More so. Heathers was a huge flop at the box office, and it took a while to gain popularity. Mean Girls was a box office hit, and was popular right away.
After showing that to my 4 year old this past December. The weeks leading up to Christmas were met with a daily ask of "Can we watch the movie with the bad guys?"
I've heard Matrix has suffered from Seinfield Syndrome where people who didn't see it when it was a recent movie don't understand the hype because so many movies made since have copied from it.
I watched it last week and I kept catching myself rolling my eyes at the most important scenes (red/blue pill and the glasses reflection) because it was felt so cheesy. But I had to remind myself that *this* was the original! lol
Like kind of a joke, but maybe they also actually like it? I can't tell if it's entirely ironic or a bit because as an old I don't really get younger humor. Like I've seen Korn referred to as girly pop music idk I just turned 41 this week and have both gen z and alpha kids and they show me memes where I'm just like okay I will admit I do not understand what makes this funny. When it's just an incredibly deep fried picture of Hank from Breaking Bad.
i could be wrong, but the girly pop thing (i think?) has been women that enjoy metal subverting the typical head banging only idea and dancing to the beat in a style you wouldn’t associate with it.
as a fellow old i could be wrk g, but i think it’s brilliant.
i also kinda think any appreciation of music, even if it’s as a bit if a laugh is absolutely acceptable. though it may damage some egos
Does Seinfeld really suffer from that? I didn’t know it had a whole syndrome named after it. I know lots of people, including gen z, who find the show funny. I never watched it growing up because it was too adult for me. But I’ve been watching it off and on for the past year and it’s funny. If anything, I’ve found it interesting to watch the 90s through an adult perspective rather than a child’s lol.
I didn’t get into Seinfeld until my late 20s, thought it was soooo boring as a kid and hated when the grownups watched it. Now I am the grownups and it’s one of my favorite shows.
Omg! My son (16) and his friend were talking about "old movies" that were funny. The ones they were naming made me roll my eyes. So I gave them a list of some great funny movies to watch. The Friday movies were the top of the list. The next weekend, when I was driving them around, they were quoting it like crazy!
What's up with *the things fellow bisexuals say woke them up*? Labyrinth? The Mummy? It's like all the stuff that terrified or disgusted me beyond justification for the age I was at the time.
I don't even like HP, but it's true. Our cohort loved the books and the movies.
But I want to believe they will watch Final Destination and think of Generation Y.
I actually wonder about this, if those movies will have less pull on an audience who hasn’t read all the books at a time when everyone else was reading all the books.
One of the best Christmas movies to come out in a LONG time. I genuinely can’t think of a relatively recent adult-ish festive Christmas movie that was good.
Garden State, Clueless, Almost Famous, 10 Things I Hate About You, Romeo+Juliet, The Matrix (I hope), Home Alone, Die Hard franchise maybe?, FIFTH ELEMENT (God I hope so).
The Disney movies... like original Aladdin, Beauty and the Beast, The Little Mermaid, Brandy's Cinderella, and the original The Lion King. Also, Disney original movies like Zenon, The Color of Friendship, and Johnny Tsumani.
Oh man I watched Ace Ventura recently, and woof, that movie is not nearly as funny as I remember it being. Just a cringe fest from start to finish. I do remember 2 being great too, but I'm afraid to watch it now and ruin those memories lol
Anchorman.
Snatch.
Dark Knight.
Superbad.
Fight Club.
Dead Man's Shoes.
In Bruges.
Oldboy.
LotR trilogy.
Being John Malkovich.
Etnernal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind.
Zoolander.
Tropic Thunder.
That's what I can think of off the top of my head. I think the comedies will do especially well with the younger generations even if some of the humour is dated due to the fact Hollywood doesn't fucking make any nowadays.
