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Most influential movie

The Central Scrutinizer said:
Which is why I listed Halloween (1978). It, not Friday The 13th (1980), like it or not, is what spawned the bad slasher films. The difference? One was made by a film maker - John Carpenter. The other was made by a hack - Sean Cunningham.
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Sorry, I meant F13 was responsible for the formula of the slasher-film genre. Classic-horror.com says it more eloquently:
Though not the genesis of the stalk and slash genre, Friday the 13th established the rules of the game. If characters have sex, they will be killed before the post-humping sweat dries on their bodies. If anyone says the words "I'll be right back," they will be killed within 60 seconds. If any character manages to get to an automobile in hopes of escape, that car ain't startin'.
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Classic-horror.com agrees that Halloween was the first slasher film to take the genre up from its B-level roots and allow slash-films to get mass release in theaters.
 
If you're going for the original influential slasher movie, then Psycho has to be it.

People have already mentioned Blade Runner, so I won't bother going further.

As far as Westerns are concerned, Blazing Saddles was incredibly influential, if only for the fact that it killed the Western film for years afterward, by satirizing the fascist and racist core of the genre.

As far as Sci-Fi is concerned, early films by Lucas (THX1138) and Carpenter (Dark Star) spawned lots of copies, as well as Soylent Green in promoting the idea of a dystopic future.
 
Probably "Triumph of the Will".

It is terribly, terribly un-PC to bring up Leni Reihfenstile (Sp...) but that film, aside from providing a funny bit for Monty Python, was the first real honest to me epic.
 
Diamond said:
As far as Westerns are concerned,
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They have been some of the most influential movies in America.

Example 1. "The Great Train Robbery" The first, silent GTR showed a "bad guy" firing a pistol into the camera at the end of the film. The "shot" was dead on forward toward the people (not so accustomed to movies), and it effected people in such a profound way that it ushered in the desire for realistic violence in motion pictures--and in effect, realism in the new 2oth century art forms.

Example 2. "Stagecoach" The original B&W with John Wayne set the standards and formula (til Eastwood and Leone) for the Western film genre. But more significantly, it encapsulated in character and film the American myths of: Manifest Destiny, the virtuous "fallen woman," and "the protector" and/or bringer of order out of chaos in the new/lawless territories.
 
Personally, I do my best to avoid the movie experience these days, because you can almost guarantee that at some point in any modern film that isn`t a `u` certificate, there will be some kind of heaving buttock tonsil licking scene that turns my stomach. It`s amost certain to have a gross squashed dog/Mexican/gerbil/ scared man getting horribly killed (usually fat) thing there as well, which all the cretinous audience laughs or claps like seals at, leaving you feeling like you want to kill all of humanity.
Probly just me, this.
I really hate watching sex scenes, it`s just grim and embarrasing. Me again, no doubt.
C.Kane was good, though.
 
He set up the franchise in muscley men pretending you can actually carry around a .50 Cal mg and fire it accurately. Also the whole MIA and Afghanistan thing. Which was not really what the book was about at all.
 
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