# Academic Survey Needs Movie Memories From Baby Boomers (those born between 1940 and 1970) **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [April 26, 2012, 2:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/academic-survey-needs-movie-memories-from-baby-boomers-those-born-between-1940-and-1970/620016 "2012-04-26T14:18:02Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Skammer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skammer/32/143_2.png) [@Skammer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skammer)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2012, 5:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/academic-survey-needs-movie-memories-from-baby-boomers-those-born-between-1940-and-1970/620016/21 "2012-04-26T17:07:48Z")
I’m not a Boomer, but I was born in '69 (and I’m a movie lover) so I filled it out. Good luck! ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2012, 5:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/academic-survey-needs-movie-memories-from-baby-boomers-those-born-between-1940-and-1970/620016/22 "2012-04-26T17:08:03Z")
Is tooken. ---
**Author:** ![zut](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zut/32/2875_2.png) [@zut](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zut)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2012, 5:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/academic-survey-needs-movie-memories-from-baby-boomers-those-born-between-1940-and-1970/620016/23 "2012-04-26T17:10:52Z")
I took the survey. On comment n the survey itself: “Very important” and “quite important” mean the same thing to me. I infer that “very important” is meant to be more important than “quite important,” but you may want to reword that. ---
**Author:** ![gwendee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/35a633/32.png) [@gwendee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gwendee)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2012, 5:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/academic-survey-needs-movie-memories-from-baby-boomers-those-born-between-1940-and-1970/620016/24 "2012-04-26T17:34:49Z")
Happy to do it. But now I want to close up shop and go to the movies. Not stream one online, or watch a DVD while I work, but go sit in a darkened theatre eating popcorn … I have a very hard time picking one single favorite of anything. ---
**Author:** ![Kiber](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kiber/32/317_2.png) [@Kiber](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kiber)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2012, 6:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/academic-survey-needs-movie-memories-from-baby-boomers-those-born-between-1940-and-1970/620016/25 "2012-04-26T18:02:46Z")
Done and done. It was kind of fun - made me remember some of my favorites from years gone by. ---
**Author:** ![Mrs.Cake](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/2acd7d/32.png) [@Mrs.Cake](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mrs.Cake)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2012, 6:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/academic-survey-needs-movie-memories-from-baby-boomers-those-born-between-1940-and-1970/620016/26 "2012-04-26T18:31:39Z")
Done ---
**Author:** ![Nava](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/da6949/32.png) [@Nava](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nava)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2012, 8:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/academic-survey-needs-movie-memories-from-baby-boomers-those-born-between-1940-and-1970/620016/27 "2012-04-26T20:40:17Z")
It’s not going to apply to me in any case, but by “live in the US”, does that include: - people born in the US and who now live abroad? (Regardless of citizenship) - same but for a short period? - people born outside the US and who now live in the US? (Regardless of citizenship) - same but for a short period? ---
**Author:** ![IvoryTowerDenizen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ivorytowerdenizen/32/17937_2.png) [@IvoryTowerDenizen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/IvoryTowerDenizen)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2012, 9:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/academic-survey-needs-movie-memories-from-baby-boomers-those-born-between-1940-and-1970/620016/28 "2012-04-26T21:03:30Z")
> [@zut](#): > > I took the survey. On comment n the survey itself: > > “Very important” and “quite important” mean the same thing to me. I infer that “very important” is meant to be more important than “quite important,” but you may want to reword that. Ditto. ---
**Author:** ![Trinopus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/2bfe46/32.png) [@Trinopus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trinopus)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2012, 9:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/academic-survey-needs-movie-memories-from-baby-boomers-those-born-between-1940-and-1970/620016/29 "2012-04-26T21:40:31Z")
Done and fun! I could happily have written 500 word essays on several of the questions! Thank you for allowing us to take this survey. I hope the results are meaningful, but, as **TubaDiva** suggested, if 500 people participate, you’ll get 750 different opinions! I predict you get a real “shotgun” distribution of responses, absolutely all over the map! Box the compass! ---
**Author:** ![Dr.Woo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/7c8e57/32.png) [@Dr.Woo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr.Woo)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2012, 11:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/academic-survey-needs-movie-memories-from-baby-boomers-those-born-between-1940-and-1970/620016/30 "2012-04-26T23:31:52Z")
I filled it out, and I’m one of the people you were looking for: boomer, not a movie fan. ---
