The 50s, 60s, 70s, 80s, and 90s, all feel like discrete periods

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the internet basically threw all culture into a blender and the result has been a sloppy mess for the last 17 years.

Spring Breakers
Inherent Vice
La la land
Synedoche new york

basically any film that is self referential and nihilistic

we are the SCIENCE! generation. we are the MULTITASK generation. we are the FANTASY generation. we have so many attributes, don't jump on the hate bandwagon because you are too blind to see.

>>82041922
You have to go back

>>82042856
Pretty much. At least past 2007-ish.

>>82041922
I feel like the 2000s had a distinct feel to them, especially pre-smart phone. Movies like Collateral, Bad Boys II, the Fast and the Furious 1 and 2. There was a definite 2000s personality, not much different from the 90s but it was there.

I can't really tell the difference between 60's and 79's save for Vietnam stuff

>>82041922
I disagree. Bush Years definitely feel different from Obama years and so on

>>82043531
Add Dude Where's My Car to that. I do feel the early 2000's up to where smartphones and the internet started becoming truly mainstream was it's own mini-era.

>>82043712
Holy shit, I was actually going to post Dude Where's My Car? as an example of more innocent pre-9/11 era of movies.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A6ck_tHYhdE

>>82043613
Agreed

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=emGri7i8Y2Y
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8WYHDfJDPDc
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kXYiU_JCYtU

00s kino is comprised of 480p 4:3 digital video.

>>82041922
media defines most of this shit and its slowly being broken up as things open up with the net.

hindsight is 20/20 though so meh.

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Malcolm in the Middle is a good snapshot of the 00s. Think they did a good job at capturing how apathetic the culture was towards issues unless they were directly affected by them. Like the Iraq war and Recce joning the military.

N.W. Refn's style is going to be the aesthetic of the decade. Its been copied by movies, photoshoots, and music videos.

>>82041922
What, you don't like remakes of beloved franchises and new Marvel capeshit every 3 months?

Speaking of that, I would like another Gremlins movie as long as they kept the dark humor tone of it and not just lol so random and funneh XD

Actually nevermind, it would be a CGI circle jerk and feel lifeless.

>>82045572
Definitely this.

OP stole this thread from reddit

https://www.reddit.com/r/Showerthoughts/comments/67hems/the_50s_60s_70s_80s_and_90s_all_feel_like/

>>82045620
more like the other way around

superbad

things feel more distinct if you know about or pay attention to fashion, it's hard to mix up 2001 w/ 2008 or 2005 w/ 2014 etc

>>82041922

naruto, csi, lord of the rings, harry potter

>2000's movie
>CUZ I'M IN TOO DEEP starts playing

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>>82045801
>reddit

>>82041922
The Jew was always there but they were a chameleon for the longest time. Only showing their true self now and again. In these last seventeen years though, the Jew as less chameleon and more guy under covers. And now, the Jew is all in your face with his shit. It's why it's all a blob to you. Back then it was blocky but not so blobby, Now it's one big cluster poo.

>>82043193
you listed at least 2 reasons for me to hate it

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>>82045916
Early 2000s kino right here

>>82041922
It feels that way because thats all youve been alive for

>>82041922
You were alive and paying attention the past 17 years. If you were a 20-something in the 70s, I'm sure you would feel that the 70s and 60s blurred together.

>>82045850

This.

>>82043557
You have to be over 18 to post on this website.

>>82041922
That whole argument is such bullshit.

The early 00s had a particular feel and very distinct type of pop and hip hop. The mid-into late 00s had a lot of things distinct to it as well.

