Friday, August 11, 2006

ENOUGH with the "Dance" movies!

Okay guys, quick vent... I'm SICK of hearing about YET ANOTHER "dance movie" being promoted as "THE BIGGEST HOTTEST SPICIEST MOVIE OF THE YEAR!"

I'm sick of it! Really and truly SICK OF IT! I'm sick of hearing about them, I'm sick of seeing their commericals, and I'm sick of the different takes on them!

I would say that these were all bad remakes of "Dirty Dancing", but we can go a little bit further than that. You might even say they're "Flashdance" remakes. Or even remakes of "Grease". They're actually just song-and-dance versions of Romeo and Juliet.

Here's the story: street-tough boy meets prim-and-propper girl and are forced to work together because of a contest or a challenge or a bet to take part in some dance activity. They fall in love, they're told it's never meant to be, they're told they're from two different worlds and neither of them can survive the change, they have their big triumphant dance number, everyone cheers, they go off into the sunset together, the end.

There! There's your stupid movie! I just saved you $12!

Oh, it's not the same, you say? Well how about having the boy be an ex-football player, or an ex-hockey player? Maybe the girl can be the street-tough and the boy can be prim-and-propper? Maybe it's 1956 instead of 2006? Or how about 1946? Instead of dancing, how about they do ice skating?

The point is this: rehashing the same theme and the same overall story every year or two years with fresh-faces that barely got out of their zit cream years is nothing more than intellecutal LAZINESS! You're not making a movie, you're overkilling a bunch of songs just to make a bunch of money from bored teens.

And STOP hyping it as "the HOTTEST movie of the year!" You don't get to make that distinction if it's not even in the theaters yet! If I had a dime for every stupid movie that gets marketed before its release as "the hottest movie ever", I'd be able to buy every one of those stupid advertising firms and ship them to Siberia where they belong!

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