caters to young adults, but anyone can enjoy them

Just read the books, you can skip the movies. They leave tons of details out for obvious reasons

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4108486&forum_id=2#37039405)

the films are fun, but nothing particularly special in comparison.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4108486&forum_id=2#37039763)

So 180

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4108486&forum_id=2#37039824)

edit: also guess I was wrong about the initial age. I was 11 when I read Sorcerer's Stone for the first time, but it was a couple years after it was released, wasn't waiting on the release dates until the 4th one

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4108486&forum_id=2#37039897)

ignore the cocksmokers ITT rambling on about gay wizards

read narnia if you think you missed out on kids' fantasy

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4108486&forum_id=2#37040188)

agree that Narnia is 180 though

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4108486&forum_id=2#37040203)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PuHwwI0QOC4

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4108486&forum_id=2#37040206)

if you had immersed yourself in the world-building at 11 years old, you'd have a very different opinion.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4108486&forum_id=2#37040216)

They were absolute page turners but had ~zero lasting impact after I closed them. Truly good books stay with you.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4108486&forum_id=2#37042832)

Titanic is 2nd

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4108486&forum_id=2#37039175)

For most influential on Internet culture: The Matrix and LotR.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4108486&forum_id=2#37039301)

it turbocharged the whole shrew “ME ME ME I MUST SELFACTUALIZE” and travel instagram thing

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4108486&forum_id=2#37040247)

eat pray love showed them how - just do travel on daddy's money and meet lots of chads and get dick and eat brunch

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4108486&forum_id=2#37040312)

Schindler's List

Brokeback Mountain

50 Shades of Grey

Hunger Games

Black Panther

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4108486&forum_id=2#37039404)

RIP

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4108486&forum_id=2#37039794)

/thread

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4108486&forum_id=2#37039428)

"life finds a way"

"hold on to your butts!"

"clever girl"

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4108486&forum_id=2#37039618)

"it's a unix system, i know this"

in 2018, nearly every mobile phone plus the most popular laptop OS is a unix system

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4108486&forum_id=2#37039636)

Raimi's Spiderman films predate them but didn't have that Marvel stank

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4108486&forum_id=2#37039743)

You need to work backwards. The major cultural themes of today are identity politics, social media and internet connectivity and an increasing drive towards rootless job mobility coupled with a decrease in living near ones family. I don’t think ANY film can individually get close to being a major contributor. TV (friends, the kardashians, SATC, the daily show, etc) has much more power in driving and normalizing these trends over time due to repetition, reach and consistency.

That said, if forced to pick a movie, i agree with the guy who said Harry Potter. Thie closest we’re going to get in terms of films is probably going to a series for the reasons mentioned above. And these films have huge global reach, went on for a decade, and were widely viewed (and rewatched repetitively) by millennials driving today’s social trends, most importantly during their formative preteen and teenage years. A lot of the themes set up by the movies are echoed today... racism/classism/sexism and the abuse of power is the defining characteristic (mudblood/pureblood/houseelves/wizard nazis/etc)... less reliance on family and more on friends/schools/yourself (Harry’s an orphan... hermione basically ignores her family and human life for the majority of the series and even abandons them at the end to accomplish some greater cause... boarding school and spending 90% of your time away from your family is normalized, etc.)... obviously this doesn’t cover the Instagram age, but the films have obviously left their mark already and will probably do so for years to come given that they drove the moral development of an entire generation of kids.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4108486&forum_id=2#37040221)

Gay marriage was still opposed by a majority and sodomy had only been outlawed nationwide 2 years before lol.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4108486&forum_id=2#37042521)

As another example of how recently the non pro homo times were

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4108486&forum_id=2#37043979)

At best the film further normalized and validated homosexuality generally... but I don’t think this was the case. Nobody who didn’t already accept that two guys could legit love each other watched this movie all the way through. Literally nobody. And there were already plenty of (more popular and enjoyable) movies featuring homosexuality that had done way more to normalize and humanize gay guys. Broke back was just a good drama that happened to feature serious themes on homosexuality. But that doesn’t mean it was culturally influential despite the fact society is a lot more accepting of homosexuality and gay marriage today.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4108486&forum_id=2#37047441)

I'm not saying the film had a huge impact, but you said it had none at all, and that's not really the case.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4108486&forum_id=2#37049354)

saw a guy walking down street with a long black overcoat and Keanu sun glasses not 3 months ago. i think i saw a Hogwarts tie under that long black jacket, too

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4108486&forum_id=2#37042180)

https://vimeo.com/144447762

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4108486&forum_id=2#37043811)

</thread>

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4108486&forum_id=2#37043840)

Lost in Translation

Toy Story

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4108486&forum_id=2#37045985)