The 100 Greatest movies of the 1970s. 1. The Godfather (2 Viewers)

[Keith R]

Better pound-for-pound, short-lived performance: Virgil Sollozzo or Don Fanucci?

The Turk. Much more nuanced, restrained and ultimately dangerous

 

[zamboni]

Better pound-for-pound, short-lived performance: Virgil Sollozzo or Don Fanucci?

The Turk. Much more nuanced, restrained and ultimately dangerous

Nice work, Keith.

 

[KarmaPolice]

Star Wars was way too high. Bill Burr's take on it is pretty much mine: I guess you had to see it first when you were a kid to really love it, because, like him, I never saw it in full until I was an adult and didn't get the hype at all.

The Godfather being number 1 feels right. That and II would have been 1a and 1b on my 70s list.

I've found it doesn't hold up as well in my old age, unlike Empire which I still love.

Tim took a bit of heat, but if 80s and I did our countdown thing, I'm guessing my anti-70s comedies stance and other weirdness would have taken more.

Before the 2nd trilogy was released, they re-released the 1st 3 with director adjustments. I don't think I had seen Star Wars since I first saw it in the theaters and was psyched to see it again in a big screen. I know it's meant to be a sort of Sunday comics type film... But I hadn't realized how many groan/laugh worthy moments are in it- especially around Luke. I think Tims ranking was about right, TBH. It's iconic, super fun and formed most of our collective childhoods and worthy of its inclusion here for sure. But can't touch any of those movies in the top 10... Maybe Bears... But otherwise, not the same level of film.

My experience was similar to Gopher's above. My oldest still dug the Star Wars stuff, but I remember thinking about how I didn't think it held up that well when we watched them. Anybody who bagged on Jar-Jar (and I was there), go back and honestly tell me C3PO and others aren't just as bad. Add to that we now have to watch the versions that Lucas jacked up, so we get the digital Jabba and other tweaks. I agree with the bolded 100%, and I think people need to pump the breaks a little on Episode IV - it's not an all-time film. Today I would be more than happy to pop in Empire or Rogue One - I will still go to bat for those. VII is basically a IV remake and depending on my mood, I'd almost rather watch that one - at least it looks better in 4K.

I've never seen BNB, so I don't have an educated stance on that one.

 

[El Floppo]

The people hating on Cabaret don't know what they are talking about

I'll need to rewatch. Has zero impact in my memory... But my memory plays tricks on me (so I need to play tricks back [/peewee] )

 

[Scoresman]

Star Wars was way too high. Bill Burr's take on it is pretty much mine: I guess you had to see it first when you were a kid to really love it, because, like him, I never saw it in full until I was an adult and didn't get the hype at all.

The Godfather being number 1 feels right. That and II would have been 1a and 1b on my 70s list.

I've found it doesn't hold up as well in my old age, unlike Empire which I still love.

Tim took a bit of heat, but if 80s and I did our countdown thing, I'm guessing my anti-70s comedies stance and other weirdness would have taken more.

Before the 2nd trilogy was released, they re-released the 1st 3 with director adjustments. I don't think I had seen Star Wars since I first saw it in the theaters and was psyched to see it again in a big screen. I know it's meant to be a sort of Sunday comics type film... But I hadn't realized how many groan/laugh worthy moments are in it- especially around Luke. I think Tims ranking was about right, TBH. It's iconic, super fun and formed most of our collective childhoods and worthy of its inclusion here for sure. But can't touch any of those movies in the top 10... Maybe Bears... But otherwise, not the same level of film.

My experience was similar to Gopher's above. My oldest still dug the Star Wars stuff, but I remember thinking about how I didn't think it held up that well when we watched them. Anybody who bagged on Jar-Jar (and I was there), go back and honestly tell me C3PO and others aren't just as bad. Add to that we now have to watch the versions that Lucas jacked up, so we get the digital Jabba and other tweaks. I agree with the bolded 100%, and I think people need to pump the breaks a little on Episode IV - it's not an all-time film. Today I would be more than happy to pop in Empire or Rogue One - I will still go to bat for those. VII is basically a IV remake and depending on my mood, I'd almost rather watch that one - at least it looks better in 4K.

I've never seen BNB, so I don't have an educated stance on that one.

C3PO was nowhere near as bad as JarJar. Maybe the Ewoks, but even then, they aren't on that level of terrible.

