Canoerebel
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Joined: 12/14/2002 From: Northwestern Georgia, USA Status: offline
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There are tons of '70s movies (many listed by you gents) that fit varying definitions of "entertaining," but certainly (to my way of thinking) do not reach the level of being great movies. Some quick examples from that decade: Jaws, The Sting, Deliverance, The Great Train Robbery, M*A*S*H, Monty Python and the Holy Grail, Dirty Harry, Animal House, Jeremiah Johnson, Midnight Express, A Bridge to Far... Those all have merit. There may be folks that love those movies for various personal reasons, the same way I love Tora! Tora! Tora! while my wife would fall asleep five minutes in. I'm not saying that I'm right and she's wrong, just that by my measurement these movies can't stack up to what I consider a great move: Casablanca, Gone with the Wind, Sound of Music, Singing in the Rain, My Fair Lady, Doctor Zhivago, Schindler's List, Titanic, Saving Private Ryan, Pirates of the Carribean I, The Lord of the Rings Trilogy, and many more. From my perspective, I don't see how the '70s can offer anything close to what came in the '30s to '50s and '90s to present. The 70s were the black hole of movie making. A bunch of crud intermixed with a bunch of entertaining-but-not-great with a sad sprinkling of really good movies.
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