What Film Had the Worst Influence? 

Since I’m seeing a lot of good discussions in the comments, I wanted to throw out a couple more “worst influences” that I cut out before writing this video: Independence Day (1996) - influenced a lot of soulless epic disaster films. You could say this even leaked into the MCU where every film’s conflict is some end of the world scale issue. Toy Story (1995) - pretty much put an end to 2D animation in the US and Western countries. Of course 3D animation is awesome, it’s just sad how we barely get any 2D animation from the US. Good thing we have anime to satisfy the cravings (Sasageyo!!)

Avatar or MCU opened Pandora’s box for big budget fever

Props for including Jaws from an ecosystem stand point

You forgot to include Shrek for showing the industry how profitable reference humor is.

If we’re talking films with bad influences, even if they were not the first attempts at this kind of movie, The Force Awakens and Jurassic World set off a wildfire of legacy sequels and encouraged studios to get even greedier than before to revive every back-catalogue franchise from the 70s up to the early 2000s. Yes, eventually this phenomenon enabled the conditions for the making of Top Gun Maverick, but both TFA and JW squandered their own potential and ended as poorly thought-out and divisive trilogies.

Marvel making every movie feel the need to add quirky jokes and "uhh that just happened" to too many serious moments.

Not a film, but the 2008 financial crisis making studios risk averse and desiring guaranteed returns lead to the death of mid budget cinema and the endless supply of joyless sequels and remakes we’ve been stuck with for years.

Unfortunately, Scream (1996) had a pretty awful influence. Studios desperately wanted to copy it's success for years. They would (mostly) only greenlight similar scripts, flooding the market with cheap imitations, or would heavily edit movies (like Disturbing Behavior, and Blair Witch 2) to be as similar as possible. Outside of the film industry, it also influenced copy-cat killers to mimic Ghostface.

Dark knight changed the tone of so many movies, but then also changed the tonenof the comic book industry a lot of the time for the worse.

Top gun is literally the definition of finding a passion you never knew you had

The Dark Knight. Made everyone want superhero movies to realistic and gritty… that’s how we got that awful Fant4stic

"Evil cannot create anything new. It can only corrupt and ruin what good forces have invented or made." - JRR Tolkien

Despite their technical achievements, The Birth Of The Nation and Triumph Of Will are to this day the films that shows evil and horror.

I've mentioned this to my friends, but I think that The Simpsons is (or was) an absolutely amazing show, but one that the world is worse off because it exists. The first few seasons of the Simpsons are some of the best adult animation out there. But the influence it has had on animation is horrible. Because of the Simpsons, there is pretty much no non-comedy adult animation series being made in America. Every adult animation series is a comedy out of obligation, to the point where a lot of people consider "animation" to be a genre and not a medium. Simpsons was very edgy for the time period it was released in. But then that kicked off the trend of adult animated series constantly trying to one-up each other in edginess. Family Guy, Mr. Pickle, American Dad, Teenage Euthanasia, and more. It's gotten so extreme that adult animated series are starting to get as close to sexualizing minors as they can without getting sued, and that entire trend really started off with The Simpsons. The effect it has had on real life is harder to quantify. Art imitates life far more than life imitates art, but I'm still inclined to believe it has had some effect on making people be less kind towards one another and less respectful towards their own family based on The Simpsons depiction of reality. Something I can definitely say the Simpsons has had an impact on is the way people view nuclear energy. The Simpsons depicts it as an unquestionably evil industry that always does harm and only exists because of money. When in reality, most of the things The Simpsons depict about nuclear plants haven't been true for decades (they don't dump liquid waste outside plants. Nuclear waste is a solid, and is stored between blocks of concrete away from nature). Nuclear energy is objectively cleaner than fossil fuels, but the Simpsons still tries its hardest to make people think it's the devil and has been doing so for decades now.

I'd also add Shrek here too. It had a negative influence on 2d animation, essentially killing the medium

Another trend that I feel originated from the Rocky-Creed series is bringing back legacy characters to ensure a blockbuster. The spider-men, micheal keatons batman and beetlejuice, the last Jurassic Park movie, indiana jones, ghostbusters:afterlife, bad boys 3, matrix 4 and even top gun: maverick. Sure some of these movies were good, but it seems to never end.

American Psycho had a bunch of losers on instagram and TikTok to start the trend of sigma male.

I actually had Birth of A Nation and Jaws in my mind for the exact named reasons, good video!

