I imagine one's age influences attitudes towards the '70s, just as it does any decade. I was a child, so the clothes I remember were the clothes of children and adolescents, and the strongest memories are those of an awful parochial school uniform, my mother's unintentionally embarrassing taste, and our relative poverty which meant never having the money for the "cool" clothing items or brands.

^But aren't the quintessential Spaghetti Westerns--"The Man with No Name" series starring Clint Eastwood--products of the '60s, not the '70s?

Quite right, I stand corrected. For some reason I had equated the aesthetic of those films more with the '70s than the '60s.

I'll have to take your word on the poetic justice of a John Ford film; I never stayed awake long enough to see the endings.

Leone stamped out the archetype of the modern action movie hero in the man with no name, complete with designer stubble and trendy poncho. Yes his films were filthy and yes they were violent - in many ways an accurate reflection of the realities of the American west. Then again, I'm no film critic and I just like what I like.

Tarrantino is unbelievable. That's his main flaw IMO.

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