I found this movie to be very tedious and at times unbearable because of the music. I think Altman did a good job of evoking a setting and some of the characters stories were interesting, but he could have done all that with a 1/2 of the mind numbing musical performances in the movie. Most of the singers aren't that good at all, and perhaps the best is the song "it don't worry me" which is performed at the very very end of the movie. The lack of a plot didn't help matters either, but I was willing to let that slide as a cohesive story was not really what Altman was driving at. However, at about the 1 and a half hour mark I was starting to get impatient and by the 2 hour mark I was hitting fast forward whenever someone was singing. I can understand why Altman is seen as a radical director and how his move to realism was very influential to other directors, but that still doesn't make this a fun movie to watch. If you are a fan of country music you are much more inclined to like this movie (I however am not and would advise anyone looking to see an example of Altman's film-making to look elsewhere). If this movie was shorter and had less music I would have enjoyed it much more then I did. Watch only if you are in the mood for it.
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