This might be a hot take but I think guardians of the galaxy had the worst influence out of all the MCU. Afterwards, it seems rare to see a superhero act with sincerity, and instead everything is played for laughs at theirs or someone else’s expense

I feel like Nolan's IMAX trend was waaaaaaay more damaging than the Avatar 3D craze. Because of the 3D wave after the first Avatar at least we got Hugo, Life of Pi and Gravity winning back to back cinematography and visual effects Oscars blending the two together as seamlessly as it ever had. One could argue outside of Nolan's films, and maybe Ghost Protocol, the IMAX Hollywood releases have mostly been gimmicks where very little IMAX footage is actually in the end film and even then, it's not necessarily utilized specifically for its format the way others have done in the past. IMAX tickets are also a major ticket premium inflating box office. Funnily enough, the best large format movies since the Nolan started the trend are non-IMAX: Roma and Bardo which both had 70mm releases and screenings all over the world but because it's from big bad Netflix we can't praise them for it lol. They're also entirely shot in 65mm as opposed to only selected sequences like Nolan and most IMAX "productions".

I'm glad you mentioned the environmental impact of Jaws as that's something that gets often ignored. For a gripe I have I think general misinformation in a flim is a bad thing in general even if it's for smaller examples because lets be honestly most flim audiences don't do enough investigating on there own to fact check writers. I don't have a particular example of a movie that did this but I hate how the discovery network had an era of misinformation is more profitable than actual facts. Hence the famous megalodon specal or the mermaids special two pieces of fake media that gas lit people for awhile

Y'know, if it wasn't for "Jaws", I'd have never learned as much as I have about sharks! When I saw it on late night television at only 10 years old, it terrified me, but it wasn't long after that when I decided to find out if sharks really attacked people like Bruce did. While I discovered that it was indeed somewhat based on a true event that happened in New Jersey all the way back in 1916, I also learned that there are many different sharks and only a few of them could be considered "man eaters". While the Great White is a mighty predator and awesome in every way, I personally love the Port Jackson Shark. It just looks so weird, but not creepy weird like the Goblin Shark. It also has a mouthful of crazy looking molars because it eats crustaceans. As you can read, it actually had the opposite effect on me. I became an advocate for sharks after I saw it!

Michael Bay’s Transformers, Twilight and Venom come to mind.

The release of "Fast Times At Ridgemont High" on premium cable in 1983 led directly to increased use of the words "dude" and "awesome." We're still dealing with the fallout forty years later.

1978 Halloween success setting off the trend of countless low budget low effort slasher schlock, culminating in horror becoming a caricature of itself.

Bohemian Rhapsody, just because of the mostly not good musical biopics that came flooding afterwards

Honestly the first hostel movie is very underated

Let's not forget Shrek influenced many animated movies to forcefully include pop culture influences and mainstream pop music which led to animated movies to taken less seriously causing a decline in serious and dark animated movies the years after. But with the success of the spiderverse movies, puss in boots the last wish, teenage mutant ninja turtles mutant mayhem, and anime movies like demon slayer mugen train and the boy and the heron there could be a chance that studios could have interests in darker edgier and action oriented animated movies. Also lord of the rings War of the rohimmin could be a major success and could help make a positive impact to animation

This is a well thought out video essay. I never thought about some of these movies this way

Ok but for the hunger games it worked story wise because that’s what it was like for her, a violent blur where she could only really get small glances at what was going around while panicking and running for her life. Like idk I felt like the frantic movement were perfect indicators of how she was perceiving her world

In my opinion, The Little Mermaid not doing well was due to a number of factors, not just because it was another live action remake.

Unless you were there, in the theater, watching The Blair Witch Project in 1999, you probably don't get why it was brilliant. The only other found footage horror film by that point was Cannibal Holocaust, and most people never even heard of that one. So, Blair Witch was uniquely fresh and genuinely horrifying at the time of its release, ESPECIALLY watching it on the big screen 🔥

This is a really good video. I remember thinking about this question in my head. I’m glad there are good video on it.

I think the thing that's the most frustrating from any success in Hollywood is that the money guys always "learn" the wrong lessons. Like it's never about a movie just having good writing, solid to excellent casting/acting, and/or even just meeting the moment or defining the zeitgeist, there always has to be some boneheaded takeaway lesson that will produce results, because results always mean something right? Maybe it's just our drive to see patterns in clouds, but it's seriously annoying to the point where I almost dread any movie (especially one I like) becoming popular because it will inevitably lead to watered down facsimiles that are a shadow of the originator.

