Worst Seventies Films

[HustleBaby]

I can't think of any bad 70's movies at the moment but I have some favorites:

1.All kung-fu flicks from the 70's (Bruce Lee, Sonny Chiba, Angela Mao and others.)Those Ocean Shore karate movies are CLASSICS!

2.Mahogany - I'm a Diana Ross fan and I found

the movie & cinematography pleasurable!

3.The French Connection

4.Lookin' For Mr.Goodbar

5.Mean Streets/Taxi Driver

6.All Pam Grier flicks - Foxy Brown,Coffee,

Friday Foster etc..

7.Cleopatra Jones

8.Superfly

9.The Godfather 1 & 2

10.The Warriors

11.Shaft

12.The Pink Panther

13.James Bond - Live & Let Die etc..

14.Saturday Night Fever



Disco Delight

[dj phillip esparza]

"Skateboard" with Lief Garret.I was about seven when I first saw it in the theater.I was young, and into skateboards so I loved it,then.Last year I ran into it again at the video store.It had been about twenty three years since I had last saw it.I couldn't believe how low budget this puppy was.Bad,bad,bad.Ironic though,about six months ago ended up spinning at Club Peanuts in Hollywood where Lief was hosting a disco party.He was cool and signed my 12"I was made for dancin"

[funkg]

in england in the 70s we had these confessions of.. type films which were similar to the carry on films, but more soft porn they mostly starred a guy called robin ashworth, who we don't see anymore on tv. i remember there were a confessions of a window cleaner, plumber, milkman etc. they are still repeated occasionally on channel 5 which has a reputation for showing soft porn.

a film i do like though is come play with me with mary millington, this was another carry on type film with arther askey, very funny.

[EduardoFojo]

A couple of Bad Seventies Films:



"The Concorde: Airport '79": What a godawful film that was! Horrible special effects (check out the die-cast Matchbox Concorde plummeting through dry-ice clouds), terrible dialogue (a favorite of my brother and I: Robert Wagner's "Sweet sweet Maggie" to girlfriend/intended victim, not to mention the "saucy" exchange between Sylvia Kristel and George Kennedy about pilots being "such men!" - did anyone notice how Joe Patrone gradually got promoted up the ladder with each successive film in the series?), embarrassing 'celebrity' cameos (poor Martha Raye - first Benita Bizarre, then this!) - NOTHING about this film works! I remember going to see this film with some friends and laughing all the way through. We ended up nicknaming poor Martha Raye's character Bathroom Woman due to her propensity for running to the loo with each lurch of the plane, while one member of the audience provided additional unintentional hilarity by burping througout the screening! Were we watching, say, "Manhattan" or "Superman" it would have been intrusive, but strangely in "C-A79" it fit right in!



"The Swarm": I've never been an Irwin Allen basher - as a child I enjoyed "Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea" (film and tv series), "Lost in Space" and "Land of the Giants", and found "The Towering Inferno" and "The Poseidon Adventure" melodramatic but entertaining. Alas, "The Swarm" sucked! It's one of those films where you really feel sorry for everyone involved who have to live it down, though it doesn't seem to have harmed Richard Chamberlain, Michael Caine or Katharine Ross's careers too much. When I was younger I was petrified of bees and wasps, and worried about the media reports of the gradual encroachment of killer bees as they made their way northward from Brazil.

Going to see the movie was a weird sort of reverse psychology/face-your-fears exercise for me, but the film was so ludicrous (the swarm victims' bee hallucinations, the 'horrifying' nuclear explosion caused by the swarm invading a power plant and causing the panicked staff to hit the wrong buttons - strangely, the bees managed to escape a nuclear explosion, but in a world where George Kennedy can stick his head out of Concorde and fire a gun at an attacking jet while travelling faster than the speed of sound, anythings possible) that I wondered why I thought this would be a confrontation with something personally scary, when the most frightening thing about the film was the jaw-droppingly bad moviemaking on display.

[nrgbeat]

A few choices for worst movies of the 70's.



Exoricst 2: The Heretic

Last House On The Left

[Fiorenzo]

EduardoFojo you're right!