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

[Avatree]

2 minutes ago, baumer said:

 

The original cut is flippin amazing too.  

Yes, I presume as much. I've been reading up on the differences between the three cuts and consensus I think seems to be Final Cut is better than Redux but not as good as original. That being said it does appear to be Coppola's vision of what he wanted.

[terrestrial]

5 minutes ago, Avatree said:

it works in the context of the film.

 

But yeah that can be annoying, I personally find it annoying when cop cars keep on the tail of sports cars in crime/heist films.

I guess you should visit German Highways (mostly no speed limits = more people are used to higher speeds, even if the most choose usually not to do so, e.g. expensive per car gets 'thirsty' 😉 )

beside the funny (for me) pictures I'll put it in spoiler tags as too OT

 

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There are police cars in a few places all over the world that are faster, but how to use them in extremer situations, I think here they are more able to use the limits in average.

But here too not all police cars are of the extremer version, highways and cities with a high rate of races usually get the faster ones as far as I know

 

One of our states provides Porsche since the '50 - the oldest pics I could find

 

 

 

 

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A country 'without' a speed limit in highways needs fast police too 😉 (I still have to laugh when I see one, but it was fast for its time, e.g. the 1958 version was something over 120 miles per hour)

 

 

Today I think they have up to 300km/h cars, but the most are far slower.

 

My fastest car, better said the fastest I drove from time to time in the past was 150 miles per hour, that never would have been then a problem for them, even if driving  similar fast cars, as the are better trained e.g. in narrow, curvy parts.

Now I drive a very small car, but it does need only a small amount of fuel.

 

 

[Avatree]

4 minutes ago, terrestrial said:

I guess you should visit German Highways (mostly no speed limits = more people are used to higher speeds, even if the most choose usually not to do so, e.g. expensive per car gets 'thirsty' 😉 )

beside the funny (for me) pictures I'll put it in spoiler tags as too OT

 

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There are police cars in a few places all over the world that are faster, but how to use them in extremer situations, I think here they are more able to use the limits in average.

But here too not all police cars are of the extremer version, highways and cities with a high rate of races usually get the faster ones as far as I know

 

One of our states provides Porsche since the '50 - the oldest pics I could find

 

 

 

 

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A country 'without' a speed limit in highways needs fast police too 😉 (I still have to laugh when I see one, but it was fast for its time, e.g. the 1958 version was something over 120 miles per hour)

 

 

Today I think they have up to 300km/h cars, but the most are far slower.

 

My fastest car, better said the fastest I drove from time to time in the past was 150 miles per hour, that never would have been then a problem for them, even if driving  similar fast cars, as the are better trained e.g. in narrow, curvy parts.

Now I drive a very small car, but it does need only a small amount of fuel.

 

 

Yeah, I'm sure the German police have fast cars as motorways are faster, i more meant in American films where the bad guys (or good guys) have some supercar and the American cop cars can keep up. 

 

Police here (UK) use fast BMWs too which I'm sure could keep up with most cars.

Although a few months ago - I have quite a quick car and I was speeding on the road and eventually when I slowed down, a BMW X5 police car siren lit up and pulled me over. They said "You are lucky we couldn't catch up to you until you slowed down, because you were driving a lot faster than what we caught you at". 😕 

[terrestrial]

53 minutes ago, Avatree said:

They said "You are lucky we couldn't catch up to you until you slowed down, because you were driving a lot faster than what we caught you at

I had a discussion about that once:

they have to consider the security of other drivers.... too, there are limits to what is still o.K. to do as a cop.

 

E.g. a fleeing car squeezing between 'tracks' and bumping other cars... police has to wait till the space opens up again so they can follow

 

I owned a 7er BMW in the past 😉 And a 650er motorcycle (Yamaha, building a license version of the '50 Triumph that they used in races.). And a motor home. Hubby other cars. Now I own a very small car and a caravan, he still a motorcycle, BMW, and a classic van he restores himself (I stopped to restore,... he started, its funny)

 

Edited August 20, 2019 by terrestrial

[SchumacherFTW]

2 hours ago, Avatree said:

Yeah, I'm sure the German police have fast cars as motorways are faster, i more meant in American films where the bad guys (or good guys) have some supercar and the American cop cars can keep up. 

 

Police here (UK) use fast BMWs too which I'm sure could keep up with most cars.

Although a few months ago - I have quite a quick car and I was speeding on the road and eventually when I slowed down, a BMW X5 police car siren lit up and pulled me over. They said "You are lucky we couldn't catch up to you until you slowed down, because you were driving a lot faster than what we caught you at". 😕 

Shouldn't drive like a twat then eh? 

[Avatree]

32 minutes ago, SchumacherFTW said:

Shouldn't drive like a twat then eh? 

Middle of the night, middle of nowhere, no one on the roads. Big deal.

[terrestrial]

23 minutes ago, Avatree said:

Middle of the night, middle of nowhere, no one on the roads. Big deal.

