"'Love Story'... I'm Guessing Most Young People Today Never Heard Of It": People Are Naming The Massive Movies That Were Once Cultural Touchstones But Are Now Forgotten

Back to the Future was a immense deed erstwhile it was released, and portion it turns 40 this twelvemonth — and is present arsenic distant from america arsenic a 1940s movie was successful 1985 — its popularity hasn't faded. In fact, the movie remains arsenic beloved arsenic ever, continuing to pull caller generations of fans implicit the decades.

However, sometimes movies that were immense taste phenomena get forgotten implicit time. A bully illustration of this is 1991's Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves, starring Kevin Costner. The movie was a immense blockbuster. In fact, it was the second highest-grossing movie of that twelvemonth — trailing lone Terminator 2: Judgment Day and adjacent surpassing Home Alone. And the movie's taxable song, by Bryan Adams, was each implicit the radio. But today, I deliberation it would beryllium hard to find anyone nether 40 who knows astir that film.

Recently, Reddit idiosyncratic Mundane_Bad_2437 was funny astir those immense movies that person disappeared from civilization erstwhile they asked: "What movie was fashionable backmost successful your days, but has present been forgotten?" The thread got hundreds of responses. Below are the apical and astir often repeated movies:

1. "Love Story with Ryan O'Neal and Ali McGraw was a large hit. I'm guessing astir young radical contiguous ne'er heard of it."

3. "Ordinary People, a genuinely bonzer film, won Best Picture successful 1980. But it’s often remembered much for taking that grant implicit Raging Bull and for Mary Tyler Moore losing the Oscar to Sissy Spacek. It is an unthinkable film, but it’s hard to ticker for immoderate people, truthful it sorta got lost."

4. "All those Pink Panther movies!"

5. "The Police Academy franchise. Literally propulsion a clump of stand-up comics successful with comedic supporting actors and spot what sticks is however those felt."

6. "Disaster movies successful general. Earthquake, The Towering Inferno, and The Poseidon Adventure, conscionable to sanction a few. Those were immense movies successful the mid-’70s with star-studded casts, and they are ne'er mentioned today."

7. "Crocodile Dundee was a immense deed astatine the time, but I don't ever spot it playing oregon anyone mentioning it."

8. "The Warriors. It was ever playing astatine midnight somewhere. Great mode to extremity a nighttime of partying."

9. "Walking Tall (1973) with Joe Don Baker. It stayed astatine the section movie theatre for implicit a year."

10. "A Knight’s Tale. It hasn’t been wholly forgotten, but it was immense erstwhile it came out. I mislaid number of however galore times I saw it. Now I ne'er adjacent perceive it being talked about. I watched it a fewer months ago, it’s held up reasonably well."

11. "The Last Emperor won Best Picture of 1987, but it's hardly spoken of today. I don't deliberation it's due to the fact that it's a atrocious movie oregon anything, but possibly due to the fact that its protagonist is not wide known successful the West, and that full play of pre-war and WWII past has faded from surviving memory. I personally deliberation it's a large movie that I effort to ticker erstwhile a year."

12. "Cool Hand Luke. 'My lad Luke says helium tin devour 50 eggs, helium tin devour 50 eggs.'"

13. "American Pie and Scary Movie. They don't marque them similar that anymore."

14. "Looking for Mr. Goodbar. Watched this for the archetypal clip wrong the past year. (I was 8 erstwhile it came out.) It’s hard to envision NYC being that gritty."

15. "A sidesplitting 1970 romance-comedy movie with Barbara Streisand arsenic a NYC enactment idiosyncratic and George Segal arsenic a failed writer, titled The Owl and the Pussycat, was precise popular, and radical rapidly laughed and quoted the line, 'Who gave you support to work my panties?' whenever the movie was mentioned."

16. "Tommy — starring Elton John, Tina Turner, Roger Daltrey, and Ann-Margaret. Saw it erstwhile I was astir 15 astatine a theatre that is present an XXX."

17. "It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World. It was a silly drama that had truthful galore stars successful it astatine the time. I streamed it not each that agelong ago, and it's inactive funny!"

18. "Chariots of Fire was a wildly fashionable movie that benefited from the caller availability of Beta/VHS/LaserDiscs being successful homes. You couldn’t flight the taxable opus either; it was played connected the vigor and parodied connected TV. I ne'er perceive thing astir it anymore."

19. "Billy Jack series. I worked successful a video store successful precocious school, and this older antheral would bust done the beforehand doorway each mates of months and ask, 'Where bash you support your Billy Jack movies?' similar everyone connected Earth knew what that was. We ne'er had them, and each clip he’d archer maine radical emotion them and we needed to bid them each arsenic soon arsenic possible. He claimed helium was a stuntman successful those movies. No 1 successful my beingness earlier oregon since has mentioned those movies until present 😂"

20. "Could not flight Time Bandits and Ice Pirates connected HBO successful the summers during the '80s. Our household didn't adjacent person cablegram TV, but we'd beryllium hanging retired astatine my friend's house, and it seemed similar each clip we checked, 1 of these movies would beryllium playing."

21. "Car Wash. Silly movie with large music"

22. And lastly, "I retrieve The Sting with Robert Redford and Paul Newman ran for months successful the section theatre successful 1973, but I've ne'er seen it amusement up connected the streaming movie channels oregon different sources we person now. It was much fashionable than The Godfather films backmost then, but it conscionable disappeared."

You tin work the archetypal thread connected Reddit.

Note: Some responses person been edited for magnitude and/or clarity.

Alright, everyone, what are immoderate different older fashionable movies that you consciousness are present forgotten? And what existent fashionable movies bash you deliberation volition beryllium wholly forgotten astir successful 15–20-plus years? Let america cognize successful the comments below!