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re: Has any movie star ever had the run of John Travolta from 1977-1980?
Posted on 2/4/24 at 5:26 am to Kafka
Posted on 2/4/24 at 5:26 am to Kafka
quote:
Three movies is your idea of a run?
It’s not just 3 movies - it’s 3 movies that were cultural phenomena. After SNF, disco was everywhere. After Urban Cowboy, teenage girls were walking around in cowboy hats and former discotheques were now honky tonks with mechanical bulls. And no one gave a shite about musicals in cinema since the 1950s until Grease came along, then suddenly everyone knew the words to every song in Grease.
Name 3 movies that were so transformative culturally in such a short time span…much less 3 that starred the same actor.
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Posted on 2/4/24 at 5:30 am to coolpapaboze
quote:
ETA: unless you were alive at the time, it's hard to understand the disco craze and the country music craze that followed SNF and UC respectively. Both of those movies impacted the way people dressed, the music they listened to, the cars (trucks) they drove etc. It was fricking insane.
This guy gets it.
If you were in your teens or 20s during that time, you understand. It didn’t just showcase or infiltrate culture - it shaped it.
Posted on 2/4/24 at 6:03 am to KwoodTiger
quote:
Seriously. Can’t think of another that compares in a 4-year span.
You're not good at thinking.
Posted on 2/4/24 at 6:19 am to KwoodTiger
Clint Eastwood in the early '70s.
Posted on 2/4/24 at 7:27 am to TGHub
quote:
Harrison Ford 1980-83 Empire Strikes Back-80 Raiders of the Lost Ark-81 Blade Runner-82 Return of the Jedi-83
You could easily add Temple of Doom and Witness to this list as well.
Posted on 2/4/24 at 7:50 am to RonLaFlamme
quote:
I thought of Robert Redford as a 70s icon with a strong filmography too.
Burt Reynolds was the king of 70s movie making. He absolutely owned the box office.
Posted on 2/4/24 at 8:26 am to KwoodTiger
Tom Hank
Posted on 2/4/24 at 8:41 am to KwoodTiger
As evidenced in this thread, yes.
Hell, Paul Newman had:
Fort Apache: The Bronx
Absence of Malice
The Verdict
come out in 81 and 82.
That said, it was a solid run for Travolta.
Hell, Paul Newman had:
Fort Apache: The Bronx
Absence of Malice
The Verdict
come out in 81 and 82.
That said, it was a solid run for Travolta.
Posted on 2/4/24 at 9:00 am to KwoodTiger
The longest run by any star on top is John Wayne.
John Wayne is on the top 1949–1957, 1959–1974, with only 1958 missing. John is number 1 almost every year in that time frame.
On Clint Eastwoods 3 Italian movies, they are release in the US the same year. They were made in 1964, 65 and 66 and released in the same year, but not released in the US until all 3 were later. Saw all 3 at the Broadmoor that year.
John Wayne is on the top 1949–1957, 1959–1974, with only 1958 missing. John is number 1 almost every year in that time frame.
On Clint Eastwoods 3 Italian movies, they are release in the US the same year. They were made in 1964, 65 and 66 and released in the same year, but not released in the US until all 3 were later. Saw all 3 at the Broadmoor that year.
This post was edited on 2/4/24 at 9:04 am
Posted on 2/4/24 at 9:34 am to KwoodTiger
John Wayne staring as:
John Wayne
John Wayne
John Wayne
John Wayne
Etc.
Annually for his entire career.
ETA: should have read the latest posts before posting.
John Wayne
John Wayne
John Wayne
John Wayne
Etc.
Annually for his entire career.
ETA: should have read the latest posts before posting.
This post was edited on 2/4/24 at 9:35 am
Posted on 2/4/24 at 9:36 am to KwoodTiger
A great run of movies. Then jump ahead to Get Shorty. Even more impressive.
Posted on 2/4/24 at 10:13 am to TigrrrDad
I'm not going to dispute that disco was a thing in the 70s. Or that Urban Cowboy was cool to certain people.
I still think there is a generational bias and tunnel vision that it sounds like since it was important to you then it was the most important thing of all time.
It was a fad. It came and went like a fart in the wind. You're telling me that professionals were suddenly wearing cowboy boots and going to the disco. Or black people were singing shama lama ding dong. No they weren't.
Han Solo and Indiana Jones are still recognizable and revered. I think Danny from Grease still is broadly known, but nowhere near the level of Harrison Ford or Tom Cruise from Top Gun time frame.
I still think there is a generational bias and tunnel vision that it sounds like since it was important to you then it was the most important thing of all time.
It was a fad. It came and went like a fart in the wind. You're telling me that professionals were suddenly wearing cowboy boots and going to the disco. Or black people were singing shama lama ding dong. No they weren't.
Han Solo and Indiana Jones are still recognizable and revered. I think Danny from Grease still is broadly known, but nowhere near the level of Harrison Ford or Tom Cruise from Top Gun time frame.
Posted on 2/4/24 at 10:59 am to udtiger
Fort Apache, Absence of Malice and The Verdict were good movies, but not cultural phenomena.
Posted on 2/4/24 at 11:12 am to VOR
Doesn’t compare to some that others have mentioned but Patrick Swayze had a pretty solid run with:
Dirty Dancing
Roadhouse
Ghost
Point Break
Dirty Dancing
Roadhouse
Ghost
Point Break
Posted on 2/4/24 at 11:16 am to highcotton2
quote:that’s actually an outstanding example. None of those movies are Oscar worthy but all of them had deep, lasting cultural impact, even if tongue in cheek. That swayze run is far more impactful than anything russell Crowe has done, for example, though his movies are better
Dirty Dancing Roadhouse Ghost Point Break
Maybe gladiator but that’s it
Posted on 2/4/24 at 11:22 am to KwoodTiger
Clark Gable says hold my beer:
1935 Mutiny on the Bounty
1935 Call of the Wild
1939 Gone with the Wind
1940 Boom Town
1935 Mutiny on the Bounty
1935 Call of the Wild
1939 Gone with the Wind
1940 Boom Town
Posted on 2/4/24 at 11:22 am to RonLaFlamme
quote:I don't think anyone's dying on a hill, we're just discussing movies and actors, and it's ok to disagree.
Weird hill to die on, but ok. I’m sure generational synchrony is a factor for your choices as well as mine.
I think there's definitely some generational bias in this. I was a kid when those movies came out and I saw how people's behaviors changed, I'd never seen anything like it and haven't since.
Posted on 2/4/24 at 11:23 am to H-Town Tiger
Agreed.
Posted on 2/4/24 at 11:28 am to KwoodTiger
From about 1985 to 2000, Mel Gibson was money making machine as an actor and that doesn't count producing and directing
Posted on 2/4/24 at 11:44 am to coolpapaboze
quote:
I think there's definitely some generational bias in this. I was a kid when those movies came out and I saw how people's behaviors changed, I'd never seen anything like it and haven't since
Totally agree with generational bias comment. No one old enough to remember SNF, Grease, and UC playing in movie theaters would put those 3 in the same sentence as some of the other movies mentioned in this thread.
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