I am on a big 70s movies kick, having re-watched some of the legendary movies I only saw as an ignorant teenager - Godfather 1 and 2, Deer Hunter, A Clockwork Orange, and few others.
Tell me your favorite 70s movies. What is so distinct about this decade in cinema?
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deep throat and mandingo
don't forget maladoleszenca and pretty baby
Based dickychad
somehow this just made me think of CATHOLIC HIGH SCHOOL GIRLS IN TROUBLE
The French Connection
Chinatown
Dirty Harry 1 and 2
Enter the Dragon
Three Days of the Condor
All The Presidents Men
Lol I have all of these on my list. I think I'll go with Enter the Dragon tonight, I'm a little drunk and could use something fun. Plus I've been playing beat em ups all day.
Enjoy anon! Something so comfy about 70s cinema.
>Something so comfy about 70s cinema
You like it because there are no POC and when there are they are in degraded or just villains. You think it's comfy because you are a racist yearning for a "better time". Educate yourself.
Because so much has changed when some mystery meat San Franciscans insist on putting black characters into everything they make to be “diverse” and “tolerant” but they’re never allowed to be attractive, flawed, morally complex or straight…
Extremely kino list.
Reminder that The Deer hunter makes no sense, since Nick only ever dies after he recognizes his best friend and remembers PA.
Its never explained why, so it is jsut for dramatic effect which is cringe.
Apocalypse now is better
La vacanza & Caligula
New, fresh voices with a deep passion for cinema were given far more control for their projects, were generally uncensored, and came in the middle of a profound cultural zeigeist.
Hollywood was sliding downhill in the 70s anon.
The true talent was basically done by then. Altman was good but not 40s level good.
Here's a masterpiece from an old master though.
this guy gets it
only plebs who know shit won't notice that Hollywood peaked around late 30s to early 40s.
Unfathomably based John Huston appreciater.
Also pic related
How ignorant can one be? In the 30s and 40s it was factory-rate moviemaking.
>practice more
>learn your craft
>perfect it
omg
Kramer vs. Kramer
The Warriors
Also Jaws
Halloween
Star Wars
Network (1976)
But generally it's a pretty abhorrent decade, together with the 1960s. Too much influence from muh realism, the craft of screenwriting getting largely lost, competition from television pushing cinema to overly morbid content (ie what you couldn't see on tv). I think that's why the good movies from that time stand out so much. The average fare is unbearable.
give these two a try
I love 36th Chamber so much bros
36 chamber is chink kino
Apocalypse Now completely changed my perspective on cinema from entertainment to a legitimate form of art.
I watched it with my friend in his dorm room in college and when it ended we just looked at each other and were like "that's the greatest fricking movie I've ever seen".
Could not have said it better myself anon, agree 1000%
It is exciting and fortunate to have someone to share such moments. Unfortunately, I watched Clockwork Orange and Apocalypse Now at an age where I perhaps couldn't grasp them and with people who weren't as curious as me.
you and your roommate are kinda gay
I agree. It's not one of my favorite films, but Apocalypse Now and Godfather 1 & 2 are as close as we'll ever get to perfect films. Just incredible.
Taxi Driver
Delieverance
Excorsist
Alien
Invasion of the Body Snatchers
Apocalypse Now
Rolling Thunder
Duel
Texas Chainsaw Massacre
Cool Hand Luke (i know)
The Long Goodbye
Butch Cassidy and The Sundance Kid
Dirty Dozen
Wild Bunch
Streetfighter (1974)
Barry Lyndon
The Omen
Bring Me The Head Of Alfredo Garcia
Carrie
Blowout
Papillon
The Bad News Bears
Young Frankenstein
Rocky
Nice list, good thread.
>Alien
Frick I forgot about that. 1979 was such a KINO year
Cool hand Luke was released in 1967
>Cool Hand Luke (i know)
Saw that movie last month and it was kino.
Movies from 60s and 70s had peak soul.
>Butch Cassidy and The Sundance Kid
I was going to say this but its actually late 60s
The raindrop scene in Butch Cassidy and the Sundance kid threw me off lol. Kino intro abd ending though
wake in fright
My favorite is The Texas Chain Saw Massacre. A perfect horror movie.
I just got done watching A Boy and His Dog, which was also great.
French New Wave happened.
aka the beginning of the end of cinema.
based, frick FNW
Here's some australian kino from the 70s
It really is absurd just how KINO the seventies were.
Slap Shot is fricking based
Here's an Australian movie that no one ever posts for some unbeknownst reason
The Sting
Little Big Man
The Outlaw Josey Wales
It seems so "distinct" because it was the last decade before the degeneracy set in. You can see this in how in all the best 1970s movies, men were men, unlike today
The Friends of Eddie Coyle
The Outfit
Charlie Varrick
The Taking of the Pelham 123
High Plains Drifter
Pelham is just so great.
Ah, I'm just in the process of watching Needle Park, had to take a break because the girl getting hooked on Heroin bummed me out too much.
The 70s were so great because the Generation now known as "New Hollywood" (De Palma, Polanski, Allen, Scorcese, Coppola, Bogdanovich, Carpenter, Romero, etc) was at it's highest then and that not only changed Hollywood but made a worldwide impression on filmmakers.
Also check out Harold & Maude, La Grande Bouffe, Lady Snow Blood, The First Great Train Robbery, The Tennant, Escape from Alcatraz, Straight Time, The Warriors.
Me again.
I forgot to mention:
You need to watch Saint Jack and The Killing of a Chines Bookie, both with Ben Gazzara. To me, he is the Face of hidden 70s treasure in Film.
Friends of Eddie Coyle
Panic at Needle Park
Serpico
The Getaway
Taking of Pelham 1-2-3
Tora Tora Tora
The Long Good Friday
Clockwork Orange
A Bridge Too Far
>The Long Good Friday
Based. British movies of this era took 'gritty' to another level.
Was Get Carter you were only supposed to BLOW THE BLOODY DOORS off or was that the other one Caine was in?
They really never achieved gritty like in the 70s
>The Getaway
Is this the original or a completely different movie than the cuck classic with Kim and Alec?
It's the original with Steve McQueen. Walter Hill wrote both versions though.
I like the 90's remake, though. Why didn't you dig it, cat?
>Walter Hill
Forever indebted to him for the Warriors and Alien.
So the getaway 90s is a remake, I didn't know that.
Where did I say I didn't like it? 😉
You called it a cuck classic. I assumed that meant you didn't like it. Unless you meant that scene where the dude hanged himself in the hotel bathroom because Madsen was fricking his wife, lol.
But yeah, Walter Hill is fricking sweet. Check out the podcast he did with Mahon a little while back. Also this sweet movie with Bronson and Jimmy Coburn
I will, thank you.
And yes, I meant that scene which was shocking to me as a child.
How has this not been posted yet?
Tora Tora Tora and Patton make a great double feature if you're looking for some leftover 1960s war pictures
i found this very disappointing
I've been watching Al Pacino's films from the 70s and they're great.
>Dog Day Afternoon
>Serpico
>Panic in the Needle Park
>Scarecrow
>>Dog Day Afternoon
is shit
Its good.
wrong
You are
NO U
All right. Fine. Have it your way, anon.
Midnight Cowboy is one of my favorites. It's from 1969 though.
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Rocky
Walking Tall
Freebie and the Bean
Marathon Man
Walkabout
Sometimes A Great Notion
McCabe and Mrs. Miller
The Last Wave
Deer hunter is bad
Drop everything and watch Convoy immediately. Best film of the decade. Pure SOUL.
kek, soul of a 12 year old maybe.
When it comes to trucker movies, you only have to watch two; "smokey and the bandit" and
Convoy
The sexy truck driver Kris Kristofferson scores himself at a sexy convertible driving Chick, together they drive around in a big truck, and because Ernest Borgnine, the nasty highway cop, wants to get them for speedingt, they strive for revolution by forming the largest and most beautiful truck convoy the American Midwest has ever seen.
As moronic as the film may be, as a young boy of course you're into rebellious leader types, bar fights and car stunts.
As an adult, the film leaves you as embarrassed as only Spencer/Hill can manage.
Film student tier critique. I bet you get lots of pussy.
Well, thx, I guess.
No one has mentioned Sorcerer or Vanishing Point yet.
Or Exorcist or French Connection. I hope Sorcerer didn't ruin Friedkin's streak.
Both of them are mentioned in lists posted above.
Sorcerer is nice, but I like Wages of Fear better.