 

[Joe Schmo]

Yeah, JarJar was not only annoying but almost offensively so. The ewoks sucked too but at least they didn't go full rastafari. You never go full rastafari in a movie.

 

[Jayrod]

Yeah, JarJar was not only annoying but almost offensively so. The ewoks sucked too but at least they didn't go full rastafari. You never go full rastafari in a movie.

This reference cracks me up every time. That entire conversation is like a great Chappelle skit, just brilliant comedy.

 

[El Floppo]

Yeah, JarJar was not only annoying but almost offensively so. The ewoks sucked too but at least they didn't go full rastafari. You never go full rastafari in a movie.

This reference cracks me up every time. That entire conversation is like a great Chappelle skit, just brilliant comedy.

This guy is one of the best soccer players in England right now. https://images.app.goo.gl/oVnKebtAwEqiKXez5

Tell me you don't have that conversation in your head looking at that photo

 

[Hastur]

The people hating on Cabaret don't know what they are talking about

Quite literally. I don't think I've ever seen it. I don't really like musicals though.

 

[Psychopav]

Star Wars was way too high. Bill Burr's take on it is pretty much mine: I guess you had to see it first when you were a kid to really love it, because, like him, I never saw it in full until I was an adult and didn't get the hype at all.

The Godfather being number 1 feels right. That and II would have been 1a and 1b on my 70s list.

I've found it doesn't hold up as well in my old age, unlike Empire which I still love.

Tim took a bit of heat, but if 80s and I did our countdown thing, I'm guessing my anti-70s comedies stance and other weirdness would have taken more.

Before the 2nd trilogy was released, they re-released the 1st 3 with director adjustments. I don't think I had seen Star Wars since I first saw it in the theaters and was psyched to see it again in a big screen. I know it's meant to be a sort of Sunday comics type film... But I hadn't realized how many groan/laugh worthy moments are in it- especially around Luke. I think Tims ranking was about right, TBH. It's iconic, super fun and formed most of our collective childhoods and worthy of its inclusion here for sure. But can't touch any of those movies in the top 10... Maybe Bears... But otherwise, not the same level of film.

My experience was similar to Gopher's above. My oldest still dug the Star Wars stuff, but I remember thinking about how I didn't think it held up that well when we watched them. Anybody who bagged on Jar-Jar (and I was there), go back and honestly tell me C3PO and others aren't just as bad. Add to that we now have to watch the versions that Lucas jacked up, so we get the digital Jabba and other tweaks. I agree with the bolded 100%, and I think people need to pump the breaks a little on Episode IV - it's not an all-time film. Today I would be more than happy to pop in Empire or Rogue One - I will still go to bat for those. VII is basically a IV remake and depending on my mood, I'd almost rather watch that one - at least it looks better in 4K.

I've never seen BNB, so I don't have an educated stance on that one.

C3PO was nowhere near as bad as JarJar. Maybe the Ewoks, but even then, they aren't on that level of terrible.

My kids sure loved Jar Jar. But they love R2 more.

 

[Gr00vus]

It's strange and interesting to me that Tim rates Jaws as high as he does while rating Star Wars as low.

Alec Guiness's rug legitimately drops Star Wars down multiple tiers.

Nah. Guiness as Ben Kenobi is one of the great supporting cast moves of all time. The guy was rock solid all the way back to Bridge on the River Kwai.

I was joking. Guiness was great, rug and all.

 

[Gr00vus]

Thanks for doing this Tim. One movie I thought had a chance to appear on your list is "Breaking Away".

Breaking Away (1979) ⭐ 7.7 | Comedy, Drama, Sport

1h 41m | PG

www.imdb.com

I love this movie, so I would have ranked it in the top 100. I think most probably won't agree.

Love this one, would definitely be in my top 100. Way more rewatchable than a lot of the others that ended up on this list too.

Refund? REFUND?!?!

 

[Don Quixote]

The Last Picture Show seems a big omission to me. Malick’s Days of Heaven and Badlands would have made mine.

Get Carter, Fellini’s Amarcord, and Blue Collar a few others that quickly come to mind as some favorites left out.

 

[zamboni]

Thanks for doing this Tim. One movie I thought had a chance to appear on your list is "Breaking Away".

