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Non Gaming Discussions => Off-Topic => Topic started by: M4 on July 22, 2001, 12:36:44 AM
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What movies, in your opinion, would you classify as revolutionary and very original? Movies where an extremely innovative concept that makes you think differently than you normally would is put forth, and nearly every detail is accounted for. The first and most obvious movies, to me, would be Jurassic Park and The Matrix. What do you think?
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Citizen Kane
Pulp Fiction
ugh, i forget the name of it...an old black and white german movie...forget the name
The Godfather
Apocalypse Now
Blair Witch Project, although i didnt like it, i like the idea
Flying High (think its called Airplane in USA)
Blazing Saddles
actually, there are so many that im forgetting...i might get back to you
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Indiana Jones - revolutionary mix of good ol\' adventure with humouristic and not too serious action.
Pulp Fiction - because it was fast, cool and really good movie.
Godfather - the first truly deep mob-movie.
The Deer Hunter - great.
and others that don\'t come in mind right now.
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Taxi Driver
Physco
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Seven Samurai
12 Angry Men
(and all those other one\'s mentioned.)
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Upss, nice thread, for me Matrix 100% sure.
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Matrix, Alien, Starwars
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Star Wars definetly. I wasnt alive when they first came out but I know that they were the biggest craze.
Saving Private Ryan I think cause since then there\'s been alot of of war movies like Patriot and Pearl Harbor and Enemy at the Gates.
Can\'t think of any others rite now.
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THE MATRIX FOUR sure. Everybody had to try and copy the matrix actions scenes after they did it. Or they where making a parady of it.
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I believe Kubrick\'s 2001 and Clockwork Orange were quite revolutionary for their time - or at least I heard Clockwork was quite violent for a film of that age ( nowadays, as I watched it - it was disturbing, but not violent if compared to some splatter-movies for example ).
Star Wars was revolutionary - or at least my father was amazed when he saw the fourth episode on theaters; it was something so realistic he had ever seen.
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While Matrix was a nifty little movie I don\'t think it\'s fair to call it revolutionary. I mean, the action was inspired by Hong Kong action movies etc. The Warchoski (sp?) brothers just wrapped it all up in an American blockbuster package, because the movies it borrowed from were much lesser known.
But that\'s just my opinion of course. :)
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The matrix was more revolutionary for its camera and special effect, rather than just the action sequences
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Bah, special effects are just eye candy.
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The matrix for sure, it really did put a whole new spin on in movie special effects. Absolute magic.
Star wars also, it has been adopted in SO many countries, and is so widely recognised as a revolutionary film. From the concept of an all seeing all doing force, to absolutely magnificent action scenes, and a heightened sense of reality no other space movie had had, this movie really set the bar a notch higher. Lucas created his own universe from the bottom up, and never had this been done to such extent before
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Forrest Gump -- because its a damn good movie.
The Matrix
Star Wars
Jurassic Park
Enter the Dragon
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Die Hard -- It inspired LOTS of "me too" projects of one man against incredible odds and the one man coming out on top everytime. In a sea of Arnold Scwarzenegger movies and Sylvester Stalone action duds, it was the voice of humanistic reason putting an ordinary man in an unordinary predicament.
Star Wars -- The pioneer of special effects that revolutionized the industry for the ultimate better.
Full Metal Jacket -- I still think this movie dwarfs Apacolypse Now in terms of sheer terror and gory truth. (Although, I think Platoon ranks right on up there with it in terms of shock value.)
Saving Private Ryan -- This brought the gory truth of war to life. The first 30 minutes was probably more shocking and more of a wake-up call to today\'s younger generations who think war is some sort of glamorous thing.
Psycho -- This is a no-brainer.
Fight Club -- I have never seen a movie bent on so much action end up being incredibly psychological while remaining a true hollywood thriller from beginning to end. I have never seen a movie that made me say "wtf" so many times.
The Professional -- The greatest Hitman in New York training a 12-year old girl to be a hitman(woman). \'Nuff said.
