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Movies of the Seventies; Celluloid of the Free & the Tales that were Brave

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  • chrisisallchrisisall Brosnan Defender Of The Realm
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    Battle is a strange movie... the studio patted the film-makers on the head gave them ten bucks and sent them out on the back lot to play, and they came up with a pretty decent film anyway! B-)
  • fire_and_icefire_and_ice
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    chrisisall wrote: »
    Battle is a strange movie... the studio patted the film-makers on the head gave them ten bucks and sent them out on the back lot to play, and they came up with a pretty decent film anyway! B-)

    Battle is a film I have watched the least, though the setting reminds me of the forest most early Stargate episodes were filmed. Battle I forget was that after or before the TV show, watched the TV show though was young have vague recollection of it. I am thinking Battle was after. My brother watched Dawn and says its one of best films he has seen in decades, looking forward to Dawn after the excellent Rise.

    :)
  • chrisisallchrisisall Brosnan Defender Of The Realm
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    The made Battle just before the TV series was green-lighted.
  • Matt_HelmMatt_Helm
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    Not to forget "Life of Bryan" a movie that would never been allowed even to be written these PC days.
  • chrisisallchrisisall Brosnan Defender Of The Realm
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    Matt_Helm wrote: »
    Not to forget "Life of Bryan" a movie that would never been allowed even to be written these PC days.
    Nope. Not today. Hollywood wants to stay away from controversy.

  • OHMSS69OHMSS69
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    Talk about television, wasn't there a TV series based on the film "Shaft" during this time?

    Gotta love the seventies, it was 1972 Godfather that knocked Gone with the Wind out of the number one grossing film spot.
    Then 1973 Exorcist knocked the Corleones out
    Then Jaws in 1975 took out Exorcist, only to be passed by Star Wars in 1977
    This was a golden age for film.
    Other gems:
    The Omen
    Family Plot Hitchcock's final film
    American Graffetti
    Rocky (the first one)
  • OHMSS69OHMSS69
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    Can anyone name all the Best Picture Winners during the decade?
    1970 Patton
    1971 French Connection
    1973 The Sting
    1974 ?
    1975 ?
    1976 Rocky
    1977 Network
    1978 The Deer Hunter
    1979 Kramer v. Kramer

    forgive the double post
  • chrisisallchrisisall Brosnan Defender Of The Realm
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    OHMSS69 wrote: »
    Can anyone name all the Best Picture Winners during the decade?
    1970 Patton
    1971 French Connection
    1973 The Sting
    1974 ?
    1975 ?
    1976 Rocky
    1977 Network
    1978 The Deer Hunter
    1979 Kramer v. Kramer
    I think for '77 it was Annie Hall, but I'd have to cheat & look it up to be 100% sure. And yeah, Shaft had a series. Like I said, practically everything did.
    The Rocky series was just horrid.
    (^just kidding on that one^)
  • ThunderpussyThunderpussy My Secret Lair
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    75 was Godfather part 2
    74 was The Sting
    73 was The Godfather
  • chrisisallchrisisall Brosnan Defender Of The Realm
    edited August 2015 Posts: 17,804
    Birdleson wrote: »
    I think 77 was ANNIE HALL
    Yep. What an atrocity... Star Wars should have gotten it!

    ;)
  • chrisisallchrisisall Brosnan Defender Of The Realm
    edited August 2015 Posts: 17,804
    Birdleson wrote: »
    No. I like STAR WARS a lot, but ANNIE HALL is a masterpiece.
    My inner 17 year old would disagree. But yeah, I really liked Annie Hall, Jew?
  • FoxRoxFoxRox
    edited August 2015 Posts: 12,476
    I hate to sound cliche, but my favorite 70s films would have to be The Godfather 1 and 2. The decade was loaded with amazing classics like Jaws, Star Wars, Rocky, and many more, but the Godfather films just blew me away like nothing else. The stories of the two films are extremely engaging, and the characters are all exceptionally interesting. Took me too long to get around to watching them, but I'm sure glad I did.
  • chrisisallchrisisall Brosnan Defender Of The Realm
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    FoxRox wrote: »
    I hate to sound cliche, but my favorite 70s films would have to be The Godfather 1 and 2.
    We watched & dissected The Godfather (along with Jesus Christ Superstar, Rollerball, Chinatown and others) in HS film class. Good old days...
  • bondjamesbondjames You were expecting someone else?
    edited August 2015 Posts: 23,883
    I'm a fellow who has more memories of the 80's than the 70's (too young to remember it much).