Breaking Away (1979) ⭐ 7.7 | Comedy, Drama, Sport

1h 41m | PG

www.imdb.com

I love this movie, so I would have ranked it in the top 100. I think most probably won't agree.

Love this one, would definitely be in my top 100. Way more rewatchable than a lot of the others that ended up on this list too.

Could have had a Jackie Earle Haley retrospective had Breaking Away made it.

 

[Psychopav]

Apropos of nothing:

Hey does everyone else see youtube and imdb link titles and descriptions in German, or is that a "me" problem?

 

[El Floppo]

Apropos of nothing:

Hey does everyone else see youtube and imdb link titles and descriptions in German, or is that a "me" problem?

Nein

 

[Dr. Octopus]

Hey does everyone else see youtube and imdb link titles and descriptions in German

Ja

 

[El Floppo]

The Last Picture Show seems a big omission to me. Malick’s Days of Heaven and Badlands would have made mine.

Get Carter, Fellini’s Amarcord, and Blue Collar a few others that quickly come to mind as some favorites left out.

Strozsek too

 

[Leroy Hoard]

Apropos of nothing:

Hey does everyone else see youtube and imdb link titles and descriptions in German, or is that a "me" problem?

Turns out the Germans won the war but we were never told.

 

[KarmaPolice]

Star Wars was way too high. Bill Burr's take on it is pretty much mine: I guess you had to see it first when you were a kid to really love it, because, like him, I never saw it in full until I was an adult and didn't get the hype at all.

The Godfather being number 1 feels right. That and II would have been 1a and 1b on my 70s list.

I've found it doesn't hold up as well in my old age, unlike Empire which I still love.

Tim took a bit of heat, but if 80s and I did our countdown thing, I'm guessing my anti-70s comedies stance and other weirdness would have taken more.

Before the 2nd trilogy was released, they re-released the 1st 3 with director adjustments. I don't think I had seen Star Wars since I first saw it in the theaters and was psyched to see it again in a big screen. I know it's meant to be a sort of Sunday comics type film... But I hadn't realized how many groan/laugh worthy moments are in it- especially around Luke. I think Tims ranking was about right, TBH. It's iconic, super fun and formed most of our collective childhoods and worthy of its inclusion here for sure. But can't touch any of those movies in the top 10... Maybe Bears... But otherwise, not the same level of film.

My experience was similar to Gopher's above. My oldest still dug the Star Wars stuff, but I remember thinking about how I didn't think it held up that well when we watched them. Anybody who bagged on Jar-Jar (and I was there), go back and honestly tell me C3PO and others aren't just as bad. Add to that we now have to watch the versions that Lucas jacked up, so we get the digital Jabba and other tweaks. I agree with the bolded 100%, and I think people need to pump the breaks a little on Episode IV - it's not an all-time film. Today I would be more than happy to pop in Empire or Rogue One - I will still go to bat for those. VII is basically a IV remake and depending on my mood, I'd almost rather watch that one - at least it looks better in 4K.

I've never seen BNB, so I don't have an educated stance on that one.

C3PO was nowhere near as bad as JarJar. Maybe the Ewoks, but even then, they aren't on that level of terrible.

We will just agree to disagree. I really don't like C3PO when watching them now - it's the same stupid humor that Jar Jar had, IMO. Pretty sure both even say "how rude". Maybe not as bad, but Jar Jar is basically a background character after 1 movie as well.

 

[KarmaPolice]

The Last Picture Show seems a big omission to me. Malick’s Days of Heaven and Badlands would have made mine.

Get Carter, Fellini’s Amarcord, and Blue Collar a few others that quickly come to mind as some favorites left out.

Yeah, Days of Heaven would be in my top 10, if not top 5. Same for some Bergmans. My list would have been the usual "artsy" crap and booting out the Yound Franks and Blazing Saddles type movies.

 

[El Floppo]

The Last Picture Show seems a big omission to me. Malick’s Days of Heaven and Badlands would have made mine.

Get Carter, Fellini’s Amarcord, and Blue Collar a few others that quickly come to mind as some favorites left out.

Yeah, Days of Heaven would be in my top 10, if not top 5. Same for some Bergmans. My list would have been the usual "artsy" crap and booting out the Yound Franks and Blazing Saddles type movies.

Mine would be both.

 

[KarmaPolice]

The Last Picture Show seems a big omission to me. Malick’s Days of Heaven and Badlands would have made mine.

