MASH is painful

Rating: Null/10 (14 August 2000)

Those of you who rated this 10 out of 10 obviously have not watched the movie for 30 years and have a highly selective memory. Watch it again and I'm sure your rating will drop 2 to 3 points.

Sure it was Robert Altman's breakthrough film and nobody can take that away. However it sucks in a lot of ways and could never be filmed with the original script.

Sexual harrassment is supposed to be side-splittingly funny. Maybe this movie was the inspiration for the Tailhook Scandal.

Drunken people on the job is supposed to be equally funny. Everything drunk people do or say is supposed to be funny. Martinis, operating room, more martinis.

Give me Apocalypse Now any day, the ultimate war movie of the 1970s.