Since then the 10s have been even more of a particular thing. It's just that it has been through weird means that don't seem to register for older people, for different possible reasons:

-Expectations about how "futurity" is supposed to look or work, or how time is supposed to progress. This might include political expectations / aspirations. Possibly coming from some residual modernist presumption, or dialectical view, or Marxism-informed outlook.
-A bad case of post-modern / post-structuralist indoctrination. I reduction of things to a play of language or signs or social constructs or capital, rendering everything empty and arbitrary and increasingly only readable in terms of either the nihilistic argument about the unreality or textuality or referentiality of everything. Basically the post-structuralist becomes guilty of emptying out life, the very thing they accuse capitalism of doing, they do from an academic-critical end. They're left passive and helpless and without a clue.
- Simply being stuck in 20th Century sensibilities. The turns and twists made now aren't what they expected and just seem pointless or alienating.
- Politics. "This isn't how Progress was supposed to go!!" "Young people aren't supposed to question postmodern globalistic progressive ideas, they're supposed to listen passively and believe and repeat everything we relay to them in their Humanities classes!!" "Stop watching youtube, or getting your views from online forums! You're supposed to get your opinions from journalistic experts!" etc etc

>>82041922
The Matrix, Spider-man and X-Men trilogies all feel very of the early 2000s era to me.
>inb4 Matrix 1 was released in 1999

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Is there a movie that better captures the mid-2000s aesthetic?

>>82046495
I really don't think it's this one. Nothing about it really captured any kind of 2000s aesthetic, could've been made last year for all I know. Then again, I watched it a while ago. What do you mean?

>>82041922

Lord of the rings trilogy feels like good early to mid 2000's kino.

It was grander in scope than a lot of stuff that had come before it, but wasn't completely bogged down with green screen everything yet.

>>82045620
I think it was the other way around. He used the aesthetics of the music videos of the type of songs he used in the movie.

>>82046682
You are correct. It could have been made/set any time. I've seen the movie quite a few times and can attest to this. I actually watched it earlier this year.

>>82041922
The 2010's are characterized for capeshit movies dude, what are you talking about.

>>82046682
1) The whole """"""intelligent"""""" crime type of movie that seemed pretty popular in the 2000s (e.g., Inside Man, Italian Job remake, Oceans 11 remake, Matchstick men)
2) Josh Hartnett

>>82046927
From like 2005 the thing has been geek culture.

>>82045981
>>82045165
So basically Sum 41 is the defining band of the era, yeah?
I'd throw in Maroon 5 as well.

>>82046987
Appropriated geek culture, you mean

>>82041922
>>82041922
literally jacked this post from the reddit front page you fag

big fucking surprise millenials dont see a distinction between the 00s and 10s

same way gen x didnt see it between the 90s and 00s

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I think the 00s definitely seem like their own era

or at least 9/11 up to or shortly after the release of the iphone

Born in he wong generation =(((((

>>82041922

the internet pretty much destroyed cultural phases, it's all one big long agony of social media

>>82046748
Same with the first three Pirates of the Caribbean movies. They were made with a lot of practical effects and sets and also shot on location in remote areas.

>>82047099
Exactly (regarding your first sentence).

There was a very distinct character and style to it but of course when people are living it they can't tell, they think "oh, people are just wearing clothes".

This is why it's good not to succumb to postmodern pessimism, or that kind of Baudrillardian impulse to designate some things as "less real" (or everything as unreal). It's an emptiness that consumes you, and crucially, seeps into your interpretative and aesthetic facility to where you can't even see the weird character of your very distinct surroundings morphing in spacetime.

>>82041922
>The 50s, 60s, 70s, 80s, and 90s, all feel like discrete periods with their own personalities, but the last 17 years just feels like one blob of time to me

This is literally 100% true and no one can argue against it

>>82047517
You really think youth music right now is the same as youth music from 2004, or 2009?

You would really equate the Obama years to the Dubya years?

You can't see the differences between the meme cultures of the 00s and the meme cultures 00?

Do you see any 2005 "Scene Kids" walking around anymore?

You think Ludacris is the same as T-Pain is the same as Young Thug?

>>82041922
I think its probably easier to recognize the early 00s

>>82047630
>between the meme cultures of the 00s and the meme cultures *of the 10s*?

>>82047630
>You can't see the differences between the meme cultures of the 00s and the meme cultures 00?
I kinda miss the age of poorly-animated Flash videos.

>>82047660
00 = silly stuff like shoop da whoop and cats
10s = cuck, BLACKED, WE WUZ, etc.

Not sure why I'm still stuck here.

>>82047779
Exactly. Very different times. Different aesthetic.

