impqueen
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Aliens is a better parable, I can understate a hell of a lot more if you wish Before 1977 and Star Wars Save the Tiger - (1973, John G. Avildsen) Lenny - (1974, Bob Fosse) Marathon Man - (1976, John Schlesinger) The Man Who Fell to Earth - (1976, Nicolas Roeg) The Man Who Would Be King - (1975, John Huston) The Sunshine Boys - (1975, Herbert Ross) Cabaret - (1972, Bob Fosse) Don't Look Now - (1973, Nicolas Roeg) A Touch of Class - (1973, Melvin Frank) Klute - (1971, Alan J. Pakula) The Candidate - (1972, Michael Ritchie) The Ruling Class - (1972, Peter Medak) The Godfather - (1972, Francis Ford Coppola) The Godfather part II - (1974, Francis Ford Coppola) One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest - (1975, Milos Forman) Chinatown - (1974, Roman Polanski) A Clockwork Orange - (1971, Stanley Kubrick) Taxi Driver - (1976, Martin Scorsese) Network - (1976, Sydney Lumet) Patton - (1970, Franklin J. Schaffner) M*A*S*H - (1970, Robert Altman) The Exorcist - (1973, William Friedkin) The French Connection - (1971, William Friedkin) Mean Streets - (1973, Martin Scorsese) Blazing Saddles - (1974, Mel Brooks) The Rocky Horror Picture Show - (1975, Jim Sharmon) Serpico - (1973, Sydney Lumet) Young Frankenstein - (1974, Mel Brooks) Deliverance - (1972, John Boorman) Barry Lyndon - (1975, Stanley Kubrick) The Sting - (1973, George Roy Hill) Dog Day Afternoon - (1975, Sydney Lumet) Five Easy Pieces - (1970, Bob Rafelson) The Conversation - (1974, Francis Ford Coppola) The Last Picture Show - (1971, Peter Bogdanovich) Nashville - (1975, Robert Altman) McCabe and Mrs. Miller - (1971, Robert Altman) All the President's Men - (1976, Alan J. Pakula) Dirty Harry - (1971, Don Siegel) Badlands - (1973, Terrence Malick) Carrie - (1976, Brian De Palma) The Texas Chainsaw Massacre - (1974, Tobe Hooper) Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore - (1974, Martin Scorsese) Bound for Glory - (1976, Hal Ashby) Bananas - (1971, Woody Allen) Sleeper - (1973, Woody Allen) A Woman Under the Influence - (1974, John Cassavetes) The Last Detail - (1973, Hal Ashby) After 1977 and Star Wars- Hollywood lost interest in challenging films and instead threw stupid amounts of moey at undeserving Blockbusters. The eighties weren’t terrible and produced some great films however hardly any match up to those American films produced prior to 1977 and American cinema has been flagging ever since . Star Wars did change cinema but whether for better or worse is of personal opinion I’d rather read an in-depth article about one of the above than article 1, 564, 978 on Star Wars which was my original point.
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