Move over Grandpa, this is OUR war movie!!!

Rating: Null/10 (3 January 2001)

I started with watching the classic T.V. show so by the time I wanted to see the movie, I was already well acquainted with the characters of Hawkeye, Trapper, Frank, Henry, Radar, Father Mulcahy and Hot-Lips. I was shocked when I saw the film. I found it very confusing at first and it was probably the strangest film I've ever seen. But having viewed it about 15 times, I LOVE it!!
Anyway, the point of this is that it's hard for the older generation to accept M*A*S*H as a war movie. It looks like a war movie, it sounds like one, but it definetely isn't when you really look at it. Some people think it isn't a war movie unless it has big, bold opening credits and a loud, useless, ear-popping fanfare theme song. M*A*S*H shows the stupidity and horror of war. It doesn't glorify it like the war films of the 40's and 50's did. It shows that people in that kind of situation are not heroes, but humans.