Player

Pros: Acting, writing, visuals, cameos
Cons: a bit too far fetched at times.

Robert Altman, who directed The Player, has a history of run-ins with Hollywood studios. Perhaps it should come as no surprise then that a movie that pokes fun at the film industry would be one of his best. In fact, if this was an arguement, he seems to...

Pros: Oustanding acting, cinematic tricks, homages
Cons: None

The Player directed by Robert Altman strives to express to viewers that money is the root of all evil. Griffin Mill is the leader of an evil band of Hollywood cronies, and the viewer gets to play private investigator. This goal is achieved through the ...

Pros: Fascinating and disturbing
Cons: Can't find any

Robert Altman's film "The Player" is an unsettling look at how phoney the people behind the silver screen really are. Altman dispels the myth that the film industry is all one big happy family by going so far in the opposite direction of...

Pros: created extreme thought
Cons: could be more clearer in some parts

I am currently in a college Introduction to Film class. In class we viewed the movie, "The Player", directed by Robert Altman. I found that this movie was very interesting in many different ways along with confusing. I enjoyed this movie...

Pros: The sound and color use in this movie is the best I have ever seen ,helping to blend the shots perfectly.
Cons: If you don't know your movies then "The Player" wont be as good to the veiwer.

How many of us have sat down to watch a movie, weather it be at a theater or in your home, that we have seen so many times that we have memorized the entire dialogue along with every detail of the movie? I am one of those people. What does this...

Pros: clever, vicious parody
Cons: Lyle Lovett

I absolutely LOVE this movie. I tend to like movies about the movie industry anyway, but this one is a particularly fine example. Based on the book by Michael Tolkin, it chronicles the life of one Griffin Mill [Tim Robbins], a studio executive who, in...

Pros: Excellent acting - especially Robbins / Hilarious on-target satire / Amazing cameo appearances
Cons: Some inside jokes will go over just about anyone's (include myself) head

If I were a licensed film critic (is there such a thing?), I would lose my all credibility for the following admission: I just saw "The Player" for the first time last night! Go ahead, take me off your trusted list. I do not deserve to be...

Pros: Scathingly intelligent writing, acting and direction
Cons: Why even try to find one?

Robert Altman had a long and rewarding career in Hollywood (if you forget Popeye), but fell by the wayside in the '80s (if you remember Popeye). 1992's The Player was Altman's revenge on a Hollywood completely controlled by projected grosses and test...

Pros: Intelligent and satirical insider view of Hollywood, some great cameos and hilarious spots, Tim Robbin's acting, Whoopi Goldberg improvisational scenes, Lyle Lovette looking for flies.
Cons: Like any Altman film it can be a little uneven, Not everyone will "get" the insider jokes

While I’ve read plenty about film and get glimpses of the “inside world” of film production from reading Entertainment Weekly and trade journals, gleaning insights from DVD extras, attending screenings to hear the directors talk about their...

Pros: Altman's Direction, Script, Satire, Humor, Editing, Music, & Cast.
Cons: None.

From 1970-1975, Robert Altman was truly one of cinema's most enduring and prolific directors with a style of his own. Known for his improvisational, chaotic directing, his collaboration with actors, and overlapping dialogue. Altman and the films he ...

Pros: great acting, storyline , camera work, score,
Cons: more feedback about the relationship between Mills and David's girlfriend

I watched Robert Atlman's film, The Player, for the first time in a film course that I'm taking in college and I was amazed by what a good film it was and it's signigant meaning to the film industry itself. In Altman's The Player, Hollywood excutive,...

Pros: Great acting by Robbins, great story and suspense
Cons: None

I had always heard that this was a good movie and would be much appreciated by someone who likes Hollywood and follows the entertainment business. I was not disappointed, this movie is worth seeing.

Tim Robbins plays Griffin Mill. Mill finds...

Pros: A brilliant hollywood satire.
Cons: None.

The Player is a black satire from the director of Short Cuts, M*A*S*H, and Nashville. It follows Griffin Mills (Tim Robbins), a villain we love to hate, and, ironically, our main character. Mills is getting postcards. Each one is a threat on his life,...

Pros: acting, story, pacing
Cons: nothing

The Player is one of my favorite films about the movie industry. It is a sadistic and sarcastic (and sometimes honest) glimpse into the workings of the machinery behind Hollywood. One of the aspects I find so fascinating about it is that normally for a...

Pros: Brilliant satirical look at Hollywood
Cons: a little long

The Player is directed by Robert Altman who is famous for off beat films like Nashville, Popeye, Short Cuts, Come back To The Five And Dime, Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean. Altman has always been a bit of a Hollywood outsider. He has never directed a "block...