70s were great

[Travis]

The 70s is probably my favorite decade for movies. So many greats. I was born in '75 and therefore haven't seen any in theaters and have never seen many, many 70s films at home.

I bought Best Movies of the 70s by Jurgen Muller a few years ago. Have been using that to help me get better acquainted with the 70s. Have bought a few blind on DVD, they were ok, but won't watch a lot. Badlands, Klute, Kagemusha, Kramer vs Kramer, and so on.

Did a search here, 108 movies made from 1970-1980. (Don't want to talk about the starting and ending dates of a decade for films) Even though it should be 1971-1980.

Fims from the 70s

Some are classics and very popular like Shining, Halloween, Godfather, Raging Bull, Dirty Harry, etc.

What are the not so popular 70s films on Blu-ray worth buying?
What are your favorite 70's Blu-rays?

Here are 4 I'm considering to buy blind.
1. The Getaway? Bought the DVD, it was okay

2. French Connection 2?
Never knew there was a sequel until a year ago. I think I read it is better than the sequel.

3. Breaker Morant?
Never heard of it.

4. Midnight Express?
Maybe a little known, I have never seen and believe many people have not. I may blind buy it soon (Sussudio I'll thank you later, or blame you). Bought it; it is awesome!

[kpkelley]

Breaker Morant is a very good Military tribunal film, think A Few Good Men. It revolves around the Boer war and a group of Australian soldiers who killed a Boer Soldier after their friend was ambushed.

The Man Who Fell to Earth is a very interesting Science Fiction film starring David Bowie. Science Fiction fans should enjoy it, thought it can be a difficult watch for some.

In The Realm of The Senses is a very sensual film bordering on exploitation. It revolves around a Japanese couple who are uncontrollably in love, and that love can have destructive power.

Being There is a comedy starring Peter Sellers as a Forrest Gump like individual who falls into fame and influence. An excellent performance by a very gifted actor in one of his last roles.

[Elvis]

Raging Bull and the Shining were 1980.....not to split hairs!


Here are some I suggest and all are not on blu so you would have to sdvd them. I wont even go into foreign film.

The Conversation (1973)
Nashville (1975)
Saturday Night Fever (1977)
3 Days of the Condor (1975)
Annie Hall (1977)
Manhattan (1979)
Klute (1971)
Five Easy Pieces (1970)
The Parallax View (1974)

[SpiderBaby]

Though I think the 60's was the best decade in film, here is some I would enjoy on Blu from the 70's:

A Woman Under the Influence
Two-Lane Blacktop
Chinatown
Tout va bien
Across 110th Street
Husbands
The Friends of Eddie Coyle

[Travis]

Originally Posted by Elvis

Raging Bull and the Shining were 1980.....not to split hairs!

To split hairs, I start counting at 1, not 0. 1971-1980 is the decade for me. The first year would have been 1 not 0, right? Debate was going on when the millennium was approaching too. Not that I want to start a debate. How about including movies from 70-80?

Anyway thanks for the recommends.
Klute and Five Easy Pieces I have on DVD, watched only once. Will give them another spin. Some movies take more than one. Saturday Night Fever and The Conversation I haven't seen in 15 years or more.

Really looking for ones available on Blu-ray.

[Sussudio]

Great thread.

Two other amazing films from the 70s:

All the President's Men and Network. Can't wait for these on bluray.

[Elvis]

Originally Posted by Travis

To split hairs, I start counting at 1, not 0. 1971-1980 is the decade for me. The first year would have been 1 not 0, right? Debate was going on when the millennium was approaching too. Not that I want to start a debate. How about including movies from 70-80?

Anyway thanks for the recommends.
Klute and Five Easy Pieces I have on DVD, watched only once. Will give them another spin. Some movies take more than one. Saturday Night Fever and The Conversation I haven't seen in 15 years or more.

Really looking for ones available on Blu-ray.

Hmm..thats why Raging Bull is considered by many if not most as the best film of the 1980's.....

Hey wait a minute....over in the other thread you said ESB was your favorite of the 80s'..that was the same year!

[koontz1973]

Originally Posted by Elvis

Raging Bull and the Shining were 1980.....not to split hairs!

Originally Posted by Travis

To split hairs, I start counting at 1, not 0. 1971-1980 is the decade for me. The first year would have been 1 not 0, right? Debate was going on when the millennium was approaching too. Not that I want to start a debate. How about including movies from 70-80?

