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God I love 70s movies

posted 6 years ago by Jones70 (6534)
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This is one of my favorite movies from the 70s along with The Exorcist, A Clockwork Orange, Dirty Harry, French Connection, The Getaway, The Godfather, Deliverance, The Friends of Eddie Coyle, The Parallax View, Marathon Man, 3 Days of The Condor, Alien, Saturday Night Fever, Taxi Driver, Network, Dog Day Afternoon, Slap Shot, The Towering Inferno, 3 Women, The Long Goodbye, Pat Garret and Billy The Kid, Cross Of Iron, Apocalypse Now, Grease, Escape From Alcatraz, Murder on the Orient Express, The Day of The Jackal, Thieves Like us

[–] [deleted] 6 years ago

There are some really great and cult movies from the era, I must agree.

[–] HarlemEagle42 (17740) 5 years ago

It was the decade that Hollywood decided to grow up.

[–] [deleted] 5 years ago

I'd like to see this concept fleshed out a bit. I'm not quite getting what you're trying to say by this.

[–] HarlemEagle42 (17740) 5 years ago

Movies from this period seemed more gritty and confrontational about society at the time.

[–] [email protected] (5857) 4 years ago

I can't believe that I did not like this movie the first time I saw it. That was way back when HBO was the only pay per view channel. I saw it years later and I thought it was great. Must've had my head in the sand (or elsewhere) the first time I saw it.

[–] HarlemEagle42 (17740) 4 years ago

It happens. I didn't like Casablanca the first time I saw it but now it's one of my top favorite films.

[–] strntz (12233) 4 years ago

I loved it at first view, and loved it for a whole different reason the second view!

The beauty of this movie is we first see it from the perspective of an outsider not knowing the details of the sting - who is in on it, who isn't, what's the plan.

The second time we see it, we are insiders: we know who is in on the sting and who isn't. I can't recall any other movie that does that to this level.

[–] liscarkat (18388) 2 years ago

"It was the decade that Hollywood decided to grow up."

Did you read that somewhere, or pick it up from your film professor? If you had anything but superficial familiarity with films going all the way back to the nineteen-teens, you'd realize that there have always been a lot of very grown up movies. Any decade you can pick has just as many grown up films as the 1970s does, and the 1970s had just as many lightweight movies as any previous decade had.