ah, it's june

sorry, corrected

RIP Donald Sutherland 😚

RIP Donald Sutherland 😚

Donald Sutherland IS Hawkeye. The tv guy was OK I suppose but he lacked the edge. The whole tv show lacked the movie's hard edge. I understand it was watered down for tv, to be viewable by families, but really. What's the point, other than the obvious ? A money making cash in spinoff.

Amen.

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​​​@@AndriyValdensius-wi8gwWell Alan Alda was a great humanist court jester,and he created a terrific character but he was a New York Italian,not a Maine lobster fishing doctor,and he never even tried to do the accent,and you never had blonde hair and glasses like Dr.Hooker a.k.a. Hornberger,the writer of the book,did,AND he what is a liberal which the doctor did not like which is the main reason he disliked the series,even though it paid him "a gallbladder a week." Donald Sutherland was Canadian and he didn't exactly have a Maine accent,but he looked like Dr.Hornberger and he came closer to the character in the book,and the politics weren't overt in their first book or in the movie anyway. The follow-up series of novels were more clearly reactionary and conservative. Another thing,despite the conservative politics of the writer Trapper John was clearly a pseudo hippie,and Elliott Gould was a hippie whereas Wayne Rogers was a tough guy from Alabama,but he and Alan still created compelling characters in their own right. One reason the TV series came to fruition is that they couldn't get Dr.Hornberger's first sequel novel M.A.S.H. Goes To Maine off the ground as a movie. Too bad, but at least Donald and Elliot ultimately got to do S.P.Y.S.

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Show never came close but the first three seasons were fun.

@@blabbermouth777the way the movie treated hot lips disqualifies it as being great alone

@@tbewin1z143 the doctors miss treated Hotlips, not the movie. These were not good guys and at that time woman were not treated well. Actually if Trump gets in office again you’ll see it again first hand. These were doctors trying to survive and blowing off steam.

@@blabbermouth777 why did you even bring in Trump? Btw, Trump was president and women did just fine, they are having a bit of trouble paying their bills with "big guy" in office

Very true.

RESPECT 💙

Thank You, Sir. And a VERY Belated Welcome Home.

No doubt about that.

Oddly, Altman lost many jobs because "on-time and under budget", at that time, was considered "dialing it in" and "not working hard enough." Strange time in Hollywood from '66-'80, especially looking back on his films (not counting Popeye.)

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Never seen a movie continue for 11 years- week in week out ! Have you ??? Think harder next time

The writing and acting were so much better in the motion picture. The television show became a vanity project for Alan Alda and his woke politics.

​ Donald,Elliott,Tom,and Fred were great. Alan Alda was a great humanist court jester,and he created a terrific character but he was a New York Italian, not a Maine lobster fishing doctor,and he never even tried to do the accent,and he never had blonde hair and glasses like Dr.Hooker a.k.a. Hornberger,the writer of the book,did,AND he is a liberal Democrat which the doctor did not like,which is the main reason he disliked the series,even though it paid him "a gallbladder a week." Donald Sutherland was Canadian and he didn't exactly have a Maine accent,but he looked like Dr.Hornberger and he came closer to the character in the book,and the politics weren't overt in the first book or in the movie anyway. The follow-up series of novels were more clearly reactionary and conservative. Another thing,despite the conservative politics of the writer Trapper John was clearly a pseudo hippie,and Elliott Gould was a hippie whereas Wayne Rogers is a tough guy from Alabama,but he and Alan still created compelling characters in their own right. One reason the TV series came to fruition is that they couldn't get Dr.Hornberger's first sequel novel M.A.S.H. Goes To Maine off the ground as a movie. Too bad, but at least Donald and Elliot ultimately got to do S.P.Y.S.

I bet that was not a fun conversation post-watch, lol RIP to your cousin

@@SplendidCoffee0 I bet it was especially hard when the scene with Duke sleeping with Margaret came on.

@@koroba01 Thank you so much for sharing this. I bet it was very difficult for his wife when the scene where Duke sleeps with Margaret came on.

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… and Michael earned about $2 million in song royalty payments because of the song’s use in the television series, despite the lyrics not being used. His father only earned $75,000.

What a great experience.

Those are some brilliant lyrics written by a 14 year old. It's too bad they couldn't keep them in the series openning. But Mike still got residuals for it!

@@amiblueful The TV network wanted a "happier" version of the song to open the show, thus the new instrumental version that did not mention suicide.