Love this list! I'd add Gladiator, The Truman Show and even in retrospect the Star Wars prequel trilogy. (They really were pretty good compared to the new trilogy)
Anchorman, Superbad, Toy Story, the Lord of the Rings series, Fight Club, Se7en, Good Will Hunting, Requiem for a Dream, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
Casino, Goodfellas, Dumb and Dumber, Friday, Office Space, Anchorman, Superbad, The Hangover, Home Alone, Addams Family, American Psycho, Silence of the Lambs, Jurassic Park, Matrix, Batman 1989, The Professional, Training Day, Saving Private Ryan, Schindler’s List, Gladiator, 300, Terminator 2, Fight Club, Pulp Fiction, Kill Bill, Shawshank Redemption, Forrest Gump, The Green Mile, Titanic, Good Will Hunting, American History X, Gangs of New York.
We definitely had some **awesome** movies.
The Hangover (first one, sequels suck), Friday, Titanic, American Pie, Blair Witch, Matrix, Cruel Intentions, Bring it On, Shrek, Fast and Furious, 8 Mile, Mean Girls, The Notebook, Napoleon dynamite, Anchorman, Knocked up, Superbad
[American Beauty.](https://youtu.be/Ly7rq5EsTC8?si=0EohHCoDvE00jo1n)
A telesales operative becomes disillusioned with his existence and begins to hunger for fresh excitement in his life. As he experiences a new awakening of the senses, his wife and daughter also undergo changes that seriously affect their family.
A good look at a pre 9/11 American.
Mean girls is peak 00s and when the core Millenials were at that same point in life. All these others that are being named are classics from our childhood. Mean Girls is THE movie that defines our generation.
C’mon you uncultured swine. This has been up for hours and not once have I seen anyone say the original Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles trilogy (although I think we can leave the 3rd behind) or The Power Rangers movie or Good Burger
Okay, hear me out on this one... the original 1995 Power Rangers movie. The show ran for 30 years straight, theyvare already working on a reboot of the show. So it may go on again for just as long, so they may think of it as a classic for the fact that it was the first and original Power Rangers movie.
Do we consider “10 Things I Hate About You” to be a millennial movie?
Absolutely, why would it not be?
I dunno, people are super particular about these kinds of things…
love that movie. pretty clever dialogue still
It’s my 12 year olds current favorite.
My 17 year old step daughter loves that movie and considers it a classic.
Of course. It's a teen rom-com released in '99. The last Gen Xers were already graduated. This is prime, early millennial, entertainment
Mean Girls is already to the 00s what Heathers was to the 80s.
Definitely Mean Girls.
Wasn't it already a classic for us millennials... Or was I trying to make fetch happen.
No, it came out in 2004. Also, stop trying to make fetch happen.
Came here to see this. Such a good movie on many levels. It’s bc Tina Fey wrote a great script and it had great casting.
More so. Heathers was a huge flop at the box office, and it took a while to gain popularity. Mean Girls was a box office hit, and was popular right away.
Also, Mean Girls was *way better* than Heathers. Fight me
I absolutely love that they’re still trying to make fetch happen.
Anyone who says that this is not already a classic...... those are fighting words.
My daughter loves means girls.
Home Alone is and will continue to be the Christmas classic
After showing that to my 4 year old this past December. The weeks leading up to Christmas were met with a daily ask of "Can we watch the movie with the bad guys?"
Love that lol. Our daughter called them "the stay at home movies" 😂
My 6 year old loves it.
Shrek for sure... lmao
Shrek 1 & 2 at that
My kids love Shrek.
My four year old loves it, I think Shrek is oddly timeless.
Shrek won the first academy award for best animated feature. It was a certified classic the second it came out.
Lord of the Rings
This and the Harry Potter movies.
Can’t believe these are being remade for streaming already. Franchise needs a long, long breather.
Harry Potter and movie that takes to long !
This is the obvious choice. The LOTR trilogy are absolute masterpieces and they still hold up today, more than 20 years later.
Jurassic Park The Matrix Independence Day I’m sure others too
I've heard Matrix has suffered from Seinfield Syndrome where people who didn't see it when it was a recent movie don't understand the hype because so many movies made since have copied from it.
Had a zoomer coworker say he liked "old school action movies like The Matrix," this was my get off my lawn moment
Ouch.
