Dirty Dancing fans check-in

[LynneSin]

20 years later and I still love that movie. I had it on VHS but finally bought the DVD and watched it TWICE this weekend.

Anyone else a big fan of the movie? I always wondered what happened to Johnny & Baby.

Btw, hated the Havana Night's movie and I do remember watching the TV series but it wasn't that good.

[bigwillq]

1. Havana Night's

wasn't so bad.
It didn't need to be made but I didn't think that it was awful.

The Spanish dude was cute anyway.

[MissHoneychurch]

2. I admit it

I love it too. Like Flashdance. I can't dance for shit but I love watching those movies. And I like the song "She's like the wind" by Patrick Swayze.

[MorningGlow]

3. Cheesetastic!

LOVE that movie! Whenever Mr. MorningGlow is channel surfing on the weekend and he happens to come across it, he hands over the remote, no matter how far into the movie it is. He just knows better! And only a few movies earn that honor from him--DD, The Cutting Edge, Sixteen Candles, and The Breakfast Club. Oh--and Pretty in Pink, but only if it's pre-Duckie lip-synching "Try a Little Tenderness." I will not be torn away from those flicks!

And, since nobody seems to have said it yet, "Nobody puts Baby in the corner!"

[LynneSin]

4. Yeah, I have a couple of movies like that including

Beaches, Breakfast Club (even though the TV version of it practically ruined it), Pretty in Pink, Ghosts and yes, Roadhouse.

[LostinVA]

19. We also love the Cutting Edge -- TOE PICK!

[LynneSin]

28. Ok what about these 2 movies: Muriel's Wedding and Strictly Ballroom

Those are classics!

[LostinVA]

29. LOVE! We own them both! And Cosi, the folks who did "MW"

[LynneSin]

33. How about the movie Center Stage

At one time, when I had digital cable, you could find that movie playing on one of the HBO channels at any given time. And I think I was able to catch about 50% of those showings

[LostinVA]

37. H.... which one is that?

[LynneSin]

38. It's about a ballet school

where the girl falls in love with the bad boy ballet dancer even though the nice boy is in love with her too, but it all works out in the end

[LostinVA]

41. I saw that on HBO once!

You could tell it was unrealistic, because too many of the boys were straight...

[LynneSin]

42. I thought the same thing when I watched it

They had one gay person, which happens to be the black man. Sorta like they summed up all of the stereotypes in that one person and even then the guy broke his leg.

[MorningGlow]

43. Endless repeats on HBO

Well now! That reminds me of waaaay back when (I was in high school) when the fee for all the premium channels was negligible, so we had all of them, and I sat around all summer watching 1,001 showings of Eddie and the Cruisers. Now THAT'S an endless-rerun classic! (Let's not mention Eddie and the Cruisers 2: Eddie Lives! though...)

[MorningGlow]

45. Good ones!

You gotta hand it to the Australians--they sure know how to do oddball! Muriel's Wedding was so mismarketed--my friend and I saw it at the theater, expecting a wacky farce. At the time we were disappointed, but after a couple of days it grew on us and we agreed it was brilliant. Kept the opinion ever since. She lusted after the swimmer, though, and I couldn't agree on that--I thought he was just nasty looking. Anyway, Toni Collette and Rachel Griffiths were brilliant.

"Muriel, you're terrible!" What a family! (Shudder!)

[LynneSin]

46. You can't stop pro-gress

Her dad seems like he'd be republican if he were American. He also played the swarmy president of the Australian Dance Federation in "Simply Ballroom" and the guy who has romantic interests in Terrance Stamp's character in "Pricilla Queen of the Desert"

[deadparrot]

51. Hee...The Cutting Edge...cheesy goodness.

I saw it on DVD; I just had to buy it. :D

[MsKandice01]

5. OH yes...

I'm definitely a Dirty Dancing lover and HAVE to watch it every time I come across it. It just feels....wrong....to turn away from it.

[LynneSin]

9. I think that's why I bought the DVD

They cut too much out, like the Sex Scene, from the TV version of the movie. ANd I hate to say it, but I love that party because it reminds me of my young love. When the movie came out, I was about the same age as Baby and I was falling in love with my own "Johnny Castle". It reminds me of some great times in my life although I expect plenty more in years to come

[southpaw]

6. My 87 Year Old Mother LOVES that movie...

She recently got her first cell phone and had me download a snippet of "I've Had the Time of my Life" as an MP3 ringtone.

