HOLY SMOKES. This was the last movie I ever expected a reaction to!

NGL, I haven't watched the reaction yet but am absolutely amazed you're tackling a high art film of this calibre. This is a real masterwork and Shelly Duvall is heartbreaking in it.

Whoa, whoa, WHOA. This is so unexpected. One of my favourite underrated films EVER being reacted to HERE? YAAASSS! 😭

The movie came to Altman in a dream and so he made it dreamlike. It’s less about following a narrative-it purposely makes little sense-and more about the emotional connectivity between the leads and their growth. Altman is an important director. And we all promise you both that his famous films are way more “normal”/straightforward. An Altman poll should do it.

You should try Badlands. Another iconic Sissy Spacek performance. Martin Sheen as well.

This was a BRAVE CHOICE! I love it! Robert Altman said Edgar was buried under those tires, but he didn't want make that too obvious. The whole movie is like that: we're left to put it together ourselves. It's also very funny.

Millie, Willie and Pinky are the same women at different stages of life.

This is why you are the best reaction channel. Not just that you would watch a movie like this but that you had a 15 minute in depth conversation about it! Loved it!

Yes, its a psychological thriller from Robert Altman, whom directed MASH in 1970, The Player in 1992, Nashville in 1975 and Short Cuts in 1993.

Shelly Duvall pretty much owes her career to Robert Altman. He cast her in several of his films, starting with 1970's "Brewster McCloud"... but her most memorable role was probably her pitch-perfect turn as Olive Oyl in "Popeye." This film actually has a lot in common with Ingmar Bergman's "Persona" from 1966, which also involves women basically changing identities with each other.

"shes a little weird and everyone else is a little rude" Great description of this film lollll

"She's not good with pools, just put her in one." Always a quick solution for most problems.

WHAATT!!??? Oh my God I am so freaking stoked! I cannot wait to watch this later. I love love love love love that you are doing these iconic films! Cheers to your awesome patrons for throwing these wild cards into the mix!

Sissy in “COAL MINERS DAUGHTER “ Oscar winner!!! Tommy Lee Jones is in it too!!!!

I've always been strangely fascinated by this movie. But my favorite Altman movie is McCabe and Mrs Miller. One of the best westerns ever made. The Long Goodbye is also well worth watching. Just be glad he didn't pick Brewster McCloud lol

“BADLANDS “ with Sissy and Martin Sheen is supposed to be really good,. Very young Sissy and Martin. The Critics all “Raved” about this movie when it came out!!!

Love your list! The Manchurian Candidate (the original), The Best Years of Our Lives -- I greatly look forward to your getting to those.

You guys should watch Persona now. That, 3 Women, and Mulholland Drive are almost like an unofficial trilogy

BIG shoutout to Jason for your selection. Bravo! I'm still reeling from the fact that you did Midnight run(!), lol. I hope you get to more Altman... fun fact: His 2001 film, Gosford Park, used a script co-written by himself and Julian Fellowes. The film started a good enough following, as well as the fact that Fellowes had so much extra material left from his research, he created the show Downton Abbey. I hope you try Gosford Park some time. p.s. Spacek is rather phenomenal in 1980's Coal Miner's Daughter.

Brilliant movie that really stays with you. I love trying to figure out what it all means. I'm still not sure, but it's like a puzzle in my brain I keep coming back to. I own the Criterion blu-ray, and in one of the special features Shelley Duvall talks about how Robert Altman often had them write their own dialogue, and the dress sticking out of the car was a mistake at first, but they kept it going because it's just such a Millie thing to do.

Robert Altman one of my fav directors... this is his most enigmatic film to me. I see it as a story about emotional neediness, codependency and projection. His best work to me is Nashville. He's known for his style of interwinding stories and characters.

Very impressed that you're reacting to _3 Women._ Wow - *more of this.* Other Robert Altman classics you'd like: _McCabe & Mrs Miller_ _Short Cuts_ _Prairie Home Companion_ Other '70s classics, highly recommended: _Being There_ (1979) with Peter Sellers _Klute_ (1971) with Jane Fonda

Wow. One of my very favourite movies. Two of the best performances of all time.

