1970's sci fi films were the best. Change my mind

darkgen · 24 Oct 2022 at 09:55

1982's "Android" perturbed me considerably when I watched it as a child.

turbot1984 · 24 Oct 2022 at 10:38

Darujhistan said:
The 70s are the greatest decade for cinema - full stop.

Yeah, even Raging Bull was filmed in the 70s.

potatolord · 24 Oct 2022 at 10:55

Hades said:
Looking back at some of the stuff I watched in the 1970's I think it was a great time for scifi. Possibly the best? Have there been better decades?

Alien
Star Wars
Silent Running
Close Encounters of the Third Kind
Invasion of the Body Smatchers
Westworld
Rollerball
The Andromeda Strain
Mad Max
THX 1138
Superman (Christopher Reeve)
Soylent Green
Demon Seed
Star Trek the Motion Picture
Logan's Run
The original Planet of the Apes trilogy
The Black Hole
The Omega Man
Solaris
Capricorn One

Ah, all excellent movies.

Silent Running is a masterpiece, and such a tear jerker.

I'd add Dark Star to that list.

BUDFORCE · 24 Oct 2022 at 11:00

413x said:
80s

Predator
Aliens
Terminator
Blade runner
Ghost busters
Wrath of Khan
Back to the future
Batteries not included

There are many more!

Yea gotta say 80's are better for movies. So many classics.

Flight of the Navigator
Short Circuit

So many more....

Thekwango · 24 Oct 2022 at 11:06

op's list was good.....until i saw he included The Omega Man, that killed any trust i had in their opinion

potatolord · 24 Oct 2022 at 11:42

Thekwango said:
op's list was good.....until i saw he included The Omega Man, that killed any trust i had in their opinion

To be fair, there's never been a decent version of I Am Legend. The book is probably unfilmable, as it is so bleak.

Thekwango · 24 Oct 2022 at 12:26

potatolord said:
To be fair, there's never been a decent version of I Am Legend. The book is probably unfilmable, as it is so bleak.

true...... 3 attempts there's been now at it if i recall correctly.

Bubo · 24 Oct 2022 at 12:46

The seventies had some right stinkers though, yes I am looking at you Doug McClure. Warlords of Atlantis in particular I remember jumping on the Sci Fi bandwagon after Star Wars. What an absolute load of rubbish that was. Even seeing it at the pictures at the time as a kid, I think I was sophisticated enough to see how awful it was, having seen the original Star Wars the year before.

SPG · 24 Oct 2022 at 13:26

Darujhistan said:
The 70s are the greatest decade for cinema - full stop.

Nope everything was far to Hairy.

But

Starwars
Superman

The rest is rose tinted glasses, Close Encounters is a classic boring turd until it gets to the Organ bit which granted is iconic but for a entire movie based around a mash potato mountain its stinker.

Darujhistan · 24 Oct 2022 at 13:45

SPG said:
Nope everything was far to Hairy.

But

Starwars
Superman

The rest is rose tinted glasses, Close Encounters is a classic boring turd until it gets to the Organ bit which granted is iconic but for a entire movie based around a mash potato mountain its stinker.

Yes, The Godfather I and II, Alien, The Deer Hunter, Apocalypse Now, Taxi Driver, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Jaws, Life of Brian, Deliverance, were all "Rose tinted glasses".

:cry:

SPG · 24 Oct 2022 at 13:54

Its Sci-fi films is it not.

Darujhistan · 24 Oct 2022 at 14:22

SPG said:
Its Sci-fi films is it not.

My comment wasn't specifically about Sci-Fi though was it?, it was a comment about cinema in general...

Bubo · 24 Oct 2022 at 15:00

Darujhistan said:
Yes, The Godfather I and II, Alien, The Deer Hunter, Apocalypse Now, Taxi Driver, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Jaws, Life of Brian, Deliverance, were all "Rose tinted glasses".

The only SciFi bit in Deliverance was how Ronny Cox got his arm like that when they found his corpse. Still can't work it out it looked so real. Deliverance up there in my top 5 films.

potatolord · 24 Oct 2022 at 15:26

Bubo said:
The only SciFi bit in Deliverance was how Ronny Cox got his arm like that when they found his corpse. Still can't work it out it looked so real. Deliverance up there in my top 5 films.

I read an interview many years back where someone said he could dislocate his arm on request.

Probably not a very useful skill to have.

adam cool dude · 24 Oct 2022 at 17:36

Double post.

adam cool dude · 24 Oct 2022 at 17:42

turbot1984 said:
The 80s buggered up loads of sci fi franchises. What about Superman I v IV? Alien, Star Wars etc. All the best ones were in the 70s.

Aliens was better the Alien imo. Cameron is no simp.

Tombstone · 24 Oct 2022 at 17:55

Dont know about 1970s sci fi being the best but I have a huge passion for 1940s and 1950s scifi movies. They have laughable special effects of course but some of the plots and stories are amazing, I still think that the Quatermass IP is a criminally underused IP, if any series of movies warrants a proper reboot, its Quatermass. Hugh Bonneville would make for a good modern Quatermass or Toby Jones if you want to take a cheaper option.

turbot1984 · 24 Oct 2022 at 18:03

not just sci fi but horror as well. Exorcist, Omen, Wicker Man all kick 80s ass.

Bubo · 24 Oct 2022 at 18:04

If you were a kid in the 70's then probably your first introduction to scifi would have been those old black and white Flash Gordon/Buck Rogers half hour serials on a Saturday morning, with Larry 'Buster' Crabbe dating back to the 1930's. Fact, in the 25 century all spaceships will be powered by fireworks.

turbot1984 · 24 Oct 2022 at 18:08

Bubo said:
If you were a kid in the 70's then probably your first introduction to scifi would have been those old black and white Flash Gordon/Buck Rogers half hour serials on a Saturday morning, with Larry 'Buster' Crabbe dating back to the 1930's. Fact, in the 25 century all spaceships will be powered by fireworks.

mind you, the aliens were ultra realistic, LOL.