Favorite Movies of 1977?

How on earth do you forget about Star Wars.......epic failure. Absolutely the greatest Good vs Evil movie, series ever created.

BaldJean wrote: Catcher10 wrote: How on earth do you forget about Star Wars.......epic failure. Absolutely the greatest Good vs Evil movie, series ever created. since MortSahl's tastes have a certain similarity to mine I doubt he agrees with you. "Star Wars" is in my opinion an overblown FX-spectacle; there were so many better SF movies in the 70s, like for example "Silent Running", "A Clockwork Orange", "Phase IV", "Soylent Green", "The Man Who Fell to Earth", "Dark Star", "Solaris", "Alien" or "Zardoz", to name but a few. I always wondered what people found so exciting about "Star Wars". I don't watch SF-movies for the FX, and while they are certainly top notch in this series (no wonder with its budget) there is in my opinion not much else "Star Wars" has to offer

BaldJean wrote: Catcher10 wrote: How on earth do you forget about Star Wars.......epic failure. Absolutely the greatest Good vs Evil movie, series ever created. since MortSahl's tastes have a certain similarity to mine I doubt he agrees with you. "Star Wars" is in my opinion an overblown FX-spectacle; there were so many better SF movies in the 70s, like for example "Silent Running", "A Clockwork Orange", "Phase IV", "Soylent Green", "The Man Who Fell to Earth", "Dark Star", "Solaris", "Alien" or "Zardoz", to name but a few. I always wondered what people found so exciting about "Star Wars". I don't watch SF-movies for the FX, and while they are certainly top notch in this series (no wonder with its budget) there is in my opinion not much else "Star Wars" has to offer

Catcher10 wrote: BaldJean wrote: Catcher10 wrote: How on earth do you forget about Star Wars.......epic failure. Absolutely the greatest Good vs Evil movie, series ever created. since MortSahl's tastes have a certain similarity to mine I doubt he agrees with you. "Star Wars" is in my opinion an overblown FX-spectacle; there were so many better SF movies in the 70s, like for example "Silent Running", "A Clockwork Orange", "Phase IV", "Soylent Green", "The Man Who Fell to Earth", "Dark Star", "Solaris", "Alien" or "Zardoz", to name but a few. I always wondered what people found so exciting about "Star Wars". I don't watch SF-movies for the FX, and while they are certainly top notch in this series (no wonder with its budget) there is in my opinion not much else "Star Wars" has to offer You miss the inner workings of the Star Wars saga........As I said it is about good vs evil. Your opinion about an overblown FX spectacle is evidence you don't get it. The movies you list are perfectly fine and I like many of them, but for example Soylent Green at the core is pretty gross, eating humans. A Clockwork Orange along with SG to me are not Science Fiction movies but rather about dystopian based societies and more horror films than sci-fi. Clockwork is pretty disturbing film from 1971, similar to The Shining, which is much better to say the least. Alien on its own is excellent, but became even better once Prometheus was finally released in 2012 and Alien Covenant was pretty good but the franchise is loosing steam, taking too long to get movies out and finish the story line and are failing to answer a lot of questions. Of course many of these movies you mention are not from 1977 as OP asked about.

Close Encounters of the Third Kind 

BaldJean wrote: Catcher10 wrote: How on earth do you forget about Star Wars.......epic failure. Absolutely the greatest Good vs Evil movie, series ever created. since MortSahl's tastes have a certain similarity to mine I doubt he agrees with you. "Star Wars" is in my opinion an overblown FX-spectacle; there were so many better SF movies in the 70s, like for example "Silent Running", "A Clockwork Orange", "Phase IV", "Soylent Green", "The Man Who Fell to Earth", "Dark Star", "Solaris", "Alien" or "Zardoz", to name but a few. I always wondered what people found so exciting about "Star Wars". I don't watch SF-movies for the FX, and while they are certainly top notch in this series (no wonder with its budget) there is in my opinion not much else "Star Wars" has to offer

Edited by moshkito - August 05 2020 at 10:56

Count me in as someone who really does not much like Star Wars. I do like the following one more. I liked Star Wars for a while when I saw it as a young child, but I quickly lost interest. It seems too superficial to me. That said, I appreciate its cultural relevance, but it's not one I rate highly. I like a lot of sci-fi/fantasy, I too don't think of Star Wars as proper sci-fi. I much prefer Lucus' earlier THX-1138. And I also much prefer Close Encounters of the Third Kind from 1977 -- that I have always loved. It's magical and mysterious in its way. Like the OP and others, I tend to go for a lot of international art house films, and tend not to be very mainstream oriented, but 1977 was a strong year for horror per my tastes. Films like Suspiria, The Hills Have Eyes, Demon Seed, Rabid, and the weird House, as well as the surreal Eraserhead if one counts it as horror.

Some favourite films that come to my mind when I think of 1977 are David Lynch's surreal Eraserhead, the fantasy film Jabberwocky, the Deer Hunter, Annie Hall, The Spy Who Loved Me (I'm an unabashed Bond fan), The Duellists, and as mentioned Close Encounters of the Third Kind.

To each his or her own tastes. I don't expect others to like what I like unless I know we share very similar tastes and that I know that person is into very similar things.

I once had a silly discussion with someone at a sci-fi forum who when I mentioned much preferring 2001: A Space Odyssey to Star Wars insisted that I was some kind of a failure of a person with really bad taste cause 2001 is so obviously boring. I was, you like what you like, I'll like what I like and not tell you what you should prefer. That was a weird conversation. Even as a child I much preferred 2001.

Oh, and Star Trek over Star Wars.

Edited by Logan - August 05 2020 at 14:03

Catcher10 wrote: How on earth do you forget about Star Wars.......epic failure. Absolutely the greatest Good vs Evil movie, series ever created.

I was wondering about that too