What is the most INFLUENTIAL film of the past 15 years?

Actualy, Hanks directed one ("The CrossroaRAB") out of the 10 'mini-films' and advised on the 9th program where Easy find the Concertration camps.

Any, the series was Inspired obviously by 'Saving Private Ryan' :D
 
Although I dont particularly like Tarantino, his first films were very influential, possibly the most influential in the past 15 years anyway, especially Resorvoir Dogs.
 
The Matrix - not just because of the visual style, but the whole way the first film was promoted and the way the second and third were already in the pipeline. Expect to see this repeated (Kill Bill is turning out to be copying the dual-release idea).

Dare I add Jurassic Park purely for its scale and cost?

P.S. Tom Hanks only directed 1, maybe 2 episodes of Band Of Brothers. Don't really think you can say that it was influenced by Private Ryan, cos it was just a continuation of Speilberg's fascination with war films (another's in the pipeline).
 
Trainspotting? I reckon loaRAB of films have tried to copy the style and ambience of the movie, plus it has really recognisable visual and audio style that has been either directly coped, used in advertising, or imitated.

The first film i thought of tho was Pulp Fiction.
 
I found that to be some what of an influenced movie. There's nothing there that couldn't be found in other war movies really - mind you would say that as I hate all but about 2 of Spielberg's movies ("Mirror Mirror on the wall...how many Oscars
 
Thankyou CyberCD!

And it was also co-written by Hanks, and produced by Spielberg... Its ridiculous to suggest it was influenced by it when the book it was from was

a) written before it
and
b) the team making it were the same !!
 
As topic starter I have the final judgement: Band Of Brothers is a TV show and not a film and therefore doesn't apply - perhaps that's a whole new thread altogether ;) *knows next thread I'm gonna start* :D

Die Hard was very influental in terms of the action movie genre. If you look at the way things were a few years before and a few years after you can really notice a subtle shift.



V. Interesting - Yeah, I think you could be right. I can't really imagine that projects like 'Titanic' would have been taken up otherwise. It also started the whole 'Earth 1 million years BC' hype (leading to recent programs like Dynotopia and Walking With Dinosaurs, Cavemen etc)
 
Another I just remembered is Ridley Scotts Blade Runner, this has had a massive effect on most sci-fi films made since, except it was made in 1982 which is 21 years ago.

21 YEARS AGO! My god.
 
Radio Rutherham... Just to wrap this all up... Thin Red Line came out just five months after Ryan, so it couldn't have been influenced by it...

Plus directorially its nothing like it... and story wise it isn't... Its set in World War II...

How on earth can you make so much fuss out of such a poorly written movie like Ryan. When they released the German guy at the beginning you were just waiting for him to return... sure enough... SHOCK HORROR he's back... NEVER EXPECTED THAT !!!!


They may as well have said...

"Todays my last day Charlie, I'm going home tomorrow to my girl, we're gonna get married and have children"... DEAD!

It was as if Spielberg had watched that Punt and Dennis sketch and based the film on that...
 
I dunno why we're having this big discussion about Ryan, because ultimately it's a war film, more graphic maybe, but a war film! Look at Platoon - that took things on that next stage, but it's hardly an original concept! If we're strictly talking the last 15 years, you've got to have up there Toy Story, Jurassic Park, T2.... Fatal Attraction just misses out, but surely that started a few...
 
'Milky Milky' and all that :D Awww! I loved Punt & Dennis. I still have a magazine cutout of them dressed up in their Mulder & Scully gear :D
 
Yes, yes, very funny :p E.T. can bloody well phone a cab, cause that oversized glove puppet 'aint hanging around my house for the next few days. :D



Jaws was alright, but I take it that you are just yanking my chain with Jurassic Park...
 
Jurassic Park must definitely be mentioned. It was possibly the biggest turning point in the use of CGI in movies. Sure T2 and the Abyss had CGI but really, it was just water effects. Even now almost 10 years later, the dinos in JP look absolutely real. Some films nowadays can't even get that right! But they still try.
 
Jaws was the original summer blockbuster, so I'd say yes to that.

Jurassic Park tho... It didn't set any standarRAB that hadn't already been met by Terminator 2.

Terminator 1 and Terminator 2 are both definitive films for the decades they were made. They are the yard stick movies...

This decade so far I'd say Lord of the Rings holRAB that mantle.
 
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