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Films of the 70's v Films of the 90's (currently 395 views)
Takeshi
Posted: July 23rd, 2009, 10:35pm
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I was watching The Day of The Locusts a few months ago and was reminded, yet again, about what a great decade the 70s were for films. The 90s were a great decade too. So I looked at the 20 movies that won the Best Picture Oscars in the 70s and 90s and decided to rate them from 1-20 in order to see which decade I thought was the best. I awarded the number 1 film 20 points and so on all the way down to giving the 20th film one point.
The Winners
1970 Patton 1971 The French Connection 1972 The Godfather 1973 The Sting 1974 The Godfather Part 2 1975 One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest 1976 Rocky 1977 Annie Hall 1978 The Deer Hunter 1979 Kramer vs. Kramer
1990 Dances with Wolves 1991 The Silence of The Lambs 1992 Unforgiven 1993 Schindler’s List 1994 Forrest Gump 1995 Braveheart 1996 The English Patient 1997 Titanic 1998 Shakespeare in Love 1999 American Beauty
My Top 20
1 1975 One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest (20 points) 2 1974 The Godfather Part 2 (19 points) 3 1972 The Godfather (18 points) 4 1992 Unforgiven (17 points) 5 1999 American Beauty (16 points) 6 1991 The Silence of The Lambs (15 points) 7 1973 The Sting (14 points) 8 1978 The Deer Hunter (13 points) 9 1994 Forrest Gump (12 points) 10 1978 Kramer vs. Kramer (11 points) 11 1995 Braveheart (10 points) 12 1976 Rocky (9 points) 13 1977 Annie Hall (8 points) 14 1996 The English Paitent (7 points) 15 1997 Titanic (6 points) 16 1971 The French Connection (5 points) 17 1990 Dances With Wolves (4 points) 18 1993 Schindler’s List (3 points) 19 1970 Patton (2 points) 20 1998 Shakespeare in Love (1 point)
I actually like the movies of the 70's the most, but not really the best picture ones, so out of those 20 i liked more of the 90's best picture winners than the 70's, but as a decade in General it's the 70's for sure, probably the best decade for film, at least for me.
Fight Club? Sorry, must have been drunk by then and only read half the post. The 70s were better in terms of the jump they made compared to the previous decade. The 90s were a vast improvement over the 80s.
The Oscars come up with some interestest films. They can pluck a relatively small film from almost obscurity to a worldwide sensation. The latest example being Slumdog, a film destined once to go straight to DVD. It's not one of my favourite films but it did deserve at least some of the attention it got.
Coppola did his best work in the 70s. I doubt those films would even get made these days. Studios are a bit too keen to please everyone. They often fail.
The 70's saw some real American Cinema. I think the 70's really was the last time popular culture really had something to say. Nowadays it's all about the money and superficiality whereas art in general had an ethos in thsoe days. Civil rights and all these things helped to create movements that had real power.
The 90's, inspired largely by Miramax was notable for some decent independent films (none of which are in the list) but I'd say the 70's takes it quite easily.
The Oscars aren't really a judge of the best films in my opinion though.
Berlin and Cannes and numerous other festivals give a better indication of the quality of films imo.
Modern films and music to a large degree seem to cater for a very young minded audience. Everything is glossy and meaningless. There's just not the same level of depth of character or issue.
Fight Club? Sorry, must have been drunk by then and only read half the post. The 70s were better in terms of the jump they made compared to the previous decade. The 90s were a vast improvement over the 80s.
The Oscars come up with some interestest films. They can pluck a relatively small film from almost obscurity to a worldwide sensation. The latest example being Slumdog, a film destined once to go straight to DVD. It's not one of my favourite films but it did deserve at least some of the attention it got.
Coppola did his best work in the 70s. I doubt those films would even get made these days. Studios are a bit too keen to please everyone. They often fail.
Just goes to show how it is all so subjective. I can understand some of his thinking, although he then goes on to mention Terence Davies who makes some of the most boring films I've ever seen and I have a very high tolerance for slow and thoughtful films.
He also mentions Blair Witch Project which is one of the worst films I've ever seen.
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