MASH 1970 ~ Good film, but …..

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guyinnanaimo — 12 years ago(January 21, 2014 10:07 AM)

I had never watched this film before, it just didn't seem that appealing to me.
But I taped it from HI-FI and watched it this morning, and was impressed with the CASTING and ACTING of the major players, and especially the 'introduced' actors listed at the movie's start.
According to the trivia listed, most were selected by Altman with little acting experience, and almost all did an incredible job.
I think Altman did a superb job in most of the film {there was more blood than an Tarantino flick!}, but a major problem to me was that time-filling football game ~ it absolutely ruined it for me, and therefore I had to downgrade my overall rating, to say a 5.5 out of 10 in my books.
Too bad.
And maybe I was a bit callous, after all it's almost 50 years old.
'You can't HANDLE the truth!'

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Brunswick84 — 12 years ago(February 17, 2014 12:34 PM)

I disagree. I loved the football scene. In fact I think MASH is one of the great football movies because of that scene.

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Dr_Herb_Doofenshmirtz — 11 years ago(May 20, 2014 11:41 AM)

Too bad Altman didn't include some shoot outs between DEA agents and Columbian drug lords.

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guy_in_west_houston — 11 years ago(June 19, 2014 09:45 AM)

Finally watched it for the first time, and I agree - the football scenes were a time-filling movie within a movie. Way too much time devoted to a storyline that had nothing to do with any main characters.

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jellyree — 11 years ago(July 14, 2014 06:45 PM)

IGNORE

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shieldsdraeger — 9 years ago(January 20, 2017 01:09 PM)

The football game was lighter than the rest of the film and maybe a bit long.
Since there is no combat footage in the film Altman termed the game his combat
metaphor.