What is your favorite movie from the 70’s? What scene did you enjoy most in that movie?
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Star Wars at the time.
Yeah, not so much now. I own a VHS copy so that I can watch it the way it was originally intended to be watched, but not worth watching on TV anymore. Now Return of the Jedi is always worth watching just for Carrie in her gold bikini. As a 12 year old though, seeing Star Wars on a very large screen was the best.
Star Wars was great, until George Lucas turned to the dark side.
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Found myself literally on the edge of my seat at the end of Star Wars in ’77. First 3 great, the rest-meh. Watched the one with the black stormtrooper and the broad, and thought–‘I’ve seen this plot before’. Wasn’t impressed.
The Godfather – “Leave the gun, take the cannolis”
Dad…is that you??
“Used Cars” with Kurt Russel.
Absolutely side-splittingly hilarious.
” You want the solution to inflation? Hi, friends. Marshall Lucky here for New Deal Used Cars, where we’re lowering inflation not only by fighting high prices, not only by murdering high prices, but by blowing the living shit out of high prices. Yessir. Here’s an example. It’s a 1972 Cadillac Coupe DeVille, for sixty-two ninety-nine. That price is too damn high.” (car explodes)
Also side-splittingly hilarious;
—Airplane
— Something About Mary
Airplane is a great classic.
My favorite scene, and quote:
No contest: Blazing Saddles. Nothing else comes close.
One of the most hilarious IMO.
I have actually never seen this movie, but my dad has told me about it so many times (1,386,455 times exactly) that I feel like I know it well. His favorite movie is…
The Godfather
He just loves telling me about the horse head in the bed scene.
Pro tip: Do you tell your family the same stories over & over until they can finish your sentences for you?? If so, GET SOME NEW STORIES!! Seriously, for your family’s sanity.
AA – I get together with my sisters and BIL’s a couple of times a year and one BIL tells the same stories every single time. He is getting a little hard of hearing and butts in all the time because I don’t think he knows others are having a conversation.
It is not just family.
Some people just love to hear themselves talk. They don’t care if anyone WANTS to hear what they say, just as long as they have the microphone. What they say matters not to them. They know they are boring, they just don’t care about others.
Others, they have no awareness or interest that they are boring people to death. Completely oblivious to the suffering they cause. They have to be told to “Shut the fuck up!”. Even then, they still don’t grasp why.
I have found the easiest and most satisfying way to deal with both, is to completely ignore them. Let them ramble uninterrupted, then after five or ten minutes, stop them. Tell them your mind drifted off and could they please repeat whatever they just said. They often become indignant and refuse to speak further!
Jaws.
This is my favorite documentary of the 70’s. Listen to the lines in the trailer, they mark you for death and body parts, everyone is to be on constant Big Pharma doses and programmed for complete happiness void of love or reproduction/sex. FYI… the underground areas depicted in THX1138 have already been prepared for what is left of humanity after vaxx die off.
All of the Dirty Harry movies
I was going to nominate the fire hydrant scene, but you beat me to it. The cafe scene is a close second. Those types of story lines would never be tolerated today.
“You boys put them guns down…we aren’t just gonna let you walk out of here….Smith, Wesson, and Me”
Gonzales: Why do they call ya “Dirty Harry”?
De Georgio: That’s one thing about our Harry, he doesn’t play any favorites. Harry hates everybody. Limeys, Micks, Hebes, Niggers, Honkies, Fat Dagos, Chinks, you name it.
Gonzales: How does he feel about Mexicans?
De Georgio: Ask him.
Callahan:(says with a wink) Especially Spics.
Blazing Saddles and the scene where the little old lady says “Sorry about the up yours nigger”
Jaws was probably #2. When the head floated into the hole in the bottom of the boat, a lady down the row from me screamed and grabbed her husband’s leg causing him to jump and it went all the way down the row.
The Holy Grail 1975
The outlaw Josey Wales 1976
Winner. Nominated for an academy award for best motion picture ever (lost to The Highlander).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TnOdAT6H94s
Lots of funny clips in that movie.
Another good moment.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8VxaIVluQCk
From Josey Wales- there are plenty, but for me it’s hard to beat
“You a bounty hunter?”
“Man’s got to do somethin for a livin.”
“Dyin ain’t much of a livin, boy.”
Best line evah!
Harold & Maude
Saw that for the first time in a Psychology class in the Catholic High School I attended. Love the soundtrack and love the car.
Yep.
The E-Type hearse was beyond cool.
Chinatown is my Number One, it gets a solid edge over Jaws.
Chinatown
Apocalypse Now is a close second.
Lot’s of good ones on here. They couldn’t get away with this anymore🤣
Richard Pryor had his own charity.
The Ingited Negro College Fund.
Tis a toss up between Soylent Green and Omega Man,saw em both in the theaters as a kid with me dad,perhaps a warning of the future we are headed towards?
They’ve been running them back to back on some odd cable channel lately (THIS). Indeed, both great, but Soylent would win out for me.
Omega Man, itself a remake of The Last Man on Earth, itself an adaptation of the novel “I Am Legend”, “I am Legend”, the movie, being the third remake starring bitch slappin’ Smith. Omega Man is the best of the three movies
My GSD at the time looked exactly like Sam in Smith’s version.
That scene makes my cry like a baby every time.
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
Yet your handle suggests “Slapshot”
Great movie.
So many great Jack Nicholson movies.
I was gonna chime in with Cool Hand Luke, but that was ’67.
Some real classics missing so far. Just throwing them out as great films, not necessarily as my favorite.
MASH
A Clockwork Orange
Deliverance
American Graffiti
The Exorcist (in my tops)
Lenny
Dog Day Afternoon
Network
Taxi Driver
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
Midnight Express
The Deer Hunter
I’d have to go with Monty Python and the Holy Grail.
