"Altman has probably never even heard of the Marx Brothers (although I'm sure he'd agree with Karl), or he'd know what good satire is. This is neither good nor satire. It's anti-establishment, anti-war, anti-entertainment, in fact it's anti-everything - except anti-septic. Because it's septic. As septic as a tank. So the boy wants to escape his responsibilities by trying to "fly". Why didn't he just study to be a pilot? No, that would have been far too much hard work for him. And thus he just lies back, smokes dope and "imagines" everything. Charles Lindbergh would be spinning in his grave (wherever that is)."
(Lester Cowcatcher - "I Like What is Good" - Autobiography Pt. 306, 1971)
I'm sorry…but hearing Margaret Hamilton sing the Star Spangled Banner, and later when she's murdered, the camera pans down her body to reveal that she's wearing the Ruby Slippers…and watching Rene Auberjonois slowly transform from a college professor into a bird…ya' GOTTA love this whacked-out flick!
I'm sorry…but hearing Margaret Hamilton sing the Star Spangled Banner, and later when she's murdered, the camera pans down her body to reveal that she's wearing the Ruby Slippers…and watching Rene Auberjonois slowly transform from a college professor into a bird…ya' GOTTA love this whacked-out flick!
And don't forget that there's a character named Shaft.
scrubber - Lester Cowcatcher was one of the many pseudonyms of well-known British film critic Leslie Halliwell. I've been posting extracts from some of his old reviews on these threads. Some may see him as an old fuddy-duddy, but he must have had a sense of humour to invent all those outlandish names. I mean "Lester Cowcatcher"? And that's one of his least outlandish ones.
