All posts tagged "Patrick Swayze"

[rebelmouse-image 24749859 original_size="500x367" expand=1]Confession time: I've spent most of the past couple of decades hating "Dirty Dancing". Let's face it---it's a go-nowhere movie with a cheesy and incongruous 80s ending tacked on. The news songs that were written for the soundtrack sound really awful next to the classic early rock and roll featured in the film. And are we really supposed to believe that Patrick Swayze's character, who pulls off moves he clearly learned in ballet, is just some schmuck who picked up ballroom dancing on the job and now works in the lowest rung of professional dancers? My main objection to the movie, however, was that it was the most favorite film of roughly every girl my age in my tween years, which meant I watched it roughly one million times. Every slumber party, every time you hung out at someone's house after school, every weekend that you had a dollar and wanted to go see a movie at the dollar theater. Above all other things, I was sick of it.