Modern-day pop culture classic films

The Missions Impossibles
Tarantino stuff (I mean, I think he's the most overrated thing since the Emperors see through wardrobe, but he seems pretty popular)
The Potters
The new Star Wars stuff (much of which is gash, but, again, popular)
The eleventybillion and three different Marvel movies

Anchorman

Anchorman is a good shout. For some reason I thought that was older. Maybe it just feels older. 😁

Oh, Pirates of the Carribean is post-2000 isn't it? LotR too, though that's probably less immediately quotable.

Hot fuzz

hunt for the wilderspeople

four lions

in Brugges

the guard

Although they are perhaps films that I think everyone should see, and most people would enjoy, rather than "what do you mean you've not seen...."

Donnie Darko

Shaun of the Dead

The Wolf of Wall Street

Tenacious D and the Pick of Destiny

Napoleon Dynamite

Dude Where's My Car  🙂

You ever take it off some sweet jumps?

The only movie quote I could think of, and I had to google it. Never remember lines from movies, and need ten years before a rewatch.

The Witch

Dead Mans Shoes

This Is England

I'm not going to suggest that it's a good film - arguably no worse than some of the films posted above imo - but American Pie came out after the Matrix, and I'd say it had a pretty big impact on (US) popular culture. MILFs, bandcamp, and the subsequent glut of rubbish frat comedies...

We should probably include Andy Samberg in this thread somewhere, but I'm not sure which film?

... and Hereditary

Donnie Darko is a good shout, surprised me how popular it was (films I tend to like aren't always that popular). One of the earlier films to easter eggs on the internet was it? Not rewatched it for years so not sure how it stands now.

Thinking along horror film lines... The Ring.

The successful US remake came out in 2002 and totally shifted western horror movies towards the far superior style used in  Korean / Japanese horror films. We got a slew of remakes and some right cack as well, but the shift in approach was huge.

I've never seen Jason Bourne in any of his adventures.That surprises people. I don't think they are particularly quotable. Not watched John Wick either.

"No Superheroes and no children's book adaptations" has been my rule for a long time. I may have slipped with one or two Harry Potter films.

Donny Darko was a weird one. Not just Easter Eggs, the (director? producer?) had a Cliff Notes type guide on his web page in order for it to make sense. (Which reminds me, when was Memento?)

American Pie surely qualifies just for its impact on lexicon, that's a great catch.

I think the popularity of Gary Jules version of Mad world possibly helped the popularity of Donnie Darko. It's one of those films with an indie feel where I don't claim to understand all the story line but it's still strangely enjoyable . Yes a bit like Memento!

Don't get me wrong, I adore Memento.

But by christ if there was ever a poster boy for "hold on, I need to watch that all over again..."

Lost in Translation

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Have I understood the rules of this thread after the insult and slagging off on the other one. 🙂

To be fair, you started it. 😁

Earlier in the office I mentioned a "23-19" from Monsters Inc and they all knew what I meant 🙂

American Pie

Of course. For years any time one of the kids said 'This one time....' my wife or I would immediately say 'in bandcamp', dissolve into giggles, and not be able to explain. I think both kids are now culturally aware, although I can't remember the opportunity arising recently. Task for tonight, to drop the feedline in and see if the wife still responds (or indeed, if one of the kids does)

Surprised Taken hasn't been mentioned yet for pop-culture impact. Loads of imitations since (many with Liam Neeson, now I come to think of it)

You used to be better than this, Cougar.

Nah, that's not true either. I just used to care more.

American Pie was released in '99, so is it in?

American Pie was released in ’99, so is it in?

I did say post-Matrix as the thin green line and Google would suggest that American Pie was a few months later so let's say yes.

One of my favourite films from back in the day, googled the quotes to get them correct….Kingpin, might not have aged well, a bit too scared to watch it again as don’t want to ruin the memories !  Pretty sure it’s not pop culture…but anyway…..

“What is it about good sex that makes me have to crap? You really jarred something loose tiger.”   That was almost a laugh out loud and be sick in my mouth moment.

“- Roy: Hey, I hope you don't mind, I got up a little early, so I took the liberty of milking your cow for you. Yeah, it took a little while to get her warmed up, she sure is a stubborn one. Then, POW, all at once.
- [Takes a drink from the bucket]
- Mr. Boorg: We don't have a cow. We have a bull.
- Roy: I'll brush my teeth.”

The angle I was taking was, “what do you mean, you’ve not seen… ?

I think a fair few of the films mentioned here are veering more toward 'cult classics' as opposed to 'modern-day pop culture classics' whereby OP suggests that 'most' people will have seen (or at least recognise) them.

