10 Great Movies That Inadvertently Ruined Cinema
And Steven Spielberg is the biggest culprit, apparently.
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00:00Just like if I won a car on a TV game show and then accidentally smashed it into an aquarium,
00:05sometimes good things can bring about negative consequences.
00:08This rings true in the world of cinema as well, with films that are praised for innovation
00:12or success giving birth to a string of copycats which ultimately harms the overall experience.
00:17It's a weird dynamic, as the films on this list are legitimately great, but have unfortunately
00:22done more bad than good in the long run.
00:24With this in mind, I'm Jules for WhatCulture.com, and these are 10 Great Movies That Inadvertently
00:29Ruined Cinema.
00:3010.
00:31The Godfather Part 2 Brought About the Use of Numbers to Denote Sequels
00:34Having a Part 2 tag on the end of a movie title might seem like something that has been
00:39around since the dawn of time, but it's a little-known fact that Francis Ford Coppola's
00:42follow-up to The Godfather was the first movie in history to make blatant use of this subtitle.
00:48Before Coppola used Part 2 for The Godfather's sequel, movie sequels tended to have different
00:52names.
00:53Once Coppola opted to do it this way, however, a new movie trend was born in that studios
00:57realized it was a neat way to market sequels.
00:59After all, it's a lot easier to cash in by telling people this is the same experience
01:03as the first one that they enjoyed, which a differently titled movie wouldn't be able
01:06to do so well.
01:07The difference was, though, that The Godfather was titled as such because it was an indication
01:11that you needed to see the first film in order to understand the second, which, as we know
01:15today, doesn't exactly mean the same thing now.
01:189.
01:19Jaws Became The First Blockbuster But Inspired Relentless Marketing Tactics
01:23The success of Jaws is manifold.
01:25It's a great film for a start.
01:27But one of the reasons that everyone saw it back in the day was because instead of being
01:31rolled out one territory at a time in the US as was the norm, it was released in theaters
01:35everywhere on the same day.
01:37This meant that the marketing budget and exposure people had to these adverts was excessive,
01:42and as a result, tons of people went to see it.
01:44This widespread campaigning of adverts was quickly adopted by other studios, and is now
01:48the reason why every billboard, bus, and electronic service is smeared with film adverts.
01:53It was always going to be the way that cinema was heading, but Jaws did it first.
01:578.
01:58Heaven's Gate Changed The Way That Movies Were Made Forever And The Death Of Independent
02:02Auteur-Driven Films
02:03Heaven's Gate has become something of a fable of cinematic disaster.
02:07After its budget rose to astronomical levels and the director became notoriously difficult
02:11to work with, the film flopped so hard that United Artists actually had to close down.
02:16Now, around this time, there was a boon of independent films financed by big studios,
02:21the idea being hundreds of small investments to offset the risk of a project failing.
02:25The issue was that this failure sparked panic within the big boys, and then they pulled
02:29the funding.
02:30This led to tighter control of budgets, which are still huge now, but now have much more
02:34executive meddling than before.
02:367.
02:37Jurassic Park Pretty Much Put An End To The Usage Of Practical Effects In Animatronics
02:41Stan Winston and Phil Tippett were the animatronic experts who worked on Jurassic Park, but
02:46neither of them had a truly positive experience on set.
02:49CGI was experimental at this point, but definitely on the rise, and in Jurassic Park, it looked
02:55phenomenal.
02:56It was still expensive, but could move beyond the scope of animatronics.
02:59This led Tippett to utter the line,
03:01"...I've just become extinct."
03:03And when you look at the landscape of today's cinema, you can see that, unfortunately, he
03:06was right.
03:07CGI is now standard practice with films, and in fact, they go overboard to sell any time
03:12that they actually have a real thing, in real life, on a real set.
03:15How bizarre.
03:166.
03:17Saving Private Ryan Made Shaky Cam A Staple Of Mainstream Cinema
03:21So the concept of shaky cam is in no way a technique invented by Spielberg, but it was
03:25one of the first blockbusters to incorporate this method into its shooting.
03:29Before this point, the wobbly viewpoint was seen as unprofessional, but Spielberg used
03:33it to great effect to disorient his audience, especially during the Normandy Beach assault.
03:38But as with all good examples, there have been countless times where this technique
03:41has either been misused, or just done to hide shoddy action sequences.
03:45It's gotten so bad that in some fight or action scenes, it's near impossible to tell
03:48what's going on.
