57.5 – Why Don’t We Watch This – The Lady Eve

In which we continue our summer of watching things that are good but we haven't all seen by watching Preston Sturges's 1941 screwball comedy The Lady Eve, starring Barbara Stanwyck and Henry Fonda and a cartoon snake. Also we use this movie as a jumping off point to talk about our thoughts on screwball comedies (good!) and the weird way Nancy Meyers structures her movies so that you can't tell where you actually are in the plot (I mean, your mileage may vary!). Also next episode we'll do a complete 180 and talk about a very big and loud action movie, but for now just listen to us all talk about how much we like a movie whose plot twist is predicated on an action being so outlandish that it circles back around and becomes believable again. Good stuff! Continue reading →