Some movies are great … but are they time capsule worthy?
The new sci-fi thriller “Knowing” revolves around a code that’s unearthed in a time capsule buried 50 years ago.
If you were gonna drop a few recent DVDs into a 2009 time capsule, which ones would you choose, and why?
Here are my selections:
- “Hannah Montana: Best of Both Worlds – The 3-D Movie” – Let future generations scratch their heads over this one.
- “An Inconvenient Truth” – Just for laughs.
- “Mr. and Mrs. Smith” – They’ll be wondering when the creature known as Brangelina first roamed the earth.
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Haha! Love the list.
This is a thought provoking post.
My husband picks “Star Wars,” and “Saving Private Ryan.”
I’d pick “Juno.”
I’m going to ponder this one a bit more…
El Dorado – The Duke and Mitchum guarantee that future generations know the “Greatest Generation” didn’t screw around.
Movies I like, here are Back to the future, Borat a cultural experience and legend of Druken Master all of these movies are awesome, I like your list too.
I was thinking more recent films, but a smattering of The Duke is a fine choice. “Saving Private Ryan,” too. Maybe throw in “Star Wars” and “Phantom Menace” to show the best … and the worst … from Mr. Lucas.
There Will Be Blood
Knocked Up
300
The Lives of Others
Once
Grofe – yes, “Once” for sure. To let future generations know we had hearts as big as a continent for embracing such a sweetheart of a movie.
Related, but not necessarily topical. I want to ask you a question that has been burning me and a friend for weeks now. Jasper and I share a love of the “define a generation” movies that kind of capture the look and feel of the quarter-life crisis. Not necessarily great films, but time capsules for what it was like to be 20-something and adrift in America. In the 70s it was Saturday Night Fever. In the 80s it was St. Elmo’s Fire. In the 90s it was Reality Bites. But here we are, in the 2000’s, and we have only a few months left to see the defining movie. Neither of us can figure out what the flick is that we’ll be able to look back at and go “That was us.” Any thoughts?
Karma, this is such a good question.
How about “Role Models?” not pretty, but pretty funny.
I loved “Reality Bites” and completely identified with it, even though I was in my very early 20s.
Valley girl’-nic cage’s finest performance
barn of the naked dead– don’t even ask
beyond the valley of the dolls