Network- An Amazing Movie

[Caroline-Q-or-TBoo]

Posted: 8/20/06 at 3:43pm

I rented the extremley thought provoking and wonderful film Network last night and loved it.

Thoughts?

[pattifan2]

Posted: 8/20/06 at 3:48pm

Love Faye...'My husband ran off with his boyfriend, and I had an affair with my analyst, who told me I was the worst lay he'd ever had.'

[Caroline-Q-or-TBoo]

Posted: 8/20/06 at 3:53pm

"It's our only option. Kill the sonuvabitch!"

[MargoChanning]

Posted: 8/20/06 at 4:08pm

Chayefsky's screenplay is on the shortlist of the most brilliant -- and amazingly precient -- ever written. At a time when tv news merely consisted of only the three major networks, all very serious and substantive and conservative with few graphics and no teasers, he predicted a time when the news would be marketed like any other entertainment television with lots of flash and color and sleezy sensationalistic tabloid stories would make up most of the broadcast. He also predicted reality television which was absolutely unthinkable 30 years ago (Chayefsky was criticized at the time for being too cynical and unrealistic). What was in the 70s mere satire, has become our present day media reality, making "Network" all the more chilling and compelling to watch today. On top of that, the performances -- Dunaway, Holden, Finch, Strait, Duvall, Beatty, etc... -- are all maginificent.

One of my favorite films.

[broadway86]

Posted: 8/20/06 at 6:59pm

It's one of my favorite films of all time, and deserved the BP Oscar in '76. And with Taxi Driver, All the President's Men, and Rocky in the lineup, that ain't bad.

What was in the 70s mere satire, has become our present day media reality, making "Network" all the more chilling and compelling to watch today.

Took the words right out of my mouth.

The entire cast is great, but Faye Dunaway is just stunning, and her Oscar was well-deserved. It has to be her best performance. While some have called her work in this over-the-top, the plot wouldn't have been as believable without her. Same thing for Meryl Streep in The Manchurian Candidate.

[iHeartMyGeek]

Posted: 8/20/06 at 7:02pm

I had to watch this film for English class last year--odd, yes--and I was expecting to hate it. But I really enjoyed it. I think it's an idea that can be looked at as relevant now as well as back in the '70s, and I think it's a classic film that has been widely overlooked recently.

Unfortunately, though, I ended up watching it with my mother. That was pretty uncomfortable, to say the least.

[Mr Roxy]

Posted: 8/20/06 at 7:07pm

A companion piece is Paddy's "The Hospital" . It is a wickedly incisive parody of hospitals & medicine. Surprising a lot of it is still valid today

Network is indeed a brilliant piece of moviemaking with tremendous performances from all concerned

[jimnysf]

Posted: 8/20/06 at 7:10pm

"Network" was and is brilliant. I just bought the 2 disc DVD Special Edition for about $10 on deep discount DVD. I had it on VHS but this looks much better on my 53" High Def screen.

[Luscious]

Posted: 8/20/06 at 7:33pm

Brilliant movie. Brilliant screenplay. One of my all-time favorites. Glad you enjoyed it! I'm always trying to get people to revisit it or discover it for the first time. Amazing how it's as relevant today as the day it was released; maybe even more so. Hard to believe it's 30 years old.

[broadway86]

Posted: 8/20/06 at 8:58pm

Mr Roxy-

The Hospital is awesome, and I think George C. Scott deserved the Oscar for it.

[Mr Roxy]

Posted: 8/20/06 at 9:06pm

Yes he did