For example, I'd argue that these are more 'cult classics', though SotD / Hot Fuzz and Donnie Darko probably make the case for broadening into more popular culture:

Donnie Darko

Shaun of the Dead

Tenacious D and the Pick of Destiny

Napoleon Dynamite

The Witch

Hot fuzz

hunt for the wilderspeople

four lions

in Brugges

the guard

Dead Mans Shoes

This Is England

For me American Pie is nailed on, I only didn't mention it myself as seemed to think it was earlier than 1999.  I'd also make a case for the Toy Story series, but appreciate they started mid 1990s.  Also Blair Witch Project given it's impact as the first use of viral marketing.

This thread should have started with The Big Lebowski, but it doesn't make the time cut-off.

Spirited Away.

I didn't feel like it was huge at the time, but Ghibli is a massive phenomenon now and I feel like that was kind of the turning point in the UK. Even though it's the 1980s Totoro that is the most famous now.

Which reminds me, when was Memento?

I must watch that sometime.

I've never watched Harry Potter, but then, I've never watched an awful lot of other films either 🤷‍♂️ (or Memento FWIW)

I must watch that sometime.

Again? 😀

Memento is a great film, I'd recommend it. But it's not something to half-watch.

I think a fair few of the films mentioned here are veering more toward ‘cult classics’ as opposed to ‘modern-day pop culture classics’ whereby OP suggests that ‘most’ people will have seen (or at least recognise) them.

I can't disagree. I may have muddied the water, but my premise was really "what, you haven't seen...?!" films of the last (christ) quarter century or so.

Inception

Avengers: Endgame

Top Gun: Maverick

Kill Bill vol 1

The Dark Knight

LOTR / The Hobbit

There Will Be Blood

Up

Gladiator

The Incredibles

(tried to stay mainstream - my 'cult' films you haven't seen? would be a pretty different list)

Inception

Avengers: Endgame

Top Gun: Maverick

Kill Bill vol 1

The Dark Knight

LOTR / The Hobbit

There Will Be Blood

Up

Gladiator

The Incredibles

Seen 2/10 of those 😅

(Or 2/16 if you count all the hobbit stuff separately...)

Seen 2/10 of those

That's 2 more than I have.

I was going to say Akira, because it’s been hugely influential, far beyond the number of people who’ve seen it, but then I wondered when it was I first saw it, on a limited cinema run at the Arnolfini in Bristol.

It was 1988! Da phük! 35 sodding years ago! 😳

Seen 2/10 of those

Seen 9/10 of those.

I wonder whether TV shows have taken the mantle of pop culture classics from cinema these days.

They generally seem to be more talked about and quoted than films, Breaking Bad, Game of Thrones, Stranger Things, etc...

Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story
Lighthearted and funny, with some brilliant characters. Plus some great lines.
“You're about as useful as a cock flavored lollipop!” 😂

Fight Club.
Pulp Fiction.
Withnail and I
Quadrophenia.

@msp great list, not seen Hunt for the Wilderspeople so should sort that.

@doris5000 Re: Andy Samberg Pine Springs was good.

My few:

Lord of War
Battle Royale
Sunshine
Cabin in the Woods
Oldboy
Zombieland

Say what you like but Fast and the Furious is a fantastic comedy. How they managed to write a movie so centred on car culture with absolutely no qualified technical writers I'll never understand.

Dune.

Pulp Fiction.
Withnail and I
Quadrophenia.

I think you missed the remit.

Hurt Locker maybe, Persepolis.

Time's a funny thing, isn't it- as we get older we stretch the size of an era.Post 2000 is pretty much a generation. Can you imagine your 1980 self defining the era of 'modern films' as those made post-1960?

Anyways..

Borat cultural leanings etc

Zoolander

Baby Driver

Dark Knight

V for Vendetta

Once Upon a Time in Hollywood

It's clearly not "all in the public domain" if you are only selectively quoting one line from it.

But this is all getting very silly now and i regret my part in this daft escalation.

Superbad

Christ on a ****ing bike. Really? Fine.

I sent

"That is incorrect, read back through the thread, Squirrelking started the slagging off after I made some excellent suggestions."

I never slagged any of them, I simply said they were inappropriate given the thread brief. I even endorsed one of them at least twice.

Get your facts straight and stop making up lies to paint yourself as a victim because I will not put up with your pathetic bullshit. Stop it. Now.

He replied:

I can read, so can others. No lies, straight fact. Now you're sending private messages because you realise your behaviour displeased. Your message here is bullying. Keep it public where everyone can see how unpleasant you are.

You clearly have a complex about me. We'll never get on, Mr nuclear versus Mr sobriété energetique. Committed European versus little Scotlander. But you don't seem to be able to ignore my posts.

Nromally when people use the message system it's to dialog, but you're just doubling down on the bullying and ordering me arround, legally that's harrassment. Once I've sent this I'll click block user.