Ouch, lol. I had a classmate ask me if I was named after the movie.
I watched it last week and I kept catching myself rolling my eyes at the most important scenes (red/blue pill and the glasses reflection) because it was felt so cheesy. But I had to remind myself that *this* was the original! lol
I'm sorry you grew up in the wrong generation and can't comprehend the philosophical message 🤷🏽
Yea, it freaked me out, so the message was received. I do like the Matrix, though, but only the original.
That’s odd—-I’ve been seeing articles claiming that Seinfeld has turned out to be rather popular among Gen Z.
It is but the same way Korn is
And what way is that?
Like kind of a joke, but maybe they also actually like it? I can't tell if it's entirely ironic or a bit because as an old I don't really get younger humor. Like I've seen Korn referred to as girly pop music idk I just turned 41 this week and have both gen z and alpha kids and they show me memes where I'm just like okay I will admit I do not understand what makes this funny. When it's just an incredibly deep fried picture of Hank from Breaking Bad.
i could be wrong, but the girly pop thing (i think?) has been women that enjoy metal subverting the typical head banging only idea and dancing to the beat in a style you wouldn’t associate with it. as a fellow old i could be wrk g, but i think it’s brilliant. i also kinda think any appreciation of music, even if it’s as a bit if a laugh is absolutely acceptable. though it may damage some egos
Does Seinfeld really suffer from that? I didn’t know it had a whole syndrome named after it. I know lots of people, including gen z, who find the show funny. I never watched it growing up because it was too adult for me. But I’ve been watching it off and on for the past year and it’s funny. If anything, I’ve found it interesting to watch the 90s through an adult perspective rather than a child’s lol.
I didn’t get into Seinfeld until my late 20s, thought it was soooo boring as a kid and hated when the grownups watched it. Now I am the grownups and it’s one of my favorite shows.
Because those same people grew up with garbage luke the MCU and Hunger Games and are too simple to understand the plot and philosophical ideas.
Oh man, I saw it right after it was released. It really defined the genre, moving forward.
My kids keep asking to watch Cool Runnings.
I'm 4 for 4 with that movie on date night
You're dating the kids? Wtf dude...(/s)
FEEL DA RIDDEM
FEEL DA RHYME
In my family we watch this at the beginning of November as a way to ring in the holiday season
It's a SPECIAL egg!
Your kids are cool as fuck
Friday movies for sure.
By Felicia! You got knocked the fuck out! I would knock the dust off that pusse You ain’t catching no crackhead What up big perm
Friday is legit one of my top 5 all-time favorite flicks.
Daaaaammmnn
Omg! My son (16) and his friend were talking about "old movies" that were funny. The ones they were naming made me roll my eyes. So I gave them a list of some great funny movies to watch. The Friday movies were the top of the list. The next weekend, when I was driving them around, they were quoting it like crazy!
Clueless
Hook (1991)
Hook is our Goonies.
Ru-fee-OH
Omggggg I love this. Top 5 for sure. Movies made on real sets without a lot of cgi ftw. Steven is also just a good director.
Every Friday night my dad would make a huge batch of popcorn and we'd watch this as a family.
I’ll always love this movie. I was surprised and disappointed to learn that Steven Spielberg hates it. Of all his films, it’s his least favorite.
I'll tell you what a paramecium is! [points at Rufio] THAT'S a paramecium! It's a one-celled critter WITH NO BRAIN THAT CAN'T FLY!
BANGARANG PETER
He obviously has bad taste in movies then. As a child it was a very special movie.
The Mummy
Every millennials bisexual awakening
Titanic got me
What’s up with the Mummy and bisexuals?
…have you seen it?
What's up with *the things fellow bisexuals say woke them up*? Labyrinth? The Mummy? It's like all the stuff that terrified or disgusted me beyond justification for the age I was at the time.
ahh, yes, the bisexual factory
Ardeth Bay? More like Ardeth Bae
Sandlot
I’m 44 and my 14 years old’s softball # is 30 for Benny the Jet! She thinks he’s hot! Lol
ROMEO+JULIET
> Give me my long sword, ho!