Worst current trend has got to be superheroes. Millions and Billions being spent on D list superheroes that no one recognizes for films and tv. No variety really in what they're doing what so ever. Meanwhile lots of other genres are being completely ignored and lack funding and promotion

Love the videos, man. Keep it up!!!

It kills me that The Little Mermaid live action remake might be the one to make Disney rethink the trend because its actually one of the best ones out of the group.

These are interesting topics. Awesome channel bro

Though it is a bit more subtle than some of these, I'd like to throw out Triumph of The Will (1935). A piece of Nazi propaganda (and perhaps the only significant piece of film to come out of the Third Reich), it's had a lasting influence on the way we portray Nazi's (and Nazi-analogous villains) in film. The way movies portray Nazis is often in the exact way the Nazis themselves would *want* to be portrayed and seen. While I can't say that's as creatively detrimental as, say, the glut of Disney live action remakes, it feels a little unsettling to me that we remember such a horrible regime through the lens of its own propaganda.

I've seen people argue than _Top Gun_ even more than _Star Wars_ is the patient zero of the "movies are more park rides than stories" trend that Martin Scorssesse recently criticized... I personally would point more to _Independance Day_ than _Top Gun_ as the direct ancestor of the current blockbuster

As much as I love the 1st Guardians of the Galaxy film, I feel like it had a bad influence on two fronts: 1. The Comedy: While the MCU prior to Guardians had comedy, Guardians was arguably the film that used the style of humor that the MCU is now known for. More emphasis on quips, self depricating or aware lines, etc. As much as I like the MCU, I will admit that after Guardians 1, the other movies started to slowly abuse this, starting with Phase 3 and especially with the more recent films. Other films from other studios (ex: Theatrical Cut of Justice League, Ghostbusters 2016, The Mummy 2017, Jurassic World Dominion) tried to replicate this style of humor and would not work at all. 2. The Soundtrack: Guardians 1 may not be the first movie to use recognizable songs in the movie itself, but the way the movie used its soundtrack in the story is what started a trend. Guardians 1 came out right around the perfect time. The 2010's saw a big markeable trend of referencing the 80's and sometimes the 90's. This started slowly at the start of the decade with movies like Super 8 and shows like Regular Show, but Guardians unintentionally caused a trend for years to follow in regards to how songs are used in a film. It worked in Guardians because the songs made sense in the scene they're played, they made sense in-universe, and chose songs that actually fit the movie and the scene. But now we have movies that abuse the use of recognizable songs just for marketability reasons. The Super Mario Bros Movie is a recent infamous example, where Universal literally cut some of the already composed music and threw in recognizable songs.

Another great video from you!

It’s Star Wars. It’s one of my favourite movies of all time, but the roll-on effect of the overwhelming success of Star Wars has lead to the blockbuster-ridden hellscape we know today

IT changed peoples outlook of clowns ... clowns were always fun & kid friendly.... now.. clowns are a normal staple in Halloween year after year after year..

What's hilarious is that while our society fears sharks, it glorifies dolphins. In reality it should be switched: Dolphins are the demons of the sea while sharks are just giant fish with sharp teeth.

Excellent video you guys.

I would add "The incredible Hulk" for introducing the immediate reboot. Before that, if an adaptation or a series of the became unprofitable, studios would wait at least a generation before trying again. Now it's just "Oh, you didn't like our latest Batman? No worries, next year there will be another one"

Shrek killed 2d animation so if say thats probably the film with the worst influence it also popularized celebrity voice actors in movies

Great vid, not disappointed by any entry.

Before I even started watching this I anticipated that Avatars influence on 3D films would be featured prominently. I actually love 3D flicks and believe they've gotten a bad wrap in recent years. Immediately following Avatar there were a ton of films that were rushed through early 3D post conversions that were admittedly pretty weak and shameless cash grabs by studios. And I totally understand why people became disillusioned with 3D after so many of these shoddy 3D films inundated the market. By the time (2014-ish) 3D post conversion technology improved to the point where it was as good, if not superior to, natively shot 3D, many people were tired of the format. In my opinion many of the most impressive 3D features were released between 2014 and 2018, although sadly most people missed out on seeing these in 3D. There are still some great films released every year in this format, despite its waning popularity. However, 3D has been around since the earliest days of cinema, and its popularity is clearly cyclical, as it does add another element to filmmaking when done properly.

Haven't gotten into the video yet but I hope Jaws is mentioned. People have hated sharks for decades because of that movie. Humans hunting sharks increased dramatically after that films release. Sorry sharks.

