Player

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: 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: O-so-clever screenplay. Cameos. Robert Altman. Tim Robbins.
Cons: Too clever for it’s own good. Outlandish plot.

Director: Robert Altman Screenwriter: Michael Tolkin Based on Novel: “The Rapture” by Michael Tolkin Score: Thomas Newman Released By: New Line Year Release: 1992 Rated: R (language, nudity) The Player is psychological thriller abo ...

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: 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: 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: Good directing, plot, acting, and overall movie
Cons: To few to name

The movie, The Player, is directed by Robert Altman and stars Tim Robbins, who plays Griffin Mills. The movie starts out with a very intriguing shot that lasts for about eight minutes without a cut. This is a rare thing seen in Hollywood movies...

Pros: The Player offers a unique view of the Hollywood system, an honest one.
Cons: The Player conveys that success is comparable to selling out.

The Player (1992), directed by Hollywood outsider Robert Altman, follows movie executive Griffin Mill (Tim Robbins) on a moral journey. Mill questions his job security as Larry Levy (Peter Gallagher), a competitive peer, joins the studio and threatens...

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: If an actor was born, he (she) is in this movie
Cons: If an actor was born, he (she) is in this movie

The movies reflect our times, and the times then help categorize our movies; if the '70s can be defined as the decade of ("Taxi Driver", "Network", etc,) and the '80s were a 10-year coming-out party for the big blockbuster...

Pros: Good Flick
Cons: Boring beginning

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The movie, The Player, is about a Hollywood writer Griffin Mills (Tim Robbins), who is trying to save his job from a young, handsome, young man named Larry Levy(Peter Gallager). Mills has to come up with a good...

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: 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: Original, Fun, Enjoyable
Cons: Slow during some parts

I saw “The Player” in an introduction to film class that I am taking. I thought it was a great movie. I loved that there was so much more going on in the movie than just the obvious story line.

The movie revolves around a Hollywood movie...

Pros: Great acting and timing, good use of color to set moods
Cons: Bit of a slow start

The Player is a satire on the powerful players of the movie industry. Robert Altman takes on and beautifully illustrates a corrupt community that he, as a director, is a part of.

The opening scene is an 8 minute tracking shot that introduces...