What an excellent movie. Way ahead of its time since 1976 was pre cable and pre VCR. Too many scenes to talk about but my favorite was the Ned Beatty (Arthur Jensen) scene where he "explainified" the reality of real world billionaires to Peter Finch (Howard Beale).
I was surfing for movies with ratings 7.0 or better and found this on one of the IMDb top 250 lists. I had never seen it until August 31 2017 and got to watch it without commercial interruption or paying for over priced cable.
TV news has gotten far worse since 1976, with 24 x 7 opinion programs and wishful hate speech of the many so called broadcasters and twits.
From a trivial point of view, Ned Beatty (senator Charles F. Meachum) gives a similar reality speech to Mark Wahlberg (Bob Lee Swagger) in the 2007 film Shooter.
Thank goodness for public libraries that have such quality titles on DVD and allow them to be checked out for free. I rate Network 9/10.
I was surfing for movies with ratings 7.0 or better and found this on one of the IMDb top 250 lists. I had never seen it until August 31 2017 and got to watch it without commercial interruption or paying for over priced cable.
TV news has gotten far worse since 1976, with 24 x 7 opinion programs and wishful hate speech of the many so called broadcasters and twits.
From a trivial point of view, Ned Beatty (senator Charles F. Meachum) gives a similar reality speech to Mark Wahlberg (Bob Lee Swagger) in the 2007 film Shooter.
Thank goodness for public libraries that have such quality titles on DVD and allow them to be checked out for free. I rate Network 9/10.