It really is a pleasure to watch Katharine Hepburn work. Here, she's playing the living embodiment of the Internet, 35 years before the World Wide Web would bring it to the rest of us. She and Spencer Tracy work their legendary chemistry, and a lot of fun ensues.

I especially appreciate how often Hepburn's characters maintain their dignity even in the silliest of romantic-comedies, while still being funny and engaging. She's warm, smart, and human, and in this one, she manages to convincingly portray brilliance. Unlike in Adam's Rib, the resolution does not hinge upon her being proven wrong about anything consequential. The misunderstanding at the core of the film is mostly in the background, and when it finally comes to a head, it is dispatched of in moments. No one is shown for a fool except a computer, and that's oddly prescient of the film, really.

I wonder if this qualifies as science/speculative fiction.

My first thought was: Wow, looking up random shit before the internet was weird and complicated.

My second thought was: I can't believe there's a story centering around computers replacing human labor in 1957. Like, computers are so old!

My third thought was: Holy shit the office fashions are TOO FAB.

My fourth thought was: I could listen to Katharine Hepburn all day and also look at Katharine Hepburn all day.

My fifth thought was: omg this movie is super cute.

"Santa Claus's reindeer? Uh, why yes I can... let's see, there's Dopey, Sneezy, Grouchy, Happy, Sleepy, uh Rudolph, and Blitzen!"

do you think any cute office romances like this were broken up by the invention of siri?

HER MIND!

"Santa Claus's reindeer? Uh, why yes I can... let's see, there's Dopey, Sneezy, Grouchy, Happy, Sleepy, uh Rudolph, and Blitzen!"

do you think any cute office romances like this were broken up by the invention of siri?

Quem diria que uma comédia romântica iria chutar um tema que se tornaria tão curiosamente relevante.
Atuação muito notável, comédia bem inserida (apesar de muitas cenas com sua existência questionável) história bem desenvolvida, e uma clássica rejeição egoísta humana à tecnologia servindo melhor que o homem (que não é algo ruim em si)

Dina Merrill stands out in this comedy while a Tracy & Hepburn make it fun.

Whip-smart network television research librarian Bunny Watson (Katharine Hepburn) finds her highly specialized job threatened when an efficiency expert (Spencer Tracy) begins sizing up both her brain and her office space, hell-bent on replacing the entire department with a supercomputer. Only glorious CinemaScope can truly showcase the massive scale of the “Electromagnetic Memory and Research Arithmetical Calculator” (early IBM prototypes were provided to Fox for the shoot), which is so intent on bringing Bunny and her fellow bibliosophs into complete obsolescence. This Tracy-Hepburn workplace gender comedy was their eighth of nine films together. Perfectly tailored for the duo’s renowned repartee and saturated with color throughout, Desk Set remains a cheery showcase of female workplace competency.

miss katharine hepburn is smarter than google and she looks lovely!

Drunken Katharine Hepburn is always a pleasure and the way she can do comedy and drama so effortlessly in even a minor work like this shows that she’s one of the major talents of this era.

Film #28 in my 2018 Netflix and Chill Challenge

*****

I've been putting off seeing this one for a while now... and I'm not sure why I didn't respond to it very well. It just lacked a lot of charm and luster from the screwball comedies of this time.

The best part is the chemistry between Tracy and Hepburn, of course. They spar with each other to great effect and it is highly entertaining to watch. However, it is not enough to maintain the weak plot of this particular film.

And although I enjoyed watching Tracy and Hepburn together and their scenes were quite fun, I didn't enjoy the movie as a whole. Too uneven and too thinly plotted.

Ah wells...

Watched half, Netflix removed it. Watch rest at some point.