1970's Movie Rankdown

I will 2nd that Susan,Big Time!!

 

A Timeless Classic!!

 

A Fantastic Film!!

 

One of my all time favourites, " Can You Dig It?"

 

What a Decade the 70s was for Films,endless quality! The Top 20 was as expected very strong but that was indeed the whole list!!
Once again Taz you produce yet another Mega Classic Thread

 

Best horror movie ever

 

What a Decade the 70s was for Films,endless quality! The Top 20 was as expected very strong but that was indeed the whole list!!
Once again Taz you produce yet another Mega Classic Thread

 

In my opinion the Best Gang Film ever by a Mile,and what an atmosphere and what a Soundtrack.Loved when i first saw it aged 17,love it just as much now!!

 

What a film, absoluetly brilliant

 

In my top 5 films good friend

 

This was a superb thread Taz. Well done

 

@bagforlife @Big els @Cena @cfcturbo @cidermaster @dalbeth3 @Fontaine @Forestbhoy66 @Gabriel @HoopSprings @Hope N Ur Heart @Jacob knows @Jack Torrance @KG-Henrik @nudge1086 @OziBeerMan @scootz @Scotia @scuzzy
@Sydneysider @The Prof @Tim-Time 1888

Just wanted to thank you all again for contributing so much to these rankings. Sorry I didn't really get to wrap this all up last night, but I was pretty knackered by the tine I finished doing the posts and kinda needed to crash as had an early start this morning. Anyhow, doing the loose ends stuff now, lol...

A special mention to Cider, who clocked in the first ever full 100 rankings, and similiar shout outs to Tim and Forest, who both contributed Top 60-70's, but there were a LOT of people that went above and beyond, with top 20's, 30's and 40's also. Thank you all. They are always very helpful.

In a minute I will post everyone's Top 10's - just the Top 10's because it could get legit insane beyond that, lol.

Before I do, couple of little fun facts.
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• This rankdown has had the most nominees and also the most amount fo films that recieved rankings ever.
• 14 people had The Godfather in their Top 10 - 13 of which were in their Top 5!
• Clint Eastwood featured in the most (7) films, narrowly edging out Dustin Hoffman (6).
  
• 1976 was the most popular year (15)

By year:

• 70 - 4
• 71 - 11
• 72 - 6
• 73 - 9
• 74 - 10
• 75 - 8
• 76 - 15
• 77 - 11
• 78 - 12
• 79 - 14

7 Clint Eastwood: Dirty Harry, Kelly's Heroes, Escape From Alcatraz, High Plains Drifter, Every Which Way But Loose, Outlaw Josie Wales & Magnum Force
6 Dustin Hoffman: Marathon Man, Straw Dogs, Kramer v Kramer, Little Big Man, All the President's Men & Papillion

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@Gabriel
1 The Godfather 2 One Flew Over Cuckoos Nest 3 Life Of Brian 4 MP the Holy Grail
5 The Godfather 2 6 High Plains Drifter 7 Apocalypse Now 8 Dog Day Afternoon
9. The Deer Hunter 10. Young Frankenstein

@Fontaine
10 The Godfather 9 Rocky 8 The Omen 7 The Warriors 6 The Exorcist
5 Close Encounters of the Third Kind 4 The Godfather Part II 3 Alien 2 Jaws 1 Star Wars

@HoopSprings
Star Wars Jaws The Wild Geese The Sting Capricorn One Grease
Enter The Dragon Blazing Saddles Silent Running The Towering Inferno

@Tim-Time 1888
1 Star Wars 2 Alien 3 Cross Of Iron 4 A Bridge Too Far 5 Battle Of Midway
6 Papillon 7 Day of the Jackal 8 Midnight Express 9 Boys From Brazil 10 Man Who Would Be King

@nudge1086
1. The Godfather 2. Deliverance 3. Taxi Driver 4. Dawn of the Dead 5. Dirty Harry
6. Rocky 7. Texas Chainsaw Massacre 8. Life of Brian 9. Godfather, Part II 10. Exorcist

@scuzzy
1. Kelly's Heroes 2. Little Big Man 3. Papillion 4. Jaws 5. One flew over the Cuckoo's Nest
6. The Sting 7 All Presidents Men 8 Enter the Dragon 9 Close Encounters 10 Deer Hunter

@scootz
1 Jaws Alien The Godfather The Deer Hunter The Exorcist Apocalypse Now
Deliverance French Connection Taxi Driver One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest

@bagforlife
1-The Godfather 2-The Godfather Part ll 3-Midnight Express 4-Taxi Driver
5-One Flew Over Cuckoo's Nest 6-Boys From Brazil 7-Close Encounters 8-Apocolypse Now
9-Jaws 10-Papillon

