I didn’t like this movie nearly as much as I wanted to.

Firstly, it was hard for me to get past the television series. Sad, perhaps, but true. I mean, I grew up with MASH reruns on television every day around 4 PM. I had no idea until recently that the television series came from a movie which came from a book. Everywhere I looked in the movie I expected to see Alan Alda’s nose. It was nowhere to be found. It was kind of distracting, in a weird way.

Secondly, the whole woman-sexism thing bothered me. Not a whole lot, but about as much as it bothers me in many comedies/horror movies. Of course, it was obvious in the movie that everyone was sexualizing everyone in that environment, but then it was still just the men who got to vocalize, and, of course, they terrorize the one woman who has any power or standing in the camp at all.

The movie was funny, and I enjoyed the tempo of the conversations, how the dialogue was very textured, from the outset. And of course the writing was often very witty and even profound in its humor. It was also a very interesting movie to watch… the shots, the editing. But I just didn’t like it as much as I wanted to, or, rather, was hoping to.