Unpopular Movie Opinions: Part III

[fighthefutureofhd]

Originally Posted by AspiringMinimalist

The 70s saved movies.

Originally Posted by mwynn

From what?

From being good.

Originally Posted by AspiringMinimalist

Agreed 100%

I grew up in the 2000s and I still can recognize that the 70s is the best era of filmmaking and any films I love from the 80s and on owe a lot of debt to the new age that the filmmakers of the 70s broke open.

Eh. The 70's had their fair share of great movies. But movies didn't blossom into SUBLIME GREATNESS again until the 80's. The 70's were a fairly big misstep. Like the late 80's/early 90's Bob Dylan.

Originally Posted by AspiringMinimalist

Bleh. The 50s. Limited artistic expression. That was studios at their "assembly line" worst. Just churning out the same kinds of films. Of course, every era has great films so you can toss Nicolas Ray at me. This discussion is about the cinematic era as a whole, and the 50s is an incredibly limiting era of films. Every film made in the 50s could have been made in the 70s. That's not true of the 70s. They pushed the boundary and exploded what cinema can be without limits.

1968-1979 is the most important (i.e. best) era in film.

The 20s were more transgressive than the tame 50s.

The 70's were probably as artistic as wallpaper drying to walls. It was mostly dull and unapologetically unappealing. So gritty and dark in nature most of the time. Very few movies of the 70's were timeless works of art. Of their time is better expressed about the 70's, which isn't good.

[hockeyshark91]

Originally Posted by Cardboard_killer

Why does that make you glad?

The more people that see it, the more likely the studios are forced to return to making good movies? At least I'm hoping that's the case. I don't really see that happening anytime soon.

[AKORIS]

Originally Posted by fighthefutureofhd

From being good.



Eh. The 70's had their fair share of great movies. But movies didn't blossom into SUBLIME GREATNESS again until the 80's. The 70's were a fairly big misstep. Like the late 80's/early 90's Bob Dylan.




The 70's were probably as artistic as wallpaper drying to walls. It was mostly dull and unapologetically unappealing. So gritty and dark in nature most of the time. Very few movies of the 70's were timeless works of art. Of their time is better expressed about the 70's, which isn't good.

thank you for your continuous bashing of the 70's.... you don't seem to like that decade... we get it.

You are, of course, completely wrong and that's okay...

[El Dopo]

Originally Posted by John1701D

To have a bias for the 80s you'd have to be born late sixties/early 70s. Just saying.

Dunno about that, was born in 70 and still think the 70's was the best era for movies, but those tended to be the things that would get shown a lot on our (limited choice of) TV schedules and stood out.

I do think that the limited choice worked in our favour though. As a young teen I watched an entire Bergman season, a ridiculous number of 50's sci-fi etc etc, if your only other choice was the news you'd watch owt, set me up for life!

[spaceball-one]

The vast majority of my collection is 1970s, my fave decade, and yes, there's a lot of crap.

[s2mikey]

Originally Posted by Boccaccio

For me the 90's is the best era for movies.

The 80's is a terrible era and not only for movies.

Double ouch. The 80s were fabulous in just about every way possible, at least here in the states. . So many awesome movies released in that decade that still get regularly discussed and watched. To each their own but no doubt your opinion is unpopular.

Originally Posted by El Dopo

Dunno about that, was born in 70 and still think the 70's was the best era for movies, but those tended to be the things that would get shown a lot on our (limited choice of) TV schedules and stood out.

I do think that the limited choice worked in our favour though. As a young teen I watched an entire Bergman season, a ridiculous number of 50's sci-fi etc etc, if your only other choice was the news you'd watch owt, set me up for life!

I also was born in the very early 70s and while there are some obvious world class films from then, the 80s took things to a new level. Tough though, both the 70s and 80s have some all world, all time classics that they produced.

[Walter Kafka]

Hollywood can stop making movies about assassins.

