are generally
supportive of her decision to find an
adoptive family
first things first all right we have to
get you healthy you need prenatal
vitamins
incidentally they do incredible things
for your nails so that's a plus
oh and we need to schedule a doctor's
appointment figure out where you're
going to deliver
you know i'm coming with you to meet
this adoption couple
the interaction is almost casual which
feels oddly authentic in the 21st
century
diablo cody's dialogue while not exactly
accurate to how teenagers speak
also feels very much like a product of
generation y but oh no we should
just make out instead la la la
you just you just take katrina the
douche packer to prom i'm sure you two
will have like a real [ __ ] in time
number seven spider-man
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from blockbusters like batman to
saturday morning cartoons like
x-men superheroes played a major role in
shaping generation y
the superhero genre was propelled to
another level of popularity with 2002
spider-man
kicking off multiple trends that remain
prevalent even today
since spider-man became a pop culture
sensation that year there was not only a
new found appreciation for comic books
but also those who regularly read comic
books this guy
flash thompson he probably deserved what
happened
but just because you can beat him up
it doesn't give you the right to
remember with great power comes great
responsibility
suddenly the millennials who collected
comics in grade school were treated less
like dweebs and more like
gatekeepers to a whole new world of
content just as peter parker went from
zero to hero
many 80s and 90s kids were emerging from
their figurative cocoons as well
wait who are you
you know who i am i do you friendly
neighborhood spider-man
thus spider-man connected with
millennials in more ways than one
number six garden state although this
critical darling has seen something of a
backlash in recent years
there's a reason why garden state still
resonates with millennials
zach braff's angsty yet artistic
direction takes us back to an era where
emo culture was materializing
upon release many teens and
20-somethings couldn't help but see
themselves in braff's andrew
a depressed introvert struggling with
mental health and prescription drugs
and the paxils zoloft celexa
debico did they uh help you at all
no garden state does offer some simple
solutions to andrew's complicated issues
hence the contemporary criticisms if i
get to be with this person right here
and our beautiful baby
that's all i need at its core though
there is an inspirational message about
coming out of one shell
and finding sunshine even during a rainy
day
sure the message may not be as profound
as it thinks it is but that doesn't make
people enjoy it any less
number five mean girls we had seen the
archetype before but mean girls have
changed since the 80s
and this comedy was among the first to
reflect that regina george is far from
the nicest girl
but like her fellow plastics were
strangely drawn to her charms
you're like really pretty thank you so
you agree
what you think you're really pretty she
feels less like another cartoon bully
and more like somebody every millennial
went to high school with
the same can be said about katie who
demonstrates how easily clicks can
change a person
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tina fey's screenplay is as witty as it
is honest
navigating through teenage drama and its
effects on teenage girls of the time in
surprisingly insightful ways so why are
you still
messing with regina katie i'll tell you
why cause you are a mean girl
you're a [ __ ] millennials still quote
me and girls years later
not only because it's hilarious but
because it also speaks to their inner
teen
i wish that i could bake a cake made out
of rainbows and smiles and we'd all eat
be happy she doesn't even go here number
four
scott pilgrim vs the world it may have
bombed at the box office but scott
pilgrim maintains a passionate following
even a decade after its release
millennials have given the film a second
life and we can see why
the movie is wrapped up in nostalgia
with visuals inspired by 80s video games
behind the retro aesthetic there's a
moral about growing as a human being
scott represents the entitled side of
the millennial mindset
lusting after ramona flowers while
neglecting the feelings of others
somebody always gets hurt what about you
and that girl knives who broke up with
who
i believe i broke up with her and was
she cool with that
knives is with young neil now she's
totally cool with it although scott does
get the girl in typical happy ending
fashion
he also learns to be a better friend and
person in general
furthermore he re-evaluates his own
self-worth thus achieving
self-actualization
this fat ass hurt and i will let my
revenge no knives i hurt you
i cheated on you i cheated on both of
you
i'm really sorry while acclaimed from
the get-go
scott pilgrim is wiser than many
initially realized
number three boyhood filmed over the
course of 12 years
boyhood follows mason evans jr from age
6 to age 18.
just as we see this character mature
before our eyes millennials are bound to
have flashbacks to their own childhoods
richard linklater's film touches upon so
many of the trends that define
generation y
from dragon ball z harry potter to
britney spears
oops there's so much more to boyhood
than references however
what it really nails is the experience
of growing up in this era
and the bonds formed along the way
mason's relationships with his
hard-working mother
slacker father and older sister feel too
real to be fiction
you said that was in my car when i
turned 16.
what no i didn't i never said that
i remember i was in third grade in the
end the film isn't really about mason so
much as it's about
every millennial number two super bad
on the surface superbad seems like a
standard teen comedy
about three high school seniors trying
to acquire booze and hook up with girls
superbad is every bit as raunchy as its
predecessors but what separates the film
from sex comedies of the past is its
thoughtfulness
you promise becca you get her alcohol if
you don't she's gonna have a shitty
night
that's all i'm saying come on doing away
with some tropes that would be construed
is problematic today
superbad has genuine respect for its
characters
gross out gags and profanity aside the
film is surprisingly progressive in its
portrayal of friendship and romance
falling in line with millennial values
i'm so drunk
i can't even like process this and um
you're really pretty and i just think
this isn't how i pictured it it helps
that seth rogen and evan goldberg are
both millennials themselves
basing the screenplay on their own
experiences growing up we just wanted to
show you that
you know cops can have a fun time too
you know
you know in a way i think we wanted to
show ourselves
producer judd apatow while himself not a
millennial
understands the generation better than
many others do
before we unveil our number one pick
here are a few honorable mentions
toy story every millennial grew up with
these toys
reach for the sky
500 days of summer the millennial
equivalent to annie hall
i love the smiths sorry i said i love
the smiths
american pie gen y's first slice of teen
sex comedy
this is the this is the uh female form
and uh
they have focused on the breasts which
are
used primarily to feed young
infants ladybird greta gerwig truly gets
this generation
you know with your work ethic just go to
city college and then to jail and then
back to city college and then maybe
you'd learn to pull yourself off
and not expect everybody to do
everything eight mile
few things scream gen y like eminem and
mom spaghetti
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number one the social network you're
gonna go through life thinking that
girls don't like you
because you're a nerd and i want you to
know from the bottom
of my heart that that won't be true
it'll be because you're an [ __ ]
millennials will commonly be known as
the tech savvy generation
and no film better represents this than
the social network
it's surreal to think that anybody born
after 2004 will have no idea what life
was like before facebook
if you guys were the inventors of
facebook you'd have invented facebook
millennials were at the forefront of its
creation however david fincher's film
explores how college dropout mark
zuckerberg
became the youngest self-made
billionaire at 23
where gordon gekko defined the baby
boomer era jesse eisenberg's portrayal
of zuckerberg reveals how millennials
have risen up as some of the most
influential
powerful and controversial people on the
planet and i'll bet what you hated the
most
is that they identified me as a
co-founder of facebook
which i am you better lawyer up [ __ ]
because i'm not coming back for 30
i'm coming back for everything aaron
sorkin's screenplay plays out in
shakespearean fashion
but with a millennial voice touching
upon everything from the internet to
entitlement
the social network captures a
game-changing moment in time
you're not an [ __ ] mark
you're just trying so hard to be do you
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