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  • its my money and i need it now!

  • -This movie is extraordinary

  • 9 people are as mad as hell

  • When Paddy Chayefsky and Sidney Lumet talked about this movie, they used the word"reportage"; I don't think that was the appropriate word. I would have used the word "prophecy". This movie foretold the rise of Reality TV, Tabloid TV, and the elements of The New World Order; I'm sick of all 3. That stated, THIS movie was The Best Movie of 1976, NOT' Rocky"!

  • Newspapers&Magazines-controlle­d by publishers

    Radio- controlled by stations

    tv network- controlled by companies

    internet - Anarchy

  • this film should've won the best picture award.

  • Never in my life have I seen a film that was made in the 1970's that is even more relevant than when it was released. This same film could have been made today.

  • Bud Dwyer did kill him self on national television with a gun in 1987

  • a beautifully done film with great elements of how far television network could really go.

  • YOU SYMBOLIZE HOPE

  • Im as mad as hell and im not gonna take it anymore

  • TV doesnt givee you as many options to freedom as the internet, and if there was no internet, i'd still be blind.

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  • @yenamarre100 everything looks bigger through the magnifying glass son.

  • 8 people are mad as HELL

  • I'm saying this for years.

    There is no nation anymore. There's companies.

  • @pwoni amen

  • ITS MY MONEY, AND I NEED IT NOW !!!!!!

  • @Aglabar lmao

  • @Aglabar haha comon i thought the same thing and i was about to write the same comment then i saw you did :D

  • yup glenn beck got his stick from this movie.

  • ha ha ha hmmmm what does this remind me of.,.fuck,.,

    ........wait.,,oh yea,. fox news and glen beck

  • mommy dearest

  • Funny how this movie was,nt even shown in movie theaters in MEXICO, tose years the PRI (party) was still in power !!(for 70 yrs)

  • Ironic, since we can only watch this film in the television.

  • peliculon

  • Just like Archie Bunker!

  • watch this version on my channel ! you tube is boycotting it .they want money .

  • Brilliant movie, even more brilliant director. We'll miss him. Still can't believe Rocky won Best Picture over Network.....

  • Hopefully, the real and main heritage of Sidney Lumet for mankind. R.I.P.

  • Satire and irony are lost on anyone who thinks that Beck bears any resemblance to Beale. Beck and his ilk are exactly the type of people who Beale railed against.

  • RIP!

  • awesome trailer. RIP Lumet. Hopefully there is no remake.

  • RIP Mr. Lumet

  • Rest in peace Mr. Lumet, you were a awesome director.

  • RIP Sidney Lumet.

  • RIP Lumet

  • Try watching "Network" and then "Being There" in the same evening. The two movies almost seem to inhabit the same movie universe.

  • Glenn Beck is just like Beale.

    Deal with it.

  • @thefakephil

    A mentally disturbed man, yes, but also a truth teller, no. Beck is bought and paid for by corporations that want to manipulate the masses to their will.

  • Wasn't there an actualy newsreader, Christine something, who shot herself on air?

  • @Sesquipedaliantique

    A politician, actually. 

  • @Sesquipedaliantique Christine Chubbuck, Florida.

  • @Alouette1968 That's the one! Unlike Bud Dwyer though, it didn't get broadcast.

  • @Sesquipedaliantique It did get broadcast at the time but no known copy survives. Almost no home video recorders at the time and no one was going to record a morning news thing anyway. The family has a copy and the network probably but its not "escaped" on to the net. At least not yet.

  • AARGH! This movie looks fantastic but I can't find a store in Australia that sells this on DVD! Are there any download links with good picture quality?

  • hahahahaha.

  • I am mad as hell and I'm not going to take it any more!

  • This is an all-time classic flick, and I think it's often overlooked. The acting was incredible, as was the shocking (especialy in 1976) script.

  • Station UBS -- Networks, You are bullshit. You are funded by the animal-cruel factory farms of fast food chains and by the cosmetic companies that perform barbaric animal experiments. You ignore the growing number of cardiologists urging the masses to eat a strictly vegetarian diet. God forbid you upset your grocery store advertisers. And you ban the commercials of People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals. Harper Valley Hypocrites. "Television will never be the same." Coz we're mad as hell.

