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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Guest&nbsp; 85555" data-source="post: 9633321">I think being honest about what you like is good, so I do appreciate your perspective here. Pretending to like something because you think it makes you smart or it's what cultured critics like, doesn't enrich your life. But I also think that doesn't mean things that might be called 'high brow' are automatically bad. It really boils down to how the stuff makes you feel. I always look at how a movie makes me feel when I am trying to decide if I like it (not if the ideas are clever or complex, just how it makes me feel emotionally and whether my mind keeps thinking about it and going back to it). For me 70s cinema is interesting because you have all these gritty crime movies like The French Connection, Mean Streets and Dirty Harry, but you also have stuff like Enter the Dragon, Rocky, Young Frankenstein, then you have odd movies like A Clockwork Orange or Taxi Driver; and there is horror like The Exorcist, Halloween, Alien, Jaws and Black Christmas; plus there is the kung fu explosion out of Hong Kong (tons of great movies here). There is just so much cool stuff, and a lot of it feels very character driven. And I am leaving out a lot. And there are lots of cool exploitation films from that era like Foxy Brown and Death Wish. I have a much easier time watching films like this than I do a modern marvel movie (and that might be because these were movies I often saw or heard a lot about as a kid in the 80s).</blockquote>

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