Your favourite movie of the 70's

[Monkster]

Duel

 

[Icy Gull]

Electra Glide in Blue

 

[Simster]

Certainly NOT Apocalypse Now - watched it again yesterday, the Redux version: admittedly it looks fantastic, amongst the best looking films of all time. but it's also terminally boring. and it has Dennis Hopper in it.

my vote would go to Alien everytime - a true classic: one of the few films i can watch again and again.

Apocolypse Now is the most overrated film I can think of at the moment. Great cinematography but, as you say, dull. It's a Kubrik pattern that resurfaced in the tedious "Eyes Wide Shut" come to think of it.

Back on topic, "A Clockwork Orange" is quality, but "Deerhunter" is absolutely superb. A masterpiece. Was "The Godfather" in the 70s or 80s. If that is a 70s film, then it runs "Deerhunter" a close second.

 

[Yorkie]

It was the films from the 70's onwards that made me stop going to the cinema altogether.

 

[Perry Milkins]

It was the films from the 70's onwards that made me stop going to the cinema altogether.

Not your asbo behaviour at the Astoria?

 

[Simster]

It was the films from the 70's onwards that made me stop going to the cinema altogether.

Eh? Perhaps your local cinema was a SNUFF HOUSE.

 

[Gwylan]

Apocolypse Now is the most overrated film I can think of at the moment. Great cinematography but, as you say, dull. It's a Kubrik pattern that resurfaced in the tedious "Eyes Wide Shut" come to think of it.

Back on topic, "A Clockwork Orange" is quality, but "Deerhunter" is absolutely superb. A masterpiece. Was "The Godfather" in the 70s or 80s. If that is a 70s film, then it runs "Deerhunter" a close second.

Er....Apocalypse Now was directed by Francis Ford Coppola.

Each to his or her own, but I think A Clockwork Orange is a terrible film and the Deerhunter wins my vote for the most over-rated film of the 70s: that's three hours of my life that I'll never get back.

 

[Uncle Spielberg]

Clearly and by a country mile the best film of the 1970's was

CLOSE ENCOUNTERS OF THE THIRD KIND

 

[Uncle Spielberg]

Duel

Good shout

 

[Simster]

Er....Apocalypse Now was directed by Francis Ford Coppola.

Each to his or her own, but I think A Clockwork Orange is a terrible film and the Deerhunter wins my vote for the most over-rated film of the 70s: that's three hours of my life that I'll never get back.

Oh yeah, you're right. lol

But not about Deerhunter, obviously.

 

[Uncle Spielberg]

Top Rated "1970s" Titles

1. 9.1 The Godfather (1972) 247,728
2. 9.0 The Godfather: Part II (1974) 141,794
3. 8.8 One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975) 126,601
4. 8.8 Star Wars (1977) 219,791
5. 8.5 Taxi Driver (1976) 92,239
6. 8.5 Apocalypse Now (1979) 113,015
7. 8.5 Chinatown (1974) 47,802
8. 8.4 A Clockwork Orange (1971) 120,068
9. 8.4 Alien (1979) 111,230
10. 8.4 Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975) 105,786
11. 8.3 The Sting (1973) 41,489
12. 8.3 Jaws (1975) 86,343
13. 8.2 Annie Hall (1977) 39,796
14. 8.2 Sleuth (1972) 9,119
15. 8.1 The Deer Hunter (1978) 53,692
16. 8.1 Life of Brian (1979) 59,526
17. 8.1 The Conversation (1974) 19,569
18. 8.1 Dog Day Afternoon (1975) 32,424
19. 8.1 Stalker (1979) 10,455
20. 8.1 Charme discret de la bourgeoisie, Le (1972) 6,420
21. 8.1 Patton (1970) 25,320
22. 8.0 Aguirre, der Zorn Gottes (1972) 9,979
23. 8.0 Manhattan (1979) 23,035
24. 8.0 The Exorcist (1973) 62,959
25. 8.0 The Man Who Would Be King (1975) 13,187
26. 8.0 Harold and Maude (1971) 16,874
27. 8.0 Solyaris (1972) 11,294
28. 8.0 Young Frankenstein (1974) 39,201
29. 8.0 Network (1976) 17,278
30. 8.0 Barry Lyndon (1975) 23,513
31. 8.0 All the President's Men (1976) 22,133
32. 7.9 Paper Moon (1973) 5,894
33. 7.9 The Last Picture Show (1971) 9,166
34. 7.9 Papillon (1973) 17,645
35. 7.9 Being There (1979) 17,038
36. 7.9 The French Connection (1971) 21,256
37. 7.9 Badlands (1973) 9,680
38. 7.9 Rocky (1976) 48,964
39. 7.9 Dawn of the Dead (1978) 26,253
40. 7.9 Deliverance (1972) 24,258
41. 7.9 The Day of the Jackal (1973) 9,004
42. 7.9 Halloween (1978) 38,130
43. 7.8 Amarcord (1973) 8,169
44. 7.8 Dirty Harry (1971) 21,863
45. 7.8 Days of Heaven (1978) 6,644
46. 7.8 Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977) 41,003
47. 7.8 MASH (1970) 21,831
48. 7.7 Blazing Saddles (1974) 30,199
49. 7.7 Little Big Man (1970) 9,907
50. 7.7 The Wicker Man (1973) 11,999

 

[Yorkie]

Eh?

I don't like films with blood and gore. It isn't entertainment to me. Unfortunately that seemed to take the place of a good storyline and script.
Why did I know it was you who would make a silly comment?

 

[Dave the OAP]

Midnight Cowboy ( although that may have been a 60's Film, I saw it on the boat coming back from SA in 1971)

 

[hart's shirt]

It was the films from the 70's onwards that made me stop going to the cinema altogether.

I'm not a big fan of elderly film-makers either.


I nominate 'The Slipper And The Rose'.

 

[Trufflehound]

18. 8.1 Dog Day Afternoon (1975) 32,424
22. 8.0 Aguirre, der Zorn Gottes (1972) 9,979
26. 8.0 Harold and Maude (1971) 16,874
31. 8.0 All the President's Men (1976) 22,133

Oh yes, forgot about them. All classics...

 

[Gwylan]

Ah, Chinatown and The Wicker Man - how could I forget those?

And Network.

"I'm as mad as hell and I'm not going to take it any more."

 

[bhaexpress]

I don't like films with blood and gore. It isn't entertainment to me. Unfortunately that seemed to take the place of a good storyline and script.
Why did I know it was you who would make a silly comment?

What was so silly then ? Flippant maybe but let's face it, at least films from the 70s and beyond are a bit more realistic that what went on before. Mind you that's now rather blurred by the amount of computerised graphics that abound films now.

 

[MattBackHome]

Raging Bull

 

[Simster]

I don't like films with blood and gore. It isn't entertainment to me. Unfortunately that seemed to take the place of a good storyline and script.
Why did I know it was you who would make a silly comment?

Nice one. You've written off 4 decades off cinema across the entire SMORGASBORD of film genres but I'm the one who made a "silly comment". Righto.

Whatever. You just stick to Charlie Chaplin and Doris Day then.



(Do I win £5 pounds for the use of the word "smorgasbord", even if I don't how it's spelt?)

 

[Pevenseagull]

Ah, Chinatown and The Wicker Man - how could I forget those?

And Network.

"I'm as mad as hell and I'm not going to take it any more."

3 bona fide classics

as is: