Greatest 70s Movie - Group 5

[Bjornebye]

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[VladimirIlyich]

GF2 and Blazing Saddles. 'It's Hedley,not Heddy.'

[Mook]

The Godfather Part II & Serpico for me here with Rocky missing out in third place.

[Tony Moanero]

Serpico and Rocky. The Godfather Part II is a great film, just not a favourite of mine.

 

[Bjornebye]

Rocky & Midnight Express for me. Of course Godfather 1 & 2 are exceptional films. Rocky is one of my favourite films and possibly the greatest sporting film ever and Midnight Express is great. 

[aws]

 Godfather 2  and Alien. 

[SasaS]

Yes, G2 and A.

 

Midnight Express, now that was pretty racist as far as I remember it. 

[KMD7]

Fucking Hell tough group.  Every film on that list is a classic.

 

Going to go with Rocky and Midnight Express. 

 

 

[YorkshireRed]

Godfather 2 and Midnight Express. 

[mgw100]

Godfather 2 and then swithered between Marathon Man and Midnight Express. The former won out

[AngryOfTuebrook]

Blazing Saddles and Godfather 2 (although it's a damn shame to see Marathon Man go out).

 

Last time I voted for one of the two funniest films ever alongside the Corleones, it didn't end well. I'm not holding my breath this time.

[AngryOfTuebrook]

2 hours ago, Bjornebye said:

Rocky is one of my favourite films and possibly the greatest sporting film ever. 

Jake la Motta disagrees. 

[Bjornebye]

1 hour ago, SasaS said:

Midnight Express, now that was pretty racist as far as I remember it. 

Based on a true story. The nutter with the beanie was a bit of a prick. The Dad calls the fat screw a Turkish bastard as well but I don't remember it being racist enough to class it as a racist film? 

[AngryOfTuebrook]

3 hours ago, VladimirIlyich said:

GF2 and Blazing Saddles. 'It's Hedley,not Heddy.'

I was just thinking the other day about how there's not a single scene in Blazing Saddles that's not great.

 

This is just perfect. 

 

[Harry's Lad]

Alien and The Godfather 2. 

Every film on this list is worthy of going through here.

[Scooby Dudek]

2 hours ago, YorkshireRed said:

Godfather 2 and Midnight Express. 

Same

[SasaS]

44 minutes ago, Bjornebye said:

Based on a true story. The nutter with the beanie was a bit of a prick. The Dad calls the fat screw a Turkish bastard as well but I don't remember it being racist enough to class it as a racist film? 

As far as I recall it, it isn't racist in such an obvious way, more in a general tone, western drug dealers suffering at the hands of largely dehumanized Turks. I remember that it made me think about that, and at a time when we were much less attuned to such considerations. Also, I would probably be among the last people on here reading (western) racism into films so it must have been something to it. It's a very good prison film, but this aspect jumped out at me pretty quickly. I have not watched it in years though.

[Bjornebye]

3 minutes ago, SasaS said:

As far as I recall it, it isn't racist in such an obvious way, more in a general tone, western drug dealers suffering at the hands of largely dehumanized Turks. I remember that it made me think about that, and at a time when we were much less attuned to such considerations. Also, I would probably be among the last people on here reading (western) racism into films so it must have been something to it. It's a very good prison film, but this aspect jumped out at me pretty quickly. I have not watched it in years though.

Should they have recreated the true story of an American trying to smuggle hash out of a Turkish prison the other way around? 

[Strontium]

20 minutes ago, SasaS said:

As far as I recall it, it isn't racist in such an obvious way, more in a general tone, western drug dealers suffering at the hands of largely dehumanized Turks. I remember that it made me think about that, and at a time when we were much less attuned to such considerations. Also, I would probably be among the last people on here reading (western) racism into films so it must have been something to it. It's a very good prison film, but this aspect jumped out at me pretty quickly. I have not watched it in years though.

 

Oliver Stone felt the need to apologise some years later for the film

 

Stone sorry for Midnight Express | Oliver Stone | The Guardian

[Pidge]

Rocky and Alien for me. Can't believe I'm voting against G2, but telling myself I prefer G1 anyway...

[Bjornebye]

32 minutes ago, Strontium Dog™ said:

 

Oliver Stone felt the need to apologise some years later for the film

 

Stone sorry for Midnight Express | Oliver Stone | The Guardian

Is over dramatising prison conditions that were widely known to be harsh, racist? If he felt the need to then fair enough. Seems to me just from reading that article that he was more arsed that the Turkish were pissed off with him. 

[SasaS]

2 hours ago, Bjornebye said:

Should they have recreated the true story of an American trying to smuggle hash out of a Turkish prison the other way around? 

I would have to see it again to give a proper answer, I can only repeat what I said, when I saw it, it made me think about it, way before ideological reviewing became almost the norm. You can make a film about any true events and tweak the tone easily.

[Bjornebye]

4 minutes ago, SasaS said:

I would have to see it again to give a proper answer, I can only repeat what I said, when I saw it, it made me think about it, way before ideological reviewing became almost the norm. You can make a film about any true events and tweak the tone easily.

I think only Spielberg is the only director who ever managed to get it 100% accurate when he did War of the Worlds. 

[Red Shift]

Jesus Christ this group is bonkers. There are at least three films that should win the thing.

[magicrat]

Midnight Express I saw at the time and it just knocked me out . It was of the few films you see in your life that you just never forget.  I doesn't stand the test of time in the way GF's 1&2 do but not many films do .