Jesus Backflipping Christ! It’s on again! It’s always on! You can’t avoid it.
Are the various channels in some sort of collusion to insure that Dirty Dancing is always showing somewhere? Why? Are there some sort of sumbliminal messages in it that are making me think these murderous thoughts? Did Jennifer Grey buy all the rights and force it to be run over and over again because she’s embarrassed about what she looks like now and wants us to see her when she was moderately attractive?
It’s on every goddam day! It’s on more than all of the Stallone and Schwarzenegger incarnations put together!
WHY?
I’d rather watch XFL reruns. At least they’d be funny.
You know, why can’t they show a good movie over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and well, you know, over?
Hell, XFL? No I’d rather watch Weird Al videos again and again.
Vice Principal: “Bender, I’ve got you for eight weeks (of detention).”
Brian (The Nerd): (raising his hand slightly) Actually, sir, technically it should be seven. Six now and then, uh, the one this morning when Bender asked you if Barry Mannilow knew that you had raided his wardrobe."
Bender: Hey, dweeb, have you ever been laid?
Emilio Estevez character: Why do you have to insult him? He’s got a name, you know.
Bender: Oh yeah?
Emilio: Yeah! (Turns to the nerd.) Hey, what’s your name?
Brian: Brian.
Emilio: See?
Emilio: (looking through Brian’s wallet) Brian, this is the worst fake i.d. I’ve ever seen. Do you realize you made yourself 57 years old?
I cannot believe you compare the hokey “Dirty Dancing” to such a comedic gems as “The Breakfast Club.”
I hated “Dirty Dancing” when it was new, fer Chrissakes. I like Patrick Swayze ok, but that movie has always grated on my nerves. I can’t bear to hear that damn song, “The Time of My Life” one more time. Unfortunately, my husband absolutely loves it, so I put on headphones and crank up a little earsplitting heavy metal until at least that song stops playing.
I love the movie, “The Breakfast Club”, but hubby’s about pounded that one into the ground, as well. And I hate the chopped-up version on tv.
But there is no way in hell they play DD more than they do the Rocky movies. They play those 24/7/365, and believe me, I have heard enough "Yo Adrian"s to last me several thousand lifetimes. Yes, darling husband is a complete Sly freak, and wouldn’t miss one of those movies if the house was on fire.
Of course, I could watch “Steel Magnolias” another 300 zillion times, and never get bored. Same for “Arthur”.
Alright, I’ll admit it. I’m a film snob. I work in a video store, and when people bring crappy movies to the counter, ie: Hollow Man, I can’t help but make an unconcious judge of their character.
But…I love Dirty Dancing. I do. I’ll watch it in the store, and rewind the “JOHNNY!” line over and over again for my own amusement. It’s funny, the 20 something women stop dead when they see it on the screen, and stand transfixed. And as the wise Hama already pointed out, “Nobody puts Baby in the corner,” is film gold. OK, maybe 80s dance movie film gold, but a glimmer none-the-less.
I’m also a fan of the Breakfast Club, but definately not the murdered cable version. But one semi-embarassing admission is enough for this post.
OK, a person named “Baby?” Gag me! Anyway, my closest, near and dear to my heart, love her like my own mother (wish she WAS my mother), loves this movie. Whenever it is on, she is trasfixed in front of it, mouthing all the words. When they get to the part where he says “Nobody puts Baby in a corner” she always cries.
If they never showed this movie again it would be too damned soon for me. It’s fucking awful.
Dirty Dancing is my All Time Most Hated Movie.
I hate it more than liver and onions, I hate it more than dead puppies. I hate it more than setting the clocks an hour ahead, and I hate it more than being forced to chop off my own foot to escape a bear trap.
Now, to be fair, I have never seen this movie all the way through. I just couldn’t do it. My eyeballs were trying to jump right out of my head to avoid the torture. It might be a mighty fine movie, but it doesn’t matter, I’ll never know because I’ll never see it.
I love DD! The music-not the Time of Your Life song, but all the oldies? And I love Baby’s pink dress at the end!
But I do hate how they have to keep showing it over and over and over. What’s really funny though, is that song, the Kellerman’s we come together…the melody was my high school Alma Mater! My friend and I used to sing the Dirty Dancing lyrics when they played it at football games.
I won’t watch the Breakfast Club when it’s on cable-I will only watch the rented version. Bender’s sexy. DAMN sexy.
Have a Patrick Swayze Christmas! (MiSTies should get this one!)
Yes, it’s treacly and cheesy and silly. I’m embarrassed to admit that I own it on tape and watch it every once and a while.
But, dammit, that movie was my world when I was 10 years old! I wanted to be Baby! The lift at the end - it was so much more than a dance move. It was symbolic of love, of classes melding into one, of the beauty that happens when two people love one another.
Y’all are cynical bastards.
And that love scene remains the steamiest but of film sex I’ve ever viewed. Maybe because I was all of 9 when I first saw it - but man, when he takes off her shirt and dips her…that’s better than porn, folks.
