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samfenn

'Suppose the stock market crashes?'

12 years 4 months ago

coral_ck

Only Billy Wilder is awesome enough to give the most memorable line in a movie to a minor character and still have it make perfect sense!

12 years 10 months ago

Atsjonas

Best comedy ever made. The newer comedies can just dream to be one tenth as good as this movie!

14 years 1 month ago

I went into this movie wondering how a man in womans clothing could be rated so highly. It started out strongly an there were a lot of laughs, and I am glad that it moved past the simple gags of the train and moved to a more interesting and somewhat serious plotline. Having never seen Monroe in a full movie, I understand her appeal now. Like so many of the 'top films' it was impressive to see so many progressive topics in a movie still officially under the banner of the hays code.

5 years 3 months ago

hirv

Normaly I totally dislike "guys acting girls"-movies like White chicks... But this one was really good!!!! Final punch line - Among the most funniest things I've heard!!!!!!

12 years 5 months ago

phoenixrising

How can anyone dislike this? One of my favourite comedies ever.

12 years 9 months ago

frankqb

It's refreshing to watch a comedy that doesn't speak down to nor beneath its audience. Here is a film filled to the bursting brim with witty one-liners and double-entendres. There is nearly nothing to criticize about this film save for a mediocre plot resolution (that was really just the means to its comedic ends anyhow).

Jack Lemmon is delightful in his role as his screen counterpart tends to forget that he's only playing a woman. Tony Curtis' methods of wooing the divine Marilyn Monroe are hysterical at worst.

Yes, one must allow for the passing of time to appreciate some of the jokes which to a modern audience may seem stale and outdated, but I can only imagine the fits of laughter this film caused in its original theatrical run. Stitches indeed.

The funniest film ever? Quite possibly.

12 years 10 months ago

Siskoid

Some Like It Hot stars Tony Curtis, Jack Lemmon and Marilyn Munroe in a cross-dressing farce that's a hoot and a half. It's very full narrative, with Prohibition era gangsters looking to kill two musicians who must therefore join an all-girl band to hide out. Both initially fall for Munroe's ditzy vamp, though only Curtis manages to entice her as a man, conning her into believing he's a yachting millionaire who needs her special brand of Viagra, while Lemmon must settle for an actual millionaire who's fallen for his/her gams... This is now an iconic film for the LGBT community, isn't it? It ought to be! Having been made in 1959, you'd think its gender politics would be just shy of black face, but not at all. The men respect their new genders (despite acting like lascivious teenagers) and the sapphic/homoerotic shenanigans are treated as harmless whimsy, not something to be disgusted by. The same can be said for the less-than-honest seduction scenes and the gangland killing. A very funny script by director Billy Wilder that had me chuckling frequently.

8 years 9 months ago