What is, in your opinion, the greatest decade of cinema?

For me, it’s gotta be the 70s

I mean, just look at this list:

The Godfather part 1 and 2, Apocalypse Now, Taxi Driver, Jaws, One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest, The Deer Hunter, Chinatown, Patton, Three Days of the Condor, All the Presidents Men, Clockwork Orange, The Conversation, The French Connection, Barry Lyndon, Mean Streets, The Parallax View, Dog Day Afternoon, The Long Goodbye

It had Monty Python at it’s peak with both Holy Grail and Life of Brian

Probably the greatest or at least most influential decade ever for horror with The Shining, Alien, Carrie, Erasehead, Jaws, Halloween, Dawn of the Dead, The Exorcist and Texas Chainsaw Massacre

It gave us fucking Rocky, Mad Max and Bruce Lee

Truly great sci-fi in Solaris, Stalker and Close Encounters of the Third Kind

It also gave us the arguably greatest movie franchise of all time in Star Wars

And laid the foundation for everything related to super-heroes on the big screen, with Superman in 1978

Acting-wise, it had Nicholson, Al Pacino, De Niro, Redford, Gene Hackman, Dustin Hoffman, Harvey Keitel, Robert Duvall and Marlon Brando at absolute peak performance, acting oppose each other lots of times

Just an all timer decade in my opinion

What is yours?

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