Comments on: Top 5’s for Gen Y

By: E*

E* — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 15:17:16 +0000

I totally agree with your television and movie list. Great realization. But I must say that I have no idea who The Postal Service is.. So, being firmly grounded in Gen Y, I would replace that with one of the teenie-bopper boy band albums or one of the blond female singers that we grew up with. Think about how we are STILL fixated on Brittany to this day…

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I think in any other generation we would have had a list of books, but for some reason our generation doesn’t seem to read books for pleasure that often so a list of literature would probably ended up being a list of Newspaper articles or Magazines/Graphic Novels or something to that effect. So I appreciate the fact that that list isn’t in there.

By: Amanda Schurr

Amanda Schurr — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 22:10:10 +0000

I really will revisit this with a few picks for my own generation, promise. At the moment, I’m too busy comparing chins with Jay Leno and, from your gen, dear J.R., Rumer Willis.

By: Amanda Schurr

Amanda Schurr — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 03:59:08 +0000

Did you know bees and dogs can smell overrated movies a mile away?

By: Amanda Schurr

Amanda Schurr — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 03:58:23 +0000

Jerry Ma freaking Guire? Really? Really? One of Cameron Crowe’s weakest films. (okay, Elizabethtown was a lower point.) Though it’s still got one of the best lines ever: “That’s not a dress. That’s an Audrey Hepburn movie.” And the running through the airport scene is pretty amazing, too. But seriously, though, Jerry Maguire? Lame. Weak.

By: chuggymcredhead

chuggymcredhead — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 21:39:40 +0000

Oh, I didn’t realize that 1996 wasn’t included in our generation.

I would include Klosterman on the list – in fact – he’s who I had in mind when writing my initial comment, but you’re right, he’s not well-known enough. I suppose all of the well-known authors of our generation aren’t so much influential as they are easy to read. That’s disappointing when you think about it.

By: Justin Richards

Justin Richards — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 19:06:58 +0000

And Jerry Maguire was released in ‘96.

By: Justin Richards

Justin Richards — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 19:03:05 +0000

I don’t think books shape culture that much until they are made into movies. At any given moment there are probably like 5 Americans reading a book and 30 million watching something.

Or maybe I just didn’t want to put Chuck Palahniuk, Dan Browne or Jonathan Safran Foer on any lists. Why is it that it seems easier to identify good mainstream tv shows/movies and albums than to identify good mainstream books? Correct me if I’m wrong.

And Chuck Klosterman’s work might be a counterexample, but I don’t know if he’s well-known enough to make a list.

By: chuggymcredhead

chuggymcredhead — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 18:46:35 +0000

I definitely think Jerry Maguire should have been included in this top five movie list.

And what about books?