Get Carter, Fellini’s Amarcord, and Blue Collar a few others that quickly come to mind as some favorites left out.

Yeah, Days of Heaven would be in my top 10, if not top 5. Same for some Bergmans. My list would have been the usual "artsy" crap and booting out the Yound Franks and Blazing Saddles type movies.

Mine would be both.

I would have Life of Brian and Holy Grail, but i cant think of another 70s comedy that would be in consideration offhand. Probably have more horror, and ranked higher as well.

 

[Joe Schmo]

The Last Picture Show seems a big omission to me. Malick’s Days of Heaven and Badlands would have made mine.

Get Carter, Fellini’s Amarcord, and Blue Collar a few others that quickly come to mind as some favorites left out.

Yeah, Days of Heaven would be in my top 10, if not top 5. Same for some Bergmans. My list would have been the usual "artsy" crap and booting out the Yound Franks and Blazing Saddles type movies.

Mine would be both.

I would have Life of Brian and Holy Grail, but i cant think of another 70s comedy that would be in consideration offhand. Probably have more horror, and ranked higher as well.

Seriously??

 

[Scoresman]

Yeah I feel horror is underrepresented here. It's such a good decade for the genre.

Black Christmas
Dawn of the Dead
The Wicker Man
Nosferatu
Suspiria
Don't Look Now
Phantasm

The bolded are particularly egregious omissions.

 

[northern exposure]

Thanks for doing this Tim. One movie I thought had a chance to appear on your list is "Breaking Away".

Breaking Away (1979) ⭐ 7.7 | Comedy, Drama, Sport

1h 41m | PG

www.imdb.com

I love this movie, so I would have ranked it in the top 100. I think most probably won't agree.

Love this one, would definitely be in my top 100. Way more rewatchable than a lot of the others that ended up on this list too.

Could have had a Jackie Earle Haley retrospective had Breaking Away made it.

Well, he was in Bad News Bears.

 

[Dr. Octopus]

Star Wars was way too high. Bill Burr's take on it is pretty much mine: I guess you had to see it first when you were a kid to really love it, because, like him, I never saw it in full until I was an adult and didn't get the hype at all.

The Godfather being number 1 feels right. That and II would have been 1a and 1b on my 70s list.

I've found it doesn't hold up as well in my old age, unlike Empire which I still love.

Tim took a bit of heat, but if 80s and I did our countdown thing, I'm guessing my anti-70s comedies stance and other weirdness would have taken more.

Before the 2nd trilogy was released, they re-released the 1st 3 with director adjustments. I don't think I had seen Star Wars since I first saw it in the theaters and was psyched to see it again in a big screen. I know it's meant to be a sort of Sunday comics type film... But I hadn't realized how many groan/laugh worthy moments are in it- especially around Luke. I think Tims ranking was about right, TBH. It's iconic, super fun and formed most of our collective childhoods and worthy of its inclusion here for sure. But can't touch any of those movies in the top 10... Maybe Bears... But otherwise, not the same level of film.

My experience was similar to Gopher's above. My oldest still dug the Star Wars stuff, but I remember thinking about how I didn't think it held up that well when we watched them. Anybody who bagged on Jar-Jar (and I was there), go back and honestly tell me C3PO and others aren't just as bad. Add to that we now have to watch the versions that Lucas jacked up, so we get the digital Jabba and other tweaks. I agree with the bolded 100%, and I think people need to pump the breaks a little on Episode IV - it's not an all-time film. Today I would be more than happy to pop in Empire or Rogue One - I will still go to bat for those. VII is basically a IV remake and depending on my mood, I'd almost rather watch that one - at least it looks better in 4K.

I've never seen BNB, so I don't have an educated stance on that one.

C3PO was nowhere near as bad as JarJar. Maybe the Ewoks, but even then, they aren't on that level of terrible.

We will just agree to disagree. I really don't like C3PO when watching them now - it's the same stupid humor that Jar Jar had, IMO. Pretty sure both even say "how rude". Maybe not as bad, but Jar Jar is basically a background character after 1 movie as well.

C-3PO was Felix Unger as an Android. Jar Jar was a bad SNL sketch stretched over 2 hours.

I get what you’re saying but at 7 years old I loved C-3PO and can still appreciate his role in the franchise - he was comic relief and pulled it off way better than Jar Jar imo.

