seriously, was there ever a worse decade for movies? everything got really weird, dark and creepy. aside from star wars and rocky, perhaps a few others, what a miserable time for film when you have disgusting sh** like this being made. i'd rather watch TV from the 70's.
Realism, Remakes and Unnecessary Sequels are ruining movies!
Listing Star Wars and Rocky while bashing Eraserhead just shows your lack of appreciation for originality and creativity. Go watch something by Michael Bay or James Cameron.
shareor anything produced by Jerry Bruckheimer would be right up the OP's alley. A list of some of the disgustingly bad pictures released in the 70's.......
A Clockwork Orange - (1971, Stanley Kubrick) ["No time for the old in-n-out love, I've
just come to read the meter."]
A Woman Under the Influence - (1974, John Cassavetes)
Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore - (1974, Martin Scorsese)
Alien - (1979, Ridley Scott)
All the President's Men - (1976, Alan J. Pakula)
American Graffiti - (1973, George Lucas)
Annie Hall - (1977, Woody Allen)
Apocalypse Now - (1979, Francis Ford Coppola) ["The horror.....the horror...."]
Badlands - (1973, Terrence Malick)
Barry Lyndon - (1975, Stanley Kubrick)
Blazing Saddles - (1974, Mel Brooks)
Bring me the Head of Alfredo Garcia - (1974, Sam Peckinpah)
Cabaret - (1972, Bob Fosse)
The Candidate - (1972, Michael Ritchie)
Carrie - (1976, Brian De Palma)
Catch-22 - (1970, Mike Nichols) ["That's some catch, that Catch-22"]
China 9 Liberty 37 - (1978, Monte Hellman) [spaghetti western with a nude Jen Agutter]
Chinatown - (1974, Roman Polanski) ["Forget it, Jake. It's Chinatown"]
Close Encounters of the Third Kind - (1977, Steven Spielberg)
The Conversation - (1974, Francis Ford Coppola)
Cross of Iron - (1977, Sam Peckinpah) ["What will we do when we have lost the war?
Prepare for the next one."]
Dawn of the Dead -(1978, George A. Romero)
Days of Heaven - (1978, Terrence Malick)
The Deer Hunter - (1978, Michael Cimino)
Dirty Harry - (1971, Don Siegel) ["Do I feel lucky? Well, do ya.....punk?"]
Dog Day Afternoon - (1975, Sydney Lumet)
Duck, You Sucker – (1971, Sergio Leone)
Duel - (1971, Steven Spielberg)
Enter the Dragon - (1973, Robert Clouse)
The Exorcist - (1973, William Friedkin)
The French Connection - (1971, William Friedkin
The Getaway - (1972, Sam Peckinpah)
The Godfather - (1972, Francis Ford Coppola)
The Godfather 2 - (1974, Francis Ford Coppola)
Halloween - (1978, John Carpenter)
Harold and Maude - (1971, Hal Ashby)
High Plains Drifter - (1973, Clint Eastwood)
Jaws - (1975, Steven Spielberg)
The Jerk - (1979, Carl Reiner)
The Killing of a Chinese Bookie - (1976, John Cassavetes)
The Last Detail - (1973, Hal Ashby)
The Last Picture Show - (1971, Peter Bogdanovich)
Last Tango in Paris - (1972, Bernardo Bertolucci) (now where's that stick of butter?)
Lenny - (1974, Bob Fosse)
The Long Goodbye - (1973, Robert Altman) ["It's OK with me"]
Love and Death – (1975, Woody Allen)
M*A*S*H - (1970, Robert Altman)
McCabe and Mrs. Miller - (1971, Robert Altman)
Mean Streets - (1973, Martin Scorsese)
Monty Python and the Holy Grail - (1974, Terry Gilliam, Terry Jones)
Murder by Decree - (1979, Bob Clark) [perhaps the best Jack the Ripper flick)
Nashville - (1975, Robert Altman)
National Lampoon's Animal House - (1978, John Landis)
Network - (1976, Sydney Lumet)
New York, New York - (1977, Martin Scorsese)
Novecento (1900) - (1976, Bernardo Bertolucci)
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest - (1975, Milos Forman)
Patton - (1970, Franklin J. Schaffner)
Pretty Baby - (1978, Louis Malle) [New Orleans take on "Lolita" with lots of Brooke]
Rock ‘n’ Roll High School - (1979, Allan Arkush)
Rocky - (1976, John G. Avildsen)
The Rocky Horror Picture Show - (1975, Jim Sharmon)
Serpico - (1973, Sydney Lumet)
Shaft - (1971, Gordon Parks)
Star Wars - (1977, George Lucas)
Straw Dogs - (1971, Sam Peckinpah)
Super Fly - (1972, Gordon Parks Jr.)
Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song – (1971, Melvin Van Peebles)
Taxi Driver - (1976, Martin Scorsese) ["You talkin' to me?"]
Tess - (1979, Roman Polanski) [Natassja Kinski at her lovliest)
The Tenant - (1976, Roman Polanski)
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre - (1974, Tobe Hooper)
Three Days of the Condor - (1975, Sydney Pollack)
Tora! Tora! Tora! - (1970, Richard Fleischer)
Walkabout - (1971, Nicolas Roeg) (lotsa young schoolgirl nude Jen Agutter with
beautiful photography)
Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory - (1971, Mel Stuart)
Young Frankenstein - (1974, Mel Brooks) ["Put.....the candle......back!"]
AND THEN THERE WERE THESE...
All That Jazz - (1979, Bob Fosse)
Attack of the Killer Tomatoes - (1978, John De Bello)
Bad News Bears – (1976, Michael Ritchie) ["I know I don't got a lot up there, but what
I got sure don't feel too good"]
The Ballad of Cable Hogue - (1970, Sam Peckinpah)
Bananas - (1971, Woody Allen)
Being There - (1979, Hal Ashby)
Breaking Away - (1979, Peter Yates)
Charley Varrick – (1973, Don Siegel)
Coming Home - (1978, Hal Ashby)
Day of the Jackal - (1973, Fred Zinnemann) [Inspector [interrogating hotel staff] "But
you did say that Madame de Montpelier's bed
was slept in by two people? Hotel Maid: Yes
sir, definitely. You can always tell."]
Death Race 2000 - (1975, Paul Bartel)
Deliverance - (1972, John Boorman)
Earthquake - (1974, Mark Robson)
Eraserhead - (1977, David Lynch) [Beautiful Girl Across the Hall: "I locked myself out
of my apartment..."[pause] Beautiful Girl Across the
Hall: ... "and it's so late."]
Fiddler on the Roof - (1971, Norman Jewison)
Five Easy Pieces - (1970, Bob Rafelson)
Foxy Brown - (1974, Jack Hill) [Foxy Brown: [Being frisked] "Don't pinch the fruit,
*beep*
Fritz The Cat - (1972, Ralph Bakshi)
Grease - (1978, Randal Kleiser)
Heaven Can Wait - (1978, Warren Beatty)
Jeremiah Johnson - (1972, Sydney Pollack)
Kelly’s Heroes - (1970, Brian G. Hutton) [Crapgame: "Then make a DEAL!" Big Joe: "What
kind of deal?" Crapgame: "A DEAL, deal! Maybe
the guy's a Republican. "Business
is business," right?"]
Klute - (1971, Alan J. Pakula)
Kramer vs. Kramer - (1979, Robert Benton)
The Last Waltz – (1978, Martin Scorsese)
Little Big Man - (1970, Arthur Penn) [Jack Crabb: "She was calling him a devil and
moaning for help, but I didn't get
no idea she wanted to be rescued."]
Logan’s Run – (1976, Michael Anderson) [Jessica: "Let's take our clothes off first,
before they freeze on us." That's my Jen!]
The Longest Yard - (1974, Robert Aldrich)
Mad Max - (1979, George Miller)
Manhattan - (1979, Woody Allen)
Marathon Man - (1976, John Schlesinger) ["Is it safe?]
Midnight Express - (1978, Alan Parker)
Midway - (1976, Jack Smight)
Minnie and Moskowitz - (1971, John Cassavetes)
The Muppet Movie - (1979, James Frawley)
My Name is Nobody - (1971, Tonino Valerii)
Night Moves - (1975, Arthur Penn)
The Night Porter - (1974, Liliana Cavani)
Norma Rae - (1979, Martin Ritt)
Omega Man - (1971, Boris Sagal)
The Omen - (1976, Richard Donner)
The Outlaw Josey Wales (1976, Clint Eastwood)
Paper Moon - (1973, Peter Bogdanovich)
Papillon - (1973, Franklin J. Schaffner) [Toussaint: "How did you know I have dry
leprosy, that it isn't contagious?"
