The Impossible List - 10 best films of the 1970's?

[DeadlyDynasty]

Watching Marathon Man right now and thought about how the 70's was just an insane era of films. Midnight Express, the Godfathers, The Long Goodbye, French Connection, Jaws, Deer Hunter, Dog Day, and a million more I can't possibly list. If you had to consolidate it down to 10--be it subjectively or objectively--what would be your 10?

[resistanze]

Good thread. These came naturally off the top of my head as my favourite - I'm sure people will list another half dozen that might make me re-think my list.

1) Godfather II
2) Godfather I
3) One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
4) Alien
5) The Exorcist
6) Taxi Driver
7) Star Wars
8) Rocky
9) Apocalypse Now
10) Jaws

[Sportcamper]

Rocky...M*A*S*H…Patton…The Ballad of Cable Hogue…Godfather…Jaws…Godfather: Part II,… Star Wars...Apocalypse Now...American Graffiti...Dog Day Afternoon…

The Endless Summer did not make the list because it was 1966...

[DeadlyDynasty]

Might have to make it Top 50 or 100 after seeing your list.:lol Mean Streets, Clockwork Orange, Chinatown, etc

[JMarkJohns]

The Sting, Blazing Saddles as well.

[DeadlyDynasty]

Life of Brian, Holy Grail, Eraserhead, Escape From Alcatraz...yes, scanning my DVD collection right now:lol

[baseline bum]

The Opening of Misty Beethoven

[resistanze]

:lmao @ me forgetting Clockwork...something is coming of my list TBH.

[JMarkJohns]

Golden age of comedies when nothing was sacred...

To add to the Monty Python mentions and Blazing Saddles, there's Annie Hall, Young Frankenstein, Animal House

[DeadlyDynasty]

Golden age of comedies when nothing was sacred...

To add to the Monty Python mentions and Blazing Saddles, there's Annie Hall, Young Frankenstein, Animal House

+1. We need the eggs:cry

[JMarkJohns]

Was Blues Brothers 70s? Feels early 80s to me.

[baseline bum]

No mention of Kentucky Fried Movie yet?

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[Proxy]

Clockwork Orange
The Godfather
Solaris
The Godfather II
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Taxi Driver
Annie Hall
Apocalypse Now
Alien
Stalker

[baseline bum]

You mean we're smoking dogshit?

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[CubanSucks]

Godfather 1 &2, Rocky, Clockwork Orange, Apocalypse Now, Star Wars, Patton, Jaws, Network, Alien, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

that's 11 but I can't decide what to leave out

[baseline bum]

Hey.... I got's to know

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[baseline bum]

Godfather 1 &2, Rocky, Clockwork Orange, Apocalypse Now, Star Wars, Patton, Jaws, Network, Alien, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

that's 11 but I can't decide what to leave out

Damn, can't believe no one mentioned Network until now.

[Proxy]

that's 11 but I can't decide what to leave out

Rocky or Jaws

[CubanSucks]

Rocky or Jaws

Then Jaws. Rocky's one of my all time faves

[Reck]

In order.. Parts of same movies dont count toward goal number of ten..

1.The Godfather 2 and 1
2.Escape from Alcatraz
3.Serpico
4.Jaws
5.Rocky 1
6.French Connection
7.The Omen
8.Star Wars
9.Midnight Express
10.Death Wish

Honorable mentions

The Exorcist, Alien, Superman, A clockwork Orange, Texas Chainsaw Massacre

[CitizenDwayne]

10. The Deer Hunter
9. Don't Look Now
8. Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia
7. Chinatown
6. The Killing of a Chinese Bookie
5. Carrie
4. The Godfather
3. Dog Day Afternoon
2. Taxi Driver
1. The Godfather Part II

[DeadlyDynasty]

The Exorcist just started on BBCAM for those interested

[silverblk mystix]

10) The Sting
9) Alien
8) The Exorcist
7) Deliverance
6) Shampoo
5) Jeremiah Johnson
4) The Deer Hunter
3) Godfather II
2) Rocky
1) The Godfather

