Date: Saturday 9th February
Film: Dirty Dancing (1987)
Director: Emile Ardolino
Starring: Patrick Swayze, Jennifer Grey and Jerry Orbach
Running time: 01 hour, 40 minutes
Rating: 10/10
I have seen this film more times than I can count. I can't explain why I love it so much, most memories of my childhood are of me, the sister and the not quite sister waltzing around the house in our nighties, on our tiptoes, channelling Baby.
For the longest time, the majority of the plot was lost on me. I knew Penny got knocked up by Robbie the creep, I just didn't know what knocked up was. I knew that it was bad for Baby to be in Johnny's room all night, I just didn't know why. All I knew was that I needed to find a man that could wear a mullet and a leather jacket, move his hips to the rhythm and sweep me off my feet, possibly in a lake.
Dirty Dancing is my feel good film. One of my go to happy places. A film that I will always watch if it is on the telly, a DVD I will dig out any chance I get.
It may not be the greatest film ever made, but to me it is perfection.
Just don't call it a musical.
Challenge day: 137
Challenge time: 08 days, 22 hours, 25 minutes
Challenge film total: 110
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Wednesday, 27 February 2013
Friday, 30 November 2012
This is not recess. Everyone is accountable.
Date: Monday 26th November
Film: Less Than Zero (1987)
Director: Marek Kanievska
Starring: Andrew McCarthy, Jami Gertz and Robert Downey Jr.
Running Time: 01 hour, 38 minutes
Rating 7/10
I love the Bret Easton Ellis novel that this film is based on. I love 80's Andrew McCarthy and I believe that everything Robert Downey Jr. touches turns to gold, magical gold (I also believe that he should be my husband). There was so much potential for me to love this movie.
I think I set my sights to high.
This wasn't terrible, by no means, it just wasn't the film I was expecting, the plot line seemed watered down, compared to the book (my mistake, I really should have learned my lessons from One Day/The Time Traveler's Wife).
If I think of this as independent from the novel, then Less Than Zero is a well acted, solid film about the lives of excess lived by over-privileged LA teenagers. Robert Downey Jr. is amazing in his portrayal of an addict who will do anything to get his next fix. Andrew McCarthy plays the wide eyed dreamer role so well.
This is a great film. It just isn't entirely related to a great, great novel.
Challenge day: 34
Challenge running time: 03 days, 04 hours, 23 minutes
Challenge film total: 41
Film: Less Than Zero (1987)
Director: Marek Kanievska
Starring: Andrew McCarthy, Jami Gertz and Robert Downey Jr.
Running Time: 01 hour, 38 minutes
Rating 7/10
I love the Bret Easton Ellis novel that this film is based on. I love 80's Andrew McCarthy and I believe that everything Robert Downey Jr. touches turns to gold, magical gold (I also believe that he should be my husband). There was so much potential for me to love this movie.
I think I set my sights to high.
This wasn't terrible, by no means, it just wasn't the film I was expecting, the plot line seemed watered down, compared to the book (my mistake, I really should have learned my lessons from One Day/The Time Traveler's Wife).
If I think of this as independent from the novel, then Less Than Zero is a well acted, solid film about the lives of excess lived by over-privileged LA teenagers. Robert Downey Jr. is amazing in his portrayal of an addict who will do anything to get his next fix. Andrew McCarthy plays the wide eyed dreamer role so well.
This is a great film. It just isn't entirely related to a great, great novel.
Challenge day: 34
Challenge running time: 03 days, 04 hours, 23 minutes
Challenge film total: 41
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