Stewart: Why, they couldn't pay me to live in a place like this.

No, Lombard's character is too much of a spoiled cry-baby to be an MPDG, and she is thus much funnier and more human than any MPDG. She has more to learn from Godfrey than he has to learn from her.

Of course His Girl Friday was originally The Front Page, in which Hildy was a man and there was no romantic relationship between the leads. But yes, in some ways I can see Cary Grant in that film as a male equivalent of the Hepburn and Lombard characters in Bringing Up Baby and Godfrey, though it probably wasn't…

Yeah, Darjeeling doesn't treat India and its people as magical negroes sent to provide our heroes with enlightenment. They are all secondary characters in the film, but they have just as much humanity and ambiguity as the main characters. The sweet-lime girl, for instance, uses Schwartzman just as much as he uses her,…

Thanks, Mike. You say very succinctly here what I was laboring to say above. That's it exactly.

My only problem with SLP was that it seemed like two different movies — the first half was a gritty, somewhat disturbing look at mental illness with elements of dark comedy; the second half then became something closer to a screwball rom-com. It did both of those things pretty well, but I found it slightly jarring.

Dickish replies aside, I want to echo what the OP says. I don't know if The Lady Eve is necessarily better than Godfrey — they're both pretty much perfect. But Stanwyck might be the greatest film actress OR actor I've ever seen, and this movie would be Exhibit A in that argument.

I need him like the axe needs the turkey.

I think the screwball movies are better because the man and the woman are on equal footing as a comedy team. The woman may be crazier and more demanding than her male partner but her desires are treated as being just as important as his, and she gets just as many good lines, if not more.

I'll take Lombard over Lake because she's one of the primary comic motors in Godfrey, whereas Lake is mainly just eye candy in Sullivan's Travels.

I don't know what the technical definition of screwball requires, but the inspired silliness of Lombard's character here certainly meets my definition.

Both Bringing Up Baby and My Man Godfrey end with the hero not so much reformed or enlightened by his relationship with the MPDG, but finally just succumbing out of bewildered exhaustion with her antics.

I do recall being shocked that Reunion got a B on this site. That was right around the time that the show started getting graded on a ridiculous curve.

The male characters are just as screwed up as the female characters, if not more so.

I hope that person doesn't see this comment thread. An unusual amount of Wes-hatin' is a-transpirin' here.

A Wes Anderson film "with the wit, heart, humor, and characterization removed" is not a Wes Anderson film.

Lots of people wanted to punch the Rushmore kid in the face — like, other characters in the film. That's a feature of the character, not a bug.

I've always thought Life Aquatic was easily his worst, despite some beautiful and/or hilarious sequences. I love all his other films, including Darjeeling, which is apparently the most-hated one around these parts.

I'm down with that. I think I agree that Argus wasn't too great. I'd probably have to see it again. "Stone Mountain" was probably the only time I've found myself agreeing with one of Nabin's C grades, but even that one had some interesting ideas behind it. The Jeff Dunham appearance was unfortunate, but I did like the…

THANK YOU. I wasn't even going to bring up "Hey Baby What's Wrong" because I always get shouted down over it. I remember watching that and thinking it was a surefire A or A minus, then coming here and hearing from Nabin (as well as many commenters) that it was an unwatchable slog. The main recurring complaint is that…