The 1970s - The Best Decade Ever For Movies

[Yavin4]

Godfather I & II
Last Tango In Paris
Jaws
MASH
The Sting
Bonnie & Clyde
Chinatown
One Flew Over The Cukoo's Nest
Five Easy Pieces
Coming Home
Mean Streets
Taxi
Sounder
Jaws
The Exorcist
Star Wars
Apocalypse Now
Deer Hunter
Patton
The French Connection
Harold & Maude
Young Frankenstein
Blazing Saddles
Annie Hall
Looking for Mr. Goodbar



That's just off the top of my head. No decaded can even touch that. I dare anyone. Anyone to match that list.

[LiberalVoice]

1. "Goonies" man!

You lose...:shrug: sorry loser! :P

[Yavin4]

2. I See Your "Goonies" And I Raise You...

The Bad News Bears!!!!

Oh!! Smacked Down!!!! Oh!!! I heard that!!!

[LiberalVoice]

5. I'll call your Bad News Bears...with a

Back to the Future!

Oh snap! Wipe that sweat off your forehead!

[Yavin4]

7. Oh Yeah! I'll See Your BTTF, and Raise You...

Close Encounters of the Third Kind!

Buh-bye!

[LiberalVoice]

21. I'll see you in hell!!!

:evilgrin:

[maveric]

23. Goonies is from the 80's.

1984, I beleive.

[LiberalVoice]

26. Yeah

Thats what I meant. That the 80;s had better movies. I guess I should have been more specific. :shrug:

[jpgray]

3. Great movies, but the sixties should beat that list

Lemme see:

Psycho
Spartacus
West Side Story
Lawrence of Arabia
The Manchurian Candidate
To Kill A Mockingbird
Dr. Strangelove
The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
Cool Hand Luke
The Graduate
The Lion in Winter
Night of the Living Dead
Planet of the Apes
Rosemary's Baby
2001: A Space Odyssey
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
Easy Rider

[HEyHEY]

10. Come on man easyrider sucked

It was just cool

[jpgray]

11. I sort of ran out of steam when I got to the late sixties

What the hell else came out in 68/69?

[HEyHEY]

13. hmmm..... I forget

[HEyHEY]

15. ..

The wild bunch! Herbie the love bug!

[speedoo]

17. More great 60's movies:

Bonnie and Clyde (NOT 70's)
The Wild Bunch
The Man Who Shot Liberty Valence
The Great Escape

and... three of the all time greats:

Midnight Cowboy
Persona
The Apartment

[Lydia Leftcoast]

25. Plus more 1960s classics:

They Shoot Horses, Don't Thety

Z (French)

Kwaidan (Japanese)

Days of Wine and Roses

Fail Safe

Doctor Strangelove

Tom Jones

Darling

The Knack

Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors (Russian film)

[amazona]

34. midnight cowboy (1969) NT

.

[gollygee]

44. More great 60s movies

Dr. Zhivago
The Hustler
The Producersw
Hud
Breakfast at Tiffany's

[NightTrain]

4. How about the '80s?

The Accused
Amadeus
Arthur
Atlantic City
Back to the Future
Batman
Beverly Hills Cop
Big
The Big Chill
Blue Velvet
Body Heat
Born on the 4th of July
Broadcast News
Chariots of Fire
Coal Miner's Daughter
The Color Purple
Cocoon
Country
Crimes and Misdemeanors
Crocodile Dundee
Cry Freedom
Dangerous Liaisons
Die Hard
Diner
Do The Right Thing
A Dry, White Season
Eating Raoul
The Elephant Man
The Empire Strikes Back
Fatal Attraction
Field of Dreams
A Fish Called Wanda
The Fly
Fort Apache--The Bronx
The Four Seasons
Gandhi
Ghostbusters
The Gods Must Be Crazy
Good Morning, Vietnam
Gremlins
Hairspray
Hannah & Her Sisters
Hope and Glory
The Karate Kid
The Killing Fields
Kiss of the Spider Woman
The Last Emperor
The Last Temptation of Christ
Lost in America
Mona Lisa
Monty Python's The Meaning of Life
Moonstruck
Moscow on the Hudson
My Favorite Year
Never Cry Wolf
Nightmare on Elm Street
An Officer and a Gentleman
Ordinary People
Parenthood
Platoon
Raiders of the Lost Ark
Raging Bull
Rain Man
Reds
The Right Stuff
Risky Business
Romancing the Stone
Robocop
A Room With A View
The Road Warrior
Salvador
Sex, Lies, and Videotape
Silkwood
Something Wild
Sophie's Choice
Stand By Me
Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home
The Stunt Man
Terms of Endearment
Tess
The Thin Blue Line
Tin Men
Tootsie
Urban Cowboy
Victor/Victoria
Wall Street
WarGames
White Nights
Who Framed Roger Rabbit?
Witness
The World According To Garp
The Year of Living Dangerously

