toddly6666

Which current films - 2000 to 2016 - do you think will be considered classics in over 30 years or so?

There are many good films and award-winning films now that wont necessarily be considered a classic after a long period of time. We have seen plenty of Best Pictures fade away. A movie like "Ordinary People" and "Kramer vs Kramer" were quite excellent dramas but I wouldnt be quick to call them classics. And then we have films like "Blade Runner" and "Citizen Kane" that became respected as classics.

There are probably quite a bunch but I'll just start with one guess:

Ryan Gosling's Drive

This is a film that I didnt care for at first but has gotten increasingly better each time I watch it. Drive also has a nice vibe mixture of the 1970s, 1980s and 1990s yet still being a product of the 2000s. Good storytelling, memorable visuals, cool soundtrack and incredible acting may make this film a classic in the future. I still dont expect many people to have seen this film too just as I come across average folks who have never seen Blade Runner. I would be disappointed if Criterion doesnt release this film eventually.

What are your predictions?

Solid Snake

Mad Max: Fury Road
The Prestige
Y Tu Mama Tambien
Amores Perros
Pan's Labyrinth
Biutiful
Lady Vengeance
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon

Hazel Motes

Mulholland Drive
Zodiac
The New World
The Pianist
Holy Motors
Irreversible
City of God
Rambo
Mad Max Fury Road
Adaptation
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
The Hateful Eight
Inglourious Basterds
The Royal Tenenbaums
Spring Breakers
There Will Be Blood
Punch Drunk Love
Lost In Translation
The Before Trilogy
In The Mood For Love
The Man Who Wasn't There
Happy Go Lucky
Artificial Intelligence
Tetro
Midnight In Paris
The Wolf of Wall Street
The Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans
Grizzly Man
The Act of Killing
The Fog of War
Anvil The Story of Anvil
The King of Kong A Fistful of Quarters
Best in Show
Anchorman
Zoolander
Wet Hot American Summer
Shaun of the Dead
It Follows

Ash Ketchum

TomOpus

I guess my idea of "classic" is different from everyone else. I think home video has skewed what a classic film used to be.

I vote NONE

d2cheer

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This is so bad ass...best movie I have seen in ages.

Brack

Drive was the first movie that came to mind when I read the thread topic.

I'll think of some others later.

Decker

Lord of the Rings trilogy
Memento
Almost Famous
Mad Max Fury Road
Moonrise Kingdom
(500) Days of Summer
Kill Bill
Gravity
Sicario
Fight Club (1999, but close enough)

Dan

excellent list.

I think the only way to know for sure what will be considered classics, is to ask some millennials.

RichC2

Almost Famous
Mulholland Drive
There Will Be blood
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
Memento
Spirited Away
Finding Nemo
Ratatouille
No Country for Old Men
Children of Men
The Prestige
The Royal Tenenbaums
Adaptation
Inglourious Basterds
Requiem for a Dream
School of Rock (not sure why but it comes up, a lot)

Millenials are considered to be the group born from roughly 1982 - 2000 a chunk of which saw these in theaters. It'll be whatever Generation Alpha is still watching.

Dan

Ah dammit, that range includes me, although I find it VERY hard to identify with anyone born after 1995.

RichC2

Could be worse, the generation that followed is nick named Generation Homeland

hbilly

Cop Car (2015)
Room in Rome (2010)
Kristy (2014)
Kiss of the Damned (2012)
Santa's Slay (2005)
The Lords of Salem (2012)

inri222

The Assassination Of Jesse James By The Coward Robert Ford
The Master
The White Ribbon
The Turin Horse
Cache
Elephant
4 Months, 3 Weeks, and 2 Days
Talk to Her
Boyhood
12 Years a Slave
The 25th Hour
Let the Right One In
Werckmeister Harmonies
The Secret in Their Eyes
A Prophet
Dancer In the Dark
Amour
Dogtooth
Ida
Dogville
A History of Violence
Kairo
The Pledge
Trouble Every Day
Mysterious Skin
Ghost World
The Son
Bad Education
The Piano Teacher
The Witch
Ex Machina

dex14

Drive was the first thing that came to my mind as well.

Solid Snake

Based on what the internet says and figures... I'm possibly a millennial. Born in 1986. I don't think I am. I kind of think of those kids as ones born in the 1990s.

What do you lot consider the year dates for a millennial?

EddieMoney

Take Shelter
Shame
The Place Beyond the Pines
Animal Kingdom
Road to Perdition
Blue Ruin
The Proposition
Mystic River
The Wrestler

RichC2

From what I've been taught, "Millennials" is defined as people who entered into adulthood around 2000, if anything kids in the 90s don't apply (because they would have been 10 at most)

But you can thank news programs and social media for making it ultra murky. It's kind of how people use the term "hipster" incorrectly to describe any trend or group they don't like. The term "Millennial" has been tied to the generation that whines, lives at home and is lazy... as coined by Millennials.

bunkaroo

Man I really missed something with Mad Max Fury Road. I just do not get the love for that film.

RichC2

There are plenty of revered movies that I simply didn't find entertaining.

Mad Max FR's execution is top notch, world is well established, there's a good bit of subtext, several solid character arcs, and it follows a borderline Shakespearian narrative.

It also features a blind mutated guy shredding a flame spewing guitar while ridiculously modified vehicles pursue one another in a barren wasteland where lymphoma infected servants throw each other off giant moving platforms to impress their ruler in an attempt to be seen and guided into the next life.

It's ridiculousness, really well done. But certainly not for everyone.

EddieMoney

So basically it's like the USA ten years from now.

Neil M.

Idiocracy will easily be a classic. It may even go down as the greatest documentary film ever made.

Hokeyboy

Off the top of my head

Synecdoche, New York
Once
Her
A Serious Man
Mulholland Dr
The Grand Budapest Hotel
In The Mood For Love
Habla Con Ella
Children Of Men
Zootopia
Midnight In Paris
True Grit
Cloud Atlas
Looper
Perfume
Volver
Dredd
The Raid
Casino Royale
Skyfall
Pan's Labyrinth
Memento
There Will Be Blood
No Country For Old Men
Chicago
The Darjeeling Ltd
The Avengers
The Dark Knight
The Prestige
Drive
Moonrise Kingdom

Chrisedge

Millennials are generally thought of as 1980-2000

I manage a IT community of Millennials

Most millennials do not want to be called millennials (Like you)

Osiris3657

Mud
Black Swan
Gravity
The Town
Django
We Need To Talk About Kevin
Nightcrawler
The Grand Budapest Hotel
Moon
Pan's Labyrinth
Minority Report
American Psycho
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
Gladiator
Zodiac
No Country For Old Men