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[ryanitenebrae]

So, yesterday I went to the library to find some movies to check out, and ended up with Adaptation, Adam's Rib, and Charade.

Having watched the first two this morning, I can say that both really frustrated me, but in different ways.

With Adam's Rib, which is about two married lawyers on opposite sides of a case in which a young woman has shot her

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[derivatizing]

This is because Charade is amazing, but the fact she doesn't blow out the matches being forced at her is mildly entertaining.

[ethelflaed]

Adam's Rib is. . .yeah; I like the Katherine Hepburn-ity of it but I felt like it took too light an approach to its subject and it was waaaay too concerned with letting both of the main characters win, which made the ending very stupid in some aspects.

So fun to watch, but I don't think I'll ever re-watch it.

[ryanitenebrae]

Yes. The bit from the CPA onwards I liked very much, but I hated how Tracy's teaching Hepburn a lesson was done, and I hated how Hepburn presented her entire case, because I honestly felt that equality was fairly irrelevent to the entire thing, and that all she was doing was making the idea of equal rights into something to laugh at. Tracy was pretty right about what he said, but even that was presented in a way that annoyed me. It was really fun and awesome, and I NEED more Hepburn, but I wish it had been done better.

[bookelfe]

Charade is one of my favorite films ever - it was my first introduction to Hitchcock-style witty suspense as a kid, and I totally imprinted.