Episode One...

I'm a nerd if you look at it one way. A connoisseur if you look at it another.  The subject of my obsession? American movies from the 1970's -

*Star Wars (1977)

*Phantasm (1979)

*Apocalypse Now (1979)

*King Kong (1976)

*Alien (1979)

*The Exorcist (1973)

*Jaws (1975)

*Dawn of the Dead (1978)

*Saturday Night Fever (1977)

*The Omen (1976)

*Rocky (1976)

*The Godfather (1972)

*The Godfather II (1974)

*Animal House (1978)

*M*A*S*H* (1970)

*Close Encounters (1977)

*Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1978)

*Dracula (1979)

*Westworld (1973)

*Soylent Green (1973)

*Marathon Man (1976)

*Escape From Alcatraz (1979)

- and I've been looking for a site or blog that educates me, and let's me hangout among similarly focused individuals, but I haven't found one so I'm starting my own.

This site will explore my favorite movies from that time - sometimes they are important because they were seminal to a time and place of my youth and sometimes they are important because they are just great fucking movies.

We will get to such movies as:

*Rollerball (1975)
*Deliveracce (1972)
*Taxi Driver (1976)
*One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975)
*Midnight Express (1978)
*The French Connection (1971)
*The Getaway (1972)
*All the Presidents Men (1976)
*Logan's Run (1976)
*Slaughterhouse Five (1972)
*Dog Day Afternoon (1975)
*Clockwork Orange (1971)
*Up in Smoke (1978)
*The Golden Voyage of Sinbad (1973)...and Many More!

I have many favorites and will explore why they were important then and what they mean to me now. I look forward to a mutual admiration commentary and a lively debate. There is so much to discuss and admire and explore and in the words of Captain Brody, "We're gonna need a bigger boat." Here's your boat people - let's get down to business.