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Damn. CURSE YOU Michael Bay! Why did you have to start casting interesting actors?
Always remember: Scarlett Johansson was in The Perfect Score. True, she was the absolutely best thing about that movie (as many of the reviews will bear out) but the movie still blew. She, like everybody, enjoys money.
Though she does have a better record than most actresses in her (my) age group, I must admit.
If I'm to get a message from Grease, it is to deny yourself in order to get ass.
I'm single. For all I know, my reluctance to embrace the above is related.
Why are musicals exempt from "message"? Is it history, or intrinsic to the genre?
Why are musicals exempt from "message"?
I don't think they are.
I was only 8 when The Terminator came out, so it wasn't exactly what my parents would have been taking me to anyway.
We need a good offa my lawn post. Oh wait, I'll do.
DAMN KIDS, OFFA MY LAWN!
(saw Terminator a bunch in the theatre)
We now return you to your regularly scheduled posting. Stay in school.
I saw Terminator in the theatre too -- the weekend T2 came out. Montreal used to have great rep theatres.
The first issue musical is Show Boat, which premiered in 1927. There are also such examples as Of Thee I Sing and Finian's Rainbow and South Pacific, for pity's sake.
Grease is deliberately fluffy, the movie much more so than the stage production, in which Frenchy has a pregnancy scare.
He's [Bruce Willis] also the worst part of Pulp Fiction.
That's just crazy talk.
I loathe The Fifth Element. Every second of that film is like fingernails on a blackboard to me.
Jess is dead to me.
See, ita, I saw it as saying love lets you expand who you are - he could be Greaser AND letterman, She could be nice girl AND wear hoochie pants. It's all good.
There are also such examples as Of Thee I Sing and Finian's Rainbow and South Pacific, for pity's sake.
There are fluffy non-musicals too, so I'm not overwhelmed with the causality here.
the stage production, in which Frenchy has a pregnancy scare.
So there are two?
I saw it as saying love lets you expand who you are - he could be Greaser AND letterman, She could be nice girl AND wear hoochie pants. It's all good.
No, you're all fluffy and optimistic. They're both bending themselves out of shape to fit other limitations -- he'll be boozing and she'll be abusing Valium and they'll both be neglecting their (unplanned) kids within scant years.