**Author:** ![mcgato](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ac8455/32.png) [@mcgato](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mcgato)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2012, 11:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/academic-survey-needs-movie-memories-from-baby-boomers-those-born-between-1940-and-1970/620016/31 "2012-04-26T23:53:19Z")
Done. My one comment is that I hate scrollable areas within a webpage. Wait, I have to have my mouse over here to scroll down to see the bottom of the window? But I have to have my mouse over here to scroll down inside the window? OK, that is probably SurveyMonkey idiocy, so I’ll end my mini-rant. Being somewhat of a movie junky earlier in my days, I could have spent hours writing thoughts about some of the open ended questions. When I started it, I figured that I could answer the survey in the 10 minute lower limit. I ended up a little past the upper limit due to enthusiasm. Good fun for me, and good luck to the survey group. ---
**Author:** ![chloes1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/74df32/32.png) [@chloes1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chloes1)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2012, 11:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/academic-survey-needs-movie-memories-from-baby-boomers-those-born-between-1940-and-1970/620016/32 "2012-04-26T23:55:21Z")
I’m a 68 model myself and when ahead and filled it out. Weird to think of myself as a boomer though. I’m so accustomed of being the antidote to that little problem. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Clothahump](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/51bf81/32.png) [@Clothahump](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Clothahump)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2012, 12:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/academic-survey-needs-movie-memories-from-baby-boomers-those-born-between-1940-and-1970/620016/33 "2012-04-27T00:57:22Z")
Done, and glad to help. ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2012, 2:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/academic-survey-needs-movie-memories-from-baby-boomers-those-born-between-1940-and-1970/620016/34 "2012-04-27T02:01:30Z")
> [@JimWhalley](#): > > Thanks to everyone who has responded so far - our numbers have shot up in the last hour or two. Damn. That means the odds on my getting that AOL gift certificate are shrinking. ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2012, 2:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/academic-survey-needs-movie-memories-from-baby-boomers-those-born-between-1940-and-1970/620016/35 "2012-04-27T02:24:22Z")
That was fun, though if I’d answered it three hours before or two days after some of the exact movies I mentioned would probably be different as it depends on what memories are firing at any particular time. (Except the one about GONE WITH THE WIND being the southern Illiad & Odyssey, that would be unchanged.) ---
**Author:** ![Accidental\_Martyr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ce7236/32.png) [@Accidental\_Martyr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Accidental_Martyr)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2012, 2:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/academic-survey-needs-movie-memories-from-baby-boomers-those-born-between-1940-and-1970/620016/36 "2012-04-27T02:32:58Z")
> [@chloes1](#): > > I’m a 68 model myself and when ahead and filled it out. Weird to think of myself as a boomer though. I’m so accustomed of being the antidote to that little problem. 😉 Same here, I never knew I was a Baby Boomer. Generation X is so much cooler!😉 ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2012, 2:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/academic-survey-needs-movie-memories-from-baby-boomers-those-born-between-1940-and-1970/620016/37 "2012-04-27T02:49:33Z")
Done. But it’s strange to lump together people born in 1940 and 1970 . . . neither of which are Boomers. ---
**Author:** ![John\_Mace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_mace/32/185_2.png) [@John\_Mace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Mace)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2012, 4:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/academic-survey-needs-movie-memories-from-baby-boomers-those-born-between-1940-and-1970/620016/38 "2012-04-27T04:20:06Z")
> [@panache45](#): > > Done. But it’s strange to lump together people born in 1940 and 1970 . . . neither of which are Boomers. He’s British. Maybe they started early and kept at it longer. ---
**Author:** ![Roderick\_Femm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/roderick_femm/32/14875_2.png) [@Roderick\_Femm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Roderick_Femm)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2012, 4:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/academic-survey-needs-movie-memories-from-baby-boomers-those-born-between-1940-and-1970/620016/39 "2012-04-27T04:27:44Z")
Done, and somewhat interesting; I was surprised to realize how many movies I remember from my childhood (the 50’s) and how relatively few from the next two decades. Roddy ---
**Author:** ![a35362](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3da27b/32.png) [@a35362](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/a35362)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2012, 5:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/academic-survey-needs-movie-memories-from-baby-boomers-those-born-between-1940-and-1970/620016/40 "2012-04-27T05:33:49Z")
Done! Yeah, 1965 is definitely Generation X. Now where are my Ray-Bans? Ah, yes. 🆒 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/academic-survey-needs-movie-memories-from-baby-boomers-those-born-between-1940-and-1970/620016.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/academic-survey-needs-movie-memories-from-baby-boomers-those-born-between-1940-and-1970/620016.md?page=3)