M*A*S*H - Movie vs. Series

[everythingsxen]

Inspired by this thread http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=105&topic_id=429733 by CMT

They both had their qualities, though I like the movie more.

[45th Med]

1. movie

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[WoodrowFan]

2. Movie by a nose

I think the movie aged better even though it's also clearly a period piece. Alhough the best shows of the series are better than the movie.

[hlthe2b]

3. very very different, the movie versus the show......

But the show evolved over time with different characters and changes to the regular characters (e.g., Hotlips).

And there were some real standout episodes (like the one where Colonel Blake goes home but never makes it there), several of the Christmas episodes (e.g., Winchester and the knit cap)... etc., etc.

So, the nod goes to the TV show.. (plus I always was a sucker for Alan Alda).

[Kolesar]

4. Alan Alda rules

He was brilliant in that part. I wanted to grow up to be Captain Benjamin Franklin Pierce.

[bookman]

5. I expected the series would be bad...

...and I loved the movie so much.

I voted for the series because it won me over and became one of my favorite shows of all time.

Sure it had its highs and lows, but that's to be expected. I still take a peek at an episode from time to time. I usually never like to rewatch anything. MASH is an exception.

[mobuto]

6. Movie Rocked, The Series sucked

With all due respect, it was uninteresting, unfunny and juvenile.

Whereas Robert Altman made one of the greatest movies ever made. The script is unbelievably good. Robert Duvall, Donald Sutherland, Elliot Gould are fantastic. The movie is really the film version of Catch-22 (unlike the lousy movie of that name, which is crap).

[everythingsxen]

8. You didn't like Catch-22?

I liked it; it was insane and surreal. Of course I've never read the book so.. :shrug:

[mobuto]

9. I guess on its own

it isn't the worst movie ever made, but its a joke when compared to the novel. The novel was written on a whole other level.

[supernova]

7. Series

On a good day, the series went places the movie just didn't have time to go, i.e. the b/w documentary with (AA's father?) as the Edward R Murrow type reporter. Or the episode they did from the perspective of a wounded soldier.

But the blueprint was there in the movie, and it served it's purpose.

I think it's a case of Excellent and Excelling... One feeds off the other and they both ROCK!