[Yavin4]

6. Suck, Suck, And More Suck

Urban Cowboy? Please. Here's more from the 70s:

Chinatown (This movie alone blows all lists away)
Close Encounters of the 3rd Kind
American Graffitti
Marathon Man
Papillon
The Man Who Would Be King
All the President's Men
Rocky
Network
The Great Gatsby
The Way We Were
The Getaway

[clonebot]

9. damn you beat me to 'network'

but you forgot tora tora tora! (it slipped in there in 1970)

[NightTrain]

22. OK. You're too closed-minded to have a reasonable discussion with.

As such, I wash my hands of you! Goodbye.

[4_Legs_Good]

40. Amadeus is probably the greatest movie ever made

Nothing in any other decade stands up to it.

Gone with the wind can bite my shiny metal ass.

david

[NightTrain]

46. Well, I wouldn't go that far. It was a very good film, though!

:hi:

[Lydia Leftcoast]

24. Sorry, Night Train, but I would remove most of the

comedies and special effects extravaganzas (War Games, Star Trek VI, Stand By Me, Robocop, Romancing the Stone, Risky Business, Parenthood, Raiders of the Lost Ark, Nightmare on Elm Street, Karate Kid, Gremlins, Ghostbusters, Fort Apache--the Bronx, Fatal Attraction, Field of Dreams, Urban Cowboy, Back to the Future, Beverly Hills Cop, Batman, The Empire Strikes Back, Fatal Attraction, The Big Chill, to name a few).

Yes, these films were popular, and some were even entertaining, but look at something like Chinatown or Annie Hall, which managed to be both extremely fine examples of cinema and extremely popular.

[NightTrain]

45. I did that list late at night and off the top of my head.

Had I attempted a list of '80s films when I was more alert, it would have included, among other things, many of the great foreign films that came out during the decade--Francois Troufaut's (sp?) THE LAST METRO, Akira Kurosawa's RAN, and Pedro Almadovar's WHAT HAVE I DONE TO DESERVE THIS, for example.

And thanks, Lydia, for an intelligent and thought-out reply. That was a lot more than I got from the originator of this thread! :eyes:

[countmyvote4real]

8. but wait, there's more...

Network
Dog Day Afternoon
A Clockwork Orange
The Ruling Class
Lenny
Cabaret
The Great Santini

[Yavin4]

12. It Was A Great Decade Because The Studios Let The Artists Create

Some more titles:

Paper Moon
10
All That Jazz
Saturday Night Fever
Grease
Romeo and Juliet

[speedoo]

14. Major error: Bonnie and Clyde was a 1967 movie.

I'll never forget 1967. The Graduate and Bonnie and Clyde...

two movies that blew my 25-year old mind.

[Fiendish Thingy]

16. Yup, the 70's if not the best, were certainly the last great decade

for movies. Sure, great movies have been made since then, but not with such consistency and in such great numbers. My first job was in a movie theater, from 1973-77, and I would include most, if not all, of the 70's movies already mentioned on my list of faves.
What changed? three little letters- VCR (and now DVD)

[Waistdeep]

18. Don't forget "The Conversation" (1974),

certainly one of the decades best.

Except for Last Tango, all the films listed are American films. There's lots of great European films that could make that list, but maybe that's another thread.

[Tom Kitten]

19. Call you and see you...

all from the 70s in no particular order...

The Last Picture Show
A Clockwork Orange
The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeosie
Nashville
The Mystery of Kaspur Hauser
Aguirre, the Wrath of God
Amarcord
The Garden of the Finzi-Continis
3 Women
Strozcek, A Ballad
Seven Beauties
That Obscure Object of Desire
The Front
Network
Being There
El Topo
The Spirit of the Beehive
Weekend
Small Change
Sleeper
Women In Love
The Music Lovers
Deliverance
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
The Conversation
The Tin Drum
Soldier of Orange
Dersu Uzala
Walkabout
Picnic at Hanging Rock
The Last Wave
Allegro Non Troppo
Fitzcarraldo
The Marriage of Eva Braun

just a few....

