I'm watching this for the first time tonight. I don't think it holds up. The treatment of Sally Kellermans character is like some sort of Harvey Weinstein nightmare. I feel really bad for her. I know back in 1970 this was funny to a lot of people. And don't even get me started on the gay dentist with the big dick who wants to commit suicide! This movie sucks! Now I know why it's a free movie on Comcast cable on demand. What do you think?

by Anonymous

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January 29, 2018 4:55 AM

If you're not trolling, do yourself a favor and check wikipedia, particularly the explanation about the dentist.

by Anonymous

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January 28, 2018 3:39 AM

That I remember not being offended by when I saw it when it came out on DVD when it's likely that he would have gotten worse had anyone other than Hawkeye and Trapper John found him out.

The TV version did a similar episode IIRC.

by Anonymous

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January 28, 2018 3:41 AM

The movie is hard to stomach today. All the "good" doctors in the movie, Hawkeye, Trapper and Duke are first class jerk fuckwads. And what they did to "Hot Lips" Houlihan would be considered a crime today, but it was supposed to be funny then. And Donald Sutherland is supposed to be this irresistible lover man, but he looks like a homeless person. There's a scene where Jo Ann Pflug, who plays the sexpot Lieutenant Dish, can't keep her hands and lips off him. Yech! It's a gross, nasty movie.

by Anonymous

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January 28, 2018 3:50 AM

I just read the Wikipedia entry and it describes the dentist's problem being one of impotence not homosexuality. Either way the storyline is awful.

by Anonymous

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January 28, 2018 4:03 AM

It's been a long time since I've seen this movie, but I thought the dentist was worried that he might be gay and contemplated suicide (being gay is a fate worse than death) and that to convince him he was not gay Lieutenant Dish was enlisted to fuck him to make him certain of his heterosexuality again. Isn't that what happened? I can't remember. Anyway, that movie seems so dated and unfunny now.

by Anonymous

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January 28, 2018 4:26 AM

I like MASH and am sorry you are offended by the satire and dark humor. Many of the non-musicals made during the 30s through the 50s are offensive stories when watched with 2018 points of view. Cowboys slaughtering Indians, sanctioned destruction of buffaloes, slave owners, women as airheads/prostitutes/chattel, etc. We know that when those movies were made it was acceptable and many were big hits. Are you comfortable with all the old movies?

by Anonymous

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January 28, 2018 4:54 AM

"I like MASH and am sorry you are offended by the satire and dark humor."

Oh shut up. Its "satire and dark humor" might have been considered revolutionary and side splitting then but it sure doesn't now. Some movies stand the test of time. This one doesn't.

by Anonymous

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January 28, 2018 5:23 AM

Most critics (and the public) agree that the TV series, viewed as a whole, is vastly superior to the movie that inspired it.

Even Altman diehard fans don't think it's his among his best.

by Anonymous

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January 28, 2018 5:29 AM

I understand watching things in a historical context but a film can have sexist, racist, homophobic and bigoted aspects to it yet still create human likable characters with complex interesting problems. This movie has not of that.

by Anonymous

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January 28, 2018 7:57 PM

No, it really hasn't aged well. I adored it when I was a teenager because it seemed like the heroes were saving their venom for military authority figures and assholes who deserved it... and when I was older I realized they weren't. They were just assholes, and genuinely abusive to Hot Lips just because she was a career army nurse.

BTW the TV show made Hot Lips into a hardass who wasn't very likeable, but the original book and movie she was a very sweet, warm person, who fell into an affair with Frank Burns because she pitied him for being bullied by Hawkeye and the other cool doctors. And BTW there were about fifty sequels to the original book, each dumber than the last, and Hot Lips finally ended up as the gaudily dressed minister to a gay congregation in New Orleans.

by Anonymous

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January 29, 2018 4:55 AM