to wish that Dirty Dancing wasn't about a girl who "grows up" by stealing money from her father to pay for her friend's back-street abortion?

[morningpaper]

... at least that's the way I remember it

SUCH a shame though because it's such a FAB film, and DD (5) is obsessed by the soundtrack - but I can't really put the soundtrack in CONTEXT for her for about 10 years...

No, YANBU.

Don't even get me started on Pretty Woman. Why women think that film is romantic utterly defeats me.

I love this film, I just think about the dancing tbh, and wish I could dance like that.
Dh said the dvd will never ever enter his dvd collection, when we first met.
However he soon bought it me one year.
People always think I like it because of Patrick.

Pretty Woman is the biggest crock of shit.

I know, ds and dd would really enjoy it but that aspect obviously isn't appropriate. Doing the mashed potato will have to remain in the kitchen for quite some time.

nah she grew up by rogering Patrick Swayze senseless

at least that's how I remember it

Pretty Woman is Cinder-fucking-rella....

and Dirty Dancing isn't about stealing money for a back street abortion, it's about Johnny learning that it life isn't a load of shit, and people are prepared to help others.

Twiglett, she had the time of her life.

And never putting Baby in the corner.

I'd never seen DD until last year (I'm 43) when I watched it out of curiosity and it was crap. Never seen Pretty Woman either.

I just don't get why women think those films are great.

But they ARE! They just are...

I thought she grew up by knowing her own mind and standing up to people.
If you remember she poured water over the little harvard shit (Robbie) for getting Penny pg in the first place, she went and woke her Dad up to save Penny even though she knew he would go crazy at her, she stuck up for Johnny when she knew it wasn't him that had stolen the money, she stepped in to learn a dance to cover penny and Johnny's backs etc.

She was meant to have been helping people and standing up for what she thought was right. IMO.

Pretty Woman, well, not quite the same but wasn't that supposed to have been a love story because Edward didn't care that she was a hooker and loved her anyway.

you're forgetting that she shagged him .. a lot

She also held a watermelon at some point, and that was crucial to the plot.

we love them because they are both romantic films
the girl gets the bloke of her dreams
when I watched them at 14 that was all I wanted out of life, to meet my soul amte (and if he looked like Patrick Swayze or Richard Gere then all the better) It was every teens fantasy to have someone like him say 'no one puts baby in the corner'

love the water melon

What about Grease's take home message of... look slutty, smoke and with trousers which give you a monster camel hoof and suddenly you are univerally accepted.

Its heartwarming.

She didn't actually shag him a lot.
Two or three times I think.
I'd have shagged him much more looking like that

There was the time when they first shagged, in his room, the time to 'These arms of miiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiyyeeeeiiiiiiiiinnnnnnnnne' and the time when she asked him 'How many women have you had?' but I may have missed one.

Her name was Frances Houseman

I love Greases' message that the only way to hook a man is to completely change your personality to please him.

tee hee at VS´s encyclopedic knowledge of DD!

Dirty Dancing is up there with Flashdance! - however do really think you needed to watch them first as a teenager.

oh yes Grease is really bad

Look slutty, smoke fags, dye your hair blonde and fuck boys = good and fulfilling

Look square and hang around libraries = bad and unfulfilling

Also all that talk about the chick's creaming over his pussy wagon is rather unecessary

I was really bored when I watched Dirty Dancing. I just didn't get why it was so raved about!

BUT!!
Danny Zuko changed his look too.
It wasn't just Sandy.