OP, it didn't affect me that strongly, lol, but movies generally don't affect me quite that strongly. But I don't like it at all, and find it annoying, and I like Grant, Hepburn, and screwball comedy just fine. Those elements just don't gel for me in this one. I think there needed to be a character, like Lombard's elder sister in "My Man Godfrey", to prick Hepburn's bubble of utter self-regard, to make her a bit more sympathetic and less annoying. Also, in MMG, Lombard's character, by the end, shows some signs of awareness of the world outside herself and her own world-actually those signs were scattered through the film, and Godfrey himself was obviously going to be a help to her there, as he'd learned the hard way for himself in coming back to the world after dissappointments in his own life had made him drop out of that world of wealth and frivolity. I don't say that every movie needs to have a "message" (I believe it was Samuel Goldwyn, known for his "Golwynisms" who said "If you want to send a message, use Western Union", and I completely agree with the sentiment), but somebody in the movie needs to be relateable, if not sympathetic, or at least one of the unlikeable characters, if none are sympathetic, needs to be able to burst the bubble of pomposity, cluelessness, or whatever grating characteristic, of another character, and I imagine that was especially true during the Depression. People loved seeing the world of wealth and privilege then (consider the popularity of Fred's and Ginger's Art Deco splendors in many of their films, besides the otherworldly dancing, the romance, Ginger's accessability and Fred's self-deprecating characters), but they also needed assurance that their own values mattered, or else those movies would have been unbearable.
BUB is unbearable, for me. Hepburn's character's self-regard is never really tested, which makes it unbearable, for me, and Grant's cluelessness makes his naivete absolutely painful, with no relief.
The word I see most often in negative opinions of this film is "forced", and somehow, without further expansion, it fits.
I've never seen an Adam Sandler performance of any kind in my life, don't like most contemporary films much less comedies, but love studio-era films, including comedies, including screwball. I like Grant and Hepburn in other films, including comedies, including fast-paced ones (ie His Girl Friday), and I live in the suburbs. I just don't like BUB, that's all.
What we're dealing with here... is a complete lack of respect for the law.
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9 years ago
mrsmel-140-231890 wrote:
What we're dealing with here... is a complete lack of respect for the law.
LOLAnd you have a problem with that?It is a hilarious movie.
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