"I am mad as Hell and I'm not going to take this anymore",

[BigmanPigman]

I just shouted out of my window while watching Network for the zillionth time (TCM). I was met with another neighbor doing the same thing...I had to laugh!

[Crutchez_CuiBono]

1. Heh heh...

Let it out BGPG.

[democratisphere]

2. Can I join in the chorus?!

"I am mad as hell and I am NOT going to f'ing take it anymore!"

NOW. That feels much better.

[BigmanPigman]

3. I considered using it as my outgoing phone message.

I have had the same one for almost two years..."This is ***-****. Please leave a message, unless you are a Republican then go run along". I don't know how many people that don't know me would get the reference.

[Nitram]

4. My future wife and I watched "Network" on our first date.

We saw the movie in a theater in Tokyo, where the audience did not seem to realize that the movie was a satire. I was the only one in the theater laughing.

[ZombiWoof]

5. "I am mad as Hell and I'm not going to take this anymore"

I showed the rant to a friend at work, he had never seen it before. It's funny to think it was 1976, I was ten when I saw it the first time. It's 42 years later and nothing in our world has changed. I think Network was more speculative fiction than satire.

[BigmanPigman]

6. This film was in my film class in college.

It is incredible to watch it now and see how much of what they speculated about ended up becoming true...news as entertainment and ratings.

[WSSlover]

7. I remember seeing "Network" back when it first came out!

It was a good movie. I, too liked that "I'm mad as Hell and I'm not g going to take this anymore!" ending.

[BigmanPigman]

8. It was on TCM again two weeks ago.

Anderson Cooper was a co-host this time. They wers discussing how "news" and journalism have changed since then as well as the idea that a news program would ever consider ratings and "entertainment". Anderson's mother, Gloria Vanderbilt, was married to the film's director once, Sidney Lumet.

[mapol]

9. Me, too!

That ending was terrific! It made the film!