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movie buff, I challenge your powers!
« on: December 27, 2011, 11:54:02 AM »


What is the ultimate point of the plot behind the 1976 film, Network?
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Re: movie buff, I challenge your powers!
« Reply #1 on: December 27, 2011, 07:12:38 PM »
Ooh... I knew this once.  :lmao:
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« Reply #2 on: December 27, 2011, 07:20:48 PM »
I think the real lesson here is never agree to hold an elderly kung fu master's hand.
and I don't care how lonely he is.
Oh? He needs help across the street? Yeah right. Jump it old man!

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« Reply #3 on: December 27, 2011, 07:38:39 PM »
Quote from: Mr Mannn on December 27, 2011, 07:20:48 PM
I think the real lesson here is never agree to hold an elderly kung fu master's hand.
and I don't care how lonely he is.
Oh? He needs help across the street? Yeah right. Jump it old man!

 :popcorn:

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Re: movie buff, I challenge your powers!
« Reply #4 on: December 28, 2011, 07:16:56 AM »
Quote from: Schadenfreude on December 27, 2011, 07:38:39 PM
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Re: movie buff, I challenge your powers!
« Reply #5 on: December 30, 2011, 07:20:04 AM »
Quote from: SGT Snuggle Bunny on December 27, 2011, 11:54:02 AM


What is the ultimate point of the plot behind the 1976 film, Network?

Sorry, I give this round to you, I never saw 'Network.' My real field of expertise is genre entertainment (Action, fantasy, sci- fi, some horror). For instance, if you were to ask something like "How many actors played the Headless Horseman in 'Sleepy Hollow,' and what did each of them do?", I'd be able to answer that in a heartbeat.
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Re: movie buff, I challenge your powers!
« Reply #6 on: December 30, 2011, 10:23:22 PM »
Quote from: movie buff on December 30, 2011, 07:20:04 AM
Sorry, I give this round to you, I never saw 'Network.' My real field of expertise is genre entertainment (Action, fantasy, sci- fi, some horror). For instance, if you were to ask something like "How many actors played the Headless Horseman in 'Sleepy Hollow,' and what did each of them do?", I'd be able to answer that in a heartbeat.
If you are a fan of Philip K. Dick at all, this movie is much closer to what Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? was like than was Blade Runner.
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« Reply #7 on: December 31, 2011, 09:45:39 AM »
Pfft...bring it, so I can make you my little lapine bitch.
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Re: movie buff, I challenge your powers!
« Reply #8 on: January 02, 2012, 04:33:16 PM »
Quote from: Duke Nukum on December 30, 2011, 10:23:22 PM
If you are a fan of Philip K. Dick at all, this movie is much closer to what Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? was like than was Blade Runner.

Wrong Network. The movie I refer to is starts with Howard Beale, a Cronkite-esque news personality getting drunk with a lifelong friend after learning he is to be fired. It is the movie that spawned the very famous line, "I'm as mad as hell and I'm not going to take it anymore."

The movie is worth seeing. It's 100% cerebral fare. You will be nodding your head throughout the movie but whatever you think you're identifying with is not the point of the movie. It would not be uncalled for to watch it 2 or 3 times to absorb the magnitude of this film.
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« Reply #9 on: January 03, 2012, 12:34:39 PM »
Quote from: SGT Snuggle Bunny on January 02, 2012, 04:33:16 PM
Wrong Network. The movie I refer to is starts with Howard Beale, a Cronkite-esque news personality getting drunk with a lifelong friend after learning he is to be fired. It is the movie that spawned the very famous line, "I'm as mad as hell and I'm not going to take it anymore."

The movie is worth seeing. It's 100% cerebral fare. You will be nodding your head throughout the movie but whatever you think you're identifying with is not the point of the movie. It would not be uncalled for to watch it 2 or 3 times to absorb the magnitude of this film.
Howard Beale's "humanoids" are a direct rip-off of Philip K. Dick's "androids." Faye Dunaway is the perfect, destructive "Pris Stratton" from DADOES?.
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« Reply #10 on: January 03, 2012, 05:36:08 PM »
I had to watch Network for a class in college.  I would rather burn my eyeballs with hippie piss than ever watch that pile of crap again.  It was so horrible!  It was all preachy and long like a stupid ass Woody Allen film. 
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« Reply #11 on: January 04, 2012, 05:23:20 PM »
Quote from: mamacags on January 03, 2012, 05:36:08 PM
I had to watch Network for a class in college.  I would rather burn my eyeballs with hippie piss than ever watch that pile of crap again.  It was so horrible!  It was all preachy and long like a stupid ass Woody Allen film. 

But, for all its preachiness, what is the point of the film?
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« Reply #12 on: January 04, 2012, 07:44:15 PM »
Quote from: SGT Snuggle Bunny on January 04, 2012, 05:23:20 PM
But, for all its preachiness, what is the point of the film?
The point of the film is we have defaulted our judgement, our reality, to what we see on television.

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