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[Your Name Here]

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[eversonpoe]

70's movies are some of my favorites, I have been into 70's films for sometime now. They have a certain look and I love how films in the 70's work at building a story and developing characters before they start the action sequences or in the case of horror films before they bring out the chills. The Exorcist for example takes nearly half the movie before all Hell breaks loose.
Nowadays with films there has to be ten car crashes sixteen explosions and a meteor hitting the Earth before they do the title credits. I wish movies would go back to the slow build of a film the way they did it in the 70's. Some of my favorite 70's films Network, All The Presidents Men, Taxi Driver, The Exorcist, Carrie, Serpico, The Godfather I & II, Harold & Maude(However that might be a late 60's film), Alien, Chinatown, One Flew Over The Cockoos Nest, and I am sure I am forgetting some but you get the idea oh yeah Close Encounters

have you seen The Conversation? i just remembered, that was one of the other amazing ones we watched in that class. that was six years ago and i still haven't been able to stop thinking about how well-done and intense that film was. gene hackman is top notch and harrison ford's small but pivotal role is really, really great.

now i just want to marathon a bunch of my favorite 70s films.

[implanted_microchip]

have you seen The Conversation? i just remembered, that was one of the other amazing ones we watched in that class. that was six years ago and i still haven't been able to stop thinking about how well-done and intense that film was. gene hackman is top notch and harrison ford's small but pivotal role is really, really great.

now i just want to marathon a bunch of my favorite 70s films.

Coppola's run of Godfather - Conversation - Godfather Part II - Apocalypse Now is only equaled but never surpassed in impressiveness to me.

In general I consider the entire New Hollywood era to be the greatest in American movie history. From Easy Rider up till about '79 the amount of highly challenging and unique films that all managed to be major successes and parts of the cultural dialogue is just stunning.

[eversonpoe]

Coppola's run of Godfather - Conversation - Godfather Part II - Apocalypse Now is only equaled but never surpassed in impressiveness to me.

In general I consider the entire New Hollywood era to be the greatest in American movie history. From Easy Rider up till about '79 the amount of highly challenging and unique films that all managed to be major successes and parts of the cultural dialogue is just stunning.

i've never seen the godfather films. never really been big on mafia movies (other than The Freshman haha).

[Khrz]

i've never seen the godfather films. never really been big on mafia movies (other than The Freshman haha).

It's so much more than this though, it's a reflection on power and fate.

[implanted_microchip]

i've never seen the godfather films. never really been big on mafia movies (other than The Freshman haha).

@Khrz said it pretty well -- more than anything they're about the inability to break free of the fate your familial ties have tethered you to, the struggles of power, how good men become corrupted not out of maliciousness but out of perceived necessity, the way that vengeance hardens the human heart and fails to satisfy, the ways things done in the name of our families often isolate ourselves from them and the story of the Italian-American immigrant family in the mid-1940's. It's a sweeping American epic (at least the first two are; skip the third, really) and so worth your time, even if the set-dressing isn't quite your thing.

[eversonpoe]

It's so much more than this though, it's a reflection on power and fate.

@Khrz said it pretty well -- more than anything they're about the inability to break free of the fate your familial ties have tethered you to, the struggles of power, how good men become corrupted not out of maliciousness but out of perceived necessity, the way that vengeance hardens the human heart and fails to satisfy, the ways things done in the name of our families often isolate ourselves from them and the story of the Italian-American immigrant family in the mid-1940's. It's a sweeping American epic (at least the first two are; skip the third, really) and so worth your time, even if the set-dressing isn't quite your thing.

i think you two have finally convinced me to watch them (something no one else has ever been able to do).

[allegro]

i think you two have finally convinced me to watch them (something no one else has ever been able to do).

The Godfather and The Godfather II are, imho, the best films ever made. I've seen them both at least 50 times, no kidding. If I see them on TV, I'll always watch them again.

[Your Name Here]

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[allegro]

Some of my favorite 70's films Network, All The Presidents Men, Taxi Driver, The Exorcist, Carrie, Serpico, The Godfather I & II, Harold & Maude(However that might be a late 60's film), Alien, Chinatown, One Flew Over The Cockoos Nest, and I am sure I am forgetting some but you get the idea oh yeah Close Encounters

(Harold and Maude was 1971)

My personal 70s faves (besides the Godfathers I and II and Alien and Harold & Maude): Dog Day Afternoon, Jaws, A Clockwork Orange, Animal House, Deliverance, Close Encounters, Annie Hall, Last Tango in Paris, The Black Stallion, Love and Death, Young Frankenstein ...

[eversonpoe]

(Harold and Maude was 1971)

My personal 70s faves (besides the Godfathers I and II and Alien and Harold & Maude): Dog Day Afternoon, Jaws, A Clockwork Orange, Animal House, Deliverance, Close Encounters, Annie Hall, Last Tango in Paris, The Black Stallion, Love and Death, Young Frankenstein ...

Dog Day Afternoon is such an amazing film. talk about taking a true story and making it into a compelling movie.

[allegro]

Dog Day Afternoon is such an amazing film. talk about taking a true story and making it into a compelling movie.

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