Movies that shook the world.
 

Post movies that changed cinema and explain why...

Jaws is an obviuos one.

The first Big Summer Block buster. Look at cinema now and everything is geared towards the big blockbuster film. We owe or summer viewing experience to jaws. I'm not sure if that is a good thing or a bad thing....probably a bit of both. I would write something more in depth and informative. Alas i'm at work, so you can shit off:mad:

Film: A Streetcar Named Desire

Why: Brando, nuf said

Two Words..... Star Wars

Do I really need to explain this one...

Just to add to what Regal said, while Jaws was the ultimate one, we can't forget all the great Spielberg films that defined a generation (Jurassic Park, ET etc.).

The Godfather....well maybe not but awesome nonetheless.

Birth of a Nation
Wizard of Oz
Psycho
The Matrix

People are quickly forgetting about Jurassic Park; in a few years there will be a whole bunch of kids who don't even know what it is and don't understand why adults are interested in it.

Plus it sucks.

Close Encounters of the Third Kind
E.T.
King Kong (Original)
Schindlers List
Raging Bull
Apocalypse Now

Hmm i don't think any of those "changed" cinema. Great films, but didn't change cinema.

Star Wars is without a doubt the biggest one.

Not just it's popularity, but it's breakthroughs. Jaws was the first summer blockbuster, but Star Wars cemented it. It revolutionized special effects and blockbuster escapist cinema. It was the biggest deal ever at the time and still is really.
That's why the 30th Anniversary is all over tv and Star Wars only grows in popularity and legend as the years go on.
The anticipation of the prequels (all criticisms aside) was the biggest thing in the world at the time.

Jaws was a big one, and I'd say Jurassic Park, Excorcist, Titanic.

The original King Kong comes to mind too. Along with Star Wars, King Kong has inspired more filmakers, effects artists, storytellers and imaginations than any film ever. If it wasn't for King Kong, Steven Spielberg and Peter Jackskson wouldn't make movies. They've said it themselves.

The original King Kong sure as hell did. Special effects blockbuster, first fantasy epic, incredibly successful and inspirational.
It was also the first movie to have an original musical score. Theres a few other big things that have to do with it I can't remember at the moment. But either way it was big.

To be honest there are not a lot of films that you caould say truly changed cinema. It is a pretty exclusive group.

Yeah King Kong did....i couldn't be arsed to pick it out. Now you have made me. Happy prick:mad:

Yea there are alot of great, successful, highly popular and even iconic films. But theres not really many that "shook the world".

It's actually easier to pick people who changed cinema, rather than movies. For instance, I wouldn't be comfortable picking just one movie of Spielbergs as the one that shook the world, but rather his whole body of work. Same with Lucas and others.

Yeah that's a good point.

The thing is the further along the timeline we go the harder it will be for anyone to change cinema. I mean shit, it's a pretty tall order:lol:

I'd put Wizard of Oz up there definately.

It really is hard to form a list, because so few TRULY did shake the world Star Wars and King Kong are by far the easiest.

I'd also throw in Evil Dead. It was essentially a budget film, and low fi at the time, but really did shake up the way we looked at horror movies. For better or worse, it changed the scene.

There's a reason it went from cult to mainstream.

It'd be good to find somebody who could make cinema good again. With these studios not willing to make a gamble on anything half decent and instead pouring all their money into surefire hits (i.e. sequels, trilogies etc.) we are going to see less and less great one-off films.

I just watched Copolla's 'The Conversation' with Gene Hackman and realised we will never see another movie like that in the current climate. Plus there's very few directors in the mainstream atm who are capable of pulling that off.





(Btw, I didn't watch the film with Hackman, he was in it)

Not sure if I entirely agree with this, but tossing it out there. The Exorcist.

Undisputed

I agree with Gigli

Pulp Fiction was pretty influential

Yea I don't know if there has been one film that has really changed cinema. I mean, Star Wars had many technical innovations and a huge cultural impact, but Lucas drew from his influences (Kurosawa) and it's story is pretty basic.

I'm sure a lot of people would argue for Citizen Kane, but at the time of it's release it wasn't revered like it is today. I think people are too quick to recognize change through things like special effect, sound etc. When the real changes came from certain filmmakers and movements (new wavers, neorealists etc.)

Yea Lucas drew from influences but now people draw from him. He drew from archetypes, which Star Wars has become the vehicle to move forward.

You can absolutely see parallels in storytelling in new things with Star Wars. The basic trilogy layout, the idea of continuous chapters. Pirates seems to have heavy similarities.

It's funny, because Lucas likely took some loose things from Lord of the Rings while makign Star Wars, and years later Peter Jackson used Star Wars heavily in how he approached LOTR

Star Wars without a doubt changed film making completely, it opened new doors for technology and creative ideas.

Psycho created the horror film basically, or the horror film as we know it.

Rocky also created a formula that is still in effect, the inspirational character piece.

Lord of the Rings took the creativity of Star Wars and took it to unseen levels, no CGI has ever been as good.

Matrix as well.

I disagree, the LOTR CG is very very good, but King Kong and Episode 3 were better.
That doesn't take away anything from them though, this was of course 2-3 years later, and CG is something that moves fast.

It amazes me how well the CGI in Jurassic Park still is, even by current standards. I think it's proof that skill outweighs technology. Nearly 15 years later with greater technology and cheaper, easier and more accessible tools movies continue to come out with CGI that is subpar to the original breakthrough.
I guess thats what makes the top team at ILM the best in the business, with WETA in close second.

Yea I agree, I guess i'm just arguing (and you seem to feel the same way) that with any art form... change is perpetual or something.

