...Alright, what am I missing? Every review I've seen of this loses their shit over this. I can't even tell whether it's good or bad, it's just such an anomaly.
...Alright, what am I missing? Every review I've seen of this loses their shit over this...
Let it sit with you. Give a rewatch. Watch more films by Altman. I recommend the Long Goodbye.
Alright, what am I missing?
a brain
It's good. Watch it again.
not for you, zoomer
I liked Short Cuts (1993) directed by Altman. it's got hot bitches nude. Julianne Moore walking around bare assed with giant red beautiful bush. She won an award for that role as I recall. Well deserved for that bush. Other hot bitches nude. This was back when Frances McDormand was still hot in a weird way. Lots of acting talent in that movie.
I think it's mostly about how he manages to balance so many characters and all their different threads. Everybody has their own individual perspective, and when they cross paths and interact, it all feels organic. It's slice of life, and when it culminates in a violent finale, it still feels real.
Long Goodbye I'm less of a fan of. I hated how all the critics gush of spending the first ten minutes of the film noir on buying cat food.
Short Cuts is dire compared to his earlier work. If you're the OP, and you liked Short Cuts but not Nashville, well... you're not going to make it. I'm sorry.
i chuckled. you're alright, kid.
You should spend less time caring about what the critics think, and actually assess the movie in a meaningful way. Your take on Nashville is mundane.
You know that anytime you see a woman's "full frontal nudity" in Hollywood, it's most likely a merkin.
One of the greatest films of the 70s.
I've said more meaningful stuff about Nashville in this thread than anyone simply saying "watch it again" or "you don't have a brain". What's your meaningful take?
Filtered
no I'm not OP. I'll check Nashville out
low effort posts attract low effort responses. no one's gonna bother writing you more than a few sentences when they expect a comeback like 'nah, dawg, it was shit'.
Was he easy?
imagine if they got Robert Duvall to play Haven like originally planned
Long Goodbye is one of those movies that's very good and also overrated
This was back when Frances McDormand was still hot in a weird way.
In my pubescent years, I watched the Oscars and they had a tribute to Robert Altman, showing a bunch of clips from a bunch of his movies. In one clip, it shows a woman in a short, silky bed robe walking away from camera, and she reaches behind her and pulls her robe out of her butt. Drove me wild, but I had no idea what it was. They didn't label the montage. Years later, I saw Short Cuts, and there it is.
True, very true. But while playing contrarian to garbage pop culture critics, you yourself have nothing of interest to say. Nothing of substance, offered, nothing given in return. Enjoy.
Overrated, relative to what? Who overrates it?
It’s a radical film because Altman doesn’t editorialize or cut to a safe, aesthetic distance
What we see is a spiritual vacuum—how moral flabbiness leads to fascism
It's the culmination of what American movies have been trying to do for decades
It’s a movie that never gives you the same experience twice
What Joyce did with words Altman does with images
It’s a novelistic movie with the freedom of a poem
The movie has the intensity of a moral vision, yet without a rigid point of view
This is the only movie I know that takes Whitman’s ideas and makes them work
Like Joyce, Altman wants to make art out of the sprawl of life itself
It’s like the film stock itself has absorbed the culture
Altman’s work here is comparable to the big, panoramic American novels that hold up a mirror to the country
He has done what Dos Passos tried to do, only better
There’s an element of democratic jazz in the structure
It’s a vision of entropy wrapped in glitter
Nashville doesn’t editorialize—it reveals
In its multiplicity, it becomes more than political—it becomes tragic
I have similar feelings anon. I didn't like how cynical the movie was. Not a single character had any redeeming qualities.
didn't know about this. i think the burbs guy killed it. he's sort of creepily feminine, so it's funnier thinking of him rather than duvall as the alpha within such a gun-toting culture. would love to see duvall wearing a shitty rug though.
Wholly unconvincing. If you actually think you have a meaningful take on Nashville, you can share it, rather than just trash up the thread with self-satisfied scoffing aimed at other posters instead of saying anything about the movie.
Gibson did a great job but Duvall has a certain gravitas that elevates every movie he's in
>What we see is a spiritual vacuum—how moral flabbiness leads to fascism
How do you figure? Cause Henry Gibson is singing an ultra patriotic song, or because of the shooting?
the burbs guy
Is this really how you know him? I first noticed him as the gay barfly in Magnolia, not realizing he was the Neo-Nazi in Blues Brothers I saw when I was a kid. When I showed my parents The Long Goodbye, they made references to him on Laugh in
Nashville (1975), the greatest American movie of the sound era, is back in a return engagement to remind Millennial Americans what defines them
Comedy, drama, musical, documentary, it is “everything” as the generation of low expectations like to say
They have not experienced a contemporary movie of comparable simplicity and magnitude
Altman’s folk wisdom redeems film culture
Nashville returns to remind this era how independent movie art really looks and sounds
Altman’s film is a panoply of human behavior, still unsurpassed
Altman’s shot where the widescreen is astonishingly filled with the faces of people watching Barbara Jean sing
Altman's extraordinarily complex montage of feelings and rhythm during the "I'm Easy" number
Intolerance and Nashville can teach you how to watch movies
Both grab your imagination by being true to the conflicts that humans go through
Their stories and images are recognizable and that is what art is supposed to be
Crafted works that lead us to better understand the world, ourselves, and others
Blakley’s “My Idaho Home,” poignantly sung before an intimidatingly huge American flag
Barbara Jean reading Faulkner’s Light in August
the lyrics of “My Idaho Home” go into strange, evocative, Faulkner-like time shifts
the genuine (if unofficial) Bicentennial mood
caps Altman’s evocation of social and psychic stress
King never misses.
It is cynical but I wouldn't go that far. Barbara Harris is talented but never given a chance, Haven has a moment of heroism at the end, the old guy with the dying wife, Norma Jean is an outright tragic character. Most everyone has their good and bad qualities and it makes them more true to life
Is this really how you know him?
rude much? (for such a non-memetic thread at least) yes, i've seen all of those movies you mentioned.
Why? In the case of the Long Goodbye, that's all you're doing. I just pointed out that your thoughts about Nashville aren't particularly insightful or unique. It casts doubt on your opinion on the Long Goodbye being anything of value.
holy based
his stoner teen movie from the 80s any good?
PROS
Barbara, Opal and Suelee are very good characters
Altman has a great sense of direction
Good acting
Memphis, I'm Easy, all Barbara songs and It Don't Worry Me were good songs
CONS
Not a fan of most songs, especially considering dialogue cuts out quite a few of them
Most characters don't have enough presence for me to really have an opinion on them
This did NOT need to be epic length. Multiple scenes are slower than they should. The one time it works is the part where Barbara rambles inbetween songs
What was the point of building up Kelly when Kenny's the one who kills Barbara?
OC and Stiggs? Not one to start out with, but I'm a fan.
Low IQ post. Go back to watching cinemasins or whatever.
there was talk of taking 8 hours of footage from this and presenting it as a series. Altman himself talks about it being in the works in an interview, though years later he denied it was ever a thing
That one has the politician from Nashville in it. Is it like a sequel? Tried finding it online
For the Sake of the Children is pretty funny if you pay attention to the lyrics
Wrong director kys
Anon Babble plebs trying to critique cinema made before 1990
Anon Babble plebs trying to critique cinema that isn't one of the pleb-approved genres of sci-fi/fantasy/action/crime
lmao
just reach in the pleb critique hat and pull out a random "what was with the ending" or "nothing happened" and act like you know what you're talking about. disgusting fucking plebs.
rofl