I guess you never 'met' a stag who concluded you are a rival

 

Had one lower his head and attack the car onto the side whilst passing....

 

Friend drove into a group of boars once in the night, the ones not injured ere not amused.

[cannastop]

List of 1970s movies that have combined 15 or more votes (Critics+Directors) in the Sight & Sound poll 2012.

 

Aguirre, The Wrath of God (1972) 28 votes

Amarcord (1972) 28 votes

Annie Hall (1977) 18 votes

Apocalypse Now (1979) 86 votes

Badlands (1973) 17 votes

Barry Lyndon (1975) 44 votes

Celine and Julie Go Boating (1974) 15 votes

Chinatown (1974) 28 votes

A Clockwork Orange (1971) 15 votes

The Conformist (1970) 26 votes

Days of Heaven (1978) 19 votes

Don't Look Now (1973) 20 votes

Fear Eats the Soul (1974) 25 votes

The Godfather (1972) 74 votes

The Godfather Part II (1974) 52 votes

Husbands (1970) 15 votes

Jeanne Dielman, 23 quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles (1975) 40 votes

Mirror (1975) 77 votes

Nashville (1975) 27 votes

One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975) 15 votes

The Passenger (1975) 17 votes

Performance (1970) 19 votes

Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom (1975) 16 votes (Do some research before watching this)

The Spirit of the Beehive (1973) 26 votes

Stalker (1979) 53 votes

Taxi Driver (1976) 72 votes

Touki Bouki (1973) 22 votes (I must add that while the singular DVD of this film is rare, you can watch this on The Criterion Channel)

The Travelling Players (1975) 21 votes

A Woman under the Influence (1974) 22 votes

Edited August 20, 2019 by cannastop

[Avatree]

1 hour ago, terrestrial said:

I guess you never 'met' a stag who concluded you are a rival

 

Had one lower his head and attack the car onto the side whilst passing....

 

Friend drove into a group of boars once in the night, the ones not injured ere not amused.

Yeah, I used to have an Mazda MX-5 and a deer ran into the side of my car head first.

[terrestrial]

53 minutes ago, cannastop said:

Fear Eats the Soul

53 minutes ago, cannastop said:

The Travelling Players

E.g. those I have on my foreign languages list, thought they are too indie as they were acc IMDb mostly shown at festivals outside a release in a few countries.

 

53 minutes ago, cannastop said:

Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom

that one I think is too much grasping for impact by Pasolini in a way (as too often with him), no need to be such.... inexcusable.

I have no problem with sex on film, even porn, nor a problem e.g. with live-style (has nothing to do with this film), but this one is in my POV a case of 'only bcs you can do something must not / has not to mean you should do something'

 

Edited August 20, 2019 by terrestrial
wrong grammar

[cannastop]

12 minutes ago, terrestrial said:

E.g. those I have on my foreign languages list, thought they are too indie as they were acc IMDb mostly shown at festivals outside a release in a few countries.

Wouldn't Angst essen Seele auf not be foreign to you?

[cannastop]

4 minutes ago, cannastop said:

Wouldn't Angst essen Seele auf not be foreign to you?

Just realized that's deliberately improper grammar from  Rainer Werner Fassbinder, because that translates to "Fear Eat Soul Up".

Proper grammar might be "Angst isst Seelen auf" or something like that.

[TalismanRing]

A preliminary list - in alphabetical order - I have to order and prune, probably remember a few I forgot and maybe see a few more films

 

