Really dated, didn't age well.

go to hell. i will find you

The themes or the presentation were hardly much edgy when the film first came out. Someone once remarked that Oliver Stone has the unsurpassed ability to turn the topical into trite and here, too, after a relatively promising start, he ends up overplaying his hand, wallowing in overt preachiness and corny sentiment. The whole on-the-air conversation with his ex-wife was an embarrassment and the laborious, frenzied final speech - as well as the other character's emphatically impressed reactions to it - not much better... although the lowest, most ridiculous point was probably Barry's stunned, "meaningful" silence when some caller offered a great insight according to which Barry is doing his vitriolic thing because he's "very lonely" and "doesn't know how to love". Oh my. On the plus side though the film did keep his protective ironic layer intact for a lot of the time, the mostly studio-bound scenery was kept lively enough with some nice enough camerawork and Bogosian in the lead wasn't ultimately too bad (except for that same final speech where his bulging of eyes and frothing at the mouth becomes quite comically overwrought).



"facts are stupid things" Ronald Reagan

Respectfully disagree I still find it very enjoyable.

LOL Radio. Nobody is listening to radio anymore!

I think the OP is really dated and hasn't aged well. I never understand this comment when people talk about movies made 20+ years ago. Of course a movie from many years ago is dated. Also, how have the topics not aged well? We are still discussing the same things today. I think the OP was just trying to troll people here, especially since he doesn't even give any reasons for how or why he feels the way he does. Next you will be saying that the topics in Network aren't relevant anymore.

I disagree, but I remember not really liking Oliver Stone's character portrayals in this movie and it felt like he was trying hard to capture the Zeitgeist of 80s Talk Radio shock jock culture instead of weaving a cautionary tale about free speech enabling violent retribution. Stone did well enough with Platoon and Wall St. capturing the essence of what America felt about both of those worlds while still staying true to the character arcs in both movies. In "Talk Radio" Stone just seems to be going thru the motions and the set up for the inevitable outcome. He intentionally had Barry get nastier and nastier as the story progressed so we lose empathy while counting down the minutes before he gets whacked.