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Title: What Madmen wishes it could be...
Review: A film worth watching, but one you'll probably only want to watch once because it can be so painful. For us younger types you'll see this movie has had an influence on many films and cable programs of the past several years in many ways, but not in terms of its ultimate outcome. This movie doesn't try to secretly seduce you off the path, there is no secret line you can walk to be sophisticatedly addicted. No wink wink nods of trying to glorify the same bad habits that some shows obstensibly are trying to portray in a negative light, no late night cigarette drag examining life through marketing spin and glossy self delusion. I don't know for example if the people behind AMC's Madmen really want to portray things as bleak as this movie ultimately does, but even if they did the studios would ultimately steer them in a different direction to make things more pallatable and to keep those boxed-sets moving off the store shelves.
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