I'm not saying I've seen Japanese robots that can dance better than Julia Styles in "Save the Last Dance," but I'd bet my life they can. Yeah, I saw the movie though. If you haven't, go ahead and feel superior. Speaking of dancing and superiority, there's a burning question...of the two 80s movies where a young rebellious protagonist fights a stifling conservative authority using nothing but dance moves, which was better, "Footloose" or "Dirty Dancing"?
some points I'd like to explore:
Swayze singing on the soundtrack...so gay it's gangster?
Bacon dancing around the barn...forerunner of parkour?
Betting female sidekick to sexually asphyxiate...pregnant slut in DD or young sarah jessica parker in FL?
FL bulldozer chicken fight scene. Rad? or undermined by the fact that Bacon got his shoelace caught and did a gay ass victory dance?
Anyway, I'm looking for more meat to flesh it out before I actually write it up, so please add comments .
i feel like you have to compare villains, insofar as John Lithgow and Jerry Orbach were "villains".
ReplyDeleteolder now, i feel like they just didn't want their kids to be worthless shitbags. maybe that doesn't entirely hold true for Lithy, who was just a bible-thumping doom-spitter. but Orbach definitely had jennifer grey's best interest at heart. hmmm, i don't want my 16 year old to fall in love with/get knocked up by a 35-year-old vagabond dance instructor, so I must be the asshole. riiiiiiight.
so you're saying that there are worse places to be than in the corner. i can see that
ReplyDeletecorner? shit, once you let swayze wrap your daughter up in his mullet-tendrils she's done for. if that narrative continues then orbach's wiring them money to havana because swayze couldn't pay the rent on salsa lessons.
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