Baron Samedi
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I was just thinking that there were so many great movies that I saw oh so many years ago, and most of them are 70's movies! The older I get, the more I realize what a great time that was for movies. Now, I was a bit young back then, but in those days, when your parents wanted to go see a movie, they brought the kids, rated R or not...especially at the drive in. I saw many of these movies in the theater as a young pre-teen in the theaters, but also many in the 80's after the fact.
Now "best movies" is very subjective, and that's fine, so tell me WHY you think your movie or movies are the best.
Name NO MORE THAN 3 movies per post!
Tell us WHY the movies are great.
I'll begin, and I am going to dodge some of the more obvious films and start with some of my personal faves, that are not "obscure" by any measure, but that I think people today may have never seen or even maybe heard of;
Network - 1976
This movie is truly timeless. I think it would be much more well known if it didn't reflect so poorly on the media industry itself. There is so much truth in this movie, about politics, about media, about corporatism, about the nature of people, audiences, and consumers..it's almost painful.
The movie closes with a famous scene that, sadly, is still just as relevant in 2022 as it was in 1976...
"I'M MAD AS HELL, AND I'M NOT GONNA TAKE IT ANY MORE!"
View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MRuS3dxKK9U
Soylent Green - 1973
To me, this movie is more frightening today than it ever was to me. The plant based meats, the stories coming out about Iceland and elsewhere about how algae and bugs are the future of feeding the people....the future truly is Soylent Green.
Not going to post spoilers, but watching the movie today fills me with anxiety. It's coming. It's inevitable.
For those who don't know, the band Green Day got it's name from this film.
Jeremiah Johnson - 1972
I'm kind of a woodsy mountain type of guy, and this movie I just never, ever get tired of. Some of it is nostalgia, because it's portrayal of Native Americans is pretty stereotype, but it's a great film, a classic. Robert Redford has never been one of my favorite actors, but he has a handful of films which I just love (most recently A Walk in the Woods with Nick Nolte, great book, good movie).
Jeremiah Johnson has it all, a little western, a little Grizzly Adams, a little bushcraft and survivalism, a little comedy, a little tragedy...all of it. It is sort of a quentessential theater experience, I don't know how to explain it. It's actually become a cult classic, on it's 50th anniversary year! What a GREAT film. It is quintessential Hollywood...on par with Jaws for it's era. Superior in my mind to other great, more modern films, such as "A man called Horse" or "Dances with wolves", because it brings more authenticity to table, in regards to what it actually took to survive in the wilderness.
Here is a clip from the film that really highlights why Jeremiah Johnson is more authentic and better than the other films I mentioned.
View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bKUPu1epqnU
Now "best movies" is very subjective, and that's fine, so tell me WHY you think your movie or movies are the best.
Name NO MORE THAN 3 movies per post!
Tell us WHY the movies are great.
I'll begin, and I am going to dodge some of the more obvious films and start with some of my personal faves, that are not "obscure" by any measure, but that I think people today may have never seen or even maybe heard of;
Network - 1976
This movie is truly timeless. I think it would be much more well known if it didn't reflect so poorly on the media industry itself. There is so much truth in this movie, about politics, about media, about corporatism, about the nature of people, audiences, and consumers..it's almost painful.
The movie closes with a famous scene that, sadly, is still just as relevant in 2022 as it was in 1976...
"I'M MAD AS HELL, AND I'M NOT GONNA TAKE IT ANY MORE!"
View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MRuS3dxKK9U
Soylent Green - 1973
To me, this movie is more frightening today than it ever was to me. The plant based meats, the stories coming out about Iceland and elsewhere about how algae and bugs are the future of feeding the people....the future truly is Soylent Green.
Not going to post spoilers, but watching the movie today fills me with anxiety. It's coming. It's inevitable.
For those who don't know, the band Green Day got it's name from this film.
Jeremiah Johnson - 1972
I'm kind of a woodsy mountain type of guy, and this movie I just never, ever get tired of. Some of it is nostalgia, because it's portrayal of Native Americans is pretty stereotype, but it's a great film, a classic. Robert Redford has never been one of my favorite actors, but he has a handful of films which I just love (most recently A Walk in the Woods with Nick Nolte, great book, good movie).
Jeremiah Johnson has it all, a little western, a little Grizzly Adams, a little bushcraft and survivalism, a little comedy, a little tragedy...all of it. It is sort of a quentessential theater experience, I don't know how to explain it. It's actually become a cult classic, on it's 50th anniversary year! What a GREAT film. It is quintessential Hollywood...on par with Jaws for it's era. Superior in my mind to other great, more modern films, such as "A man called Horse" or "Dances with wolves", because it brings more authenticity to table, in regards to what it actually took to survive in the wilderness.
Here is a clip from the film that really highlights why Jeremiah Johnson is more authentic and better than the other films I mentioned.
View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bKUPu1epqnU