Top Ten movies of the '70s

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Kenny, don't paint your sister.

11-20-09

Originally Posted by WSSlover

I never saw or even heard of The Jerk.

Just a little FYI. I haven't seen it either, but it doesn't surprise me that it is kind of popular.

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Holden Pike

One Ornery Sumbitch

11-20-09

So do you guys live under the same rock?

I know I've only been in love with this movie for thirty years, four weeks and three days, but to me it seems like sixty-two years, nine weeks and five days. The first year seemed like a decade, and the second year seemed like six years, and the third year seemed like a decade again...

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WSSlover

Movie Forums Wacko

11-29-09

Originally Posted by spudracer

Close Encounters
Jaws
Star Wars
The Jerk
Godfather
Kramer Vs Kramer(or was that an 80s release?)

Before my time, and I don't watch too many movies older than me. But thats a small list that should spark something. How can anyone not like The Jerk..LOL

Kramer vs. Kramer was released in 1979--and it won the Best Picture Academy Award for that year, also, I think.

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vato

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12-02-09

Holden Pike great clip, it had been a while since i've seen it

linaelectronic

Movie Forums Critic

12-24-09

10. Star Wars
9. The Godfather II
8. The Godfather
7. The Great Gatsby
6. Superman
5. Grease
4. The Wiz
3. All The President's Men
2. Mahongany
1. Willy Wonka And The Chocolate Factory

Classicqueen13

Kenny, don't paint your sister.

12-25-09

Great Shoutout for The Great Gatsby. I think it's pretty underrated

TylerDurden99

Good whiskey make jackrabbit slap de bear.

04-18-11

1. Superman: The Movie
2. Solaris
3. A Clockwork Orange
4. Taxi Driver
5. Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope
6. The Godfather Part II
7. The Texas Chainsaw Massacre
8. Apocalypse Now
9. Kramer Vs. Kramer
10. Jaws

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Tyler1

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04-19-11

^ Great to see Tarkovsky's Solaris so high!

TylerDurden99

Good whiskey make jackrabbit slap de bear.

04-19-11

Originally Posted by Tyler1

^ Great to see Tarkovsky's Solaris so high!

It's a great film... and a little underrated if you ask me.

Watching Andrei Rublev tonight, hoping it's as good as people say.

Tyler1

Unreliable Narrator

04-19-11

^ I await your response! I think its a film that divides Tarkovsky fans... those in favour of his color, more meta-physical films than his b&w ones (Rublev and Ivan's childhood)

gandalf26

We've gone on holiday by mistake

04-19-11

1. Day of the Jackal.
2. Godfather 1 and 2
3. Taxi Driver
4. Dawn of the Dead
5. Star Wars
6. The Outlaw Josey Whales.
7. Enter the Dragon.
8. Spy who loved me
9. French Connection.
10. All the Presidents Men

linespalsy

style over substance

04-19-11

Overall Top Ten of the 1970s:
1. The Muppet Movie
2. Picnic at Hanging Rock
3. Vengeance is Mine
4. The Tenant
5. Aguirre: The Wrath of God
6. McCabe & Mrs. Miller
7. Days of Heaven
8. Carrie
9. Brewster McCloud
10. Don't Look Now

1979:
The Muppet Movie
Vengeance is Mine
Dirty Ho
The Butterfly Murders
My Brilliant Career
Alien
Tale of Tales
Magnificent Butcher
Apocalypse Now
Ninja Checkmate

The Tempest
The Jerk
Woyzeck
Phantasm
Castle of Cagliostro
Being There
The Tin Drum
Nosferatu: Phantom der Nacht
Knockabout
Hardcore

1978:
Days of Heaven
Future Boy Conan (series)
The Deullists
Dawn of the Dead
Invasion of the Body Snatchers
Warriors Two
Comes a Horseman
In the Realm of Passion
A Walk Through H
Snake in the Eagle's Shadow

Drunken Master
36 Chambers of Shaolin
The Fury
Enter the Fat Dragon
The Deer Hunter
Lord of the Rings
Superman
Don
Iron-Fisted Monk
Fingers

1977:
Close Encounters of the Third Kind
Suspiria
Amar Akbar Anthony
Annie Hall
Star Wars
House
3 Women
Eraserhead
Rabid
Stroszek

