Top 100 Movies of the 1970s - October 6th is deadline

[TMP]

3 minutes ago, Jake Gittes said:

I just finally saw Dog Day Afternoon for the first time. Might partly be the immediate post-viewing high talking but this is probably one of the 20 or 30 best films I've ever seen. Just stunning. 

Saw it for the first time a few weeks back and I agree. Riveting stuff

[TalismanRing]

Just now, Jake Gittes said:

I just finally saw Dog Day Afternoon for the first time. Might partly be the immediate post-viewing high talking but this is probably one of the 20 or 30 best films I've ever seen. Just stunning. 

Brilliant film and based on a true story

 

Pacino had an actors run for the ages in the early to mid 70s

[Cap]

On 9/30/2019 at 9:58 PM, TalismanRing said:

(same point totals are listed alphabetically)

I totally do this too 

 

[TalismanRing]

Just now, captainwondyful said:

I totally do this too 

 

I was driving myself crazy - kept moving things up two or down three places then back again.  Then I realized I did not have to.

[Cap]

12 minutes ago, TalismanRing said:

I was driving myself crazy - kept moving things up two or down three places then back again.  Then I realized I did not have to.

it's SOOOOOOOO freeeing.

[The Stingray]

On 8/21/2019 at 8:54 PM, CoolioD1 said:

wow i forgot texas chainsaw i'm dumb.

 

1 hour ago, CoolioD1 said:

sent it in. only a minor change from the one i posted like a dumbass i forgot days of heaven from my earlier list.

 

Hope you included Texas Chainsaw too.

 

[CoolioD1]

7 minutes ago, The Stingray said:

 

 

Hope you included Texas Chainsaw too.

 

yes that was on there. i have a specific type of dementia that makes me forget movies about texas apparently.

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[Plain Old Tele]

Aight, my semi-spur of the moment list goes something like this:

 

1.    The Black Stallion
2.    Stalker
3.    Close Encounters of the Third Kind
4.    The Sting
5.    Breaking Away
6.    Sorcerer
7.    Network
8.    The Texas Chain Saw Massacre
9.    Days of Heaven
10.    All the President’s Men
11.    Eraserhead
12.    All That Jazz
13.    The Godfather: Part II
14.    Jaws
15.    Apocalypse Now
16.    The Conversation
17.    Halloween
18.    Monty Python and the Holy Grail
19.    The Godfather
20.    Star Wars
21.    Alien
22.    Taxi Driver
23.    The Man Who Would Be King
24.    Chinatown
25.    Young Frankenstein
26.    The In-Laws
27.    The Last Wave
28.    One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
29.    The Day of the Jackal
30.    The Duellists
31.    Badlands
32.    Dog Day Afternoon
33.    Aguirre: The Wrath of God
34.    The Ruling Class
35.    Walkabout
36.    The Friends of Eddie Coyle
37.    A Bridge Too Far
38.    The Life of Brian
39.    The Ballad of Cable Hogue
40.    Barry Lyndon
41.    The Conformist
42.    Enter the Dragon
43.    The Exorcist
44.    The Long Goodbye
45.    Deliverance
46.    Serpico
47.    Picnic at Hanging Rock
48.    Five Easy Pieces
49.    Soldier of Orange
50.    Cabaret
51.    The Tin Drum
52.    Thunderbolt and Lightfoot
53.    Smokey and the Bandit
54.    Murder on the Orient Express
55.    Silent Running
56.    Lady Snowblood
57.    The French Connection
58.    A Clockwork Orange
59.    Duck, You Sucker!
60.    The Jerk
61.    Assault on Precinct 13
62.    F is for Fake
63.    Three Days of the Condor
64.    The Tall Blond Man With One Red Shoe
65.    The Mirror
66.    Marathon Man
67.    Fiddler on the Roof
68.    The Wind and the Lion
69.    Superman
70.    The Warriors
71.    And Now for Something Completely Different
72.    The Four Musketeers: Milady’s Revenge
73.    Patton
74.    Invasion of the Body Snatchers
75.    The Three Musketeers
76.    The Last Detail
77.    The Deer Hunter
78.    Rocky
79.    Westworld
80.    The Last Picture Show
81.    Carrie
82.    Straw Dogs
83.    Paper Moon
84.    Blazing Saddles
85.    Dark Star
86.    Dillinger
87.    Escape from Alcatraz
88.    Solaris
89.    The Brood
90.    Nosferatu the Vampire
91.    Watership Down
92.    Logan’s Run
93.    Jesus Christ Superstar
94.    The Andromeda Strain
95.    The Buddy Holly Story
96.    The Shootist
97.    Touki Bouki
98.    Rocky Horror Picture Show
99.    Brother Sun, Sister Moon
100.    Sleeper

[BadAtGender]

I'll see if I can get this done. I've been overwhelmed by schoolwork 

[flynn2000]

I'm not sure when the exact deadline is.  Is it midday sunday October 6?

 

I decided to do this just a few days ago, so I'm trying to cram a few more films at the last minute.

 

Thursday I watched the Long Goodbye (wonderful dialog) for the first time and rewatched The Taking of Pelham One Two Three (a film filed with great New York based character actors).

 

Friday I rewatched Black Friday (fantastic thriller that is only slightly let down by the lack of technology to pull off the ending as well as the rest was.) and a watch of a movie I had seen parts of and that is Breakheart Pass.  I really like Breakheart, but the final act gets bogged down by overly complicated action.

 

This morning I watched the best of the lot: The Outlaw Jose Wales.  This film is a masterpiece!  If anyone had doubted the skills of Clint Eastwood as a director they were certainly silenced after seeing this.

 

[cannastop]

51 minutes ago, flynn2000 said:

I'm not sure when the exact deadline is.  Is it midday sunday October 6?

Basically any time Sunday.

[flynn2000]

42 minutes ago, cannastop said:

Basically any time Sunday.

Thank You.

 

I just finished rewatching Chinatown.  Beautiful looking movie and impeccable in all other departments, but yet it just doesn't quiet grab me enough to make my top 100 films of the decade.

[flynn2000]

Baumer, I was looking at your list back on page 6 and noticed that you have Black Christmas at both 29 & 36, as well as Slap Shot at 48 & 59.  I'm sure you noticed this a while back but I thought I would mention it just in case. 

[rukaio101]

Yeah, I'm pretty sure I'm not going to be able to fit any new films in today, so I guess this is going to have to do. Managed to knock Santa Claus and the Ice Cream Bunny off just in time though. There were a few interesting things I noted from marathoning so many 70's films though...

 

-I was not aware that Wicker Man was technically a musical.

-I similarly wasn't expecting to hear some of the soundtrack from Monty Python's Holy Grail turn up in a serious Kung Fu movie (Five Deadly Venoms)

-Maybe it's just me, but I can't help but question what it is with 70's movies and all the rape? Seriously, I swear I hit a patch during my movie marathon where about 4 or 5 movies in a row involved someone being raped. And I never even got around to watching a ton of famous movies that I know famously involve rape like A Clockwork Orange, Deliverance, The Last House on the Left, I Spit on Your Grave and Death Wish. Like with many things from this era, I blame Salo.

-When I decided to start marathoning 70's movies to do this, I had a long list of famous and critically acclaimed moves to watch (including some of the films mentioned above). In typical Ruk fashion, I got through about a third of them, got bored and then spent the rest of my time watching obscure horror/westerns/martial arts movies instead. Because I have poor work ethic when it comes to watching stuff I'm not all that interested in.

 

Okay, now for the list itself.

 

1. Jaws
2. Eraserhead
3. Monty Python and the Holy Grail
4. Blazing Saddles
5. Star Wars: A New Hope
6. Apocalypse Now
7. Halloween
8. Taxi Driver
9. The Day of the Jackal
10. Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory
11. Watership Down
12. Smokey and the Bandit
13. Suspiria
14. My Name is Nobody
15. Hausu
16. Castle of Cagliostro
17. The Omen
18. The Wicker Man
19. Robin Hood
20. The 36^th Chamber of Shaolin
21. Rocky
22. Superman
23. One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
24. Black Christmas
25. M.A.S.H
26. The Taking of Pelham 123
27. The Godfather
28. A Fistful of Dynamite (Duck You Suckers)
29. Fantastic Planet
30. Alien
31. Dawn of the Dead
32. Winnie the Pooh
33. Close Encounters of the Third Kind
34. Lone Wolf and Cub: Battle at the River Styx
35. Young Frankenstein
36. Lone Wolf & Cub: White Heaven in Hell
37. The Twelve Tasks of Asterix
38. The Warriors
39. They Call Me Trinity
40. Master of the Flying Guillotine
41. Trinity is Still My Name
42. Lone Wolf and Cub: Baby Cart in Hades
43. Lone Wolf and Cub: Baby Cart in the Land of Demons
44. Crippled Avengers
45. Lone Wolf and Cub: Baby Cart in Peril
46. Lone Wolf and Cub: Sword of Vengeance
47. Black Sunday
48. Enter the Dragon
49. Don’t Look Now
50. All the President’s Men
51. Serpico
52. Patton
53. Drunken Master
54. The Texas Chainsaw Massacre
55. Network
56. Chinatown
57. Life of Brian
58. Fist of Fury
59. The Godfather Part II
60. Deep Red
61. High Plains Drifter
62. The Towering Inferno
63. The Bird with the Crystal Plumage
64. Murder on the Orient Express
65. Three Days of the Condor
66. The French Connection
67. Theatre of Blood
68. The Lord of the Rings
69. The Amnityville Horror
70. Five Deadly Venoms
71. Phantom of the Paradise
72. Game of Death
73. Wizards
74. Kentucky Fried Movie
75. The Abominable Dr Phibes
76. Murder by Death
77. The Shootist
78. The Rescuers
79. Mad Max
80. The Poseidon Adventure
81. The Outlaw Josey Wales
82. Westworld
83. The Pinchcliffe Grand Prix
84. Assault on Precinct 13
85. Magnum Force
86. The Hills have Eyes
87. Let Sleeping Corpses Lie
88. Invasion of the Body Snatchers
89. Shaft
90. Phantasm
91. The Exorcist
92. Tourist Trap
93. Get Carter
94. The Muppet Movie
95. The Sting
96. The Town that Feared Sundown
97. Zombi 2
98. Kingdom of Spiders
99. Dirty Harry
100. Escape from Alcatraz

