I'm not an expert on the man, but I've gotten really into his big movies over the past couple of months. I see nothing in his biography that would indicate the apparent drop off in his public presence/film quality. From the early 70s to the early 80s he was the motherfucking shit. Since then, he's still been working, but nothing noteworthy. Did he piss people off? Is it because they don't make many gritty 70s-y scripts anymore?
I watched Network for the first time since the rise of lowest common denominator Fox news-inspired punditry, and it's motherfucking scary how prophetic that movie is. And I thought it was pretty prophetic watching it in the mid-to-late 90s. It's funny reading about how people thought the script was too ridiculous back in the day, when now I wouldn't bat an eye if many of the events portrayed in it actually happened.
