The MoFo Top 100 of the Seventies

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The MoFo Top 100 of the Seventies

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And here we are again, MoFos. Hot on the heels of the 1980s list, now we can prepare for movies from the decade when Scorsese, Lucas, and Spielberg made their first films, and old pros like Bob Altman, Sidney Lumet, and Sam Peckinpah swung punch-for-punch with the new kids. A time when Fassbinder, Herzog, and Wenders led the German New Wave while Truffaut, Godard, and Melville tried to figure out what to do after their wave had crested. When faces that would have been character actors in a previous age became movie stars like DeNiro, Pacino, Nicholson, Hackman, and Hoffman. When the old studio system collapse led to independent producers with power and sway (and Ali MacGraw), and where actors who wanted to direct became the thing to be, following the successes of Woody Allen, Clint Eastwood, and Warren Beatty. Dense movies with dark endings were the mainstream not just the arthouse, yet it was also the age where the modern blockbuster was truly born, by shark and by Falcon, and where the appeal and artistry of horror went bigtime in The Exorcist and then in the bloody hands of Carpenter, Hooper, Cronenberg, Romero, Argento and others proved more than just drive-in fodder. The Master of Suspense himself still had a couple tricks up his sleeve while Brian DePalma tried to ape every one and add t!ts. Old man John Huston was as relevant as ever behind the camera and creepy as all get out in front of it, for the first time audiences either delighted to or scratched their heads over movies from Terrence Malick and David Lynch, while the likes of Kubrick, Polanski and Cassavetes who shone so brightly in the 1960s continued their brilliance. Some of the paranoia and cynicism of the era leaked into films in a fascinating way that still resonates, the war in Vietnam ended and filmmakers began to explore it as subject matter, but there were also musical nostalgic fantasies of hot rods and sock hops, Blaxploitation, Spaghetti Westerns, Chopsocky, and the glorious birth of low-brow gross-out comedies and spoofs that were both smart and outrageously silly. We believed a man could fly, checked our baby's heads for triple sixes, tried to disco like Travolta, and loved it when Han shot first.

It's the Seventies, y'all.

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The films change, but the rules remain the same:

Submit your ranked list of twenty-five titles, numbered 1-25 with no ties, to me via a private message with the title "[Your Username] - MoFo ‘70s List".
Films will be awarded points as follows: 25 points for 1st place, 24 points for 2nd place, 23 for 3rd and so on, all the way down to one point for your 25th placed film.
New members can send in a list as soon as they've been a member here for one month. This measure is taken so that the list isn't jerry-rigged by people who have been here for a week, and then disappear.
Films that are part of a series (The Godfather, Rocky, etc.) must be submitted as separate films.
Any film listed as 1970-79 on IMDb is eligible for our list.
Anyone who reveals their list before the countdown has ended will be disqualified. Don't make me come back there. I will turn this thing around, so help me!
The deadline for entries is July 15, 2014. That's four full months. Plenty of time to review favorites, discover new ones, and order a list.

Tell me about it, Studs.

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