[datasuspect]

7. that is actually kinda neat

[Jamastiene]

8. I didn't really like the movie, but

I love watching women dirty dance. :shrug:

[idgiehkt]

10. illegal abortion...

that movie is just spellbinding, and then to handle that subject like they did was masterful...I mean has there ever been a film like that that was so successful that all kinds of people like that handled that subject so well without preaching. I love it for that sub-plot and for Patrick Swayze's earnestness in his roll too. I remember thinking that it was odd for Jennifer Grey to be in it because all I had seen her in was Ferris Beuller's day off where she was such a pain in the butt. But she did a great job. I can't even tell you how many times I've seen it.

[LynneSin]

12. Perfect example of what to expect if fundies get their way

:scared:

[LibDemAlways]

52. Back in the late 50's there was a movie called

"Blue Denim" about a young pregnant teenager. Very dramatic scene where the girl is in the library thumbing through a book called "Pregnancy" and her boyfriend happens by and spots her reading it and she looks up at him and says, "It doesn't tell how to stop it."

Anyhow, she arranges for an abortion. She's picked up on a street corner by some scary looking people and taken off to a dirty back room somewhere. She doesn't go through with it, though.

Anyhow the reason I bring this up is that damn few Hollywood films have ever touched on the perils of an illegal abortion. Dirty Dancing is one of a select few.

[GalleryGod]

11. Jerry Orbach.

Simply the best

[Sugar Smack]

13. It's a classic, but

every time I watch it, I really start missing Jennifer Grey's nose. :cry:

[LynneSin]

14. She ruined her face with that nose job

I still remember the movie "Wind", which was not only the last one with her old nose but the first one with the new one. I guess after the film was completed filming she got her nose job, but then the directer decided to add extra scenes. There's a part at towards the end when Matthew Modine is trying to convince Jennifer Grey's charater to be on the team and you can see the changes in her nose

[Sugar Smack]

16. I'd like to see that movie. I agree when you say she

ruined her face with the nose job. I wonder how she feels about it now. I remember an interview with her later and she was getting defensive about it (I suppose I would too). She'd been SO extraordinary and beautiful and cute in Dirty Dancing & Ferris Bueller. Miss the nose. Miss it a lot.

[idgiehkt]

21. I don't understand.

I think she looks different. It is a very drastic change for her. I saw her in an interview recently and I thought she looked beautiful; she doesn't look freakish or anything like that. She's just a brand new girl, lol.

[LynneSin]

40. It's not that she looks freakish, she just doesn't look like her

Even she said she kinda regrets the nose job because people no longer recognize her as the girl from Dirty Dancing but instead someone who looks like the girl in Dirty Dancing

[idgiehkt]

47. I know, it's drastic

but she's still as cute as a button, she just looks a lot more WASPY now.

But it's not bad plastic surgery like Meg Ryan or something. I hope people dont' get over it. I just saw an interview with her and she seemed really really happy. She has an inner light, and seems to have a great outlook on things.

[LostinVA]

20. She misses it, too

I read that she didn't want THAT much of a change in her nose, but that's what she wound up with... and thus dried up the movie parts.

She was great in Ferris Bueller, too...

[Vidar]

15. As a dancer, I liked it.

[ET Awful]

Nobody puts Baby in a corner.

'Nuff said. :P

[displacedtexan]

17. Checking in, and I brought the watermelon!

[LostinVA]

18. Nobody puts baby in a corner!

My sister and I call each other up at odd times of the day (even work) to say this to each other. We both own the dvd, but STILL let each other know when it's on TV. The SO loves it, too!

The original, Japanese version of "Shall We dance" is good, too.

But nothing beats the wonder, campy -- yet feel-good -- greatness of Dirty Dancing!

[LynneSin]

26. The other great dancing movie: Strictly Ballroom

I need to get that on DVD. Great Australian Flick

[LostinVA]

30. We have it -- LOVE

[RFKHumphreyObama]

22. I was only 6 when it came out -only recent watched it

But I thoroughly loved it and can understand why it was so popular. Great film

[CaliforniaPeggy]

23. Checking in!

I loved it!

GREAT movie, IMHO!

[mad-mommy]

24. nobody puts baby in a corner....

when i was younger, i thought the movie was so cool, as i got older, it think corny, but, whenever it's on here at home or in someone else's it's on. Even men watch it.

[pinniped]

25. I have the first version of the DVD, not the special edition.

I want to know if Robby the womanizing waiter eventually got fired.

I think he did, Dr. Houseman had a lot of pull with Max.

Say goodbye to his Alfa Romeo? and Yale Medical School.

[LynneSin]

27. I almost wish they would do a Dirty Dancing Reunion movie

Everytime I watch the movie I always wonder:

Did Johnny & Baby make their relationship last
Did they get married
Did they have kids
Did Baby join the PeaceCorp
Are they still happy after 20 years
Did Lisa go to Niagara Falls for her honeymoon
Was Cynthia able to have kids again
Did Neil get the crap beat out of him for being such a weiner
Did Robby the Creep get his Alfa Romero

BTW, the guy who played Robby the Creep died of a herion overdose a few years after the movie

[pinniped]

31. We really do need a reunion.

Did Max and Moe apologize to Johnny for calling him a wallet thief?

