HoyaSaxa03
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M*A*S*H
May 16, 2007 at 06:07 AM UTC
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so I just finished watching this movie for the first time, and while I'm a chronic hyperbole machine when it comes to movies, this has to rank in my top 10 comedies of all time
I've seen maybe a dozen episodes of the TV series and I can't believe how shitty it now seems after seeing the movie, how about this:
M*A*S*H the movie : Radiohead :: M*A*S*H the series : Snow Patrol
vansmack
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Re: M*A*S*H
May 16, 2007 at 04:34 PM UTC
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Originally posted by Hoya Paranoia:
so I just finished watching this movie for the first time,
Really? I find that very surprising. To the rest of you who haven't seen it - do. The movie is FAR superior to the television show.
Re: M*A*S*H
May 16, 2007 at 04:56 PM UTC
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MASH, the movie, is overated hippie twaddle. A thinly veiled Vietnam protest movie. Yeah, I'm sure there was a lot of dope smoking going on during the Korean war. Fuck the so called counter-culture anyway! Fuck baby boomers! And while we are at it, fuck 'Generation X' too!
flagos
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Re: M*A*S*H
May 16, 2007 at 05:20 PM UTC
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I havent seen MASH, but I did see Nashville this weekend, and that is a great great movie, not just because of the Altman style, but also because the music's really good, it even won an Oscar for Best Song.
Now, half the time Robert Altman is laughing about the country-southern culture thing…but anyway, totally recommended as well…
tigersscareme
Joined: April 10, 2006 at 05:01 AM UTC
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Re: M*A*S*H
May 16, 2007 at 07:03 PM UTC
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Nashville is f-ing brilliant.
I wrote a paper on it for a film class comparing it to "birth of a nation".
HoyaSaxa03
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Re: M*A*S*H
May 16, 2007 at 08:08 PM UTC
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Originally posted by vansmack:
Originally posted by Hoya Paranoia:
so I just finished watching this movie for the first time,
Really? I find that very surprising. To the rest of you who haven't seen it - do. The movie is FAR superior to the television show.
yeah, it was one of those that had slipped through the cracks for me … i was surprised at how much i laughed out loud with noone else around … it was really really really really funny
i'm guessing it probably says a lot about a person if they prefer the tv show to the movie, eh?
HoyaSaxa03
Joined: March 22, 2004 at 06:01 AM UTC
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Re: M*A*S*H
May 16, 2007 at 08:16 PM UTC
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Originally posted by Psychoda alternata:
Altman has some talent in capturing spoken dialogue. But I found his Vietnam politics distasteful, to say the least. And Donald Sutherland was up there on the protest dais with Jane Fonda, BTW.
donald sutherland (and elliott gould) spent the whole shoot for MASH trying to get altman fired
the director's commentary on MASH was one of the most boring things ever (at least 10 minutes of dead space at a time), but that was interesting
Re: M*A*S*H
May 16, 2007 at 09:29 PM UTC
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California Split was better, IMHO.