Travis, 2 years older so I did get to see a few in the theatre.

To settle this argument once and for all, a decade starts at 1 so Travis is right, but when you look at films of a certain decade, you look at 0-9 so Elvis is right. Films of the 70's include all films from 1/1/70 till 31/12/79.

Great films of this decade on Blu include:

MASH
Patton
The French Connection
A Clockwork Orange
Dirty Harry
The Towering Inferno
Rocky
Close Encounters of the Third Kind
Superman
Star Wars (just kidding about being on Blu)

There are so many more as this was a great decade and I am sure we will see a lot on Blu over the next few years..

[Elvis]

Originally Posted by koontz1973

Travis, 2 years older so I did get to see a few in the theatre.
To settle this argument once and for all, a decade starts at 1 so Travis is right, but when you look at films of a certain decade, you look at 0-9 so Elvis is right. Films of the 70's include all films from 1/1/70 till 31/12/79.

Great films of this decade on Blu include:

MASH
Patton
The French Connection
A Clockwork Orange
Dirty Harry
The Towering Inferno
Rocky
Close Encounters of the Third Kind
Superman
Star Wars (just kidding about being on Blu)

There are so many more as this was a great decade and I am sure we will see a lot on Blu over the next few years..

That would be correct.....1970-1979 is the decade for films of the 70's!

[DMC86X]

I was born in the 80s but I have to agree that the best films ever came from the 70s:

Godfather 1
Godfather 2
The Exorcist
Star Wars
The French Connection
Rocky 1
Rocky 2
Alien
Taxi Driver
The Deer Hunter
Dog Day Afternoon
Clockwork Orange

Thats all I can remember now, but most of my favorite films came from the 1970s. Great time for movies

[Fighter]

My favorite decade of film

[SquidPuppet]

Papillon (1973)

An overlooked epic. My personal favorite of the 70s.

Caged for a murder he didn't commit, petty thief Henri "Papillon" Charriere (Steve McQueen) finds himself trapped within the walls of a French penal colony, determined to escape. Joining forces with fellow convict and quirky counterfeiter Louis Dega (Dustin Hoffman) and armed with dogged persistence, Papillon makes a daring bid for freedom. Franklin J. Schaffner directs this film adaptation of Charriere's true story.

[P@t_Mtl]

70's do seem to stand out in cinema history as a great decade for incredible classic movies.

Patton, MASH, Jaws, Close Encouter.....the list just keep's on going. I would be very hard press to make a top 5 of that decade in movies.

[Elvis]

Originally Posted by P@t_Mtl

70's do seem to stand out in cinema history as a great decade for incredible classic movies.

Patton, MASH, Jaws, Close Encouter.....the list just keep's on going. I would be very hard press to make a top 5 of that decade in movies.

Ok what are your top 5 from the 1970s? No more than 5 choices allowed!!!

[koontz1973]

Originally Posted by Elvis

Ok what are your top 5 from the 1970s? No more than 5 choices allowed!!!

You first.

[SpotOn]

Originally Posted by Elvis

That would be correct.....1970-1979 is the decade for films of the 70's!

Does it really matter when the movie(s) came out (1980)? The Shining was clearly MADE in the 70's (it started shooting in '77) and Raging Bull was made from April to December of '79.

Even though these two movies were released in 1980, they are clearly products of the 1970's. The writing of the script, the casting, the shooting, all of these things happened in the 1970's.

We can be technical and just keep pointing to the release date, but I consider 1980 to be a logical extension of the 1970's style and mentality.

[dmb70]