Is Vivian still a bungalo bunny?

Did they jail the Schumanchers?

Did Lisa become a decorator and eventually decorate?

Is Dr. Houseman still out $200.00, or did he and Johnny track the fake butcher doctor down, retrieve the money, and beat the crap out of him, without ether?

[LynneSin]

32. It was $250 she borrowed

That's a good question - how many other people were butchered by the butcher

[pinniped]

36. I almost spit on my LCD screen.

It was $250 she borrowed

Baby might have slipped in an extra $50.00 to buy dancing lessons with Johnny.

[LibDemAlways]

35. My thoroughly speculative answers to your questions

(wondered about those things myself)

Johnny and Baby saw each other a few times back home, but couldn't make it last. Too big a socio-economic divide. So no marriage, no kids.

Baby went on to college. Flirted with joining the peace corps but decided to go into social work in NYC. Met and married a fellow Hofstra student who eventually became a therapist. Secretly though, thinks about Johnny a lot and what might have been.

Johnny scraped together enough money to open a small ballroom dance studio in New Jersey. After struggling for a couple of years, he closed it. Eventually he landed a gig on cruise ships as a dance instructor and "gentleman host," hired to entertain the single women on board.

Lisa married the dorky son of a golf buddy of her dad. He inherited a furniture store and built up a chain. They honeymooned in Niagara Falls, settled down on Long Island, raised two kids, and vacationed in All Inclusive clubs in the Caribbean where she and her daughter sung duets in guest talent shows.

Cynthia hung up her dancing shoes and became a waitress in her home town. She married a local factory worker, had three kids, and has never mentioned the abortion to anyone.

Robbie the Creep became a plastic surgeon and moved to Beverly Hills where he earns a handsome income and drives a Bentley. He's been married and divorced twice. Currently dating a Playmate and hanging at the mansion.

The following summer Neil came close to being beaten by some of the dancers when he accused a guy of stealing a sandwich from the kitchen. After college opened a chain of travel agencies specializing in family vacations. His businesses never took off because of an unusually high turnover rate. None of the employees could stand him. Eventually closed down the agencies and went to work for his father in law as a catering manager at a hotel in the Poconos.

The end.

Completely off topic, but did you ever notice that Dirty Dancing is such a low budget film that Patrick Swayze wore one pair of black pants throughout? And there are enough "flubs" in the movie to keep the viewer entertained for hours trying to catch them all. Totally guilty pleasure.

[LynneSin]

39. He had 5 standard outfits

Black Tuxedo
White Tuxedo
Black Pants with Black Tank Top
Black Pants with White Tee-shirt
Black Pants with White Tee-shirt and blue oxford overtop
And alway black dance shoes

Jennifer was limited to about the same clothing
Red Horizontal shirt
Blue Jean short short
Blue Jean shorts that go to the knees
White Capri Jeans
Blue Cardigan Sweater
Orange/Red Tank Top
White Peasant Blouse
Nice dinner dress
Dress for show at the Showdrake
Dress for the Finale

And she either wore pink ballet slippers or white sneakers that some how miraculously stayed white the entire vacation. Hell, I'm jealous of that, my white sneakers are usually dirty after a few wears

[pinniped]

49. Johnny probably wore those all-purpose black pants in the water....

lift practice scene.

The budget also didn't allow for book props in Johnny's cabin. So much for his "reading all night in his room" excuse, which was subsequently shot down.

Did Baby return Robby the Creep's book with notes in the margin?

Does Moe still play peanuckle even though that's how his wallet got lifted?

I bet Vivian is on that vessel.

Eventually he landed a gig on cruise ships as a dance instructor and "gentleman host," hired to entertain the single women on board.

[LibDemAlways]

50. Johnny never took off those pants -

except when canoodling with Baby. But in the AM they went right back on. He needed to wear them in the water lift practice scene to wash them. Otherwise, the next time he took them off they were likely to walk away by themselves.

As for Robbie the Creep's book, Baby left it on her nightstand where Lisa found it - and devoured it whole.

Moe died of an aneurysm while at a card game. Vivian quickly cashed in his insurance policy so she could book that cruise....

And, the part about the "gentleman host" is real. I worked for awhile as a travel agent and one cruise line used to tout its "gentleman host" program - hiring unattached usually older guys to dance, converse, and do God knows what else with the single women.

[wildhorses]

34. loved it...

:thumbsup:

[LynneSin]

44. Lookie at what I found on YouTube

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5dQSIoc2FTk

[NMMNG]

48. "I carried the watermelon."

Love it, love it, love it!