Most Well Known Movie Of All Time?

[snepp]

Re: Most Well Known Movie Of All Time?

Star Wars, hands down.

Ask people who Brent Tarleton, Darth Vader, and Rick Blaine are.

I'd say it's anything but hands down. My boys went dresses as Darth Vader and Yoda for Halloween, you'd be amazed at how many people had absolutely no idea who they were supposed to be.

[funky_chicken]

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Before opening this thread the first movie that came to mind was Wizard of Oz or It's A Wonderful Life.

[trobinson97]

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I think it's Star Wars hands down.

[WazzuRC]

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Star Wars hands down.

I think Forrest Gump is up there to, at least for my generation.

[Sandman42]

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I think it's between Star Wars and The Wizard of Oz.

[Blzer]

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I dunno, probably a toss up between The Godfather and Gone with the Wind.

Not this younger crowd.

Besides, what do you mean by "most known?" Many people that haven't seen either may know the name, but beyond that they don't know the story, cast, reason for its epicness, or anything like that.

I'd say Star Wars or Jurassic Park.

[SPTO]

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Not this younger crowd.

Probably not this younger crowd but the OP left it wide open for many interpretations plus it's ALL TIME not movies of the last 30 years. I also assume this would be a universal thing rather then "all time to people 25-30 yrs old and in North America".

[daflyboys]

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Not quite correct. The movie was beset with a ton of problems. A lot of actors didn't want to be in it or left for various reasons (the best known of which was Buddy Ebsen who was actually cast as the Tin Man but had such a bad reaction to the makeup that he was forced out) and the movie had a lot of directorial problems. In fact, the movie went through FIVE(!) different directors. The movie was hugely popular and MGM even toyed around with the idea of making a sequel but that didn't come to fruition. The main problem was the movie cost an unheard of cost of $2,777,000. It earned only $3,000,000 on its initial release but as well know they recouped all that in spades with future releases, TV and video/DVD.

Maybe I was thinking of "Under The Rainbow"

[DrJones]

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Probably not this younger crowd but the OP left it wide open for many interpretations plus it's ALL TIME not movies of the last 30 years. I also assume this would be a universal thing rather then "all time to people 25-30 yrs old and in North America".

Yep. Gone With The Wind is #1 all-time for tickets sold in US cinemas, well ahead of Star Wars (even including the 1997 re-release) and roughly double that of Titanic.

[hndavis]

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8 mile...everyone I know knows the movie. very popular.

[GoodVela]

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8 mile...everyone I know knows the movie. very popular.

You can't be serious?

[ehh]

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Wizard of Oz and Gone With The Wind were the two that popped into my head first, though I know absolutely nothing about Gone With The Wind and never plan on watching it. I just Wiki'd it and saw that it was on the Civil War, def did not know that.

[fishepa]

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Gone with the Wind

[daflyboys]

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8 mile...everyone I know knows the movie. very popular.

Judges? ERNNNNNT

[MC Fatigue]

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I'm going to agree with those saying Star Wars.

The younger kids will all know the series. Most of them won't know what the hell Gone with the Wind is, or even The Godfather.

The Star Wars series is still relative to this generation; hell they're still making new shows about it.

Gone with the Wind might be really well known by the older generation; but I really doubt that if you were to jump on the street and ask 100 kids if they'd heard of Gone with the Wind or even The Godfather, more would answer yes than they would to Star Wars. I would bet almost every single kid would answer yes to the Star Wars series.

My logic here is that the older generations will know what Star Wars is, as will the younger generations.

The older generations will know those classic movies, but the younger generation not so much.