McCabe & Mrs. Miller

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Nicholas B Jun 6 Much like the self-indulgent, maudlin soundtrack that accompanies it, McCabe and Mrs Miller is poetically provocative but flawed. Robert Altman's meditation on the brutal machinations of frontier industry only churn out the little that such an underdeveloped and minuscule story can offer. Some nice establishing shots, interesting characters, and good performances aside, there's not really much going on here. See more Russ G 11/27/2024 New Hollywood BS. Give pretty boy Warren some credit for taking the role, but the film drags and the dialog is unintelligible in places. What makes it worse is that Altman apparently wanted it that way but when audiences and critics panned it he blamed the sound guy - shameful. Wiki also states that Altman basically poisoned the film stock so the studio could never print it without the washed out color - another dumb ego trip. I had seen this decades ago but I couldn't get past 38 minutes this time. It just left me giving Zero Forks about the resolution, if any. OK, I scanned through the last half and it's clear that McCabe was going to meet his end, but why did Mrs. Miller end up in a filthy opium den? So, is the story just "Crap Happens Then You Die?" We already knew that. See more Peter L 06/03/2024 McCabe lights a cigar, then crosses a bridge to lead the audience into both a surreal and realistic work, a visual masterpiece whose characters chill and enchant like falling snow. See more Carlo L 09/10/2023 Should be archetype of "western" movies See more DanTheMan 2 08/29/2023 Robert Altman's McCabe & Mrs. Miller is the kind of revisionist post-western only made possible due to the ongoing Vietnam War and newfound American pessimism which led to the disappearance of the much-loved and adored classic American western. Altman dubs it an "anti-western" due to it often doing precisely the opposite of what the genre would lead you to expect, as it moves from the sprawling American Frontier to societies' quieter edges involving tired and obsolete men rather than heroic gunslingers. There are no heroes in McCabe & Mrs Miller only feared and flawed characters, the uneven slow pace is really the only criticism I could lobby at the movie which often stretches its scenes out for as long as possible. However, it's the personified pipe dream of a film, a fleeting, almost translucent, vision of what frontier life might have been and with its haunting use of Leonard Cohen songs, McCabe & Mrs. Miller brilliantly deglamorises and revitalises the most American of genres. See more Gordon H 07/28/2023 Perhaps the best cinematic movie ever made. See more Read all reviews

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