My favorite Altman film. Weird, requires, repeated viewings, surreal, great performances by Duvall and Spacek. It's funny, puzzling, and ultimately extremely disturbing. Great companion film to Bergman's Persona and Lynch's Mulholland Drive. Yellow skirt sticking out the car door...lol. Altman said it was based on a dream he had when his wife was sick in the hospital, IIRC. He didn't even know what it means. He had such status at the time due to his successful films that he got backing to do whatever he chose. It's his personal artistic expression. It's more about emotion and inner meaning than plot or structure. Total dream logic.

Sissy : 1. Coal Miners Daughter 2. Badlands 3. Night Mother 4. In The Bedroom 5. Old Man and The Gun ( I think that’s the title) , co starring Robert Redford!! 6. The Help

Wow. This just might be a first reaction to this film. The Schmitty Wheel will take you to strange and intriguing places. Cheers you two... and to Jason for his excellent choice.

Ingmar Bergman (great Swedish director) did a movie in 1966 about a nurse assigned to a rich, mentally troubled actress in a remote, beautifully scenic seaside house for her recovery. It's a character study about the interaction and blurring of the two personalities called "Persona". I think this movie is Robert Altman's Persona. Altman is great and he did some interesting arthouse type movies over the years. Great stuff.

It's still insane to me that someone is tackling this haunting, dreamlike film. Thank you!

Awesome reaction of my favorite movie!!!!!!😊😊😊😊😊😊

I love you guys, so glad this movie is getting talked about.

Love this movie so much and loved the reaction! 3 Women is definitely my favourite Altman film. When it comes to this film it feels like such a dream. The idea for the film actually came to him in a dream as well. The film touches on identity & just overall has this existential esoteric sublime energy to it. The way we all form our own identity from pieces of others & the way it shifts through life. The water seems to symbolize transformation & the creatures in the painting feel like us stripped down to the most primal aspects. The tagline for the movie is 1 woman became 2, 2 women became 3, 3 women became 1. I just love the casual conversations & the way we follow these women throughout the day all while this undercurrent of unease lies just below the surface. They all are entangled in this mosaic of something that just resonates so deeply with me. LIFE, DEATH, THE UNANSWERED QUESTION, THE MAGIC THE MAYHEM THE DREAM THE UNIVERSAL Consciousness, lol it’s definitely my favourite movie ever & every time I watch it i become entranced by it and the amazing performances by our main girlies.

Another Altman film you must see is McCabe and Mrs. Miller. An equally dark film, more tragic, but I think you both might like it more, as it's narrative is more straight forward. 3 Women is one of my favorite films because it explores the worlds of feminine relationships and the porous boundaries that can exist between women who become close. The use of water in the film is symbolic of that fluid state.

WOW!!! Amazing!! You are working on a whole different reactor plane with this movie!! You guys rock!

I'm amazed you guys are reacting to this film! One of my favorites. Watching your reaction before bed.

Just a year after Carrie, and two years before The Shining. Apparently, based on a literal dream of the director.

Given the expressions on your faces, before i watch the reaction later on this evening, i am guessing you were both as perplexed as i was the first time i watched 3 Women.

I'm really kinda proud that you guys attempted an art film like this!! I liken it to Mulholland Dr, where women are introduced and then an event takes place that shatters them and the film spends the rest of the time trying to reassemble the shards in different ways. This is probably the most un-Altman film that Robert Altman has ever done. Most everything else he's done are straight narratives. I think you guys would really like "Short Cuts". Try "The Player" too!