 

[Mrs. Rannous]

We will just agree to disagree. I really don't like C3PO when watching them now - it's the same stupid humor that Jar Jar had, IMO. Pretty sure both even say "how rude". Maybe not as bad, but Jar Jar is basically a background character after 1 movie as well.

This is a George Lucas problem.

 

[zamboni]

Thanks for doing this Tim. One movie I thought had a chance to appear on your list is "Breaking Away".

Breaking Away (1979) ⭐ 7.7 | Comedy, Drama, Sport

1h 41m | PG

www.imdb.com

I love this movie, so I would have ranked it in the top 100. I think most probably won't agree.

Love this one, would definitely be in my top 100. Way more rewatchable than a lot of the others that ended up on this list too.

Could have had a Jackie Earle Haley retrospective had Breaking Away made it.

Well, he was in Bad News Bears.

Yes - that was my main point.

ETA: unfortunately Losin’ It was in the ‘80s.

 

[KarmaPolice]

The Last Picture Show seems a big omission to me. Malick’s Days of Heaven and Badlands would have made mine.

Get Carter, Fellini’s Amarcord, and Blue Collar a few others that quickly come to mind as some favorites left out.

Yeah, Days of Heaven would be in my top 10, if not top 5. Same for some Bergmans. My list would have been the usual "artsy" crap and booting out the Yound Franks and Blazing Saddles type movies.

Mine would be both.

I would have Life of Brian and Holy Grail, but i cant think of another 70s comedy that would be in consideration offhand. Probably have more horror, and ranked higher as well.

Seriously??

Yes. I blame it on my age, not lack of sense of humor.

 

[Scoresman]

A lot of the hate for JarJar was also a timing issue. For so many Star Wars fans born in the 80s, this was their moment to finally see a Star Wars movie as it was first released in theaters. As such, it was pretty serious business and fans took it seriously.

Then we were presented JarJar.

 

[El Floppo]

The Last Picture Show seems a big omission to me. Malick’s Days of Heaven and Badlands would have made mine.

Get Carter, Fellini’s Amarcord, and Blue Collar a few others that quickly come to mind as some favorites left out.

Yeah, Days of Heaven would be in my top 10, if not top 5. Same for some Bergmans. My list would have been the usual "artsy" crap and booting out the Yound Franks and Blazing Saddles type movies.

Mine would be both.

I would have Life of Brian and Holy Grail, but i cant think of another 70s comedy that would be in consideration offhand. Probably have more horror, and ranked higher as well.

Seriously??

Yes. I blame it on my age, not lack of sense of humor.

Both will be my answer for this one too.

 

[KarmaPolice]

The Last Picture Show seems a big omission to me. Malick’s Days of Heaven and Badlands would have made mine.

Get Carter, Fellini’s Amarcord, and Blue Collar a few others that quickly come to mind as some favorites left out.

Yeah, Days of Heaven would be in my top 10, if not top 5. Same for some Bergmans. My list would have been the usual "artsy" crap and booting out the Yound Franks and Blazing Saddles type movies.

Mine would be both.

I would have Life of Brian and Holy Grail, but i cant think of another 70s comedy that would be in consideration offhand. Probably have more horror, and ranked higher as well.

Seriously??

Yes. I blame it on my age, not lack of sense of humor.

Both will be my answer for this one too.

 

[northern exposure]

Thanks for doing this Tim. One movie I thought had a chance to appear on your list is "Breaking Away".

Breaking Away (1979) ⭐ 7.7 | Comedy, Drama, Sport

1h 41m | PG

www.imdb.com

I love this movie, so I would have ranked it in the top 100. I think most probably won't agree.

Love this one, would definitely be in my top 100. Way more rewatchable than a lot of the others that ended up on this list too.

Could have had a Jackie Earle Haley retrospective had Breaking Away made it.

Well, he was in Bad News Bears.

Yes - that was my main point.

ETA: unfortunately Losin’ It was in the ‘80s.

What about Damnation Alley?

 

[Ilov80s]

The Last Picture Show seems a big omission to me. Malick’s Days of Heaven and Badlands would have made mine.

Get Carter, Fellini’s Amarcord, and Blue Collar a few others that quickly come to mind as some favorites left out.

