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Post by lowtacks86 on Oct 13, 2020 18:57:31 GMT
A possible argument could be made for Toy Story, after that traditional animation in films started slowly going extinct.
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Post by PreachCaleb on Oct 13, 2020 20:06:23 GMT
Toy Story, The Matrix, Jurassic Park, Pulp Fiction. Arguments could be made for any one of them.
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Post by Rey Kahuka on Oct 13, 2020 20:13:22 GMT
Toy Story, The Matrix, Jurassic Park, Pulp Fiction. Arguments could be made for any one of them. I don't see the Matrix as being influential. It was spoofed to death for a few years, then it disappeared. Even from a visual effects perspective it didn't reinvent anything the way I thought it might back in the day.
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Post by dwightmachinehead on Oct 13, 2020 20:14:48 GMT
Saving Private Ryan (1997) paved the way for large scale realistic gory war movies with long battle scenes like Thin Red Line (1998), Black Hawk Down (2001) and We were Soldiers (2002).
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Post by PreachCaleb on Oct 13, 2020 20:54:26 GMT
Toy Story, The Matrix, Jurassic Park, Pulp Fiction. Arguments could be made for any one of them. I don't see the Matrix as being influential. It was spoofed to death for a few years, then it disappeared. Even from a visual effects perspective it didn't reinvent anything the way I thought it might back in the day. Bullet time is still widely used (outside of spoofs) to this day. Not to mention it almost single handedly popularized good guys wearing black leather in action movies. And lets not deny what it did for Keanu's career, which still resonates.
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Post by ck100 on Oct 13, 2020 20:57:37 GMT
These aren't the top choices, but the LOTR films and Star Wars prequels did a lot to influence the trends of using green screen and motion capture.
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Post by gw on Oct 13, 2020 21:03:50 GMT
X Men for paving the way for the superhero craze, Nightmare before Christmas for bringing stop motion movies into the mainstream, Bill Plympton's The Tune for inspiring independent animated filmmakers
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Post by twothousandonemark on Oct 13, 2020 23:08:33 GMT
I think it's maybe Toy Story.
I feel like Braveheart was the one to embrace realistic R rated battles before SPR. LOTR production was graphed from some Star Wars lessons. Superhero genre was more influenced by Superman & Batman prior.
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Post by Rey Kahuka on Oct 14, 2020 0:00:18 GMT
I don't see the Matrix as being influential. It was spoofed to death for a few years, then it disappeared. Even from a visual effects perspective it didn't reinvent anything the way I thought it might back in the day. Bullet time is still widely used (outside of spoofs) to this day. Not to mention it almost single handedly popularized good guys wearing black leather in action movies. And lets not deny what it did for Keanu's career, which still resonates. Fair points, all. I'd argue that Blade started the leather action costume craze, but The Matrix definitely popularized it with the X-Men clearly ripping it for their own fashion. Most of the flicks using bullet time are garbage, but influence is no guarantee of quality and that's hardly the fault of the original property. Hell, pretty much all of the Pulp Fiction knockoffs were terrible.
I'm not sure how much credit to give The Matrix for Keanu's career, though. He already had a few action flicks under his belt by then (and one of them, Speed, was a huge hit). Even after the Matrix he continued to be very erratic in his project choices and up and down with box office results. Though I will say he doesn't get the John Wick gig without his earlier turn in the Matrix franchise, so I guess there's your answer.
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Post by politicidal on Oct 14, 2020 14:20:35 GMT
Jurassic Park, since it made such a gigantic leap in the advancement of cgi.
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Post by Marv on Oct 14, 2020 14:40:27 GMT
Pulp Fiction
Scream
Harry Potter
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Post by sdrew13163 on Oct 15, 2020 3:04:33 GMT
1. Jurassic Park
2. LotR Trilogy
3. Toy Story
4. The Dark Knight
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Post by Sarge on Oct 16, 2020 6:10:29 GMT
On the razor's edge of 30 years but Back to the Future II & III popularized the trend of filming movies back to back, then Jackson filmed the LOTR trilogy back to back which really sealed the deal and made it mainstream. In fact, I would argue that it was really LOTR that made back to back filming popular even though it wasn't the first.
Jurassic Park ushered DTS sound into theaters. I remember standing in line for hours to see JP, then the theater manager came out and gave us a little speech about the sound system upgrade. I also remember it was uncomfortably loud and we had to cover our ears some of the time.
28 Days Later revived Romero's Infected genre, and made zombies popular again. (I know it's not a zombie movie, no need to say it).
Cats, for showing the world that combining live action with motion capture and animation and cats is an unholy abomination.
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Post by sostie on Oct 16, 2020 8:25:46 GMT
Blair Witch Project
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