Just like if I won a car on ATV Game
Show and then accidentally smashed it into an aquarium,
sometimes good things can bring about negative consequences.
This rings true in the world of cinema as well,
with films that are praised for innovation or success giving
birth to a string of copycats which ultimately harms the
overall experience.
It's a weird dynamic, as the films on this list
are legitimately great,
but have unfortunately done more bad than good in the
long run.
With this in mind, I'm
juleswatculture.com and these are 10 great Movies that inadvertently ruined
Cinema
#10. The Godfather Part 2 brought about the use of
numbers to denote sequels.
Having a Part 2 tag on the end of a
movie title might seem like something that has been around
since the dawn of time,
but it's a little known fact that Francis Ford Coppola's
follow up to The Godfather was the first movie in
history to make blatant use of this subtitle.
Before Coppola used Part 2 for The Godfather sequel,
movie sequels tended to have different names.
Once Coppola opted to do it this way,
however, a new movie trend was born in that studios
realised it was a neat way to market sequels.
After all, it's a lot easier to cash in by
telling people this is the same experience as the first
one that they enjoyed,
which a differently titled movie wouldn't be able to do
so well.
The difference was, though, that The Godfather was titled as
such because it was an indication that you needed to
see the first film in order to understand the second,
which as we know today,
doesn't exactly mean the same thing now
#9 Jaws became the first blockbuster,
but inspired relentless marketing tactics.
The success of Jaws is manyfold.
It's a great film for a start,
but one of the reasons that everyone saw it back
in the day was because instead of being rolled out
one territory at a time in the US,
as was the norm, it was released in theaters everywhere
on the same day.
This meant that the marketing,
budget and exposure people had to these adverts was excessive
and as a result tons of people went to see
it.
This widespread campaigning of adverts was quickly adopted by other
studios and is now the reason why every billboard,
bus and electronic service is smeared with film adverts.
It was always going to be the way that cinema
was heading,
but Jaws did it first.
Number eight, Heaven's Gate changed the way that movies were
made forever and the death of independent auto driven films.
Heaven's Gate has become something of a fable of cinematic
disaster.
After it's budget rose to astronomical levels and the director
became notoriously difficult to work with,
the film flopped so hard that United Artists actually had
to close down.
Now, around this time there was a boon of independent
films financed by big studios,
the idea being hundreds of small investments to offset the
risk of a project failing.
The issue was that this failure sparked panic within the
big boys and then they pulled the funding.
This led to tighter control of budgets,
which are still huge now now have much more executive
meddling than before
#7 Jurassic Park pretty much put an end to the
usage of practical effects in animatronics.
Stan Winston and Phil Tipper were the animatronic experts who
worked on Jurassic Park,
but neither of them had a truly positive experience on
set.
CGI was experimental at this point,
but definitely on the rise,
and in Jurassic Park it looked phenomenal.
It was still expensive, but could move beyond the scope
of animatronics.
This LED Tippet to utter the line I've just become
extinct.
And when you look at the landscape of today's cinema,
you can see that unfortunately he was right.
CGI is now standard practice with films,
and in fact they go overboard to sell anytime that
they actually have a real thing in real life on
a real set.
How bizarre number six. Saving Private Ryan made shaky Cam
a staple of mainstream cinema.
So the concept of shaky Cam is in no way
a technique invented by Spielberg,
but it was one of the first blockbusters to incorporate
this method into it's shooting.
Before this point, the Wobbly viewpoint was seen as unprofessional,
but Spielberg used it to great effect to disorientate his
audience,
especially during the Normandy beach assault.
But as with all good examples,
there have been countless times where this technique has either
been misused or just done to hide shoddy action sequences.
It's gotten so bad that in some fight or action
scenes,
it's near impossible to tell what's going on.
What was so immersive in one film is just cutting
corners in others.
#5 Titanic brought the movie song back to popularity.
My heart will go on as one of the biggest
selling singles of all time,
and we have one of the biggest grossing films of
all time to thank for it.
For a long time prior to Titanic,
the whole song from the movie had just died out.
Yet James Horner convinced James Cameron that a cash cow
needed to be milk for all it was worth and
that they should pop this track in,
thus breathing life back into the whole movie.
Should have their own song phenomenon once more.
