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Just Another Example How Great 1970s Movies Were

posted 13 years ago by IdiotDomainer
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I would actually say starting in the late 1960s movies got a new set of Balls...excuse my french.

It's true and The Bad News Bears is another great example of this.
For me it started with Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, the anti-hero I guess you would say.
Where you dont have to win in the end, where just trying your best was good enough and cool doing so.

Today's movies are directing by Test Audiences and the hero MUST win.

Rocky gets a lot of credit for having the hero not win in the end and that is what makes Rocky so special but The Bad News Bears did it first.

For me the late 1960s through the 1970s was the greatest time for movies.
And 1976s The Bad News Bears is right up there on my list.

In alphabetical order here are my favorite late 1960s to 1970s movies and basically most of my all time favorite movies.
Here are movies that I have watched over and over and over.....and over.
I'll stack this list against any other time period.

Airport (1970)
Alien (1979)
Aloha Bobby and Rose (1975)
American Graffiti (1973)
Animal House (1978)
Apocalypse Now (1979)
Billy Jack (1971)
Blazing Saddles (1974)
Breaking Away (1979)
Breakout (1975)
Brian's Song (1971)
Bullet (1968)
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969)
Charley Varrick (1973)
Dirty Harry (1971)
Dog Day Afternoon (1975)
Death Race 2000 (1975)
Dirty Mary, Crazy Larry (1974)
Duel (1971)
Enter the Dragon (1973)
Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex, But Were Afraid to Ask (1972)
Every Which Way but Loose (1978)
Freebie and the Bean (1974)
Gator (1976)
Gone in 60 Seconds (1974)
Grease (1978)
Hard Times (1975)
High Plains Drifter (1973)
Jaws (1975)
Kelly's Heroes (1970)
Logan's Run (1976)
Longest Yard (1974)
Mad Max (1979)
McQ (1974)
MASH (1970)
Meatballs (1979)
My Name is Nobody (1973)
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975)
Paper Moon (1973)
Posse (1975)
Saturday Night Fever (1975)
Smokey and the Bandit (1977)
Rio Lobo (1970)
Rocky (1976)
Silver Streak (1976)
Slap Shot (1976)
Soylent Green (1973)
Star Wars (1977)
Support Your Local Gunfighter (1971)
Support Your Local Sheriff (1969)
Time After Time (1979)
The Bad News Bears (1976)
The Ballad of Cable Hogue (1970)
The Buddy Holly Story (1978)
The Cowboys (1972)
The Deer Hunter (1979)
The Driver (1978)
The Exorcist (1973)
The Getaway (1972)
The Godfather (1972)
The Hot Rock (1972)
The Jerk (1979)
The Last Detail (1973)
The Laughing Policeman (1973)
The Outlaw Josey Wales (1976)
The Poseidon Adventure (1972)
The Rose (1979)
The Sting (1973)
The Taking Of Pelham 123 (1974)
The Warriors (1979)
There Was a Crooked Man (1970)
Three Days of the Condor (1975)
Thunderbolt and Lightfoot (1974)
True Grit (1969)
Up In Smoke (1978)
Vanishing Point (1971)
Walking Tall (1972)
What's Up Doc (1972)
White Lighting (1973)
Young Frankenstein (1974)

[–] knight-in-black-leather 13 years ago

I watched this classic again last night, and not only does it still hold up, it actually seems ahead of it's time, today!

the fact they don't make a comeback and win the thing is a great lesson for kids to learn. Sometimes life sux, but it's all about the attitude in which you handle it.

The acting was phenomenal...the kids should have been nominated for some kind of group junior oscar type award or something, and Matthau and O'Neal had great chemistry....perfect casting all around.

Just had to mention how funny it was that the other teams had sponsors like Denny's and Pizza Hut, and their sponsor was Chico's Bail Bonds [laugh

BTW, you're right about the 70's producing some of the best films.

"This is a faithful saying...Jesus came into the world to save sinners; of whom I am chief."

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[–] billymac72 12 years ago

The 70s were a great period for movies. Two factors played into that:
1. the end of the Production Code and the ushering in of the MPAA ratings system in the late 60s (this allowed, basically, whatever content filmmakers wanted).

and
2. The Counterculture - I'm not quick to credit the Counterculture with much (LOL!), but the success of "Easy Rider" impressed the studios so much that they wanted to duplicate its success. They allowed an unprecedented amount of creative control that has since not been matched.

As far as BNB goes, one thing I've always loved about it is that it doesn't idealize kids. They don't know more than the adults, and are certainly not always sweet (although there are a few moments of that too). For instance, I loved the scene when Turner's kid picks on Lupus and Tanner sticks up for him. I remember getting in fights like that! It's very easy to relate to Tanner's fury in that moment. And even though the outcome of the fight is painful, you got to love the reality of the whole thing.

[–] ntvnyr30 11 years ago

My sentiments exactly! Forgive the self-promotion but I said the same thing in my review of "The Taking of Pelham 1-2-3"

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0072251/reviews-95

[–] jayhn1111 11 years ago

Talk about a shameless self-plug. j/k. Great review

[–] ntvnyr30 11 years ago

Thanks ;-)

[–] sage2112 10 years ago

Yep the '70s were awesome! And you don't even have Network in there. Man what a great film!