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trigger45

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Dirty Dancing

Hi everyone. First post from me. I'm not sure if this is the site for me, but I commend the onwers for what they are trying to achieve.

Back on subject, what is it about the film Dirty Dancing that got so many women in England so excited?

Nowaysis

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Re: Dirty Dancing

For some reason they get excited in Sweden too (the women, I've yet to meet a man who even admitted to liking it on an ironic level). Even though its main qualities lie in its excellent use as a reverse laxative (most people even admit it's not technically a good film when approached on the subject), it has achieved some kind of cultstatus.

Now, it's not uncommon for technically bad works of film, poetry, literature, et c., to achieve this status because they are so bad -- the it's so bad it's good-verdict often passed on things that reach comical heights in their utter failure to reach whatever it was they thought they were aiming for originally -- but as the saying goes in Ghost World, Dirty Dancing is "so bad it's gone past good and right back to bad".

My two cents of spleen. Bring on the flame wars.

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blissed

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Re: Dirty Dancing

what is it about the film Dirty Dancing that got so many women in England so excited?

Patrick Swayze

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Re: Dirty Dancing

Patrick Swayze

hahaha!  wow, seeing 'Patrick Swayze' in print is hilarious.

Nowaysis

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Re: Dirty Dancing

Seeing Patrick Swayze is hilarious, for all the wrong reasons.

N.B. No, this does not count as any kidn of saving grace for Dirty Dancing.

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feetpies

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Re: Dirty Dancing

No... this movie is not good for women because it has cult status. It  has cult status because it is good for women.

A female friend of mine was forbidden from seeing this movie, but her otherwise "normal" parents.  Her mother had seen it... apparently.

I still hear interesting changes in female voices when this movie is mentioned.  And a major movie theater here just had a screening of the show.

The_Elfman

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http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=TL8rlRc4u … ed&search=

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shamFritters

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Re: Dirty Dancing

Nobody puts Baby in the corner!

cherryvega

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I'm English and female and have no idea!

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