Most influential movies of all time

unriggable · Post by **unriggable** » Mon Feb 11, 2008 9:08 pm

Citizen Kane, Taxi Driver, 2001.

Citizen Kane had possibly the best soundtrack of its time, Taxi Driver because it featured extensive use of the character's psychology, and 2001 because at the time nothing of the sort had ever been made.

Kaplowitz · Post by **Kaplowitz** » Mon Feb 11, 2008 10:03 pm

ParadiceCity9 wrote:American Pie: The Naked Mile because it made me ejaculate.

try slow-mo.

SolidLuigi · Post by **SolidLuigi** » Mon Feb 11, 2008 10:14 pm

Reservoir Dogs/Pulp Fiction. I put them together since they are both by Tarantino and have similar influences on movies that I will bring up.

Tarantino's great dialogue(which in the past 20 years dialogue in movies has all but died out because people need explosions and special effects to keep their short attention spans amused) scenes have been a huge influence on writers/filmakers after him. Another aspect is the jumping around in the timeline. Both movies have past present and future all coming in at different times which creates a dynamic story.

Neoteny · Post by **Neoteny** » Mon Feb 11, 2008 10:53 pm

Night of the Living Dead.

For doing zombies as good or better than anyone since. I should probably stay out of threads like this...

Frigidus · Post by **Frigidus** » Mon Feb 11, 2008 10:57 pm

Back to the Future, because it kicks so much ass.

SolidLuigi · Post by **SolidLuigi** » Tue Feb 12, 2008 12:57 am

Frigidus wrote:Back to the Future, because it kicks so much ass.

so true

Iliad · Post by **Iliad** » Tue Feb 12, 2008 1:04 am

star wars and matrix because they revolutionized the special effects. Matrix wasn't that good in my opinion but it did have special effects.

I think Lord of the rings too it's just it's too recent too see too many changes but the fact that we've got fantasy movies coming in very consistently is not a coincedence that LoTR was a huge sucess.

apey · Post by **apey** » Tue Feb 12, 2008 1:42 am

Space balls

nmhunate · Post by **nmhunate** » Tue Feb 12, 2008 12:47 pm

The wizard of OZ was not the first color movie.

btownmeggy · Post by **btownmeggy** » Tue Feb 12, 2008 12:52 pm

nmhunate wrote:The wizard of OZ was not the first color movie.

Good catch. It definitely wasn't.

dezzy26 · Post by **dezzy26** » Tue Feb 12, 2008 1:15 pm

the first feature length movie was something called cupid angling in 1918 i think but apparently short films were made as far back as 1902 where colour was hand painted onto single frames

there is something on the internet some where but i cant be bothered looking for the link

brooksieb · Post by **brooksieb** » Tue Feb 12, 2008 3:10 pm

definately not the most influential but i liked rocky 4 quite influential cause of the stand off between the NATO and the warsaw pact

Snorri1234 · Post by **Snorri1234** » Tue Feb 12, 2008 3:24 pm

Snakes on a plane!!!!

Sackett58 · Post by **Sackett58** » Tue Feb 12, 2008 5:58 pm

"Guess Who's Coming To Dinner", at the time it was still illegal to have interracial marriage in 17 southern states.

daddy1gringo · Post by **daddy1gringo** » Tue Feb 12, 2008 9:38 pm

Do you mean most influential on the art and industry of film-making, or influential on society and culture in general? Because the lists would not necessarily include the same films.

btownmeggy · Post by **btownmeggy** » Tue Feb 12, 2008 11:00 pm

daddy1gringo wrote:Do you mean most influential on the art and industry of film-making, or influential on society and culture in general? Because the lists would not necessarily include the same films.

Either that you can provide a convincing rationale for.

OnlyAmbrose · Post by **OnlyAmbrose** » Tue Feb 12, 2008 11:21 pm

unriggable wrote:Citizen Kane

Easily the most boring movie I have ever seen. Ever.

Skittles! · Post by **Skittles!** » Tue Feb 12, 2008 11:22 pm

To Kill A Mockingbird?

dcowboys055 · Post by **dcowboys055** » Tue Feb 12, 2008 11:24 pm

Cry Freedom because it shed light on the situations past and present in South Africa. That was an excellent movie

muy_thaiguy · Post by **muy_thaiguy** » Tue Feb 12, 2008 11:24 pm

OnlyAmbrose wrote:
unriggable wrote:Citizen Kane
Easily the most boring movie I have ever seen. Ever.

Phantom of the Opera takes that one for me. First, and ONLY movie I have EVER fallen asleep to. Actually, I think half the audience was asleep, and the other half was at least annoyed with it.

luns101 · Post by **luns101** » Wed Feb 13, 2008 12:57 am

I remember in high school 2 movies which influenced me were Ordinary People and 12 Angry Men

whitestazn88 · Post by **whitestazn88** » Wed Feb 13, 2008 1:06 am

my vote goes to Pirates.

no, not the one with johnny depp.

yes, its a porn.

but its definitely very influential. it changed the way directors filmed. rather than having randomly placed pornographic scenes, it included a decent plot that was very similar to the storyline in Pirates of the Caribbean. the fact that the production cost was almost 10x greater than any other porn proves that it was more visually pristine

Frigidus · Post by **Frigidus** » Wed Feb 13, 2008 2:22 am

muy_thaiguy wrote:
OnlyAmbrose wrote:
unriggable wrote:Citizen Kane
Easily the most boring movie I have ever seen. Ever.
Phantom of the Opera takes that one for me. First, and ONLY movie I have EVER fallen asleep to. Actually, I think half the audience was asleep, and the other half was at least annoyed with it.

I fell asleep during Star Wars: Episode 1. When I woke up I was shocked. I never fall asleep in movies. But it was just so boring!

strike wolf · Post by **strike wolf** » Wed Feb 13, 2008 5:49 pm

I'll go with Raiders of the Lost Ark and any of the original 3 Star Wars movie.

Raiders of the Lost Ark because there are so many references to different schenes in that movie that have had multiple versions of on different shows.

And Star Wars because of both the effect it had on the Special effects industry and some of the most familiar movie lines such as "Luke I am your father." "The force is strong in this one." and "May the Force be with you."

suggs · Post by **suggs** » Wed Feb 13, 2008 5:56 pm

E.T.