Onion AV Club picks "Rolling Thunder" as best action movie of 1977
In the Onion AV Club's recurring feature A History of Violence, they're reviewing and analyzing the best action movie of every year, starting with 1968. Most recently they made it to 1977, and Rolling Thunder was chosen as that year's best action pic. http://www.avclub.com/article/taxi-driver-author-paul-schrader-pens-messed-actio-237352
Pretty insightful reading.