I absolutely adore the 70s. It's the best and the most creatively rich decade in the history of cinema in my opinion. So many of my all-time favorites are from this era. The Exorcist, Alien, Dog Day Afternoon, Apocalypse Now, Chinatown, The Deer Hunter, The Conversation, Taxi Driver, The Godfather Part I & II, Nashville, Network, All That Jazz, Jaws, Barry Lyndon, Stalker, Solaris etc.

Some of my favorites: Sorcerer (1977), Blazing Saddles (1974), and Vanishing Point (1971). Roger Moore is also my favorite Bond and the night I saw Star Wars is forever ingrained in my head along with the rest of the original trilogy, never seen lines that long for any movies since then.

I'm delighted you mentioned Dirty Harry, it is my 11th or 12th favourite movie. I've been a fan of that since i first watched it aged 5 or 6 in the mid 80s. Andrew Robinson who plays the bad guy has been in loads of other stuff, such as Hellraiser, and Child's Play 3, and the role i best know him for from Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, playing a complex character. I was lucky enough to meet him at a Star Trek convention in London a few years ago. As i got his autograph i complimented how well he plays psycho's, thankfully he took that as a compliment lol. The actor seems a really nice guy with a great sense of humour.

Love Walter Hill and although both The Warriors and The Driver are fantastic I would definitely give the edge to the latter, and that Studio Canal 4K disc is stunning. Three Days of the Condor is one of my favourite 70s films as is The Taking of Pelham One, Two, Three and The French Connection. I’d also like to add Get Carter, Jaws, The Getaway, The Sting, Scarecrow, Straight Time and The Long Goodbye to my list. I’m so with you on Star Wars. I remember we always went to the big showings at the cinema as a whole family. Such magical memories and although I’m not into Sci-fi, I think of Star Wars as a very special film (and the original trilogy as a whole) that means a lot to me. There are so many wonderful 70s films with the most incredible directors, actors and crew. For me it’s clearly the best decade in cinema history and nothing will ever come close to it. I feel the same way about 70s music which was the pinnacle, in my opinion. I wonder why that is.

I was also in awe seeing Superman in the theater at 9 years old. The theater was so packed that my mother, brother and myself had to sit in separate seats not together. Somewhere in Time would have been in my top 5 seventies movies list. Definitely check this one out. I was fascinated even watching it when I was 12 years old.

My first Bond movie was The Spy who Loved Me. A few years ago I met the beautiful British actress Caroline Munro ( she played Naomi in this movie ) at a comic con event. A charming lady.

Surprised to see Jaws and One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest omitted but still can't deny it's a solid a list! Great to see Silent Running feature in there, it was very close to my Top 25.

I love your top 3 fuzz! I’m actually working on a top 10 70s list now and it looks similar up top lol. Three days of the Condor is one that keeps rising for me!

Silent Running ... seeing Dewey at the end all alone stuck with me since I was a kid.

Great video and some great films on the list too. My top 10 from my collection are: 1. The Godfather (bluray) 2. The Godfather Part II (4K) 3. Jaws (4K) 4. Rocky (remastered bluray) 5. Alien (4K) 6. Star Wars (4K) 7. Escape From Alcatraz (bluray) 8. Dirty Harry (DVD) 9. Rocky II (bluray) 10. The Outlaw Josey Wales (bluray)

Hi Fuzz, I too love Roger Moore, he is my favorite Bond too, but my favorite one is "A View to a Kill", i remember when it was filmed as parts of it were filmed not far from where i live. Some was filmed at Chichester Harbour and the mines bit was filmed at Amberley Chalk Pits Museum, here in England. Pete

Some good choices and glad to see ROLLERBALL in there. The Warriors really should be in there, but even more so Deliverance, Vanishing Point, and Thunderbolt & Lightfoot... 😉

Thank you my friend.

Delighted you included Moonraker. Sean Connery was my favourite Bond until about a year ago when Roger Moore took over, after i realised i love all 7 of his films, a few of the Sean Connery ones i'm not a fan of. I'd be interested to see your Bond film ranking, my top 3 are Goldfinger, Octopussy, and Moonraker.

