Perhaps it’s me, but doesn’t there seem to be some bizarro campaign to turn this stupid film into some sort of defining “event” that we experienced back in 1987?
There’s the special re-release occurring this year, for 2 days only (buy your tix now!!!). There was the 10th anniversary release back in 1997. There’s the UK musical. There’s the endless showings of the thing on cable. There’s that time spent where Turner was billing the thing as a “New Classic”. There’s…
There’s me going “WTF”?
Anybody want to take a shot at explaining this to me? Or am I the only one with this impression?
(And that movie? Guilty pleasure. I might actually pay to see it in the theater again for nostalgia’s sake, if it’s playing by me. But I’ve never seen the stage shows or any of that. Did buy the soundracks on vinyl back in the day. One *and *two. But I was 12, so I believe some slack is on order to be cut.)
If you were a girl aged 10-15 when it was first released, it was a pretty huge deal. The movie played at every slumber party for several years afterward, and everyone had the soundtrack. It’s a guilty pleasure now, but many girls have fond memories of it.
Yeah, I think I’m in the middle of it. As **cbawlmer **says, it was a 10-15 year old girl thing, so anyone who’s in their thirties and early forties now - career women and housewives just beginning to feel “old” and wondering where their Johnny went, or why he never showed up. With, of course, disposable income to go along with that romantic ennui and self-loathing.
Not only did I enjoy the original movie, but it has been a favorite of all five of my daughters. It still comes out on rainy Sunday afternoons, or for sleepovers, or anytime we want to admire Patrick Swayze’s butt
Nah, for me it’s a mix of nostalgia, my enjoyment of the movie’s heavy cheeze factor, and my love of movies where people learn to dance. As a kid, I never wanted Johnny, but I did want to dance and feel sexy and touch boys in a general sense.
The biggest thing that made a lot of girls love it back when the movie was new was that so many of our parents forbade us to see it. I mean, it had “dirty” right in the title!
I’m a lot older than the target audience for Dirty Dancing, but I have quite a bit of nostalgia for it. Gee, I miss Jennifer Grey’s real nose. She’s almost unrecognizable now.
Well, while I won’t be lining up to see Dirty Dancing, if they re-released Footloose you can bet that I’d almost certainly go see that in a theater. That was a fun as hell movie grin…now to go practice my flying side kick.
Because I lost my virginity after going to see this movie in the theater and by god everyone is going to celebrate the passing of my youth with me whether you like it or not!!
(I’m sorry, but for us it’s just one of those things where you turn to your friends and quote something from the movie. And crap or not, we’ll be watching it at times, and I’m going to sing along with Mr. Kellerman, and I’m going to boo and hiss when I see the EVIL Shoemakers for the first time, and of course we’re all yelling: “Nobody puts Baby in a corner!” - it’s a bit like a performance of the Rocky Horror Picture Show)
I don’t know why anybody would need to own this on DVD. It’s on television *all the time. * It’s a running joke in my family, when checking the TV listings, to notice what time “Dirty Dancing” is on today.
Dude, use some basic deductive logic. What is in Dirty Dancing that is missing from these films? Yes, that’s right:
Patrick Swayze
, the same man who made Road House, Next Of Kin, Black Dog, and Red Dawn instant classics.
And Moonstruck? Seriously? It lacks both real entertainment and kitsch value. And, of course, it doesn’t have Patrick Swayze.
Seek help. Seriously, the Tractor Chicken Race scene just tops off almost two hours of bizarre rebellion against The System and no-so-subtle homoerotic interplay. You could really dispense with the girls in the film without losing anything.
Seriously, the Tractor Chicken Race scene just tops off almost two hours of bizarre rebellion against The System and no-so-subtle homoerotic interplay. You could really dispense with the girls in the film without losing anything.