Monday, August 27, 2007

1970 in review

Airport
Five Easy Pieces
Love Story
MASH
Patton
The biggest thing that comes out of this set of movies is a bit of culture shock. The world was different 37 years ago and these movies really reflect that. 'Airport' launched a new genre but has been overtaken by spoof. 'Pieces' and 'MASH' are firmly set in their time period, none of them have aged particularly well. 'Love Story' won for best music and I'd say it had the best score of these five. 'Patton' is an all time great war movie and deservingly won the Best Picture. I probably would have swapped out any of the other four for 'Tora, Tora, Tora' which was released that year.

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