please rank Dirty Dancing, Footloose, and Flashdance

[Anonymous]

Dirty Dancing







Didn't see the other two, but the music makes my head explode.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Dirty Dancing: An excellent period piece with an iconic ending. (Nobody puts baby in the corner.) Strange matchup between Jennifer Gray and Patrick Swayze. I wasn't feeling the chemistry there.

Footloose: A teen flick with a formulaic plot and predictable ending, but the excellent theme song will live forever in the zeitgeist. One of the few times Kevin Bacon plays the romantic lead. (Can anybody even name who played the girl?)

Flashdance: Stupid movie. Stupid plot. Pretended to be feminist but she still needed some guy to save her. All the dance scenes were done using an uncredited stand-in. Spawned an entire decade of fashion with leg warmers and cut up sweatshirts. Guys seemed to like it more than girls, and the only thing they remember is that she took off her bra under her shirt and pulled it out of her sleeve.

Lori Singer. And no I did not Google it.

And she is now 65 yrs old.😊

[Anonymous]

#1 Footloose - love Kevin Bacon and the ridiculous storyline
#2 Flashdance - because the dancer was a body double and the storyline is even more sexist than Footloose's storyline
#3 Dirty Dancing because I've never actually seen that movie and have no desire to

[Anonymous]

Looking back on all three with a more feminist perspective, footloose is pretty horrible. Dirty Dancing and Flashdance are more female positive. Do LOVE the opening scene from Footloose though, in the Bug with I think Quiet Riot blaring

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Dirty Dancing: An excellent period piece with an iconic ending. (Nobody puts baby in the corner.) Strange matchup between Jennifer Gray and Patrick Swayze. I wasn't feeling the chemistry there.

Footloose: A teen flick with a formulaic plot and predictable ending, but the excellent theme song will live forever in the zeitgeist. One of the few times Kevin Bacon plays the romantic lead. (Can anybody even name who played the girl?)

Flashdance: Stupid movie. Stupid plot. Pretended to be feminist but she still needed some guy to save her. All the dance scenes were done using an uncredited stand-in. Spawned an entire decade of fashion with leg warmers and cut up sweatshirts. Guys seemed to like it more than girls, and the only thing they remember is that she took off her bra under her shirt and pulled it out of her sleeve.

Lori Singer, played a cellist in the TV series Fame. Obviously it was my era lol

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Dirty Dancing: An excellent period piece with an iconic ending. (Nobody puts baby in the corner.) Strange matchup between Jennifer Gray and Patrick Swayze. I wasn't feeling the chemistry there.

Footloose: A teen flick with a formulaic plot and predictable ending, but the excellent theme song will live forever in the zeitgeist. One of the few times Kevin Bacon plays the romantic lead. (Can anybody even name who played the girl?)

Flashdance: Stupid movie. Stupid plot. Pretended to be feminist but she still needed some guy to save her. All the dance scenes were done using an uncredited stand-in. Spawned an entire decade of fashion with leg warmers and cut up sweatshirts. Guys seemed to like it more than girls, and the only thing they remember is that she took off her bra under her shirt and pulled it out of her sleeve.

Lori Singer. She was brilliant in that movie!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Dirty Dancing > Footloose > Flashdance

+1

[Anonymous]

Dirty Dancing -- the Swedish judge was moved to tears by the finale, 9.3
Flashdance -- costume choice appeared to shock the Romanian judge, 8.2
Footloose -- fell twice during routine, and while the American judge clearly loved it, the Russians were disgusted. 6.4

[Anonymous]

For 80’s dance movies, I’d like to nominate White Nights. With Gregory Hines and Baryshnikov in their prime, the dancing is phenomenal.

[Anonymous]

The footloose scene where all the kids are finally allowed to dance at the school dance cracks me up. They are suddenly all professional-level dancers, and not just Kevin bacon

[Anonymous]

I don't know why people say Jennifer Grey and Patrick Swayze had no chemistry. I felt they did.

Here's some interesiting trivia from IMDB about one scene:

"The very famous scene where Johnny and Baby are practicing their dancing and they are crawling towards each other on the floor wasn't intended to be part of the film; they were just messing around and were warming up to do the real scene, but director Emile Ardolino liked it so much, he kept it in the film."

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Dirty Dancing, Footloose, Flashdance

This is the correct answer.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I don't know why people say Jennifer Grey and Patrick Swayze had no chemistry. I felt they did.

Here's some interesiting trivia from IMDB about one scene:

"The very famous scene where Johnny and Baby are practicing their dancing and they are crawling towards each other on the floor wasn't intended to be part of the film; they were just messing around and were warming up to do the real scene, but director Emile Ardolino liked it so much, he kept it in the film."

They had amazing chemistry!!!!!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Dirty Dancing, Footloose, Flashdance

This is the correct answer.

Yep.

[Anonymous]

FLASHDANCE!!!!!!
Footloose
Dirty Dancing