One of my favorite films came out in 79 which is Breaking Away.

In my list, I would have chosen The Warriors over Driver. I completely agree with #1. Alien is one of the best movies ever made

Slow burn 70s horror is also my thing, and the whole reason I got into 4K collecting. Here’s a recommendation for you, The Haunting of Julia (Full Circle) starring Mia Farrow from 1977. It’s amazing that films like this can restored in 4K, a film all but forgotten.

Nice retrospective 👍. Glad I found your channel- enjoy your delivery. In approximate order of greatness I would suggest: Apocalypse Now, Jaws, A Clockwork Orange, Saturday Night Fever (R version), Chinatown, The Man who would be King, Elephant Man , Taxi Driver, Straw Dogs, French Connection, Get Carter, Papillon, One Flew Over…, Rocky.

Good list with some uncommon choices. Definitely Silent Running will be on my list, and I had a similar experience to you with that one.

Another great list my brother! I think I’m going to need to check out Phantasm. That is one I haven’t seen yet (or the sequel) but it sounds right up my alley. I recently purchased and watched Silent Running from Arrow and was somewhat let down by it. I liked the plot and while it’s a mostly slower film by design, that ending really did not do the film service IMO. Seems like it’s also time for me to check out more Brian DePalma and The Fury. Again, you gave me some great films and physical media to get after and into my collection.

I don’t know if I could even attempt a list of favorite 70s film because that decade was the best. I have to do a top 500!

Digging your top 25. I also stuck with movies I had in my collection and I realized I am still missing Dawn of the Dead. Need to rectify that soon as it would have made my 25 if I had it. I enjoyed seeing the James Bond love.

Fantastic list. I have to admit, Rocky would have been on that list somewhere. I have never heard of The Driver and I feel embarrassed to say that, because I love those types of movies. I laughed when you mentioned beheadings as your favorite kills and instantly thought of Rambo Last Blood. Loved seeing that head roll on the road. Talk about baiting your prey. Lol. Catch you on the next video. Can't wait.

I would include these movies in my top 70s and 1980. In no particular order, I have Scavenger Hunt, SW - New Hope, Ffolkes, Love at First Bite, Grease,Towering Inferno, Jaws, Battlestar Galactica, and Poseidon Adventure.

You made the right choice choosing The Driver over The Warriors. While The Warriors is a fun slice of 70's entertainment, The Driver is the better film stylistically and is a more "grown up" film if that makes any sense. Makes a great double feature with Rolling Thunder. As for The Godfather, it's a great classic but I agree it's not a film you can just casually throw on several times a year. It's the kind of film you need to make time for to be fully enveloped in it. Plus, you can't just watch Part I - you gotta take it all in. Thanks for the video, enjoyed as always.

Agreed! Definitely need all the Dirty Harry films on 4K as well as the Bandit sequel. Man, Moonraker, never see that on anyone’s list and that is my favorite…gotta give it up for Jaws and Roger Moore was always my Bond of choice. Alien! Always the shit! Great list man.

Hi fuzz, still not seen the taking of pelham 123 from 74, slightly surprised Jaws not here, oh well.

Great list. Just got the Arrow Video version of Carrie in the mail. Can't wait to check it out shortly 👍

I know Smokey and the Bandit 3 is pretty low budget and no Burt Reynolds but Jackie Gleason is hilarious in this one. In high school during summer break a buddy and myself watched this over and over and rewound some of the Gleason lines and laughed our butts off. I would definitely give this one a chance Fuzz.

Deep red over suspiria 😮 interesting 🤔, what a decade for movies 👌🏻 🎥 great pics we have the same sort of taste 👌🏻👌🏻👌🏻 nobody does it better 🎼 than roger Moore 👌🏻