@Sydneysider
1. American Graffiti 2. Godfather 3. French Connection 4. Apocalypse now 5. Saturday Night Fever 6. Taking of Pelham 123 7. Assault on Precinct 13 8. Get Carter 9. Jaws 10. Life of Brian

@Jacob knows
One Flew Over Cuckoo's Nest Deer Hunter Life Of Brian 10 Rillington Place Taxi Driver
Scum Slapshot Mean Streets Deliverance Halloween

@cidermaster
1 Dirty Harry 2 Godfather 3 Dawn Of The Dead 4 Godfather II 5 The Warriors 6 Star Wars
7 Kelly's Heroes 8 The Eagle Has Landed 9 Jaws 10 Get Carter

@Forestbhoy66
1 godfather 2 2 godfather 3 close encounters 4 papillon 5 a fistful of dynamite
6 animal house 7 apocalypse now 8 deliverance 9 jaws 10 slap shot

@Big els
1. Kelly’s heroes 2. Enter the dragon 3. Bugsy malone 4. Grease 5. Robin Hood
6. Kramer vs Kramer 7. Jaws 8. Diamonds are forever 9. Scum 10. Deliverance

@The Prof
1 The Exorcist 2 One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest 3 Carrie 4 10 Rillington Place 5 Alien
6 French Connection 7 Dog Day Afternoon 8 Blazing Saddles 9 Deliverance 10 Straw Dogs​

@OziBeerMan
Taxi Driver One flew over the Cuckoos nest Mad Max Rocky Godfather 1
Alien Close encounters Midnight Express Life of Brian * Wonka

@Cena
1. Rocky 2. The Warriors 3. Enter the dragon 4. Rocky II
5. The godfather 6. The godfather II

@KG-Henrik
1 One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest 2 Taxi Driver 3 * Wonka 4 Robin Hood
5 Quadraphenia 6 Escape fr Alcatraz 7 Every Which Way But Loose 8 French Connection​

@Hope N Ur Heart
1. The Godfather 2. Jaws 3. The Godfather, Part II 4. Deer Hunter 5. Alien
6. The Exorcist 7. Halloween 8. Grease 9. Star Wars 10. Deliverance

@Scotia
Star Wars The Godfather Long Good Friday The towering Inferno Slap Shot Deer Hunter Enter The Dragon Blazing Saddles One flew over the Cuckoo's Nest The Warriors

@Jack Torrance
1. Deliverence 2. Taxi driver 3. The Exorcist 4. Network 5. The Warriors
6. High Plains Drifter 7. Apocalypse Now 8. Bring Me The Head of Alfredo Garcia
9. A Clockwork Orange 10. Picnic at Hanging Rock​

 

Maybe... but then again...

• Patton won Best Picture Oscar
  
• Caberet won 8 Oscars (not that the Oscars are the be all and end all, but especially during that post Production Code and pre-Harvey Weinstein era there were a pretty decent barometer)
  
• included Superman to show how times have changed compared with the 2010's where so much is MCU this or DC that etc but back then the big superhero movie of the decade never got close to cracking the 100
• Quite a few Sam Peckinpah movies did make the cut (such as Cross of Iron & Straw Dogs), but The Getaway never got close, which was a surprise.
  
• Diamonds Are Forever was the only Bond movie that made the grade, and that the next best was The Spy Who Loved me which again, nowhere near making the cut
• Directors such as Stanley Kubrick) and Ingmar Bergman made a lot of good movies, but only Kubrick's Clockwork Orange made the cut
• Jack Nicholson in Five Easy Pieces is great (same as in Last Detail), Jane Fonda was great in Klute and Coming Home, always liked the China Syndrome and it's foreshadowing, while Last Picture Show & Marlon Brando's Last Tango in Paris stacked up plenty of controversy, and I could've added more but just wanted to show a bit of a cross-section to underline how good and the strength of the list of the 100 that made it was.

It wasn't meant as a rebuke to everyone to say, why didnt these get voted, it was more about this list is so stacked, look at those that never got close to making the cut, sorry if that came across the wrong way, but that was how I intended it, definitely not as a criticism.

 

Taz excellent work and thanks for the hard work put in . Was pointed out to me years ago maybe the 70s was THE DECADE not the sixties. Just look at the genres of music from jan 1 1970 to end of December 1979, many still very influential even now.

 

Every Film in every Top 10 on display would light up many a Friday or Saturday Night. Pure Class indeed!!

 

George C Scott of course refused his Oscar for Patton! Hope Taz you do except a talkceltic Oscar you are sure to get for Best Thread Of 2021

 

Somehow I think there are more than a few other more likely out there, but 'even to be nominated in an honour', haha!

Brando declined his for Godfather also, in protest of the treatment of Native Americans.

 

I can not complain about the top 3 they were brilliant ,,, Taz once again you have done us all a great service,a lot of surprises in among them all.Some of the films are fantastic