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This movie is icky and gross and should not be looked at with any esteem

I saw this once and definitely didn't revisit it for this. I can get behind a movie with shitty characters acting shitty. What holds it for me is that the movie seems to side with them. I could maybe get behind the idea that war is so awful that this kind of behavior is the only way to handle it in a Catch 22 type way. Like Paul and Amy, I don't think the movie does this and I'm not entirely sure it's trying to. It's just drunk misogynists being drunk misogynists with no real consequences. I'm also not a big fan of the show but it's certainly more enjoyable than the movie. I think the negative traits of the main characters are softened significantly.

Friend, assuming you are asking this question in good faith, I will say right now that there really isn't an alternative. Discussions of art and culture are inevitably going to intersect with politics, because you can't discuss the messages behind the media without revealing at least some your political orientation. I would suggest instead examining within yourself why you would expect to avoid "politics" in general or if it's really just a particular kind of politics that bothers you and why.

You didn't do anything of the sort! You were very helpful and I had no idea that I could potentially be missing more this crazy

The weird thing is the dog raps “Take That”.

There is no explanation for this. By any reasoning it should not exist. However, In my small hometown of Taylor, Texas (about 30 minutes north-East of Austin), there still exists a video rental store. Not just any video rental store. It is huge. Hundreds of titles. Not just lots of titles, but multiple copies of each. I hadn’t been in there in over a decade. However, my girlfriend recently started listening to the podcast with me, and wanted to watch some of the movies. She wanted to watch Super Mario Brothers. We could not find it to watch anywhere online. So, off to Video Station we went. Yes, of course they had it. Multiple copies in fact. However, just on VHS it seemed. I asked the owner, and it pointed me to the Family section, where the DVD copy was, for some reason. I kept my eyes open for some other HDTGM titles. Here are just a few I spotted. (Sorry some images are sideways. That’s the way the uploaded from my phone). They must have 80% of the existing DVDs of Stealth. Anyway, just thought people might find it amazing a place like this is still around and going strong here in 2020. Any body else have a place like this in their hometown?

I love a lot of Altman stuff, including Nashville which is already on the list, along with McCabe and Mrs. Miller, The Player, Short Cuts, and late-period stuff like The Company or Prairie Home Companion is also pretty solid. I've never really felt the love for MASH. It feels to me like the bad kind of Altman, overly shambling and rootless and not as funny as it ought to be. It feels like one of those "you had to be there" things, where if I had actually lived through the Vietnam War it might have really resonated as a necessarily irreverent counterpoint to the horrors of the time. To me it just feels like yet another frat comedy that happens to be in a wartime setting, and on that level the comedy doesn't work as well as something like Animal House (which I'm not a huge fan of either, but it has more great moments than this). And as was noted repeatedly in the podcast episode, the misogynistic treatment of Hot Lips has aged really poorly. I get it, they're trying to say she's too wedded to the establishment and that's why she's worthy of scorn (like the religious Robert Duvall character), but this is where the movie's lack of focus fails to really nail down that point and leaves too much else about it wide open for criticism. I don't think this movie would survive the next re-vote if the AFI ever does one.

I agree and recommend the shorter one. I apologize for stepping on toes and mentioning the longer one. 56 minutes was enough madness for me. (I just finished watching it.)

Haha! I do. I’ve also read and enjoyed your great and insightful comments on the boards and you strike me as a very thoughtful, intelligent and hilarious member of this community. This thread isn’t even worth TheAbsoluteShittiestBuddhist’s time, let alone yours. Your powers are wasted here.

You see my username, right?

I get the cathartic impulse to clap back at this poster (believe me), but it’s a lose-lose endeavor; as evidenced by the initial post and their response, this commentator (who interestingly enough only has two posts on this message board, btw) thrives on negative attention and here we are giving them exactly that. We live an increasingly divided and conquered culture, and resorting to their methods (playground name calling) is just fuel for their fire; they were just waiting for a response to their drama-fueled post and here we both are giving it to them. Ultimately, what’s the point? Let go of the anger and frustration they are so desperately trying to manipulate you into, starve this post and just let it wither away into obscurity. They want to leave and get their little two cents in in the process? Mazel tov and whatever... Hey, no one’s keeping them here, right?

Godspeed, sweet snowflake

Looks like Meow the Jewels, the Run the Jewels remix album with cat samples.

With a cat MC?

It only takes 10 minutes for the dog to start rapping. At least I can confirm I have already seen this movie?

Yea if they thought Stallone showing his wedding picture as I.D. in Over the Top was insane, wait till they see how Kurt Russell convinces the hospital to let him take Goldie home.