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<blockquote data-quote="Willie Oleson" data-source="post: 444190" data-attributes="member: 8">Bob &amp; Carol &amp; Ted &amp; Alice (1969)[ATTACH=full]59592[/ATTACH]When the bourgeoisie flirts with the sexual revolution and progressive thinking, cringey dramedy ensues.Every era and every generation has its own social commentary but the topics in the sixties and seventies were definitely more fun than what we have today.It&#039;s the kind of drama that allows us to laugh both with and at the characters, they&#039;re pathetic and&nbsp; likeable, the ideas are honest and&nbsp; delusional. It&#039;s Elliott Gould confessing to a past affair while noisily crunching on a mouthful of peanuts.Ideally, this film would be Dyan Cannon laughing out loud for 90 minutes straight (now there&#039;s a suggestion for a youtube edit).Natalie Wood looks gorgeous, but the strange thing about Robert Culp is that I kept thinking I was watching Peter Fonda. Maybe it was Bob&#039;s &quot;Easy Rider&quot; hairdo.The story deals with Hollywood people - or at least close enough to that circle - and had it been about more ordinary middle-class (as they would do it in British films) then I think the story may have had more bite.Apart from that I think the scenes are wonderfully staged and the performances are mostly played straight which is exactly what it takes to make a satire work.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Willie Oleson, post: 444190, member: 8"] Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice (1969) [ATTACH type="full"]59592[/ATTACH] When the bourgeoisie flirts with the sexual revolution and progressive thinking, cringey dramedy ensues. Every era and every generation has its own social commentary but the topics in the sixties and seventies were definitely more fun than what we have today. It's the kind of drama that allows us to laugh both with and at the characters, they're pathetic [I]and[/I] likeable, the ideas are honest [I]and[/I] delusional. It's Elliott Gould confessing to a past affair while noisily crunching on a mouthful of peanuts. Ideally, this film would be Dyan Cannon laughing out loud for 90 minutes straight (now there's a suggestion for a youtube edit). Natalie Wood looks gorgeous, but the strange thing about Robert Culp is that I kept thinking I was watching Peter Fonda. Maybe it was Bob's "Easy Rider" hairdo. The story deals with Hollywood people - or at least close enough to that circle - and had it been about more ordinary middle-class (as they would do it in British films) then I think the story may have had more bite. Apart from that I think the scenes are wonderfully staged and the performances are mostly played straight which is exactly what it takes to make a satire work. [/QUOTE]

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