What film do you think has been watched by the most people?

I don't think there is any clear cut answer to this topic as while there might be someone with a more educated guess out there it's pretty much impossible to name anything definitive I would imagine. so for the most part it just boils down to people taking guesses of which I am sure there are quite a few movies that could be in serious contention for a topic like this.

but with that said, if i had to name a movie a lot of people have seen without going too far into the past I would imagine Back to the Future (1985) is one of the highest choices for a 'most seen movie' topic. plus, as a bonus, while it don't technically matter in terms of this topic, it's probably got more wide appeal to with a wider range of people to because while you could argue that some other movies have been seen by a lot of people I would imagine in terms of wide appeal with a wide range of people that narrows the field some. plus, being Back to the Future (1985) is more family friendly that likely raises it's viewership in general vs say PG-13 or R rated movies.

so if you mainly stick to the more modern-era of movies (i.e. say roughly post-1960 or maybe even 1970's or newer etc) I think that's more limited to movies in the ball park of 1970's or 1980's and newer. but obviously the more recent a movie is, the less likely it's been seen by a wide range of people.

p.s. I would be curious to see what are the most viewed movies by decades so far.


moviebuffbrad



That would likely be my choice for a pre-1960 movie. who knows, it could still be amongst the very top straight up.

but with that said... I don't think there is any definitive answer because while there might be people in the know that might be able to give us some sort of estimated number of times a movie has been seen, it's probably difficult to determine anything clear cut. so I would imagine that basically means about the best we can do is combine a movies estimated ticket sales in the theaters along with how old a movie is and maybe some other factors like how many times it's been played on TV over the years etc. still, it seems like if there was someone with connections to people who might keep some of this data that they might be able to give us a ball park list on most viewed movies, like say Top 10 or Top 20 or whatever the volume of movies they have that they can say stand out from the pack.

hell, come to think of it... does this topic apply only to people still alive or just purely in terms of volume of people seeing a specified movie regardless if they are still alive or not? ; another thing... are we counting strictly in terms of individual people or are we just counting purely how many times a movie has been viewed regardless of whether it's individual people or some of the same people re-watching a movie? ; because I would be curious on both of those with the total views based strictly on individual people and then another stat on how many times it's been viewed regardless if it's from the same person or not (i.e. counting re-watches from some of the same people).

RiP, IMDb



but one of your links, the one from 2013 with the survey, lists Pitch Perfect @ #19 and I think it's pretty safe for me to say that's not that high with the masses as it's pretty safe for me to say it's no where near the #19 most viewed movie and it did not even make that much $$$(or ticket sales) in the theaters and it's a very recent movie which pretty much excludes it from this topic.

but with that said... that survey that lists 40 movies, I imagine some of those you could make a decent argument for but some it's pretty safe to exclude I would think.

twothousandonemark



That's why I asked whether we are counting strictly individual people or counting re-watches?

because re-watches might be a different answer than individual viewings, like a one per-per-movie count.

because I imagine Star Wars will see a solid bump in rank if your counting re-watches because it seems those hardcore fans of that are obsessed and probably do re-watch those movies fairly often.

Um...sorry to break it to you but I think he was talking about the MOST WATCHED MOVIE ever made, not the most heard about story ever made.

I would think "The Wizard Of Oz", hands down.