[DeadlyDynasty]

Good drop w/ Jeremiah Johnson:tu

[Wild Cobra]

In alphabetical order, best i can recall:

Animal House
Close Encounters of the Third Kind
Dirty Harry
Logan's Run
M*A*S*H
Mad Max
Star Wars
Superman
The Eiger Sanction
Thinderbolt and Lightfoot

[DeadlyDynasty]

All the President's Men

[baseline bum]

What about Deep Throat? The heartwarming story of the bitch whose clitoris was located in the back of her throat?

[JudynTX]

No love for Westworld or Logan's Run. Y'all suck. :lol :td


http://youtu.be/LcL3eP0Hfy4


http://youtu.be/4WUUnc1M0TA

[Rogue]

all Luis de Funes movies made in the 1970's. dude was the baddest ass comedian in movie history tbh.

[JudynTX]

What about Deep Throat? The heartwarming story of the bitch whose clitoris was located in the back of her throat?

:lol heartwarming

[silverblk mystix]

Good drop w/ Jeremiah Johnson:tu


One of the few movies I own...

[CubanSucks]

In order.. Parts of same movies dont count toward goal number of ten..

1.The Godfather 2 and 1
2.Escape from Alcatraz
3.Serpico
4.Jaws
5.Rocky 1
6.French Connection
7.The Omen
8.Star Wars
9.Midnight Express
10.Death Wish

Honorable mentions

The Exorcist, Alien, Superman, A clockwork Orange, Texas Chainsaw Massacre

Wow you suck


In alphabetical order, best i can recall:

Animal House
Close Encounters of the Third Kind
Dirty Harry
Logan's Run
M*A*S*H
Mad Max
Star Wars
Superman
The Eiger Sanction
Thinderbolt and Lightfoot

Road Warrior is the only good Mad Max imo

[DeadlyDynasty]

Haven't seen Westworld since I was a youngin, but I remember Yul Brynner being scary in it.

[Trill Clinton]

not too familiar with 70's cinema but the movies i have watched that are dope to me are: the bridge over river kwai, clockwork orange, one flew over the cuckoo's nest, the shining, planet of the apes and the mack. i had to watch all of those except the mack for a film class in high school.

[DeadlyDynasty]

my nigga Trill viewing, so I gotta add Dolemite to the list

[Wild Cobra]

not too familiar with 70's cinema but the movies i have watched that are dope to me are: the bridge over river kwai, clockwork orange, one flew over the cuckoo's nest, the shining, planet of the apes and the mack. i had to watch all of those except the mack for a film class in high school.
Planet of the Apes would be on my 60's list.

Now after the original, several followed, but I don't like them as well as the original:

Beneath the Planet of the Apes (1970)
Escape from the Planet of the Apes (1971)
Conquest of the Planet of the Apes (1972)
Battle for the Planet of the Apes (1973)

[Reck]

Wow you suck

What exactly on that list suck?

[baseline bum]

my nigga Trill viewing, so I gotta add Dolemite to the list

Worst kung fu fighting ever in a movie

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It is pretty funny when he shouts down the white bitch for bringing him cotton boxers instead of silk after getting outta jail though.

[Trill Clinton]

my nigga Trill viewing, so I gotta add Dolemite to the list

lol i've never seen a dolemite movie. the 70's blaxploitation films looked cheesey as fuck.

[DeadlyDynasty]

Worst kung fu fighting ever in a movie

SIUEHsyt54I

It is pretty funny when he shouts down the white bitch for bringing him cotton boxers instead of silk after getting outta jail though.


lol i've never seen a dolemite movie. the 70's blaxploitation films looked cheesey as fuck.

tbh you should check out Dolemite at least once. The editing is terrible (you can actually see the Boom mic in a couple shots:lol), but it's still a classic tbh. You might like Blacula too

[Trill Clinton]

Worst kung fu fighting ever in a movie

SIUEHsyt54I

It is pretty funny when he shouts down the white bitch for bringing him cotton boxers instead of silk after getting outta jail though.



