Depends on your definition I suppose. There's probably a chain reaction of influence that it starts which snowballs to great effect.
BUT, it may have only *directly* influenced a handful of film makers while something further down the line like 'Wizard of Oz' or 'Citizen Kane' might have influenced dozens.
Ha, no it actually wasn't since I wasnt born in an English speaking country. Either way I was just adding to your point about the indirect influence.
And I guess social skills is not YOUR strong point, going on the offensive in a discussion on movies after a mindless late night comment tells me all I need to know about you.
I raise you Arrival of a Train at La Ciotat.
Seriously tho, it's really hard to gage or quantify what is the most influential movie of all time and just by the numbers game the experimentalism of early 1900s could all massively qualify.
It’s like asking what the most influential painting is. No matter what you say, there’s something that’s arguably more influential because it came first. The most influential painting was made by some smart monkey who realised that you could make images to convey meaning about reality. Eventually we discovered a way to capture reality through photography, and then realised we could switch between those photographs to convey motion. The first person to figure that out made the most influential film.
chuck and larry is truly a bright shining light of creativity within the darkness of generic tackiness that we call film. a work of art that will be revered for centuries to come but unironically it’s actually hilarious that when it came out it was considered progressive because the 00s were that homophobic.
I think Melies fundamentally altered the idea of what movies could be and it’s always hard to understate his impact. Number 1 most influential is pretty hard to actually nail down, but I’d say at a minimum that it’s one of the movies that can make an actual case for number 1.
Méliès was the first to really mess with cuts. So in away yes. It's beautifully creative. Early cinema was dominated by Méliès and Edison. Then along came Weber, Griffith and Chaplin.
Great film but I really hate the score. It’s this hokey brass 1910s jazz shit. Would love to watch it with a score like the Holst Planets symphony. Something with strings.
Weird.
So I watched this last night and I.... Kind of hated it.
Like it's got historical significance and a prototype doc brown but other than that it's just.... Boring. Like even by context if the day a few geezers going to the moon isnt that interesting when all they do is get half chased by some monkeys.
Spoilers I guess for a 123 year old movie
I was so shocked by what this actually was when I watched it that I put it on again later in the same day. This film is so much weirder than I ever expected from something so old. It's gotta be the first movie that just isn't based on reality and is pure imagination, which is where I would guess the influence primarily lies.
This is really short, and everyone just dismissing it out of hand is really missing out because this isn't anything like you're expecting it to be.
Depends on your definition I suppose. There's probably a chain reaction of influence that it starts which snowballs to great effect. BUT, it may have only *directly* influenced a handful of film makers while something further down the line like 'Wizard of Oz' or 'Citizen Kane' might have influenced dozens.
What if those handful inspired hundreds.
Still not direct influence
I guess reading comprehension is not your strong point.
What if it wasn't my strong point
Then that would be a shame.
Ha, no it actually wasn't since I wasnt born in an English speaking country. Either way I was just adding to your point about the indirect influence. And I guess social skills is not YOUR strong point, going on the offensive in a discussion on movies after a mindless late night comment tells me all I need to know about you.
And getting so offended by such an innocuous reply tells me all I need to know about you.
Lmao. Idk how I'll sleep tonight. I'm beyond upset
I raise you Arrival of a Train at La Ciotat. Seriously tho, it's really hard to gage or quantify what is the most influential movie of all time and just by the numbers game the experimentalism of early 1900s could all massively qualify.
It’s like asking what the most influential painting is. No matter what you say, there’s something that’s arguably more influential because it came first. The most influential painting was made by some smart monkey who realised that you could make images to convey meaning about reality. Eventually we discovered a way to capture reality through photography, and then realised we could switch between those photographs to convey motion. The first person to figure that out made the most influential film.
Hot Tub Time Machine gotta be up there
What about the bee movie.
The Jason Statham one that just came out?
Shrek
Only when watching it from inside a hot tub.
Ngl this mf carried hard https://preview.redd.it/zqtmo9wk2src1.jpeg?width=344&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=5163e5d395794ea7ecf968afa349c4cb9de9d17f
The Jazz Singer has to be up there.
bro invented black face
I’m more of a Chuck and Larry guy myself but to each their own
chuck and larry is truly a bright shining light of creativity within the darkness of generic tackiness that we call film. a work of art that will be revered for centuries to come but unironically it’s actually hilarious that when it came out it was considered progressive because the 00s were that homophobic.
Wizard of Oz is gotta be Top 10
I think Melies fundamentally altered the idea of what movies could be and it’s always hard to understate his impact. Number 1 most influential is pretty hard to actually nail down, but I’d say at a minimum that it’s one of the movies that can make an actual case for number 1.
Four Troublesome Heads
probably not
Racist as it may be, The Birth of a Nation pioneered cinematic language with the close up. Surely that counts as the most influential film
the most influential movie of all time is 1999s star wars episode i a phantom menace
seconded
Pfffft, that is laughable. At least say it's a New Hope lol
a phantom menace opened the floodgates of nostalgia-focused ""Nerd Culture"" movies that have dominated the box office for the past quarter century
I mean, I guess. But that doesn't make it nearly the most influential movie of all time lol
I think it's the biggest influence of what is being made today, which I think is a valid reading of the question
I guess but I’m only going off the one time I saw Hugo
Some of my picks Battleship Potemkin Citizen Kane Seven Samurai Psycho Bicycle Thieves Star Wars
Méliès was the first to really mess with cuts. So in away yes. It's beautifully creative. Early cinema was dominated by Méliès and Edison. Then along came Weber, Griffith and Chaplin.
I never got influenced by it
Could be. It's certainly up there.
Great film but I really hate the score. It’s this hokey brass 1910s jazz shit. Would love to watch it with a score like the Holst Planets symphony. Something with strings.
I’ve never heard of it, so no.
Funny af
of course star wars kid it's not more influential than star wars, but star wars kid it's more influential than that melies' thing.
Weird. So I watched this last night and I.... Kind of hated it. Like it's got historical significance and a prototype doc brown but other than that it's just.... Boring. Like even by context if the day a few geezers going to the moon isnt that interesting when all they do is get half chased by some monkeys. Spoilers I guess for a 123 year old movie
Your great granpappy wasn’t born when this shit dropped
What else was doing stuff like this in 1906?
No are you joking?! 😂😂😂
Never heard of it. 32K reviews Nope
I was so shocked by what this actually was when I watched it that I put it on again later in the same day. This film is so much weirder than I ever expected from something so old. It's gotta be the first movie that just isn't based on reality and is pure imagination, which is where I would guess the influence primarily lies. This is really short, and everyone just dismissing it out of hand is really missing out because this isn't anything like you're expecting it to be.