I love videos like this. Even if I don't agree, it's still interesting to hear you out.

Final Destination 2 and logging trucks.

To be fair to TCM, horror movies have always been subject to remakes, it's just now we're getting to a point where it' harder to make a horror film that's strikingly different from one that came out 30 years ago, than an old school Universal monster movie. Which reminds me: People blame JAWS and especially STAR WARS for the kinds of movies that would be made, but a lot of "adult dramas" were making bank, even if they weren't at the level of subversion that say, DOG DAY AFTERNOON was. And even sci-fi blockbusters like E.T. and BACK TO THE FUTURE didn't feel like pre-programmed home runs the way tentpoles do now. I want to say it was BATMAN and TERMINATOR 2 that truly turned blockbusters into a fair accompli. I think T2 also played a big part of franchise culture. In the old days, for the most part sequels were things were made as sort of victory laps, with the understanding it would be diminishing returns. A second Terminator really incentivized the idea of not only bringing another round, but making it bigger. I think Austin Powers's legendary video afterlife and subsequent box office bump also signaled this was a new era, in my opinion, firmly cemented with THE MUMMY RETURNS. A not particularly beloved sequel to a movie that was not really a huge cultural phenomenon breaking records. The video largely goes after movies who's success were a big influence, but for every hit that makes studios greedy you got to look at the failures that made them gunshy. First, let's talk about GLADIATOR (in turn making itself a contender for the list), which of course, was a success, but it inspired a host of sword and sandals movies and a few historical epics in other time periods (A couple being romances taking cues from TITANIC). This was looked at a way to both make money AND collect awards hardware. It came to a head in 2003 where MASTER AND COMMANDER, THE LAST SAMURAI and COLD MOUNATIN all competed, and performing weakly in the states, with only M&C coming close to awards traction. 2004 was the moderately successful but not well-liked TROY, the flop of KING ARTHUR, and the outright punchline ALEXANDER. By 2005, KINDOM OF HEAVEN and MEMOIRS OF A GEISHA saw a trend that was over almost as soon as it began, but it had a really deleterious effect. With studios throwing their weight behind expensive bombs, this saw a vacuum where the smaller, mini-major arthouse fare thrive. While this is not necessarily a bad thing, studios learned that the less they spent on prestige fare, the more street cred they got, and if nobody took to it, no harm no foul, no Jay Leno monologue. This saw the "movie for adults" become much more niche. But there WAS a movie that was both a swords and sandals movie, and outside the studio system, and I would argue the most harmful movie of the last 30 years: PASSION OF THE CHRIST. Studios balked at Gibson's movie because it was gory, in a dead language, and had possibly anti-Semitic undertones. Gibson made it with his own money, and showed them all, with the biggest R-Rate hit of all time. Now, nine out of ten times proving studios heads are cowards who don't know what they're doing is a good thing. But Gibson courted a much more reactionary base than independent cinema usually gets, which on some level put studios in a difficult spot, because it meant to keep the box office tickets flowing they had to cater to the freshly coined "Red State" audiences, for whom feel good stories with Tom Hanks weren't going to cut it anymore. The movie hit a fissure point in a very polarizing time, and it's been hard to make four quadrant, even solid double, movies without blue sky beams ever since.

Beyond the "universing" of several films, another influence that the MCU has had is dejecting serious moments with quips and sarcasm. It's a trope that works great in sitcoms but on the big screen it comes across very cheap and lazy.

A very thought provoking video.

The difference between the films as opposed to the films which influenced them is talent and common sense. I think the issue is people see something is popular and think they can do that and become a success through it and sometimes you can but mostly you don't. You need talent and a fresh take and good scripts and all the rest to make it work, you can't just go "MCU is popular let's make a universe and that will equal a gorillion dollars".

Jaws definitely in spot 1 for worst influence. It's influence wasn't only limited to screen but also beyond it, in real life. Still to this day , people r in fear of sharks and it doesn't help with Discovery like channels coming up with "killers" , "monster" title to document the wildlife. Also the Indian Jones contributed in uprise of pseudo archeology. But definitely full credit goes to the terrible Ancient Alien show on History..Why even that channel is named 'History'? I think early 2000s - 90s-80s was most confusing time for the audience bcs alot of new , innovative, never heard before ideas got tapped in by Hollywood and since they were only interested in making sensational stories for money. Most were given dark overlay. Like in creature horror- shark, dinosaur . AI, exorcism, virus, time-travel. At that time due to low access to accurate information people end up believing the movies and thus lots of myth, hoax was born. Especially shows like Ancient Aliens, Zeitgeist and whole plethora of sci-fi time travel documentry show.