Before I see yours, i'll list mine. 25 Live And Let Die (73) 24 Carry On Behind (75) 23 The Town That Dreaded Sundown (76) 22 Assault On Precinct 13 (76) 21 The Spy Who Loved Me (77) 20 Chinatown (74) 19 The Satanic Rites Of Dracula (73) 18 Scars Of Dracula (70) 17 Moonraker (79) 16 The Gauntlet (77) 15 Bless This House (72) 14 Carry On At Your Convenience (71) 13 Any Which Way But Loose (78) 12 What's Up Doc? (72) 11 Frenzy (72) 10 High Anxiety (77) 9 Jaws (75) 8 Dracula: AD: 1972 (72) 7 The Towering Inferno (74) 6 Foul Play (78) 5 Carry On Abroad (72) 4 The Omen (76) 3 Dirty Harry (71) 2 Damien: Omen 2 (78) 1 Halloween (78)

Aw Fuzz, you omitted 1 of the 70s films often listed among the All-Time cinema greats (it even made Roger Ebert's "Great Films" list) that I watch at least once every 3 months, since its stunning cinematography by that master of light & darkness, Vittorio Storaro, puts an image on our 85 inch screen, via its 4K Blu-ray edition, that makes 1979's "Apocalypse Now" THE film that I pull out if wanting to show folks how amazing it can be to see fantastic looking movies on fairly sizable screens. Plus, the film's revealing and realistic voice over, that's often heard in the movie, was based on the writings of a Vietnam vet, and is simply mesmerizing in some places, as it's so well voiced by Martin Sheen who plays the film's main character & anti-hero. Honestly Fuzz, "Apocalypse Now", which was 1 of the 5 films nominated for 1979's Best Picture Academy Award, really did, in the view of many movie addicts (like yours truly) deserve to win that Oscar as 1979's Best Picture, but that award went to "Kramer vs. Kramer", the huge box office hit, and fine film, that Dustin Hoffman won a Best Actor Oscar for. In fact Fuzz, I'm sorry to have to say that I think it's not too tough of a call, at all, to rate both "Apocalypse Now" and "Kramer vs. Kramer" as being two movies that are not only better, but more entertaining than at least 15, or more, of the 70s films that you selected. And I think that my two 1970s movie choices, especially "Kramer vs. Kramer", since it's 48 min. shorter than "Apocalypse Now", that has a 2 hrs 33 min. running time, will still BOTH have most movie fans checking the time less often, than they would when viewing over half of the 70s movies that you chose, since both films contain elements which continually keep them interesting. But it must be noted that the version of "Apocalypse Now" I described is the original 1979 cut of the film, NOT 1 of the 2 other versions that both run over 3 hours, hurting the pace & impact of the film with unneeded footage, which was edited out in 1979, and should have stayed out! Fuzz, I regret being such a critical curmudgeon here, in this particular instance, but IMO your Top 5 picks are excellent, since "Alien" is my #1 favorite in the Sci-Fi/Horror genre, "Close Encounters" is my #1 Sci-Fi pick, & "The Exorcist" is #1 in Horror. Plus, I always appreciate getting to see your latest evaluations of the quality of 4K Blu-ray releases of some good movies.

I have a number of favorites from that decade that didn't make the cut on this list. They include Apocalypse Now, M*A*S*H, Days of Heaven, Taxi Driver, A Clockwork Orange, Eraserhead, Roman Polanski's version of Macbeth, Andrei Tarkovsky's Mirror, Monty Python's Life of Brian, Jaws, Blazing Saddles, National Lampoon's Animal House, Cheech and Chong's Up in Smoke, Love and Death, and others that I'm sure I'm forgetting.

When you got to number two, Star Wars, it was obvious to me what number one would be. ButI was wrong. Jaws is not even an honorable mention? Its your favorites list but wow.

17:31 I love Roger Moore myself. He is still my favorite bond

As always, great list. I'd add, 1972-Deliverance, 1974-The Longest Yard, 1976- The Outlaw Josey Wales, 1976-King Kong. And my controversial deletion... The Godfather, most overrated movie of ALL TIME. 😁🤘

To me the creepiest (of the 70’s) is a tie between the Tall Man and the doll from Trilogy of Terror.

