Always anti-war. I don’t think it changes much in terms of politics from season 4-11. The first three seasons are zanier.
If you liked it, there’s one of the seasons of Archer when Archer was in a coma, that basically rips off the whole premise.
OK, thanks. I thought it got a bit more so in the latter seasons, but I was mistaken, again.
If anything, it just gets more repetitive and people began to get the message, “Yeah, war is terrible, young kids die, very unfair!” Over and over.
That may have been what stuck in my head. As you say, over and over.
He also sometimes wins.
“We named the dog Indiana!”
“I was very fond of that dog…”
MASH got too Alan Alda. Too Alan Alda politics, too AA moralising, too AA thinking the whole show was about him. Too, too Alan Alda and not enough of the other characters.
I really liked that third movie, partly for the chemistry between Ford and Connery. It’s actually kind of sad how weak the second movie was by comparison.
Maybe it’s an even movie thing. The first and third were good, the second and fourth were bad. How was the fifth?
That casts the rest of the movie in a different light. Not that Indy should have let his dad die or anything, but it’s a little odd to be cheering for an unrepentant, self-absorbed, narcissistic asshole to have a happy ending.
He’s not self-absorbed. He’s not narcissistic. He’s obsessed. Also not a good quality for a parent but not the same. He is not fixated inward he’s obsessed with his goal, the Grail. Just like Indy is when he’s on the hunt. The difference is Henry took his entire lifetime to find his goal. Indy is able to do it in about two hours. While trying to find his goal Henry was a bad parent. When Indy is trying to find his goal he kills a lot of people. Who is better?
They’re both pretty bad in their obsessive pursuits, but Indy’s actions are arguably worse. Besides all of the bodies he leaves in his wake, what about his heedless destruction of countless archaeological sites despite his protestations that the objects of his quests “belong in a museum”?
It seems like the father raised the son to be just like him in a “Cat’s in the Cradle” fashion.
Of course this is all overlooked due to the comic-book-style action-adventure tone of the movies that is reminiscent of the old movie serials.
Tried showing Braveheart to my son since I remember it as this sprawling epic with great battle scenes although entirely historically inaccurate.
It was pretty bad. Lot’s of cheesy acting and bad accents with Mel leading the way. Everything so ham fisted and eye-rolling.
I used to think this was top notch medieval cinema but now it’s not much better than Kevin Costner’s Robinhood.
IIRC, they kinda whiffed the Drawn & Quartered segment at the end; if you didn’t know how D&Q worked, you wouldn’t understand what was going on. And after all the other violence in the film, that’s where they get squeamish?
I think it still works on its own merits. It’s a totally inaccurate action movie but it’s fun.
You mean the tickling scene? Don’t ruin it for me.
Worse, since Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves at least has Rickman chewing scenery like only he can- "Cancel the kitchen scraps for lepers and orphans, no more merciful beheadings, and call off Christmas." Why a Spoon? "Because it’s DULL, you twit. It’ll hurt more."
I remember my mother telling me that the big shock of the movie MASH, to audiences of the time, was the surgery - the spurting blood, the gaping injuries. She said it was uncommon then to see war movies that realistically depicted combat wounds.
She was right. I saw that movie on first release and I remember it being quite shocking in that regard. I recall a friend I went with said “We’ll never see that movie on television!” And he was referring to its graphic nature, not the overall content or even seeing Sally Kellerman fully naked.
A somewhat later movie, “Catch 22,” had an extremely shocking scene that caused a loud, unanimous gasp in the audience in the theater I was in. Me included. I remember physically pushing back in my seat I was so shocked.
Agree 1000%. I grew to dislike Alda over time. He is an “actor” but his personality always seeps through.