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| eh, the movie is deeply overrated | |
| Last Edit: Chazwaza 06:02 pm EST 02/10/21 | |
| Posted by: Chazwaza 05:59 pm EST 02/10/21 | |
| In reply to: re: New "Some Like It Hot" musical heading to Broadway - Jax 03:33 pm EST 02/10/21 | |
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| A solid film and fine comedy, but truly if this is meant to be the "funniest comedies ever made", it's really lacking in the "funny" department. (For my money, if we're talking old classics and movies always defaulting to the "BEST EVER" lists, as far as story and laughs are concerned Sullivan's Travel is a significantly better comedy and better film) I am only interested in this new musical because it seems to be departing from the source. I have very little interest otherwise. |
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| re: eh, the movie is deeply overrated | |
| Posted by: huskyital (huskyital@yaho.com) 10:09 am EST 02/11/21 | |
| In reply to: eh, the movie is deeply overrated - Chazwaza 05:59 pm EST 02/10/21 | |
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| Every one to their taste.....as a 10 year old I found it howlingly funny and I still feel it is funny with Lemmon, Curtis and Marilyn at their comic peak. | |
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| re: eh, the movie is deeply overrated | |
| Posted by: comedywest 10:42 am EST 02/11/21 | |
| In reply to: re: eh, the movie is deeply overrated - huskyital 10:09 am EST 02/11/21 | |
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| and it is well written, with allusions to older movies and callbacks--I had watched it for years when I notice that the excuse Tony Curtis for dumping Sugar was to marry the heiress to the Hupmobile fortune (i.e., Ellie Winemeyer). I saw it in a theater again a few years ago, and you could tell some people were seeing it for the first time. They too were howling. |
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| re: eh, the movie is deeply overrated | |
| Posted by: singleticket 06:22 pm EST 02/10/21 | |
| In reply to: eh, the movie is deeply overrated - Chazwaza 05:59 pm EST 02/10/21 | |
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| The way Wilder lit Monroe while she is performing "I wanna be loved by you" in her Orry-Kelly dress is sheer perverse genius. The rest of it, I would agree, is a bit of a slog. | |
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| It does have the best button of any movie, ever. | |
| Posted by: tmdonahue 08:03 am EST 02/13/21 | |
| In reply to: re: eh, the movie is deeply overrated - singleticket 06:22 pm EST 02/10/21 | |
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| Joe E. Brown, upon discovering that Daphne is actually a man (Jack Lemmon), "Well, nobody's perfect." | |
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| Oh, it's pretty damn funny. However, | |
| Last Edit: PlayWiz 06:19 pm EST 02/10/21 | |
| Posted by: PlayWiz 06:18 pm EST 02/10/21 | |
| In reply to: eh, the movie is deeply overrated - Chazwaza 05:59 pm EST 02/10/21 | |
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| "Sullivan's Travels" is great, but even more flat-out funny more consistently from Preston Sturges is "The Miracle of Morgan's Creek". How it was ever able to get by the censors back then by clever writing makes it even more amazing! | |
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| Posted by: comedywest 06:23 pm EST 02/10/21 | |
| In reply to: Oh, it's pretty damn funny. However, - PlayWiz 06:18 pm EST 02/10/21 | |
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| or even Palm Beach Story or Hail the Conquering Hero...Sullivan's Travels is very dark in sports, and often very serious. | |
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| Last Edit: PlayWiz 08:26 pm EST 02/10/21 | |
| Posted by: PlayWiz 08:24 pm EST 02/10/21 | |
| In reply to: or even - comedywest 06:23 pm EST 02/10/21 | |
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| Agreed. Those are very funny films, especially the wacky "Palm Beach Story' whose hilarious but nonsensical opening during the title sequence is finally kind of explained and resolved at the film's finale. Mary Astor and Toto are especially standouts once they enter the film, though of course Claudette Colbert and Joel MacCrae were aces, with a very good indeed Rudy Vallee. | |
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| Posted by: comedywest 10:14 am EST 02/11/21 | |
| In reply to: re: or even - PlayWiz 08:24 pm EST 02/10/21 | |
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| And Lady Eve... Though most of Sturges except Christmas in July would be tough to stage. As for Some Like It Hot, like Tootsie, I'd say that if you don't like the source material, do your own musical. Or go back to an earlier source--like Servant of Two Masters--and work from there |
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