For the last few weeks I was on one big “70’s movies” binge. The list included Midnight Express, Chinatown, Saturday night fever, sudden impact, Dirty Harry, Grease and many others. Was time spent worth it? Well let’s just say it was badly required after watching scores of zombie, vampire, and doomsday movies. How much of that can a simple mind take? But let’s leave that for a more depressing night. Let me get into bit more of my sudden interest in these movies.
One thing about most of these movies is that they are comparatively uncomplicated and clean. The plot is hardly ever like a walk in a maze, yet it doesn’t make me yawn either. The characters are easy to recognize and the villain is as complicated and sinister as some of the college going kids of our time. They just come and shoot you instead of getting into all the disgusting, blood splurging ways of today’s slayers. They had this accepted cheesiness in then which is so loathed today. I mean they could approach a girl and say “can we be friends?” and not get stoned for saying it. They didn’t have the prop up of today’s computer generated graphics yet they had the brilliance to still be enjoyed by us after 40 long years. They have this uncanny characteristic of make me feel nostalgic about them even though I wasn’t even born when these movies came out. Somehow they make me remember the days when life was all about coming back from school and going out to play with my friends.
Call me stuck up but I do wish we still lived in times where they played Bee Gees in the discos.
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