It's too bad he didn't keep the ending in the book and the script though.

You should see Altman's Nashville. I really like it but not everyone does. Make your own judgement.

Of course you can put a finger on it. Its great on its own level..Its own level being that the movie wasnt the typical war movie.It was a war movie shown with an intimacy that was never done. It wasnt about the war itself. It was about the realities of peoples lives in the middle of a war zone and them trying to live their best lives in a war..And the fact that it was about a medical unit that had to deal with the realities of war and wasnt about soldiers in combat.Once again that had never been done before..And furthermore it broke ground once again for the very same reasons as a tv series that had never been done before..mix all of those variables with very talented production and cast .It takes its place as one of the best ever.. I can go on and on..I agree with you. Its most definitely at the top of my list as a desert island movie/ series..The intimacy of the characters lives brings a level of comfort and realness to ours.There you go I put a finger on it for you lol...

Alan Alda was great in his own way but he wasn't really the character Dr.Hooker created.

Two of the best movies ever ❤

Good to know.

@@BarryHart-xo1oy god damn right

Saw double feature in 1971 as a six year old at Drive In

I saw Kelly's Heroes as the second feature at a drive in when I was 6 years old with my friend and my dad around 1972. The first film was John Wayne in The Cowboys. I wanted to leave after it and was whining about it but my friend and dad said just wait, we here Kelly's Heroes is really good. I kept whining until about 30 seconds into it when I said hey this looks pretty good. It is still my favorite movie.

Frank Burns in the movie was more of an afterthought compared to the character in the TV series.

I thought that was really odd as well.

And we are here to operate 😚

Underrated scene. ' How do want your steak?. The movie is like a serious like stripes.

@@shawnyoung8752 You mean the movie with Bill Murray and Harold Ramis?

Dr Strangelove too

and you think anyone shold care or be remotely interested huh? Wow

They were both good,and S.P.Y.S.

I remember seeing it with a buddy whose dad brought us. I remember the opening credits had a jazz soundtrack by Ahmed Jamal or Grover Washington.

Oddly Robert Downey Jr. Did hang from a helicopter looking like Jesus in the movie " Air America " in the 1980s.

The Book was a Little Chaotic

The series was the most popular show on TV at the time, despite you not watching it😂

I don't understand why. The pilot was like anything in the movie. It didn't get start getting overly liberal until the later seasons which is why Dr. Hooker hated it.

@@KenMcMunn-bp5xv Robert Altman on the series: ""I didn't like the series because that series to me was the opposite of my main reason for making this film - and this was to talk about a foreign war, an Asian war, that was going on at the time. And to perpetuate that every Sunday night for 12 years - and no matter what platitudes they say about their little messages and everything - the basic image and message is that the brown people with the narrow eyes are the enemy." The pilot episode - with the Spear Chucker shit, and the such - is a LOT like that, imo. The increasingly liberal tone you mentioned started long before the later seasons, and that's FINE by me! What doesn't work for me - Altman's criticism aside (because on many episodes I would disagree with him) - is when the platitudes get too obvious and when Hawkeye's monologues take over half the scripts. Not everything needs an explanation. Also, I mainly stick to the seasons with Trapper, Henry Blake, and Hawkeye. Once Trapper and Henry are gone, the character contrasts diminish. Winchester is the only replacement character I liked a lot in the later seasons.

@@robvangessel3766 Yeah. It always threw me when Wayne Rogers left the show,although I completely get why he did. They kept diminishing his character and giving everything good to Alan Alda,and McLean left because of the shabby way the other actors were treated,but the book and the movie were about Hawkeye and Trapper. Mike Farrell was a good actor but B.J. was a little bit too PC for me. Potter was touching though,but he pissed me off the way he always treated Klinger and a lot of other people.Winchester was the best replacement character. BUT I never saw the TV show as saying the yellow people were the enemies. I never got what Robert Altman meant by that. The show said everyone suffered in a war, and I never saw Spearchucker as a white racist gag. His character was in the book and the movie,but the guy who played him in the series was the one who played Judson in the movie,the one who was told to call the guy's mother Gladys as a counter insult in the football game after the guy called him a c@#$. The book might be a little condescending as spearchucker reveals his family has a past connection to Duke's family I think through the slave era,but then situations like that were often true, and he didn't get his name as a racist double entendre,but because of his javelin throwing.

RIP 😚

I love MASH but the depiction of her character is something that has not aged well.

