War isn't hell...it's a party!

Rating: 10/10 (13 October 2005)

Robert Altman cemented his name in the cinematic world with "MASH", set during the Korean War but obviously alluding to the Vietnam War. The plot of course has Capt. Benjamin Franklin "Hawkeye" Pierce (Donald Sutherland) and Capt. John Francis Xavier "Trapper John" McIntyre (Elliott Gould) playing all sorts of pranks while on a military base in Korea. Whether it's the secretly planted microphone to broadcast a very embarrassing situation, the stolen/not stolen jeep, or other things, these guys know how to make their own rules.
Now it's time to talk about the movie's one problem: it was kind of sexist. I don't just mean what they did to Maj. Margaret "Hot Lips" O'Houlihan in what is probably the movie's most famous scene. It was overall, the fact that she was the one person who challenged them, and they wouldn't tolerate a woman challenging them, so they...well, in case you haven't seen the movie, I won't spoil it. But overall, "MASH" is a really good movie.