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[NAFDA] "There will be an occasional happy, so that it might be crushed under the boot of the writer." From Zorro to Angel (including Wonderfalls and The Inside), this is where Buffistas come to anoint themselves in the bloodbath.
Strictly Ballroom is awesome, Kat. I'm having a hard time making myself give it back to Netflix.
You guys are kind of creeping me out with all the serial killer talk, and yet I keep reading anyway. And, knowing very very very little about serial killers, I would've guessed that Florida was the biggest serial killer state. And yet, weirdly, when the term "serial killer" comes up, the name "Salem Strangler" is the first to pop into my head. And I haven't watched DooL since I was, like, five.
Strictly Ballroom is awesome, Kat
Really? Cause I sort of think of it as the Australian version of Dirty Dancing except with ugly people (that was a review from one of my friends in college).
Okay, but the part where Paul Mercurio slides across the floor in that gold sparkly matador jacket? Heaven on a stick.
Strictly Ballroom is Baz Luhrman. It is very, very good.
Hahaha. Well, put like that, I have to say I enjoy Dirty Dancing more, since it's somewhat more cohesive, as far as storytelling goes. And the challenges facing the couple are greater, and more personal. But Strictly Ballroom is way over the top, on purpose, and is very quotable. It's much funnier than Dirty Dancing.
Really? Cause I sort of think of it as the Australian version of Dirty Dancing except with ugly people (that was a review from one of my friends in college).
Oh, not at all. It's far more of a weird, loopy, funny thing.
And the leads are more attractive than the leads in Dirty Dancing, damn it.
But, if you have theories, please don't tell me.
I have none! So you're safe from me.
Yeah. I'm still pissed at Baz Luhrman for fucking up Romeo + Juliet by having Juliet be a spineless gutless girl and I still get nauseated everytime I see Moulin Rouge. So, yeah, Baz Luhrman not a selling point for me actually.
Ah, I'm a huge Moulin Rouge fan. Never seen his Rome + Juliet, but I always thought Juliet was a wuss, no matter whose version you saw, inlcuding the original Shakespeare.
Strictly Ballroom is far better than either of those, mainly because it doesn't suffer from taking itself exceedingly seriously.
And Allyson's point about Paul Mercurio and the sliding is a damn good one.
Strictly Ballroom is Baz Luhrman. It is very, very good.
I would qualify that, and say that it is clearly early Baz Luhrman. Awesome, but still a little rough around the edges.
And I have an unholy loyalty towards Dirty Dancing, so I can't really compare the attractiveness of the leads. I'd say they're about the same level, really, with the less attractive girl, and the "hot" guy. But I'd subtract a little from SB, for the fact that the leads seem to have almost no chemistry with each other, to the point that it's kind of weird and forced when they kiss . In my opinion, Jennifer Gray's and Patrick Swayze's mutual hate translated much better, and comes across as the sort of intense emotion you want your characters to feel.