Free Republic
Browse · Search
General/Chat
Topics · Post Article

Skip to comments.

How many of the top 20 films of each year since 1980 have been sf/fantasy/animated/superheroes?
Me | 11/05/17 | Me

Posted on 11/05/2017 2:15:18 PM PST by Simon Green

I've posted a lot about genre films in the short time I've been here. I thought it would be fun for my first vanity post to crunch the numbers on how many of the top 20 films of each year since 1980 have been either science fiction, fantasy, animated, or comic book based. If graphed, the curve would be remarkably smooth.

1980: 20%
1981: 25%
1982: 30%
1983: 15%
1984: 30%
1985: 15%
1986: 20%
1987: 15%
1988: 40%
1989: 30%
1990: 35%
1991: 35%
1992: 15%
1993: 15%
1994: 35%
1995: 30%
1996: 30%
1997: 45%
1998: 45%
1999: 45%
2000: 25%
2001: 45%
2002: 55%
2003: 55%
2004: 55%
2005: 55%
2006: 40%
2007: 60%
2008: 55%
2009: 65%
2010: 70%
2011: 70%
2012: 70%
2013: 70%
2014: 75%
2015: 60%
2016: 85%
2017: 90%

Methinks I see a trend....


TOPICS: Society; TV/Movies
KEYWORDS:
Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first previous 1-2021-27 last
To: Simon Green

Blame me I probably saw all of them


21 posted on 11/05/2017 4:49:16 PM PST by Sybeck1
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Simon Green
I don't remember any superhero movies from the 1940s -1980 except one Superman movie with George Reeves, and later the Batman spoof. A few serial shorts from years earlier.

The first so-called SUPERHERO movie I can recall was the horrid ARGOMAN from the 1960s.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argoman_the_Fantastic_Superman

Back in the olden days a “superhero” movie would be given the B budget, black and white, chintzy special effects and be played on the bottom half of a drive-in theater double feature of Hercules and the Women from Mars or some such thing.
Now they are given class A budgets, glorious color, over the top special effects, and are still not worth going to see.

Our youth today truly live in an age of fantasy.

22 posted on 11/05/2017 5:37:09 PM PST by Ruy Dias de Bivar
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: ifinnegan
Can you do a comparison. List the top 20 from 1980 and from 2015 or 2016.

Sure!

1980:
1 The Empire Strikes Back
2 9 to 5
3 Stir Crazy
4 Airplane!
5 Any Which Way You Can
6 Private Benjamin
7 Coal Miner's Daughter
8 Smokey and the Bandit II
9 The Blue Lagoon Col.
10 The Blues Brothers
11 Ordinary People
12 Popeye
13 Urban Cowboy
14 The Shining
15 Seems Like Old Times
16 Cheech & Chong's Next Movie
17 Caddyshack
18 Friday the 13th (1980)
19 Brubaker
20 Little Darlings

2016:
1 Rogue One: A Star Wars Story
2 Finding Dory
3 Captain America: Civil War
4 The Secret Life of Pets
5 The Jungle Book (2016)
6 Deadpool
7 Zootopia
8 Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice
9 Suicide Squad
10 Sing
11 Moana
12 Fantastic Beasts and Where To Find Them
13 Doctor Strange
14 Hidden Figures
15 Jason Bourne
16 Star Trek Beyond
17 X-Men: Apocalypse
18 Trolls
19 La La Land
20 Kung Fu Panda 3

Bit of a contrast. What I find striking is a that half the top 20 films of 1980 are comedies, a genre that no longer exists as a top 20 film today.

23 posted on 11/05/2017 9:04:42 PM PST by Simon Green (<i>)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 8 | View Replies]

To: Paladin2
Show me an x-y plot.

My html skills aren't that good.

24 posted on 11/05/2017 9:05:36 PM PST by Simon Green (<i>)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 9 | View Replies]

To: fella
How many are worth seeing again?

I'll be real specific and say "many". IMHO, of course.

25 posted on 11/05/2017 9:06:51 PM PST by Simon Green (<i>)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 10 | View Replies]

To: MosesKnows
Did you address the related financial successes?

Nope. Suffice it to say that Disney regards the billions they paid for Star Wars as money well spent.

26 posted on 11/05/2017 9:08:19 PM PST by Simon Green (<i>)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 16 | View Replies]

To: Simon Green

Given the toilet-based, borderline satanic humor of comedians like Sarah Silverman, small wonder comedies aren’t appearing in the top 20...


27 posted on 11/06/2017 4:01:17 AM PST by Caipirabob (Communists...Socialists...Fascists & AntiFa...Democrats...Traitors... Who can tell the difference?)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 23 | View Replies]


Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first previous 1-2021-27 last

Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.

Free Republic
Browse · Search
General/Chat
Topics · Post Article

FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson