SERIOUSLY. This is what the crap Hollywood still puts out?

In other words,this film is a surreal ride.

The movie is wonderful and true, an act of love in all its contradictions and complexity

This movie tries so hard to be funny, yet it falls flat every time. Just another example of recycled ideas repackaged with women in an attempt to appeal to a certain audience.

In my opinion, MASH is the best television show ever made. I watched every episode as they came on back in the day, used the vcr to record re-runs, bought the dvd sets, and still watch re-runs when they pop up on syndication. I see the series as falling into three distinct phases. Phase 1 is the first three seasons with Hawkey, Trapper John, Col. Blake, Frank Burns, Hot Lips, Radar, Father Mulcahey, and Klinger. This phase was heavier on comedy and lighter on "message," but certain episodes (ie Sometimes You Hear The Bullet) are absolutely heart/mind grabbing. The second phase began with Season 4 as Col Blake and Trapper were gone, and Col Potter and BJ Hunnicutt arrived. Comedy remained, but message became stronger. This era is my favorite, and to me, lasts through season 8. During this phase, we also lose Frank Burns and gain Charles Emerson Winchester, III. The final phase is seasons 9 through 11. This era is very sentimental. Lots of message heavy shows, still good comedy involved. The loss of Radar seemed awful at the time, but Klinger became a much more important character, and I definitely enjoyed Jamie Farr's performances very much. I truly love this show, there will never be anything like it, as far as I am concerned.

I've been putting off this review for quite some time. 1) Did anyone ever think that Hawkeye was bipolar? To wit, he was overly flamboyant with the nurses, never stayed with one woman for any length of time, channeled Groucho Marx to excess. 2) After season six, it became readily apparent that the cast wasn't enjoying their work. 3) Favorite episodes: 1) Prickly Heat 2) Adam's Ribs 3) Patrick Swayze as leukemia patient 4) Amerasian baby taken to convent for adoption 5) Bug out! ("Hear me, O Lord! Hear me, O Lord!")4)Least favorite episodes:1) Any episode playing "can you top this"? with practical jokes 2) Any episode where Hotlips gushes over Lt. Col. Penobscot 3) We get that C-rations weren't too appetizing, but the episodes surrounding food (crabs, the infantryman turned chef, turkey-induced botulism, eggs and kippers, canned pheasant) were a bit much. 4) Lt. Kellye diatribe at Hawkeye. Any woman who has to remind a man that she's "Cute as hell", well, isn't.5)Favorite Characters: Early, less whiny Radar, who knew far more than he let on; Major Freedman; Col. Flagg (he was drop dead funny); Frank Burns (for sheer consistency--I understand he was a method actor).6) Least Favorite character traits: The tiresome stridency of Hotlips, and her two-faced insistence on moral purity from Lt. Col Penobscot when she was bedding command on a wide scale;

A lot better than most shows but characters in this show tend to get very irritating if you are watching show regularly. Probably wouldn't be near as bad if I was only watching one or 2 episodes a day. For the most part I enjoyed about every episode except for maybe 5-10 episodes out of over 270 probably. Alan Alda I can tell is a very egotistical person. I can tell because it comes out in the episodes especially the ones he writes or directs. Most of all out of all the people in the show he was the worst actor I may have ever seen. I am a man and have a little ego also but his actually irritates me by the way he treats women in the show and sometimes wish another character in the show would hurt or kill him happily and have a new lead person in the show. But for the most part I actually enjoyed most of them.

You can attack it on either side. But the background for the show is a rather nasty war. Yes after a year in that scenario, you'd be screaming to get out of there.ER isn't fun but ER makes a heck of a lot more moolah than the ARMY medics have. Even still, I'm the one who can relate to Ross from Friends who goes to the same pediatrician he's seen since he was a kid walking out with a lollipop because he stubbed his toe or something like that. I can't stand hospitals and yes I appreciate the doctors at Van Nuys or my Native American Phlebotomy in Kern County who goes by the alias "Vampire". I cried to my dad when I got stuck in the ER with an IV. I HATE hospitals, you need a special set of guts right there.THEN! Add the element of war where people are coming in with injuries and illness. War impoverishes countries. Apparently Korea found Mao a big enough threat to go through that to remain sovereign or else MASH would've been rescuing victims from the camps and execution fields as well.It still takes a toll and that humor goes a long way.For those who thought it was dry, etc. That's the military-not the actors. The actors did great at bringing that element to life.You guys need to take off the Jane Fonda wannabe blinders and see what your country did for the world. Being away from home as missionaries-literally putting people back together during this nightmare.This show out of almost all appears to bring out the raw human element. It got into drama. Drama happened, that was unfortunately part of the story. Sorry.