    However, I do remember living and surviving off tv shows from that era (Vegas, reruns of Mannix & Man From Uncle, Hawai Five O, Starsky & Hutch, CHIPS, The Magician, Hulk, The Professionals - the English Show, The New Avengers, The Persuaders etc.) and James Bond movies, which were by far my favourite films.

    The only movies of that era that I remember liking at that time were Rocky and Rocky 2 (which I preferred while younger.....I realize it's not as good now....but Rocky wins!), The Towering Inferno, Enter the Dragon, The Day of the Jackal, The Wild Geese, Jaws, Murder on the Orient Express, Gold, Assault on Precinct 13, Death on the Nile, The Eiger Sanction, the Airport series & Alien

    I found all the other films that I can remember just depressing and too serious at that time......too young I guess. That's why I loved Roger Moore, because he was fun.

    Now, I'm discovering that era. In the last few years I've seen Network, The French Connection, 3 Days of the Condor, Dirty Harry, All the President's Men, Marathon Man, Apocalypse Now, The Godfather 1 & 2, The Boys from Brazil, Brannigan, The Cassandra Crossing & The Beguiled, and enjoy them all.

    I have so much more to experience from that decade. On my list include Annie Hall, Deliverance, The Parallax View, A Clockwork Orange, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Tax Driver, Barry Lyndon, American Graffiti, The Deer Hunter, Chinatown, Dog Day Afternoon, Logan's Run, Serpico, The Conversation, Manhattan, The Taking of Pelham One Two Three, Straw Dogs, Get Carter etc. etc.


    I'm even enjoying the music from that era now - real instruments! It certainly was an 'honest' decade in the creative/expressive arts.
  • chrisisallchrisisall Brosnan Defender Of The Realm
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    bondjames wrote: »
    I have so much more to experience from that decade. On my list include Annie Hall, Deliverance, The Parallax View, A Clockwork Orange, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Tax Driver, Barry Lyndon, American Graffiti, The Deer Hunter, Chinatown, Dog Day Afternoon, Logan's Run, Serpico, The Conversation, Manhattan, The Taking of Pelham One Two Three, Straw Dogs, Get Carter etc. etc.
    That's a mighty impressive list.
    The Deer Hunter is the only one there that I didn't greatly enjoy. I found the acting phenomenal, but the story was rather simplistic & the ending full of excess pathos... but it won awards so that may just be me. I also laughed out loud more than one in The Exorcist, a film my friends told me scared the s**t out of them. I had just seen The Legend Of Hell House, and The Exorcist came off like a Bugs Bunny cartoon to me after that. :))
  • bondjamesbondjames You were expecting someone else?
    edited August 2015 Posts: 23,883
    chrisisall wrote: »
    bondjames wrote: »
    I have so much more to experience from that decade. On my list include Annie Hall, Deliverance, The Parallax View, A Clockwork Orange, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Tax Driver, Barry Lyndon, American Graffiti, The Deer Hunter, Chinatown, Dog Day Afternoon, Logan's Run, Serpico, The Conversation, Manhattan, The Taking of Pelham One Two Three, Straw Dogs, Get Carter etc. etc.
    That's a mighty impressive list.
    The Deer Hunter is the only one there that I didn't greatly enjoy. I found the acting phenomenal, but the story was rather simplistic & the ending full of excess pathos... but it won awards so that may just be me. I also laughed out loud more than one in The Exorcist, a film my friends told me scared the s**t out of them. I had just seen The Legend Of Hell House, and The Exorcist came off like a Bugs Bunny cartoon to me after that. :))

    I've really missed out on this decade.. I think I just had bad memories of it being depressing and overly serious (I remember my parents watching films like the Love Story, Klute, Kramer vs. Kramer and the Champ and almost getting sick). That's why tv and Bond saved me.

