Linbeymusol Wonderful character development!

Incannerax What a waste of my time!!!

InformationRap This is one of the few movies I've ever seen where the whole audience broke into spontaneous, loud applause a third of the way in.

Nicole I enjoyed watching this film and would recommend other to give it a try , (as I am) but this movie, although enjoyable to watch due to the better than average acting fails to add anything new to its storyline that is all too familiar to these types of movies.

wilsonld-1 I saw this movie some years ago and never forgot it. I really like the way the characters are developed. They are quirky and flawed, but understandably human. It has an excellent sound track also which I found hauntingly flowed throughout the move and added to the story line. I recently saw another movie by Robert Altman called "Nashville" which again reminded me of "Welcome to LA". It has many of the same actors and the same piano player, Richard Baskin. Again I find the characters very interesting with interwoven plots as part of the story line. Just like real life we see the good and bad in people. I also enjoy the parady of typical character types. It is obvious but in my opinion, not overdone.

J. Wellington Peevis I cannot begin to explain how terrible this movie is. The characters are all to a person lobotomized caricatures of some race of extinct humans no museum will ever display, and the sordid storylines weren't any of them, worth telling. Among its many plain vanilla amateurish mistakes and misfires, there is in this film, a classic example of cinematic badness. I believe it would be considered the climax? Maybe I'm wrong. Anyway, music and musicians are sort of important to the `plot'. Carradine is frustrated, over luded songwriter. Of course the soundtrack and incidental music is so unbelievably bad, and inappropriate, that it was slowly grating my nerves to Romano cheese. Here's the bad part, roughly 3/4 of the way through, a bunch of the characters who are sort of interrelated, come together at a recording session, to hear this guy who aint really in the movie other than this scene, record a tune. You are then assaulted with this incredibly bad, I mean like Gong show bad singer, who belts out a 10 minute tune that Joni Mitchell might throw together if you struck her in the head with a leaded croquet mallet. But just the whole scene, the director doing these montages, spliced with the people grooving away to this sad example of musical mediocrity, in the studio really made me want to break something. In fact, I have to see it again, just to relive that intense emotion. The 70s have always seemed to me in many ways just a huge embarrassment for humanity, especially this nation. I watch a movie like this and those thoughts are totally reinforced. You like Sissy Spacek? I never really did, but she walks through a scene topless, and its pretty doggone good.

molefsky Without question the worst movie I have ever seen. No plot, disjointed. The singing was terrible, the songs inane. Seeing a young Sissy Spacek was the only thing of interest. The costumes were ridiculous, what was it with that hat. A total train wreck.

filmgoer-5 Twenty-three years after seeing this movie for the first time, my initial impressions still remain. What really sinks the movie is the TRULY AWFUL vocal delivery of Richard Baskin on the soundtrack. Had to go for the mute button every time. The only reason I even checked it out again was for Sissy, one of our best actresses. She's good, but her next Altman film 3 Women is more provocative. Welcome to L.A. -- Nashville it ain't!