M*a*s*h (Special Edition)

Loved every second of this film. It's amazing and ahead of its time. So smart, funny and perceptive. And it does a great job at exposing the horrors and the absurdity of war. Sadly still relevant ! Director Robert Altman was a genius.

I loved the series but hadn’t seen this. Wow. What an amazing movie. A true classic.

Excellent movie, I received it in great condition!

The TV series is much better than the movie. But I still like the movie a lot even after all these decades.

I've been a fan of MASH (the movie, not the TV show) since I first saw it at about age 14 or 15 on DVD. Recently, I've been getting into the rest of Altman's movies, so when I saw the blu ray I knew I had to check it out. If you haven't seen it yet, MASH is a bit of a (pardon me) mash up of a war movie, medical drama, and Animal House. Okay, it's really just a lot like Animal House. Some reviews I've seen online have pegged this movie as being sexist and outdated, but the film is really about the attitudes of a bunch of really talented and really bored twenty something male doctors BS-ing and causing trouble. Unlike the most of Altman's other work, this is very much a guy movie. I used to think this movie was just effortlessly brilliant and an easy going good time with a bunch of funny actors just doing whatever they felt like. On subsequent viewing after all these years, I can see just how much Altman's distinctive style had already taken shape in his first film. The scene towards the ends of the movie in long shot with Hawkeye getting news from Radar is absolutely astonishing in how much it conveys with no words at all. Even though I still remembered all the jokes and cringed at the awkwardness of some of the characters, I still found myself laughing out loud at some of the more subtle moments.Of course, these little bits might have gone unnoticed had I not sprung for the HD version. Again, other reviews on the films picture quality range from decent to miserable and the real result is somewhere in between. Immediately after watching the disc, I popped in the old THX mastered DVD, upconverted by my blu ray player. I'll admit I was a bit surprised. The major problem with the blu ray is an excessive amount of blooming on any scenes with white clothing. They give off a glow a few centimeters out from the characters. I first thought this was haloing, but no, they were just really bright in comparison with the dark backgrounds. On the DVD, this effect was a lot less noticeable, but everything else picture-wise was worse. For one, the image was a lot darker, smudging out a lot of fine detail. The rest was lost in the digital noise and non-film related pixelated graininess. However, in stripping away the murk on the blu ray, it revealed Altman's almost vaseline-like filter on the camera and color timing intended to accentuate the drab military greens.The first thing I looked for on the blu ray was just how much grain they did or didn't leave on the image. Thankfully, they left most of it in, but it does get a little overwhelming at times, with it seeming to snow over background scenery. There's a lot more surface detail on fabrics and the stubble on the actors' faces stands out a bit more. There's a scene near the beginning of the movie with nurses looking into a tent giggling that was less apparent on DVD, since it was so quick and more difficult to read facial expressions. I'm once again going to repeat the mantra of almost every reviewer covering HD movies from the 70's - this is probably the best this movie is going to look. The main reason I bought this was just to see what 70s Altman movie can look like in high definition. I assure you that now I'm going to hold out for the HD version of Nashville, instead of buying the DVD.As far as sound goes... well, I honestly couldn't tell you if it was an improvement or not. I don't have a surround sound system to really put the track to test, but I don't think there can be that much of an improvement over the 5.1 mix on the original DVD. I do think I could follow the rapid overlapping better than I used to, but that probably just comes from repeated viewing, rather than a real technical achievement. All of the extras were ported over from the previous disc, which is good, since it was a fairly packed two disc set. However, there's no real new stuff to be had. Overall, I'm really just jonesing to see how McCabe and Mrs. Miller, Brewster McCloud, and Nashville hold up on the format. It may not look perfect, or even that good, but this disc shows just what a little TLC can do towards making great murky-looking 70s films watchable on HD sets.

Great movie. I got blu-ray when I ordered dvd but other than that, disc was secure & in good shape

as stated, as ordered, timely shipping and received.

The helicopters flown then, I was an instructor for the Army during VietNam, and I flew them in VietNam. I lived a similar life, flew similar helicopters, crashed and was flown out in a medivac. Flew in Korea by the DMZ and around Osan. I like this main movie, I like the tv episodes. I'm 75, I got it for the comedy- of a situation that was a real crap hole, a lost war, like VietNam.

M*A*S*H [Blu-ray] (Bilingual) I had seen the original movie when it first came out and enjoyed it very much.Now that Donald Sutherland is no longer with us, there will be no more new movies with him in them. I will treasure this one for a long time! RIP Donald.

Ein toller Film

Pour ceux qui ont perdu la vie pour une democratie bafouee en France pour des egaux sans valeurs morale.

It is easy to confused thd film with thd TV series, both were good. The film is faster paste

una estupenda edicion en cuanto a calidad de imagen ,sonido y extras,todos ellos subtitulados en castellano,el audio tambien se puede oir en nuestro idioma y sin embargo fox no la a distribuido en España,luego se extrañan cuando sellos de dudosa catadura la editan sin su permiso,altamente recomendada y suele estar a muy buen precio