NekoHomey
Purely Joyful Movie!
SeeQuant
Blending excellent reporting and strong storytelling, this is a disturbing film truly stranger than fiction
Janae Milner
Easily the biggest piece of Right wing non sense propaganda I ever saw.
Brennan Camacho
Mostly, the movie is committed to the value of a good time.
d-j-dekok
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;
bigverybadtom
I remember seeing this show a number of times growing up, but it never really felt like much more than light entertainment. Then again, "Hogan's Heroes" was a sitcom meant more to mock the World War Two-based shows of that era than to educate us about how life was really like in a German POW camp.M*A*S*H was not as ridiculous as "Hogan's Heroes", but it never had any real emotional effect on me. It was a product of its era, coming out at a time when the US was ready to pull out of Vietnam- and the show felt more 1970's than 1950's, like "Happy Days".In the actual Korean War, there was the "mobile phase" from 1950 to mid-1951, when North Korean forces nearly overran the south, then the UN intervened and conquered most of North Korea-only to be pushed back by intervening Chinese forces, back to where the country's original dividing line had been. From then until 1953, there was the "static phase" when there was fighting along the front, but the lines did not shift any great deal. I mention this because I cannot recall the base having to change its location, or any threat of its having to do so. Also, Korean winters can get extremely cold-but I cannot recall that mentioned in the show ever.It would be interesting to know what any Korean War veterans thought of this show.
pseudonymforcl
I was 14 when this hit television and my parents hated, so I of course loved it. I watched fairly consistently for a bit, but grew tired of it, I was not mature enough to appreciate what it was. A few years later I went back to watching it and did like it again but I didn't find it humorous. Many years later I would catch reruns and my opinion was still the same, I like it but it really isn't comedy, not even dark comedy. Recently a friend went through the entire series, any way she could find it, library, on line, she even bought some, she could not get enough. This prompted me to watch it again. Now a few years later I think I know what I saw, what I missed and what I really think: It is a very well put together series, entertaining, has a message (most of the time whether you like the message or not is up to you), it spoke to a divided country reeling from the Vietnam war and it made you think. As a comedy it completely misses the mark, it was a two joke show, which made me loose interest when I was 16. Sorry for the rambling but it I hope it gave you an idea of the evolution of my thoughts.
ywilliam31
This is my favorite TV show that I own. I love the way the characters deal with the never ending war that they were in. My favorite seasons are 1-3 because Henry and Trapper were the funniest characters in the show. Once they left, the show kind of lost it's funny edge, even when Frank left. Winchester brought more of a darker tone to the show. But, every time I see the last episode, I want to watch the series all the way from the beginning again. I love this show to death, when I got the complete series, the box scratched all of the DVDs, so if you want to buy the series, get the seasons separate. It worth all the money you pay. If you haven't seen the show, watch it, it is on TV Land every weekday at 5PM. Trust me, It is a great show!!!!!!!!!!!!!!