The 1970's was considered a golden era for movies.  If you look at IMDB.com and check the top 250 movies of all time, the 70's generated a ton of great flicks.  Back then, there wasn't many "formula" movies.  In fact, the success of many '70s films created the blueprint of formulaic movies we still see today.  Animal House was the first sophomoric comedy.  How many mobster movies came after the Godfather?  Jaws was literally the first summer blockbuster.  Some were so completely original they still stand alone (One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Next).  Anyway, what's YOUR top ten from the 70's?  There's a LOT to pick from.

Okay I am playing around with new board seeing what it can do...or allow you to do.

Also nominated, from 1975:

Monty Python and the Holy Grail.

1. The Outlaw Josey Wales
2. The Mountain Men
3. Animal House
4. Star Wars
5. The Godfather
6. Apocalypse Now
7. The Shootist
8. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
9. Electric Horseman
10. Choir Boys

This is so much better only wish other peoples forums are up for awhile like before you could read them  Unless your still fixing the glitches

top 10 of the 70s you say?

again, in no particular order.....and I hope I can think of 10 off the top of my head

Animal House

Jaws (although not appreciated as such until I saw it in the 00's (aka 'the naughties') and learned that the gang (Robert Shaw mostly, bless him) convinced Spielberg to let them do the drinking scene actually, indubitably, in reality, drunk/snockered/wasted/blitzed. The rest is movie legend

Monty Python and the Holy Grail

Young Frankenstein

Patton

Silver Streak

Godfather I & II (never even saw these until the naughties)

The Last Detail (Jack Nicholson's 'other' great movie from the 70s)

Deliverance

The Jerk

Life Of Brian

is that more than 10? oh for fffffffff....

lessee if I can come up with my top 10 or so...

1. Chariots Of Fire
2. Local Hero (Animal House's Boone, Peter Riegert, in Scotland!)
3. Planes, Trains, and Automobiles (maybe Steve Martin's last funny film)
4. Caddyshack
5. Animal House
6. Pulp Fiction
7. Patton
8. Dr Strangelove (hey a B&W!)
9. There's Something About Mary
10. Borat (saw it twice at the cinema back-back. Can't remember ever doing that before)
11. Stripes
12. Blues Brothers
13. and for the baker's dozen......Ishtar!! okay just kidding.

Try and pay attention class.  Sheesh.  I see some things haven't changed at all.  Bob and Brad coloring outside the lines like they did in school.

Original question was what are your top ten movies of the

TOP TEN MOVIES OF THE SEVENTIES:

HALLOWEEN

JAWS

THE EXORCIST

ROCKY

ROCKY II

ALIEN

THE FRENCH CONNECTION

THE GOODBYE GIRL

THE POSEIDON ADVENTURE

BRIAN'S SONG

Top Ten in no particular order. As you can tell I like comedy and am a rule follower just like in high school.

Blazzing Saddles

Animal House

The In Laws (Peter Falk & Alan Arkin is the only version to watch.)

Jaws

Little Big Man

M*A*S*H

Monty Python and the Holy Grail

One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

Patton

Young Frankenstein

After reading some of the other peoples movies I moved the Electric Horseman down a ways as some of those listed are pretty good movies.  Now I always liked Bobby Redford, the Sting, Jeremiah Johnson, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, whats wrong with a cowboy gettin drunk and stealing a mistreated horse movie? Ha, ha, ha! I do want to thank the Bradster for intervening with some good movies...I don't have the movie on DVD, I saw it on cable a few months back.  I forgot Jeremiah Johnson was a 70s movie. 

Im also a rule follower and did notice they picked movies from other eras, ha.  Brad, I'm half afraid to say this, I've never even watched Casablanca all the way through.

And now for the girl question; where is Grease on those lists?  I'm not usually a musical fan but I remember walking out of the theatre back then and thinking, wow, that whole movie was singing but I liked it!

I'm a forum junkie so I defile threads in my sleep. i will try to play nice. but i DID do just the 70s movies at first. can't hep myself sometimes!

Bruce Zook wrote:

Original question was what are your top ten movies of the

'70s.

Plenty to pick from as it was full of good flicks and might have been best decade for movies as a whole. 

Carry on.

Try and pay attention class.  Sheesh.  I see some things haven't changed at all.  Bob and Brad coloring outside the lines like they did in school.