O.C. and Stiggs (1985)

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oc & stiggs is not all that bad
by ThomasJeffersonGeronimo in ThomasJeffersonGeronimo Blog

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"I haven't watched OC & Stiggs in a while, and discovered it accidentally in the first place. But as a fledging Altmaniac, seeing the hate this one gets everywhere I kind of feel a need to defend it. It's meanly funny at times, and sometimes totally lame. While you can often accuse Altman, even in his better works, of condescension to his subjects and audience, I think OC & Stiggs is more mature than it's credited for. Whether Altman was going for it or not, the film captures the futile (if sometimes actually righteous) anger of teens, the sad bonds of outsider friendship and pending adulthood, and the hyprocrises and prejudices or the "grown-up" world. The only film I can think of on a similar wavelength is Duck! The Carbine High Massacre (1999), a basically homemade "spoof" of the Columbine Shootings (with Skinemax regular Misty Mundae) which is somehow actually funny and poignant. OC & Stiggs is no classic, but, accidental though it may be, it has surprising humo ... " [More]

O.C. and Stiggs (1987, USA, Rob ...
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"O.C. and Stiggs is a movie about two people so pathetic that they cannot even succeed at being annoying. The picture is considered by just about everyone to be one of the worst films by Robert Altman, if not the worst. It was so bad that the studio didn't even release until two years after it was completed. It is so boring that I dare anyone to sit through it without financial compensation. The two title characters are so similar and interchangeable that it's difficult to tell them apart. Oliver Cromwell (Daniel Jenkens) and Mark Stiggs (Neil Barry) are two teenagers who just want to have fun and get laid. There definition of fun (other than sex, of course) is to play practical jokes and insult people. They are not unlike Hawkeye and Trapper John from M*A*S*H, except for the fact that the characters in that film were adults acting like teenagers, instead of teenagers acting like cartoons characters (that, and Donald Sutherland and Elliot Gould are actually talented). Stiggs and O.C ... " [More]

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