re: Worst decade of movies?

70's movies in general are a bit more gritty than a lot of movies since. It wasn't a very pleasant time and the movies reflect that. Finding out the truth about Vietnam, the Civil Rights Movement, Watergate and many other really shitey situations caused a lot of stress for people.

I think it made for a lot of good stories that ended up being made into movies. The 60's were said to be a revolutionary period but it really took a generation for most of those stories to be told. A lot of 70's movies were more than just entertainment. The media "outed" a lot of crooked politicians, greedy corporations, dirty cops, etc. and Hollywood followed suit by showing the courage to make some controversial movies.

The Godfather movies justified killing dirty cops. Cuckco's Nest had funny parts but was really about exposing problems with mental health facilities. Chinatown was about crooked businessmen & crooked politicians that were doing only God knows what else. Taxi Driver was about the seediness of pre-Giuliani NYC. Network was about the greed of TV Networks, Pacino tried to rob a bank to help a dude pay for a sex change operation. Apocalypse Now, The Conversation, Serpico and All the President's Men were about corruption in the government at some level.