Last Picture Show is the one I thought would have been top 10 over Bad News

 

[Ilov80s]

The people hating on Cabaret don't know what they are talking about

Quite literally. I don't think I've ever seen it. I don't really like musicals though.

I think it’s a musical that people who don’t like them might like. It’s very contemporary in its sex, it’s set amongst the rise of the NAZIs in Germany so it has that element and all the music is contained to the actual stage shows at the club so it’s not a movie where normal people just break out in song while walking down the street.

 

[Eephus]

I think it’s a musical that people who don’t like them might like. It’s very contemporary in its sex, it’s set amongst the rise of the NAZIs in Germany so it has that element and all the music is contained to the actual stage shows at the club so it’s not a movie where normal people just break out in song while walking down the street.

...with one exception

 

[Ilov80s]

I think it’s a musical that people who don’t like them might like. It’s very contemporary in its sex, it’s set amongst the rise of the NAZIs in Germany so it has that element and all the music is contained to the actual stage shows at the club so it’s not a movie where normal people just break out in song while walking down the street.

...with one exception

probably the most chilling song in any musical. Sickening really.

 

[Ilov80s]

The Last Picture Show seems a big omission to me. Malick’s Days of Heaven and Badlands would have made mine.

Get Carter, Fellini’s Amarcord, and Blue Collar a few others that quickly come to mind as some favorites left out.

Yeah, Days of Heaven would be in my top 10, if not top 5. Same for some Bergmans. My list would have been the usual "artsy" crap and booting out the Yound Franks and Blazing Saddles type movies.

You mean Terrence “nap” Malick?

 

[KarmaPolice]

The Last Picture Show seems a big omission to me. Malick’s Days of Heaven and Badlands would have made mine.

Get Carter, Fellini’s Amarcord, and Blue Collar a few others that quickly come to mind as some favorites left out.

Yeah, Days of Heaven would be in my top 10, if not top 5. Same for some Bergmans. My list would have been the usual "artsy" crap and booting out the Yound Franks and Blazing Saddles type movies.

You mean Terrence “nap” Malick?

Don't you play coy with me - I know you like some New World.

 

[KarmaPolice]

Yeah I feel horror is underrepresented here. It's such a good decade for the genre.

Black Christmas
Dawn of the Dead
The Wicker Man
Nosferatu
Suspiria
Don't Look Now
Phantasm

The bolded are particularly egregious omissions.

Those are some solid choices too, a few would have been on my list for sure. I need to do a Dawn of the Dead rewatch one of these days. The Brood would have been on my list. I think the surprise of the list if @Ilov80s and I would have done ours would have been the amazing Messiah of Evil.

 

[Eephus]

You mean Terrence “nap” Malick?

Malick's style has grown a little predictable in the past 50 years but when Badlands and especially Days of Heaven came out, they looked unlike anything else in contemporary American film.

 

[Ilov80s]

The Last Picture Show seems a big omission to me. Malick’s Days of Heaven and Badlands would have made mine.

Get Carter, Fellini’s Amarcord, and Blue Collar a few others that quickly come to mind as some favorites left out.

Yeah, Days of Heaven would be in my top 10, if not top 5. Same for some Bergmans. My list would have been the usual "artsy" crap and booting out the Yound Franks and Blazing Saddles type movies.

You mean Terrence “nap” Malick?

Don't you play coy with me - I know you like some New World.

Oh I was entirely kidding- that was my impression of what the haters say. I am totally in on Malick. I get why people say he’s boring but I love his style.

 

[Ilov80s]

You mean Terrence “nap” Malick?

Malick's style has grown a little predictable in the past 50 years but when Badlands and especially Days of Heaven came out, they looked unlike anything else in contemporary American film.

That was a joke that was not properly executed. I love Malick. Slow is good.

 

[KarmaPolice]

The Last Picture Show seems a big omission to me. Malick’s Days of Heaven and Badlands would have made mine.

Get Carter, Fellini’s Amarcord, and Blue Collar a few others that quickly come to mind as some favorites left out.

Yeah, Days of Heaven would be in my top 10, if not top 5. Same for some Bergmans. My list would have been the usual "artsy" crap and booting out the Yound Franks and Blazing Saddles type movies.

You mean Terrence “nap” Malick?

Don't you play coy with me - I know you like some New World.

Oh I was entirely kidding- that was my impression of what the haters say. I am totally in on Malick. I get why people say he’s boring but I love his style.

