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Summary: Groundbreaking
Review: To my mind, the Seventies begins here. Altman's film bottles pandemoneum by ditching plot for character study, pacing the film as vignettes of comic insanity, allowing an ensemble of incredibly talented actors to step all over each other's lines, uses a witty script not as a guide but as a departure point for some incredible adlibbing, and isn't afraid to put the brakes on the comedy and fill the screen with blood. The result could've been a royal mess, but really turned out to be inspired, kicking off a decade of cinematic innovation. You can read an anti-war subtext into this film (and many have) but M*A*S*H ultimately jabs at what happens when incompetents are running things, which no doubt parallels Altman's views of Hollywood and pretty much everything else (and for me, the past eight years, but that's another story).
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Summary: MASH Authenticity.
Review: Korea was my "war" and I spent a couple of years in a General Field Hospital in the operating room treating casualties. This movie is the nearest to the real thing that I know, both in operating room authenticity and personel attitude under these stressful conditions The humor is black but so were the times. It is a great movie.
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Summary: G*R*E*A*T movie
Review: I love this movie because the lines are funny & the acting is superb & a good job by Robert Altman. Rent it and have agood evening.
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Summary: Scream for the Release
Review: Not only is the movie a classic; the series needs to be released as well. One of the longest running series before being sent to re-run land. Hilarious while keeping what horrors war offers. Scripts are good and the acting even better.
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Summary: Hard To Judge But A Great Flick
Review: It be hard to say watch the film first and then the series because it seems most people did the reverse. You have to remember that the movie version seemed more realistic and less comical because the 1970 movie was thumbing their noses at the US government for the Vietnam war. Also the tv series was just picking on Frank Burns and then picking on Charles Emerson Winchester III. The film was great and dserved to be on the AFI 100 List for Comedy and General List. This movie needs to be preserved on DVD as soon as possible. Also if you only saw the PG version of the movie, you cheated yourself rent or buy the rated R version. It is 2 different worlds.
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Summary: what waz this???!!!!
Review: what waz this? waz it really considsum a movie? it makes no sense. daeres no ceneteral charcetsrs two watch. it makes no point. the charcetsrs r not likebale . this waz much better as a tv sit com from da few espicoscdes i see. watch the tv stuff instead........peace
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Summary: This movie HAS to be released on DVD
Review: This movie is one of my faves,20th Cent.Fox own the rights so get it out on dvd with a making of,commentary by Altman etc!
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Summary: THE GREATEST FILM EVER MADE
Review: IF YOU WANT TO LAUGH, CRY, AND JOIN THE ARMY AT THE SAME TIME,WATCH THIS IN-FRIGGIN-CREDABLE MOVIE THAT STARS ONE OF MY FAVORITE STARS, ELLIOT GUILD. WHEN YOU WATCH IT, IT IS LIKE A 'SPIRITUAL EXPERINCE'IF YOU SAY SO.SO,WATCH THIS MOVIE,YOU'LL NEVER REGRET IT!
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Summary: If only it was as good as the theme song...
Review: Well, I have to say, "Suicide is Painless" is a really great song, even more so when performed by the Manic Street Preachers. But the film itself...um. Okay, so it was very rarely funny. That in itself isn't necessarily a deadly sin. But...man alive, the breathtaking misogyny of the whole affair! Christ almighty (allegedly), am I the only one who found all the "Hot Lips" stuff beyond offensive? Is this funny? Was it EVER funny? Am I meant to be amused? In the seventies--maybe. I wasn't around then. But this, gentlemen, is the nineties, and this sort of supposed humour is simply not tolerable in this day and age--indeed, I'm somewhat baffled by the fact that, in my cursory inspection of the other reader reviews, nobody seems to have even MENTIONED this, given that it more or less spoiled whatever good qualities the film might have otherwise possessed. It elevated the main characters from the status of bland to actively repulsive. You people aren't bothered by this? Geez. What's good about the film other than the theme song? Well, as a sometime DS9 fan, it was sorta cool to see Rene Aberj...I'm not even going to TRY to spell that. But I liked seeing him. Other than that...I'm kinda drawing a blank. The film may have been groundbreaking and all that in its time, but now it's just embarrassing.Addendum: Tsk, tsk...looks like some people can't stand having their sacred cows slaughtered thusly. Actually, looking back on it, I think I was too lenient with the film. By fixating on the one standout misogynist bit (though it would've been hard not to, given how shockingly offensive it was), I may have downplayed the film's overall unpleasant nature. About as funny as a minstrel show. One star.
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Summary: Forget the TV series, this is a great movie
Review: Forget about the TV show, this movie is the real MASH. There is an edge to the characters and story that is totally lacking in the series. If it is episodic and without structure, that appears to be the nature of most wars. The acting and writing are top class, with Frank Burns, for example, emanating a real sense of menace, not a harmless buffoon. Robert Altman defined a whole new way of filming that has been used in film and TV on numerous series. For those of you who saw the series before the film, sorry, but it appears to have ruined your ability to appreciate a great work of art.
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