Top 10 Movies of the 1970s

YouTube ^ | March 25, 2014 | WatchMojo.com

[3catsanadog]

Totally agree with you. The Sting is one of those movies I can watch over and over and never get tired of. Definitely needs to be in the top 10.

[3catsanadog]

They don’t make eye candy for the gals like that anymore.

[rusty schucklefurd]

Where’s “Patton” (1970)?? It won 6 academy awards that year.

[DesertRhino]

“Deer Hunter was the most pretentious for sure”

Agreed. Too many movies get a free pass because they portray something ethnic from 200 miles around NYC. Godfather, Deer hunter, Taxi Driver, etc etc.
Their self love propaganda makes anything an instant hit if its set inside that magic 200 mile circle.
You just need a few greasy actors to say sarcastic tough guy things.

[SamAdams76]

Back in the summer of 1975, Jaws was the movie to see. It was a blockbuster. I was 12-years-old and it was the first "adult" movie I went to. It was a mad scene at the theater, the lines wrapped around the building and many people in line couldn't get in and had to wait three hours for the next showing.

That movie scared the hell out of us. I remember going to the beach shortly afterwards and very few people were going out into the water! That was the effect that this movie had.

Fast forward 25 years later and I rented it on DVD for my kids to watch. They laughed at it and thought the special effects were cheesy. They were right. That shark was lame!

[Ramius]

I would definitely put The Sting and Young Frankenstein in there, in place of Apocalypse Now and Taxi Driver. They belong high in the next ten, but are crowded out of the first ten.

My criteria has to include -watchability- today. That is... If it’s on, will I bother to watch it or skip to something else... Both of those are still big fun to watch after hundreds of times.

[Williams]

Rocky deserves to be much higher on the list. The first Rocky was a truly great movie. I’d put Alien on the list take off Clockwork Orange.

Like Dirty Harry but top ten?

[TBall]

Shoot, I would put Breking Away and Airplane over some of those in the top ten.

[Ronald_Magnus]

[PapaNew]

Hey, what about the remake of Plan 9 From Outer Space?

[DesertRhino]

” I rented it on DVD for my kids to watch. They laughed at it and thought the special effects were cheesy. They were right. That shark was lame!”

Yessir,, had that same experience. My daughter thought I was an idiot when I told her how it scared a generation right out of the water.
She also laughed at Legend Of Boggy Creek. Walks right by windows at night without the slightest thought that a bigfoot might reach in.

[SkiKnee]

Sorry, didn’t read the entire post before commenting. The Sting is listed #22 on WatchMojo. Belongs in the top ten IMO.

[Eccl 10:2]

"Old time movies?"

[Third Person]

McCabe and Mrs. Miller

[fso301]

If Footmen Tire You, What Will Horses Do?

[PapaNew]

Loved Patton. One of the best ever. Great acting, great photography, great script, great directing, evenly paced, great score. Definitely should be at the top of the list.

[Huntress]

Network.

[Kid Shelleen]

that is a great list; here are my favorite 70s Movies in no particular order;

Mean Streets (1973)
Dirty Harry (1971)
Dog Day Afternoon (1975)
A Clockwork Orange (1971)
Network (1976)
Harold and Maude (1971)
Serpico (1973)
Patton (1970)
Little Big Man (1970)
The Cowboys (1972)


Honorable mentions
North Dallas Forty (1979)
Shaft (1971)
The Paper Chase (1973)
Bang the Drum Slowly (1973)

[Bullish]

While ‘A clockwork orange’ was a great read written by Anthony Burgess. The Kubrick movie sucked in my opinion. It doesn’t belong on that list.

[Bullish]

Also, if Godfather is #1 then Godfather 2 should be #2.

Just sayin’