[Tom Kitten]

20. once again the count kills a thread!

This is getting ridiculous! :(

[Waistdeep]

27. Critical Mass problem

Three Herzog films on one list? Everybody ran out of the room. You need to toss in a little more levity.

Fitzcarraldo was 1982, btw. And Godard's Weekend was 1967.

But I like your list. A lot like what I watched in the 70s. I was in Berkeley, though.

[amazona]

35. "Kasper Hauser" did this have another name ?

I saw a German movie about Kasper Hauser way back in the day but I thought it was called by a German slogan along the lines of "god against man and man against himself." I guess since this is a true story there is no reason there couldn't be two films on the topic.

[Waistdeep]

43. It had lots of names

All the same film by Werner Herzog.

The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser
Every Man for Himself and God Against All
Kaspar Hauser - Jeder für sich und Gott gegen alle
The Mystery of Kaspar Hauser

[Yavin4]

28. Here's Some More

I could go on all day with this:

Klute
Julia
The China Syndrome
Coming Home
The Goodbye Girl
Smokey and The Bandit
The Longest Yard
Deliverance
Catch-22

[Yavin4]

29. I Almost Forgot These

Animal House
Monty Python and The Holy Grail
Meatballs

Wow! How could I forget two of the greatest comedies of all time!

[Kid_A]

30. What about the current decade?

The past four years have given us countless cinematic gems:

Battlefield Earth
Catwoman
Lara Croft: Tomb Raider
Planet of the Apes
Dude, Where's My Car?
From Justin 2 Kelly
The Lizzie McGuire Movie
XXX
Van Helsing
The Scorpion King
Book of Shadows: Blair Witch 2
Charlie's Angels
How The Grinch Stole Christmas
The Cat In The Hat
Snow Dogs
Alien vs Predator
Gone in 60 Seconds
Extreme Ops
Garfield: The Movie
Swordfish
Resident Evil
You Got Served
Gigli
Soul Plane
2 Fast, 2 Furious
Torque
Crossroads

Need I go on?

[Yavin4]

31. Today's Movies Have No Soul

There's nothing to them that will make them last forever. I can still watch The Godfather, Apocalypse Now, Chinatown, and Animal House, just for starters. These are classic films.

But you're right. They're no Gigli.

[amazona]

36. ah come on

You can't watch such films as Mulholland Drive and Donnie Darko (both 2001) over and over? There is good stuff being made. The majority of what is produced in any decade will be dreck, earlier decades look better because only the cream is remembered and put on DVDs.

[4_Legs_Good]

42. Great movies and crappy movies

Requiem for a Dream
Magnolia (maybe 1999, maybe)
Memento

3 of the greatest films of all time.

david

[Yavin4]

48. I'm Not Saying That There Aren't Some Good Movies Being Made

But you just cannot compare the overall quality of the 1970s films with today's films.

[NightTrain]

47. You're wasting your time trying to reason with that guy.

He refuses to entertain the radical notion that views other than his own might actually have merit. You'd have more luck trying to convince a hardcore Republican that Bush is a terrible president.

[skygazer]

39. Don't forget White Chicks n/t

[4_Legs_Good]

41. LMAO Great list! Don't forget The Phantom Menace and Attack of the Clones!

worst movies EVER.

david

[EOTE]

49. Ummmm, excuse me.....

You mention Charlie's Angels, but neglect to mention the far superior sequel Charlie's Angels 2: Full Throttle. A film by Roger Ebert's estimation 5 times greater than the original. The film destined to resurect Demi Moore's career with perhaps her finest performance to date. No, it is clear to me that right now we are experiencing the golden age of cinema. And for proof of that, one need not look further than CA2:FT.

[bikebloke]

32. A Decade Under the Influence

A nice documentary about movies from the 70's.

Also, a book "Easy Riders, Raging Bulls" by Peter Biskind. I believe they made that into a documentary as well.

[amazona]

33. eraserhead (1977) NT

.

[bloodyjack]

37. Actually Bonnie & Clyde was late 60s

The Graduate was released the same year so that must also be included

Still, uh, how about the first two Godfather movies, as well as Midnight Cowboy

The decade of Woody Allen's best

Does The Empire Strikes Back count?

[CBHagman]

38. Don't forget Eric Rohmer.

The Marquise of O comes to mind.