As I was putting together this post, I ran into a TON of conflicting information. It was quite interesting. I was curious the best movie series of all time. It didn’t even dawn on me how many of them there really were. Once I started going through it, I realized I had my work cut out for me and lost some of my surprise when I realized what was going to be included in research like this. The top of the list didn’t change much. It was semi-consistent through the top but things did mix up throughout that top even. I researched by different things – world gross, national gross, random posts on the topic and I started being surprised by what was left off some of the lists. I ended up taking the top 34 from all the research I’ve done. After that, I used their ranks from all the different searches and averaged out their overall ranking. Not one series had less than 3 positions. The biggest discrepancy came for Pirates of the Caribbean, Transformers and Indiana Jones who both had a 12 spot difference according to different rankings. # 1: Harry Potter #2: Marvel Universe (which includes all 18 movies that were originally Marvel Comics – Avengers, Iron Man, Thor, Captain America, Hulk, etc.) #3: Star Wars #4: Lord of the Rings #5: James Bond #6: Batman/Dark Knight #7: Spider Man #8: Pirates of the Caribbean #9: Shrek #10: X-Men Followed By: Transformers Jurrasic Park Twilight The Fast and the Furious Indiana Jones Mission Impossible Toy Story Ice Age Star Trek Madagascar Hunger Games Planet of the Apes Men In Black Super Man Matrix The Bourne Series Terminator Die Hard Chronicles of Narnia Alien/Predator The Mummy Rocky The Godfather Lethal Weapon Now, if I was to put these in order for me, it would go more like this as a top 10: Die Hard Rocky Fast and the Furious Batman James Bond Pirates of the Caribbean Toy Story Indiana Jones The Bourne Series Lethal Weapon I know – not even close!! Harry Potter would be my daughter’s number 1 hands down. She’s obsessed right now. LOVES it. I enjoy all the Marvel movies but they’re really all the same now. I was never a big fan of Star Wars and could never make it through ten minutes of Lord of the Rings. Spider Man was never my favorite. Shrek I do enjoy greatly and on certain days it could probably move up a list for me. I enjoy X-Men a great deal as well but, again, just not one of my favorites. If I were to have a day to just have a series-a-thon, I would probably go with Indiana Jones right now, today, in the mood I am in right now. I tell you what – tomorrow it might be Toy Story! So, my questions to you are – what would your top 10 be AND what would you want to go on an a-thon with right now? 10/3/1995 – OJ Simpson was acquitted on his double murder charges.
10/3/1961 – The United Auto Workers goes on strike at all Ford plants. 10/3/1990 – East and West Germany reunite after 45 years of separation due to Soviet forces in Eastern Germany and Allied forces in Western Germany. 10/3/1863 – President Lincoln, in a grateful expression for the Union Army victory at Gettysburg, announces that November 26, 1863 the country will celebrate an official Thanksgiving Holiday. It was stated that the 4th Thursday of November would be an official U.S. Thanksgiving Day. It was in 1789 that George Wasthington called for a day of “public Thanksgiving and prayer” and though agreed to throughout Congress, it did not become an annual event. 10/3/1951 – The Giants Bobby Thomson hits the “shot heard ‘round the world” as the New York baseball Giants were supposed to be out of the pennant race, they rocked out 16 straight victories and then 37 of their last 44 games to tie the Dodgers. In a 3 game playoff, each team had taken a game going into the 3rd. As the bottom of the 9th inning approached, the Giants were down 4-1. After one run, score now 4-2 and one out, Bobby Thomson comes up to bat with 2 runners on. First pitch, strike one, 2nd pitch, Giants win. 10/4/1957 – The Soviet Union launches Sputnik – the first artificial satellite. 10/4/1927 – Mount Rushmore starts becoming Mount Rushmore. Historian Soane Robinson wanted to attract more tourism to his state and thought up carving Presidential faces into the Black Hills National Forest. Washington’s face was completed in 1934, Jefferson’s in 1936, Lincoln’s in 1937 and Roosevelt’s in 1939. The sculptor, Gutzon Borglum was hired to do the work and he continued touching up the monument until his sudden death in 1941. He had originally planned on carving inscriptions into the mountain to outline the history of the country but his work was left unfinished. 10/4/1947 – President Harry Truman makes the first televised Presidential Speech which he used to ask Americans to cut back on their use of grain to help starving Europeans still recovering from World War II. 10/5/1974 – David Kunst of Waseca, MN walks around the world. It took over 4 years and 21 pairs of shoes to walk 14,500 miles across 4 continents starting on June 20, 1970. 10/5/1989 – The Dalai Lama is awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. 10/5/2011 – We lose one of the great minds of our generation when Steve Jobs passes at 56. 10/5/1991 – Marky Mark and the Funky Bunch somehow get to #1. Happy Birthday (3) Gwen Stefani, Tommie Lee, Stevie Ray Vaughan, Seann William Scott, Anquan Boldin, Chubby Checker, (4) Derrick Rose, Charlton Heston, Rutherford B Hayes, Jackie Collins, (5) Kate Winslet, Bernie Mac, Mario Lemieux, Grant Hill, Patrick Roy |
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