10 Movies That Tried To Change Cinema Forever (And Failed)

1. Black Mirror: Bandersnatch Offered "Choose-Your-Own-Adventure" Storytelling For The Netflix Generation

"Choose-your-own-adventure" storytelling has existed in books almost as long as cinema has been around, but due to the obvious added complexities and costs of translating the structure to film, it's incredibly rare in cinema.

And so, enter Black Mirror: Bandersnatch, a bold attempt to bridge the gap between movies and the typically goofy FMV video games that became popular in the early 1990s.

Bandersnatch was an attempt by Charlie Brooker and Netflix to deliver a branching narrative experience with an unprecedented level of viewer/player freedom.

And while it's an admirably ambitious effort to redefine what narrativity means in the streaming era, the various permutations of the central story were ultimately not varied enough to feel truly ground-breaking.

The film's success, including two Emmy wins, will likely prompt Netflix to pursue more projects like this in the future.

Yet while it's probably too early to fully appreciate the impact Bandersnatch will have, one suspects the complexity of even the project's fairly shallow "interactivity" will mean it remains a niche attraction at best.

Nice try, basically, but it wasn't quite the tectonic blurring of narrative media that many hoped it would be given the talent involved.