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bonus bonus hot take: The French Connection is boring as shit. -- nm

Posted by Reagen Sep 14 '16, 18:37

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Partly disagree, but not entirely. The scene with the car teardown was alright. -- nm - Beryllium Sep 14, 19:58
Gosh, I should start another self-imposed exile..(NM) - Marlowe Sep 14, 18:55 1
- may as well. this place is beyond hope...nm - x Sep 14, 19:05
Absolutely. People who praise 70s cinema mystify me. -- nm - David Sep 14, 18:45 16
- Jaws -- nm - Bacon Sep 14, 20:43
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- Godfather one and two, Apocalypse Now.... -- nm - crash davis Sep 14, 19:35 10
  - Monty Python and the Holy Grail. Jaws. Close Encounters of the Third Kind. Chinatown. The Exorcist. Taxi Driver. Deer Hunter. - ReluctantCynic Sep 14, 19:57
  - That's just one director though. (But Chinatown, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Jaws, Exorcist, Clockwork Orange, Taxi Driver, Sting, Deer Hunter..) -- nm - Roger More Sep 14, 19:52 2
    - I realized that and was saving Scorcese and Spielberg for a rebuttal to a DLC response -- nm - crash davis Sep 14, 19:59 1
      - "Rommel, you magnificent bastard... I read your book!" -- nm - Roger More Sep 14, 20:06
  - Omen. Star Wars. -- nm - Remlik Sep 14, 19:49 5
    - Making my point for me. -- nm - David's iPad Sep 14, 20:15 1
      - 2016 the year David continues to be wrong! -- nm - Remlik Sep 14, 21:12
    - Star Wars is like the first Rocky. It was good and maybe should have just ended there. - crash davis Sep 14, 20:01 2
      - but then there would have been no Empire. I like Star Wars...but c'mon...it's no Star Trek -- nm - Remlik Sep 14, 20:53 1
        
        true dat -- nm - crash davis Sep 14, 20:58
- It's like I don't even know you ... . -- nm - ReluctantCynic Sep 14, 19:26
- It was no golden age, but there are plenty of fine films from the 70s. - TWuG Sep 14, 18:50 1
  - I think the thing people miss is that these films used to be studio tentpoles (well, the 70s equivalent) - Roger More Sep 14, 19:55
agreed -- nm - Beaker Sep 14, 18:40
70s films were blabby (there I said it, as a fan of Woody Allen) - con_carne Sep 14, 18:39

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