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Originally Posted by The Batlord
Nah, it's boring. Maybe the idea was fresh at the time, but cross dressing humor has been done so many times since in movies that it's no longer particularly funny, and Marilyn puts on her best dumb blonde impression that has not aged well at all. Just because a movie was funny in the 50s doesn't mean we're obligated to find it funny decades after it was actually relevant.
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I don't think cross dressing humor was any fresher in 50s. I mean Shakespeare was playing it for laughs 400 years before that. But regardless, yeah, I didn't laugh a single time when saw
Some Like it Hot—and I saw it under great circumstances at an event hosted by Roger Ebert. Still, no laughs. The only humor I remember from that movie that wasn't threadbare cross dressing humor was them making fun of 1920s fashions—talk about jokes that haven't aged well.