12 Movies That Changed Hollywood Forever
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Breaking news: Hollywood is out of ideas!
At least, you’d be forgiven for thinking that if you’ve paid attention to all the sequels, reboots, and IP properties filling up theaters these days. But even before the era of superheroes and CG robots, people still thought Hollywood was out of ideas, what with all the westerns, musicals, and book adaptations being thrown their way.
So it seems as long as Hollywood has been around there have been cries of a creative well run dry and fans clamoring for more original films. But all hope isn’t lost, because despite the fact that, yes, Hollywood does often rehash the same ideas over and over until viewer fatigue eventually sets in, peppered throughout all of movie history have been original films that change the game so much that every movie that follows owes a bit of its DNA to said game changer.
Below we give you the 12 movies so original, so unexpected, and so breathtakingly successful at what they set out to do that they ended up changing Hollywood – and movie history – forever.
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Avatar
2009, in 14 top lists Check -
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The Blair Witch Project
1999, in 14 top lists Check -
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The Breakfast Club
1985, in 10 top lists Check -
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Dawn of the Planet of the Apes
2014, in 3 top lists Check -
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The Graduate
1967, in 29 top lists Check -
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Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
2001, in 5 top lists Check -
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Knocked Up
2007, in 4 top lists Check -
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Jaws
1975, in 29 top lists Check -
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The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
2001, in 31 top lists Check -
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Spider-Man
2002, in 7 top lists Check -
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Terminator 2: Judgment Day
1991, in 27 top lists Check -
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Toy Story
1995, in 25 top lists Check
Last updated on Nov 20, 2016; source