Fuzz, I very much appreciate your quick response regarding my "Apocalypse Now" comments. BTW, unless I missed you noting it in one of your previous videos, please let home theater fans, like myself, know what type and size of TV, or what sort of projector and screen that you're using when evaluating the picture quality of Blu-rays, and especially in judging the PQ of 4K discs. Because especially when viewing a 4K Blu-ray, using a TV of 55", or smaller, makes it pretty tough to make a completely accurate judgment of a 4K's ultimate PQ, since quality flaws that can be easy to miss on a 55" screen, can be quite apparent on an 85" screen. Because the size of the picture a 55" TV shows, is blown up to being 2.39 times that size in square inches of area that the same picture image occupies when it's shown on an 85" TV's screen. Also, when evaluating the PQ of a Blu-ray or 4K Blu-ray, of a movie which contains some very dark scenes, the best type of TV for seeing how accurately a disc presents such dark scenes, is an OLED TV, like those of the Sony, LG, or Samsung brands. Although 1 particular Non-OLED Samsung model that was at the top of its 2022 Neo-QLED TVs illuminated by Mini-LEDs actually displayed deep blacks as well as an OLED is able to do. But generally, there's unanimous agreement among film and video experts that OLED is the only tech that is capable of displaying "absolute black", so that images can be displayed with a depth in the black of very dark scenes that even NO digital 4K projector, like a $200,000 digital projector used in one of today's state of the art commercial movie theaters is even capable of displaying! Anyhow, when viewing movies having very dark scenes, as they're being presented by a Blu-ray or a 4K Blu-ray, having an OLED TV, with its unbeatable ability to present the darkest scenes, is a very useful tool, since it allows a reviewer to see exactly how well a disc succeeds at fully showing the darkest scenes. (Fine OLEDs have VERY modest prices vs their cost just 5 yrs ago!) Fuzz, in my already OVERLONG post of technical rambling here, please bear with me for one personal anecdote that you (& hopefully, at least some of my fellow movie fans here) might find to be pretty interesting. My wife & I saw "Oppenheimer" at one of the Cinemark theater chains huge XD theaters (XD stands for Extreme Digital). But though the movie was fine, & quite enjoyable to us, I was disappointed to see for myself that claims I'd read by owners of OLED TVs, were accurate in saying that today's best movie theater projectors just can't cut the mustard in attempting to come close to displaying true black in very dark scenes! My wife and I hadn't gone to the movies in 10 years, probably because we have a collection of over 1,800 movies on Blu-ray & 4K Blu-ray, with even movies on DVD being about 600 of those movies. Anyhow, it was actually shocking to me that at a fancy theater with plush, electronically controlled, reclining seats, that each customer can adjust via push buttons, the movie image of "Oppenheimer" up on that theater's giant screen, definitely fell short in trying to display a true deep black which should have been present in the movie's darkest scenes. So I guess the Mrs & I won't return to going out to the movies again, since movies shown on our 2 main TVs are presented with better PQ than today's top movie theaters seem to have! And with that, I want to now catch up with the action that's occurring in the Super Bowl, that's being captured by our DVR. Thanks again, Fuzz, for all the efforts that you put into keeping movie fans informed about developments in physical media!

Great list. But no Rocky or French connection? I love the dawn of the dead.

70s was the golden era of movies so many classics

Hello man. Hope you're well. What's your opinion on motion smoothing? AKA The soap opera effect! I ask because when I bought my 4k TV the review instantly suggested turning it off...which I did as it did indeed make films look like soap operas which I hated! I've just had a debate with a guy who runs a utube channel ( he shall remain nameless and he mostly does games ) who said he thinks it's amazing especially for the film Annihilation! What is the reason for having motion smoothing? Is it to draw in the pensioners who mostly watch soaps? And are there any films like anime, CGI where motion smoothing would benefit it? I truly think it ruins any film...takes you out of it...makes you feel like you're on set. God awful to me!! I'd love your opinion as he got funny ( I have a lovely 55 TCL mini led 4k TV ) and suggested I upgrade to an Oled to understand how good motion smoothing is. I've seen it looks nice on my TV it just ruins films 😂😂

Don't feel bad about not having The Godfather higher up. It is a movie I will NEVER own. Gangster/Mob movies have never been my cup of tea. Roast away! LOL

Hold on just got the end honrable mentions no Jaws? I'm unscribing from your channel 😮😅😅😅😅lol

Hey fuzz, are you coming off a cold? You look a bit under the weather.