03:50What was so immersive in one film, is just cutting corners in others.
03:545.
03:55Titanic Brought The Movie Song Back To Popularity
03:57My Heart Will Go On is one of the biggest-selling singles of all time, and we have one of the
04:02biggest-grossing films of all time to thank for it.
04:05For a long time prior to Titanic, the whole song from the movie had just died out, yet
04:09James Horner convinced James Cameron that a cash cow needed to be milked for all it
04:13was worth, and that they should pop this track in.
04:15Thus breathing life back into the whole movie-should-have-their-own-song phenomenon once more.
04:20And for a while, it was okay.
04:22It was cheesy as hell, but it was just okay.
04:25And now, it's just really annoying.
04:274.
04:28The Sixth Sense Inspired Endless Left-Field Twist Movies
04:32M. Night Shyamalan didn't invent the shocking twist with The Sixth Sense, of course, but
04:36he damn near pioneered it as a marketing technique and selling point for motion pictures in general.
04:41With The Sixth Sense, audiences were so impressed with the twist that they began clamouring
04:45for more, and Hollywood obliged.
04:47Which is to say, in the aftermath, Hollywood began to flood theatres with shocking left-field
04:51twist movies, motion pictures that would market themselves on being built around twists you'd
04:56never see coming.
04:57The problem with this is obvious, with the now-expected twist becoming more and more
05:01over the top, and declining dramatically in impact.
05:053.
05:06The Original Star Wars Trilogy Implies That All Sequels Have to Have Weird Names
05:10Earlier in the video, we touched upon The Godfather Part II's distinction of having
05:13been the first mainstream movie to include Part II in its title.
05:16Though the numbering system is irritating in an oh-my-god-it-reeks-of-corporate-greed
05:21way, it's at least clean.
05:23But we have The Original Star Wars Trilogy to thank for an even worse trend, the ever-weirdly-named
05:28sequels.
05:29Since The Empire Strikes Back, the movie industry has literally been throwing lame and often
05:32very arbitrary subtitles onto anything and everything.
05:36Thor The Dark World?
05:37G.I.
05:38Joe Retaliation?
05:40Black Ryan's Shadow Recruit?
05:41What do they even mean?
05:42Well, Hollywood would say, well, we're being creative, guys.
05:45But what it really means to us is… what?
05:482.
05:49Avatar Made 3D Cool Again, But Is Responsible For Increased Ticket Prices
05:54After several ailing attempts throughout cinematic history to make it relevant, Avatar was the
05:58first movie that finally made 3D cool in the eyes of the movie-going public.
06:02James Cameron set out to have the audience feeling like they were right inside the world
06:06of stupidly-named precious resources.
06:09And now, the achievement stands tall.
06:11Gravity aside, Avatar is still probably the best and most accomplished 3D film ever.
06:16However, the films that followed in its wake were… not as well incorporated, and even
06:20lower-ranked flicks offered 3D as a way to cash in.
06:23As a result, prices rose to accommodate this new viewing experience, and viewers were subject
06:28to films shot in 2D, but awkwardly bumped to 3D in post-production.
06:32And let's just say, it showed.
06:34At number one, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Parts 1 and 2 show that you can just
06:37chop an ending in half.
06:39If somebody told you that your film would make millions of dollars, you'd be pretty
06:43happy.
06:44Now, imagine if that same person told you that you could take your film, split it in
06:47two, pad out some bits to fill in the runtime, and make double.
06:50Well, if you have standards, then you'd probably be okay not doing this, but Harry
06:54Potter proved that splitting your final arc in two really could bring in the muggle money.
06:58The split arguably was never needed from a storytelling perspective, and encouraged countless
07:03other titles to follow suit.
07:04The problem with this, of course, is that moviegoers are now having to fork out twice
07:08as much to see two parts of a story that only needed one part.
07:11Twilight and The Hunger Games are guilty of this, as well, and while it's so obvious
07:15what they're doing, they still get millions of people to go in and see it.
07:19And that's just annoying.
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07:55Right there.
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08:31Which is great, but then her and Zulu end up dead.
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08:39This one may lean a little heavy on the conspiracy theory side of things, but they just haven't
08:45showed it to us yet.
08:48Terry Farrell grabbed my hand and said how proud that made her, and that is a memory
08:52I really just wanted to share with everybody today.
08:55Take a walk with me, as we go and do some cetacean observations.
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