Toy Story -- First full length CG animated film while maintaining a very interesting and captivating premise. I know I said "Whoa, that\'s cool" a whole hell of a lot in theatres when I saw it for the first time.
Akira -- Duh. (The special edition comes out tomorrow on DVD, yay!)
That\'s all I can think of for now.
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Cube - low-budget psychological horror. Some really friggin\' bad acting at times, but well worth watching.
Fight Club - as stated in previous posts.
Memento - One of the most original, clever movies I\'ve seen in awhile.
Being John Malkovich. - It doesn\'t get much more innovative than this. (My sig is from this movie)
Thelma and Louise - Pissed-off redneck women with firearms.
Requiem for a Dream - The only movie I\'ve seen where the credits began to roll, and the audience just stayed in their seats with their jaws on the floor.
The Cell - maybe not revolutionary, but I really enjoyed this movie. It felt like a more high-tech version of Dreamscape from back in the \'80s.
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sixth sense, unbreakable
fight club
magnolia
pi
matrix
saving private ryan
clockwork orange
close encounter of the third kind
blair witch project
one who fly over the coukoo\'s nest
cool hand luke
lost highway
blue velvet
do the right thing
pulp fiction
run lola run
star wars
the abyss
south park
blade runner
the exorcist
rosemary\'s baby
apocolypse now
evil dead 2
the thin red line
all quiet on the western front
catch-22
and the most revolutionary movie of all time is........the patriot(get it)hahahahaha im so damn funny
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StarWars - Pushed the genre into a higher gear. :D
Aliens - Sci-Fi+Horror mixed to produce a kick Azz ride.
Terminator - I\'ll be back. nuff said.
Matrix - Which pill will it be neo?
Fight Club - It was fun to watch !
Snatch - Same here.
Unbreakable - Same here.
Superman - It was cool, the first 2 at least. :D
HellRaiser - Yeah bloody hell to ya !!! :D
Nightmare on Elmstreet. Fun to watch. :D
The Professional - Kick azz hitman, and little miss Portman in this flic ! :D
BladeRunner - Classic, it kicks more azz then a pack of wolves.
Abyse - underwater mayhem !!! Yeah!
Jurassic Park - Purdy dinosaurs !
Scarface - Yeah take that mofo !!!
The Godfather - It\'s a classic !
Apocalypse Now - yeah it was a blast.
I think these movies are overlooked too much:
Event Horizon
Pitch-Black
Vertical Limit
Face-Off
Akira
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I think Braveheart and Gladiator are both revolutionary epic movies!!! :D
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many of the ones you al have said b4 me, but there is another(2 eple have said it)
Blade runner
i love that film and the little twist at the end
********spoiler**************
hes a robot aswell
******end of spoiler********
also the whole film is excellent, i tink i may go buy it on dvd in a few days time
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Originally posted by kopking
many of the ones you al have said b4 me, but there is another(2 eple have said it)
Blade runner
i love that film and the little twist at the end
********spoiler**************
hes a robot aswell
******end of spoiler********
also the whole film is excellent, i tink i may go buy it on dvd in a few days time
I\'ve only seen the first 3/4 of the movie, but I couldn\'t resist the spoiler! WOW! That\'s so much better than the 6th sence twist. I bet they stole it from Blade Runner anyways.
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Originally posted by Troglodyte
I\'ve only seen the first 3/4 of the movie, but I couldn\'t resist the spoiler! WOW! That\'s so much better than the 6th sence twist. I bet they stole it from Blade Runner anyways.
