1970's sci fi films were the best. Change my mind
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Yeah, even Raging Bull was filmed in the 70s.
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Ah, all excellent movies.
Silent Running is a masterpiece, and such a tear jerker.
I'd add Dark Star to that list.
Yea gotta say 80's are better for movies. So many classics.
Flight of the Navigator
Short Circuit
So many more....
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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.
true...... 3 attempts there's been now at it if i recall correctly.
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.
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.
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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".
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My comment wasn't specifically about Sci-Fi though was it?, it was a comment about cinema in general...
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.
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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.
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Aliens was better the Alien imo. Cameron is no simp.
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.
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not just sci fi but horror as well. Exorcist, Omen, Wicker Man all kick 80s ass.
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.
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