although this film be somewhat filled with eighty cheese i have a place for it in my dvd rack and i do not know why . i think i like it because the moral of the story be television be garbage so turn it off and go and get a life . for those of you who do decide to heed the message then you should try read the book and it nothing like the film at all . to ruin it for you at the end of the story a fatally wounded richards end up crash a plane into the network building and kill himself and everyone inside and shut down the network at the same time . i read it many year ago but today it would hard not to compare it to 9/11 .