10 Great Movies That Inadvertently Ruined Cinema

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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?

05:40Or 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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