Apocalypse Now
SOYLENT GREEN IS PEEPUL!
Three Days of the Condor
That was a good one. Too bad Redford turned into a dick.
The Beast Must Die or Dawn of the Dead
I can’t believe no one has said Airplane! yet.
Or Young Frankenstein.
I believe Airplane was 1980
IMDB agrees with you: 1980.
“What great knockers”
“Thank you doctor.”
Cool Hand Luke
Young Frankenstein
Little Big Man-good soundtrack too
Goin’ South
I was gonna say Cool Hand Luke, but I checked and that’s from 1967.
Lee Harvey Griswald
That’s fuckin’ hilarious!
#1 – Rocky
Runner-up – The Deer Hunter – watched it again within the last few years and realized how much things had changed from my youth growing up in a Western PA steel town … was unrecognizable to my kids.
The Deer Hunter is not only the best of the 70s, but the best of all time. The first film I ever saw that showed real life of real people, not just fantasy. The best scene , toward the end when he comes back and went dear hunting again. He realized that killing is not the way.
The rednecks in San Angelo thought it would be a movie about actually hunting deer. They were deeply disappointed.
Mom took me to see it when I was 14. Have been anti-war ever since. Have never watched it again. Mom bought me the Exorcist to read when it came out too. I was certainly mature for my age, but she had some real issues.
Rollerball without a doubt
Loved it. The remake sucks.
Apocalypse Now.
A few I’ve watched more than once over the years that probably don’t tend toward the top of a lot of lists. More of a nostalgia list here than a top movies list.
War: Kelly’s Heroes, Patton, Midway, Force 10 from Navarone
Western: Rooster Cogburn, Support your Local Gunfighter
Sci-fi: Capricorn One, Mad Max, Logan’s Run, Planet of the Apes + sequels, The Black Hole
Action: various James Bond (Live and Let Die, Spy who Loved Me, Moonraker, + probably a few more), Vanishing Point, The Gauntlet
Misc: Papillon, Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory, All of the 70s Pink Panther movies,
Midway!
In SENSURROUND!
Great cast.
Sci Fi:
A Boy and His Dog. (1975).
Starring Don Johnson and based on a novel by Harlan Ellison.
Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977)
Silent Running (1972)
War:
A Bridge Too Far (1977).
Drama:
Five Easy Pieces (1970). “Hold the Chicken.”
The Last Picture Show (1971)
Carnal Knowledge (1971)
Straw Dogs (1971)
Bound for Glory (1976)
Comedy/Drama:
American Graffiti (1973)
Blue Collar (1978)
A Touch of Class (1973)
Action/Adventure:
Black Sunday (1977)
The Poseidon Adventure (1972)
Westerns:
Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid (1973)
Comedy:
Smokey and the Bandit (1977)
And all the Shake and Bake movies (Earthquake, Towering Inferno)
Irwin Allen certainly put out some real disasters.
I had forgotten about Vanishing Point.
Great flick!
I gave it some more thought and also really liked The French Connection,both part one and two.
Enter the Dragon.
“Why don’t you use a .45? Bang, and end it”. Spoken by Bruce Lee.
The Godfather Pt 2
Alien
That had to be the 80s. But no, 1979.
Fuck, we’re old.
Love Story.
Love means never having to say you’re sorry. I live by this rule, especially here on TBP. So, fuckoff if you don’t like my choice.
LOL!
When that became a thing, my mom who NEVER swore,
said in front of all 5 of us kids, “That’s the dumbest shit I ever heard.”
lol … good on your mom!!
It’s quite possibly the MOST IDIOTIC thing EVER said in a movie.
BUT … back in 1970, people ate that shit up like it was gospel truth. Including me … at the time. Now, that’s quite ironic considering that repentance (“I’m sorry …”) and forgiveness is the very heart of the Good News!
I took my girlfriend to NYC to see the movie ….$8 a ticket! … which was insane at the time. Yeah, she loved it. A couple years later, really, she wrote me a “Dear John” letter while I was stationed in Greece. Dumped my ass in a 30+ page letter (really), and never even said “I’m
sorry.”. Fucken cunt. Fucken stoopid movie!
Well, if we’re going there:
The Way We Were (1973)
Other favorites:
Summer of ’42 (1971)
The Paper Chase (1973)
Not the best, but Halloween is my favorite. The Boogeyman is real.
Well…. shit. So many great movies have been left out here that I guess I will put down the bottle and remind you all of:
M*A*S*H
PATTON
KELLY’S HEROES
PAPILLON (absolutely, positively, the best performances of both Steve McQueen and Dustin Hoffman’s careers)
DELIVERANCE
WHERE EAGLES DARE
MIDNIGHT EXPRESS
Jeremiah Johnson
This one was the first film of many double features I went to that decade. Also Take the Money and Run by Woody Allen .
Comedies: Animal House
Holy Grail
Blazing Saddles
Airplane
Drama/action: Dirty Harry
Josey Wales
Bulllit
Gone in 60 Seconds (the original)
Brotherhood of the Bell was a late 1960s thriller; it’s the best movie I’ve ever seen; it’s about the totally corrupt controlled US government, a dictatorship by a Clic of Ivy League grads who run the Deep State and reward whoever does their bidding and crushes whoever doesn’t.
We’re living it.
The Man Who Would Be King
Paper Moon
Hopscotch (1980, but I’m sure it was filmed in the 1970s.)
paper moon … good movie ….. “She has a bladder the size of a pea …”
The Exterminator!
Another good one – The Last Detail with Jack Nicholsoon and a very young Randy Quaid. Parents took me to see this one when I was only 9. Pretty much where I got my charming vocabulary from. 🙂
And two more horror classics – The Omen, and the Texas Chainsaw Massacre.