A video essay from filmmaker Stephen Murphy, to wit:
… bad films can be as influential as good ones. This episode focuses on The Phantom Menace, a film that is particularly influential and particularly bad. Modern blockbuster culture started in 1999 when George Lucas released his prequel into the world and cinema changed forever…
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Thanks for that :)
Mr Plinkets reviews are all that need to be said about The Star Wars Prequels.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FxKtZmQgxrI&list=PL5919C8DE6F720A2D
Only influential if you mean negatively so; and even then it’s influence is purely superficial. Prequels, pure CGI environments and Motion Capture are hardly the ingredients for great storytelling.
Thought Jaws was the start of modern summer blockbuster era? Or was it Ben Hur?
Duck Soup.