Oohhh, Vanishing Point..... FREEDOM.
Which reminds me of Punishment Park, Assault on Precinct 13.
hey
Five Easy Pieces
'69 but close enough
Two-Lane Blacktop
Ok you want some kino beyond the standard Jaws Rocky NetworkTaxi Driver tier shit then take notes lads then here are some that have not been mentioned yet
Hard Times
The Conversation
The Driver
Roling Thunder
Badlands
The Parallax View
Smokey and the Bandit
Breezy
The Wicker Man
The Last Picture Show
and also the one with Clint and the money of course.
>The Conversation
>Badlands
unbearably bad and boring
preschool tier critique. I bet you get lots of pussy.
the conversation is pure kino
I like the conspiracy movies from this era, after Watergate and other controversies people including Hollywood weren’t buying the “conspiracy theories are the purview of a deranged far-right fringe” bullshit.
>Three Days of the Condor
>Klute
>The Parallax View
>The Conversation
>Capricorn One
>Telefon
>Cutter’s Way
You'd probably dig this one then. Also, Boys from Brazil.
I turned this off when they put in that flashback to the israelitegassing-mobile. I can only take so much israeli propaganda in my films
Idk I feel like it's only famous for the dental scene besides that it feels like a super average thriller with nothing really special about it. I guess compared to the shit that comes out today it's a 10/10 perfect movie.
Frick you, I liked it
the man who stole the sun
>boring, well-known entry-level, hollyisraelite shlock
Amazing film discussion thread. gays.
good thread, many good movies recommended
flicks that I also like that weren't mentioned:
-Kelly's Heroes
-And Justice for All
-Suspiria
>And Justice for All
1979 CAN'T KEEP GETTING AWAY WITH IT
Texas Chainsaw Massacre
Halloween
>That ending
I cry everytime
me 2 my friend
also checked
>What is so distinct about this decade in cinema?
They allowed movies to be slow and deliberate. They didn't cater to the ADHD crowd.
>Tell me your favorite 70s movies
Some I haven't seen mentioned yet:
Solaris
Stalker
The Conversation
The Sorcerer
Dirty Harry
Give this one a try op its 1969 but got damn if it's not one of the best Westerns I've ever seen.
Angel was a dumbass but he still deserved better
Zardoz is an amazing film I didn't see mentioned in the thread. Make sure to check it out if you're into sci-fi films that are a bit "out there". And yes the main character has braided long hair and wears nothing but underpants and thigh high boots, but it's Sean Connery so he still manages to look manly as frick.
This movie is amazing because it was actually far thinking about how two independently evolving AIs would communicate between each other and how they would present themselves to the world during a cold war.
It's pretty intelligent and it's bizarre this came out in 1970. I genuinely wonder why movies became dumber and worse written in the 1980s onwards. Was it all the lead in the gasoline turning people's brains to mush or something?
Or something.
This is from 1969 but I feel like that's close enough I fricking love Midnight Cowboy, idk something about it gives me such a nostalgia for NYC in the late 60s even though I wasn't even alive then and I've only been to NYC once as a kid so I don't even remember it.
The city is portrayed as so gritty and disgusting yet it has so much soul to it. Yeah the movie has some gay stuff but it's hard to find movies that trigger so many emotional sensations and holy shit what a sad ending.
It's a great movie although if you have garbage taste and need to have Marvel like levels of violence and action then you might want to stick away. I also highly recommend Badlands 1973 great flick.
As far as 70s sci-fi goes, I gotta mention Damnation Alley. It's got some great prop work(that APC on the poster? They actually built that) and it's a pretty good post-apocalyptic film.
>Tell me your favorite 70s movies. What is so distinct about this decade in cinema?
Unprecedented level of control in the hands of the directors with studios and executives staying back and just giving them money to operate. Blockbusters hadn't broken cinema yet. Audiences had not yet been dumbed down and appreciated compelling stories with complex characters.
>What is so distinct about this decade in cinema?
It represents a transformative period in the film industry. As people moved to the suburbs, movie theaters began to move out of the cities into the suburbs, resulting in an explosion of the movie-going experience.
People often credit Jaws as being the first blockbuster. It wasn't. The first real blockbuster was Godfather.
One flew over the cuckoo‘s nest even though I’m not sure if it was made in the 70s, might’ve been late 60s…? Anyways frick off