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Altman the absolute 60s hack


The thing that startles one about this garbage movie, is the use of star lens covers to create stupid fake patterns in the helmet visor reflections. Nothing could be so revealing of Altman the complete and utter hack director, who somehow, in his drug-addled visions, managed to convince people in the 70s that he was "deep". What a joke! He's a total zero, a TV man who managed to fake his way into the big time, and then bamboozle the critics into some sort of imagined depth. He can't tell a story, he can't do dialog (only polylog), he can't frame a shot, he rambles on and on - he's Michael Cimino minus 10 years.

As time goes on, the Altman oeuvre gets more and more dated, and more and more appears as self-generated wanking. This hateful film was prophetic, in that it showed the real Altman, the small-screen man with no sense of story-telling or editing or really anything cinematic.

-drl

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Really? You chose the all-but-vacant Countdown board to troll Altman fans? At least you're novel.

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I thought this film was an "ok" average movie for the time. Nothing spectacular, but certainly not terrible.

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Considering this was one of Altman's first films, I think it was a decent effort, but it felt more like the studio was in control more than Altman. I didn't find the buildup very compelling, but the final half-hour was positively mesmerizing. This doesn't have many of the touches that we'd see from Altman in the '70s and beyond, but I was nonetheless impressed. 8/10 stars from me.

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Yeah, well, as far as opinions go, this is one of the stupidest and most ignorant. Not to mention that Countdown, although a worthy little film, is about the most inappropriate one to judge Altman by.

Oh and Michael Cimino´s an undeniably talented director with a rather unique vision. Too bad things didn´t quite work out for him (which, to a considerable extent, was admittedly his own fault).



"facts are stupid things" - Ronald Reagan

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I don't care so much about the director or bashing him, but I will concur this film was downright boring as hell. It was newly impossible to get invested in the story. Although it appeared to me that Apollo 13 was very much like this when the people were having the backyard conversations.

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