I knew you were joking at least a little. I couldn't remember if it was a PTA type think where it's a love/hate and you actually didn't like the 70s Malick movies as much. I thought I remembered right that you like New World at least.

 

[pecorino]

Star Wars was way too high. Bill Burr's take on it is pretty much mine: I guess you had to see it first when you were a kid to really love it, because, like him, I never saw it in full until I was an adult and didn't get the hype at all.

The Godfather being number 1 feels right. That and II would have been 1a and 1b on my 70s list.

I've found it doesn't hold up as well in my old age, unlike Empire which I still love.

Tim took a bit of heat, but if 80s and I did our countdown thing, I'm guessing my anti-70s comedies stance and other weirdness would have taken more.

Before the 2nd trilogy was released, they re-released the 1st 3 with director adjustments. I don't think I had seen Star Wars since I first saw it in the theaters and was psyched to see it again in a big screen. I know it's meant to be a sort of Sunday comics type film... But I hadn't realized how many groan/laugh worthy moments are in it- especially around Luke. I think Tims ranking was about right, TBH. It's iconic, super fun and formed most of our collective childhoods and worthy of its inclusion here for sure. But can't touch any of those movies in the top 10... Maybe Bears... But otherwise, not the same level of film.

Almost every film from #7-#19 < Star Wars, imo. (I’ve never seen Cabaret).

 

[Ghost Rider]

Better pound-for-pound, short-lived performance: Virgil Sollozzo or Don Fanucci?

The Turk. Much more nuanced, restrained and ultimately dangerous

Agreed. Plus, his delivery of, "What are you worried about? If I wanted to kill you, you'd be dead already," is just too awesome.

 

[Andy Dufresne]

Star Wars was way too high. Bill Burr's take on it is pretty much mine: I guess you had to see it first when you were a kid to really love it, because, like him, I never saw it in full until I was an adult and didn't get the hype at all.

The Godfather being number 1 feels right. That and II would have been 1a and 1b on my 70s list.

I've found it doesn't hold up as well in my old age, unlike Empire which I still love.

Tim took a bit of heat, but if 80s and I did our countdown thing, I'm guessing my anti-70s comedies stance and other weirdness would have taken more.

Before the 2nd trilogy was released, they re-released the 1st 3 with director adjustments. I don't think I had seen Star Wars since I first saw it in the theaters and was psyched to see it again in a big screen. I know it's meant to be a sort of Sunday comics type film... But I hadn't realized how many groan/laugh worthy moments are in it- especially around Luke. I think Tims ranking was about right, TBH. It's iconic, super fun and formed most of our collective childhoods and worthy of its inclusion here for sure. But can't touch any of those movies in the top 10... Maybe Bears... But otherwise, not the same level of film.

My experience was similar to Gopher's above. My oldest still dug the Star Wars stuff, but I remember thinking about how I didn't think it held up that well when we watched them. Anybody who bagged on Jar-Jar (and I was there), go back and honestly tell me C3PO and others aren't just as bad. Add to that we now have to watch the versions that Lucas jacked up, so we get the digital Jabba and other tweaks. I agree with the bolded 100%, and I think people need to pump the breaks a little on Episode IV - it's not an all-time film. Today I would be more than happy to pop in Empire or Rogue One - I will still go to bat for those. VII is basically a IV remake and depending on my mood, I'd almost rather watch that one - at least it looks better in 4K.

I've never seen BNB, so I don't have an educated stance on that one.

C3PO was nowhere near as bad as JarJar. Maybe the Ewoks, but even then, they aren't on that level of terrible.

We will just agree to disagree. I really don't like C3PO when watching them now - it's the same stupid humor that Jar Jar had, IMO. Pretty sure both even say "how rude". Maybe not as bad, but Jar Jar is basically a background character after 1 movie as well.

The humor isn't remotely the same. One is a socially awkward, know it all professor that doesn't really know anything and the other is an idiotic, clumsy, gibberish speaking menace.

Comic relief comes in many types. These two types are markedly dissimilar.

 

[TripItUp]

top 20 I've never seen, two of which I had never heard of


19. The Last Waltz (never heard of)
18. Chinatown
8. Cabaret (never heard of)
5. Network
3. One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest

 

[timschochet]

So question: should I work on one of these for the 80s? Does anyone want to read that? Or skip it?