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  • I watched this movie last night at the classic theater and it was f*ckin' GREAT! Loved it :)

  • amazing that Paddy Chayefsky predicted the future, eh?

  • @MOKandRIFF eh indeed.

  • Oh the irony. Everyone talking about how dangerous television is via their lap tops.

  • @thejigsawmurdersyou any better suggestions? which form of media could be more liberal than the internet?

  • @thejigsawmurdersyou that is a fucking genius thought, i hadn't even realized how ridiculous it is that we just switched the criticism of one digital brain washing device to another and think that that means that we've conquered and understood the threat of TV.

  • @thejigsawmurdersyou maybe this was the best way to get his message across.. maybe he did it this way because everybody watches telly these days.. because everybody goes on their laptops

  • @thejigsawmurdersyou

    At least laptops afford us all a voice.

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  • @thejigsawmurdersyou What? how are laptops and corporate culture in network television related?

  • True - it's much worse today. But even worse is the fact that it's going to be even worse. We are being tricked by the system. We should stand up and decide we're not going to take it anymore

  • @JJTechnologies

    The best way we can do that is to turn off our television. Turn of FOX, MSNBC, CNN, and all their affiliates. The minute people stop watching the minute they'll ask why.

  • And they thought TV was bad in the 70's...

  • This is definitely one of the best films of all time and one of my favorites, the script and the performances are just brilliant.

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  • why the speesh of "mad as hell" became this memorable ?

  • @Ahmedabdelreheem Because it shows the power of mass media over us. At the end of that sequence, all the frustrated "TV viewers" are yelling that phrase at the storm, just because the "TV host" told them to do it.

  • Amazing movie. They predicted the reallity shows and all the tv bullshit...

  • @stradivarius79: Damn right it did. Hell, you combine Network, John Waters' Pink Flamingos and some Russ Meyer and you get Anna Nicole Smith. The message is that eventually the networks will get so desperate for ratings that they will air ANYTHING, no matter how bad or sick or wrong or offensive. The OJ Simpson trial, the crackheads on Fox News, the H*l*s, the Kardassians, etc. etc. Chayefsky warned everyone bu they didn't listen!

  • I don't understand this because I love 70s films but I've never even heard of this film let alone seen it. The only reason I watched this video is because I was watching a clip on here of Eyes of Laura Mars and someone mentined this film.

  • they predicted the bullshit tabloid "journalism" of today.

    BTW- faye dunaway,though not conventionally beautiful perhaps,was one fine sexy mama....................!

  • GORGEOUS

  • Youngsters, keep in mind that when Network came out, cable television was in its infancy. There was only ABC, CBS, NBC, and PBS. Larger cities had local stations that reached out several hundred miles, but that was it. This predicted television as much as reflected it. It is so today that it is super scary. Thank you Paddy Chayefsky for a brilliant script.

  • It is a film filled with EVIL, EVIL people...though loaded with many profanities, it has so much depth to it and it remarkable funny and extremely well paced. It is a great, great film that really gets a person thinking. Faye Dunnaway is remarkably different in this film compared to both Chinatown and Bonnie and Clyde, demonstrating versatility. Holden is more evil and vulgar, especially compared to Stalag 17, Sunset Boulevard, and The Bridge on the River Kwai.

  • "Television will never be the same"... How true. Now its even worse.

  • I love a free media.

  • mmm, funny how peter finch died the following year... how very odd

  • @20thCenturySox Not really, he'd already had a heart attack.

  • For a brilliant film that was a horrible trailer. It spoils and excessively previews some of the best parts of the film!

    Plus that lightening bolt effect was cheesy even for 1975...

  • 1:28 - 1:36 reveals the truth

  • IM MAD AS HELL AND IM CANT TAKE THIS ANYMORE!!

  • This film is just a boring, badly acted piece of crap. All the awards that year should have gone to Taxi Driver.

  • @JuanMacready Taxi Driver is very good film that I happen to have seen yet again quite recently, that does not change the fact that your imbecility is astonishing. My most sincere congratulations for being able to write a full sentence with whatever you have instead of a brain.

  • Travis Bickle's soul mate

  • This trailer would have been awesome if they would have stopped it at 0:38 when the guys said "What the hell's going on here?"

