Let's have a little fun for a moment.

Someone appears in your world who has been in a coma for the past 26 years or is somehow otherwise culturally unaware of things that have happened during that time. What are the three movies you suggest to them that best represent the time they're missing?

Lord of the Rings (I'm counting the full trilogy as one movie)

The Social Network

One Battle After Another

Ask me tomorrow and I could have three completely different answers.

12 hours ago, Nicole Drum said:

Let's have a little fun for a moment.

Someone appears in your world who has been in a coma for the past 26 years or is somehow otherwise culturally unaware of things that have happened during that time. What are the three movies you suggest to them that best represent the time they're missing?

Sonic 4 movie (Sonic CD and Sonic Adventure inspiration)

Pokemon live action movie based on anime.

New Power Rangers movie.

6 hours ago, ChrisA90 said:

Lord of the Rings (I'm counting the full trilogy as one movie)

The Social Network

One Battle After Another

Ask me tomorrow and I could have three completely different answers.

Counting the whole trilogy as one movie is the only real correct way to do it.

The Social Network - Pretty much defines an entire era and has remained relevant

Get Out - Was a big cultural moment, a shift for filmmaking (and awards) in terms of prestige horror, and in terms of sociopolitics is very interesting for both the Obama era and BLM.

Avatar/The Avengers - Purely in movie terms, looking at how the landscape became so dominated by shared universes, franchises, and comic book movies, something from the early MCU makes sense. But I also think showing someone who hasn't seen a movie in 26 years Avatar would blow their minds more than anything else.

Honourable mentions to The Big Short (don't really like Adam McKay's "serious" movies, but it is a good snapshot of the financial crash), 25th Hour (probably the best 9/11 movie), Children of Men (both fitting of the post-9/11, War on Terrior, Bush-era feelings of the time and simultaneously prescient with regards to things on the environment, finances, refugees, politics, etc)

7 hours ago, James Hunt said:

The Social Network - Pretty much defines an entire era and has remained relevant

Get Out - Was a big cultural moment, a shift for filmmaking (and awards) in terms of prestige horror, and in terms of sociopolitics is very interesting for both the Obama era and BLM.

Avatar/The Avengers - Purely in movie terms, looking at how the landscape became so dominated by shared universes, franchises, and comic book movies, something from the early MCU makes sense. But I also think showing someone who hasn't seen a movie in 26 years Avatar would blow their minds more than anything else.

Honourable mentions to The Big Short (don't really like Adam McKay's "serious" movies, but it is a good snapshot of the financial crash), 25th Hour (probably the best 9/11 movie), Children of Men (both fitting of the post-9/11, War on Terrior, Bush-era feelings of the time and simultaneously prescient with regards to things on the environment, finances, refugees, politics, etc)

Oh man. Great call on 25th Hour. That's one of Spike's best movies.

Let's watch all three Avatar movies and just throw them into the deep end hahahaha, you don't have time to take it easy you gotta make up for that lost time fast!