Challenge: name a movie that captures the spirit of each decade.

1930s------The Grapes of Wrath

1940s------The Best Years of Our Lives, Sunset Boulevard, Casablanca,

1950s------Marty, Blackboard Jungle, Rebel without a Cause, Twelve Angry Men, The Wild One, On the Waterfront

1960s------Dr Strangelove, FailSafe, Easy Rider, Head, The Graduate, Dr NO

1970s-----Network*(I am actually surprised no one has mentioned it yet)*), Taxi Driver, Dog Day Afternoon, The Godfather, The Exorcist, Jaws, Rocky, Saturday Night Fever, Halloween

1980s-----The Breakfast Club, WarGames, Red Dawn, First Blood(and the sequels), Wall Street, E.T.:The Extraterrestrial, Nightmare on Elm Street, Rocky IV

1990s------Clueless, Clerks, Mallrats, Office Space, American Beauty, Terminator 2: Judgement Day

2000s-----The Hurt Locker, Green Room, Gran Torino, Crash, The Social Network, United 93, World Trade Center, Winter’s Bone, Clerks II

2010s----Zero Dark Thirty, Act of Valor, Silver Linings Playbook, Get Out,

The 80s makes me think of all those Brat Pack films like “Breakfast Club”. Kids who don’t give a shit and are kind of lost in the post-boomers surge.

The other side of this being The Big Chill, when the Boomers all had to try to grow up and become responsible adults.

(Spoiler alert: 2016.)