Some Like It Hot: Classic, Dud or Something Inbetween?

The train scenes are great; they fit in with the 'great setup' idea for me as they make you squirm, feel turned on, uncomfortable etc.
That part's beautifully written.

It was "Jack & Sarah" hat finished us off for good though. I've never been able to stand Richard E. Grant since. He has a one trick pony expansive smile and errr...that's it.

Some Like It Hot is hysterical except for the violent stuff. Billy Wilder said his original idea was just a comedy based around the Valentine's Day Massacre. I think he should have left that element out once he hit on the Marilyn Monroe and cross-dressing material. Or at least not made it SO brutal (especially that big speech by the mob boss in the climax).

the dvd interview with tony curtis is completely priceless and impossible to describe.

Lemmon and Curtis are definitely his best leading pair, though (with Ed G Robinson and Fred MacMurray in Double Indemnity a close second).

roolz over Tootsie

bet Sotosyn is annoyed by the great Joe E Brown

nobody's perfect

this is on pbs right now.

i don't understand the plot yet. why are there only women on this train? because they are a band? did jack lemmon and tony curtis dress up as women just so they could sneak on the train and perv on the women?

iirc they're jazz musicians who witnessed the st. valentine's day massacre, then disguised themselves as women and joined up with a touring band to try to avoid mob reprisal: comedy ensues

that makes more sense. marilyn monroe just said she joined this band to get away from male saxophone players. she gets into relationships with them and then they rob her; this has happened six times in the past two years.

this guy who is like sixtyish years old just said that his mom made him divorce his last wife because she smoked. this movie is nuts.

Joe E Brown, goddammit

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I want to hear Treeship's final verdict.

This was the first film I got on DVD.

There was something in that cake that didn't agree with him.

My compliments to the chef. Nobody leaves the room until I get the recipe.

[tango music stinger]

Just started doing a Nehemiah Persoff Little Bonaparte imitation but my daughter, who is familiar with the movie and saw the Broadway musical on Thursday, said there was no such character in the show.

Wait, Grace Lee Whitney is supposedly in this?

Seems so.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hw1t7OCESUw

Supposedly one of the virtuosos in the Society Syncopators.

TS: "Some Like it Hot" vs "Addicted to Love"

I watched this with my college friend and his parents in their apartment in Naples FL. He and I were out to each other at the time, but not to our parents. His parents loved the film and wanted to show it to us. They were delighted by it. They were nice people and I tried to laugh, but it made me cringe and I was so embarrassed. I still can’t stand the film

Hmm. The Grace Lee Whitney thing is mentioned several places but nothing totally convincing.

I watched this with my college friend and his parents in their apartment in Naples FL. He and I were out to each other at the time, but not to our parents. His parents loved the film and wanted to show it to us. They were delighted by it. They were nice people and I tried to laugh, but it made me cringe and I was so embarrassed. I still can’t stand the film

― Dan S

I love Jack Lemmon, especially when he holds maracas. Both actors are so willing to go even more queer than the script allows.

Picture sort of looks like her but…