Comments | wordygirl: "I'm mad as hell, and I'm not going to take this anymore!

wordygirl

"I'm mad as hell, and I'm not going to take this anymore!

Jan 09, 2006 16:41

How can it be that only now have I finally seen the movie "Network"? I've long been interested in the impact of the so-called "news" on our social psyche, particularly in the way that it dumbs down our circuitry, and of course I've heard the memorable quotes in various settings, but until now I had not actually seen the movie. It's good; it's ( Read more... )

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brianr1026 January 10 2006, 01:56:22 UTC

Actually, I've never seen it. I only got really interested in movies in about the last 10 years, and there are LOTS of older movies I haven't seen.

pogodragon January 10 2006, 10:35:03 UTC

I've never seen it either, but I've just added it to my LoveFilm queue (think NetFlix, but in the UK), I hope it arrives when I need a good seethe though.

jeremy_m January 10 2006, 12:37:07 UTC

I've never seen it either, though I see it's now in my LoveFilm queue.

I know the "Mad as Hell" reference of course, though not so much from its place in normal people culture as for its use by angry alien worm creatures in the deliciously named space trading game, Merchant of Venus.

I have seen LOTS of older films, but thirty years ago is a bit modern. I expect it's even in , colour?

Where have you people been? agwdevil January 10 2006, 13:06:11 UTC

I've seen this movie many, many times, including in the theatres in 1976. Blown away (and, as a 14-year-old, I enjoyed seeing Faye Dunaway have sex ( ... )

Re: Where have you people been? wordygirl January 10 2006, 18:56:58 UTC

and ALL THE PRESIDENT'S MEN was the same year as well

I must be in a 1976 kind of mood, because we just rented "All the President's Men" over the weekend. Three of us (housemate, new man in my life and me) were at the video store, trying to find something that would appeal to all of us, which was not easy, when I remembered having wanted to see this. I was just reading about it in a Newsweek article that was also about the Valerie Plame leak, so I suggested it and the others agreed. It was fascinating, but the events all seem so innocent now compared to the antics of Bush & Co.

all the President's Men parabrat January 12 2006, 22:28:20 UTC

Aside from the relevance to now, it was also pretty amazing for making journalism-as-detective-game interesting on film.

By the way, did anyone see Carl Bernstein on the Colbert Report? Here's a piece of it.

Stephen Colbert: Compare this presidency to Nixon's presidency. What could Nixon learn from Bush?

Carl Bernstein: They both have the same problem...telling the truth.

[you have to imagine this next part spoken with Colbert's O'Reilly-like hypersincerity]

Colbert: Well, the problem is that right now, we're dealing with a secret enemy. So we can't necessarily tell the truth, can we? If we tell the truth, and our enemies don't tell the truth...well, then they've got one up on us, right?