…Cause, honestly, I liked “Ready to Wear” and all, but I wasn’t really ever quite, let’s say, moved by any of the films he made in my R-rated movie-viewing lifetime. But this, this was…crazy. He takes a straight noir detective novel and adapts it into a dark tinsel-town farce. I don’t even know if that’s a genre (if it were, you might be able to put “The Player” in it) but it’s pretty awesome. And the whole “long goodbye” theme; honestly, I can’t say whether I would have been happier if I hadn’t known that **spoiler alert** (sort of, if you’re really picky and a total film snob)
the entire soundtrack was one song before I saw it, but it really was crazy. The switch from the car radio to the convenient store muzak had to have been the best. It actually sort of goes in waves: you hear it, then you hear it again, and again, then you can’t believe it’s just going to keep going like that, then you sort of get used to it, then Elliot Gould starts humming it out of the blue and it’s right in your face again and you’re like “Man! It’s still going”, then the cycle begins again.
I think I should probably see “M*A*S*H*” now, right?
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