And lastly I replied with:

No, you're the one throwing insults about and slandering me with your lies. You're the one constantly referring to things I've supposedly said so perhaps if we want to bring up harassment we should let the mods decide.

As for what everyone else can see, don't kid yourself that anyone with any sense can't see through your sad provications and lies.

FWIW I was perfectly civil in my initial reply and it was you who got nasty. As per the time before that and the time before that. It's almost like you thrive on the drama. Troll indeed, some folk never change.

@cougar, @molgrips and everyone else I'm sorry this pathetic nonsense has made it's way into another thread, for my part I should have known better than to engage with a known troll.

I'd rather not reply to this idiocy but I won't have my name constantly libelled and harassed as Ed has done over multiple threads and years. I'm trying to be a better person but some people on here make it really hard, why he is still allowed to be a member when he causes nothing but hassle is a mystery to me as I know for a fact I'm not the only person he has harassed in this way. Anyway, I'll leave it at that, feel free to report this and all the other nonsense and hopefully we can get these topics cleaned up.

Apologies to all again.

No-one cares.

Films, then?

Anyway, back on topic.

Is Who Killed Captain Alex too obscure? Was definitely a meme a few years ago. I tried watching it once but it was too nuts to keep up with what was going on between the plot and the VJ's voice over.

District 9
Chappie
Elysium (seemingly the poorer of the 3 but I liked it)

District 13 (the French one that started the whole parkour craze)

Ring (japanese ones) series, just scrapes in at 1998?

Is [...] too obscure?

My point really was 'films it'd be surprising that others hadn't seen' so if you have to ask that then yes. 😁

Also,

Is Chappie good, then? That was on my to-watch list forever ago and it'd completely fallen out of my head until you mentioned it just now.

Chappie is brilliant, if you liked District 9 then you'll probably like it too. I only watched it in the last 6 months and was shocked it had escaped me for so long. Think Short Circuit put through a Blomkamp filter and the silliness taken out.

I thought chappie was outstanding!

Chappie is a bit weird but it’s pretty good.

Not sure what constitutes as pop culture but no country for old men is one of my favourite films

District 9
Chappie
Elysium (seemingly the poorer of the 3 but I liked it)

Are these supposed to be a trilogy then?

No, just all by the same director.

Chappie has escaped me too but sounds right up my street so will watch it asap!

We should probably include Andy Samberg in this thread somewhere, but I’m not sure which film?

Hot Rod - has some excellent lines in there, plus Isla Fisher

Chappie's really good, I mean it's literally just Short Circuit Only Horrible but it works. The casting's inspired, let's just have Die Antwoord in this thing being basically themselves...

Right, I'm going to fly the flag for the Marvel films. Not all of them, but, the best ones are standing the test of time pretty well and there's basically never been anything like it in cinema in terms of linked storytelling, big arcs, etc, from the trivial attention to detail stuff to the big beats. It's a shame there's no real consistency of quality but don't throw the baby out with the bathwater

Was reading about Chappie yesterday - when it flopped, the director went into a 6-7 year sulk and only made short films during that time. His big comeback is Gran Turismo, based on the story of a gamer that became a real car racer. Sounds shite, but might give it a chance.

Talking of Marvels (I’ve actually forgotten what the thread is about!) Guardians of the Galaxy 1 & 3 are great films. Deadpool too, never tire of that.

Eh? Chappie never flopped, that was Elysium which came after and he admitted he made an arse of.

Curious to see if Emila Hartford can act, will see in Gran Turismo.

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Chappie was a really good film I thought.

The Count of Monte Cristo (2002)

How has no-one mentioned Idiocracy yet?

Pop culture you say?

Crazy Stupid Love

Easy A

Pitch Perfect.

The Devil Wears Prada

You probs need a daughter or a partner as cover (maybe you don't?) but these are all really sharp, funny-witty, popcorn movies.

Eh? Chappie never flopped, that was Elysium which came after and he admitted he made an arse of

Oh, ok. That wasn't how I read it. (Elysium: 2013 ; Chappie: 2015, but I'll take your word for it)
Elysium is on TV tonight - 5Star channel I think.

Crazy Stupid Love +1

Something very easy and pleasant about that film.

Wait wut?

Damn, you're right, apologies, I have seriously misremembered that time line.

Finding Nemo would be on the list surely.

Ferris Bueller's Day Off

Goonies

2001 A Space Odyssey

Boogie Nights

The Martix

.....and anything by Kevin Smith (Clerks, Jay & Silent Bob etc)

Damn, you’re right

I knew my reading hadn't got that bad (yet!) 🙂
Elysium 9pm 5Star channel tonight. (Non-HD unfortunately)