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Robert Altman's "Nashville."

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Saw it again the other day and... totally underwhelmed. Way too busy with the overlapping dialogue, hyper-kinetic cutting style, and over-the-top sound track. I mean, how many minutes of crappy singing by mediocre actors can you stand? Sorry, but I ran the opening singing in the studio part at x8 after the first run through.
I'd say Taxi Driver and Vanishing Point covered the same ground in a far superior manner. This film came after the massive critical successes, and justifiably so, of MASH, McCabe and Mrs. Miller, and the now terribly forgotten The Long Goodbye.
Altman had a rough 15 or so years after Nashville.
Pret a Porter, The Player, Short Cuts, and Gosford Park re-established Robert as one of our best.

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Much better Altman film--"The Wedding." nt - olddude55 14:43:41 01/16/06 (0)
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Re: Robert Altman's "Nashville." - DualJon 21:06:49 01/14/06 (1)
A rough 15 or so years? Have you even seen those films in the early 80s, or are you just regurgitating something your film professor said? Watch Secret Honor and Tanner '88, and tell me that these films--along with Nashville--isn't even more relevant today than it was then.
- The relevancy of Nashville? It's crap, which is relevant to - tinear 15:35:31 01/16/06 (0)
  your observation.

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