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Posted: 9/20/2020 11:23:02 AM EDT
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"Burt Reynolds makes so many bad movies that when someone else makes a bad movie, Burt gets a royalty." - Robert Wuhl
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Posted: 9/20/2020 11:23:33 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: I'm sure Twilight will age well. The new Ghostbusters, and The Predator and... The Predator could have been a 70s movie with the Captain Sargent Scout Sniper Super Soldier team leader. |
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Posted: 9/20/2020 11:27:52 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Movies of yore are different because back then they did have CGI to cover the awful shittyness of bad stories and an audience with the attention span of a 3 year old. Correct |
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Posted: 9/20/2020 11:29:52 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Hal Needham/Brad Pitt. Typical Reynolds Needham style movie. I get Gator and White Lightening confused. Is this the Ford 429 movie? |
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Posted: 9/20/2020 11:32:15 AM EDT
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Movies, then and now, are really nothing more than vehicles for certain people to be 'show cased'. It really doesn't matter what the plot is or if there is one. You're just paying to watch some person to flaunt around. I mean, how many movies can some 'flavor of the week' be in? Seems like anytime the idiot box is turned-on, Samuel L 'Mother Fucker' Jackson is on. Pretty much the same for professional sports too. People just seem to need to 'hero-ize' someone.
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Posted: 9/20/2020 11:33:37 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: It was Burt Reynolds being Burt Reynolds. Most of his movies were escapism, if you liked Burt you liked his movies. I felt Burt was happier with his later, silly movies when he had a bunch of his friends on set. It wasn’t high quality but sometimes fun, and by then he was established and could do what he wanted |
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Posted: 9/20/2020 11:34:09 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: "Burt Reynolds makes so many bad movies that when someone else makes a bad movie, Burt gets a royalty." - Robert Wuhl Pretty close to true, but I was checking out his IMDB filmography and I don’t think there is a year between 1970 and 2021 he didn’t have a job. |
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Posted: 9/20/2020 11:36:09 AM EDT
[#8]
 Jerry Reed - The Ballad of Gator McKlusky |
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Posted: 9/20/2020 11:37:28 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: As was Deliverance. . As GD determined, a ROM-COM all along. |
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Posted: 9/20/2020 11:39:12 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Pretty close to true, but I was checking out his IMDB filmography and I don’t think there is a year between 1970 and 2021 he didn’t have a job. He was regular on Gunsmoke for awhile |
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Posted: 9/20/2020 11:41:26 AM EDT
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Saturday Night Fever was actually gritty.
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Posted: 9/20/2020 12:28:58 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: I felt Burt was happier with his later, silly movies when he had a bunch of his friends on set. It wasn’t high quality but sometimes fun, and by then he was established and could do what he wanted Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: It was Burt Reynolds being Burt Reynolds. Most of his movies were escapism, if you liked Burt you liked his movies. I felt Burt was happier with his later, silly movies when he had a bunch of his friends on set. It wasn’t high quality but sometimes fun, and by then he was established and could do what he wanted I remember a movie he did called Hooper about stuntmen. The whole movie it seemed like they ad libbed and just were having fun and didn’t give a fuck. That was the attraction of a lot of B grade BR movies. |
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Posted: 9/20/2020 12:33:38 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By KC-130 FLT ENG: Yeah, 70's movies really didn't age well. At all. OP is largely correct though. Many 70s movies are pretty bad when watched now. Some 80s movies too. Chuck Norris made some real stinkers, for example. |
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Posted: 9/20/2020 12:35:06 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Well, it is literally, one long car chase Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: Smoky and the Bandit was good. Well, it is literally, one long car chase |
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Posted: 9/20/2020 12:36:16 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: I mostly hate lawyer books and movies. Why you hate John Grisham?! 
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Posted: 9/20/2020 12:39:42 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Tomorrow's movie will be Convoy.  Watched Convoy recently and it was pretty low brow. Ali MacGraw looked pretty good as white trash. |
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Posted: 9/20/2020 12:45:58 PM EDT
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Quoted: * how many movies have a big car (or boat) chase with real vehicles? Baby Driver did-great movie. But now? Would you really see a dozen boats or cars, a helicopter all smashing the shit out of each other with real stunt men ? There was a scene involving a towed bank vault in one of the more recent Fast Furious films. It's memorable for me due to unbelievable amount of destruction brought on screen. It surpassed anything I'd ever seen before. Not sure it involved boats and helicopters but the amount of physical damage was epic. |
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Posted: 9/20/2020 1:13:36 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: There is a modern remake that’s good Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: As a 70's movie, I always liked The Taking of Pelham One Two Three that never seems to be shown anywhere There is a modern remake that’s good The remake is terrible. |
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Posted: 9/20/2020 2:22:32 PM EDT
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I haven't seen the movie it question, but agree with the general sentiment that "great" old movies are never very good. The old Bond movies are painful to sit through.
