What are the most influential films of all time?

[MartyMcFly]

I'm not talking the greatest films of all time or even the ones you feel like are the best or personally like; I'm talking about the movies that changed the game and things weren't the same after they came out.

Off the top of my head:

Star Wars
Toy Story
The Godfather
Psycho
Jaws
Breakfast Club


That's all I got right now. Add on brehs

 

[obarth]

Citizen Kane
Snow White and the Seven Dwarves
Jaws
Jurassic Park
Terminator 2
The Matrix
2001: A Space Odyssey
Harry Potter & the Sorcerer's Stone
Avatar

 

[Ricky Church]

Citizen Kane
Snow White and the Seven Dwarves
Jaws
Jurassic Park
Terminator 2
The Matrix
2001: A Space Odyssey
Harry Potter & the Sorcerer's Stone
Avatar

came in to say this.

 

[MartyMcFly]

Citizen Kane
Snow White and the Seven Dwarves
Jaws
Jurassic Park
Terminator 2
The Matrix
2001: A Space Odyssey
Harry Potter & the Sorcerer's Stone
Avatar

I was going to say snow white but I figured someone else would.

I'd take off harry potter tho because I think Wizard of Oz takes that. Maybe in the sense of book adaptations? I love that franchise but I wouldn't put that film on a list.

Easy Rider
Pulp Fiction
Lawrence of Arabia
Scream
Halloween
Blair Witch Project

 

[Ed MOTHERFUCKING G]

The longest day fathered every realistic war movie after it

 

[MartyMcFly]

Also going to add Gremlins and Temple of Doom just because without them, there's no PG-13 rating

 

[FlyRy]

Memento
Prestige
Inception
Interstellar

 

[MartyMcFly]

Memento
Prestige
Inception
Interstellar

add some real shyt breh stop being on your for Nolan:soomad:

 

[obarth]

I was going to say snow white but I figured someone else would.

I'd take off harry potter tho because I think Wizard of Oz takes that. Maybe in the sense of book adaptations? I love that franchise but I wouldn't put that film on a list.

I cosign the Wizard of Oz, but I put Harry Potter there more so for the influence on young adult novel adaptations that we see today. I wasn't trying list too many things without giving explanations so I left off a lot of films that have very similar impacts at different times. Do you choose between the Christopher Reeve Superman films, Burton Batman films, X-Men, Nolan Batman films, creation of the MCU as the most influential in comic book/superhero films, or acknowledge their influences for their respective times?

 

[MartyMcFly]

Battleship Potempkin

 

[FlyRy]

Battleship Potempkin

i've had this on my youtube watch list for a few months

 

[MartyMcFly]

I cosign the Wizard of Oz, but I put Harry Potter there more so for the influence on young adult novel adaptations that we see today. I wasn't trying list too many things without giving explanations so I left off a lot of films that have very similar impacts at different times. Do you choose between the Christopher Reeve Superman films, Burton Batman films, X-Men, Nolan Batman films, creation of the MCU as the most influential in comic book/superhero films, or acknowledge their influences for their respective times?

I'd still go with Superman because without Superman there is none of these. Nolan said that Donner's film was the biggest influence on Batman Begins because it was superman set in the real world. He felt like a Batman movie hadn't been done like that so he wanted to do that. Superman set the stage for everything that has come after it and some have improved on it while others haven't but without it, we got jack shyt

 

[MartyMcFly]

i've had this on my youtube watch list for a few months

Last I checked it was on netflix breh

 

[MartyMcFly]

Streetcar Named Desire

 

[obarth]

I'd still go with Superman because without Superman there is none of these. Nolan said that Donner's film was the biggest influence on Batman Begins because it was superman set in the real world. He felt like a Batman movie hadn't been done like that so he wanted to do that. Superman set the stage for everything that has come after it and some have improved on it while others haven't but without it, we got jack shyt

That's like saying if video game movies ever reach the success that comic book films have that Super Mario Bros was more influential than the Resident Evil films. My argument is that precedence and innovation/impact/influence aren't mutually exclusive