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I don't know what VANISHING POINT had as it's point but in the day I forgave it a lot for it's pounding pace and well shot automotive mayhem.
As for ZABRISKIE POINT, I saw that one upon it's release in 1970, more out of curiousity than anything else. I'd be curious to see it again today just to see what my reaction would be.
I suspect I would not be able to get past a scene (pointed out, I believe, by Pauline Kael) that exhibits Antonioni's totally phony view of the U.S. at the time --a pickup truck drives into a town off the desert and a little girl gets out holding a virgin ice cream cone, leaving one to ponder where the hell she got that out in the desert and how she got it into town unmelted.
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Jan 20, 2020 - 8:08 AM
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OnyaBirri
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These early '70s "desolate desert road" films remind me of something I heard a DJ say on an oldies radio show back in the awful '80s. He said--I paraphrase--that after the tumult of the 1960s--f_cked-up decade that it was--the 1970s, specifically the early 1970s as it related to songwriting, was a fragmented landscape, with numerous one-hit wonders and established artists having songs about aimlessness and wandering.
Call it Viet Nam Hangover, Watergate Hangover, or 1960s Hangover, but the first half of the 1970s in which those songs were written and these films were made were some of the most hopeless, dreary years in recent memory. This rootlessness was especially keenly felt by the young, and perhaps films like Vanishing Point reflect that.
It's similar to what you said - and I'm paraphrasing - about films like "Bullitt" and "Point Blank," which show a desolate, bleeched-out decaying urban landscape, following the flight to the suburbs.
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Is that the American version of MAD MAX? I gotta see this.
No, it's more Rebel without a Cause meets Lawrence of Arabia.
Fear is the key car chase meets bob the builder. 
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Jan 23, 2020 - 6:14 AM
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jackfu
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The real seventies was about people living the standard American way of life.
The hippies were fashion victims.
Fashion imo was most hideous in the decades ('70s, '80s) dominated by the Boomers.
The 1970s: the decade that needed a haircut.
You're right, of course, there were some awful fashions then, but every decade has its own level of fashion hideousness, doesn't it?
I'd take bell-bottom jeans and tie-dyed t-shirts over grunge, acid-washed, pants worn below the @ss, etc., any day.
And, can you imagine ST TOS with any uniform fabric other than velour? - The mind boggles!
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