No, and most of the responses making comparisons with other actors are missing the point. The impressive thing about Travolta's run isn't that those films were box office successes. Each one of those movies was, in addition to a success at the box office, an absolute cultural phenomenon with impacts that lasted for years. No one else has done that in my lifetime.

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Posted by RonLaFlamme

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Posted on 2/3/24 at 6:30 pm to coolpapaboze

You don’t think Star Wars and Raiders of the Lost Ark were cultural phenomenons?

I’d put those far above the Travolta trio you mentioned.

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Posted by KwoodTiger

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Posted on 2/3/24 at 6:59 pm to coolpapaboze

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No, and most of the responses making comparisons with other actors are missing the point.

Agree.

Based on the responses thus far, the answer does seem to be no.

Just random sample…Charlton Heston with 2, not 3, in 4 years…Fredo wasn’t a lead in either Godfather mentioned…Harrison Ford wasn’t a lead in either Star Wars movie mentioned…Tom Hanks comes close but are we really counting him reading as Woody.

And some even questioning the definition of what constitutes a run and whether 4 years is in fact a run?!

Keep them coming because I still have not seen/heard someone leading 3 cultural phenomenons in 4 years.

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Posted by Scoob

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Posted on 2/4/24 at 6:44 pm to coolpapaboze

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No, and most of the responses making comparisons with other actors are missing the point. The impressive thing about Travolta's run isn't that those films were box office successes. Each one of those movies was, in addition to a success at the box office, an absolute cultural phenomenon with impacts that lasted for years. No one else has done that in my lifetime.

I was a kid then, and I remember. I know what you're talking about.

I wouldn't say "years", because disco died not long after Saturday Night Fever, and the Urban Cowboy craze didn't last more than a couple years. But they were HUGE socially, moreso than the box office numbers.

Closest thing I can remember, is Top Gun- and how everyone had to get leather bomber jackets afterwards.

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