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Originally Posted by rixrex
00s - Sorry, LOTR, I take the 1st Harry Potter and the series in this decade, but it's close.
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Also, Ganthc, with regards to the acceptance of longer films (and adaptations of potboiler/fantasy/mass acceptance novels thought of as "important" movies taken seriously*), the first two Godfather films would be more influential and earlier on this count, reaching its burn out point with Heaven's Gate.
*As opposed to something of equal airplane reading fodder, like Valley of the Dolls.
The most influential film of the 90's and most representative of the era is clearly Pulp Fiction.
If Taxi Driver was the best movie of the 1970's, Jaws, the most financially influential, and Star Wars the most [ironically] imitated, then the success of The Conversation is the most important, because it is so stubborn and depressing, and moving, without very much happening at all, quite representative of the era's films. In terms of the progression from the 70's to the 80's, with serious themes and intentions mixed with Tangerine Dream/Venetian Blind style, the most important film would have to be American Gigolo.
Though it is hard to gauge a representative evoking a time and place without any hindsight, Bowling For Columbine is probably the one that is most important in the 2000's for the debates it sparks, the way that it fueled the fire for activists on either side, the fostering of material for the burgeoning of cable news networks (the increased "value" of a pundit), and the most obvious, the proof that a documentary can make money, which allowed for wider releases for both propaganda and
slightly more objective material.