  • @longboards4josh exactly

  • What a profound piece of work some 35 years ago and it rings truer everyday! Doesn't it ! Isn't it time for you, my friend...to go to the window!

  • @AlexanderDouglaslc get a life.

  • love this film!

  • Worst trailer ever

    Best movie ever

  • The infamous mad as hell scene when everyone is screaming out the window is taken straight from Nazi propaganda.

  • Wonderful film with an amazing cast headed by the brilliant Peter Finch.

    Im mad as hell and Im not gonna take it anymore!

  • how have i missed this movie i have to get it

  • Howard Beales Speeches are tremendous...I think it´s astounding to hear about these issues that are still relevant ...also this movie got some real good Dialogues!

  • How ironic that if this film was made today it would become the all-time biggest grossing film, yet it would incite a revolution of the likes we've never seen.

    Who'll be the studio that goes down in history as making the greatest film that ruins their industry and many others financially forever?

  • Sooo...now that you're mad, what are you going to do about it??

  • Zeitgeist Adendum..just watch it

  • wow someone actually thumbs'd you down, must be the NWO boogey men :P

    And yeh, watch addendum, but actually.. be the change too : )

  • Does anyone know if there is a german DVD/Film Version of this movies available in stores? My English isn't that good, so I would like to see this movie in german... But i couldn't find it anywhere!

  • Which monologue is better: "Mad as Hell" or "There is no America"

  • Mad as Hell has all the passion, that's a given, but "There is no America" is more profound. That's my opinion, anyway.

  • this is what is happening now with obama. wierd

  • @step2dat this has been happening way before Obama took office. this movie was made in the 70s.

  • Howard Beale really exists now in this country. Only his name is Glenn Beck!

  • His name is Alex Jones. Glenn Beck is a shill and a copy cat of what independent talk radio hosts and news sources find out and report first. Then he sifts through and uses whatever sounds good to his little neo-conservative brain and spoon feeds it to conservatives who like to put a little danger in their lives by pretending for the length of his show that they are "libertarians". Open your eyes.

  • Hey I'm only here as I saw Jason Alexander spruike this 'ere movie as he was hob-knobbing with Greg Raymer in the WSOP....

  • i haven't seen this movie but it reminds me of videodrome

  • Really? How come? which part? "Videodrome" is too surreal..

    But, probably if you refer to the crazy-minded plot..yeah i guess..

  • Anyway,i'm wondering if this movie also being "crowned" as one of the movie which is culturally,historically and aesthatically significant by 'Library of Congress'?? (alongside with another classic motion picture such as "Sunset Boulevard" , "2001 : A Space Odessy" ,etc) Because, This movie is BEYOND RELEVANT to what is happening today! A Truly Timeless Classic!

    Just Curious..

  • Television will never be the same.

  • This movie should have won pbest picture and best director also!

  • ROCKY was better

  • paul thomas anderson said that....he also said that he likes network more than rocky & taxi driver....

  • ..Yeah..and maybe that would be also explaining why he shamelessly plagiarized Paddy Chayefsky's script for his 1999's iconic movie "Magnolia". He totally ripped off network's screenplay a.k.a the most original and brilliant movie script had ever written...and creating a new plot and story for his own profit. Pathetic BASTARD!

    Anyway, don't get me wrong..anyhow i still think he's a fine and properly respected film director today.

  • yep..ok...thats pretty fair...youre totally right...im only quoting the guy saying that network was great...im not saying not that magnolia was better..even paul said that he ripped off network & robert altman...he's totally open to that criticism on interviews,he said that hes stealing but honoring at the same time those movies that he still loves...he mentioned taxi being great but not as good(to him)as network...cheers..ps: i like pauls work overall but the last 2 are my favs from him

  • Well,okay.. i didn't know that. Sorry..i don't live in US so, i hardly can watch or hear any great american filmmaker ever said in media, explaining their vision and what motivated them to make a movie.. That's pretty fair though.

    You're right Paul Thomas Anderson is one of the most versatile and brilliant film director in this century (alongside with tarantino and greengrass,my another hero) "There Will Be Blood" is truly a gem and cinematic triumph!

