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Podcast: Have a Good Movie
Episode: Network
Description: Macintosh thought Maud was going to be mad as hell at him for thinking Network was one of the greatest movies of all time. It was poised to sweep the Oscars in 1977, but lost out on best picture and best direction to Rocky. If you ask us, though, this movie only gets saved by the writing and some still-amazing performances, like Peter Finch's wild-eyed madman prophet Howard Beale, or William Holden's seething, subtle performance as newsman Max Schumacher. Network was, at one point, one of the more eerily prescient movies of its time. Today, it's lost that power, but wh...