# Did You Hate Dirty Dancing? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [February 23, 2001, 1:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-you-hate-dirty-dancing/55544 "2001-02-23T01:58:30Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 16\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Lamia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/8e7dd6/32.png) [@Lamia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lamia)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2001, 8:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-you-hate-dirty-dancing/55544/21 "2001-02-23T20:23:34Z")
Put me down as another chick who doesn’t like it. My least favorite part is the soundtrack. It’s not that I dislike the individual songs so much, but the combination of 60s and 80s music is distracting. Whenever one of the 80s numbers starts up I want to say, “Listen Baby, it’s music from _the future_!” ---
**Author:** ![BiblioCat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ed8c4c/32.png) [@BiblioCat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BiblioCat)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2001, 8:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-you-hate-dirty-dancing/55544/22 "2001-02-23T20:40:52Z")
Another female who loves it. Hubby likes it, too, just for the record. > [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Nacho4Sara \* > \*\*I love it, and have since I was about 8. \*\* Jeez, now I feel old. I was at least 22 or 23 when this came out. Where’s my Geritol? ---
**Author:** ![mblackwell](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/5fc32e/32.png) [@mblackwell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mblackwell)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2001, 9:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-you-hate-dirty-dancing/55544/23 "2001-02-23T21:34:50Z")
I’m male and I don’t dislike it. I wouldn’t say I _like_ it, but its watchable for a chick flick. BTW, Princess Bride rocks! ---
**Author:** ![Maeglin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/8baadc/32.png) [@Maeglin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Maeglin)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2001, 9:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-you-hate-dirty-dancing/55544/24 "2001-02-23T21:42:24Z")
Ack, I don’t really care for it. I agree that the story is pretty lame, the music worse, and the writing… But it does not inspire the kind of loathing that some people have described. It’s just a b-rated romance vehicle that for whatever reason stuck. In case there is _still_ any doubt, I am male. ---
**Author:** ![dublos](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/f08c70/32.png) [@dublos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dublos)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2001, 10:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-you-hate-dirty-dancing/55544/25 "2001-02-23T22:01:24Z")
Jennifer Grey is wonderfully attractive and always gets to play a female character that actaully thinks. Patrick Swayze plays some of the most likable male characters I’ve ever seen. I would have difficulty thinking of a picture where he played a bad guy that I actually disliked. Besides that, the man can MOVE. Male, 35 years of age, loved it. Then again, I liked Ghost, and Road House too, though not as much. For Sound Tracks, I liked the Road House sound track better than the one for Dirty Dancing, but both were good stuff. (Patrick on the other hand _cannot_ sing.) -Doug ---
**Author:** ![Freudian\_Slit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/5daacb/32.png) [@Freudian\_Slit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Freudian_Slit)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2001, 10:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-you-hate-dirty-dancing/55544/26 "2001-02-23T22:10:38Z")
Wanna feel **really** old? I was three when it came out. Yeah. I mean, I didn’t go see it when it first came out, I saw it when I was much older. 😛 Anyway, just so you don’t think i’m a total dork, my favorite movie is Pulp Fiction, or at least one of my fave movies. I haven’t seen any of the other movies on your list, porc. ---
**Author:** ![DocDaneeka](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/c68b51/32.png) [@DocDaneeka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DocDaneeka)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2001, 10:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-you-hate-dirty-dancing/55544/27 "2001-02-23T22:11:51Z")
I LOVE DIRTY DANCING!!! And I’m very, very male. It’s NOT The Princess Bride, but it rocks. The music kicks ass. WHO CARES that it’s a mix of different decades? The movie wasn’t trying to be REALISTIC. COME ON, people! If I could dance like that, I’d be getting some underage, rich-girl booty too. ---
**Author:** ![Odieman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/a87d85/32.png) [@Odieman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Odieman)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2001, 11:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-you-hate-dirty-dancing/55544/28 "2001-02-23T23:15:27Z")
I hate it, hate it, hate it…not only does it have the great stone face (Patrick Swayze), but the soundtrack is horrible. I never forgave them for cutting the false ending to “Stay” off the soundtrack, what’s the matter was the song too long for you, the full version is only about 1 minute and 24 freaking seconds long… Keith P.S. Porc does have excellent taste in movies… ---
