Network (1976): Highly entertaining and still relevant exposition on how the MSM (TV Network News, in the movie) subverts journalistic standards for commercial interests. Great characters, actors, and writing, IMHO the best movie ever.

The original Planet of the Apes has always been on my list of favorite films. The cinematography during the first 20 minutes as the crew humps across the desert is worth the cost of the DVD along.

My one complaint is that the remastered DVD is not anamorphic so you can't get the best quality your 16x9 television should allow...

I wholeheartedly agree on the opening conematography. Excellent.

The original Apes dwarfs the empty remake. The 68 version is full of ideas about humanity, God, existence. And of course, Rod Serling's ending, one of the iconic images in film history

Arrrgggghhh! I loved Finding Neverland, but it will now be a long time before I can see it again, thanks to the MJ link I've been successfully blocking until now. Planet of the Apes was already a guilty pleasure.

Since I've successfully avoided Three Days of the Condor and only recently watched (or tried to watch) All the Presidents Men, please tell me - what is the appeal of these movies? I'll throw in China Syndrome, and there must be others - Network at least had the fun, "I'm mad as hell" sequence - but I think they all have one thing in common.

No, not just the political advocacy thing. It's that they all take interesting and timely subjects and make them boring. I seriously could not get through Presidents Men without a book to read, and China Syndrome was a huge letdown. Will Three Days be any different?

Well, Three Days isn't a story trying to make a political point, it's just a story that happens to rely on a conspiratorial mode of thought about the US govt to tell the story. You know, a movie about a conspiracy needs a conspiracy. The main level that the story works on is one guy just trying to stay alive.

And Redford is great.

I also liked Three Days, despite itself. The posturing by Redford at the end of the movie is a great example of unintended irony--earlier in the movie they show a beautiful New York skyline, focusing on the World Trade towers.

Yes, preach on about government conspiracies.

definitely original Planet of the Apes

Saw it in 68..Cineramadome in Orange (CA)... had no clue to the ending. I was 14, the audience gasped, clapped and cheered throughout

But I'll always remember sitting next to my dad, the sharp intake of breath from the audience at the unexpected ending and as the credits rolled, hearing my dad mutter appreciatively "Rod Serling, I should have known. Bastard!"

Serling was in his 40's when he wrote it (it's actually better than even the French novel it's based on)... one of those guys who would today be considered "too old" to engage as a screenwriter.

:::sigh:::

I too, loved "". It was great to see Depp return to real acting after a string of rather pointless self-indulgences. And Winslet can do no wrong. No, I don't count the appalling "Titanic".

The MJ connection never occurred to me. Maybe that's the same as not thinking about puppy-blending during dessert.

Gosh, I remember Three Days of the Condor as a love story. I suppose that one other theme was that CIA folks can't even trust each other. But paranoid? Now I wonder about myself: I thought it made sense to distrust spies.

Anyway, it's good to see that someone else really appreciated that movie.