yeah, not everyone get its but its true ill tell u how i know and how to work it out
*********spoiler******
1) i saw a interview with the director and he said he was
2)if you remeber that they say replicants get a fake memory put in there mind??!!! well i dont know his name but he makes origami thing(little things out of paper) etc, i think he makes a man out of the match box, well that is whos memories harrison ford has!!!!! how to tell, if you remember h.f dreams of a unicorn, well at the end h.f goes to escape with the replicant and sees on the floor a orgami unicorn. other things are in there aswell, but i cant be bothered to go into them now
******end of spoiler********
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Originally posted by kopking
yeah, not everyone get its but its true ill tell u how i know and how to work it out
*********spoiler******
1) i saw a interview with the director and he said he was
2)if you remeber that they say replicants get a fake memory put in there mind??!!! well i dont know his name but he makes origami thing(little things out of paper) etc, i think he makes a man out of the match box, well that is whos memories harrison ford has!!!!! how to tell, if you remember h.f dreams of a unicorn, well at the end h.f goes to escape with the replicant and sees on the floor a orgami unicorn. other things are in there aswell, but i cant be bothered to go into them now
******end of spoiler********
actually the point of that is to make u think he might be a replicant its not meant to say whether he is or isnt the whole point of it was to make u question your own reality (if these people could go their whole lives without realizing that they\'re not real how do u know whats real or not everything could just be implanted; ala the plot for the matrix)but these took away from the futuristic sfi-fi aspect which is why many of those scenes are deleted in the director\'s cut try watching the original and the directors cut in the same night youll see what i mean
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movies that gave me a \'wow!\' or made me think were:
12 Monkeys. I cannot stress this movie enough.
Se7en. Kevin Spacey = genius.
Fight Club
Citizen Kane (great last 10 minutes!)
North by Northwest (the ultimate mystery suspense movie)
Enter the Dragon (set standard for how a fighting movie should be)
Unbreakable (didn\'t like SIxth Sense, guessed the ending)
Evil Dead (funny, gory, freaky, all at once)
Ace Ventura (I don\'t know why this is in here, this movie was just hilarious)
The Jerk (see above)
Memento (if you havent seen this. cheat,steal, lie, kill, do anything to see this movie! It is AWESOME!)
Street Fighter (showed me how bad a game to movie trans. can be!)
Mario Bros. (repeat success of above)
The Godfather (been copied so much!)
Star Wars (one of few good sci-fi space movies IMO)
On The Beach (old classic flick)
The Final Countdown (old time travel space movie)
Time after Time (one of my favs from when I was a kid)
The Time Machine
Psycho
Rope
55 Steps (etc,etc,etc on Hitch**** movies)
Tremors (believe it or not, great filmography and cinematography)
Black Mask (some amazing martial arts! plus they play Saturn in it, which gets brownie points from me!)
Fargo (dark, funny, and intriguing!
There are others, but I don\'t wanna hog anymore face time :-)
Eric Jacob
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yeah, I forgot a few while looking through some of your guyses!
Blade Runner - It has two different endings, actually. Ridley Scott\'s Director\'s cut is the one in which you find out he is a replicant. the one that was released to theaters didn\'t. The movie is a true classic though. With special effects that are great, and gritty, and dark, even for today.
I am gonna have to say Platoon, too.
even though FMJ and Apocalypse now were before it (I believe at least). It really shows the darkness and goryness of war. All the innocent lives killed in the movie for people crying out for their lives just wakes you up and makes you realize that war IS hell. That movie is shockingly realistic too.
I am gonna have to agree with Sara, now that I read the post. Memento, Requiem for a Dream (barely released in theaters), and Being John Malkovich, which also shows the darkside to human nature.
I remember the Professional, that was a good flick, and now Natalie Portman is a hottie!
Eric Jacob
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Originally posted by jaropkls
actually the point of that is to make u think he might be a replicant its not meant to say whether he is or isnt the whole point of it was to make u question your own reality (if these people could go their whole lives without realizing that they\'re not real how do u know whats real or not everything could just be implanted; ala the plot for the matrix)but these took away from the futuristic sfi-fi aspect which is why many of those scenes are deleted in the director\'s cut try watching the original and the directors cut in the same night youll see what i mean
yeah i understand that, but he IS a replicant, the director has even said that he is!!! not that it bithers me that much, but its one hell of a film