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Old 09-12-2016, 02:55 PM   #17661 (permalink)
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Maybe not, but I don't think it's fair to compare a movie's humor to things that copied it years after its release. Besides, it was my first Marilyn Monroe movie, and my second Tony Curtis movie. It was pretty hilarious seeing a Spartacus actor cross dress since he was so serious in Spartacus.
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Old 09-12-2016, 03:05 PM   #17662 (permalink)
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Maybe not, but I don't think it's fair to compare a movie's humor to things that copied it years after its release. Besides, it was my first Marilyn Monroe movie, and my second Tony Curtis movie. It was pretty hilarious seeing a Spartacus actor cross dress since he was so serious in Spartacus.
Of course it's fair. If there's one genre on Earth that can be judged in hindsight, it's comedy. If you've seen it before it's probably not going to be as funny as the first time, and since everything about Some Like It Hot is now old hat, it is now unfunny. However good it might have been back in the day is irrelevant.
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Old 09-12-2016, 03:24 PM   #17663 (permalink)
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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.
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.
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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.
Was anyone else laughing?
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Was anyone else laughing?
I don't remember actually. I don't think any of the people I was with were laughing.
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I don't remember actually. I don't think any of the people I was with were laughing.
That movie is to "Best of" comedies lists what Sgt. Pepper is to Rolling Stone lists: always at the top, and most likely because of fogey critic nostalgia, mindless elitism, and just being too scared to challenge convention.
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That movie is to "Best of" comedies lists what Sgt. Pepper is to Rolling Stone lists: always at the top, and most likely because of fogey critic nostalgia, mindless elitism, and just being too scared to challenge convention.
You know what other movie is like that? Duck Soup. Not a laugh to be found.
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Duck Soup was really funny. It's really just everyone of the Marx's personas that made it funny. Greatest ever? I wouldn't say so. But still great.
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Duck Soup was really funny. It's really just everyone of the Marx's personas that made it funny. Greatest ever? I wouldn't say so. But still great.
For a really funny movie it's really not funny.
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You know what other movie is like that? Duck Soup. Not a laugh to be found.
I'll agree with you on Some Like it Hot but you shut your goddamn whore mouth about Duck Soup.
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