Why not? The '80s thread looks to be slowing down a tad, so let's tackle this decade next. First off, I'll lead off with this (Cribbed from the weekend rental review thread) Not a rental, or straight to video either. I picked this one up in the $10 bin at Kroger's on my wayto work tonight. Haven't seen it since I was ten years old, but it was still pretty entertaining. John Wayne, Ben Johnson, Rod Taylor and Ann Margaret in The Train Robbers, Warner Brothers, '72. [YT="The Train Robbers, WB, 1972"]jwb7He6fbzk&feature=related[/YT] Civil war comrades Wayne, Johnson & Taylor take on the job of retrieving $500K worth of stolen gold from where it's cached to return it to the railroad for the reward, and to clear Ann Margaret's late husband's name. Tagging along on the side of the angels, Bobby Vinton & Christopher George. Dogging their trail is Ricardo Montelban, being all mysterious like. A pretty good western, and I should've caught up with it sooner than I did. My grade, out of five. I'm sure that we've got lots of flicks to rap about here as well.
Superman, Star Wars, Godfathers I &II, Dog Day Afternoon, Mean Streets, American Graffiti & Apocalypse Now. Just to start the list off with classics..........
I agree with the last post.....where to begin? The 70's were knee-deep in awesome movies that will never be matched by today's special effects, HD, 3-D, etc. etc. Might as well start a 1970's music thread....soul, rock, opo, funk, you name it......mired in greatness!
"You go in the cage? Cage goes in the water. Shark is in the water. Our shark... Farewell and adieu to ye fair Spanish ladies..." ...and having just walked past my TV stand, I'll add: Patton A Bridge Too Far Shaft Slapshot (what the hell,) The Rocky Horror Picture Show Ooh! Rocky Butch Cassidy & The Sundance Kid The Sting And that's just getting warmed up.
Saturday Night Fever Alien Blazing Saddles Smokey and the Bandit Animal House Close Encounters of the Third Kind M*A*S*H Dirty Harry Blacula Clockwork Orange Kelly's Heroes Deliverance Soylent Green Death Wish Magnum Force Monty Python and the Holy Grail McCabe & Mrs. Miller The Wind and the Lion The Boys from Brazil The Amityville Horror The Exorcist Oh, God! The Enforcer Network Sleuth Mad Max Star Trek: The Motion Picture The Longest Yard Chinatown The Marathon Man Monty Python's Life of Brian Taxi Driver The Jerk
Another forgotten classic from the decade: A post-Easy Rider Peter Fonda, along with a pre-Stripes Warren Oates spend their RV vacation on the run from a satanic cult... [YT="Race with the Devil"]wqv6PIH_ymY[/YT] Not the greatest of the era, but it's dripping with cool just the same, [YT="Enter the Dragon"]tB-QGOChuQc[/YT] And the first James Bond flick I ever saw in the theater... [YT="The Spy Who Loved Me"]9Eexojewr74[/YT] Great Agatha Christie whodunit... [YT="Murder on the Orient Express"]JTYA01glGqo[/YT] John Carpenter's original, and still better in my opinion... [YT="Assault on Precinct 13"]6PWyMHLXA7k[/YT] Can You Dig It! [YT="The Warriors"]MV4cgs-bPic&feature=related[/YT] Edit: I can't believe that it took me this long to list this one! [YT="The Omega Man"]X-MosmUseSY[/YT]
"Real Life" (1979) with Albert Brooks. While AB has had more misses than hits in his filmography, but this is a deadpan masterpiece. For those who haven't seen it, it's a spoof of reality shows (or in this case reality cinema) decades before they became the norm. "Mrs. Yeager, does your husband come off as...unsympathetic?"
From Walt Disney Pictures... [YT="The Island at the Top of the World"]IjHnvAHr3is&feature=related[/YT] From American International Pictures.... [YT="The Land that Time Forgot"]mERyn2QpRSw[/YT] And it's sequel... [YT="The People that Time Forgot"]IL7_gp0Xy2Q&feature=related[/YT] And another early movie-going experiance... [YT="Godzilla vs. the Smog Monster"]ELDVjutzan8[/YT]
Silver Streak Classic Disney Live Action movies like Apple Dumpling Gang, Witch Mountain, the myriad Kurt Russell and Herbie movies, and Freaky Friday! The Black Hole Corvette Summer (Mark Hamil & a young Annie Potts ) Omen and Omen II
Originally written for the Beatles oddly enough, Richard Lester's take on the Dumas classic: [YT="The Three Musketeers"]thJiAITu1-4&feature=related[/YT] Soon to be followed by: [YT="The Four Musketeers"]l0L-bhQqwgU&feature=related[/YT] Which got the Salkinds into all sorts of trouble, since they only paid the actors for one movie, and released it as two. Legal hijinks ensued, and now we have the Salkind rule. Now if there'd only been a rule on letting Lester hack up Donner's version of Superman II....(but keep the "General, would you care to step outside" line, it's much better than the "freedom of the press" line in Donner's cut) Also from the lighter side, George Hamilton shows that even the un-dead can sport a wicked good tan... [YT="Love at First Bite"]pvgMIpz7DkI&feature=related[/YT] From the same year, Frank Lagella's take on the Count... [YT="John Badham's Dracula"]glTBzcwB7-Q&feature=related[/YT] And if a great white shark is badass, look out, here comes a killer whale!... [YT="Orca"]VlQ4VrHa7fU[/YT] Also from Dino in the same decade, now we know why the Dude smokes so much weed... [YT="King Kong"]aanYNjjoCQo[/YT] In a more serious vein, more from Richard Harris, Richard Burton, and more from Moore, Roger Moore, taking a break from 007... [YT="The Wild Geese"]JPJIPToK_gs&feature=related[/YT] Edit: I almost forgot the 1970s' other great, classic Disco movie, Starring Jeff Goldblum... [YT="Thank God it's Friday"]50Av0hyJul8&feature=related[/YT] More later...
