The '70's are a hard one to beat given the whole "crisis = opportunity" where filmmakers were given so much freedom by desperate film studios. It was also the first decade that wasn't infringed upon by the Hayes Code so it could allow more graphic attention to detail and create more immersible stories. While I will concede that my opinion is also going to say that the 1970's is my personal favourite decade of cinema, I think there was a real trade off for cursing, nudity, and gore with script. It's kind of hard to describe, but when I watch pre-1968 movies I really notice a lot more effort into the script, like a higher syntax and diction or something. Maybe this was because of the visual restrictions, but a lot of the really stand out movies like The Magnificent Seven or 12 Angry Men have fantastic scripts.
And because you can't end a post like this without it, here's my favourite movies from the 1970's in order
01. Straw Dogs (1971)
02. Chinatown (1974)
03. Star Wars (1977)
04. Alien (1979)
05. Texas Chainsaw Massacre (1974)
06. Eraserhead (1977)
07. Stalker (1979)
08. Network (1976)
09. Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory (1971)
10. Assault on Precinct 13 (1976)
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