Some Like It Hot 4K UHD (1959)

[dallywhitty]

This is one of those beloved titles which has been on my watchlist since the beginning of time. I've never seen it...

[Chumley]

Originally Posted by dallywhitty

This is one of those beloved titles which has been on my watchlist since the beginning of time. I've never seen it...

Reported.

[DanTheMan]

Originally Posted by dallywhitty

This is one of those beloved titles which has been on my watchlist since the beginning of time. I've never seen it...

Watch it ASAP.

[dallywhitty]

Originally Posted by Chumley

Reported.

Originally Posted by DanTheMan

[Show spoiler]

Watch it ASAP.

God, forgive me...

I'll more than likely pre-order the Kino UHD, but between this and Misery, Silence, Hard Target, Eastern Promises, etc, I'm gonna run out of dollar bills and be livin' on the street!

[ItsMrBiG]

Originally Posted by dallywhitty

This is one of those beloved titles which has been on my watchlist since the beginning of time. I've never seen it...

I watched it for the first time recently and I found it to be quite boring. I think the pacing shoulders a lot of the blame; at 132 minutes long, it just drags (pun intended) on and on. I know I am in the extreme minority here but I honestly don't understand why this movie is so beloved.

[FilmFreakosaurus]

Originally Posted by ItsMrBiG

I watched it for the first time recently and I found it to be quite boring. I think the pacing shoulders a lot of the blame; at 132 minutes long, it just drags (pun intended) on and on. I know I am in the extreme minority here but I honestly don't understand why this movie is so beloved.

Must be a generational thing. Great comedic performances by Jack Lemmon and Tony Curtis and a luminous, sultry performance by Marilyn Monroe. Captures the flavor of screwball comedies of the 30's to a tee.

[ItsMrBiG]

Originally Posted by FilmFreakosaurus

Must be a generational thing. Great comedic performances by Jack Lemmon and Tony Curtis and a luminous, sultry performance by Marilyn Monroe. Captures the flavor of screwball comedies of the 30's to a tee.

I mean, maybe? But I am damn near 50.

[FilmFreakosaurus]

Originally Posted by ItsMrBiG

I mean, maybe? But I am damn near 50.

What do you consider funny? The dialog in SLIH is sharp and witty without going low brow (and today's comedies can get to sewer level pretty quick), and it again emulates the screwball classics of the past.

Billy Wilder's The Apartment is the same way, but with much more heart (it's more of a dark comedy due to its subject matters, which were considered quite eye opening at the time) and the young and lovely Shirley MacLaine's naive, manipulated-for-sex 20-something character is someone you can sympathize with. Fred MacMurray's all-American dad is turned into a real sleazebag, and Jack Lemmon is, well, the awe shucks, heart-of-gold Jack Lemmon many audiences loved. You may like that one better.

[ItsMrBiG]

Originally Posted by FilmFreakosaurus

What do you consider funny?

Like I said previously, I think the problem for me is due mostly to the excessive runtime. 2+ hours is an issue for almost any comedy because they generally can't keep the humor going that long, so it goofs with the pacing and you get long boring stretches between jokes. I think 20-30 minutes could have easily been cut from this movie and it would have changed nothing. In the end, people are free to like what they like; this one just wasn't for me.

[pete8139]

Originally Posted by ItsMrBiG

Like I said previously, I think the problem for me is due mostly to the excessive runtime. 2+ hours is an issue for almost any comedy because they generally can't keep the humor going that long, so it goofs with the pacing and you get long boring stretches between jokes. I think 20-30 minutes could have easily been cut from this movie and it would have changed nothing. In the end, people are free to like what they like; this one just wasn't for me.

Originally was about 5 minutes longer. Published script had an additional scene on the train to Miami: following the party in the upper berth, Joe and Sugar swap berths; then Jerry climbs into the upper that Joe is in, thinking he's with Sugar. Stills of this scene have turned up in books over the years. Wilder (and test audiences) found that the scene didn't add anything, was redundant, and made the movie too long.