    I have seen the Omen, and liked that, but I haven't even seen the Exorcist if you can believe it, so I'll add it to my list as well (I always thought it might have been overrated). So much to get to....
  • BondJasonBond006BondJasonBond006 on fb and ajb
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    I was born in 1974 so my first movie decade was the eighties.
    Later in the nineties I discovered the 60's and 50's and those two decades have been my favourites ever since.
    I never have found access to the movies of the 70's in general. There are some great movies but they are few compared to all those movies I love of the other decades.
    Maybe it has to do with my favourite movie genres and the genres I don't like in general.

    Gritty thrillers, cop movies, mob movies, political government-critical thrillers, war movies (especially Vietnam) do nothing for me, I even dislike them in general.

    There are some exceptions. The Way We Were is one of my favourites of the seventies.
    Chinatown is awesome.

    I love sci-fi, fantasy, old-fashioned crime, horror, disaster movies, comic book adaptions, adventure movies, musicals, murder mysteries.

    Murder On The Orient Express, Logan's Run, Towering Inferno, Airport, Bedknobs And Broomsticks, Funny Lady, Star Wars, Family Plot, Star Trek The Motion Picture. Those are some of my favourite movies.
  • chrisisallchrisisall Brosnan Defender Of The Realm
    edited August 2015 Posts: 17,804
    bondjames wrote: »
    I have seen the Omen, and liked that
    That was the only 4 films of that era that truly scared me, the other three being the previously
    mentioned Legend Of Hell House, then Jaws and The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (I was way too young when I snuck into that).
  • bondjamesbondjames You were expecting someone else?
    edited August 2015 Posts: 23,883
    Nice list @Birdleson.

    I'm ashamed to say I've heard of a lot of these classic films but haven't watched most of them.......I think a lot of them have been reissued on blu ray (remastered) so there is no excuse now, even if many are black and white.

    Nice also to see a Spike Lee joint on the list.
  • FoxRoxFoxRox
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    Birdleson wrote: »
    Here is my last update of this rather fluid list:

    JAY D. SHELTON’S
    FAVORITE THIRTY-SIX FILMS OF ALL TIME
    (…as of 1/30/15, ever-changing)



    THE GODFATHER (Coppola 1972)
    THE GODFATHER PART II (Coppola 1974)
    CASABLANCA (Curtiz 1942)
    APOCALYPSE NOW (Coppola 1979)
    DR. STRANGELOVE OR HOW I STOPPED WORRYING AND LEARNED TO LOVE THE BOMB (Kubrick 1964)
    THE WIZARD OF OZ (Fleming 1939)
    CITIZEN KANE (Welles 1941)
    THE BICYCLE THIEF (De Sica 1947)
    METROPOLIS (Lang 1926)
    THE MALTESE FALCON (Huston 1941)
    RAGING BULL (Scorsese 1980)
    VERTIGO (Hitchcock 1958)
    TAXI DRIVER (Scorsese 1973)
    IT’S A WONERFUL LIFE (Capra 1946)
    CHINATOWN (Polanski 1974)
    GREED (von Stroheim 1924)
    THE SEARCHERS (Ford 1956)
    THE GOOD, THE BAD AND THE UGLY (Leone 1966)
    GONE WITH THE WIND (Fleming 1939)
    GOLDFINGER (Hamilton 1964)
    FROM RUSSIA WITH LOVE (1963)
    THE NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD (Romero 1968)
    PLANET OF THE APES (1968)
    THE MAGNIFICENT SEVEN (Sturges 1960)
    THE BRIDE OF FRANKENSTEIN (1935 Whale)
    CASINO ROYALE (Campbell 2006)
    RAISING ARIZONA (Coen 1987)
    CRIMES AND MISDEMEANORS (Allen 1989)
    ON HER MAJESTY’S SECRET SERVICE (Hunt 1969)
    ROSEMARY’S BABY (1968)
    OUT OF THE PAST (Tourneur 1947)
    QUADROPHENIA (Roddam 1979)
    HIGH NOON (Zinnemann 1952)
    DO THE RIGHT THING (Lee 1989)
    THE GRAVE OF THE FIREFLIES (Takahata 1988)
    THE CURSE OF THE CAT PEOPLE (von Fritsch, Wise 1944)


    And many more...

