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Favorite Movies of the 1970s

posted 5 years ago by BillHicksFan (10092)
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Feature films and documentaries

Harry and Tonto
Nashville
One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest
Network
McCabe & Mrs. Miller
-Fat City
mikey and nicky
annie hall
johnny got his gun
harold and maude
taxi driver
a cloockwork orange
the godfather
the outlaw josey wales
last tango in paris
chinatown
barry lyndon
opening night
manhattan
dog day afternoon
Godfather Part II
-Scarecrow
-papillon
-an enemy of the people
-Place de la République
-A Special Day
-hardcore
-Sunflower
-sounder
-the blue hotel
-Autumn Sonata
-zandy's bride
-lies my father told me
-The Working Class Go To Heaven
the deer hunter
the last detail
and justice for all
the conversation
five easy pieces
-Joe
-paper moon
interiors
alice in the cities

[–] lud (5927) 5 years ago

Very original thread.

[–] [deleted] 5 years ago

beyond the valley of the dolls
aguirre, the wrath of god
stroszek
alien
stalker
the enigma of kaspar hauser
mirror
taxi driver
solaris
texas chainsaw massacre
salo
last house on the left
ali: fear eats the soul

[–] BillHicksFan (10092) 5 years ago

stroszek

[–] mikethemartian (6058) 5 years ago

I would include

Jaws
Star Wars
Smokey and the Bandit

[–] Mrmojo4700 (20413) 5 years ago

Jaws and Star Wars were both major films that changed cinema forever.

[–] Catbookss (13664) 5 years ago

I get Star Wars, but how so Jaws?

[–] Mrmojo4700 (20413) 5 years ago

I found an ABC News article that hits on some major points.

https://abcnews.go.com/Entertainment/ways-jaws-changed-movies-forever/story?id=31366659

[–] Catbookss (13664) 5 years ago

Okay, I was thinking more in terms of the movie itself. Thanks for finding that link :)

[–] Mrmojo4700 (20413) 5 years ago

👍

[–] BillHicksFan (10092) 5 years ago

I would say for the worst.

[–] Mrmojo4700 (20413) 5 years ago

I do tend to agree

[–] tcrum (29618) 5 years ago

Logans Run and Charlie and the Chocolate Factory

[–] ShogunofYonkers (71446) 5 years ago

Two classics right here
Both were weird, so original and very offbeat

[–] Knish (1721) 5 years ago

The driver
The long goodbye
Apocalypse now
Vanishing point
Five fingers of death

[–] BillHicksFan (10092) 5 years ago

I liked "The Long Goodbye" much better the 2nd time (for those who didn't like it the first time)

[–] Knish (1721) 5 years ago

I like all those Marlowe movies. The big sleep is great as well.

[–] Mrmojo4700 (20413) 5 years ago

I love The Driver (1978) in part because I had a hopped up Chevy step side in 1976 model. Great film and I never get tired of the chase scenes. 👍

[–] Knish (1721) 5 years ago

Those car chases are some of the best I have seen. The whole film has a great look to it. It's an action flick with great cinematography.

[–] AndyKing1967 (33737) 5 years ago

I’ll add The Warriors.

[–] Keelai (31797) 5 years ago

Star Wars
Superman
Close Encounters of the Third Kind
Alien
Escape from the Planet of the Apes
Conquest for the Planet of the Apes
Battle for the Planet of the Apes

Honorable mentions:
The Omen
Blazing Shadows
Young Frankenstein
Grease
The Sting
Carrie
The Exorcist
The Towering Inferno
Airport movies
The Poseidon Adventure
The Rocky Horror Picture Show
Earthquake

[–] GlenEllyn (21068) 5 years ago

I'd say the 70s were THE decade of disaster movies. Not that there weren't disaster movies before, but the 70s really expanded that genre.

[–] Keelai (31797) 5 years ago

Definitely. Also, there were a few good disaster movies on TV, but they were kind of silly.

"The Elevator" Yep, people trapped in an elevator.
"Long Walk to Daylight" People trapped underground in NY subway stations.

And my favorite:
"Trapped" Guy trapped in a locked large department store over the weekend with guard dogs.

The last two starred James Brolin.

[–] mikethemartian (6058) 5 years ago

I remember Trapped.

[–] Keelai (31797) 5 years ago

All he had to do was stay in the bathroom.

One of my childhood fantasies was to be locked in a large department store so I could play with the toys, watch the large screen TV and eat the candy. Those dogs would've ruined my fun.

[–] mikethemartian (6058) 5 years ago

If I remember correctly he gets mugged in the bathroom and knocked out. I remember seeing it with my dad on TV in the early 70s.

[–] Keelai (31797) 5 years ago

That's correct. After he spotted the dog, he should have run back in the bathroom although he would've needed to stay in there for two days since the store was closed for the long weekend. But, that would've made a dull movie.

[–] LauraGrace (15570) 5 years ago

Gimme Shelter
Walkabout
Billy Jack
The Panic in Needle Park
The Poseidon Adventure
Ciao Manhattan
The Way We Were
The Parallax View
Bring Me The Head Of Alfredo Garcia
Dog Day Afternoon
Picnic at Hanging Rock
The Stepford Wives
All the President's Men
Helter Skelter
Halloween
Watership Down
Coming Home
Killer of Sheep
The Warriors
Norma Rae

[–] mikethemartian (6058) 5 years ago

Ciao Manhattan is a pretty crazy film.

[–] LauraGrace (15570) 5 years ago

I had a Edie Sedgwick/Factory fascination in the late 70's early 80's.

[–] mikethemartian (6058) 5 years ago

I don’t know much about her except she was part of Andy Warhol’s group. There is a movie bio of her starring Sienna Miller but I have never seen it. I just happen to catch Ciao Manhattan on TCM once.

[–] ecarle (14979) 5 years ago

My favorites of each year:

1970: MASH
1971: Dirty Harry
1972: The Godfather
1973: American Graffiti
1974: Chinatown
1975: Jaws
1976: The Shootist
1977: Black Sunday
1978: National Lampoon's Animal House
1979: North Dallas Forty

Honorable mentions each year:

1970: The Kremlin Letter, Patton, Airport
1971: Big Jake, Get Carter, Willy Wonka, Harold and Maude
1972: Frenzy, Junior Bonner, The Poseidon Adventure, The Getaway, The Hot Rock, The Cowboys, Deliverance
1973: Charley Varrick, The Way We Were, The Paper Chase, The Sting, Westworld; Pat Garrett and Billy The Kid, The Long Goodbye
1974: The Towering Inferno, The Taking of Pelham One Two Three; Freebie and the Bean, Blazing Saddles, Young Frankenstein, Godfather II, The Conversation, Murder on the Orient Express
1975: Three Days of the Condor, Breakout, Cuckoo's Nest, Love and Death, The Man Who Would Be King
1976: Family Plot, Network, Taxi Driver, The Big Bus, Rocky, Marathon Man
1977: Star Wars, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Annie Hall, The Deep
1978: Capricorn One, The Fury; Who'll Stop the Rain
1979: Alien, All That Jazz; 1941, Time After Time

[–] BillHicksFan (10092) 5 years ago

A few here I never heard of.. I'll look them up. Thanks!

[–] ecarle (14979) 5 years ago

A few here I never heard of.. I'll look them up. Thanks!

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You are welcome. They are to my taste; maybe not yours, but oh well, I like them.

I snuck in and edit-added a few more that I remembered since the first post. I might do that again....memories fail me the first time around...