It's No Mystery Why The Thin Man Is So Entertaining When It's Lead Performances Are So Enjoyable

My first thought after finishing my first ever viewing of the 1934 thriller The Thin Man was "Wow, what an enjoyable film!". My second thought after finishing my first ever viewing of the 1934 thriller The Thin Man was "Thank God Johnny Depp never got to star in a remake of this." Depp was slated to play the lead character of these Thin Man movies Nick Charles in a Rob Marshall directed motion picture back in 2011/2012 and good gravy, that just sounds like a disaster waiting to happen. Just imagine Mortdecai waltzing around in the 1930's solving crimes while wearing an assortment of funny hats and making goo-goo eyes at an actress at least twenty years younger than him. Jesus Christ, I'm almost certain that's what his Thin Man movie would have ended up as.

Bringing Up Baby Is A Highly Entertaining Comedy, Screwball Or Otherwise

The screwball comedy was as prominent a fixture of movie screens in the 1930's as knock-off's of Porky's were in the 1980's or knock-off's of The Hangover were right after that Todd Phillips movie hit it big at the box office. "Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery" as they say and whenever a big comedy strikes gold at the box office, there's bound to be successive movies all too happy to flatter that successful project by way of mimicry. Is it any surprise then that we had a lot of screwball comedies competing for eyeballs during the 1930's given how many of them were turning out to be true blue moneymakers?