:rollin

[baseline bum]

LOL, here's the scene from Dolemite I was talking about

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z1JkNKL1BwE&t=9m40s

[baseline bum]

tbh you should check out Dolemite at least once. The editing is terrible (you can actually see the Boom mic in a couple shots:lol), but it's still a classic tbh. You might like Blacula too

Yeah, the editing and fighting are both awful, but the dialog is amazing.

[baseline bum]

Any hiphop fan should check Dolemite. A lot of people consider Rudy Ray Moore the world's first rapper.

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[baseline bum]

Speaking of Rudy Ray Moore, here he is doing the intro to this Eazy E song :lol

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[redzero]

Stalker was boring. I don't like how Marathon Man ended compared to the novel.

1.) The Godfather II
2.) Taxi Driver
3.) The Godfather
4.) Chinatown
5.) Apocalypse Now
6.) The Shining (most unsettling horror movie)
7.) Alien (scariest horror movie)
8.) One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest
9.) A Clockwork Orange
10.) Network

[CitizenDwayne]

Stalker was boring.

I agree. Never understood the love for Tarkovsky.

[HarlemHeat37]

1. Godfather 2
2. Godfather
3. Taxi Driver
4. One Flew Over
5. Manhattan
6. Papillon
7. Dog Day Afternoon
8. A Clockwork Orange
9. Deer Hunter
10. Mean Streets

[baseline bum]

So everyone seems to like Godfather 2 more than 1 here? I loved all the old-school DeNiro scenes in 2, but the Pacino scenes in Nevada were kind of boring IMO. Every time I watch it I get disappointed whenever the 1920s scenes with DeNiro flash forward to Lake Tahoe.

[Wild Cobra]

4. One Flew Over [Salem, Oregon's insane asylum]


I wonder how many people know it was filmed there, in an actual psychiatric hospital?

[DeadlyDynasty]

So everyone seems to like Godfather 2 more than 1 here? I loved all the old-school DeNiro scenes in 2, but the Pacino scenes in Nevada were kind of boring IMO. Every time I watch it I get disappointed whenever the 1920s scenes with DeNiro flash forward to Lake Tahoe.

For the most part I agree--the 1920's scenes were great--but there are plenty of good Tahoe scenes as well. The first meeting with the Senator, the Kay/abortion talk, and Michael's look to Al Neri when he's hugging Fredo at their mom's funeral. Great, haunting stuff.

[redzero]

The Godfather II was a more personal movie. While the first one was very story-oriented, Part II focused more on the characters and why it sucks to be a mobster. That's why I liked it more. The last scene especially gave me feels, with Michael all alone in the dining room.

[Koolaid_Man]

not too familiar with 70's cinema but the movies i have watched that are dope to me are: the bridge over river kwai, clockwork orange, one flew over the cuckoo's nest, the shining, planet of the apes and the mack. i had to watch all of those except the mack for a film class in high school.

did you see this one those white boys made..they were so racist they just didn't give a fuck and niggas needed a dolla I guess...this shit was just wrong....but I did watch the shit...


Monkey Hustle

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[CuckingFunt]

I wonder how many people know it was filmed there, in an actual psychiatric hospital?

I'm guessing a lot of people knew that. It's not a secret.

[CuckingFunt]

I think Godfather II is the better film, but I think The Godfather is the more enjoyable/entertaining movie.

Incidentally, I can't get my list anywhere near 10 no matter what approach I take:

- The Godfather
- Mean Streets
- New York, New York
- Network
- Five Easy Pieces
- Foxy Brown and/or Coffy
- Dog Day Afternoon
- High Anxiety
- Monty Python and the Holy Grail
- Taxi Driver
- Annie Hall
- The Shining
- A Clockwork Orange
- The Rocky Horror Picture Show
- Nashville
- Beyond the Valley of the Dolls

Were I to go purely subjective (my favorites, rather than the best) my top 10 would likely come from those listed above. Can't narrow it down any more than that, though.

