(If you’re curious, my review process. It’s also pasted at the end of this post. I don’t believe in Rotten Tomatoes. I just believe in me.)
(***all-purpose SPOILER ALERT*** there may be some in this review)
The mini-review:
Network (1976)
acting 9
directing 9
effects 7
editing 8
writing 10
SW SCORE: 43
4.3 out of 5 🐙
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Released in 1976, this satire on the ever-increasing commercialization of news and the deterioration of the American Dream seems impressively prophetic today, 53 years later. I promise you’ll never see an ending like this. Also, if you haven’t seen a movie written by Paddy Chayefsky, one of if not THE best screenwriters ever, you owe it to yourself.
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Review process: (this is always evolving, I’m sad to say. I’m more of a watcher who makes mostly unhelpful observations about things I have absorbed. Like a pop culture blob.)
Two scores are assigned: (I don’t believe in Rotten Tomatoes. I just believe in me)
(1) Shark Wrighter (SW) Score: Based on a sum of 5 sub-scores (acting, directing, writing/story, effects: cinematography &/or animation &/or effects, editing) with 1 being terrible and 10 being terrific.
(2) Octopuses (0-5 🐙, with 5 being fantastic and 0 being feces)
(3) Octopuses are my unquantifiable feeling…not that SW score is scientific…but this one is even less so
(4) ++ This optional section includes any incredibly *brilliant observations that don’t fit into simple quantitative slices like the scores and octopuses *(they are likely NOT brilliant)
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