I'm usually a big fan of old movies, and I generally like screwball comedies like The Marx Brothers but this was just annoying from start to finish. I actually have a headache after watching it all the way through.
Did anyone else feel this way?
Everyone is annoying in this movie, there's so much talking over one another, so much ear screeching voices, so much noise. I couldn't take more then 30 minutes, because I thought I was losing my sanity.
shareyes, i completely agree. i love katharine hepburn and cary grant, but this movie is like nails on a chalkboard for me. i love witty repartee (the thin man, marx brothers) and even some slapstick, but i find nothing about this funny or even tolerable to watch. i actually would like to like it, but it does absolutely nothing for me. i've forced myself to sit through it at least 3 times, but each time, i find it irritating and unfunny, and i'm not even a negative person. maybe with someone other than hepburn, it might work, but it doesn't work for me. just my opinion. if it works for you, that's good. for me, i'd rather go to the dentist than sit through this again.
shareI agree. It's unwatchable. When I was a kid she seemed a bit of a freak inspiring curiosity and silent malevolence but certainly not the sympathy that would have made a comedic connection with her possible. Like Peewee Herman. Only different.
fro some reason, i can actually tolerate Peewee Herman way more so than Hepburn in this film! he's annoying in a silly way; she's annoying in an obnoxious way.
shareHepburn's character was somewhat annoying, I agree. Too bad the director didn't give her character a little more depth, but then I guess it would have been another movie. If the overlapping dialog bothered you then don't see His girl Friday! The whole film is like that, but it is a great film anyway.
shareI think it's a very funny film. Hepburn is a bit crazy, but she's a lot more fun than cary Grant's dreary fiancee.
shareSomebody finally brought this up, and this is aimed at people who think the plot and characters make no sense. At the beginning David's fiancee makes it clear that the two of them will not be having sex after they get married, something about devotion to his career. With Susan it is just the opposite, over and over again the implication is if David and Susan get together there will be sex and lots of it. I am not going to detail how, but think about that while you watch the film. This is all pretty standard romcom stuff actually. The couple quarrels but it is plain they are attracted to each other.
To me this is what makes Hepburn's character so endearing. She likes David and she is willing to do anything to get her man.
Yeah, I can see where this (and other comedies from this era) can come off as shrill and annoying. Grant is especially annoying when he over acts and his character is dopey and passive, bossed around by the women in his life. Susan, I really like her.
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leopardk -- Your post gives me the opportunity to post this again:
Bringing Up Baby can be seen as an extended double entendre.On the surface, much of the action in the film is concerned with David's trying to find the lost dinosaur bone, the intercostal clavicle.Less obviously, but more importantly, it is concerned with whether or not David will ever find an opportunity to use his own "bone" for the major purpose for which it exists.The dinosaur bone has been removed from its box and is buried in a hole. It may be lost forever. David's own "bone" is in imminent danger of being lost(figuratively, but not literally, buried) in a sexless marriage to Miss Swallow.At the end of the film, Susan succeeds in restoring both of the "bones" to their intended functions.There is a nice irony in that if David does not lose the dinosaur bone, he may manage to get back to New York, marry Miss Swallow, and lose (the use of) his rather more important "bone."Right at the beginning of the film, the news that the missing brontosaurus bone has been discovered is followed immediately by Miss Swallow's announcement that there will be no honeymoon and no children in their marriage. So, David has found the bone from the extinct dinosaur, but it looks as if he is going to (effectively) lose his "bone," rendering his own line extinct.The movie is saturated with sex.According to Peter Bogdanovich who interviewed Howard Hawks, the scene between Hepburn and Grant right after the bone is discovered to be missing took an entire day to shoot because the actors kept breaking up. Hawks took breaks, he rewrote the scene, nothing worked. They kept breaking up.It seems the actors were very aware of the sexual innuendo in the movie. share
Nope. Nothing annoying about it. Heads above any of today's so called comedies. Speaking of annoying, Marx Brothers top my list.
shareCary Grant is my favorite actor and I like this movie but Katharine Hepburn is annoying as hell.
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