Top 10 of the Decade: The 1970s

[LoathedVermin72]

I thought I'd start making a "Top 10 of the Decade" thread every week or two (a different decade being the focus each time, obviously). Pretty self-explanatory: everyone posts their ten favorite/best/greatest/whatever movies from the specified decade and we all discuss.

Figured the '70s would be a good place to start.

Mine:
1. The Texas Chainsaw Massacre
2. The Tenant
3. The Grapes of Death
4. The Crazies
5. Dawn of the Dead
6. Monty Python and the Holy Grail
7. Jaws
8. The Godfather
9. Suspiria
10. McCabe & Mrs. Miller

Honorable Mentions: Chinatown, Ryan's Daughter, Fellini's Casanova, Star Wars

RM?

[koopee27]

pretty damn good list there

mine would be:

1. The Godfather Part II
2. Alien
3. The Texas Chainsaw Massacre
4. Halloween
5. Dirty Harry
6. Little Big Man
7. Dawn of the Dead
8. Halloween
9. Jaws
10. The Godfather
11. The Deer Hunter

oopss


bubbling under: Mad Max, Patton, The Omen, and many others..
i just love the 70s films.. no other decade can compete with it. period.


kp

[epilogue]

This is what I'm talking about when I talk about a level of objectivity in film making.

[The Argonaut]

1. A Woman Under the Influence (Cassavettes)
2. Badlands (Malick)
3. Vengeance is Mine (Imamura)
4. Taxi Driver (Scorsese)
5. Manhattan (Allen)
6. The Tenant (Polanski)
7. A Clockwork Orange (Kubrick)
8. Lacombe Lucien (Malle)
9. Stroszek (Herzog)
10. Grey Gardens (Maysles)

contenders: Godfather, California Split, Long Goodbye, And Now for Something Completely Different, Willy Wonka, Friends of Eddie Coyle, Ali: Fear Eats the Soul, Love and Death, Annie Hall, Network, Being There.

[Harry Limb]

It's impossible for me to choose 10 films from the 70s.

1. Macbeth (1971)
2. What? (1972)
3. Weeken of a Champion (1972)
4. Chinatown (1974)
5. Tess (1979)
6. The Tenant (1976)
7. A Day at the Beach (1972)
8. The Boat on the Grass (1971)
9. Blood for Dracula (1974)

[epilogue]

1. The Godfather part II
2. The Godfather
3. Annie Hall
4. A Clockwork Orange
5. Straw Dogs
6. Dog Day Afternoon
7. Taxi Driver
8. The Jerk
9. Badlands
10. Harold and Maude

[doug rr]

in no order

jaws
the day of the jackal
dog day afternoon
the french connection
monty python holy grail
apocalypse now
deer hunter
close encounters of the third kind
the exorcist
blazing saddles

[Rangi Guy]

No particular order

1) Alien
2) The Godfather
3) Jaws
4) Star Wars
5) The Exorcist
6) Monty Python and the Holy Grail
7) Deliverance
8) Mad Max
9) Rocky
10) The Texas Chainsaw Massacre

Almost made the cut.......Blazing Saddles, The Omen, Dirty Harry

[Norah]

All these lists without Young Frankenstein are wrong.

[ThumbingMyWayToNFLD]

This might be my favourite decade of film. No order:

The Man Who Would Be King
Annie Hall
The Godfather
Chinatown
The Deer Hunter
The French Connection
Taxi Driver
Dog Day Afternoon
Monty Python & The Holy Grail
Sleuth

Honourables: Rocky, The Exorcist, Jaws, Godfather II, Get Carter

[bada]

Enter The Dragon
Kelly's Heroes
Superman
Exorcist
Deliverance
Jaws
Alien
Star Wars
Godfather
Close Encounters Of The Third Kind

Honourable: M*A*S*H

[nyquillyn]

1. The Last Picture Show
2. Taxi Driver
3. A Clockwork Orange
4. Stalker
5. The Conversation
6. Solaris
7. The Deer Hunter
8. All The President's Men
9. Days of Heaven
10. Alien

[darth_vedder]

Enter The Dragon
Kelly's Heroes
Superman
Exorcist
Deliverance
Jaws
Alien
Star Wars
Godfather
Close Encounters Of The Third Kind

Honourable: M*A*S*H

This is probably more in line with mine. I love Jaws, Superman, and Star Wars. Maybe a lot is nostalgia, but those three are some of the films I got into very early on, and have stuck with me.

I'd also mention:

Halloween
Dirty Harry
Texas Chainsaw Massacre (just re-watched this one, it holds up well).

[EJ]

One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest
The Deer Hunter
Halloween
The Exorcist
Jaws
Animal House
Carrie
Tora! Tora! Tora!
The Spy Who Loved Me
Escape From Alcatraz

[darth_vedder]

Animal House

[Orpheus]

1. The Last Picture Show
2. Taxi Driver
3. A Clockwork Orange
4. Stalker
5. The Conversation
6. Solaris
7. The Deer Hunter
8. All The President's Men
9. Days of Heaven
10. Alien

Excellent list.

[Birds in Hell]

(EDIT)

Argh, look, fine. Here's my list.

1. The Wicker Man (1973)
2. Suspiria (1977)
3. Beyond the Valley of the Dolls (1970)
4. Annie Hall (1977)
5. Don't Look Now (1973)
6. The Stepford Wives (1975)
7. Black Christmas (1974)
8. The Tenant (1976)
9. The Bird with the Crystal Plumage (1970)
10. Death Wish (1974)