Not liking stuff.

No.

Well apparently he likes Batman Arkham Asylum. Proof :whistling: :

I don't see how people can not like Napoleon Dynamite. It was so quirky and weird. It felt like watching someone's home movies or something. Sure, it got popular, but if you like things solely on whether they're popular or not, I just can't identify with that mindset.

It was just that the movie was so stupid, gosh.

It was just total inanity. Nothing really happened. I guess I can see why people wouldn't like it, but it remains one of my favorite movies I've ever seen.

That's kind of why I didn't like it. I liked the part where he asked if the chickens had large talons, though, that part was funnycool.

Yeah. It was a different kind of comedy. Very strange. If it didn't have that quirkiness though, it would have been a very stupid movie.

Oooo I'll do the follow up. SNAP! You just burned em real good. :foodndrink:

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Also for the record if it isn't obvious why I don't like this. It's a coming of age film. While I might not be that old, I've had a very... serious life. Sometimes with very little to laugh about, so naturally these shows don't appeal to me. I skipped coming of age quite along time ago, and not by choice.

Why didn't they just call it "the millennial generation", and not "post 9/11 generation"?

Anyway, glad to see Jason Reitman up there. He's brilliant.

I have yet to see this, and probably will not. I really, really cannot stand Michael Sera. At all. Period. The kid simply can't act worth a flip. Every character I've seen him play always ends up as the wimpy kid who couldn't work up the nerves to say hi to a speck of dust. That just doesn't make for an interesting movie.

TWO movies with Michael Cera? Ugh. And as far as Edgar Wright goes, I think either Hot Fuzz or Shaun of the Dead would have been better choices than Scott Pilgrim and it's hip/nerdy pop-culture feilation and cloyingly saccharine love-story aspects. Also would have liked to see The Fountain, Children of Men, or Pan's Labyrinth on this list. Oh well, opinions, &c.

You know I've noticed lot of movies lately have the geeky guy getting the girl or lot of movies are about geeks these days. They forgot http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0829482/ I thought that was a good coming of age movie with some geeky people in it. Why is that they stereotype people who are smart, like computers, video games, comic books and graphic novels as geeks. I know a lot of people, especially my friends, who like that kind of stuff and don't look geeky at all. And why do they label us as the post-911 generation, they didn't call baby boomers the post Pearl Harbor generation. I thought we were called us the millennial generation, I think that's a more suitable title for our generation than post-911 generation.

Scott Pilgrim vs the World was an okay movie. I mean yeah it was cool they threw in some video game satire which was pretty cool like each x-boyfriend was like a video game boss. Did anybody notice that this movie was like the video game http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NfwLBk1zvrw how people exploded into coins when they were defeated.

As far as modern geek culture movies go I thought Kick-Ass was a better movie in comparison, and it came out about the same time as Soctt Pilgrim vs The World. But Kick-Ass I guess isn't a coming of age movie just more of an dark humor action movie.

Of course he plays a wimpy kid, what else would he do? Be the next Schwarzenegger?

I just started watching this movie tonight.

Seems pretty cool so far except something about the casting is waaaaaaayyyy off.

The girl he becomes infatuated with is seriously unattractive compared to the Chinese girl.

Very hard to follow why he becomes so obsessed with her after seeing her once at a party and when he meets her she is rude, uninteresting and totally unattractive.

Meanwhile he is a total [censored] to the Chinese girl.

I'm about a third of the way into the movie - will keep watching. Hopefully it gets better.

Donnie Darko: I enjoyed it.

Ghost World: Never heard of it.

Napoleon Dynamite: Watched the first 10 minutes, disgustingly boring movie.

Scott Pilgrim: I haven't watched it yet.

Why 9-11?

I just got Scott Pilgrim on DVD the other day. Liked it as much this time round as I did the first time in the cinema. I think it's partly the music that does it for me, but also the fact that Edgar Wright is brilliant. I understand people's issue with Michael Cera, but I do think he has it in him to be great... Just needs more years and experience...

I fail to see the relevance of 9/11 here. Why does a new generation start right there? 9/11 didn't cause great changes in 'graphic novels, comic books, video games, digital media, hip-hop music and the ascension of the geek in society.'. Why not say 21st century movies?

Donnie Darko was nice. It was weird to see the guy play the Prince of Persia some years later. I guess he digs time travel.

I agree with povuholo and JagarTharn. What the hell does 9/11 have to do with anything? It annoys me how people try to link things to it for no apparent reason.

I enjoyed Scott Pilgrim as much as the next guy, but does anyone else seem to think that list was written by a 'hipster'? Napoleon Dynamite, Scott Pilgrim, Juno?

I dunno... Without getting too political, I think 9/11 and the War on Terror are quite important events to a lot of culture in the past ten years. Whilst defining the whole of Hollywood recently as "post-9/11" is pushing it a bit, I do think there's some films it has had a big impact on. And the whole comic book genre certainly comes into that category, although more the super hero films and less Scott Pilgrim...

Then again, I don't think the films in that article are particularly good examples of post-9/11 movies... Batman, Iron Man, Robin Hood, Avatar and District 9 would be better choices...

This. Seriously, why not have post 2000 or something?

Then again, The Mikado was one of the best post-Krakatoa comic operas.

The only movies I could see being effected by 9/11 are the war and political genres. While I don't mean to downplay the importance of the event itself, I don't think it affected as much as some people seem to think it did.

Of the list you made, I could see maybe Iron Man and Avatar being influenced, one because Tony Stark is captured by terrorists, and the latter because you could argue it seems to be loosely based on events following 9/11. Batman and Robin are simply stories about heroes, and District 9 is about the Apartheid.

But, I'll stop here I think. I don't want to get banned for talking about politics, and the thread was never supposed to be about 9/11, really. My bad.

It's important to note this is just a list of the best coming-of-age films, not the best films period.

I loved Donnie Darko and Napoleon Dynamite, both of them genius films IMO. Not seen the the rest.

Also can't help thinking using 9/11 as a cultural watershed for films seems inappropriate and wrong.

I bet it's less about it being a genre, or a deciding factor in a genre... And more about it being used as a headline ploy to capture more readership that would otherwise be disinterested in such a list.