Halloween was an independent film as well. It was huge for that. Its certainly the father of all slasher films. Great call.

That is why the future is going to suck.

I suppose Toy Story is a good call too. It was the first of what seems to be the forseeable future of all animated features. Now 2D animation is all but extinct and CG animated films with big name actors lending their voices is all the rage.

It seems like it has been a bit forgotten lately, but that doesn't really mean anything yet. Even something as classic as Star Wars went through a period in the early 90s where it was on the low. It's time and new generation that decide on it's longevity and it came back huge in the mid 90s. And I don't think it's going anywhere.

God I hate Star Wars.

And really, who doesn't draw from influences?

Battlestar Galactica featured in theater sound effects which heralded simulation and surround sound. In that sense, it was a breakthrough. I've never seen the movie, so I can't talk about the graphics or anything.

The Jazz Singer
Battleship Potemkin
The Man With A Movie Camera
Metropolis
Double Indemnity
Bonnie & Clyde
The Wild Bunch
Easy Rider
Cum In My Ass Not In My Mouth 2

The Blair witch project. Budget of fuck all. Pretty crap film. Used the internet as a marketing tool like nothing before it. And made a fortune.

Snakes on a Plane.......wait.

X-Men

Showed that a Superhero movie that is done right can be huge at the box office.

Blazing Saddles

It cover ALOT of race issues and whatnot that no other movie touched back in it's day.. Humor that is now widely accepted in the mainstream..

I think Superman did that.. And maybe even tthe old Adam West Batman franchise..

Rocky Horror Picture Show

I was completely blown away by Jurrasic Park. I was only like 12 or 13 i think, but still. I still love watching that movie.

The Great Train Robbery

Black Christmas made Halloween.

Psycho was the foundation
Black Christmas was the structure
Halloween was the roof

Reservoir Dogs, the way it was presented (out of sequence, flashbacks etc.)

Deepthroat?
Clockwork Orange?

Sorry if I talk aload of crap in the movie and TV forum, I barely watch either.

I agree with the Toy Story one. It really was the "first" and paved the way, but I'd dare say Shrek made it big. The original Shrek was (if I remember correctly) the first that made it mainstream enough to make 1923127318273 movies like it.

Except it wasn't even the first Mel Brooks movie that dealt with touchy issues. He'd already broken that groun by the time Blazing Saddles came across his desk.

Though it was the first movie to have flatulence in it....

What "The Producers"??

No...Spaceballs the series. :roll:

Batman was one of the biggest hits of all time. Superman was huge 10 years before that. Xmen was big because it made studios go nuts making Marvel movies, but comic book flicks had been big long before Xmen was even popular as a comic book, let alone a movie.

1975?

Well Superman was released in 1978, shortly after Batman went into devlopment, so yea.

Gone With The Wind
The Jazz Singer (first movie with sound [i.e. dialogue, as opposed to just musical scores])

that's all I got right now...

The Nightmare On Elm Street that was filmed in 3D :shifty:

Seriously, Stagecoach was one of the first big epic westerns.

Probably alredy been mentioned but Blair Witch Project as well, just for it's use of the internet to gain popularity and build up the backstory. Get people interested and build an aura around the film.
This led to many films following suit such as Snakes On A Plane.

Yeah what Mr Regal said :)

Midnight Cowboy: When it was originally released, the ‘X’ rating designation was not yet used to rate pornographic movies, so it was groundbreaking in that it was the first, and probably last mainstream movie in America to recieve the X rating from the MPAA*.
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*Changed to R by the MPAA after having been re-submitted in 1971 with the anticipation of the re-release of the film, by which time the ‘X’ rating had been associated with the pornographic film industry.

Airplane. I don't think I really need to explain.

ZAZ also really changed the way spoofs were done with Police Squad (In Color), which was the predecessor to the Naked Gun series.

I was gonna say this but couldn't remember the film..

X-Men comics became popular in the mid 70s, 1975 and then boomed starting in 1980, so your statement that Comic Book movies were huge long before the X-men were popular as a comic book is fallacious

BWP had no staying power though, it's no coincidence that anyone who has tried to follow suit has pretty much failed.

BWP did a lot of things already done, and got its fifteen minutes of fame. It didn't really change anything, and you'll notice how few people are dumb enough to try internet marketing.

BWP did however get movies to be hyped and trailers made for the internet. It would have happened anyway, but this movie took the lead and caught the big boys flat footed.

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Not particularly sure that's true.

In the Heat of the Night.

The Good, The Bad, and the Ugly
Resevoir Dogs, Pulp fiction-These two movies popularized the term Tarantino-esque

Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song

Pretty sure it is.

Don't think Taxi Driver has been mentioned yet, I mean talk about issues, not to mention extreme violence

Without RHPS, we wouldn't have Easter Eggs.

Man Bites Dog


One of Tarantino's biggest inspirations btw, fucking hilarious and sick

Never actually have seen the film version, but the TV series inspired by it, especially Carroll O’Connor as Chief Gillespie, was awesome!

I'm suprised no one said this....Dance's with Wolves.

This was the first of the big 3+ hour epics.

I can't believe no one has mentioned Basic Instinct.

or Fatal Attraction, for that matter.

They didn't change anything though they are great movies.

2001 A Space Oddesy, even though I can't stand it was influential as hell.

Nah. You can go back further than that. The Ten Commandments, Lawrence of Arabia. Those are epics.

Even Birth of a Nation is around 3 hours.

Pretty sure Ben Hur is ridiculously long too, hell Cleopatra is about 4 hours, ditto Seven Samurai, Once Upon a Time in America, quite a few rly

:nono:

First of the modern epics.

:o

Just because a movie is 3 hours doesn't mean it shook the world.