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[Slicker than your average]

Going off the top off my head for most of these.

Saving private Ryan 1998
After the success of this great war movie aw saw many ww2 movies come out.
Some bad some good.

Wind talkers with nic cage - never saw it tbh.
Enemy at the gates - pretty good considering it was British made and not having the same level of budget a Hollywood movie would have.
Any more ww2 post SPR?

Gladiator 2000 after the success of this we saw a slew of ancient epics which alot turned out to be bad.

Troy
Alexander the Great

Twilight 2008
No explanation needed we saw endless vampire shit come out.

Matrix 1999 while not necessarily copycat movies trying to cash in, we saw the techniques shoved into movies.

Marvel super hero success saw many non marvel constantly trying to cash in, mostly being awful. They chased their own trend too hard in the end. As it ended up being awful.

 

[West Texas CEO]

This movie spawned a ton of intellectually stimulating movie copycats;

 

[Trunx81]

Star Wars

Spawned so many bad SciFi movies back in the days.

Spoiler

Episode 9, e.g.

 

[pachura]

28 days later - zombie movies
The usual suspects & The sixth sense - twist movies
Saw - modern torture porn
Hmmm, can't remember who started the stupid multiverse trend

 

[ahtlas7]

300 spawned

 

[Sidney Prescott]

Scream is a good shout. It was very fresh at the time with being pretty 'Meta' and the characters talking about other actual horror movies that existed.

Got a ton of slasher movies in the 90's and early 2000's because of it. Honestly some of my fondest memories as horror guy as I've always loved slashers.

 

[West Texas CEO]

Wrong thread, lol

 

[Johnny2Bad]

This film kicked off the whole car chase genre.

 

[AJUMP23]

Guardians of the galaxy set the marvel template that has become worn out now.

in the 80s there were lots of body swapping comedies. I don’t know which one was first.

 

[CGNoire]

Indiana jones...

Romancing the stone
Jewel of the Nile
Firewalker
Ishtar

 

[Kenpachii]

blair witch project set off a ton of movies in the same trent, but also created the shaky follow camera follow rage.

 

[Lunarorbit]

Fucking Avatar. Thanks for making me spend an extra $10 to see Fury Road in 3D cause for the next decade you poisoned the well at the cinema with this 3d shit.

There was only one scene with 3d in mad max! I love that movie so luckily I had seen it in non 3d early in the week. But honestly 3D started getting into everything and it's mostly a gimmick

 

[Slicker than your average]

Fucking Avatar. Thanks for making me spend an extra $10 to see Fury Road in 3D cause for the next decade you poisoned the well at the cinema with this 3d shit.

There was only one scene with 3d in mad max! I love that movie so luckily I had seen it in non 3d early in the week. But honestly 3D started getting into everything and it's mostly a gimmick

Didnt even know they released that in 3d ahaha

Forgot Ameican pie

How many teen comedies did we get after this? they even made a spoof called not another teen comedy.

 

[ahtlas7]

Fucking Avatar. Thanks for making me spend an extra $10 to see Fury Road in 3D cause for the next decade you poisoned the well at the cinema with this 3d shit.

There was only one scene with 3d in mad max! I love that movie so luckily I had seen it in non 3d early in the week. But honestly 3D started getting into everything and it's mostly a gimmick

The 3d in Tron: Legacy was awesome. I can’t even watch my 3d version now

 

[West Texas CEO]

Con_Z_ǝdʇ , I posted funny pics in the wrong thread again.

 

[OmegaSupreme]

Airplane! Started the spoof/parody comedy craze that went well into the 2000's. Some good ones like the naked gun films and later mel brooks films. Then in the 2000's they got really shit with films like epic movie and everything that team did.

 

[EverydayBeast]

I get the super hero thing you have a chance to make millions, tons of roles etc.

 

[Daniel Jackson]

The final Harry Potter movie started an annoying trend of splitting up a single book into two movies.

 

[StreetsofBeige]

Braveheart was mid 90s. It sure seemed lots of historical period movies with big battle scenes came out right after it

 

[StreetsofBeige]

I think Bale Batman movies spawned all the gritty dark superhero movies. Although Blade came out before it, but Batman really solidified it.

 

[Futaleufu]

Going off the top off my head for most of these.

Saving private Ryan 1998
After the success of this great war movie aw saw many ww2 movies come out.
Some bad some good.

It also started the trend of military first person shooters.

Airplane! Started the spoof/parody comedy craze that went well into the 2000's. Some good ones like the naked gun films and later mel brooks films. Then in the 2000's they got really shit with films like epic movie and everything that team did.

Yep, and it was a parody of the Airport/Concorde disaster movies which were big on the 70s

 

[Nobody_Important]

Airplane! Started the spoof/parody comedy craze that went well into the 2000's. Some good ones like the naked gun films and later mel brooks films. Then in the 2000's they got really shit with films like epic movie and everything that team did.

Golden age of comedy right there.

Leslie Nielsen is the fucking GOAT.

 

[thefool]

When Pulp Fiction became a huge success, there were a ton of independent - crime- witty - violent copycats. It was a pretty interesting phenomenon, as it almost bootstrapped a new genre during a very short period of time (truth or consequences, things to do in denver, 2 days in the valley, thursday, american strays, clay pigeons, big hit, etc.)

 

[violence]

What beats X-Men 1 with superhero movies? Probably nothing.

 

[killatopak]

Blair Witch probably spawned a ton of found footage/cctv films.

 

[AJUMP23]

Survivor spawned a tom of reality TV Competition shows. And Real World basically created the put people together and lets film the drama series. Not movies but huge impacts on entertainment.

 

[SF Kosmo]

Harry Potter spawned a whole wave of big budget YA movies, everything for Miss Perrigrine to Hunger Games owes a debt to Harry Potter.

Toy Story obviously redefined what kids animated movies could be.

 

[Trunx81]

I think Bale Batman movies spawned all the gritty dark superhero movies. Although Blade came out before it, but Batman really solidified it.

´89 Batman even more so. Not only movies, but also tv shows like THE FLASH (the 90s version).

 

[ThatStupidLion]

Into the Spiderverse set off a trend of 3d animated movies breaking the art direction cycle that pixar heavily established

Mitchels vs machines
puss and boots: last wish
TMNT: mutant mayhem

 

[ShadowNate]

I am unsure what movie did the reverse order / out-of-order story telling (so not simply "in medias res") but Memento (1999) did it masterfully (using two threads moving in opposite directions that are joined in the end) -- and then there were movies following which seemed to be the result of some kind of explosion in the editing room, throwing up inane sequence of scenes just for the shake of the gimmick.