Dirty dancing - best film ever?

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False title. Of course it is

Cheesy and plotless with overrated music and unlikeable actors.

@JaninaDuszejko

Love Dirty Dancing so much, watched it with the DDs recently. Such a brilliant female focused bildungsroman. Jennifer Grey was playing a character much younger than she was, so I'm not sure why everyone think Patrick Swayze's character was suppose to be his actual age.

Yes, I always took it that Baby was meant to be end of high school type age and the waiting and dance staff were supposed to be uni aged

It has really cheered me up to find so many people on this thread hate the film. I can't stand it and never understood the fuss about it even as a teen.

Not for me at all-could never understand the appeal at all.

Everyone raving about it always made me think it was just me!

Off to google deleted scene...

Good grief no, it’s awful.

Horrible title, too.

If I had a teenage daughter and she went off shagging the sleazy older dance instructor (possibly riddled with STIs) on a family holiday I’d not be best pleased. 🤔 Yet baby’s Dad was won over when Johnny turned out not to be a thief and did a nice little dance with his daughter. 🤷‍♀️

@mumsiedarlingrevolta

Not for me at all-could never understand the appeal at all.

Everyone raving about it always made me think it was just me!

Off to google deleted scene...

Don’t say we didn’t warn you about that deleted scene. 🤮

@Sparklingbrook eeeeeeewwwwwwwwww

you did warn me but absolutely grim...

[quote mumsiedarlingrevolta]@Sparklingbrook eeeeeeewwwwwwwwww

you did warn me but absolutely grim...[/quote]

Watched the deleted scene.

Gusset bobbling. Going to need a whole session with something from JML to get rid of em.

Too much for 9.30 on a Saturday morning. And I’ve been up since 6.

Goodness save us from mediocrity or good enough being called "best" for no good reason on mumsnet.

Best film
Best rapper
Best singer...
🙄

Nope. Watched it a few times and I still can't figure out what the eff it was about - apart from dancing that is. I can't figure out the back story, why they were there, why Swayze's character was leaving, etc. I don't understand any of what the movie was actually about, none of it made sense. And the dancing was pretty unremarkable and routine stuff anyway. I loved the soundtrack though.

No. It really isn't.

Me and my sister watched it again last week (for about the millionth time) and I can confirm you are correct.

Nope, you're all wrong. The Breakfast Club is the best.

Breakfast Club is ok and I like Ferris Bueller’s Day Off if you don’t think about them too deeply. If you do both are very problematic.

I love Dirty Dancing, Patrick Swayzes character is supposed to be about 20 and Baby 16 which was not/is not an uncommon age gap.
The theme was coming of age and the class disparity.
He had to be "sleazy" as that's how he made his money which he needed to support himself.
Baby was going in to her last year of high school before going off to parent funded uni completely believing that everyone just needed to "follow their passion" and "fight for what's right" and it will all be ok.
I feel like a lot of Mumsnet were Baby at 16 😂

Oh yes the Breakfast Club! I loved it as a teen, rewatched last year during lockdown and found it quite heavy and a bit sad. Especially the bit where the headteacher (who I remembered as a funny character) threatens Bender and says he will beat him up. I didn’t remember that happening at all, I had remembered them having a funny relationship where Bender wound the teacher up and the teacher was sort of hapless.

I was not Baby at 16. I may have been out nightclubbing every night at that age.
But I was not sleeping with the staff on family holidays.

I thought Baby was supposed to be 17/18? Not sure.

She's not going into her last year of high school; she tells the weaselly bloke she's going to Mount Holyoke in the autumn. So she's 17/18. Johnny is supposed to be mid 20s.

Never seen it, never gonna now.
That would be time I'd never get back when I could be watching Margaret Rutherford

But I was not sleeping with the staff on family holidays.

I would have been if they looked like Patrick Swayze though. 🤣

I told my mum I’d been watching The French Lieutenant’s Woman the other week and she said, ‘Hmm, I’ve seen that but it’s not a film you could watch over and over again… It’s not like Dirty Dancing.’ I’m not sure why she thought the two were in anyway comparable. Anyway, DD would probably get my mums vote.

Nope.