Have You Accepted That No Decade Will Ever Come Close To The 70s In Terms Of Movies

[Devil Plisken…CMS]

Is what it is

 

[Vandelay]

Huh...

Make your case...

 

[HipHopStan]

List of the notable films from the 1970's:

1. The Exorcist
2. JAWS
3. Alien
4. Star Wars
5. Superman
6. Rocky
7. One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest
8. Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory
9. Shaft
10. The Godfather
11. The Godfather Part 2
12. Texas Chainsaw Massacre
13. Dog Day Afternoon
14. The French Connection
15. Halloween
16. The Taking of Pelham 1, 2, 3
17. Taxi Driver
18. Apocalypse Now!
19. Network
20. The Muppet Movie
21. Young Frankenstein
22. American Graffiti
23. Close Encounters of the Third Kind
24. Annie Hall
25. Monty Python and the Holy Grail
26. Blazing Saddles
27. A Clockwork Orange
28. The Poseidon Adventure
29. Invasion of the Body Snatchers
30. Annie Hall
31. Patton
32. The Deer Hunter
33. Dirty Harry
34. The Sting
35. The Spy Who Loved Me
36. The Amityville Horror
37. The Towering Inferno
38. Murder on the Orient Express
39. All the President's Men
40. The Omen
41. Smokey and the Bandit
42. Up In Smoke
43. Kramer vs. Kramer
44. Bad News Bears
45. Deliverance
46. Airport
47. The Jerk
48. The Last Picture Show
49. Enter the Dragon
50. Animal House

I'm sure someone can list 50 films from the 80's or 90's, but that's a pretty stacked list right there. There's only two cons: 1.) There wasn't a lot of diversity among the casts of these films and 2.) It's hard to believe that nothing animated really hit my radar as I was thinking of films, but Robin Hood, Watership Down, and Charlotte's Web all came out in the 70's too. This was a weak decade for animation.

 

[Devil Plisken…CMS]

Huh...

Make your case...

List of the notable films from the 1970's:

1. The Exorcist
2. JAWS
3. Alien
4. Star Wars
5. Superman
6. Rocky
7. One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest
8. Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory
9. Shaft
10. The Godfather
11. The Godfather Part 2
12. Texas Chainsaw Massacre
13. Dog Day Afternoon
14. The French Connection
15. Halloween
16. The Taking of Pelham 1, 2, 3
17. Taxi Driver
18. Apocalypse Now!
19. Network
20. The Muppet Movie
21. Young Frankenstein
22. American Graffiti
23. Close Encounters of the Third Kind
24. Annie Hall
25. Monty Python and the Holy Grail
26. Blazing Saddles
27. A Clockwork Orange
28. The Poseidon Adventure
29. Invasion of the Body Snatchers
30. Annie Hall
31. Patton
32. The Deer Hunter
33. Dirty Harry
34. The Sting
35. The Spy Who Loved Me
36. The Amityville Horror
37. The Towering Inferno
38. Murder on the Orient Express
39. All the President's Men
40. The Omen
41. Smokey and the Bandit
42. Up In Smoke
43. Kramer vs. Kramer
44. Bad News Bears
45. Deliverance
46. Airport
47. The Jerk
48. The Last Picture Show
49. Enter the Dragon
50. Animal House

I'm sure someone can list 50 films from the 80's or 90's, but that's a pretty stacked list right there. There's only two cons: 1.) There wasn't a lot of diversity among the casts of these films and 2.) It's hard to believe that nothing animated really hit my radar as I was thinking of films, but Robin Hood, Watership Down, and Charlotte's Web all came out in the 70's too. This was a weak decade for animation.

That list doesn’t even include The Conversation, Chinatown, Superfly, The Mack or Shaft

 

[HipHopStan]

That list doesn’t even include The Conversation, Chinatown, Superfly, The Mack or Shaft

Shaft is on there, but I totally forgot about The Conversation. The movie that made you weary of toilets. I also forgot about Mad Max.

 

[FunkDoc1112]

Ehhh, the mid-90s alone is pretty fierce.

 

[Devil Plisken…CMS]

Ehhh, the mid-90s alone is pretty fierce.

By the time the 90s rolled around Hollywood had already been figured out. There were templates in place that originated from....

I can think of one genre defining movie in the 90s. I’d love to see what you think however

 

[FunkDoc1112]

By the time the 90s rolled around Hollywood had already been figured out. There were templates in place that originated from....

I can think of one genre defining movie in the 90s. I’d love to see what you think however

That actually is a very good point

 

[Devil Plisken…CMS]

That actually is a very good point

think of it this way...Die Hard came out in 88. It was a phenomenal movie in the moment it came out...but you don’t stop to consider there was nothing like it before it came out until you’re punished with the ENDLESS copycats that came out in the decades to come. That’s when you realize the scope & impact of that one movie alone

the 70s has like 10 of those movies not to mention some of the greatest performances & actors being at their peak during this period

 

[nieman]

I think the 80's got it tho....from 1980 to about 86 was craaaaaazy...and they were taking risks like the 70's, but hella more creative, by using the style influence of the 70's, and outside influences to let their minds run wild.

 

[Da Jungles]

I've accepted that whenever someone says something will never happen. It will eventually happen

 

[BXKingPin82]

"Freddies dead!!
Thats what I saaaaaaaid!"

 

[NotAnFBIagent]

 

[Cave Savage]

The 70s and 90s are my favorite decades.
There was a sea change towards really good movies around 1970.

 

[DonRe]

70’s movies was in another level. I was watching 70’s in the 90’s as a kid just like i can watch it now and appreciate its greatness.

alot of 80’s and some 90’s shyt aged terribly

but 70’s movies truly aged like wine.

Comedy, since was mostly white and remedial sans Animal House, maybe the only thing that is better during the 80’s and onward