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* While we're still on the subject of comic book movies, the notorious ''[[Batman and Robin (film)|Batman and Robin]]'' has been described as the moment when Hollywood realized that they couldn't just churn out crappy adaptations and expect the "built-in" fanboy audience to eat them up. Rather, they had to start treating their properties with at least a modicum of respect.

* ''[[Psycho]]'' and ''[[Night of the Living Dead]]'' are, along with the ditching of the [[Hays Code]] and its replacement by the MPAA, widely credited for helping to turn the [[Horror]] genre from "stories that are a bit spooky and feature the odd death" to "stories where [[Anyone Can Die]], deaths are bloody and brutal, and sometimes even [[The Bad Guy Wins]]."

* ''[[Shrek]]'' ushered in a period of [[Deconstruction]] for fairy tales, resulting in [[Fractured Fairy Tale]]s such as ''[[Enchanted]]'', ''[[Happily N'Ever After]]'', and ''[[Hoodwinked]]''. The genre has recently begun [[Reconstruction]], with ''[[The Tale of Despereaux]]'', ''[[The Princess and the Frog]]'' and ''[[Tangled]]''.

** Shrek is also blamed by fans of traditional animation for [[Genre Killer|ending the dominance of traditional animation]] and about the rise of [[All CGI Cartoons]] laden with [[Shout-Out|pop cultural references]] that would become dated within months, an over-reliance on [[Toilet Humor]], overuse of [[Parental Bonus]] and [[Getting Crap Past the Radar]] to the point where it gets annoying, and gratuitous celebrity casting. Granted, [[Looney Tunes|Warner Bros.]] had done pop cultural references [[Older Than They Think|back in the]] [[Golden Age of Animation]]; [[Disney Animated Canon|Disney]] often cast big name celebrities in their films since ''[[Aladdin (Disney film)|Aladdin]]'', and pretty much EVERY animation studio has slipped crap past the radar in their films, but Shrek and [[Shark Tale|similar]] [[Madagascar|movies]] are the culmination of these trends, for better or for worse.