Posted on 03/25/2014 4:42:44 PM PDT by EveningStar
This decade saw Hollywood focus on the harsh truths of war, rich cinematography movies on a blockbuster scale. Welcome to WatchMojo.com, and today, in this installment of our series on the greatest movies of all time, we're counting down our picks for the top 10 movies of the 1970s.
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Mine would be: Star Wars IV, Superman, The Taking of Pelham 123, The Shootist, Animal House, Up in Smoke, Winds of War (TV), Holocaust (TV), Towering Inferno, and the French Connection
I read Tom Laughlin’s bio over at wikipedia, I didn’t realize he was such a leftie, still, in a cheesy way and with the martial arts element, whoopin’ tale in that little town, I kind of like the first Billy Jack movie.
My choices?
Hard to say for sure.
I’d keep Chinatown on the list.
Blazing Saddles, Young Frankenstein
Holy Grail
Paper Moon
Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz
American Graffiti
Silent Movie (perhaps even more hilarious than Blazing Saddles and Young Frankenstein).
Dog Day Afternoon
High Plains Drifter
That’s not to mention Buñuel’s three 70’s films.
Where is THE SHOOTIST?
And those race across the country movies. Gum ball Rally and another one with celebrities.
That movie scared the crap out of me (10yrs old) and my 5 year old brother. We talked about "The Legend of Boggy Creek" getting us for years!
I happened to catch it one late night on cable in the mid-80's, and could not believe how lame it was. Even so, it was scary at the time. Funny you bring it up, most people have never heard of it!
The scene with Gaylord Sartain, which was cut from the movie, was GREAT! It is on You tube.
She's also pretty cute in 1976's The Eagle Has Landed, which is a pretty good film in its own right, with Michael Caine, Donald Sutherland, Robert Duvall and Larry Hagman.
At the time...there were some goofy movies, offered up. Well, I still like the supposed,”even keel”, of such movies. Anyhow, thanks, BeadCounter.
I would definitely put slap shot on the list. One of Newmann’s finest films.
Great movie! I really liked Chief Dan George in that movie. Another couple of movies I really loved, both Westerns, "A Man Called Horse" and "Butch Cassidy & the Sundance Kid!" "Think you used enough dynamite there, Butch?" A lot of great one-liners in that movie!
Mark
Warriors come out and play...Warriors.
1) I don’t have a list of favorite Hollywood entertainment vehicle products,
2) If I did, it would be nobody’s business, like anybody’s lists are not my business or interest,
3) I hate lists!
My all time favorite made for TV movie:
Evil Roy Slade
I first saw Star Wars a couple of weeks after it opened, at one of the largest movie theaters in Kansas City (Overland Park, actually). The opening scenes of that movie, back in the 1970s, on a HUGH screen, was something nobody had ever seen before.
The whole movie was a jaw dropping experience.
Mark
Evil Roy Slade
My all time favorite, made for TV movie (I think it was made for TV) was "Harrison Bergeron." A terrific Kurt Vonnegut distopian short story turned into a movie, staring Sean Astin (of Lord of the Rings fame.)
Mark
Jaws is one of- if not the best ‘horror’ film ever made.
Masterful.
It needed no obscene monsters, gory bloody scenes, no graphic sex or ‘F’ bombs every sentence the characters uttered.
The opening scene, a beautiful woman is seen treading water on a lovely moonlit, still bay. A buoy bell dings gently not far away. She laughs and calls to her boyfriend to join her, but he has passed out on the beach.
The camera does a sharks point of view beneath the girls legs, treading water. The camera gets closer, the music gets louder,
Suddenly she feels a tug at her body from beneath the water.
A expression of shock spreads over her face before she is pulled under.
She surfaces and her gurgling water logged screams are blood curdling. But there is no one to hear.
Again she is pulled under, but this time she does not resurface.
The water calms in the moonlight. The buoy continues its
gentle chimes- as though nothing had ever happened.
You have seen nothing. No monster. Nothing.
No need. The mind can conjure up images much worse than any movie maker could.
The primal fear of what is unknown in the water, is one of the factors that makes that scene so effective.
Spielburg uses fear instead of gore to scare the viewer
Few films are perfect. This one almost is. Jaws is the rarefied movie that can weather intensive scrutiny of each of its sum parts, and still emerge from this analysis as a clearly superior work in every aspect of its production. The acting is top-notch, and each of its characters are perfectly cast and essayed.
The score is superlative, and as key to the horror within as the shark. The story itself is deceptively simple, yet powerful enough to remain both timely and timeless. The camera work and use of environment to create tension are unparalleled in the film medium, and every frame carries an implied menace, even when the shark is nowhere in sight. Every detail of the film-making process is performed here with such groundbreaking precision that the film almost becomes a textbook.
Little Big Man is great...watched it a couple months ago and loved it again. It definitely should have been on the top 10 list. The rendition of The Garry Owen March was the best I’ve ever heard.
Nice Picture!! Paul Newman was a class act!!!
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