I am glad SOMEBODY mentioned that. I first saw the movie when I was 11, and even then I was offended at the film's treatment of women. Hot Lips is an uptight, priggish person,but also a very good nurse, something that even Hawkeye admits. Did she really need to be humiliated like that? That being said, the acting is really good, especially Donald Sutherland's (R.I.P.) performance as Hawkeye.

@@danielmaher7108 It was just a movie , I was in the military and you would have not dreamed of treating an officer ,the way Hot lips was treated . If a military person , did in real life what they did to her in the shower , they would be facing the military police , a dishounorable discharge and perhaps time in a military jail .

Kellerman's performance always impressed me. On a more recent watch, I grasped that her story arc is tragic, how someone can be crushed by society. I think it fits into the cynical and dark observational humor of the entire movie.

@@danielmaher7108 Compared to the TV show, I think that was part of the point. She was a fully human character, not a caricature. I like how Altman finds moments of humanity inside of odd moments in his movies. For contrast, in Gosford Park, the scene where Helen Mirren's character was trying to keep her composure in the midst of her personal tragedy while inside of a rigid social structure she was trapped in where she could not really express her feelings....it's incredibly powerful. Society can be cruel, and people can be cruel to each other in a myriad ways.

Yeah well it's an award given to a war movie by a country that has been conquered by literally everyone who has ever tried. Screw cannes

@@matchavez8530 What?

@@RideAcrossTheRiver do you want me to type it again?

@@matchavez8530 You won't make sense then either.

@@RideAcrossTheRiver yeah it's my fault your not smart enough to understand. Anyone who replies "what?" To a written message isn't that smart

The character of Painless the Dentist was in 2 episodes of the series. Since the title of the theme song is "Suicide is Painless", no doubt CBS executives wouldn't allow the lyrics to be used in the opening credits of the TV version.

Are you sure?

No one, anywhere said it was set in Vietnam. Not in the video, nor in the comments. But thnx for input Capt Obvious.

@@billd01rfc Listen again to the first two minutes narration, Smartarse!

Nothing in the first two minutes, or anywhere else, claims that this movie is wet in Vietnam. If you can post a transcript of the words that say this is set in Vietnam, good luck.

I read a long time ago Hooker was a conservative and supported the Viet Nam War. But I haven't read anything like that since. EDIT I went to Wikipedia for a bio of the author. It does say he was a conservative. Does not mention his views on Vietnam. He did reportedly like the movie and Sutherland, but didn't care for Robert Alda's Hawkeye in the TV series. But there are no direct quotes. It is all from second hand sources, people claiming they knew him.

It was harsh...not just the gritty gore of the OR which was out of frame on the show, but what they did to Hotlips and Frank. They broke her, marking her unfit for command and Frank was taken away to an insanity hospital, driven literally mad. The soft peddled that ending for Larry Linville being just heartbroken. I was 9 so I didn't see the movie till college. My parents would not let me see it, though I did see Patton, Tora Tora Tora and even Catch 22 (the other MASH) as a minor.

So you can't handle reality? Maybe 2000s reality shows are for you. Kardashians are classy and Trump is a genuine billionaire. U r a clown

you live in a bubble and are oblivious to what the movie was about.. no surprise sadly

@@sukuntee so reality is too much for you? Yet the Kardashians are watchable? In the TV Mash. A episode I didn't hear the bullet? Had Hawkeyes friend who was a writer get shot on Frontline. Hawkeye could save him and had Col. Blake tell him.' I am just a Dr. From Bloomington Illinois. In officer training school they taught us rule #1 was young men die in battle±!! Rule # 2 is you can't change rule #1. What do you think happened in wars from 2000 years ago? We have always figured the way to efficiency kill others. So the blood squirting out of soldiers neck is hash? In Salem Massachusetts they burned people alive cause they didn't agree ith religious leaders.

Wow that is totally and completely not even a little interesting in any way.... we truly couldn't care any less

The actors hated the canned laughter and repeatedly asked for it to be eliminated. By season 4, the laugh track was gone. Funny thing, I didn't notice until they mentioned it in an interview.

The series when shown in the UK lacked a laugh track iirc.

Because it is patently obvious . . . a story based on experiences in the Korean war in the early '50s . . . made in the late '60s . . . society was slightly different then . . . of course it was sexist

​@@billd01rfcThank You

know how I know you're a sensitive, over dramatic snowflake?