What's The Mid-2000s-est Movie Of All Time?

Dan Hopper
Updated August 6, 2019 3k votes 508 voters
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Vote up which movies best represent the twee, surreal, pseudo-indie vibe that was ALL THE RAGE from 2003-2008.

For a brief period in the mid-2000s, Hollywood had a VERY specific idea of what made a movie "good": Ultra-dry humor, mumbled dialogue, twee hand-drawn fonts all over the poster and credits, and long shots of directionless youths staring at ceilings and out train windows while an indie soundtrack played. It wasn't a "genre" of movies per se, but they felt spiritually similar in so many ways.

Which movies were the most mid-2000s? Throw on a Shins song and gaze wide-eyed into the list below.