Not quite the 70’s, but this made me think of Where Eagles Dare from 1968, a terrific WWII action/thriller.
My husband watches old westerns and war movies along with any movie that involves fighting, guns and sex. However, he must stop and watch (and I will join him but it’s not strange that I like) The Parent Trap. The one with Lindsay Lohan. He really enjoys watching those twins (Lohan is absolutely terrific in it) get the better of that mean ole step-mom wannabe.
This one is a for real ‘only God knows why’ dealie. Such a huge leap from another secret agent gladiator guns down barbarian drug lords in a war torn town full of bordellos.
Easy Rider. Even when it was new it was ridiculously overrated and pretentious. Except for the campfire scene in which Jack Nicholson stole the movie.
The initial scene in Dances With Wolves took me right out of the movie. It’s essentially the opening scene of the first season of F Troop! 
I vote for The Big Lebowski.
It actually has a lot of depth, and I notice new things when I rewatch. The nihilists seemed like a random bit of eccentricity, but they actually had some layered motives.
The interesting thing I find about this movie after rewatching is that ostensibly a loud mouth moron, Walter correctly predicts everything that takes place.
I couldn’t sleep and ended up watching “Excalibur” at 2am last night. While it’s fun watching a young Patrick Stewart, Helen Mirren, Liam Neelson and others, it really is an oddball film. The dialogue is terrible. The plot feels kind of random. It’s cut together badly. Like you have snippets of Carmina Burana randomly inserted into the soundtrack and then cut out.
I don’t know man, it’s always on HBO or Starz or whatever and I always get sucked into watching it.
CAN YOUOOOO DIIIIIIG IT!
Westerns are like WWII films. Every now and then they keep making a new one. They might not all be Unforgiven or Saving Private Ryan. But they are usually watchable.
Totally derivative copycat film, cheap even for its day. But it has “stars*” out the wazoo and a really quite clever hand with the dialog.
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- Someone from Porky’s, a couple from Animal House, Wolowitz’s father, Lt. Howard Hunter, Higgins, etc.
Plus it’s got that great theme song from Cheap Trick. Definitely one of the better crappy teen comedies of the '80s.
I just checked the thread and since no one has mentioned it before, I will: The Wanderers is still a great movie.
I thought of it last night for some reason and paid $3 to watch it on Amazon. Now I want to get ahold of the Directors Cut from 1996. I really liked this movie when it came out; really cool to see that it has held up well.
That’s…amazing.:eek::eek::eek:
Back in the day, some buddies and I went to see it stoned out of our gourd when it hit the dollar movie house in West Texas. I was so blasted that I could not remember anything about it even as we left the theater.
I remember Ice Pirates. The robot pimp was hilarious.
Also, after the Captain got fed up with one of the robots and wrecked it, the remaining robots suddenly shaped up and showed some respect.
Both of these for me, personally.
Also unavoidable, and watched once or twice a year for me is In the Mouth of Madness and Event Horizon. Not sure why, but they just hit something for me!
Hmm, should probably also add Big Trouble in Little China to the list- love me some Jack Burton, and I am pretty sure I could watch (as mentioned above) James Hong spell out the phonebook and be thoroughly entertained. Going to be a sad day for me when he passes away (I think he is 90 now?).
Should have read the entire thread before responding! Yes, on further review, John Carpenter hits the spot for me. I introduced my kids to They Live recently, and they absolutely loved it!
YASSSSSS…went in expecting nothing and was really entertained. Since we’re throwing that out there…
Some family movies:
Willie Wonka and the Chocolate Factory
Chitty Chitty Bang Bang
Yet another vote for The Fifth Element. We taped it off cable back then, and our then tween-age kids watched it over and over and over. Nowadays, all my husband has to say is “Multipass” and those now 30-somethings will burst out laughing.
Three more notables in our household: Ferris Bueller’s Day Off, The Mask, and To Wong Foo, Thanks For Everything, Julie Newmar. We had taped those off cable as well.
We currently own all four of those on DVD, and I can watch them anytime. So why is it that if I see one while channel surfing I’m compelled to watch it?
The original Planet of the Apes.
The whole premise is, their spaceship has landed on an alien planet far from earth…and the big M Night Shyamalan reveal at the end with the Statue of Liberty…that they’re STILL on Earth?
We saw feral humans, sentient chimps, gorillas, and orangutans, traditional horses, oxygen atmosphere, normal gravity and temperature, a dug-up human doll that says “mama”.
I’m sure if he cared to check he’d find earth-native vegetation and salt water in the ocean.
How can anybody be surprised this is earth?
(Far in the future or parallel universe, but still earth!)
Yet it is an awesome concept and movie!
Another family movie:
Swallows and Amazons (1974)
Rotten Tomatoes (76%) Blurb from the wrong movie, though.
A low-budget (£300,000) British film that’s still very pleasant to watch. Still loved by fans of the books, despite its shortcomings.
I first started reading the book series after watching this movie.
Pros
- The right atmosphere
- Genuine locations in the Lake District
- Sailing boats and 1929 period detail 100% correct
- Children cast with real-life characters similar to the movie/book characters
- Music excellent
- Reasonably faithful to the book
Cons
- Casting issues - ages of some of the children wrong
- Part of ‘Uncle Jim’ seriously miscast
- Dialog a bit stilted
- ‘Quaint’ by modern standards
Think Famous Five, Secret Seven, The Railway children - something along those lines, but better. The books stand up well to adult reading.