A Film That Best Represents The 1970's ??
What do you all think?
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shareI was asking the OP. Maybe you meant to reply to BillHicksFan.
shareimagine that -- answering the question!
shareis that your answer to mine?
no, trolls like you go on ignore.
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so sensitive. check my posting history and tell me if you see a troll.
and you might've allayed the obvious confusion in replies if you had started the bidding yourself. I guess asking for your own take was too offensive for some bizarre reason.
Mean streets.
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the china syndrome
Since you mentioned The China Syndrome, I always have thought Michael Douglas was oddly bad in it. Seems like it was an early acting gig for him and he hadn't quite found his footing yet. Otherwise I like the movie.
shareLemmon was great in this. Douglas was the producer and his character seemed almost in the way most of the time.
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A Clockwork Orange
The Sting
Dirty Harry
Taxi Driver
Apocalypse Now
The French Connection
Saturday Night Fever
Almost all classics from 1971-1975. 70's were def. most realistic period of cinema movies. Movies were just brutally real.
Dirty Harry
French Connection
Chinatown
Panic in the Needle Park
Straw Dogs
Aguirre:Wrath of God
Mean Streets
Conversation
Night Moves
That's a lot of ground to cover for one movie. Are you asking for a representation of what daily life was like in the 70s? Or perhaps pop culture, politics, social issues, popular entertainment, biggest star of the decade, wars/conflicts, the economy, the U.S., or the bigger world?
But if you're asking, when you think of the 70s what movie comes to mind, I'd say All the President's Men. With the exception of the Vietnam War, Watergate defines the 70s to me.
I was hoping everyone would choose.. The first thing you mention " representation of what daily life was like in the 70s? " is what I had in mind. I wasn't born in the 70s, so a movie that gives me a good idea of everyday life.
Of course, many might think of the major events, but I know life isn't like that. We're in many wars now, but no one seems to talk about it, but when I hear about Vietnam, one would think the late 1960's was nothing but chaos, but I've seen events days after Kennedy was killed, and there'd be no mention.
Even better, if you or anyone else would list movies that fit each of the different things you mention.... I'd also add "Nashville"
thanks for the clarification. I thought you meant the decade itself rather than the decade in film but I wasnt sure. maybe an example of your own from the start would've made it clear from the start.
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