i seem to recall the 70s disaster movies started with Earthquake. in sensurround. a wierd gimmick installed only at a few cinemas. bit like LFE on later dobly 5.1 (where its the "1").
charriots of fire supposedly started the britfilm renaissence early 80s. goldcrest etc. putnam later went to hollywood where he didnt fit in at all ......
the Golan/Globus films after they took over Cannon. and the Classic cinema chain. Notably death wish 2 and loadsa similar brainless action pics which audiences didnt want to see. Cannon went bankrupt.
single exception is Runaway Train. a work of genius.
The thread isn't about who did it first, it's about what started or kick-started a trend. Saying "x did it back in whenever" means very little to the thread unless it resulted in an immediate string of similar films around that period.
The problem is trends come and go (and come again) Teen comedies from the 80s died down a fair bit when the brat pack got older, but then they started coming back around 10 years later.
Same with dance movies, and now with musical type films.
So depending the age of the poster they will feel a different film started the trend and they would be both right
The problem is trends come and go (and come again) Teen comedies from the 80s died down a fair bit when the brat pack got older, but then they started coming back around 10 years later.
Same with dance movies, and now with musical type films.
So depending the age of the poster they will feel a different film started the trend and they would be both right
That's all very well, but some people are nominaing films which never started a trend in the first place.
No I didn't forget about it at all, but the discussion that led from Election to the Breakfast club to Fast Times was about "the film that starts the high school comedy trend" and I really don't think of American Graffiti as a high school comedy. It's a coming of age film.
Doesn't it end with a note that a character died some years later as a drunk driver? Hardly a bundle of laughs.
Similarly for a little while I considered the 1978 Grease film as the Mitochondrial Eve, as it is both set in a High School and is funny. However I decided this sat firmly in the "Musical" genre and so set that aside too.
(Grease could however have started the trend of having people in American High School played by people in their mid-twenties )
EDIT - I would also have accepted "Porkys" however as that was also 1982, the same year as Fast Times.
Blade Runner - so many cheap sci-fis have tried to copy the look since.
I thought of Blade Runner. It has turned out to be a far more influential film than its original box office figures ever suggested. One of the most influential sci-fi films of all time for sure.
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That film is better than StarWars, because it has Sybil Danning as a space-valkyrie!
single exception is Runaway Train. a work of genius.
Lock Stock and Two smoking Barrels started off a wave of similar cockey ganster films.
Four Weddings and a funeral started off the 'brit rom-com' wave as well.
The problem is trends come and go (and come again) Teen comedies from the 80s died down a fair bit when the brat pack got older, but then they started coming back around 10 years later.
Same with dance movies, and now with musical type films.
So depending the age of the poster they will feel a different film started the trend and they would be both right
That's all very well, but some people are nominaing films which never started a trend in the first place.
Doesn't it end with a note that a character died some years later as a drunk driver? Hardly a bundle of laughs.
Similarly for a little while I considered the 1978 Grease film as the Mitochondrial Eve, as it is both set in a High School and is funny. However I decided this sat firmly in the "Musical" genre and so set that aside too.
(Grease could however have started the trend of having people in American High School played by people in their mid-twenties
EDIT - I would also have accepted "Porkys" however as that was also 1982, the same year as Fast Times.
these ones;
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yea definitely.
I thought of Blade Runner. It has turned out to be a far more influential film than its original box office figures ever suggested. One of the most influential sci-fi films of all time for sure.
Agreed, even though I quite like T2.