I just love this movie and boy do i hate the TV-Series. I do admit that Alan Alda & Co in the first series captured at least some of the humor from the movie but it was quickly restored to the kind of quick jokes/smart remarks which really makes me sick of American comedy series ("Friends"!! arrrgggghhh). The series just doesn't get it. I mean, Hawkeye hates war! He hates the army! And most of all he hates the fate that put him in a weird country with weird people where he is supposed to do wonders with (often) bare hands. He compensates for this by adopting a twisted humor and playing practical jokes galore, but really he wants to be anywhere else. This movie has, together with "Kelly's Heroes" and "Catch 22", a refreshing look at war which is a pleasant antidote to the heroic type of war movies (The Green Berets for instance). Regarding earlier remarks regarding Frank Burns. Well what is there to say, i personally, not being a pacifist by hart, would have beaten the crap out of him, and if anybody REALLY think, that he is one of the nicest people in the movie, then i can understand the trouble that is plaguing USA, i mean, a more full blown hypocrite has never been portrayed on movie!!
