'McCabe and Mrs. Miller'

I simply dislike Robert Altman. Funny thing, I loved "Gosford Park," which everyone I know hated. And they hate it for about the same reason I hate Altman's earlier pieces like "MASH," "McCabe and Mrs. Miller" and "Nashville."

For one, "Nashville" was fucking stupid. But all three are very, very noisy. Not that the world doesn't have a lot of noise, but it's not all loud at once. It's like Altman stuck one microphone and it captured every noise in the house or area. It's so hard to understand and it's not realistic because if two people are having a conversation at one end of the room and another pair are conversing at the other end, their conversations typically don't drown each other out. Watch this film and you'll know what I mean.

Otherwise I expect more out of Warren Beatty.

Plus, what's up with the Leonard Cohen? Why was it so cool in the 1970s to have this loud, out-of-place music rolling over your film? They did it in "Harold and Maude" and even in "Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid." The modern music fits like a foot in a glove in most instances. It practically ruined this film.

That goes without saying anything about Cohen's songs making zero sense.