**Author:** ![delphica](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e9a140/32.png) [@delphica](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/delphica)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2001, 11:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-you-hate-dirty-dancing/55544/29 "2001-02-23T23:30:53Z")
Female here. I’d say I hate it, but it’s more like I love to hate it. Mr. Del (male) feels the same way. If it’s the late movie (and it seems to appear with great frequency), we just have a howl watching it. We’ve turned it into our own little Rocky Horror-esque movie, screaming out lines and yelling at the characters, all leading up to the pinacle of goofy lines in the history of film (already mentioned by **Homer** ) … Nobody puts Baby in the corner!!! At that point, I’m usually laughing so hard I fall off the couch. I think of it as a bad movie that’s also endearing. ---
**Author:** ![RickJay](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/bb73d2/32.png) [@RickJay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RickJay)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2001, 11:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-you-hate-dirty-dancing/55544/30 "2001-02-23T23:48:08Z")
I don’t get the Dirty Dancing craze. Neither does Mrs. RickJay. There’s nothing really good about it, and in the case of Patrick Swayze, there’s something really bad. Dirty Dancing is an EIGHTIES MOVIE all the way, though. Horrible corporate pop music? Check. Forgettable, ugly actors? Check, except for the wonderful, ugly Jerry Orbach. Amazingly corny dialogue? Check. Rebellious dance scene? Check. Third-grade-reader dramatic arc? Check. It’s just another mediocre also-ran, folks. I don’t HATE it. It’s just another crummy movie. ---
**Author:** ![Nacho4Sara](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Nacho4Sara](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nacho4Sara)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2001, 2:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-you-hate-dirty-dancing/55544/31 "2001-02-24T02:25:28Z")
> [@](#): > > Jeez, now I feel old. I was at least 22 or 23 when this came out. I can’t remember the year it came out, but I was born in '81, so if anyone knows, do the math. My mom loved it too. For Christmas that year, I saved my allowance for a month and bought her a huge, life-size poster of Baby and Johnny, from the last scene, when he does the underarm-caress move. I really thought mom would hang it on her bedroom wall. 🙂 > [@](#): > > (Patrick on the other hand _cannot_ sing.) Please! I have “She’s Like the Wind” on mp3! ---
**Author:** ![Brynda](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e79b87/32.png) [@Brynda](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Brynda)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2001, 3:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-you-hate-dirty-dancing/55544/32 "2001-02-24T03:49:48Z")
Female. Hate Dirty Dancing with a passion, and I usually love dance-related movies. I hate it for its hypocrisy. A big plot point is that the female dancer is pregnant, but on the very day that this is most problematic, Baby (ugh, hate the name) and the much-too-old for her pedophile have–apparently–unprotected sex. ---
**Author:** ![tygre](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c4cdca/32.png) [@tygre](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tygre)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2001, 4:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-you-hate-dirty-dancing/55544/33 "2001-02-24T04:06:55Z")
Oh, thank God. I thought I was the only female who loathed this movie. Of course, it was one of my sister’s favorite movies, and she watched the video endlessly so I’ve seen more of it than I care to remember. –tygre ---
**Author:** ![trose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/f9ae1b/32.png) [@trose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/trose)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2001, 5:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-you-hate-dirty-dancing/55544/34 "2001-02-24T05:14:15Z")
Mark me as another female in the **hate-it** column. I’d just feel indifferent if the first half-hour didn’t hold such promise. It was shaping up to be an evocative period piece with a terrific sense of place, and I’ve always been interested in the heyday of the Catskills (pretty weird for a Bible-belt-bred shiksa). But then it just slides into 80s Mallville drivel. ---
**Author:** ![Nimue](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/d26b3c/32.png) [@Nimue](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nimue)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2001, 1:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-you-hate-dirty-dancing/55544/35 "2001-02-24T13:57:04Z")
I’m female, and I like it. I don’t passionately love it, but if it’s showing on tv I’ll watch it and enjoy it. I’m not sure, but I think Mr. Nim is another man who hates it. Which isn’t really all that surprising, since his favourite movies are all war, submarines, and… doggies. (Yes, he’s a Turner and Hooch kinda guy. _awwww…_) ---
**Author:** ![casdave](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c6cbf5/32.png) [@casdave](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/casdave)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2001, 11:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-you-hate-dirty-dancing/55544/36 "2001-02-24T23:36:36Z")
In answer to the OP, The film was a bag of shite!! It had no redeeming features whatsoever. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-you-hate-dirty-dancing/55544.md?page=1)