I Love the 70's.....

[amy Long]

Oh you have not lived the bad movie life until you have watched classics like "Can't Stop The Music" with Bruce Jenner and the Village People. Or one of my favorites: "Roller Boogie" with Linda Blair, but the greatest 70's series has to be Rudy Ray Moore and the "Dolomite" collection. Do not miss Dolomite, or Disco Godfather..


True classics!!!!

[Patient7]

I'm wondering why
This is in the haiku peice
I wont make a threat.

Due to a recent dispute with someone who shall remain nameless I couldn't pass up the choice to make a joke like this.  But seriously, I'm very confused by this.

[Andrew]

I think that Amy accidentally posted it in that section.  Moved it to Bad Movies.

[Patient7]

Yeah, that seems more reasonable than anything else, good thing I din't go all wackadoo on anybody.  Please ignore my previous post everybody.

[Rev. Powell]

The seventies brought us blaxploitation, kung-fu, women-in-prison films, and the earliest slasher movies.  It's a decade that's impossible for a bad movie lover to hate.  Just looking at the giant afros, paisley bellbottoms and other fashion atrocities these films is usually enough to add a 1/2 slime to the most boring flick.

[Allhallowsday]

The seventies brought us blaxploitation, kung-fu, women-in-prison films, and the earliest slasher movies.  It's a decade that's impossible for a bad movie lover to hate.  Just looking at the giant afros, paisley bellbottoms and other fashion atrocities these films is usually enough to add a 1/2 slime to the most boring flick.

The '70s did not bring us "women-in-prison films", they were there long before the '70s.  You need to check out CAGED (1950) or I WANT TO LIVE! (1958).  There are tons of women-in-prison films before 1970.          I know you know what I mean; and, I know you know that I know what you mean. 

I might debate "earliest slasher movies," too.   

[The Burgomaster]

The 1970s is the greatest decade in the history of exploitation cinema.  I mean, that decade had movie theaters dedicated to showing nothing but martial arts flicks . . . and other theaters dedicated to porno . . . and grind houses that showed everything from blaxploitation to gore . . . and let's not forget the drive-ins (how can you beat sitting in your car with a cardboard box full of greasy clam cakes, a barbecued beef sandwich, and a coke watching a "three houses of hell" triple feature consisting of LAST HOUSE ON THE LEFT, THE HOUSE THAT DRIPPED BLOOD , and THE HOUSE THAT VANISHED?)  We MUST bring back the 1970s! 

[Hammock Rider]

"...(how can you beat sitting in your car with a cardboard box full of greasy clam cakes, a barbecued beef sandwich, and a coke ..."

Burgomaster I like your style, and your taste in drive-in food. Same here except we didn't have barbecued beef we had EYE-talian beef sandwiches, and instead of clam cakes, we just had another Italian beef.   When I eventually win the lotto I'm not only going to bring back drive-ins, I'm going to bring back drive-in food, too.

As far as the 70's go, does anyone think there has ever been the same level of innovation or risk taking in film making since?

[The Burgomaster]

Hammock Rider:

I would also love to be wealthy enough to build a drive-in theater and make it "1970s style."  I'd show all the old drive-in flicks (all the 1970s European imports, the low-budget sex comedies made in the rural South like THE PIG-KEEPER'S DAUGHTER and SASSY SUE, the Al Adamson biker and horror movies, etc.)  If I had the money, I wouldn't even care if the drive-in was profitable.  I'd keep it open anyway, just for fun.

[Allhallowsday]

...When I eventually win the lotto I'm not only going to bring back drive-ins, I'm going to bring back drive-in food, too.

Yeh, well, with a carefully monitored Snack Bar, hand-picked weekly fare that belongs together in a double or triple bill, but may never have played together in real life, the drive-in could be great!  We had a thread recently where we talked about drive-ins, and like everything, they're better in nostalgia than reality... 

As far as the 70's go, does anyone think there has ever been the same level of innovation or risk taking in film making since?

The '70s is particularly interesting to me because of the iconoclasm of many of the films.

[Rev. Powell]

The seventies brought us blaxploitation, kung-fu, women-in-prison films, and the earliest slasher movies.  It's a decade that's impossible for a bad movie lover to hate.  Just looking at the giant afros, paisley bellbottoms and other fashion atrocities these films is usually enough to add a 1/2 slime to the most boring flick.

The '70s did not bring us "women-in-prison films", they were there long before the '70s.  You need to check out CAGED (1950) or I WANT TO LIVE! (1958).  There are tons of women-in-prison films before 1970.          I know you know what I mean; and, I know you know that I know what you mean. 

I might debate "earliest slasher movies," too.   

An English professor friend of mine always tells me that the earliest woman-in-prison story was Sophocles' ANTIGONE (the title character was imprisoned by a Greek tyrant for burying her brother against his decree).  I refuse to count it because there was no shower scene or body cavity search scene.  It's just not WIP without those scenes.  The same goes for CAGED. But then, you knew what I meant and know I knew what you meant.

[Patient7]

"...(how can you beat sitting in your car with a cardboard box full of greasy clam cakes, a barbecued beef sandwich, and a coke ..."

Burgomaster I like your style, and your taste in drive-in food. Same here except we didn't have barbecued beef we had EYE-talian beef sandwiches, and instead of clam cakes, we just had another Italian beef.   When I eventually win the lotto I'm not only going to bring back drive-ins, I'm going to bring back drive-in food, too.

As far as the 70's go, does anyone think there has ever been the same level of innovation or risk taking in film making since?

On the subject of drive-ins...

My dad knew this guy, he might still I'm not entirely sure but anyway he worked at this pizza place near a dive-in nd they would watch the movies there for free (without sound though WTF???) and he claims, that The Exorsist is not scary at all without sound, he's seen it both ways so he knows how it is.

P.S.  He watched it without sound first,so my WTF stands.

[Allhallowsday]

I refuse to count it because there was no shower scene or body cavity search scene.  It's just not WIP without those scenes.  The same goes for CAGED. But then, you knew what I meant and know I knew what you meant.

SUSAN HAYWARD waves her hand in the air 'zif shakin' the bones, flips her hand forward and croaks: "No dice!" in I WANT TO LIVE!  That film includes such civil violation as you apparently feel the need to describe...

You believe me don't you? 

[CheezeFlixz]

You know I was about 1 session away from having that decade completely blocked from my psyche, thanks from bring it up.

Yes, true there was some great films from the 70's bring that I was coming of age in the 70's most of that decade is a blur. 

[Patient7]

Another thing the 70's brought us, the ever famous line...

That's what I love about high school girls man, I keep gettin' older they stay the same age.

Matthew Mcconahay's only good role.

Sorry if I misspelled Mcconahay.