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M*A*S*H

...captures the insanity of war by placing lewd, comic set-pieces alongside graphic military hospital operations.

One of the reasons "MASH" is so funny is that it's so desperate. It is set in a surgical hospital just behind the front lines in Korea, and it is drenched in blood.

...may be the definitive pop-fiction movie about Vietnam made while the war was still ongoing (all references to Korea were, essentially, inserted at the demand of 20th Century Fox suits)...

Robert Altman’s breakthrough film, the one that taught us what “Altmanesque” means, casts its satire and ridicule far and wide, and some of the laughs and performances have aged well enough to matter

Its series of wacky antics – including the pseudo suicide of a well-endowed dentist and golfing in Japan -- resemble nothing so much as a series of TV shows.