    Several of those are my favorites too, like the Godfather 1 and 2, Strangelove, Citizen Kane, and Wizard of Oz. You just can't beat the classics.
  • TorgeirtrapTorgeirtrap
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    The mention of this thread in a different discussion led to some interesting reading this afternoon. I've set myself a goal of sorts, to try and watch as many 70's movies as possible this year - most importantly films in the vein of Three Days of the Condor, and other thrillers.

    I recently watched Klute (Alan J. Pakula), and will try to get my hands on The Parallax View and All the President's Men, as well. My knowledge of the thrillers from this period is low, other than the well-known titles like The French Connection, Marathon Man, etc. If there's any must-haves and lesser known titles worth checking out, I'd appreciate suggestions!
  • chrisisallchrisisall Brosnan Defender Of The Realm
    edited March 2018 Posts: 17,804
    I searched so hard for this thread! Glad you could find it, guys.
  • Mathis1Mathis1
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    Just came across this thread. Man I love the 70's for film..I subscribe to a mag called Cinema Retro that deals with 60s and 70s movies. Most of my collection of dvds is from then. As well as movies mentioned I would also have little recognised ones like Freebie and the Bean, Hickey and Boggs, Villain, Prime Cut, Juggernaut, Jeremiah Johnson, Thunderbolt and Lightfoot, Callan, Emperor of the North, The Duellists, Black Sunday, The Squeeze, and .any more! Great films. Great era.
  • chrisisallchrisisall Brosnan Defender Of The Realm
    edited March 2018 Posts: 17,804
    I recently picked up The Driver (1978) on dvd- hadn't seen in in like forever. Holds up very well. Hill's next movie the following year was The Warriors.
  • FoxRoxFoxRox
    edited March 2018 Posts: 12,476
    The 70s truly was a great decade for film. Maybe the best. No order, some of my favorites:

    -The Godfather
    -The Godfather Part II
    -Taxi Driver
    -Jaws
    -Star Wars
    -Annie Hall
    -Close Encounters of the Third Kind
    -Duel
    -Live and Let Die
    -The Spy Who Loved Me
    -Harold and Maude
    -A Clockwork Orange
    -Barry Lyndon
    -The French Connection
    -The Exorcist
    -Alien
    -Carrie
    -Halloween
    -Apocalypse Now
    -The Conversation
    -The Duellists
    -The Deer Hunter
    -One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
    -Chinatown
    -Rocky
    -The Deer Hunter
    -Scrooge
    -The Rocky Horror Picture Show
    -Eraserhead
    -Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory
    -Robin Hood
    -The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh
    -Five Easy Pieces
    -Superman: The Movie
    -Patton
    -The Sting
    -Dog Day Afternoon
    -Magic
    -Cabaret


    ...Wow. Someone please feel free to add on because I know I still forgot some.
  • Mathis1Mathis1
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    Birdleson wrote: »
    @Mathis1 My friend also has a subscription and often lends me issues. Wonderful magazine, indeed.

    Have been with it since issue 1. Excellent mag. And it did a great special on Where Eagles Dare!
  • Mathis1Mathis1
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    chrisisall wrote: »
    I recently picked up The Driver (1978) on dvd- hadn't seen in in like forever. Holds up very well. Hill's next movie the following year was The Warriors.

    Ah Walter Hill! Adore him. Hard Times his first movie after scripting The Getaway for Peckinpah! Love all his Early stuff.
  • chrisisallchrisisall Brosnan Defender Of The Realm
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    Hard Times (1975) was awesome. What star power.
  • Mathis1Mathis1
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    chrisisall wrote: »
    Hard Times (1975) was awesome. What star power.

    Bronson finest hour imho
  • TorgeirtrapTorgeirtrap
    edited March 2018 Posts: 17,763
    Must take note of some of these films; there are plenty of these I haven't heard of!

    While buying Get Carter (1971) on iTunes recently, I also noticed titles like The killer Elite (1975), The Taking of Pelham One Two Three (1974), St. Ives (1976) and Telefon (1977) were available. Any of these worth checking out?
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