One that no one talks about but has probably the most significant worst influence is Michael Cimino's Heaven's Gate from 1980. Probably the worst behind the scenes for any film ever, mostly from Cimino's notorious directing job, which caused it to go massively over budget and several release postponements to become one of the biggest box office flops of all time and effectively ending the era of director driven productions for more studio controlled products.

Star Wars and Jaws definitely had the worst impact on the film industry. Both are masterpieces though, don't get me wrong your videos are very well made! I'm surprised you don't have 100k subs yet!

Continuing with the idea of Avengers being for the industry by having studios think all of their movies had to be a cinematic universe, I’d argue Age of Ultron has harmed movies, mainly comic book movies, for creating what is now MCU humor. I feel that film specifically has what most consider “MCU humor” namely Cap’s “language” remark to Tony. And while movies before had humor it was much more tame, and afterwards it still wasn’t as bad as some newer MCU projects are, you can definitely see a shift following Age of Ultron. Continuing, you can then see its effects on the then virginity DCEU. Regardless of opinions, Snyder did have a specific mood he portrayed in Man of Steel and Dawn of Justice, but following their poor reviews, execs then went in to make Suicide Squad more akin to the guardians of the galaxy instead of the gritty film Ayer wanted, and then bringing in Joss Whedon to do reshoots and post on Justice League.

Hunger Games is the reason we will never get a Battle Royale remake/adaptation. Because, executives think people will compare Battle Royale to it; despite Battle Royale creating the genre.

I heard Natural Born Killers had people actually re-creating scenes in real life and crime and murder went up after it's release

This is a very important video!!

Jurassic Park have a bad influence on cloning. You’ll always hear “there’s 6 movies saying why that’s a bad idea” even though the point of the movies was how bad hubris and greed is.

Home alone caused an increase in home injuries due to kids watching the film and trying to recreate the traps without being aware of the real world consequences as no one is seriously injured in the film.

The funny thing is, the MonsterVerse probably has the approximate same hit rate as the MCU did in it's prime (mostly good, with 1 or 2 duds), it's just, ironically, much smaller in scale.

American Psychos influence on teenagers is the worst thing coming out of an otherwise great movie

Xmen or spiderman started the whole comic book movie thing in the early 2000s. Ironman was really made them all in on it.

imo the shaky cam and fast cuts in the Bourne identity contradicted the character. Whole point of the thing was him realising he's had training and is a badass. I don't think he'd be all that stressed in a one on one, even against a dude armed with a pencil. It was a hard fight but I think the cardio conditioning he already demonstrated and his evident skills would also mean he'd be more cool under pressure. I think he'd feel more in control than the shaky cam being strapped to an epileptic gerbil and kicked into the room. It worked better in Batman Begins because Batman was outnumbered and while trained, the odds were way against him, so I think it's more appropriate there - it showed Batsy was under stress and almost overwhelmed, but that he could work through it, adding to the character and such. It also helps I can see wtf is going on in the Batman movies, which I couldn't in the Bourne movies :p Shaky cam is a crutch almost never used well.

I know you mentioned in another comment that you considered including some alpha male films for the final category (Influence Outside of Film) but decided not to include them, but there are two that you really should have: - Taxi Driver (1976). This caused a literal presidential assassination attempt (Reagan) to happen because the assassin (John Hinckley Jr.) was inspired by Travis Bickle and his actions in the film. He was also infatuated with Jodie Foster, who was in the film as a child prostitute and made the attempt simply to impress her (only it had the opposite effect because duh). - Fight Club (1999). You briefly mentioned that it started a lot of Fight Clubs around America but it also caused alpha males to finally find their true role model: Tyler Durden. Of course, there’s others like Travis Bickle, Walter White, Tony Soprano and Arthur Fleck (from Joker, which coincidentally was also inspired by Taxi Driver) but Tyler Durden was, and still is, the character most associated with alpha males. If an alpha male had one movie poster to hang up, it would without a doubt be Fight Club.

I think there is a new trend in recent years of directors creating movies that reflect on their art’s influence on society and the medium. I think of the Oppenheimer, the fabelmens, asteroid city, to name a few, but it really feels like a growing trend from established filmmakers

These are the films that had the worst influence on the history of cinema, THE TRIUMPH OF THE WILL 1935 and THE BIRTH OF A NATION 1915

Bourne Identity shaky cam technique ruined thousands of combat scenes on movie industry.