[Tower]

5 hours ago, rukaio101 said:

 

-Maybe it's just me, but I can't help but question what it is with 70's movies and all the rape? Seriously, I swear I hit a patch during my movie marathon where about 4 or 5 movies in a row involved someone being raped. And I never even got around to watching a ton of famous movies that I know famously involve rape like A Clockwork Orange, Deliverance, The Last House on the Left, I Spit on Your Grave and Death Wish. Like with many things from this era, I blame Salo.

 

[4815162342]

1. The Godfather

2. Network

3. Fiddler on the Roof

4. Monty Python and the Holy Grail

5. All the President’s Men

6. The Godfather Part II

7. Blazing Saddles!

8. The Deer Hunter

9. The Day of the Jackal

10. The French Connection

 

11. Young Frankenstein

12. The Sting

13. Chinatown

14. Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope

15. Tora! Tora! Tora!

16. The Outlaw Josey Wales

17. Alien

18. National Lampoon's Animal House

19. 1776

20. Jaws

21. Patton

22. Scrooge

23. Slap Shot

24. Duck, You Sucker

25. One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest

 

26. Dog Day Afternoon

27. Monty Python’s Life of Brian

28. Three Days of the Condor

29. The Taking of Pelham One Two Three (1974)

30. Willy Wonka & The Chocolate Factory

31. Rocky

32. Serpico

33. Get Carter

34. The Candidate

35. The In-Laws (1979)

36. The Odessa File

37. Halloween (1978)

38. American Graffiti

39. Taxi Driver

40. The Paper Chase

41. The Boys From Brazil

42. Close Encounters of the Third Kind

43. The Exorcist

44. Murder on the Orient Express (1974)

45. Mean Streets

46. The Omen

47. Dirty Harry

48. Apocalypse Now

49. MASH

50. Sleuth

 

51. The Conversation

52. Superman (1978)

53. Mad Max

54. Dawn of the Dead (1978)

55. Grease

56. A Bridge Too Far

57. Barry Lyndon

58. The Spy Who Loved Me

59. Kelly’s Heroes

60. Bedknobs and Broomsticks

61. The Rescuers

62. Silent Movie

63. Carrie

64. Soylent Green

65. Badlands

66. Murder by Death

67. Papillon

68. Marathon Man

69. The Poseidon Adventure

70. Jesus Christ Superstar

71. Rocky II

72. The Longest Yard (1974)

73. Macbeth (1971)

74. Charlotte's Web (1973)

75. The Towering Inferno

 

76. Cabaret

77. Conquest of the Planet of the Apes

78. Force 10 from Navarone

79. Star Trek: The Motion Picture

80. Jaws 2

81. Tommy

82. Omen II: Damien

83. The Great Gatsby (1974)

84. The Buddy Holly Story

85. Saturday Night Fever

86. Escape From the Planet of the Apes

87. The Aristocats

88. The Phantom Tollbooth

89. Where the Red Fern Grows (1974)

90. Beyond the Poseidon Adventure

[cannastop]

1 hour ago, 4815162342 said:

Where the Red Fern Grows (1974)

Huh. Didn't know they made a movie out of this.

[Cap]

17 minutes ago, cannastop said:

Huh. Didn't know they made a movie out of this.

Yes. They did. Most traumatizing damn thing ever. Everyone in my like second grade class was crying when we watched it. 

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