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In Reply to: Re: Anybody catch "Catch 22" on AMC? posted by rico on April 23, 2004 at 06:59:35:
Yup, watch it also.C-22 for me is a film of "great moments"...the Major Major stuff was pretty funny, but the real laughs come with the visit of General Dreddle (Orson Welles, who really worked it) and his hot secretary...the look on Richie Benjamin's face when he is ordered "shot" is priceless.
A great cast and a great director, working from a classic book...should have been better, imo, but not an easy novel to film. Still, fun to watch for those great moments...but it's no MASH, imo.
Regards,
Gary
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is that's it's a fifties book about a forties war and the film reflects sixties values.
While it was published in 55, it was pretty much ignored until '62. I feel it was waiting for the audience, rather than the other way round.
Having lived through the depressingly literal 50's, I feel Heller's book is very much part of the Sixties. Liked the movie, too.
...and well said, but MASH wasn't as good a novel (imo), and Altman made it special; Mike Nichols dropped the ball on this one, imo, for one of the only times in his carrer.Do you know what year MASH was written? fifties?
have a good w/e,
Gary
was published in 1968. Altman's film came out in 1970. There were two novel sequels.
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