15 - Network (1976)

It's On My List

English - November 19, 2019 23:47 - 55 minutes - 44.2 MB - ★★★★ - 13 ratings
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There is no America. There is no democracy. There is only IBM and ITT and AT&T and DuPont, Dow, Union Carbide, and Exxon. Those are the nations of the world today.

— Arthur Jensen, Network

FIRST TIME VIEWERS: JPG, ALISA, BROCK, CHERYL, JOE

We welcome JPG, CEO of Geek Say What? Network and host of Ready, Set, Geek and Nerds on a Roll, as we talk about a different kind of Network; the kind that 40 years ago predicted the state of television news in 2019.

Did this movie have us screaming out our windows that we're made as hell and we're not going to take it anymore? Did we decide it would be okay to kill someone on the air, if it would get us more downloads? What's so wrong about learning life from Bugs Bunny? We'll run all these questions by the stockholders as we bring you our manifestly irresponsible opinions on this modern classic film.

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