Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice

Really good performances by the male leads and a somewhat fascinating glimpse into the past.

Witty, perceptive period piece; a rare film that captures its own time and place with honesty and clarity, delving into the philosophy of the 'generation of love' as practical reality collides and intrudes. While the lion's share of great scenes and moments belong to an extraordinary Cannon, the hilarious climactic moments are about as good example of a terrific cast bouncing perfectly off each other as there has ever been. The very last scene is the perfect caustic rejoinder!

A precursor to mumblecore

Saying this movie is dated would be missing the point, as it's explicitly about the time it's set, though its larger themes remain applicable. It's a comedy about ideals crashing into reality, and gets funnier as the characters contort themselves to shoehorn their ideals into their circumstances.

A Satirical comedy about The Sixties' free love and sexual freedom or "How I became a swinger". RIP Natalie Wood.

Didn't make much impression on me. Thought it would be way more interesting.

A brilliant satire of the sexual revolution and the idea of free love. A hilarious and moving journey. Can't lose with Elliott Gould or Natalie Wood.

Maybe the times have changed, but this feels way more earnest than comedic, and I feel I'd prefer this empathetic angle rather than a snide one. On the topic of polyamory, it really walks a tight-rope that gets thinner and thinner, yet never falls one way or the other -- in fact, backed by What the World Needs Now Is Love, the ending is a great encapsulation of the nebulous position love was in back in '69 (and most probably now as well).

Although I really wanted to see this, I was surprised by how much I liked it. Just great all around. Funny, tense when it needs to be, very well acted. Definitely a movie of its time, but is that really a bad thing?

It starts with Handel accompanied by a funky Quincy Jones drum track. That completely sets the tone of the movie.

Another blah Mazursky film

https://esperwatchesfilms.tumblr.com/post/643975253189656576/bob-carol-ted-alice-1969

You get a fascinating glimpse of characters who themselves get to see one another for who they are--which essentially means they realize that one another have a high tolerance for friends acting like a-holes. I get in a way that it acts as a time capsule and satire for the late 1960's. But you could conceivable do all that and have yourself surrounded by characters you'd actually like to spend time with. On top of everything, this is a poorly scripted and edited movie. Avoid at all costs.

I feel that this is very goofy. :D

This was a really interesting movie that explored the hippy ideas of free love and their devastating consequences. Surprised the PSI for this wasn't higher.

Natalie Wood is ravishing, Robert Culp amusing, but overall the film is poorly paced and I have a real problem with both Elliott Gould and Dyan Cannon as actors.

https://letterboxd.com/ladyspiggott/film/bob-carol-ted-alice/

Boring and stupid.

Warm, hilarious, and to use Bob's word "beautiful."

Raunchy, well performed and exceptionally well written.

A tricky one to judge; I was damn tired and nodded off a couple of times...but there were definitely parts that seemed slow-going to me. And the subject matter--the sexual mores of the late 60s as experienced by two different couples--hasn't aged terribly well. Nonetheless, it manages to be perceptive and engaging most of the time, thanks in part to strong performances by the titular quartet (Dyan Cannon especially), good writing and directing, and funky Handel over the opening montage.

There they were, four in the bed. It was one of the essential self-publicizing images of the late 1960s. But Paul Mazursky, the director, was wise enough as a dramatist to know that only a part of us wants that looseness. The rest cries out for security, habit, and ownership. So in the history of sophisticated sexual comedy (which comes to an end not long after this film), Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice is a nice, enjoyable portrait of the tricks we play on ourselves.

California hippieish upper classers in the 60s doing their thang. It's played in a fine line between satire and a more serious treatment, I guess because commiting would not be very open minded. Alas, this is a Mazurky show so there's conflict but no depth, and it's all handled so uncritically that at the end it borders on propaganda. Nevertheless, funnyish.