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Top 10 Movies of the 1970s
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| March 25, 2014
| WatchMojo.com
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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KEYWORDS: 1970s; cinema; film; movies
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To: SkiKnee
Totally agree with you. The Sting is one of those movies I can watch over and over and never get tired of. Definitely needs to be in the top 10.
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posted on
03/25/2014 4:57:16 PM PDT
by
3catsanadog
(I love my country; I don't like its government)
To: gorush
They don’t make eye candy for the gals like that anymore.
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posted on
03/25/2014 4:58:08 PM PDT
by
3catsanadog
(I love my country; I don't like its government)
To: EveningStar
Where’s “Patton” (1970)?? It won 6 academy awards that year.
To: ifinnegan
“Deer Hunter was the most pretentious for sure”
Agreed. Too many movies get a free pass because they portray something ethnic from 200 miles around NYC. Godfather, Deer hunter, Taxi Driver, etc etc.
Their self love propaganda makes anything an instant hit if its set inside that magic 200 mile circle.
You just need a few greasy actors to say sarcastic tough guy things.
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posted on
03/25/2014 4:58:48 PM PDT
by
DesertRhino
(I was standing with a rifle, waiting for soviet paratroopers, but communists just ran for office.)
To: ifinnegan
Back in the summer of 1975, Jaws was the movie to see. It was a blockbuster. I was 12-years-old and it was the first "adult" movie I went to. It was a mad scene at the theater, the lines wrapped around the building and many people in line couldn't get in and had to wait three hours for the next showing.
That movie scared the hell out of us. I remember going to the beach shortly afterwards and very few people were going out into the water! That was the effect that this movie had.
Fast forward 25 years later and I rented it on DVD for my kids to watch. They laughed at it and thought the special effects were cheesy. They were right. That shark was lame!
To: SkiKnee
I would definitely put The Sting and Young Frankenstein in there, in place of Apocalypse Now and Taxi Driver. They belong high in the next ten, but are crowded out of the first ten.
My criteria has to include -watchability- today. That is... If it’s on, will I bother to watch it or skip to something else... Both of those are still big fun to watch after hundreds of times.
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posted on
03/25/2014 4:59:41 PM PDT
by
Ramius
(Personally, I give us one chance in three. More tea anyone?)
To: EveningStar
Rocky deserves to be much higher on the list. The first Rocky was a truly great movie. I’d put Alien on the list take off Clockwork Orange.
Like Dirty Harry but top ten?
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posted on
03/25/2014 5:01:29 PM PDT
by
Williams
(No Obama)
To: EveningStar
Shoot, I would put Breking Away and Airplane over some of those in the top ten.
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posted on
03/25/2014 5:02:11 PM PDT
by
TBall
To: EveningStar
To: EveningStar
Hey, what about the remake of Plan 9 From Outer Space?
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posted on
03/25/2014 5:02:38 PM PDT
by
PapaNew
To: SamAdams76
” I rented it on DVD for my kids to watch. They laughed at it and thought the special effects were cheesy. They were right. That shark was lame!”
Yessir,, had that same experience. My daughter thought I was an idiot when I told her how it scared a generation right out of the water.
She also laughed at Legend Of Boggy Creek. Walks right by windows at night without the slightest thought that a bigfoot might reach in.
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posted on
03/25/2014 5:04:10 PM PDT
by
DesertRhino
(I was standing with a rifle, waiting for soviet paratroopers, but communists just ran for office.)
To: EveningStar
Sorry, didn’t read the entire post before commenting. The Sting is listed #22 on WatchMojo. Belongs in the top ten IMO.
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posted on
03/25/2014 5:05:17 PM PDT
by
SkiKnee
To: EveningStar
"Old time movies?"
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posted on
03/25/2014 5:05:45 PM PDT
by
Eccl 10:2
(Prov 3:5 --- "Trust in the Lord with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding")
To: EveningStar
To: EveningStar
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posted on
03/25/2014 5:06:29 PM PDT
by
fso301
To: rusty schucklefurd
Loved Patton. One of the best ever. Great acting, great photography, great script, great directing, evenly paced, great score. Definitely should be at the top of the list.
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posted on
03/25/2014 5:06:51 PM PDT
by
PapaNew
To: EveningStar
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posted on
03/25/2014 5:08:12 PM PDT
by
Huntress
("Politicians exploit economic illiteracy." --Walter Williams)
To: EveningStar
that is a great list; here are my favorite 70s Movies in no particular order;
Mean Streets (1973)
Dirty Harry (1971)
Dog Day Afternoon (1975)
A Clockwork Orange (1971)
Network (1976)
Harold and Maude (1971)
Serpico (1973)
Patton (1970)
Little Big Man (1970)
The Cowboys (1972)
Honorable mentions
North Dallas Forty (1979)
Shaft (1971)
The Paper Chase (1973)
Bang the Drum Slowly (1973)
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posted on
03/25/2014 5:09:05 PM PDT
by
Kid Shelleen
(Beat your plowshares into swords. Let the weak say I am strong)
To: EveningStar
While ‘A clockwork orange’ was a great read written by Anthony Burgess. The Kubrick movie sucked in my opinion. It doesn’t belong on that list.
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posted on
03/25/2014 5:09:43 PM PDT
by
Bullish
(America should yank Obama like a rotten tooth before he poisons the entire body)
Also, if Godfather is #1 then Godfather 2 should be #2.
Just sayin’
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posted on
03/25/2014 5:10:51 PM PDT
by
Bullish
(America should yank Obama like a rotten tooth before he poisons the entire body)
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