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Seattle is home to Scarecrow Video, which is a non-profit and is the largest video store in the United States. I don’t have any pictures—and unfortunately don’t go there as often as I should because it is a bit of a trek—but the place is overwhelmingly huge. My first time there I probably spent over an hour simply looking at the different categories. They have a computer solely for the purpose of helping you find your video because there are so many categories, sub-categories, etc. They have DVDs and videotapes that have gone out of print. Quentin Tarantino walked across the entire city to visit there. Thelma Schoonmaker (Martin Scorsese’s longtime editor) has been there. The place deservedly has a rep. if anyone visits Seattle and loves film culture, it’s definitely worth checking out. Scarecrow also has a film guide (some that the staff wrote reviews of, others that they just describe) that they published around 2005, I think. It’s a fun read and probably available on Amazon.

You're going to have a hard time finding anything like HDTGM that is either non-political or right-leaning. We live in a world that is actively battling with fascism. People who are as funny as out three hosts are empathic, and they will not be able to ignore the reality around us. And nor should they.

I might say more later, but along these lines of, "but what does the movie think of them?" - and something independent of it, that era sure seemed to have a number of general plot lines of, "stranger shows up in messed up environment. One where the powers in charge don't deserve what they have for one reason or another. They shake things up. Then they leave (possibly by death*). You see the effect they've left on others." In this case, I think it was Radar mimicking the whistle at the end. *: Usually refered to as a Jesus parable in these cases. I'm just thinking, there was Cool Hand Luke, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, and this (off the top of my head). There's probably a few others that I'm not thinking of. Imagining the time I can see why such an anti-establishment archetype seemed appealing to a lot of people. But I have to agree, with what's been said that whatever point it was trying to make didn't seem overly coherent - other than, "our military is fool of buffoons (particularly the leaders), so we should get out of Vietnam,"** and the comic style of people just talking over each other and so many people in a scene that would come to define Altman must have also been very radical. And if this was the only Altman film of that ilk made, that might make it worth consideration... but there are other, better Altman. **: Just a timeline of other related media I can think of that's broaching this subject (main notable difference they're more, looking back at WW2). Catch-22 (book): 1961 dr strangelove: 1964 Slaughterhouse-V (book): 1969 Catch-22 (movie): 1970 M*A*S*H: 1970 Sl.-V (movie): 1972

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.

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?

I forgot to ask...how is this different from an ACTUAL Celine Dion song???