Robert Altman

The films created by Robert Altman seemed very different to me compared with other films. Typically films have clear indications as to what the plot is, or the general direction as to what the film is about. But there are just so many random things in some of his films, that it makes it confusing. I would say that out of the three directors that we have studied so far, Altman would probably placed second.

Then out of the three films that we watched, I liked The Long Goodbye the most. It had a sort of dark humor, while still stayed serious with a plot. There were pretty weird and confusing scenes in the movie, but it seemed as if all three films that we watched had those type of scenes. For example, strangely long shots of the half naked women or the humping dogs. The Player was an interesting story, but I lost interest quite quickly. The story moved too slowly in my opinion. Even though there was a murder, I just didn't take it very seriously. Though there were some funny scenes I liked that took place at the police station. Then the movie I really disliked was Nashville, I don't know what kind of movie that was. Random jumping from character to character. I assumed that they would eventually somehow all be closely involved in something with each other, but I was wrong. They didn't know each other, and the only connections they had were occasional conversations. If there was a plot or theme, I didn't understand it. So overall I didn't really like the films created by Altman, or his style of filming.