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Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Binding: DVD
EAN: 9780792172543
Format: Anamorphic, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
ISBN: 079217254X
Label: Paramount
Manufacturer: Paramount
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Paramount
Region Code: 1
Release Date: May 22, 2001
Running Time: 121 minutes
Sales Rank: 5097
Studio: Paramount
Theatrical Release Date: June 24, 1970
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Joseph Heller's novel was one of the seminal literary events of the 1960s, but Mike Nichols's film ultimately proved too literal in its attempt to bring Heller's fragmented fiction to the screen. Still, Nichols, who made this on the heels of The Graduate, seemed the ideal candidate to tackle this Buck Henry adaptation. The story deals with bomber pilot Yossarian (Alan Arkin), who has flown enough missions to get out of World War II but can't because the number of missions needed for discharge keeps getting raised. The satire and absurdity of Heller's book get lost in Nichols's effort to give screen time to the members of his all-star cast, which includes Orson Welles, Jon Voight, Bob Newhart, Anthony Perkins, Richard Benjamin, and Martin Sheen, among others. --Marshall Fine
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Rating:  - I don't want to fly anymore, I want to go home
Catch-22 DVD
Catch-22 is based on Joseph Heller's novel about an American air base in the Mediterranean during World War II. Again, if you are a reader IMHO the book Joseph Heller's Catch-22 (Barron's Book Notes) is better, the movie quicker, Starring Alan Arkin and Martin Balsam.
Recommended for fans of Alan Arkin and Martin Balsam.
Gunner February, 2008
Rating:  - Go Around!
Here goes another review of another movie but this time I would like to include the shock I had at the first time I ever saw this one. Not at all like any movie before or after it....
War is the same no matter who what where when why and how it happens and this war movie takes place during the second World War. WWII. The whole world has gone mad and is bent on killing as many people as possible in the shortest time available.
From an American's view the movie has all the right stuff as far as locations and folks involved but more it gives characters that seem to square peg the typical people you would expect from America.
In theory this is a war movie but in fact it's about the only take we can expect from the world at war.... There's some Psychiatry involved here that may leave you a little out of the loop a couple of times but I'm sure if you search long and hard enough you'll come up with your own enlightenment like I did.
The story goes thus... there's this guy that gets a real good look at the madness and chaos and conspiracy of flying bombing missions for the current United States Air Force and takes his own take on the foolishness of having to fly more and more dangerous missions with no proper replacement. This movie is named about a very touchy subject and thus the reason for my vague review....
My take is there's Catch 1 through one hundred and Catch 22 is the 22nd book in the series... that's my own opinion after years of studying this movie for a basis ... Read More
Rating: - Military madness
Heller's black comedy about the absurdities and the variegated kaleidoscopic insanities that you may find out, after four years of combat. A bombardier group stationed in Italy during the WW1.But there's just a golden rule Catch 22, you may not certify you re mad juts to stop flying missions. On the contrary, you must be mad to fly in more than the usually assigned number of missions.
In this state of things, every man creates his own world of desperation and isolation, one of them Milo (Jon Voight) finds the golden opportunity to establish fruitful trades exchanging invaluable war supplies by silk or statues. But in this sense every man creates his own paradise of evasion and illusion as striving's device.
After "Dr. Strangelove", we had not watched such gallery of lunatic characters absolutely alienated by the War. The only minor default is the film works out as a surrealistic collection of brilliant and acidic vignettes, but the entire film lacks cohesion. However, the presence of Yossarian (Alan Arkin) as the only soldier who tries to see clearly the events, makes this movie a worth seeing.
One of my everlasting cult movies ever made.
Rating:  - Unwatchable.
Gorgeously photographed in grainy, sun-drenched CinemaScope, and peopled by some of Hollywood's finest actors, it is incredible what an absolutely grating experience Catch-22 is.
We are supposed to be watching a parody of leadership in war and the absurd paradoxes that one faces given such inhumanity. Unfortunately, Catch-22 makes a mockery of mockery. This is a film that tries so hard to be hip and subversive that it winds up being the worst kind of pandering, preachy tripe. If it were GENUINELY absurd then it would be a masterpiece -- but the Buck Henry/Mike Nichols "ironic" touch ruins any chance at that.
Rating: - italy is a weak country
Film is similar to the following review--takes a bunch of material, edits until bored and releases the product.
Film repeats two flash backs--primary character Yossarian gets stabbed with a knife and another scene in which airman named Snowden having been injured in flight receives comfort from Yossarian. I do not understand why those two scenes are important.
weather conditions have improved. you will have no trouble seeing the target. of course that means they will have no trouble seeing you. anyone who wants out of combat duty is not crazy. at 5 cents a piece, and clear profit of 2 cents an egg. oranges, olive oil, blankets. what will be good for M&M enterprises will be good for the country. cotton is a particularly liquid commodity. we'll trade for it. silk. a hell of a good deal in Alexandria.
the syndicate is organized by an acting mess officer named Milo who trades his unit's supplies for other commodities. in one scene, the home airfield is being destroyed by the unit's own bombers. Milo had made a deal with Germans who would buy Milo's oversupply of indian cotton in exchange for making it appear that the Germans successfully attacked the US base. the syndicate theme extends to silk parachutes, airplane's morphine stolen and sold by the syndicate. as one prostitute says "everyone works for Milo."
Capt Major is promoted to squadron commander--rank of major. Maj Major will only see people in his office when he is not there. if he is in ... Read More
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