Was just talking to a friend about that Flash aesthetic and how it's gone now. People really sometimes can't see the distinctness of their times. And if you point it out, if they're pessimistically inclined they just reductively say "oh that's just ___".... "just capital", "just technocratic infrastructure", "just Flash", "just entertainment", "just meme shit", whatever, as if these strange things can be reduced to such specific referents or aspects. And then the thing gets replaced and only afterwards do the cunts realize that it was something in-itself.

>>82041922
Straight from /r/showerthoughts. Good job redditanon

>>82048037
Somebody already pointed that out here >>82045801
Good job, faggot.

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>"People" born after 1989 won't truly understand why this is funny

>>82048187
I remember when I had to use realplayer for stuff on my first pc

I remember it came with a south park clip from the episode where they find the guy trapped in ice

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I miss the age of free coasters.

>>82048187
The loading wheel would've made it funnier

>>82047022
Yeah, that.

>>82048187
FUCK Realplayer.

Hated that shit. Every website used it and you'd be watching/listening to something and it'd have to buffer partway through.

>>82048187
I'm from 1990 and i get it so thr joke's on you ha!

>>82048540
No you don't.

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>in 20 years tops, all boomers will be dead

Absolutely based

>>82043613
Gotta go with this, 2000s were definitely unique.

End of the Bush admin was about when smartphones became a huge part of our lives and when time started to feel like a blender.

>>82048581
>tfw your parents were boomers

>>82048620
We've hit the point where a lot of kids posting here have gen x parents.

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>>82041922

>reposting reddit threads

how much worse can this board get

What again was the name of the image hosting site that sometime around 5 years ago shut down? I swear half of all the forums on the internet linked their images there

Also think of all the websites lost when Geocities went down

>>82045572
Wait. is the fatty in the middle there the fedora tipping guy as a kid?

>>82048671
Gen X are so much worse than Boomers. Boomer hating is one of the worst memes.

It's Gen X who spread snarkiness, identity poltics, postmodernism, etc. Absolutely fuck them.

>>82048896
I dunno man, most Gen X were not liberal pussy retards, most of them voted for Reagan

>>82048760
Actually, yes.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerry_Messing#Television

>>82048920
No, that was the Boomers.

Gen X were the bespectacled, "alternative" punks and whiners and junkies. They gave us purple hair and queer theory. The Boomers were positively sexist and traditional by Gen X progressives' standards.

>>82048896
>>82049013
Every generation is narcissistic and shitty in its own way.

>>82048708
pretty soon it will be the norm for reddit threads will be reposted ironically

>>82049270
Somebody tried redditposting here a little while back. It was one of those normie memes showing like Robert Downy Junior, Cumberbatch-Holmes, Chandler, and other such types of characters with the sentence "Imagine the conversation they'd have" or something.

The meme lasted a few threads and I guess could only be stomached that long. The only other redditposting would be the BAZINGA posts, and I suppose all the Marvel / DC shit here.

>>82041922
nice literal reddit title

>>82048920
>GenX
>voting for Reagan
Most GenXers were barely out of high school before Reagan's term ended. And Generation X has always been politically apathetic. They can swing from being classic reaganomics conservatives yuppie types to neo-hippy liberals, but in general GenX, through their 20s in the 90s, considered shit like voting to be futile and just part of the establishment. Only in the very late 90s, and then into the 2000s, when they started getting families, careers, did they start realizing they should pay attention to politics, and at that point they went back to their old nanny of the Television - right at the perfect time when the 24-hour cable news cycle and talking head political bullshit was coming on strong. So for the most part if GenXers aren't apathetic cynical fucks, they are straight sheep fed whatever bullshit their favorite channel spoonfeeds them.

I've always considered myself a Gen-Xer, although I knew I was always on the baby end of it (born in 79, most of my friends are older).

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>>82041922
Spring Breakers is the defining 2010s movie.

>>82047099
I think 2003 to 2006 was weird time and it obviously had some greatness. Edgy but still chill. It was sort of like a sadder continuation of 1997-2000, (which was a fucking blast in comparison). It did feel like we'd recovered, but then it was not going to last once we hit 2007/2008. We started rallying behind Obama and things might have gotten better, but I think people are way more unhappy. I'd do anything to get back to the late 80s or mid/late 90s.