The most prescient scene in film history.

[DirtyB]

If you haven't seen the movie Network, go find it immediately. It's an astonishingly good movie from 1976. The main characters are much better actors than the CEO. A main theme of this movie, from most of 40 years ago, is replacing news content on TV with something that we would quickly recognize as "reality TV".

[sonatine]

Network is too fucking sick, good stuff.

Lets just make this a good old fashion prescient movie scene thread:

[Bootsy Collins]

If you haven't seen the movie Network, go find it immediately. It's an astonishingly good movie from 1976. The main characters are much better actors than the CEO. A main theme of this movie, from most of 40 years ago, is replacing news content on TV with something that we would quickly recognize as "reality TV".

It is kind of a shame that it did not win Best Picture. It was a stacked field with Rocky, Taxi Driver and All the Presidents Men.

[lewfather]

A friend of mine recommended this flick to me a few years ago, I was cynical about it at first, thinking to myself that it's probably way outdated etc. I was wrong, movie was powerful and still holds its water all these years later.

A+ definitely recommend it

[DirtyB]

If you haven't seen the movie Network, go find it immediately. It's an astonishingly good movie from 1976. The main characters are much better actors than the CEO. A main theme of this movie, from most of 40 years ago, is replacing news content on TV with something that we would quickly recognize as "reality TV".

It is kind of a shame that it did not win Best Picture. It was a stacked field with Rocky, Taxi Driver and All the Presidents Men.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/49th_Academy_Awards

Wow. The cast of Network won Best Actor, Best Actress, Best Supporting Actress, and the script won Best Screenplay. Then fucking Rocky gets Best Director and Best Picture. Stallone got nominated for Best Screenplay with the first screenplay he ever wrote.

[Bootsy Collins]

It is kind of a shame that it did not win Best Picture. It was a stacked field with Rocky, Taxi Driver and All the Presidents Men.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/49th_Academy_Awards

Wow. The cast of Network won Best Actor, Best Actress, Best Supporting Actress, and the script won Best Screenplay. Then fucking Rocky gets Best Director and Best Picture. Stallone got nominated for Best Screenplay with the first screenplay he ever wrote.

And Taxi Driver got nothing which is a fucking shame. At least give Jodie Foster the nod for Supporting Actress

[SrslySirius]

When I saw the title, I thought this was a Bottomset thread.

[gut]

[hongkonger]

If you haven't seen the movie Network, go find it immediately. It's an astonishingly good movie from 1976. The main characters are much better actors than the CEO. A main theme of this movie, from most of 40 years ago, is replacing news content on TV with something that we would quickly recognize as "reality TV".

Absolutely fucking brilliant movie, probably in the top 10 of all time. It not only perfectly captured what would happen to television but predicted the ascent of the corporate totalitarian mindset. The thing is, it was supposed to be over the top, particularly with regard to what was aired on the network, but it seems almost tame in comparison with television (and business) today.

The best supporting actress was only on screen for about 5 minutes, the smallest role ever to win an acting Oscar. It's bullshit that Rockey won best picture but the Academy has a habit of giving Best Picture to the second-best film of the year rather than the best, or giving to a "safe" or less groundbreaking film. 1941, How Green Was My Valley beat Citizen Kane. 1971, The French Connection (a great movie, it's true) beat A Clockwork Orange. 1994, Forrest Gump beat Pulp Fiction and Shawshank Redemption AND Quiz Show. 1997, Titanic beat L.A. Confidential. And so on.

[Sloppy Joe]

If you haven't seen the movie Network, go find it immediately. It's an astonishingly good movie from 1976. The main characters are much better actors than the CEO. A main theme of this movie, from most of 40 years ago, is replacing news content on TV with something that we would quickly recognize as "reality TV".

Absolutely fucking brilliant movie, probably in the top 10 of all time. It not only perfectly captured what would happen to television but predicted the ascent of the corporate totalitarian mindset. The thing is, it was supposed to be over the top, particularly with regard to what was aired on the network, but it seems almost tame in comparison with television (and business) today.

The best supporting actress was only on screen for about 5 minutes, the smallest role ever to win an acting Oscar. It's bullshit that Rockey won best picture but the Academy has a habit of giving Best Picture to the second-best film of the year rather than the best, or giving to a "safe" or less groundbreaking film. 1941, How Green Was My Valley beat Citizen Kane. 1971, The French Connection (a great movie, it's true) beat A Clockwork Orange. 1994, Forrest Gump beat Pulp Fiction and Shawshank Redemption AND Quiz Show. 1997, Titanic beat L.A. Confidential. And so on.

High praise for Network, will queue that shit up soon

[hongkonger]

If this is going to be the prescient film scene thread, let's get down to business.

[superallah]

hi hongkonger.

nice to see you again.

someone get the bag ready.

[son of lockman]

Movie was really too far ahead for the time and too advanced for the average thinker. Too good of a movie for the time really.