“He was a five-time nominee of the Academy Award for Best Director and is considered an enduring figure from the New Hollywood era. His most famous directorial achievements include M*A*S*H (1970), McCabe & Mrs. Miller (1971), The Long Goodbye (1973), Nashville (1975), 3 Women (1977), The Player (1992), Short Cuts (1993), Gosford Park (2001), and The Company (2003).” Altman is known for overlapping dialogue, handling a large cast of characters with multiple storylines, using unusual techniques to create atmosphere and for not telling the audience what to think, how to react or for tying up endings in a tidy Hollywood style bow. (He actually plays with these exact themes in ‘The Player.’) My favorite is the beautifully photographed ‘McCabe & Mrs Miller’ with its haunting score by Leonard Cohen.

Still waiting on the 1987 Innerspace film.

A Robert Altman movie, nice. Recommend watching The Long Goodbye that was also directed by him.

wow, guys; This is a great film by Robert Altman with a Sissy Spacek who was in her prime and her fetish actress Shelley Duvall. I hope they recommend watching Nashville, from 1975.

You two are becoming one of the more sophisticated reaction channels. Have you considered introducing occasional foreign films into your selection? Some suggestions: My favorite German film: Wings of Desire My favorite Italian film: Ammarcord Three of my favorite Australian films from that country's cinematic golden age: a) Picnic at Hanging Rock, b) Gallipoli (first time I'd ever seen Mel Gibson in a movie), and c) Year of Living Dangerously (my favorite of the lot, also with a very young Mel Gibson).

This is a welcome deep cut. Love this movie!

I love the art film reactions. I love the other reactions. A great range and keep up the good work. You guys rock and love seeing your takes, analysis grow. Also love the cheesy shit too.

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Wow! I haven't seen this one yet, though it's been on my list for a while because I LOVE Robert Altman! You should definitey watch more of his work, Nashville, MASH (yes the basis for the TV show), The Player, Gosford Park, Kansas City and The Long Goodbye are all incredible.

Oh wow, never expected to this you react to this movie. Robert Altman at his most dream-like and abstract, a wonderful experience. If you react to another Altman film, I suggest Nashville (1975). It's everything he does best in one big ensemble masterpiece.

My favorite Robert Altman film! I love Shelley Duvall & Sissy Spacek! The socially awkward moments we experience were not explored in America at the time. Defying etiquette norms is more seen in British humor. The Office & Curb Your Enthusiasm explore this these days. Imagine 20th Century Fox released this film & Star Wars in 1977. Shelley Duvall was not traumatized by the Shining. In the making of documentary she complains of "clumps of hair" getting caught in the bathroom window scene. Kubrick jokes that he is not sympathetic with her holding up one hair. She said in an interviw (jokingly?) he shot 148 takes of a scene. The logs were released showing 15 was the most takes of any shot. She created Faerie Tale Theatre & stared in Popeye, Time Bandits, Roxanne, The Portrait of a Lady, before taking care of her sick brother. Sissy is so creepy, shy & confident. She won the Oscar in 1980 as Loretta Lynn in Coal Miner's Daughter!

My sister and I rented this movie from an Indie type rental store and we thought it was weird but so engrossing.

10:20 "She is very childlike. She just crushed that beer." :D

I’m so glad you enjoyed this. It’s one of my favorites. I definitely recommend Images and A Wedding, two more odd Altman movies.

Surprised to see no comments recommending one of Sissy's best performances, missing! It's a drama/thriller from 1982 with Jack Lemmon and has a score by Vangelis (the Chariots of Fire composer) - it's very good

I know I'm going to be hearing eerie flute music in my head the next time I make a tuna melt.

Yall need to see NASHVILLE!!!

Very cool! I absolutely love this film. Thanks for the reaction.

The last film that made me say, “What in Hell did I just watch?” was Pulp Fiction. It’s been 30 years, and I’m still scatching my head over it…..😆😆

This is one of my top 4 films. I love this movie. I think it’s so cool that you decided to react to this. Enjoyed this reaction and enjoyed your take on it.

What a great surprise! Robert Altman is a fascinating filmmaker. He uses water often as a metaphor for life and death. My favorite of his is MCCABE AND MRS. MILLER (1971,) a Western like no other. Hopefully it'll appear on that spinning wheel. Also you'd both probably really enjoy THE PLAYER (1992), a crime thriller with Tim Robbins from The Shawshank Redemption.

