McCabe & Mrs. Miller

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Russ G 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. Rated 0.5/5 Stars •  Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars 12/14/24 Full Review Peter L 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. Rated 5/5 Stars •  Rated 5 out of 5 stars 06/03/24 Full Review Carlo L Should be archetype of "western" movies Rated 5/5 Stars •  Rated 5 out of 5 stars 09/10/23 Full Review DanTheMan 2 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. Rated 4.5/5 Stars •  Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars 08/29/23 Full Review Gordon H Perhaps the best cinematic movie ever made. Rated 5/5 Stars •  Rated 5 out of 5 stars 07/28/23 Full Review David K I first saw this film around the time it was released. I was a youngster, just out of high school, tumbling towards a college life. It just didn't work for me. Years later, now in my mid-60's, I revisited it. What a difference 50 +/- years can make. There's simply nothing about this movie that conforms to the John Ford westerns I'd grown up with. In retrospect, that was what was so off-putting in my youth. It rains consistently. The streets and lives are full of mud. There is no hero. The buildings are a work-in-progress. No law. No doctors. The whores are not beautiful; they're deeply scarred, with only Julie Christie having anything on the ball. Yet, she lives a secret life full of opium highs. There is a reality to this film that would never have sold in the mythological West that arose in the very beginnings of film. A seismic shift, really. And, a film well worth your time. Rated 5/5 Stars •  Rated 5 out of 5 stars 05/24/23 Full Review Read all reviews

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