Dirty Dancing...am I the only one who doesnt rate it

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So watched it again tonight as everyone was raving it was on. I just think the acting is so wooden and just uregggg!!!!

I've never seen it.

Totally agree you have to be young and hopeful when you first watch this film and it will speak to you like no other. Old, cynical and objective just doesn't work. If you were 16 you would long to be Baby and have that chance to be Johnny's dance partner.

I did not know Dr Jake Houseman was the voice of Lumiere!

I really don’t see the appeal. It’s a boring badly acted film and very overrated!

I've just watched it and I love it!

It's creepy. I haven't seen it in about 25 years but I'm assuming I'd hate it even more now.
Ugh!

When it came out I identified with baby- holiday romance/ first love / drama etc

But now I totally see where her dad was coming from - nasty Jonny corrupting an innocent girl

I think you had to be about 12-16 when it came out to really love this film?

It was literally the first time I'd ever felt anything for a man, it was just teenage hormones going wild so it wasn't about the story the acting it was about sexy education and watching to with your girlfriends over and over again.

Same as flash dance I wanted to be Alex the welder and smoke in my loft apartment!

Never mind not rating it, am 50 next month & I’ve never even seen it!

The soundtrack is amazing

I've never seen it, and I have absolutely no interest in doing so.
I saw Grease just once and hated it.
I'm not really someone who enjoys "popular" stuff.

There’s a terrific ‘The Making of Dirty Dancing’ somewhere. It has a lot of detail on the challenging filming conditions of the film.

The weather was really humid and it didn’t stop raining for months. Everyone lived together onset- like their characters.

It had great interviews with cast and crew. Made the whole film far richer for me. Mind you, I was Baby’s age when it came out and I was in the full thrall of sexual awakening myself. Loved every (now cringey) moment of it!

@BlueBooby

Sounds like Flashdance? loved it but the appalling body double in her dance school audition is laughable

It’s an amazing coming of age film and I have such a fondness for it. I could watch it over and over again

@mumsiedarlingrevolta

Wasn't the body double in Flashdance actually a bloke?

@bluebooby Flashdance!

It is a TERRIBLE film. It is AWFUL.

I was 15 when it came out. Zero interest. Forced to watch it (social pressure) during a sleepover aged 16. What a crock of shite! I was the target market and still thought it was embarrassing.

Yeah it's shite. In the same bracket as Grease.

I beg to differ, Grease is amazing.

Dirty Dancing is just meh. I find it more watchable now than when I was younger weirdly, but Johnny comes across as a douche and I could never take to Jennifer Grey.

Baby is so irritating spoils the film

The dancing (without her) is good

Went to see it at the theatre the cast were obviously very bored

I cant stand it
So boring, tedious actors
Yawn

Went to see it at the theatre the cast were obviously very bored

Imagine going through drama school then having to appear in that load of bollix! Who wouldn’t be bored?

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I love that film, bought it on DvD.

'Nobody puts Baby in a Corner. ' The film line of the century

Great music, love the dancing, especially the lat scene as it reminds me of my dad who, though I thought he hadn't been watching at all merely said 'Who moved all the chairs out of the way'.

It's escapist schmaltz.

Rate it?
I’ve never watched it!
It just never appealed to me.