Favorite Movies of 1977?

Jaketejas wrote: Catcher10 wrote: Funny how Star Wars has become the hot topic on this thread....both by Americans and those not living in the US. Guilty pleasures I am sure.......I honestly could give a horses rear if someone likes it or detests it, no skin off my back. I'm a huge sci-fi/space fantasy movie watcher, it's progressive as it progresses past this earth and galaxy. I can't resist teasing everyone. I'm from Euro-land originally and I see this all the time. It's that so-called Old World / New World divide. Don't believe everything you read.    I'll bet that 95+% (+/- 5% error) of people on here has seen Star Wars a couple of orders of magnitude more times than Eraserhead. But, you will NEVER get them to admit it. It is probably the same reason why Kansas isn't on the "most successful prog band" poll. I find it very amusing.      Just my warped sense of humor, I suppose. In fact, I would hazard a guess that the 1977 date was thrown out there just to troll the Star Wars enthusiasts. The movie wasn't really made for adults. It was an extravaganza with a relatively simple moral story designed for kids that carries with it a lot of nostalgia. What child wasn't absolutely blown away by it in 1977? By the way, A Bridge Too Far was one of my faves back in the day. What a great year for movies (if you live in the USA).

Logan wrote: ^ Have you seen Under the Skin, Jean? It's kind of horror and it's so well done. I found it quite mesmerising. We might have discussed this film already, my memory is terrible these days.

Yep, that was the Capricorn One

I love Tron still after all these years. And I watched that and the later version with my son. Maybe one of my issues with Stars Wars was that I was too young at the time and so it doesn't have the nostalgia factor of, say, Tron or an American Werewolf in London and others. I love all Creatures Great and Small. We also watched The Martian as a family and all enjoyed it. I've always watch all the Studio Ghibli films with my family. I wasn't keen on Inception either. I;m not big on superheroes type stuff, but I did love Watchmen and shows like Misfits (superpowers) and The Boys. Not that I would watch those with the kids. The Andromeda Strain is one of my big favourites -- I love that.

Speaking of Roald Dahl, I was watching the TV series Tales of the Unexpected with my kids some time back, but it gets a bit dark.



Most of what I watch wouldn't be that apprropriate with the kids. We did enjoy Good Omens as a family.

Speaking of inappropriate, a couple of days ago at the beach my son and I unfortunately got too up close and person to a couple who who were having sex in a not really secluded place (right on the beach around a bend) and totally uncovered (woman on top in a sitting position). I was more embarrassed than him, he just said "biology".

Biology! It’s like Biology class in Monty Python’s Meaning of Life. :-)

I’ll have to check out Tales from the Unexpected. Roald Dahl does get pretty dark sometimes, which is the twisted kind of humor I loved as a kid. We visited his house, which is now a museum, in England. That guy had an interesting life. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory comes from his time in school, when Cadbury would come and test out their newest chocolate candies on the kids. More recently, there are the David Williams books that are a bit off kilter. Mr Stink and Gangsta Granny!

Fantastic voyage was amazing. And, for every sci fi movie, there’s often a Dr Who that parallels it. There’s even a really old Dr Who with William Hartnell that foreshadows Honey I Shrunk the Kids. Rick Moranis rules! :-)

Logan’s Run and Blade Runner are also classics from that timeframe. I must admit, though, that the more recent Planet of the Apes are very well done. Have to give credit where credit is due. Gray Lady Down and The Last Flight of Noah’s Ark were a couple of other memories from that time.

I'll join in just to say "Star Wars" and screw the haters. 

Edited by BaldJean - August 07 2020 at 00:39

We watched both 2001 and 2010 again recently. Love both of those very thoughtful and innovative movies. Really, 2001 is the first truly spectacular movie for space special effects ... even before Star Wars. Apparently, Rock Hudson was invited to an early viewing of it. He walked out because he didn't think that the plot was going anywhere (my guess is he didn't care for "Eraserhead" either). 2001 is a different sort of movie, though. It is more of a space opera than a "Red five, I'm going in!" kind of flick. Towards the end, it starts to become coldly terrifying (man versus AI), with the culmination being a Pink Floyd monolithic trip.

What makes the 2001 movie so phenomenal is that it is slow-paced and you get a truer sense of scale and perspective (both space and time). I have to be in the right mood (an artsy fartsy mood, where I am taking it all in) to watch something like that.

The original Star Trek movies are excellent, and the Next Generation ones are very good, too. I have trouble stomaching the most recent ones, though. It is as if the director knew little about Star Trek, with certain members of the crew becoming more like superheroes. The first one I saw was Star Trek II, and it was super. It was decades later when I finally caught the first one. Everyone kept telling me how bad it was, but actually it was great! There are some sequences of the Enterprise that are truly captivating.

In thinking back, I remember catching a double-feature of The Fly (with Jeff Goldblum ... perfect casting) and Aliens ("Game over, man. Game over!") back in the 80s. I enjoyed both films immensely.

What I remember the most about Star Wars the first time seeing it, was the opening sequence, where the Star Destroyer just goes on seemingly forever ... and I just remember this sinking feeling in the pit of my stomach because it felt so real (not like the Lost In Space TV show ... :-) I think that moment will forever be imprinted on my brain. I caught THX about a year ago, and it is quite a dark & twisted movie that for some reason reminds of 1984 (Orwell).

By the way, many years ago, I was a volunteer in a puppet troupe. It was a lot of fun, but also involved a lot of arm holding. You have to build up quite a bit of stamina to hold up those big puppets for any length of time. Dark Crystal was interesting in that the puppets had a feeling of being quite realistic, although kids today probably wouldn't understand that aspect.

Shadowyzard wrote: I have to search the net and make sure what movies I know from the year asked. From memory, only Suspiria has come to surface. A brilliant film. Its "remake" (if that is a remake at all) is also impressive but the ending parts didn't do it for me for several reasons, the foremost of which is about the music.