Saturday Night Fever
Jubilee
The Last Wave
Allegro non Troppo
That Obscure Object of Desire

1976:
The Tenant
Carrie
Taxi Driver
F for Fake
In the Realm of Senses
Harlan County U.S.A.
Network
Heart of Glass
The Private Eyes
Tracks

Buffalo Bill and the Indians
Obsession

1975:
Picnic at Hanging Rock
Deep Red
Jaws
They Came From Within
Nashville
Dog Day Afternoon
Seven Beauties
Dersu Uzala
Yozik in the Fog
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

A Boy and His Dog
The Man Who Would be King
Ilsa: She Wolf of the SS
Death Race 2000
Karayuki-san
The Magic Flute

1974:
Chinatown
The Godfather Part 2
Phantom of the Paradise
Black Belt Jones
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre
Andy Warhol's Dracula
Young Frankenstein
Thieves Like Us
Murder on the Orient Express
The Conversation

The Yakuza
Swept Away
Every Man for Himself and God Against All
Foxy Brown
Windows
The Night Porter
Death Wish

1973:
Don't Look Now
The Long Goodbye
The Last of Sheila
The Exorcist
Badlands
Sisters
Love and Anarchy
Fantastic Planet
The Holy Mountain
Serpico

Sleeper
My Name is Nobody
Enter the Dragon

1972:
Aguirre, der Zorn Gottes
The Seduction of Mimi
The Godfather
Deliverance
Images
The Ruling Class
Frenzy
Pink Flamingos
Sleuth
The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie

Slaughterhouse-five
Solaris
Panda kopanda

1971:
McCabe & Mrs. Miller
The Battle of Kerzhenets
Little Murders
The Ceremony
Straw Dogs
Macbeth
A Clockwork Orange
Carnal Knowledge
The Last Movie
Duck You Sucker

The Devils
Minnie and Moskowitz
The French Connection
Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory

1970:
Brewster McCloud
Le Cercle Rouge
Even Dwarfs Started Small
Investigations of a Citizen Above Suspicion
Catch 22
Little Big Man
Hi, Mom!
The man who left his will on film
El Topo
The History of Postwar Japan as Told by a Bar Hostess

M*A*S*H
Five Easy Pieces

Last edited by linespalsy; 05-23-11 at 02:33 PM.

linespalsy

style over substance

04-19-11

One thing I noticed while editing my best-of lists for the 1970s is what a fecund decade it was for young film-makers to experiment with and extend horror and thriller tropes handed down from the previous generations of film-makers.

Picnic at Hanging Rock
The Tenant
Carrie
Don't Look Now
The Exorcist
The Butterfly Murders
Jaws
Alien
They Came From Within
Suspiria
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre
Even Dwarfs Started Small
Straw Dogs
Dawn of the Dead
Deep Red
Sisters
Macbeth
Deliverance
Images
Andy Warhol's Dracula
Young Frankenstein
House
Rabid
Phantasm
Invasion of the Body Snatchers

honeykid

MoFo Whisperer

04-20-11

Originally Posted by linespalsy

I think that's because Hollywood no longer had any real idea what sold anymore. Musicals and biblical epics were no longer in fashion and the money men were prepared to give these younger guys the opportunity to try something different, in the hope it was what people wanted. Then Jaws happened and, after that, Star Wars and finally E.T. After that, Hollywood were much more confident, took less risks and started tp aim their product at a different audience. Add to this the growing importance of the worldwide gross since the 90's (the rise of celebrity culture) and a greater non-English speaking audience) and you get simpler, less adult films, with rudimentary dialogue and scenes which takes the plot from set piece to set piece.

Tyler1

Unreliable Narrator

04-20-11

I loved Picnic at the hanging rock. I think its Weir's best, followed by The Last Wave.

rauldc14

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05-19-11

My Top 10 of 70's

1. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
2. Taxi Driver
3. The Godfather
4. Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory
5. Jaws
6. The Outlaw Josey Wales
7. Kramer vs. Kramer
8. Monty Python and The Holy Grail
9. Robin Hood
10. Diamonds are Forever

Ironically, I've only seen 11 movies from the 70's. Just not really my cup of tea for decade thus far.

Harry Lime