I don't know that there's a movie out there with more staying power than The Wizard of Oz. That film's 80 years old and most kids today have probably seen it.

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Posted by scrooster

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Posted on 1/13/20 at 12:23 am to Globetrotter747

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I don't know that there's a movie out there with more staying power than The Wizard of Oz. That film's 80 years old and most kids today have probably seen it.

Good point.

I dunno. Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer maybe? Nah, that's 1964, 56 years ago.

Can't really think of one that fits the bill.

It was groundbreaking .... switching from B&W to Technicolor midstream when she landed in Oz. Not sure anything that big will ever happen to a movie going audience again. It was bigger than 3D in the overall scheme of things at the time.

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Posted by kale

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Posted on 1/13/20 at 12:26 am to scrooster

Beau gueste, rule of games great. Ok.
What is the point of this thread looks like revisionist history. Even this year is better clown

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Posted by mizzoubuckeyeiowa

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Posted on 1/13/20 at 12:40 am to scrooster

Fun fact, Gone With the Wind is still the longest run-time Best Picture winner of all-time (238 minutes); almost 4 hours.

(and knowing today's climate, that record is going to last forever.)

Lawrence of Arabia is second.

Too bad the days of epics are over.

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Posted by Bench McElroy

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Posted on 1/13/20 at 1:12 am to scrooster

1939 is not even the greatest year in Hollywood history much less film history. The Godfather Part II, Chinatown, Woman Under The Influence, The Conversation, Texas Chainsaw Massacre, and Young Frankenstein all came out in 1974. And 1975 was so loaded that Steven Spielberg didn’t even get a best director Oscar nomination for Jaws.

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Posted by upgrade

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Posted on 1/13/20 at 8:38 am to Suntiger

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Footloose Ghostbusters Splash Indiana Jones and the Temple Of Doom Amadeus The Karate Kid Terminator The Right Stuff Police Academy This is Spinal Tap Red Dawn The Natural Beverly Hills Cop Gremlins 1984 Revenge of the Nerds Dune Sixteen Candles Nightmare on Elm Street Once Upon a Time in America Children of the Corn Romancing the Stone The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension Purple Rain Conan the Destroyer Bachelor Party Star Trek, the Search for Spock The Last Starfighter The Gods Must be Crazy Top Secret Starman

Damn impressive list.