the contemporary (well not anymore)(btw more time has passed between dirty dancing and today than had passed between when dirty dancing was set and when it came out) soundtrack in dirty dancing doesn't bother me, it's generally incidental music and no more a part of the 'reality' than the score or whatever would be, but it has always thrown me that at the climax they're suddenly listening to this song that clearly couldn't have come out in 1963 and nobody's weirded out about it.
― balls, Tuesday, 15 July 2014 00:15 (nine years ago) link
considering how expectation-bursting huge the two romantic movies patrick swayze made were, it's kind of amazing he didn't make more.
― da croupier, Tuesday, 15 July 2014 00:38 (nine years ago) link
hell even his romance with keanu did pretty good, why the fuck was he making corny family shit like father hood and three wishes just two years later
― da croupier, Tuesday, 15 July 2014 00:42 (nine years ago) link
not sure i'd put beaches in place of titanic (feels like it belongs on a list with fried green tomatoes and steel magnolias), but def agree titanic is out of place. not sure what would work as a fourth though - the contemporaneous absurd/absurdly successful kevin costner and tom cruise movies feel like their own beasts, and dying young underperformed enough to be an obvious Ringo if it was put with the other three.
― da croupier, Tuesday, 15 July 2014 00:52 (nine years ago) link
is edward scissorhands too goth?
― da croupier, Tuesday, 15 July 2014 00:53 (nine years ago) link
Titanic has Victor Garber in a supporting role. Pretty Woman has Ralph Bellamy in his last (?) screen credit. If any of the other films have any similar redeeming (?) virtues, I don't want to know about it.
― Miss Anne Thrope (j.lu), Tuesday, 15 July 2014 01:32 (nine years ago) link
https://hollywoodhatesme.files.wordpress.com/2010/05/lenny-briscoe.jpg
― balls, Tuesday, 15 July 2014 01:42 (nine years ago) link
Titanic > Ghost > Pretty Woman > Death > Dirty Dancing
― You are exactly why people root for the apes (Eric H.), Tuesday, 15 July 2014 01:54 (nine years ago) link
"she's like the wind" is totally a lost christopher cross song isn't it
― balls, Tuesday, 15 July 2014 03:28 (nine years ago) link
DD > Titanic > Pretty Woman > Ghost
The first one is a really good film, the 2nd one is creditable, the other two bleh.
― I dunno. (amateurist), Tuesday, 15 July 2014 03:43 (nine years ago) link
but yeah this is a weird list to start w/
― I dunno. (amateurist), Tuesday, 15 July 2014 03:44 (nine years ago) link
i was trying to find a jpeg or gif of richard gere making his 'i'm loving this blowjob' face in pretty woman, that was a pretty good era for blowjob faces in cinema.
― balls, Tuesday, 15 July 2014 03:52 (nine years ago) link
http://www.namebadgesandbuttons.com/store/images/products/mcdonalds%20im%20lovin%20it%20button.jpg
― I dunno. (amateurist), Tuesday, 15 July 2014 04:28 (nine years ago) link
no lie I can't resist this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l9BbUqHrWFI
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 14 August 2016 18:25 (seven years ago) link
watchin pretty woman its p good
― under a mand'rin tsar (darraghmac), Sunday, 24 June 2018 22:08 (five years ago) link
cocktail
― brimstead, Monday, 25 June 2018 22:10 (five years ago) link
I'm watching Dirty Dancing and I forgot that Baby dumps a pitcher of water on that dickhead preppy waiter who is a creep to her older sister because he tries to give her his copy of The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Sunday, 28 June 2020 03:13 (three years ago) link
It deos noteve nbring teh funney!!!1!!1!
ladies and germs, I give you I Love Everything, circa 2004.
― the unappreciated charisma of cows (Aimless), Sunday, 28 June 2020 03:34 (three years ago) link
The halcyon is past, the decline palpable.
― pomenitul, Sunday, 28 June 2020 03:43 (three years ago) link
My palps discern no such cline.
― the unappreciated charisma of cows (Aimless), Sunday, 28 June 2020 03:48 (three years ago) link
I like Dirty Dancing.
― TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 28 June 2020 10:22 (three years ago) link
https://64.media.tumblr.com/c4425f689a939bcc8334e663d0a7b4df/42f01836b691d09e-a9/s500x750/abfff84effec2de9eeb5c933dcf3ccc50e4625d0.gifv
Crazy thing about this image is that it appears to go faster the more you stare at it.
