"Dirty Dancing is the worst movie ever."
Definitely not!
Dirty Dancing is not a masterpiece classic, but it deserves its place in the world. And even as a movie, it's not THAT bad, it's just a typical cliché-story chick-flick, with some funny and fun parts and a lot of entertainment value and nostalgy (for eighties as well as earlier decades that the movie portrays).
There are many things that make it worth watching/having/existence - and I definitely can't understand the hate for that little movie.
1) It has Jennifer Grey, who played Ferris Bueller's sister in all her rage magnificently. Not the prettiest face in the world, and oh my goodness, what a schnoz, but she is 'believable' and tolerable in this movie, and kinda fun to watch anyway.
2) It oozes the eighties' magical feeling, and even the summerish autumn variety. When you watch this movie, you immediately get into a 'summer mood/feeling', especially in certain parts.
3) It has wonderful musics. The soundtrack of this movie is certainly one of the best ever, and it could easily have been -so- bad, considering all the stuff they are doing in this movie, and its 'rockabilly'-stuff. How can anyone watch this movie and not FEEL deep and interesting, inspiring and very sensitive experiences, largely because of the music? The melancholic piano, when 'Baby' is walking on the grounds, looking for something to do, should be enough to make anyone remember those perfect summers of the eighties in their own lives (unless they never experienced something like that, in which case, I pity them a lot, they don't know what they are missing). The relaxed atmosphere and mood of a summer and slower-paced era, when there was enough time to just walk around and do nothing.
The dance musics are also surprisingly fantastic, and who can watch the part where 'Baby' is practicing with the blonde dance-hag, rhyming their movements perfectly with the music and each other, while the camera slowly pans around them, without at least some kind of admiration, if only for beauty of movement and fit female legs?
And of course the big ending song, it starts a bit boringly and slowly, and then really gets up to speed, bringing the most glorious 1980s' energy straight through the viewer's whole being, shaking the viewer completely like an earthquake, and inspiring him/her/it to dance. How can anyone say a movie with this kind of glory could even be 'bad', let alone 'the worst'? Have you not seen a lot of movies?
4) It shows a nuclear family in a positive light. A father that is the honest head of the family, and how families used to go on vacations together, as a unit. How often do you see this in a modern movie?
5) Beautiful locations. Any movie that shows this kind of wonderful nature and inspiring locations, can't be all bad.
6) It has pretty eye-captivating dance scenes. They really practiced hard for this, and it was worth it - it all look gorgeous on-screen. A movie with such beautiful movements, filmed so gorgeously, can't be 'the worst'. There are movies that have NO REDEEMING QUALITIES WHATSOEVER, and not only a few, but dozens and dozens, perhaps even hundreds or thousands. Pretty much any modern movie is like that, but these eighties delights are like rare candy, the kind that you almost never get anymore.
7) There is a 'good feeeling' about the movie, even about the story - it ends in an uplifting note, relieving the viewer to feel good after all the tragedy. Phew! It's good to feel good, isn't it? Why would you rather feel bad?
8) It shows the modern audiences different eras - the most wonderful one, where it was filmed in, and the ones it depicts. This builds tolerance and intriques the viewer, perhaps to find more about history, and how it all was back then and what happened. Not many films inspire people anymore.
9) Despite all its misandry and a little silly "rich princess is bored"-core of its plot, it also shows that a man can have a lot of problems, even if he can 'score' a lot with rich hags. That a man can also be sexually abused, and a man can really suffer from the lack of options this world offers him, while women are getting the luxury of 'daddy-money' and 'glass floor', that the men can't even dream of. (Though realistically, Penny would have not had any trouble raising the money, being a woman.. and I am not even talking about prostitution)
10) There is an air of INNOCENCE about the movie. Not every movie has to be gloomy, dark, 'adult' and 'realistic' and whatnot. Human beings also need VACATIONS from the too-serious, depressing things, a flight into a fantastic world of great music and 1980s' vibes, colors and summer atmosphere. We also need to embrace all sides of true humanity, not only the perverted horror-loving side that so many entities of this planet have somehow developed (for reasons that I can't fathom).
You can't watch and enjoy a movie like this without opening up your innocence, so this movie does you a favor by asking you to do it.
You obviously failed.
And it's your own failure that leads you to the fear of this movie that makes you create rash statements so that your fears would be validated, and that movie would be proven to be bad somehow, which means you don't have to take it seriously or learn to listen to your innocence that wants to get out and needs to be heard..
Next you will be saying Back to the Future sucks, because there is a time machine, and that Innerspace is lousy because you have never been shrunk. What are you doing in a Dr. Who-forum anyway? Shouldn't you be somewhere in some financial forum, debating about economy tactics or in some horror/military forum, discussing about zombies?
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chainsaw_metal1
8 years ago
I say I hate Dirty Dancing and suddenly I hate Back to the Future? Um...K. I'm really not sure where ANY of the things you're saying in the last few paragraphs of your post are coming from, but I hope that in the time since you posted it, you got some weed and settled down.
As for me being in a Doctor Who forum? I've been a Whovian since the 70s. Long enough to know that Whovians get ruffled when you spell it Dr. Who.
Exterminate!
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