this movie is scary…

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Malamute26 — 11 years ago(October 09, 2014 11:56 PM)

I was born after this movie was made. I just saw this and some of the satire is hard to discern because today most of this is reality. Just wait in another 30 years and see where corporations have been guiding humans. I wonder what the perspective was back then watching this. Because today, I see it as genius.

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Genesis1975 — 11 years ago(October 28, 2014 10:02 AM)

That was my first thought watching this. This moving is 100% prophetic. It's actually quite scary. Replace TV with the internet and it's as topical now (or more so) as it was then.

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maltlooter — 11 years ago(November 09, 2014 09:42 AM)

Damn straight it's scary.
I watched it last night for the first time, and once you get beyond the dated seventies clothes and stuff, it's 100% prophetic.
Jensen's speech is a brief synopsis of the New World Order.

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steffeeric — 11 years ago(January 17, 2015 07:51 PM)

It is wild to think this was made almost 40 years ago. I think it rings truer today then ever. People still aren't mad enough though

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star52-2 — 11 years ago(February 23, 2015 03:08 AM)

So glad to hear that folks today have the patience to watch such a wordy non cgi move! Pleasantly surprised

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rtw416 — 11 years ago(March 30, 2015 11:37 PM)

Chayefsky and Lumet didn't consider the screen play as satirethey looked at it as cinema verit.
This was there opinion of network television and didn't feel prophetic. TCM has a good interview they air,usually the week they'll show the film,where Sidney Lumet explains all of this.

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rtw416 — 11 years ago(March 30, 2015 11:42 PM)

Star52-2
I couldn't agree with you more.There are other topics on this thread where the op asks the meaning of Beals rant and I just can't bring myself to respond.They obviously haven't paid attention and answer there own question with such a questionthey are the vacant minds corporations control.

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chriss5 — 10 years ago(April 15, 2015 03:28 PM)

i thought the same thing just after watching it. so ahead of it' time and TRUE it's scary

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fanaticita — 10 years ago(June 17, 2015 01:33 PM)

Some of my favorite quotes. .. .
"Television is not the truth. television is a goddam amusement park!"
"The world is a business."
There are many more, but it is frightening to see how many of the forecasts and predictions have come true since this film was made!! The screen writers were spot on, and how could they ever have predicted everything they wrote in the script would become reality!! THAT truly is frightening!

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rc-108 — 10 years ago(July 07, 2015 01:33 PM)

amazing it was made 40 years ago

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kennellygerard — 9 years ago(January 03, 2017 08:06 PM)

Finch was absolutely amazing
that scene where he tries to explain what he is going through
its the loveliest feeling Max ..

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Mamabadger56 — 9 years ago(January 04, 2017 01:11 PM)

Very true. I was born well before the film was made, and what struck me when I watched it again recently is how over-the-top some of the ideas for 'new & improved' news broadcasts seemed at the time, how ridiculous they seemed, and how disrespectful to news reporting. When someone watches Network for the first time today, Christensen's ratings-boosters must seem much, much less exaggerated and silly, because they're not far from what news programmes (and sites) are actually doing.
"You can't handle the post-truth!"