Memorable, crazy movie

Pretty good movie overall. First half was nothing special but it got better as it went along.

The film makes a home in your brain and the only cure is to see it again.

By the time the dramatic fireworks start popping off, each one feels earned.

This documentary gives us a look at the freedom and decadence that was a big part of gay culture between the repression of the 50s and 60s pre Stonewall era and the AIDS crisis of the 80's and 90's. What we had were the crazy 70s! The documentary acts as both a celebration of this period and as a cautionary tale about how too much excess can be dangerous and how many of the men discussed in the film had to eventually "Pay the piper".There are some things to note for example. There seems to be more acceptance and tolerance of gays and lesbians in America now then there ever was even during the "sexual revolution" of the 70s. Back then if you were gay the only way you could truly live a free life was if you packed your bags and moved to a big city like New York, San Francisco, Los Angeles, or Chicago!

This movie should be retitled: Sex in the 70s In a Part of New York City called Greenwich Village and Chelsea.This movie does little to talk about sex in the 70s except focus on the hypersexual environments of public and private sex spaces in New York City. I doubt that the Manhole bar was symbolic of actual sex in the 70s and that kind of sex is much more prevalent in the film.Don't get me wrong, the time period looks like a blast. And it's rather important to document the scene to which the film refers. But as far as calling this film Sex in the 70s, the title is a bit misleading. Technically it's no Oscar Nominee, but the rawness of it feels appropriate for the subject.Overall, an "eh."

I was excited to see this documentary but it did not meet expectations.The collections of photos from the 1970's in New York were fantastic to see and I hope that all of these men's collections will be put into the Stonewall Library and Archives. We cannot let these items get lost or destroyed.I felt that the film (as almost all that have come before it) focused on New York and nothing else. It still amazes me the number of men who were in New York at that time who can't acknowledge that gay life was going on in cities across the country. San Francisco, Chicago, Denver, Dallas, you NEVER here about any other place or group of people except for New York in ANY documentary that gets made. I was around during that time in Denver and there was a hot gay scene in that city during the late 70's and early 80's, does the name " The Ballpark" ring anyone's bell? Men from around the World came to the parties at that bathhouse. But you never hear about it. I almost feel that there is an arrogance about New York and that it's the only place that matters because it had the largest population. It would have been nice to see a broader spectrum. The film seemed very self serving and my friends that I viewed the film with (who are from New York) felt the same.On the positive side who can not be happy to see Tom Bianchi. He is as hot as ever and it was nice to see him on the big screen.This film is worth seeing for the archival footage and stills but it lacks the broad scope that I had hoped it would cover. It leaves you to feel that you have just seen part one of a great documentary miniseries and are waiting for the rest of the story.

A no holds barred look back at a hedonistic time of freedom for sexual awareness and discovery... it can almost make this thirty something long for a time pre AIDs. It posed a lot of questions for me like, which came first, the gay sexual carnivore, or the backlash against sexual persecution. At a screening, an audience member wished they had been old enough to have enjoyed in the decadent madness that seemed pervasive by the movie's content... and I was left to wonder, how different it was then (men having sex with strangers in bathhouses and the back of trucks and piers) to how it is now (men arranging sex dates with others online). What a wake up call to reality.