    As well as like "Boogie Nights",etc

  • great,good to know we agree...but i gotta say something...(dont get mad...is a critique in favour of our fav directors)...tarantino had copied some jean-luc godard chops & paul thomas anderson had copied some robert altman chops...so...i think it goes in circles...is not a bad thing to sometimes copycat some early stuff to keep cinema alive...of course theyre kinda unique in their own way but they have borrowed some stuff from otehrs too..again..not a bad thing..i'll add you as a friend,cheers

  • know any movies on how the media influenced change on kids .... ????

  • xbox 360

  • Network reminds me of films like 12 Angry Men, where the movie is centered around an amazing cast all at the top of their game. Throw in a storyline and a veteran director like Sidney Lumet that can get the characters clashing with each other to show off dramatic acting performances and you have a timeless classic. Faye Dunaway's character is ferocious, William Holden is at times too caring, and Peter Finch plays the crazy guy just right. Strong supporting cast as well with Duvall, Beatty, etc.

  • this move I recommened

  • top film!

  • God, this movie is all at once funny, scary, and a collection of some of the best acting I have ever seen!

  • Dude. Ned Beatty is in this!

    And I think that's Tim Robbins at the end with the gun.

  • Dunaway shouldn't have won the Oscar.

    A perfect example of compensation.

  • self fullfilling prophecy.

  • My favorite movie ever!!!!!

    That God blesses this movie!

  • Where can I find the movie NETWORK in Puerto Rico, Cayey?

  • netflix

    ebay

    internet

  • I have to see this movie!

  • no jokes....Bruce Lee is in this film!

  • 1:28 =O

  • Duvall is so underrated. GREAT movie btw.

  • SOMEONE TALK TO ME

    someone want to chat SP

  • lol your funny

  • too much truth in this film :(

  • and it's 20 times more fit for today's corporate media

  • It's really really hard to find this movie. its not even in blockbuster. luckly I found a link to watch this movie online for free:

    blogger-films.blogspot. *com/2008/11/network.html

  • How can it be hard to find?

    It's #66 on "AFI's Top 100 American Movies of the Last 100 Years".

    Hmm, strange.

    I don't like that one bit.

  • Oh yea...the long running "Presidency Program" with the "Special" th@ gets knocked out every four years.

    I doubt th@ the character Howard Beale would have run for presidency even if he'd had the opportunity. He would've seen the futility in doing so...he was mad, not insane ;∙)

  • Pay @tention to detail peeps, sometimes it m@ters.

    ~ I'M AS MAD AS HELL AND I'M NOT GOING TO TAKE THIS ANYMORE ~

    I'm pedantic too. (Hope the prime time viewers don't misunderstand wh@ I mean.)

  • That movie deserved every award. It was phenomenal.

  • WOW

  • Ah, so those extra clips in Zeitgeist are from this movie and from Bill Hicks.

    lol

  • I'm mad as hell, and I'm not gonna take it anymore!!!

  • Saint Paddy foretold the future!!!! The rumble you feel beneath your feet is the movement of McLuhan and Murrow spinning in their graves!!! (Can a Jewish guy become a 'saint'?)(No letters, please - it's called humor, ok!?) LOL God bless Paddy!!!!!

  • Write/right on!!!!!

  • An excellent movie! The subject matter was a little hard to underatand at sometimes, but the acting is top notch. I think Beatrice Straight deserved her Oscar for her small but powerful preformance. I also think that William Holden should have won Best Actor over Peter Finch. Howard Beale is a one-dimensional character, while Max Shumacher has many differnt sides, and has a redeeming personality.

  • BillyL96

    Yea... William Holden deserved the Best Actor award too. He did get a nomination for it.

    Lets not forget Sidney Aaron 'Paddy' Chayefsky who deservedly won the Best Writing award. Without him these gre@ actors wouldn't have had a such a brilliant script.

  • Our world is fucked, as is our country.

    Our government is pathetic.

  • so besides blogging and complaining what are YOU (WE) gonna DO about it?

  • Spawn, take a look around. There are so many things going on behind the scenes that people do not know about. We are being lied to by our leaders in government. Everything is regulated...television channels, news networks, etc. It is over 30 years since this movie debuted and nothing has been accomplished. I, as one person, cannot fight the powers that be. Everyone has to get together and rebel against the lies and deceit plaguing us before it is too late.