Your top 5 sci-fi movies (and why)

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...the baby boom encompassed a loooooong generation; that they got twenty years when all the others got fifteen has more to do with their parents' shared post-war economy, lifestyle, and media landscape than any common cultural identity shared between kids who came-of-age in the fifties and kids who came-of-age in the seventies...

...regardless, i like the decades spanning 45-54 et al as a cultural marker; that seems to work pretty well right through the present, good suggestion...

 

[Cadence]

It does, but cultural experiences trump demographic generalizations.

Using cultural things seems more useful to me too.

I'm 1/3rd of the way through Gen-X (1970), but my end-of-X sister a decade later was too young to really be hit by the Atari 2600, Star Wars figures, B/X, 1e, Commodore 64, episodes iv-vi, and Ghostbusters that hit me squarely in middle childhood through early adolescence.

 

[Parmandur]

It does, but cultural experiences trump demographic generalizations.

I have no memory of the Challenger disaster (I was alive, but bust being a nursing infant at the time), but I vividly remember 9/11.

 

[The Soloist]

'63 here and seems like that just barely makes me a Boomer.

Tail end of Boomers are sometimes called the Generation Jones, or Jonesers: Generation Jones - Wikipedia