[Walter Kafka]

Originally Posted by fighthefutureofhd

From being good.



Eh. The 70's had their fair share of great movies. But movies didn't blossom into SUBLIME GREATNESS again until the 80's. The 70's were a fairly big misstep. Like the late 80's/early 90's Bob Dylan.

Now you're gonna bash Oh Mercy ????

[wonderer99]

Love and Thunder is a fun film and it's ridiculous that the criticism levelled at it is the same things that were praised so much in Ragnarok.

[Batmon77]

Originally Posted by wonderer99

Love and Thunder is a fun film and it's ridiculous that the criticism levelled at it is the same things that were praised so much in Ragnarok.

Ragnarok was fun.

L&T is too over the top, and the director said he wanted to push it past 11.

Take the Hulk nude scene....quick laugh.

Thor's Nude scene - over the top goofy.

[russweiss1]

Originally Posted by fighthefutureofhd

The 70's were probably as artistic as wallpaper drying to walls. It was mostly dull and unapologetically unappealing. So gritty and dark in nature most of the time. Very few movies of the 70's were timeless works of art. Of their time is better expressed about the 70's, which isn't good.

Not sure your opinion really counts. You said Barbie wouldn't make a billion at the boxoffice.

[Damon1281]

Originally Posted by wonderer99

Love and Thunder is a fun film and it's ridiculous that the criticism levelled at it is the same things that were praised so much in Ragnarok.

I didn't like Ragnarok for pretty much the same reasons.

The giant dwarf was a pretty good joke, though.

[BudBaxter]

The 2001-spoofing match cut in Barbie > The actual 2001 opening match cut.

[fighthefutureofhd]

Originally Posted by AKORIS

thank you for your continuous bashing of the 70's.... you don't seem to like that decade... we get it.

You are, of course, completely wrong and that's okay...

The decade has its great movies, for sure. However, the 70's is not the great decade for movies that most people seem to think it is. A lot of it is rose-colored glasses being worn. It was a misstep coming off the 60's.

Originally Posted by Walter Kafka

Now you're gonna bash Oh Mercy ????

I'm not bashing Oh Mercy. That wasn't my intent. I see now that it came out in 1989. I thought it came out much earlier than that. Like around '87 or so. That is my bad. Everyone knows Dylan's period after Oh Mercy was crap up until Time Out of Mind. Though I happen to like Under the Red Sky. But that seems to be an unpopular opinion for another thread.

Originally Posted by russweiss1

Not sure your opinion really counts. You said Barbie wouldn't make a billion at the boxoffice.

You are correct. I was totally wrong. Where is my crow? And can I have some mayonnaise to go with it?

[Foggy]

Anyone who says 80’s was the best year are the exact same people who call out modern films for being nothing but sequels, remakes and franchises. Despite the fact the 80’s mainly ushered in the era of studio control and franchise mandating.

[fighthefutureofhd]

Really? There were far less sequels in the 80's there than there were in the 90's and going forward. You really could say the 80's was the last decade of originality, so to speak.

Originally Posted by Batmon77

Ragnarok was fun.

L&T is too over the top, and the director said he wanted to push it past 11.

Take the Hulk nude scene....quick laugh.

Thor's Nude scene - over the top goofy.

Thor's nude scene is one of the only saving graces of Love and Thunder. However, I do think it does go over the top a little bit. I wouldn't get rid of it though.

[mwynn]

[Gacivory]

Originally Posted by mwynn

Those glasses require a Mr. Magoo level of thickness in the lenses to match that nonsense.

[mwynn]

Originally Posted by Gacivory

Those glasses require a Mr. Magoo level of thickness in the lenses to match that nonsense.

The decade that had Five Police Academy movies surely had less sequels.

[dvining]

Originally Posted by mwynn

The decade that had Five Police Academy movies surely had less sequels.

There were 28 Blondie movies made between 1938 and 1950.

Franchising has been around forever. They've usually just been a smaller part of the cinematic landscape.