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You know how, today, we take inspiration or look up to “classic” films like The Godfather and The Shawshank Redemption? Well, what did people in the 80s/90s look up to? 70s movies? Black and white movies? What were seen as classics back then?

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[–] [email protected] 73 points 5 months ago (4 children)

The Godfather came out in 1972

Planet of the Apes in 1968

Apocalypse Now in 1979

Close Encounters of the Third Kind in 1977

2001: A Space Odyssey in 1968

Halloween in 1978

Taxi Driver in 1976

A Clockwork Orange in 1971....

Great cinema existed before the 80's.

[–] [email protected] 38 points 5 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 14 points 5 months ago (1 children)

don't forget Star Trek: The Motion Picture!

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago (1 children)

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 months ago

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[–] [email protected] 19 points 5 months ago

I was gonna say, people were parodying and mimicing those movies then in the 80s and 90s.

Animaniacs alone had parodies of all that. Muppet babies too.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Just using Letterboxd decade filters gives a pretty good snapshot of the great cinema from each decade.

1970s

1960s

1950s

1940s

1930s

1920s

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

That's a fun feature. Thanks for posting it!

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

And before then would have been movies like The Searchers, and before that, stuff like It's a Wonderful life. The golden age of cinema was loooong before the 90's. Heh.