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Posted: 9/20/2020 2:53:07 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: However, Robinson performed a similar falling stunt for his largest role as an actor in the 1985 Burt Reynolds film Stick, but this time all but the end of the stunt is fully visible as he is seen from above falling from a tall building firing a pistol at the same time.  Robinson said he could have hit Reynolds with all six shots on the way down. |
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Posted: 9/20/2020 4:14:50 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: The remake is terrible. Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: Quoted: As a 70's movie, I always liked The Taking of Pelham One Two Three that never seems to be shown anywhere There is a modern remake that’s good The remake is terrible. 
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Posted: 9/20/2020 4:21:43 PM EDT
[#22]
Go watch 2001 a space odyssey
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Posted: 9/20/2020 5:21:03 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: The French Connection Friends of Eddie Coyle The Seven Ups Taking of Pelham 123 Mean Streets Serpico Taxi Driver Death Wish White Lightning Dirty Mary and Crazy Larry White Line Fever Walking Tall yes... all these movies have that vibe I'm talking about... ususally weird crime movies. I remember another one from back then... Kris Kristofferson and Jan Michael Vincent were brothers... Kris was the baddie and Jan the good one, or naive younger brother anyway... Kristofferson was some kinda southern criminal mastermind and they eventually have to fight it out to the death over control of some crappy town in the end. same 70's vibe.. BTW I'm not saying they're bad(although some obviously are) just that they share a kinda specific atmosphere when watching.. |
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Posted: 9/20/2020 5:29:52 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: As a movie, Gator sucks. However, Jerry Reed is very convincing criminal psychopath. He was a talented actor. Bama McCall.......he was good |
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Posted: 9/20/2020 6:00:16 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Sharkey's Machine was pretty good though Damn straight. Great movie. Rachel Ward. Yum. |
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Posted: 9/20/2020 6:19:18 PM EDT
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Not a 70's movie, but close, it was released in 1981. Re-watched it not to long ago and thought it was pretty good.
 Fort Apache, The Bronx Trailer 1981 |
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Posted: 9/20/2020 6:22:12 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: One of my favorite movies. https://www.AR15.Com/media/mediaFiles/285/3QgM4RiF3Qcnba5gMO35746NLNC-1505192.jpg What guns are those supposed to be? |
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Posted: 9/20/2020 6:25:06 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: What guns are those supposed to be? |
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Posted: 9/20/2020 6:35:46 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: They'd also have sex scenes-or implied off screen sex- just to have one. Eastwood bangs some girlfriend early on in Coogan's Bluff, never see her again. Eastwood screws the girl in the next apartment in one of the Dirty Harry movies, just cause lol Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: Quoted: They also used to have gratuitous titty scenes. Not sex scenes with the star, but topless women in a pool scene, or seeing a half naked woman through a window or in a strip club. You say that like it's a bad thing. In the Maltese Falcon the detective also bangs a librarian semi-randomly, with no real bearing on the plot, if I remember correctly. It was a common device to titillate the audience, but also to flesh (pun) out the protagonist a bit as a bounder without explicitly making him a man-whore. The ham-fisted random titties fan-service of the era is best exemplified by Vanishing Point, in my opinion (perhaps the ultimate example of bad 70s movies that don't hold up for crap) where one of the "weird shit seen in the desert " scenes is a topless chick riding a bouncy minibike at a hippie commune. I think due to social standards at the time, the scenes had to be brief & random. If there was too much buildup before the nip-slip, or they lasted more than a second or two (or for multiple cuts), they'd be seen as profane rather than cheeky, if that makes any sense. The point was to titillate the viewer, not arouse them (it was guys on dates at movie theatres in public, remember). Everyone's tolerance for such things is way higher today of course, so it does make the fan service of these movies seem really quaint, kind like the proverbial lifting petticoats to show off ankles thing. |
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Posted: 9/20/2020 6:47:21 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: What guns are those supposed to be? Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: One of my favorite movies. https://www.AR15.Com/media/mediaFiles/285/3QgM4RiF3Qcnba5gMO35746NLNC-1505192.jpg What guns are those supposed to be? I want that painted on the side of a van. |
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Posted: 9/20/2020 6:55:19 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Looks like a S&W 76 with a collapsing instead of folding stock That's it, alright; but the artists (or prop masters) fucked up the shroud & made it the same diameter as the receiver, and that's what threw me (there's a whole bunch of stuff that's off-model when I look at a photo of the real gun, too) |
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Posted: 9/20/2020 6:55:58 PM EDT
[#32]
Watch Hooper!
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Posted: 9/20/2020 7:55:43 PM EDT
[#33]
Loved Fort Apache The Bronx. Also Electra Glide In Blue.
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Posted: 9/20/2020 8:46:07 PM EDT
[#34]
Quote HistoryQuoted: I watched it on TV when I was a young teenager. Thought it was okay, then, but I wouldn't want to try it now. Some 70s movies were good, of course...I mean, Jaws, Star Wars, The Outlaw Josey Wales, Death Wish. But it wasn't a great decade for movies. There is iron in your words of film theory for all of Arfcom. |
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Posted: 9/20/2020 10:21:53 PM EDT
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If you don’t like gritty 70s crime movies, you probably express your dissatisfaction via a “TikTok dance.”
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