But don't you think Ruth Hussey deserved Mike? For her awesomeness?
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flea - Feb 11, 2016 9:48:25 am PST #29727 of 30000
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Fred Pete - Feb 11, 2016 9:51:18 am PST #29728 of 30000
Ann, that's a ferret.
I disagree. Mike would have suffocated in Main Line society, and Tracy could not have adapted to Mike's workaday world. Mike belongs with Elizabeth. Tracy and Dexter work out okay, as long as Dexter dies a semi-heroic death in WWII and Tracy becomes the first woman in some previously all-male pursuit.
JZ - Feb 11, 2016 10:01:37 am PST #29729 of 30000
See? I gave everybody here an opportunity to tell me what a bad person I am and nobody did, because I fuckin' rule.
They wouldn't have fit in each other's worlds, but they could have found some middle ground, or at least bantered and necked entertainingly while ricocheting between worlds. And Ruth totally deserves Mike as well, but since it's a Romantic Comedy and it is one of the inexorable laws of (original flavor, non-deconstructed) Romantic Comedy Land that the leading lady has to end up with someone, and the leading lady is Tracy, she gets dibs on Mike because nobody else even comes close.
Maybe Ruth could get some rollicking sequel in which she herself is the leading lady and thus gets first dibs? He could even be played by Cary Grant, who does bantering reporters every bit as well as he does swanky guys. So, y'know, someone prod Miracleman or Gud or another one of our resident mad scientists into finishing up that time machine and get right on it. Because clearly there's no more important work for a time machine to do than fix Philadelphia Story.
Vonnie K - Feb 11, 2016 10:02:09 am PST #29730 of 30000
Kiss me, my girl, before I'm sick.
I always felt Tracy getting back together with her ex at the end could be interpreted in many ways. It's a little cynical -- maintenance of classicist status quo, even though it's mitigated by how charming Gary Grant is. Bittersweet because of the weight of the history between the two, and because, like Fred Pete, I don't think Tracy and Mike would have worked in the long run.
sj - Feb 11, 2016 10:12:34 am PST #29731 of 30000
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."
I unsurprisingly agree with everything JZ said.
Fred Pete - Feb 11, 2016 10:19:37 am PST #29732 of 30000
Ann, that's a ferret.
even though it's mitigated by how charming Gary Grant is
True. But Dexter seemed more suited to being a memorable fling than a long-haul guy.
megan walker - Feb 11, 2016 4:04:06 pm PST #29733 of 30000
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist
Went to see Hail, Caesar! over the weekend, which is super lightweight and meandering, but has some spot-on old Hollywood production numbers. Doesn't really hang together as a film though. Its parts are greater than its sum.
And its treatment of women is terrible. Not that it wasn't enjoyable, but damn, how do you cast Swinton, Johansson, and McDormand and not even pass Bechdel-Wallace?
Jessica - Feb 11, 2016 5:51:18 pm PST #29734 of 30000
If I want to become a cloud of bats, does each bat need a separate vaccination?
Doesn't really hang together as a film though. Its parts are greater than its sum.
Totally agree. Maybe worth the price of a matinee ticket for the Channing Tatum dance number though?
Not that it wasn't enjoyable, but damn, how do you cast Swinton, Johansson, and McDormand and not even pass Bechdel-Wallace?
YES. Unacceptable, that.
Matt the Bruins fan - Feb 11, 2016 9:42:48 pm PST #29735 of 30000
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand
Maybe worth the price of a matinee ticket for the Channing Tatum dance number though?
Oh, definitely. In addition to the dancing (which was a sure thing to be spectacular), I was surprised that Channing did a pretty good job on the singing . And that's the one scene that lives up to the advertising about this movie being a rip-roaring comedy.
Steph L. - Feb 12, 2016 7:45:25 pm PST #29736 of 30000
the hardest to learn / was the least complicated
Seriously, Deadpool: good stuff.
Predictably, some dumbasses at our 10:10 p.m. showing had 2 kids under 12 with them.