You Can't Hate This Movie, And Watch Survivor....

I'm slowly 'warming' to this movie as well. And I think should be watched in the depths of an awful winter to best appreciate it. But yes, we the viewer are so vain to expect 'action' and 'intrigue' and a 'steamy love scene'. As the majority of fare we've grown up with and continue to get gives us just that. But what if we didn't have that any longer? No power - electrically or politically? Crumbling metropolises reduced to decaying ghost towns? And the only necessity one has to be concerned with is 'live or give up'? I think that 'survival' would definitely be looked at as a 'game' by that point. And I think Altman's vision of that in Quintet is as realistic as it would unfold had we watched 'Survivor Ice Cap' on TV. Somehow we the viewer have been conditioned to expect 'reality' to come out of a little box in our living rooms and/or a device in our hand now. Yet, when it comes to a 'movie', we expect it to be 'real' with lot's of chases, special effects, sex and violence. And if it doesn't deliver that - we deem it bad and unrealistic. I honestly think Altman was WAY ahead of his time with this movie. In how we all got so hooked on Trivial Pursuit as a way to impress friends and family with our wealth of knowledge (or lack of...) And later on, the birth of 'reality shows'. Where we would tune in weekly to people on a island, or confined in a house, and wonder who's going to turn on who? Is the crazy one the most likely to win? How so and so got cheated and robbed so early on... And then come here to bitch about how long and dry and pointless Quintet is as a movie. It's a severe analysis by Altman for those that truly hate to look at themselves. For those that righteously think they're superior and deserving of something better. For those that spend more time crabbing about the movie than actually watching it. Then a loner like me comes in here, flicks a knife at your throat - and you're dead. What did I win here? Hell, I'm just going to move along the cyber road and see what else happens for me before this internet craze dies out.