Papillon: "I didn't."]
Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid - (1973, Sam Peckinpah) [Billy: [Billy aims a shotgun at
Ollinger] "How's Jesus look to
you now, Bob?"]
Performance - (1970, Donald Cammell, Nicolas Roeg)
Petey Wheatstraw - (1977, Cliff Roquemore)
The Pink Panther Strikes Again - (1976, Blake Edwards)
Play Misty for Me - (1971, Clint Eastwood)
The Poseidon Adventure - (1972, Ronald Neame)
The Return of the Pink Panther - (1975, Blake Edwards)
Revenge of the Pink Panther - (1978, Blake Edwards)
Rollerball - (1975, Norman Jewison)
Saturday Night Fever - (1977, John Badham)
Shampoo - (1975, Hal Ashby) [Banker: "Do you have any references?" George Roundy: "I do
Barbara Rush."
Sleeper - (1973, Woody Allen)
Sorcerer - (1977, William Friedkin)
Sounder - (1972, Martin Ritt)
Soylent Green - (1973, Richard Fleischer)
The Spy Who Loved Me - (1977, Lewis Gilbert)
The Sting - (1973, George Roy Hill)
Straight Time - (1978, Ulu Grosbard) [Max Dembo: "You know what I'd like to do... Why
don't you run me by that hotel we'll check it
out" Mickey: "Yeah, well I'll drive you out there
but I'm not gonna rob it for you, you have to do
that yourself.I got stomach trouble... no guts."]
The Sugarland Express – (1974, Steven Spielberg)
Sunday, Bloody Sunday - (1971, John Schlesinger)
Taking of Pelham One Two Three - (1974, Joseph Sargent)
Tales From the Crypt - (1972, Freddie Francis)
THX 1138 - (1971, George Lucas)
The Towering Inferno - (1974, Irwin Allen)
Two-Lane Blacktop - (1971, Monte Hellman)
Two Mules for Sister Sarah - (1970, Don Siegel)
The Warriors - (1979, Walter Hill)
Westworld - (1973, Michael Crichton)
Willard - (1971, Daniel Mann)
Woodstock - (1970, Michael Wadleigh)
Man, what a lightweight list of rotten motion pictures! Don't waste your time with these second billing features at the drive-in. OP, avoid these amateurish attempts at film-making at all costs.
seriously, was there ever a worse decade for movies?
everything got really weird, dark and creepy. aside from star wars and rocky, perhaps a few others, what a miserable time for film when you have disgusting sh** like this being made.
The 70's had:
Godfather 1/2
Apocalypse Now
Star Wars
ERASERHEAD
Rocky
The Exorcist
Jaws
Taxi Driver
Halloween
Chinatown
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre
No, it was actually a great decade for movies.
You forgot:
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Johnny Got His Gun
Death Wish
Dog Day Afternoon
The Wicker Man
A Clockwork Orange
Deliverance
1900
Dirty Harry
The Exorcist
Enter the Dragon
Dawn of the Dead
The Deer Hunter
Alien
Picnic at Hanging Rock
Straw Dogs
American Graffiti
The Tenant
The Sting
Serpico
Blazing Saddles
Soylent Green
Barry Lyndon
Papillon
Carrie
Escape From Alcatraz
Mean Streets
The Jerk
Mad Max
Don't Look Now
The Mechanic
seriously, was there ever a worse decade for movies?
The last ten years. And the ten before that.
Get me a bromide! And put some gin in it!
The 70a definitely produced a ton of dark movies, but to say they are horrible is inane.
A clockwork orange
One flew over the cuckoo's nest
Jaws
The warriors
American graffiti
The godfather 1/2
Willy wonka
Kramer v Kramer
Taxi driver
Did you need more kids movies?
Trashing any decade's artistic output is stupid. Decades are just a human construct dividing years into a neat 10 year period. Are you not embarrassed about your post? I would be and would delete it as soon as I could! But that's your call.
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