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Just watched this for the first time and WOW

posted 11 years ago by Cooly44
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It was really bad. Was it a hit in its day?

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[–] bigtony_2361 11 years ago

It was a major hit. For weeks!

[–] marty_jump 11 years ago

Do you think all 80's movies are bad? I'm just assuming you're 18 or younger. I was born in '86 and love the 80's/early 90s. You just had to be there to understand and appreciate it I think... Not saying I really experienced the 80s at age 3 but I grew up watching 80s movies as it wasn't that long ago then. I love Footloose

[–] koffeenkreame41-1 9 years ago

Do you think all 80's movies are bad? I'm just assuming you're 18 or younger. I was born in '86 and love the 80's/early 90s. You just had to be there to understand and appreciate it I think... Not saying I really experienced the 80s at age 3 but I grew up watching 80s movies as it wasn't that long ago then. I love Footloose

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[–] vicky_lc2001 (1907) 7 years ago

I grew up watching and loving a lot of 80s films as well. But there are a lot of popular 80s teen films I didn't care for and this is one of them, Dirty Dancing is another. I just liked the soundtrack to this film tbh.

[–] MJJslilgrl 11 years ago

What do you think is bad about it? I love it because it's a cute spirited film about standing up for what you believe in.

[–] Reephaman 11 years ago

It grossed 10 times what it cost to make, and that was just in the US. I guess that's what the accountants would call a hit.

I sort of see it as one of a clutch of kids-love-to-dance genre flicks that sprouted up during the mid 80s, along with Dirty Dancing and Shag (I kid ye not!).

[–] frogge-3 10 years ago

Sure beats the garbage they call movies these days. I will bet you liked the remake.

[–] Eyeball_Chambers 10 years ago

It was really bad. Was it a hit in its day?

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[–] lapidus1013 8 years ago

It's very cheesy but it was an enormous hit. It came out when I was in high school and my friends and I all thought it was awesome! lol

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[–] wesperkins 8 years ago

The soundtrack was amazing! Wasn't it the most successful movie soundtrack till dirty dancing came along?

[–] vicky_lc2001 (1907) 7 years ago

What about Saturday Night Fever?

[–] [deleted] 6 years ago

SNF was a far, far superior film. Films from the ‘70s are so much better than ‘80s when there was so much commercialized rubbish, like this feckless fluff.