2:15 Also the winner of the first John Cassavetes Award at the Independent Spirit Awards

I think it's safe to say that Shrek (2001) also had unintended, negative consequences in the film industry on the animation side of things. Not only did it cement CG animation as the more profitable medium of animation in comparison to 2D (really riding on the tailcoats of Pixar) but it also ushered in a wave of more crass, arguably lazier, animated films with innuendos aimed at adults and toilet humor aimed at children. It can be argued it spawned other studios to follow in its footsteps like Blue Sky and Illumination that aimed more at a low-brow approach to stories instead of pushing what the medium was capable of. Prince of Egypt was released only three years before Shrek and its frankly insane to reconcile both films came from the same studio as they offer such wildly different takes on what the animation medium can accomplish. I think only *now* are we beginning to overcome all that ever since Spiderverse (2018) hit the scene which was absolutely a positive influence on the industry. We're experiencing a renaissance of creative innovation in its wake.

Human Centipede is in a category of depravity beyond any movie ever put to film.

It occurs to me also the Star Wars prequel trilogy could also be on this list, but not necessarily for the reasons some might think. Most of the time, it definitely feels as though people are very inclined to just not like prequels even before seeing them, or think they will be bad simply because they are prequels. I believe many people try to trace that back to the prequel trilogy as it was certainly AT THE TIME one of the most significant instances of prequels, especially also since it was a whole trilogy as well. HOWEVER, as someone who is NOT a prequel hater I will definitely say that while the trilogy has its faults, its not terrible. And key thing as well is that people don't view them as bad because they are prequels. If anything, the flaws were more with the writing and certain directing choices (which George Lucas himself has admitted to in perhaps going a bit too far in some places) So the prequel trilogy could also be seen as a bad influence, but more on the public's perception of prequels, and only because the films didn't prove popular in a lot of regards with a certain generation, not necessarily because it was bad.

Could have been more on superhero genre. It is completely unnecessary and not interesting. You've done good work on this video.

I'm honestly surprised Transformers isn't on here considering it influenced a lot of the look and feel of effects-driven action films of the late 2000s/early 2010s i.e. the "teal and orange" color grading, really busy and complicated CGI designs, juvenile humor... ...then again a lot of those issues (among others) have roots in other films, even in things like Bourne, Star Wars, and Top Gun.

Phantom Menace was the first movie to do CGI overload. Other studios implemented it which meant less real sets and in turn hurt performances.

The Truman show ended up having a whole disorder named after it

8:35 I heard a comment somewhere else that makes the problem clearer. Aladdin started the trend of star power voices, but Shrek made it necessary to star stud the whole cast.

I would say the Star Wars Special editons because they encouraged directors to fix "aint broke " movies that didn't need fixing. Case in point: E.T. 20th anniversary addition which Steven Spielberg apologised for altering earlier this year.

as far as outside of film it’s hard to argue birth of a nation NOT being the worst influence

I think it's wrong to blame Jaws for the safety of the 80s. Blame Heaven's Gate, not the successful blockbusters. When a single auteur can financially destroy an entire studio... it isn't greedy to play it safe.

Worth a mention is Rogue One and the dead actor reanimation trend

Best thing about the 3D craze was being able to watch TITANIC on a cinema, since I was too young for it in 97

The "let´s split the final book into two films" decision is what ultimately killed the Divergent series (and by this, also the YA Dystopia trend that The Hunger Games had started back in 2012).

In all seriousness, Triumph of the Will had the worst influence. Well made movie that glorified a truly evil man. Good video!

Finally a RU-vid video that got it right. These movies destroyed an art form. Only thing left out is streaming.

It’s horrifying that the racist nature of Birth of a Nation was never acknowledged at least as late as when Spike Lee was taught about and shown the film in film school.

didnt i hear recently that Dune is gonna be 3 parts?

im kinda glad the universal monster universe failed if only because Invisible Man (2020) was superb because of that

The irony of the film brats’ success - particularly with Jaws had an immense ripple effect on box office expectations

We need a "phantom edit" style cut of the whole hobbit trilogy. There may yet be a decent 2 hours movie buried somewhere in there.

In amongst all those films that are merely live action remakes of animated films there're a few that while based on characters from animated films were what I'd consider good, and decently original, stories in their own right.

on the same note as Birth of a Nation, Triumph of the Will

Probably either The Force Awakens, The Avengers, or Avatar.

101 Dalmatians led to mass overbreeding to meet demand.