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I have rarely seen a more....

posted 12 years ago by deblasiogwae
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brilliant and absurdly ignored movie than this. I think Carol Burnett found some kind of new plane of acting with this character. Critics complained at the time that the film was "confusing". I didn't think so at all.

I can't decide what is my favorite scene: Carol bumping into Pat as they begin their tryst, or Carol talking about the movie "Carrie". Or the brief scene of the screenwriter Nancy O'Dowd talking about the food in the women's prisons--"lot's of action" she says.

Unbelievable how this film was ignored.

[–] jac91604 12 years ago

It is a great film, it is on right now on one of the Encore Channels.

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[–] Katz5 11 years ago

I saw "O.C. and Stiggs" and it was painful to watch. Altman was on a downward spiral in the mid 80s ("Beyond Therapy" was another flop). Luckily he got it back in a big way in the early 90s.

You know I kinda liked the Wrigley Field bit.

[–] WarpedRecord 11 years ago

I found "O.C. and Stiggs" painful as well, though I liked "Beyond Therapy." I keep forgetting the latter was an Altman film because it doesn't seem like his style.

Regardless, his stature was safe despite his '80s flops because of his '70s successes, and he came back big-time in the '90s and beyond. I miss him greatly, and films like this are a reminder of what a great storyteller he was.

[–] gorgsharpy 9 years ago

Ahh, come on, Heathers and Rushmore stands somewhat on its shoulders. It's mocking the whole high school movie stereotype.

"You couldn't be much further from the truth" - several

[–] franzkabuki 11 years ago

Compared to Altman´s best ensemble pieces Nashville and especially Short Cuts, A Wedding´s considerably more incoherent and chaotic. Some vignettes work well enough and the film overall´s fairly witty, but ultimately I think it´s something of a failure after a series of more-or-less successes from Mash 1970 to 3 Women 1977. An unfortunate taste of what was to follow, the subsequent Quintet and Popeye representing a full-on nosedive in terms of quality. This one gets away with a 6/10.

"facts are stupid things" - Ronald Reagan

[–] mplo (2305) 3 years ago

There was one review of the film "A Wedding", which I read somewhere, but tend to agree with:

"This film scoffs not only at weddings, but at every physical AND emotional problem that you can imagine."

I think the above quote about "A Wedding" came from the long-gone Boston Phoenix, but I'm not totally positive about that.

The fact that "A Wedding" does scoff at physical and emotional problems a lot along the way more than likely has to do with why so many people choose to ignore the film entirely.