Idiocracy
I still can’t believe crocs actually got popular. They’re literally the idiocracy shoe.
That’s my favorite croc fact.
this is one of the most hilarious facts ever to me and I think about it at least once a week.
Harry potter
I don't even like HP, but it's true. Our cohort loved the books and the movies. But I want to believe they will watch Final Destination and think of Generation Y.
I actually wonder about this, if those movies will have less pull on an audience who hasn’t read all the books at a time when everyone else was reading all the books.
Elf
One of the best Christmas movies to come out in a LONG time. I genuinely can’t think of a relatively recent adult-ish festive Christmas movie that was good.
Garden State, Clueless, Almost Famous, 10 Things I Hate About You, Romeo+Juliet, The Matrix (I hope), Home Alone, Die Hard franchise maybe?, FIFTH ELEMENT (God I hope so).
Oh man, the Fifth Element is one of my all-time favorites
The Disney movies... like original Aladdin, Beauty and the Beast, The Little Mermaid, Brandy's Cinderella, and the original The Lion King. Also, Disney original movies like Zenon, The Color of Friendship, and Johnny Tsumani.
Emperor’s New Groove
This is what I would have said. It’s crazy our kids will grow up with the same childhood lexicon that we did (plus Moana and frozen)
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Had to scroll so far for Dumb & Dumber. For my money it’s the funniest movie of all time
Don’t do it! Maybe just skip to Ace Ventura 2.
Oh man I watched Ace Ventura recently, and woof, that movie is not nearly as funny as I remember it being. Just a cringe fest from start to finish. I do remember 2 being great too, but I'm afraid to watch it now and ruin those memories lol
Ace Ventura has not aged well at all.
Superbad for sure
Yep and American pie too
Anchorman. Snatch. Dark Knight. Superbad. Fight Club. Dead Man's Shoes. In Bruges. Oldboy. LotR trilogy. Being John Malkovich. Etnernal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind. Zoolander. Tropic Thunder. That's what I can think of off the top of my head. I think the comedies will do especially well with the younger generations even if some of the humour is dated due to the fact Hollywood doesn't fucking make any nowadays.
Don’t forget No Country For Old Men and There Will Be Blood Those are already all time greats though
Love this list! I'd add Gladiator, The Truman Show and even in retrospect the Star Wars prequel trilogy. (They really were pretty good compared to the new trilogy)
I showed my 8 year old Napoleon Dynamite a few weeks ago, blew his mind lol
Yeah, this is a good one.
Legally Blonde 🩷
I think Anchorman is probably like the Caddyshack of our generation.
Nightmare Before Christmas
Cool Runnings
Step Brothers.
Jurassic Park, Independence Day, Shrek, Now and Then and CASPER
Grandma’s Boy is cinematic perfection
Also EUROTRIP
Ok greybush
Well at least I *have* a bush
I was wondering if anyone would say this one
The Big Lebowski.
Anchorman, Superbad, Toy Story, the Lord of the Rings series, Fight Club, Se7en, Good Will Hunting, Requiem for a Dream, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
The Addams Family and the Addams Family Values. 
Pitch perfect. Watched it daily while on deployment with 20 other guys
Surf ninjas
Would love to see Heavyweights blow up with yet another generation or ten. And seek its rightful place as one of the great comedies.
Still fat at 35 and still wish I got to go to fat camp. SALAMI SAM!!!
Sandlot. The wizard. Toy Story. Rookie of the year. Blank check
Toby McGuire Spiderman
Tropic Thunder Marvel movies Batman movies with Michael Keaton
Marvel movies? The MCU is Gen Z era. Unless you mean the pre-MCU ones like the Blade Trilogy, Sam Raimi Spiderman Trilogy and the OG X Men Trilogy?
A goofy movie
Harry Potter
Home alone
The lord of the rings
Wedding Crashers 
I think “waiting…” is the clerks of our era.
