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!!!!

Proper 80s heart throbbage here.

Thanks everyone who answered! Yes flashdance is the one I was thinking of. Gives me the Heebie jeebies!

@Sparklingbrook is that from St Elmo's Fire? Watched that last week, looks familiar!

I think it's one of those films where you had to be a certain age when it came out . Easy to watch , good music and life was very different when this came out , no internet and devices etc

@Iamthewombat well it's a pretty famous line. Just because you don't like the film doesn't mean you have to be so bloody nasty.

Yes @AbsentmindedWoman, my second favourite film, but don't dissect it because all the characters are awful.

@GlummyMcGlummerson thank you for reminding me about Keith and Paddy. So funny, and the head bobbing is hilarious. Thought Paddy was quite attractive.

I usually end up watching Dirty Dancing every year or so. It always cheers me up, the music and the beautiful Patrick Swayze.

@Sparklingbrook the bit were they parody the scene before Johnny and Baby have sex, and they're knocking glasses over in his grotty apartment is something that is never not funny

It was perfect and very funny @GlummyMcGlummerson, that's cheered me right up. When Paddy was swigging out of the bottle..

I can't stand it either. It's far too over rated.

YANBU I absolutely hate it and always have. Never understood what the bug deal was.

I think it's dreadful. And really really creepy. I recalled it being really good at the time and persuaded DP to watch it with me. I cringed all the way through and couldn't believe 15 year old me ever rated it. Sorry but it's absolutely shit.

@policeandthieves

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

yes-and once you see it you cannot unseen it-its so blatant!!

@Amortentia exactly what you said 100%
it has also bothered me, watching as an adult, that the age difference is ...well, bad.

I don't like it. The Keith and Paddy version is great though.

well it's a pretty famous line. Just because you don't like the film doesn't mean you have to be so bloody nasty

Oh grow up. Are you like this every time somebody disagrees with one of your pronouncements about what you consider to be the the best thing of the century?

My opinion of the film is irrelevant. Even if I liked it I’d find it funny that somebody considered “nobody puts baby in a corner” to be the definitive piece of dialogue defining 20th century films.

As a teen I thought it was great and quite sexy, though I somehow missed the beginning (before the abortion) so it took me a while to properly understand the whole hotel-guests-staff-summer camp setup. It mystified me why they all lived in cabins!

Watching it recently as an adult I feel new sympathy for the father who has worked hard all year and is just trying to have a nice holiday, that he has probably paid a lot of money for, rather than find himself embroiled in a sociological project to broaden his horizons and change his views.

However, there are some scenes that are pure genius. The scene where it is raining and the family are cooped up indoors perfectly sums up how family holidays can feel as a teen; that scene would drive anyone to the cabin of the nearest camp Lothario!

It is brilliant, especially the way he manages to look so passionately at a lampshade...

There is another thread running asking if anyone has a deep and dark secret that would ruin you if it ever came out.

Maybe this is mine.. but I am of exactly the right age but have never seen Dirty Dancing.

Hahahaha, the FB parody is brilliant! 😂😂

The laughing lamp is brilliant

Hated it as a teenager, hate it now.

That Facebook recreation is brilliant😂😂