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Originally Posted by Cecil Terwilliger
I love John but besides being fake, that’s hilariously stupid.
I couldn’t tell you the main characters in like 90% of movies from 15 years ago. Or 5 years ago. Or 1 year ago. I couldn’t tell you Tom Cruise’s character’s name in friggin top gun. Or his son. Or his girlfriend. And I’ve seen that movie twice in the last 6 months.
Does anyone remember the name of the characters in true lies? Or the abyss? Or transformers? I sure as hell don’t.
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I found it interesting. Not being able to remember the main characters name seems kind of weird for the top grossing film of all time that was only released in 2009. True lies and the abyss are from the early 90's and aren't sitting in the top 2 or even 300 on that list. Looking at the list the only films that might be comparable (not including Marvel & Star Wars because that would skew) would be Harry Potter, Jurassic Park, LOTR, Minions, Skyfall, Pirates of the Caribbean, and some Batman Films. Which are a mostly a bunch of sequel or franchise films so it's hard to count them.
Titanic would be a decent example even though it was 10 years earlier and if he made the same joke about that film it wouldn't have landed because most people could remember the two leads. Frozen would be another one from around 4 years later but gets a sequel asterisk.
Inception would maybe be the best comparison; an original movie, released a year later and 86th on the list. I remember Leo's characters name but maybe only because I've seen it a bunch of times. The rest of the cast I draw a blank on.