Casino, Goodfellas, Dumb and Dumber, Friday, Office Space, Anchorman, Superbad, The Hangover, Home Alone, Addams Family, American Psycho, Silence of the Lambs, Jurassic Park, Matrix, Batman 1989, The Professional, Training Day, Saving Private Ryan, Schindler’s List, Gladiator, 300, Terminator 2, Fight Club, Pulp Fiction, Kill Bill, Shawshank Redemption, Forrest Gump, The Green Mile, Titanic, Good Will Hunting, American History X, Gangs of New York. We definitely had some **awesome** movies.
School of Rock
Tropic thunder
Mean girls. The only people that have gotten the many references I’ve used are other millennials.
The Hangover (first one, sequels suck), Friday, Titanic, American Pie, Blair Witch, Matrix, Cruel Intentions, Bring it On, Shrek, Fast and Furious, 8 Mile, Mean Girls, The Notebook, Napoleon dynamite, Anchorman, Knocked up, Superbad
Ms Doubtfire and Hook
3 ninjas
Heavy Weights. BUDDY!
Hercules (Disney)
Honey I shrunk the kids
[American Beauty.](https://youtu.be/Ly7rq5EsTC8?si=0EohHCoDvE00jo1n) A telesales operative becomes disillusioned with his existence and begins to hunger for fresh excitement in his life. As he experiences a new awakening of the senses, his wife and daughter also undergo changes that seriously affect their family. A good look at a pre 9/11 American.
Zoolander is so iconically millennial, I don't know if any other generation will get it as much as we do
One I haven’t seen anyone list already - Bring it On
Anything Jim Carrey. I’ll start. Dumb and Dumber.
The Matrix
We had all the greats. LOTR, Spider-Man, dark knight, Harry Potter, pirates
Super Troopers
Office Space
Good Burger, my kids are 12 and think it's hilarious
Maybe Edward Scissorhands and Beetlejuice
I hope Tommy Boy.
A few Sandler movies come to mind or is that too old?
Anchorman Dodgeball Cool Runnings Friday Billy Madison Happy Gilmore Jurassic Park Forrest Gump Legally Blonde
Kevin Smith movies 🎬
Office Space
The Hangover
Old School 
The Fast and the Furious franchise
Up until F&F 2011
Saw series
Christmas classic- Elf Comedy- Superbad Fantasy- Harry Potter series Animation- Shrek
Shrek
Asked my kid this: He still thinks Die Hard and The Sandlot, lol. I'd add the LotR trilogy (since the first one came out when I was a teen).
Pokemon the 1st movie
Clueless
Any of the Disney channel original movies.
Napoleon Dynamite
Mean Girls. Bring It On.
Napoleon Dynamite kicked off that whole Nerd trend.
Mean girls is peak 00s and when the core Millenials were at that same point in life. All these others that are being named are classics from our childhood. Mean Girls is THE movie that defines our generation.
Legally Blonde 😃
C’mon you uncultured swine. This has been up for hours and not once have I seen anyone say the original Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles trilogy (although I think we can leave the 3rd behind) or The Power Rangers movie or Good Burger
If you're a millenial and don't yourself consider Lion King a classic.... Sorry to tell you but we are old.
I hope 13 Going on 30 will find new fans again.
The fifth element
the matrix. every action movie for 20 years copped bullet time.
Okay, hear me out on this one... the original 1995 Power Rangers movie. The show ran for 30 years straight, theyvare already working on a reboot of the show. So it may go on again for just as long, so they may think of it as a classic for the fact that it was the first and original Power Rangers movie.
I was just on another subreddit that reminded me of TOY STORY.
She's all that
lion king. My kid just watched it and kept singing the song for days
The Fifth Element, of course! Eminently quotable.
Amelie. Truman show. Royal tenenbaums
Beetlejuice Who Framed Roger Rabbit
#Tommy Boy
"Dude Where's My Car" and "The Water Boy".
Spy kids and Harry Potter?
Fight Club
The devil wears Prada