[Wild Cobra]

I'm guessing a lot of people knew that. It's not a secret.
Sure, back in the 70's it was well known. I doubt most these people here in the forums here were even born yet.

[CubanSucks]

not too familiar with 70's cinema but the movies i have watched that are dope to me are: the bridge over river kwai, clockwork orange, one flew over the cuckoo's nest, the shining, planet of the apes and the mack. i had to watch all of those except the mack for a film class in high school.


Stalker was boring. I don't like how Marathon Man ended compared to the novel.

1.) The Godfather II
2.) Taxi Driver
3.) The Godfather
4.) Chinatown
5.) Apocalypse Now
6.) The Shining (most unsettling horror movie)
7.) Alien (scariest horror movie)
8.) One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest
9.) A Clockwork Orange
10.) Network

The Bridge on the River Kwai is 50s and The Shininig is 1980.


So everyone seems to like Godfather 2 more than 1 here? I loved all the old-school DeNiro scenes in 2, but the Pacino scenes in Nevada were kind of boring IMO. Every time I watch it I get disappointed whenever the 1920s scenes with DeNiro flash forward to Lake Tahoe.

This is EXACTLY how I've always felt. 2 is great but 1 is THE Godfather movie imo. It also felt like NYC was its own character in 1 which helped it, plus Marlon Brando and James Caan

[Nbadan]

Man no love for The Warriors?


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aRM2YcGpmxg

[Nbadan]

Close Encounters of the Third Kind

definitely top 3....

[Nbadan]

.

Star Wars (1977)

Top 3

[Nbadan]

Rocky (1976)

Top 10

[Nbadan]

Jaws (1975)

Top 5

[Nbadan]

Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975)

*10

[Nbadan]

Apocalypse Now (1979)

4

[Nbadan]

The Godfather (1972)

Top 3

[Nbadan]

Deliverance (1972)

9

[Nbadan]

The Exorcist (1973)

7

[Nbadan]

American Graffiti (1973)

6

[Nbadan]

1. Close Encounters of the third Kind
2. Star Wars
3. Godfather Part 2
4. Apocalypse Now
5. Jaws
6. American Graffiti
7. The Exorcist
8. Rocky
9. Deliverance
10. Monty Python and the Holy Grail....

Someone get me the holy hand gernade I'm out of here..

[AaronY]

http://siskelandebert.org/video/8RORMWR2Y8ON/Sneak-Previews-Best-of-the-1970s

http://siskelandebert.org/video/OG17WGXD22K3/Special-Siskel-amp-Ebert--Best-Films-of-the-Early-1970s-1994

[baseline bum]

Life of Brian > The Holy Grail tbh

[JoeTait75]

Limiting just to movies I've seen and in no particular order:

- Star Wars (1977)
- A Clockwork Orange (1971)
- The Godfather Part II (1974)
- The Parallax View (1974)
- Nashville (1975)
- Dirty Harry (1971)
- Apocalypse Now (1979)
- Taxi Driver (1976)
- Dog Day Afternoon (1975)
- The Deer Hunter (1978)

[resistanze]

So everyone seems to like Godfather 2 more than 1 here? I loved all the old-school DeNiro scenes in 2, but the Pacino scenes in Nevada were kind of boring IMO. Every time I watch it I get disappointed whenever the 1920s scenes with DeNiro flash forward to Lake Tahoe.

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Gives me chills, tbh

[ohmwrecker]

You could make a top ten using only Coppola movies. Dude owned the seventies.

[Capt Bringdown]

The Long Goodbye - 1973
The Killing of a Chinese Bookie - 1976
Straight Time - 1978
Fat City - 1972
The Man Who Would Be King - 1975
Barry Lyndon - 1975
Emperor of the North - 1973
The Hired Hand - 1971
The Nickel Ride - 1974
Deliverance - 1972

[AaronY]

You could make a top ten using only Coppola movies. Dude owned the seventies.
Its mindblowing; Dude also wrote Patton and produced American Graffiti..

