Alright, 70s Double Feature.
Required viewing for Film Buffs.
Heavy Dialog Movies from some of the best actors and writers.
I'll hold back my comments to prevent any spoilers.
The first movie is from the same writer (Paddy Chayefsky) that gave us Network.
Network is the better movie as it goes harder and doesn't disguise itself.
Sorry, that could be considered a spoiler, but the movie/writing is realistic enough.
Google thinks it is part of the Criterion Collection, but I read comments that it isn't.
So, I looked it up in three different locations and it wasn't on any of their lists or channels.
I should mention that Network came out 5 years later.
Chayefsky probably had enough clout now to go harder.
I kept thinking how did they get the Metropolitan Hospital Center, in New York City, to sign off on filming here?
I mean the film is basically blasting the medical profession, lol.
The irony of a hospital getting paid for film rights when they are supposed to be healing people.
Anyways...
The Hospital (1971)
George C. Scott
"We cure nothing! We heal nothing! The whole (censored) wretched world, strangulating in front of our eyes."
In the same vein as our first feature, we get another movie that isn't as good as its predecessor, Five Easy Pieces.
(Five Easy Pieces is damn near a biography of my first 35 years on Earth)
Same Director and his same pal, Jack Nicholson.
We get Bruce Dern as his brother.
He's a bit over the top in this but I've known the type that he is portraying.
The King of Marvin Gardens (1972)
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