1776 (1972)
A Special Day (1977)
A Woman Under the Influence (1974)
Alien (1979)
All That Jazz (1979)
All the President's Men (1976)
American Graffiti (1973)
An Unmarried Woman (1978)
Animal House (1978)
Apocalypse Now (1979)
Autumn Sonata (1978)
Badlands (1973)
Being There (1979)
Blazing Saddles (1974)
Breaking Away (1979)
Butterflies Are Free (1972)
Cabaret (1972)
Carrie (1976)
Catch-22 (1970)
Chinatown (1972)
Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977)
Colossus: The Forbin Project (1970)
Coming Home (1978)
Death in Venice (1971)
Deliverance (1972)
Dog Day Afternoon(1975)
Electric Horseman[1979)
Equus (1977)
Escape from Alcatraz (1979)
Fiddler On The Roof (1971)
Frenzy (1972)
Grease (1978)
Hair (1979)
Harold and Maude (1971)
Harry and Tonto (1974)
Heaven Can Wait (1978)
Jaws (1975)
Jeremiah Johnson(1972)
Klute (1971)
Kramer vs. Kramer (1979)
La Cage Aux Folles (1978)
Love at First Bite (1979)
Macbeth (1971)
Marathon Man (1976)
MASH (1970)
Midnight Express (1978)
Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975)
Monty Python's Life of Brian (1979)
Murphy's War (1971)
My Brilliant Career (1979)
Network (1976)
Norma Rae (1979)
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975)
Paper Moon (1973)
Papillon (1973)
Ryan's Daughter (1970)
Same Time, Next Year (1978)
Saturday Night Fever (1977)
Scrooge (1970
Serpico (1973)
Seven Beauties (1975)
Silver Streak (1976)
Slap Shot (1977)
Sleeper (1973)
Sleuth (1972)
Smokey & The Bandit (1977)
Soldier of Orange (1977)
Sounder (1972)
Soylent Green (1973)
Star Wars (1977)
Start the Revolution Without Me (1970)
Superman The Movie (1978)
Support Your Local Gunfighter (1971)
Swept Away (1974)
Tess (1979)
The Bad News Bears (1976)
The Black Stallion (1979)
The Boys from Brazil (1978)
The Boys in the Band (1970)
The Candidate (1972)
The Conversation (1974)
The Day of the Jackal(1973)
The Deer Hunter (1978)
The Exorcist (1973)
The Four Musketeers: Milady's Revenge (1974)
The French Connection (1971)
The Garden of the Finzi-Continis (1974)
The Godfather 1 (1972)
The Godfather II (1974)
The Goodbye Girl (1977)
The Great Santini (1979)
The Great Train Robbery (1978)
The In-Laws (1979)
The Jerk (1979)
The Last Detail (1973)
The Last Wave (1977)
The Little Prince (1974)
The Man Who Would Be King (1975)
The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh (1977)
The Muppet Movie (1979)
The Omen (1976)
The Paper Chase (1973)
The Poseidon Adventure (1972)
The Rescuers (1977)
The Ruling Class (1972)
The Slipper & the Rose (1976)
The Spy Who Loved Me (1977)
The Sting (1973)
The Tenant (1976)
The Three Musketeers (1973)
The Turning Point (1977)
The Way We Were (1973)
The Wind and the Lion (1975)
Three Days Of The Condor (1975)
Time After Time(1979)
Tora! Tora! Tora! (1970)
Two Mules for Sister Sara(1970)
Wartership Down (1978)
Westworld (1973)
What's Up, Doc? (1972)
Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory (1971)
Young Frankenstein (1974)

 

Edited August 20, 2019 by TalismanRing

[terrestrial]

26 minutes ago, cannastop said:

Wouldn't Angst essen Seele auf not be foreign to you?

Its for the list @tawasal prepares, movies who's first language is not English. On that list I have sublists per spoken language, means many French titles, Italian,.... and German titles too (funily less than French)

 

And yes, it's intentional a wrong grammar, its about a cultural and age-wise mixed pair, where he is not a German.

Stereotype Maroccan.... does not speak the language of his actual country in a  'proper' way

[tawasal]

I have so far found 61 movies I have watched from the 70s, I have probably seen more, but can't think of them. If I have to I will see some more from that decade to get more movies in my collection. 

 

 

[CoolioD1]

it's lit:

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1. Rocky

2. Taxi Driver

3. Two Lane Blacktop

4. Nashville

5. Grease

6. Apocalypse Now

7. Alien

8. Chinatown

9. Monty Python and the Holy Grail

10.Star Wars

11. Jaws

12. Halloween

13. 3 Women

14. The Muppet Movie

15. Dersu Uzala

16. Eraserhead

17. The Passenger

18. Suspiria

19. The Godfather

20. Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory

21. Female Trouble

22. Texas Chainsaw Massacre

23. The Last Picture Show

24. Saturday Night Fever

25. Close Encounters 

26. Dog Day Afternoon

27. Drunken Master

28. Carrie

29. Barry Lyndon

30. Last Tango in Paris

31. The Deer hunter

32. The Getaway

33. Carnal Knowledge

34. The French Connection

35. Stalker

36. Sorcerer 

37. Superman

38. Marathon Man

39. Rocky II

40. The Conformist

41. The Devils

42. The Stepford Wives

43. Real Life

44. Performance

45. Pressure

47. The Jerk

48. Vengeance is Mine

49. All The President's Men

50. Star Trek: The Motion Picture

51. Conquest of the Planet of the Apes

 

 

Edited October 4, 2019 by CoolioD1

[terrestrial]

3 hours ago, tawasal said:

I have so far found 61 movies I have watched from the 70s, I have probably seen more, but can't think of them. If I have to I will see some more from that decade to get more movies in my collection.

Maybe my 220 titles long list on page 2 can help as a research start?

Its weak on choice for comedy and romance, but it has some of those too. Nearly no animated so.... But some western too, the '70 still had some of the good ones.

If you list which genres you prefer or need some more to a more round/balanced collection, or if more award like movies, action,.... whatever we might be able to suggest some titles?

[DAR]

 

 

Just a few fyc

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Edited August 21, 2019 by DAR

[rukaio101]

Pretty sure the biggest question for me in this thread is less "Which 70's Movie do I put in 1st?" and more 'Can I see enough 70's Movies before the deadline to knock 'Salo or 120 Days of Sodom' off my list?"

 

(And yes, I am aware I don't necessarily have to send in a full 100 movie list, but I'm a perfectionist, dammit!)

[DAR]

I will say there will be a few very popular and award winning films that don’t make my list