And for a while it was OK.
It was cheesy as hell,
but it was just OK
and now it's just really annoying
#4 The 6th sense inspired endless left field twist movies.
M Night Shyamalan didn't invent the shocking twist with the
6th Sense,
of course, but he damn near pioneered it as a
marketing technique and selling point for motion pictures in general.
With the 6th Sense. Audiences were so impressed with the
twist that they began clamouring for more and Hollywood obliged.
Which is to say in the aftermath Hollywood began to
flood theatres with shocking left field twist movies,
motion pictures that would market themselves on being built around
twists you'd never see coming.
The problem with this is obvious,
with the now expected twist becoming more and more over
the top and declining dramatically in Impact
#3. The original Star Wars trilogy implies that all sequels
have to have weird names.
Earlier in the video we touched upon The Godfather Part
2's distinction of having been the first mainstream movie to
include Part 2 in its title.
Though the numbering system is irritating in an Oh my
God,
it reeks of corporate greed way.
It's at least clean. But we have the original Star
Wars trilogy to thank for an even worse trend,
the ever weirdly named sequels.
Since The Empire Strikes Back,
the movie industry has literally been throwing lame and often
very arbitrary subtitles onto anything and everything
for The Dark World, GI Joe Retaliation,
Jack Ryan, Shadow Recruit. What do they even mean?
Well, Hollywood would say, well we're being creative guys,
but what it really means to us is
what number 2 Avatar made 3D cool again,
but is responsible for increased ticket prices.
After several ailing attempts throughout cinematic history to make it
relevant,
Avatar was the first movie that finally made 3D cool
In the eyes of the movie going public,
James Cameron set out to have the audience feeling like
they were right inside the world of stupidly named precious
resources.
Even now, the achievement stands.
Tall gravity aside, Avatar is still probably the best and
most accomplished 3D film ever.
However, the films that followed in its wake were not
as well incorporated,
and even lower ranked flicks offered 3D as a way
to cash in.
As a result, prices rose to accommodate this new viewing
experience,
and viewers were subject to film shot in 2D but
awkwardly bumped to 3D in post production.
And let's just say it showed.
And #1 Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows part one
and two showed that you can just chop an ending
in half.
If somebody told you that your film would make millions
of dollars,
you'd be pretty happy. Now imagine if that same person
told you that you could take your film,
split it in two, put out some bits to fill
in the runtime,
and make double. Well, if you have standards,
then you'd probably be OK not doing this,
but Harry Potter proved that splitting your final arc in
two really could bring in the Muggle money.
The split arguably was never needed from a storytelling perspective,
and encouraged countless other titles to follow suit.
The problem with this, of course,
is that moviegoers are now having to fork out twice
as much to see two parts of a story that
only needed one part.
Twilight and The Hunger Games are guilty of this as
well,
and while it's so obvious what they're doing,
they still get millions of people to go in and
see it.
And that's just annoying. Where am I?
Where am I?
How would you guys like to start a Star Trek
channel?
Have we any idea what came through the Rupture before
we were able to shut it down?
We seek new life and new civilizations but mess with
us
real life dolphins that you have seen in a nature
documentary and I have dated at least two women with
tattoos on violence Falls for a reason.
It's not just because it's fun
right behind them I'm the wisecracking first officer who kisses
hot alien babes first,
asks questions later. Chris is the chief engineer because he
makes things work and look nice.
Marcus is the captain, obviously,
as he's the only one who's verified on Twitter.
Ryan, I'm Ryan.
I am. In fact, he's still
very much under probation. Sean Ferry as he was deemed
to be satanic.
Episode 14 Beverly
100.
Which is great, but then are her and Sulu end
up dead because that's who you go get sex advice
from on the Enterprise.
This one may lean a little heavy on the conspiracy
theory side of things,
but they just haven't showed it to us yet.
Terry Farrell grabbed my hand and said how proud that
made her and that is a memory I really just
wanted to share with everybody today.
Take a walk with me
as we go and do some
citation observations.
Hi Dad. With that in mind then I'm Ellie with
Trek Culture and here are 10 examples of Star Trek
story arts you can binge in a depth.
The show is too quote a famous Trek culture voice.
Piss funny. So, so stupid.
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we are we're we're cutting live,
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Well.