OxD - The Biggest names among movies: the huge, the classic and the beautiful (slogans)
Welcome, welcome ladies and gentleman to this virtual gathering of the Biggest names among movies. That is, according to me and my fantastic assistants: the numbers from the –just as well- greatest moviedata delivering institutions I know. For this is based upon another list, which is computing the 200 biggest names list with, hold on: IMDb ratings, IMDb votes, BoxOffice Gross, Oscar nominations and (best picture) wins, Wikipedia page views, RottenTomatoes votes, ICheckMovies toplists and checks and famous scenes and soundtrack rankings.
Using that as the fundament I added every movie that’s also among the very biggest names according to me. And then I ranked to my liking of course. So I call it semi-personal, because I used the validated list a lot to compensate for my lack of acquaintance. Nonetheless I feel like I know just enough right now to make this exact list of the biggest names, which is quite a pop-list. I have seen about half of the movies that are in this list, more new than old ones, but being busy with lists to use for my lists I have seen a lot of other opinions and ranks on which movies are unbelievably huge classics and which are loved by whom and how much... Cause you know, you remember what you like, and I likie those rankies a lottie.
So I know what the public and critics find and I have already listed the biggest ones by computation. Besides that you read and hear some and what not, and I’m certainly not an expert, but I know a lot more about movies than the average person: hopefully I’m not too far from both the regular public and the big time film knowers. Though I should admit that all movie knowledge could help to make the list, you can also be bothered by too much of it because you can’t remember how a simpler movie watcher sees it.
What a great story up to now, haha. And so long too. And not quite done either. So, next point would of course be what the hell I was ranking: the biggest names, whaddayamean? Personally I find it hard to explain because it’s more like a feeling: of course you know what I mean by it, but what is it all about? To rank 450 movies in an order you think is all the way right, you want to know exactly what 'biggest names' means, so that you have some reference to make all the choices. And maybe someone else wants to know it too, so let me write it down now. My favorite definition on the internet is this, from dictionary.com: having a widespread public reputation as a leader in a specified field; famous.
Exactly: famous, said in a simpler way. But that doesn’t cover the whole term, or so I feel. Miley Cyrus is very famous right now, and therefore a big name, but though she is the most famous, that doesn’t mean she is the biggest name in music right now, most of us will agree that she is far from that. Because the term big name is about more than that: it means it is huge, loved by most or all the people in the freaking world, it is indeed about reputation, being a leader in the field because nobody can go around it: it is too big. The biggest ones just have it all: the prices for their qualities, the public’s admiration, the big money and the mind blowing performance.
Referring to the music industry again, where the term 'big name' is commonplace, MJ is the biggest name ever. He is like the definition. Madonna, being the queen of pop, was the biggest one too; right now it is either Katy Perry or Beyoncé, the first is more popular, the second just better. One may say, just take box office data, which is most referred to when you google big names in movies. But then, first of all, they forget about the Academy Awards: they just can not be overlooked when speculating about a movie’s legacy. And what about classics like Citizen Kane, the fact that it is considered as the best movie ever… yeah, why don’t we say, aah, then don’t rank it. That’s Impossible! Right!? That is not even a matter of interpretation, we just can not leave the best one out of the top.
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Using that as the fundament I added every movie that’s also among the very biggest names according to me. And then I ranked to my liking of course. So I call it semi-personal, because I used the validated list a lot to compensate for my lack of acquaintance. Nonetheless I feel like I know just enough right now to make this exact list of the biggest names, which is quite a pop-list. I have seen about half of the movies that are in this list, more new than old ones, but being busy with lists to use for my lists I have seen a lot of other opinions and ranks on which movies are unbelievably huge classics and which are loved by whom and how much... Cause you know, you remember what you like, and I likie those rankies a lottie.
So I know what the public and critics find and I have already listed the biggest ones by computation. Besides that you read and hear some and what not, and I’m certainly not an expert, but I know a lot more about movies than the average person: hopefully I’m not too far from both the regular public and the big time film knowers. Though I should admit that all movie knowledge could help to make the list, you can also be bothered by too much of it because you can’t remember how a simpler movie watcher sees it.
What a great story up to now, haha. And so long too. And not quite done either. So, next point would of course be what the hell I was ranking: the biggest names, whaddayamean? Personally I find it hard to explain because it’s more like a feeling: of course you know what I mean by it, but what is it all about? To rank 450 movies in an order you think is all the way right, you want to know exactly what 'biggest names' means, so that you have some reference to make all the choices. And maybe someone else wants to know it too, so let me write it down now. My favorite definition on the internet is this, from dictionary.com: having a widespread public reputation as a leader in a specified field; famous.
Exactly: famous, said in a simpler way. But that doesn’t cover the whole term, or so I feel. Miley Cyrus is very famous right now, and therefore a big name, but though she is the most famous, that doesn’t mean she is the biggest name in music right now, most of us will agree that she is far from that. Because the term big name is about more than that: it means it is huge, loved by most or all the people in the freaking world, it is indeed about reputation, being a leader in the field because nobody can go around it: it is too big. The biggest ones just have it all: the prices for their qualities, the public’s admiration, the big money and the mind blowing performance.
Referring to the music industry again, where the term 'big name' is commonplace, MJ is the biggest name ever. He is like the definition. Madonna, being the queen of pop, was the biggest one too; right now it is either Katy Perry or Beyoncé, the first is more popular, the second just better. One may say, just take box office data, which is most referred to when you google big names in movies. But then, first of all, they forget about the Academy Awards: they just can not be overlooked when speculating about a movie’s legacy. And what about classics like Citizen Kane, the fact that it is considered as the best movie ever… yeah, why don’t we say, aah, then don’t rank it. That’s Impossible! Right!? That is not even a matter of interpretation, we just can not leave the best one out of the top.
So for the times I was almost as distracted as above, I re-ranked and completed my official, validated list to what I actually think are the Biggest Names.
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