― pplains, Tuesday, 4 August 2020 00:27 (three years ago) link
Pretty Woman sucks, Ghost is lame, and I dgaf abt Titanic Dirty Dancing shines like a diamond among all these turds
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 4 August 2020 01:31 (three years ago) link
when i finally got around to seeing titanic a few years ago i thought it was actually pretty good tbh. haven't seen dirty dancing but i can't imagine ever wanting to rewatch the other two.
― (The Other) J.D. (J.D.), Tuesday, 4 August 2020 02:08 (three years ago) link
Pretty Woman sucks, Ghost is lame, and I dgaf abt Titanic
Dirty Dancing shines like a diamond among all these turds
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, August 3, 2020 9:31 PM (forty-two minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink
otfm how is this even a question
― call all destroyer, Tuesday, 4 August 2020 02:15 (three years ago) link
Otm. Dirty Dancing by a million miles.
― treeship., Tuesday, 4 August 2020 02:19 (three years ago) link
Titanic plays in the first half as a predictable period romance, then it flips over into epic with a slight suggestion of horror. It's OK enough as such BIG films go. I might think about watching it again in a decade or so. If I'm bored.
Ghost is schlocky nonsense that had a few laughs here and there to partly redeem it. Pretty Woman just sounds very bad, so I will never see it.
Dirty Dancing sounds like it might be fun schlock, but I've never seen it.
― the unappreciated charisma of cows (Aimless), Tuesday, 4 August 2020 02:22 (three years ago) link
Pretty Woman is the only one of these I’ve seen more than once (my sister wore the VHS out during our teen years) and, I dunno, I guess its kind of a guilty pleasure. I credit Hector Elizondo and Ralph Bellamy’s supporting work for most of the affection I have towards it.
― A White, White Gay (cryptosicko), Tuesday, 4 August 2020 02:24 (three years ago) link
Are we comparing these films on their entertainment value or on their class politics?
On both axes, Dirty Dancing reigns supreme. James Cameron is only capable of feigning outrage at injustice; in all of his films, he fetishizes it. And as for Pretty Woman, well, it just scrubs sex work of its exploitative dimension.
In Dirty Dancing, it is the proletariat Patrick Swayze who wins in the end, exposing the shallow prejudices of the resort members, especially Baby’s father. And he doesn’t have to die for this either. In that movie, liberation is thinkable.
― treeship., Tuesday, 4 August 2020 02:33 (three years ago) link
*proletarian
― treeship., Tuesday, 4 August 2020 02:34 (three years ago) link
i'm pretty sure poster "c taylor" in 2004 was not asking us to compare these films on their class politics, and i'll respond in their spirit.
dirty dancing is an incredible movie born of the specificity of its setting and the joy of watching two young people who are in insanely good shape dance and have sex. it's unimpeachable.
― call all destroyer, Tuesday, 4 August 2020 02:38 (three years ago) link
But it’s also a true indictment of the prejudices of the upper class. Emotionally, it really does side with the workers. These other movies can’t say that.
― treeship., Tuesday, 4 August 2020 02:39 (three years ago) link
Emotionally and aesthetically. This seems to be the important lens for these three films, which all touch on class issues more directly than the vast majority of hollywood movies.
― treeship., Tuesday, 4 August 2020 02:40 (three years ago) link
completely agree, there is for sure a class element to dirty dancing that is much more coherent than something like pretty woman which does not seem to present a realistic take on sex work
― call all destroyer, Tuesday, 4 August 2020 02:43 (three years ago) link
treesh my dude do you ever just like, have fun?
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 4 August 2020 02:47 (three years ago) link
I also think it’s a fun movie with great music and that jennifer grey has great on-screen chemistry with patrick swayze
― treeship., Tuesday, 4 August 2020 02:51 (three years ago) link
Forgot ghost was in this poll too. I’ve never actually seen that one.
― treeship., Tuesday, 4 August 2020 02:53 (three years ago) link
if you want a serious defense of titanic, dave kehr was a fan
https://www.nydailynews.com/entertainment/movies/archives-titanic-fantastic-voyage-article-1.2017563
― (The Other) J.D. (J.D.), Tuesday, 4 August 2020 03:06 (three years ago) link