Revolutionary movies

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.

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.

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

StarWars - Pushed the genre into a higher gear.
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.
HellRaiser - Yeah bloody hell to ya !!!
Nightmare on Elmstreet. Fun to watch.
The Professional - Kick azz hitman, and little miss Portman in this flic !
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

I think Braveheart and Gladiator are both revolutionary epic movies!!!

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

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.

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********

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

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

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

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