What is so good about dirty dancing??

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Jelli B

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I was just wondering what all the "hype" is about dirty dancing? I watched it a few months back and i didn't even get it. It just made me drift off to sleep.

Yet to most people it seems to be there favorite film of all time? and i'm:confused::confused:.

So can anyone tell me what is so great about it? Because i don't see it
 
Yes i also agree. i watched it on Five a few weeks ago and didnt see what was so wonderful about it. Grease is much better and some of the other 80's music films like Footloose are better. DD doesnt have much plot and the last 15 mins is just people dancing around to Time Of My Life!
 
Maybe you had to see it when it first came out? I remember it well. It was like Dirty Dancing mania. The music was superb and Swayze was just about the hottest thing around at the time too.

It doesn't have the same effect as me watching again nowadays either but it did something very strange to us girlies years ago.
 
Indeed it did. Remember the scene where they're getting it on to "Cry to Me" ? They start dancing and then Patrick Swayzee pulls Jennifer Grey's top off. Fab! Ahem...:o

Actually I don't think it's a great film or even a good film. It's not meant to be. It's a purely dance film with a bit of wholesome sexiness (but not too much of course) thrown in to get the hormones going of us 1980's teenyboppers.

The storyline is daft. But the dancing is great and JG and PS are great in those roles. It's a purely feel-good, get up and dance and feel the happy vibes kind of film. It's frothy fun with a couple of 'serious issues' thrown in that make absolutely no difference to the frothiness.

I still love this film even though I know it's not great.
 
I agree entirely, it's not the same watching it now, it all seems cheesy and corney. At the time I thought it was wonderful. Who can forget the line - "Nobody puts baby in a corner" ? I cringe when I see that bit now :rolleyes:
 
It is as cheesy as hell now isn't it. lol Autumn Gal is spot on - it was never a great film but it just did something to us back then. Every single one of us hormonal raging girls would have sacrificed our grannies to be 'Baby' just for a moment.

Then there was Ghost and we all went a little bit more mental for Swayze. Then, all of a sudden we realised how very cheesy (and short) he was and went off him on masse.


(In fact, it's crossed my mind since that the film was wholly unrealistic because shouldn't he have been done for kiddly fiddling? She was only 15 and he was meant to be in his 20s wasn't he?)
 
i found the storyline, really boring and the dancing was ok but i've seen better choreographed dances that are in movies. Hmm..maybe it was just we're not in the era of 'dirty dancing mania'

im sure when i'm older a lot of people will be wondering why everyone loved high school musical so much lol
 
The dancing (obviously). But aside from Patrick Swizzlehips and Jen Grey, mention should also be made of Gynthia Rhodes, she is breathtaking in her dance scenes.

The songs. The soundtrack is blistering.

The love story. When you think about it and Eleanor Bernstein says in her narration, to believe that someone like Johnny would fall for a plain-Jane like Baby was really pushing the envelope. Which of us girls would not have given our eye-teeth to be 17, catch the eye of the holiday hottie dancer and have him fall for us. She won him over with her spirit and as he says showed him about "the kind of person he wanted to be".

I love this film.
 
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