Most not out on Blu but still IMO all great movies of the 70's & 1980.
Soylent Green
Rollerball
Marathon Man
Texas Chainsaw Massacre
Panic In Needle Park
The Exorcist
Saturday Night Fever
The Warriors
Serpico
Dog Day Afternoon
Play Misty For Me
The Outlaw Josey Wales
High Plains Drifter
Animal House
Monty Python & The Holy Grail
Caddyshack (1980)
Logan's Run
Battlestar Galactica
Star Wars
The Empire Strikes Back (1980)
Taxi Driver
The Deer Hunter
Chinatown
Invasion Of The Body Snatchers
Rocky
Rocky 2
A Clockwork Orange
Young Frankenstein
Blazing Saddles
Apocalypse Now
American Graffiti
Jaws
Close Encounters of the 3rd Kind
The French Connection
Network
One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest
Alien
Halloween
Dawn Of The Dead
Deliverance
The Longest Yard
The Rocky Horror Picture Show
Grease
Patton
Monty Python’s Life of Brian
The Shining (1980)
Raging Bull (1980)
The Big Red One (1980)
The Jerk
The Kids Are Alright
The Godfather
The Godfather part 2
Taxi Driver
Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore
The Hills Have Eyes
The Last House On The Left
The Last Waltz
Hardcore
Coma
The Andromeda Strain
3 Days Of The Condor
Bananas
Annie Hall
Sleeper
Billy Jack
Dirty Harry
Magnum Force
The Enforcer
Johhny Got His Gun
The Omega Man
THX 1138
Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory
Up In Smoke
Beneath the Planet of the Apes
Escape From The Planet Of The Apes
Conquest of the Planet Of The Apes
Battle for The Planet of the Apes
Catch 22
Gimme Shelter
The Great White Hope
Little Big Man
A Man Called Horse
Tora! Tora! Tora!
Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex* (*But Were Afraid to Ask)
Silent Running
Super Fly
Shaft
The Sting
Westworld
The Lords of Flatbush
Assault on Precinct 13
The Bad News Bears
Carrie
King Kong
The Omen
The Kentucky Fried Movie
Oh, God!
Slap Shot
The Boys from Brazil
The Buddy Holly Story
Capricorn One
Heaven Can Wait
Superman
The Amityville Horror
...And Justice for All
Dracula
Escape from Alcatraz
The Frisco Kid
The Great Santini
Over the Edge
Richard Pryor: Live in Concert
Rock 'n' Roll High School
Time After Time
The Wanderers
Airplane!(1980)
The Blues Brothers(1980)
Coal Miner's Daughter (1980)
Dressed to Kill(1980)
The Elephant Man(1980)
Friday the 13th(1980)
The Idolmaker(1980)
The Long Riders(1980)
Stir Crazy (1980)
Superman II(1980)
Up the Academy(1980)
Urban Cowboy(1980)
Used Cars (1980)

[CZAR]

Some of these are not on blu yet but here is a list of some of the films I like best from the 70's!

Saturday Night Fever
Halloween
Carrie
Death Wish
Animal House
The Black Hole
Car Wash
Dawn of the Dead
Midnight Express
The Exorcist
Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory
Close Encounters of the 3rd Kind
The Mack
Cooley High
Watermelon Man
Superman
UP!
Deep T_____
Jaws
Uptown Saturday Night
The Wiz
Mahogany
Super Fly


We need all of these on blu! Simply classics! Got Em!!

[jhiggy23]

Originally Posted by Travis

The 70s is probably my favorite decade for movies. So amny greats. I was born in '75 and therefore haven't seen any in theaters and have never seen many, many 70s films at home.

I bought Best Movies of the 70s by Jurgen Muller a few years ago. Have been using that to help me get better acquainted with the 70s. Have bought a few blind on DVD, they were ok, but won't watch a lot. Badlands, Klute, Kagemusha, Kramer vs Kramer, and so on.

Did a search here, 97 movies made from '71-'80.
https://www.blu-ray.com/movies/searc...productionyear

Some are classics and very popular like Shining, Halloween, Godfather, Raging Bull, Dirty Harry, etc.

What are the not so popular 70s films on Blu-ray worth buying?

Here are 4 I'm considering to buy blind.
1. The Getaway?
I love gangster films.

2. French Connection 2?
Never knew there was a sequel until a year ago. I think I read it is better than the sequel.

3. Breaker Morant?
Never heard of it.

4. Midnight Express?
Maybe a little known, I have never seen and believe many people have not. I may blind buy it soon (Sussudio I'll thank you later, or blame you).

I saw Midnight Express about 3 months ago...it is not that unknown though (the screenplay caused quite the stir, with apologies being formally made in 2004). I thought it was a very good, very real film. The only thing I didn't like was the pointless homosexual angle.

[P@t_Mtl]

Originally Posted by Elvis

Ok what are your top 5 from the 1970s? No more than 5 choices allowed!!!

I said I would be really hard press Elvis, why are you pressing me