[silverblk mystix]

Its mindblowing; Dude also wrote Patton and produced American Graffiti..


He also indirectly produced - Nicholas Cage -

this kinda nullifies all his accomplishments tbh.


I keed-I keed!

[DeadlyDynasty]

The Long Goodbye - 1973
The Killing of a Chinese Bookie - 1976
Straight Time - 1978
Fat City - 1972
The Man Who Would Be King - 1975
Barry Lyndon - 1975
Emperor of the North - 1973
The Hired Hand - 1971
The Nickel Ride - 1974
Deliverance - 1972
Always wanted to see the Man Who Would Be King...Barry Lyndon was too plodding for me

[Proxy]

Man no love for The Warriors?


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aRM2YcGpmxg

It's fine as a "cult" movie, but stands nowhere near a top 10 list of movies from the 70s. It would be joke to have The Warriors next to The Godfather or Apocalypse Now imo.

[baseline bum]

FcFlp6kl508

Gives me chills, tbh

I didn't think it was chilling as Big Puppet killing Little Puppet in American Me.

[SpursNextRomanEmpire]

The Conversation

[redzero]

The Conversation

Funny how the emphasis put on one word can completely change the meaning of a sentence.

[Capt Bringdown]

It's impossible. Need more than top 10, top 100 is more like it for this decade:

Kelly's Heroes
The Outlaw Josey Wales
Network
Little Big Man
The Harder They Come
Winter Kills
Bad Company
Five Easy Pieces
The Exorcist
Hearts and Minds
Paper Moon
Tombs of the Blind Dead
The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-In-The-Moon Marigolds
Winter Soldier
Blue Collar
The French Connection
Straw Dogs
The Wicker Man
Charley Varrick
The Taking of Pelham 123
Don't Look Now
Young Frankenstein
The Texas Chain Saw Massacre
Black Christmas
Carrie

[JoeTait75]

The Conversation

Totally forgot about The Conversation. That's a great fucking movie.

[DarrinS]

No Kramer vs. Kramer?

[mrsmaalox]

Don't even know where to begin with all the posts I want to comment on! But it truly is an impossible list. As far as directors go, for me the 70's are all about Robert Altman:

MASH
McCabe and Mrs Miller
Images
The Long Goodbye
Thieves Like Us
Nashville
3 Women
A Wedding

[gameFACE]

In no order off the top of my head:

1. Clockwork Orange
2. French Connection
3. American Graffiti
4. Godfather
5. The Last Picture Show
6. Taxi Driver
7. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
8. Everything You Always Wanted To Know About Sex (But Were Afraid to Ask) - could substitute Sleeper or Love and Death
9. Eraserhead
10. Every other film I like that I couldn't squeeze in 1-9.

[DeadlyDynasty]

No Kramer vs. Kramer?
Ugh, tbh. Same with Ordinary People (1980)

[AaronY]

A really great 70s movie that for whatever reason got totally forgotten is Straight Time with Dustin Hoffman..probably the only movie I would put in a 70s top ten or whatever that hasnt been mentioned..found out about it here:

http://siskelandebert.org/video/Y8O2G832HBOS/Sneak-Previews-Overlooked-Classics

its got a good RT score too some of the reviews list as negative if you read them they're actually positive:

http://www.rottentomatoes.com/mobile/m/straight_time/

dont wanna reveal too much but Hoffman plays a career criminal who gets out of prison and tries to go straight..

[DeadlyDynasty]

Born to Win, The Panic in Needle Park, as well as And Justice For All were pretty solid too...not top 10, but solid nonetheless.

[Viva Las Espuelas]

No mention of Kentucky Fried Movie yet?

1tINTtHWsxg

and the capitol of Nebraska is Lincoln!!!! :lol

[tlongII]

The Outlaw Josey Wales would be on my list.

[CosmicCowboy]

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