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Turner Classic Movies turns 15 this month, and in honor the network has selected the 15 most influential films of all time.

Posted by Don Homer (aka DonHomer) Apr 13 '09, 09:53

The Birth of a Nation (1915)
Battleship Potemkin (1925)
Metropolis (1927)
42nd Street (1933)
It Happened One Night (1934)
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937)
Gone With the Wind (1939)
Stagecoach (1939)
Citizen Kane (1941)
Bicycle Thieves (1947)
Rashomon (1950)
The Searchers (1956)
Breathless (1959)
Psycho (1960)
Star Wars (1977)

link (marquee.blogs.cnn.com)

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c'mon.There's got to be at least one movie since Star Wars that's been influential enough to make that list... -- nm - znufrii Apr 13, 10:05 28
- That's the kind of thing that needs time to be appraised. - celedhring Apr 13, 10:13 2
  - Damn, too slow. Everybody proposed those 2 already :D -- nm - celedhring Apr 13, 10:14 1
    - but good choices nonetheless -- nm - znufrii Apr 13, 10:21
- Toy Story or Matrix would be the only 2 I'd remotely consider in that listing. -- nm - Will Hunting Apr 13, 10:12
- The Matrix, Toy Story, Iron Man, and The Dark Knight. -- nm - Beryllium Apr 13, 10:11 16
  - Though I admire your enthusiasm, the only comic movie to have influence is X-Men as it showed Hollywood what they could be. -- nm - Spawn Apr 13, 10:21
  - No chance on Iron Man or Dark Knight. If if they influenced anything forward, comic movies are now built on the backs of SUperman 1, Batman 1, XMen - Will Hunting Apr 13, 10:15 4
    - I think X-Men is probably the most influential for the current lot - celedhring Apr 13, 10:22 1
      - pokie -- nm - Spawn Apr 13, 10:26
    - Yeah, I should have applied the same logic to superhero movies that I had applied to Pixar movies to get toy story - Beryllium Apr 13, 10:18 1
      - Burton and Schumacher's Batmans are different beasts from today's comic book films I think. - celedhring Apr 13, 10:24
  - Toy Story is a good choice. I wouldn't argue with that over Pulp. -- nm - Don Homer Apr 13, 10:13
  - Dark Knight? really? -- nm - znufrii Apr 13, 10:13 8
    - It's still too soon to actually call it that, but yes. Really. -- nm - Beryllium Apr 13, 10:13 7
      - I hope it becomes influential. - celedhring Apr 13, 10:15 1
        
        but that's why Bery mentioned Iron Man. :) -- nm - znufrii Apr 13, 10:16
      - I just can't see that happening. -- nm - znufrii Apr 13, 10:15 4
        
        well, check back in five years, and see if it's had an influence on the superhero/scifi genres. -- nm - Beryllium Apr 13, 10:16 3
        
        I just don't see how it was particularly ground-breaking in any sense, thus how any influence could be traced back to it, as opposed to other comic - znufrii Apr 13, 10:17 1
        
        It wasn't. It gets a 0 on the groundbreakingness scale. -- nm - Don Homer Apr 13, 10:18
        
        No more than Spidey 1, Xmen 2 or Spidey 2. It's a well-made movie, but it's not a trendsetter. - Will Hunting Apr 13, 10:17
- It's TCM. They don't tend to show movies newer than that. -- nm - con_carne Apr 13, 10:11 2
  - this is also a good point, but the list wasn't "15 Most Influential Film That we'd show on our Network", now, was it? -- nm - znufrii Apr 13, 10:12 1
    - It's the network's anniversary. I think that would really be implicit. -- nm - con_carne Apr 13, 10:16
- The best contender I can think of is Pulp Fiction. -- nm - Don Homer Apr 13, 10:09 2
  - that, Saving Private Ryan, and The Matrix are the first three that come to mind. -- nm - znufrii Apr 13, 10:09 1
    - Definitely not on SPR, and Matrix would fall behind PF. -- nm - Don Homer Apr 13, 10:10
- Start a poll! -- nm - Shaun Apr 13, 10:07
And will broadcast them all in colorized versions? - celedhring Apr 13, 09:58 7
- i don't think tcm shows colorized, do they? -- nm - prayformojo Apr 13, 10:08 6
  - No. -- nm - Don Homer Apr 13, 10:10 5
    - They did when they started, I remember growing up believing "The Maltese Falcon" was a color film. -- nm - celedhring Apr 13, 10:16 4
      - Are you sure you're not thinking of TBS or TNT or AMC? TMC's always had a good rep, as far as I remember. -- nm - Don Homer Apr 13, 10:17 3
        
        In the 80s, Turner became infamous for colorizing films -- nm - con_carne Apr 13, 10:25 2
        
        Right, but not on TCM. -- nm - Don Homer Apr 13, 10:27
        
        Yeah, it's TNT what I was thinking about it seems - celedhring Apr 13, 10:26
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- TCM is great, because you can bet they will explain to you before and after the movie why they think it is -- nm - con_carne Apr 13, 10:03
- I think it's a good list on that regard, a lot of these films introduced themes, techniques and other stuff that have been used ad nauseam - celedhring Apr 13, 10:01

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