10 Iconic Movies That Spawned A Thousand Imitators
4. Pulp Fiction
Quentin Tarantino has an instantly-recognizable and inimitable style of filmmaking, but that hasn't stopped people from attempting to copy it anyway. Reservoir Dogs might have been his breakout debut feature, but Pulp Fiction was the movie that solidified his unique cinematic voice and led to a raft of thinly-veiled imitations.
After it almost instantly became a modern classic, receiving widespread critical acclaim and raking in over $200m at the box office, American cinema's latest subgenre emerged at around the same time, not-so-coincidentally marked by fractured timelines, rapid-fire dialogue and heavy cultural references.
Within just a few years of Pulp Fiction's release, movies like Killing Zoe, Things To Do In Denver When You're Dead, The Immortals, 2 Days in the Valley, Freeway, The Boondock Saints, American Strays and many more tried way too hard to be cool and emulate Tarantino's visual and narrative style, with Pulp Fiction turning out to be so influential by accident that it's little wonder he hasn't made anything remotely like it ever since.