Thrilled to see you guys watching this one! If you're interested, you should check out The Player and Gosford Park! Those are probably easier starting points for Robert Altman's work. But yeah, he's made at least 15 movies that are def worth your time. The Long Goodbye and McCabe & Mrs Miller are huge favorites with fancy film critics.

I must repeat, for Sissy Spacek, and because it's a great, quietly strange film: Terence Malick's BADLANDS. And, as an inspiration for 3 WOMEN, but also because it's a gorgeous, unsettling classic: Bergman's PERSONA.

Napoleon Dynamite and Terms of Endearment are two very different movies that you should absolutely watch if you've never seen them.

Schmitt-N-Spin seems like a good name for the wheel. Also, if you’re looking to continue your Sissy Spacek journey, Coal Miner’s Daughter is highly recommended.

Oh, man, it's just a hop-skip-and-a-jump from this--- to *"Persona."* Oh, and Robert Altman? Just start going down the list of his movies. He was *OG...*

I'm not going to watch this reaction until I've watched the movie, but I'm glad you are watching a Robert Altman movie. I've enjoyed other movies of his, such as Nashville, McCabe & Mrs. Miller, and M*A*S*H.

Just pastings things I've read. - In theory, a person dreaming can shift from one character into another within the dream. The three titular characters in the film represent the psyche of one person. Whereas Pinky is the child among the three, Millie is the sexually awakened young woman and the pregnant Willie is the mother figure. The film ends with the three women living together - finally, their fractured identity is merged under one roof - and their futures are left up to our imagination

Assuming you've done your usual excellent edit here, this seem more like Bergman's Persona than any of the Altman films I've seen. Saying that, I guess his movies aren't really similar to each other. My favorites are MASH and The Long Goodbye; I've got friends who think I'm craxy and they prefer Nashville and The Player (which I like too). Altman's a great director, so I'm looking forward to your next round with him.

My other early art house movie was The Man Who Fell to Earth. 1976 David Bowie.

What's next, Orlando? Repulsion? Wings of Desire? Say it is so! 😄

When it comes to differentiating various yellows, I always cite this film together with The Simpsons (Lisa at the printers). "Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House" features an ancestral form of the same joke.

The Player would be a great Altman film to watch.

The spitting laughing head was one of those kitschy 70s things. We had one in the basement, along with a couple mood rings and a pet rock. I think the gadget the Joker had in the 1989 Batman played the same laugh.

Love Robert Altman’s work, not all of his movies work, but I always liked the unpredictable quality of a lot of his work, and this movie was very unpredictable to say the least. Nashville is considered his masterpiece, but I also love Thieves Like Us, Long Goodbye has a lot of good stuff in it, McCabe and Mrs Miller, Short Cuts, yes Popeye, lot of good, out there work

People in the 70's made weird crafts, like dolls with a dried apple for a face, that looked like the laughing squirty thing in the bar.

The skirt-in-car-door scenes are iconic. They were done intentionally to show just how much of a hopeless sad sack the character was.

I highly recommend The Player and Gosford Park.

Gosford Park is a very good 'whodunnit' made by the same director. None of the crazy weird stuff in it. Just a very well made film with a bunch of famous actors.

I ❤ that you reacted to this! And I don't blame you for being confused about it's message. I've always saw this movie as one of those films that you don't necessarily need to fully understand to enjoy. It's more about a vibe and a mood, like a trippy dream, than a cohesive story. And I appreciate the offness about everything, like the skirt in the car door and Pinky's blind admiration for Millie, while everyone else clearly thinks she's a loser and a nobody, while Millie herself thinks she's God's gift to humanity.

The impact and influence Altman had on other filmmakers is profound and rippling! His work is vital, even if not immediately comprehensible to us.

Cool reaction as always Schmitt & Samantha, you both take care and have a good night

This is my second favorite film with Shelly Duvall

I love it awesome reaction you both

You should check out more Robert Altman films. The Long Goodbye is one of his best.

