Video rental alert: If you want to know what's wrong with America

[Az]

Go rent or buy the movie Network. A late 70s flick. It is quite simply the most accurate description of what has brought our nation to the state it currently is in.

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

[CanuckAmok]

1. You have meddled with the primal forces of nature, Mr. Beale,

...and I won't have it, is that clear?! You think you have merely stopped a business deal - that is not the case! The Arabs have taken billions of dollars out of this country, and now they must put it back. It is ebb and flow, tidal gravity, it is ecological balance. You are an old man who thinks in terms of nations and peoples. There are no nations! There are no peoples! There are no Russians! There are no Arabs! There are no Third Worlds! There is no West! There is only one holistic system of systems, one vast and immane, interwoven, interacting, multi-variate, multi-national dominion of dollars! Petro-dollars, electro-dollars, multi-dollars, reichmarks, rins, rubles, pounds and shekels! It is the international system of currency which determines the totality of life on this planet. That is the natural order of things today. That is the atomic, and subatomic and galactic structure of things today. And you have meddled with the primal forces of nature, and you will atone! Am I getting through to you, Mr. Beale? You get up on your little twenty-one inch screen and howl about America and democracy. There is no America. There is no democracy. There is only IBM, and ITT, and AT and T, and DuPont, Dow, Union Carbide, and Exxon - those are the nations of the world today. What do you think the Russians talk about in their councils of state - Karl Marx? They get out their linear programming charts, statistical decision theories and mini-max solutions and compute the price-cost probabilities of their transactions and investments just like we do. We no longer live in a world of nations and ideologies, Mr. Beale. The world is a college of corporations, inexorably determined by the immutable by-laws of business. The world is a business, Mr. Beale. It has been since man crawled out of the slime, and our children will live, Mr. Beale, to see that perfect world in which there's no war or famine, oppression or brutality. One vast and ecumenical holding company, for whom all men will work to serve a common profit, in which all men will hold a share of stock, all necessities provided, all anxieties tranquilized, all boredom amused. And I have chosen you to preach this evangel, Mr. Beale.

[bookman]

4. A chill up the spine

I saw Network on TV a month or two ago. When I heard this speech it sent a chill up my spine.

[big peaches]

2. Faye Dunaway

is absolutely sensational in this flick also.

[Theres-a]

3. EXACTLY!

We got it from netfix a few weeks ago.Unbef***inglievable!

[TWiley]

5. Try to find the movie "Hearts and minds"

The republicans tried to ban it from the usa, and a watered down version was finally allowed years later. It was made by the BBC, and it is a documentary about the vietnam war. I think it is relevent because the bushtapo frequently uses the words "Hearts and Minds". I have heard many military folks describe the Iraq war as one for the "Hearts and Minds" of the Iraqi's

I remember the movie "Network", and it is a great film. If I had a window right now, I would fling it open and scream:

I am Mad as Hell, and I am NOT gonna take it any more !

[JohnOneillsMemory]

6. Rent 'The Panama Deception.' It won 1993 Academy Award for documentary.

In December of 1989, President George H.W. Bush invaded Panama killing 4000 poor civilians who were buried in mass graves on US military bases to hide the evidence.

Poor neighborhoods were burned to the ground and the Panamadian Defense forces captured and killed with their hands tied behind their backs.

All to eliminate Jimmy Carter's treaty giving the canal back to Panama in 2000. And rehearse for Gulf War I.

Massive lies about massive war crimes. Same as Kosovo under Wesley Clark in 1999.

[Warpy]

7. I've been there since 11/2/04

I'm mad as hell and I haven't taken it since then.

I learn more about current affairs from the Simpsons reruns than I do from the propaganda hour opposite them.

Screw the networks. Let them play their commercials to morons. I'm not there any more.

[Ron Green]

8. "Quiz Show" is another one

whose underlying theme is a scary but accurate look at the mindlessness that is in all people, but seems so pervasive in American society.

[beyurslf]

9. Ujst added to my list at Blockbuster....Of course there is a short wait