Recommendation: Shelley was Olive Oyl in the 1980s Popeye movie. Robin Williams played Popeye and "Mick" from Rocky is in it, too. Now, I grew up with it and loved it but many say it's not good. I have no idea how adults would take it, not having grown up with it but i say watch it - even if it's for no other reason than to see another Robin and Shelly movie! It will help your enjoyment out if you've seen at least 1 Popeye cartoon in your life. PS I just checked and Popeye was directed by Robert Altman!!! so now it's a MUST see!

I’ve never heard of this movie (And I’ve see almost every movie! Haha). I’ll have to check it out and covaci and watch the reaction 😊

The Shining movie was released in 1980.

You have either some very good Patreons or a very good system for selecting movies, because where all of your competitors have been stuck in ruts for months now watching second rate actioners and horror flicks you two continue to be doing excellent movies. And there are tons more out there that they are missing but you two keep on pushing the envelope and finding great movies in he process. And I am very appreciative for your efforts. As to Robert Altman his magnum opus was M.A.S.H. And it was groundbreaking for the use of multiple dialogues going on simultaneously to reflect how real life conversations often go. I've personally never seen THREE WOMEN but I suspect that you will be seeing his signature style of dialoguing. As for me, other than M.A.S.H. I'm not a fan.

I’ve seen and love a lot of movies, but I’ve never even heard of this movie.

I never got around to seeing this one. My sister was telling me I should watch this. Its on my list and I'll plop down and watch it one day I swear

Highly recommend you guys seek out more of Altman’s work. Nashville and McCabe & Mrs. Miller are my favorites.

Robert Altman is one of the Great American directors. He also happened to make one of my favourite films of all time, The Long Goodbye. It's one of the quintessential American films of the 1970s. You will love it, if only for Elliott Gould's ultra-cool lead performance.

Ingmar Bergman's Persona (1966) is a classic and one of my favorite films. It is a big influence on 3 Women and a great film to react to. It's always great to see you two reacting to these artsy films. Keep up the good work.

Altman had the freedom to make offbeat movies because they didn’t cost a lot of money. When he screened Three Women for the head of Fox, he told Altman I have no idea who you think you’re going to sell this movie to, but good luck

Other great Altman films: M*A*S*H, NASHVILLE, and THE PLAYER. All three are much less weird. Plus, Shelly D is spot-on as Olive Oyl in Altman's POPEYE (1980) with Robin Williams in the titular role.

M*A*S*H is the Robert Altman film to watch. It’s smart, hilarious and simply GREAT. The cast is one of the best ever. Donald Sutherland, Elliott Gould, Robert Duvall, Sally Kellerman, Tom Skerritt,….

This gives me the same kind of feeling that Picasso's Les Demoiselles d’Avignon gives me.

Robert Altman films are a MUST.

I've seen some Altman films but only watched this one for first time to prepare for your reaction, i wondered how you'd do with it and I think you passed with flying colours. It's good you do some lesser known movies and widen your horizons. But please please do 'Training Day' and 'Courage Under Fire' soon, more Denzel is good.

watched it last year it was fire. altman has some style

"Images" is a great psychological thriller by Robert Altman. His star-studded "The Gingerbread Man" (1998) is also quite underrated and well worth your time.

Pinky shaking salt into a beer and then downing the whole thing while Millie stares at her is one of my favourite moments in all of movies Shelley Duvall actually got her start with Altman. These days she might be best known for The Shining, but through the 70s she was almost exclusively in Altman movies; check out Nashville, Brewster McCloud or Thieves Like Us. She's awesome. Also the thing about her being 'messed up' by The Shining is kind of a pernicious myth that I wish would die a death And Sissy Spacek is just my favourite actor. Would love to see more people watching movies like Badlands, Missing, The Straight Story, Affliction, Coal Miner's Daughter, In the Bedroom, even something like Hot Rod where she's a minor (Blast from the Past-style) role. She's the best.