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"What is your favorite movie about dance, whether it's a musical or just a movie about dancing in general?"
Probably Strictly Ballroom. I also really like Les Demoiselles de Rochefort, which is Jacques Demy's dancing companion to the singing Les Parapluies de Cherbourg. It stars Catherine Deneuve and her sister Françoise Dorléac, as well as George Chakiris and Gene Kelly.
Strictly Ballroom for me as well. One of the things that I especially love is that when showing a super awesome king of the world dancer/dance, they goof it right the frig up, rather than a dance that inadvertantly sucks but was supposed to rock.
I love All That Jazz, Kathy. One of my all-time favorites of any kind. Roy Scheider is so fantastic in that role.
New steps! New steps! New steps!
I don't care about the Pan-Pacific Grand Prix!
"I want Ken Railings to walk in here right now, and say 'Pam Short's broken both her legs, and I wanna dance with *you*!'"
(Ken) "Pam Short's broken both her legs, and I wanna dance with you." "That was unexpected."
I would have to go with a Fred Astaire, but which one would take research.
I would have to go with a Fred Astaire
Ooh, I forgot, there used to be dance movies that didn't consistently suck.
(I refuse to watch movies from the 70's and 80's for the most part, so I'm sure that there is a more than a small gap in my knowledge base)
Does the movie have to be strictly about dance, or just have it play a major role? Because if the latter I'd be torn between Grease and 1941.
So I just got out of Public Enemies and I liked it. I didn't LOVE it, but I liked it. I had heard some people having a problem with Depp's portrayal of Dillinger. I had no such trouble - and I don't consider myself a Depp fangirl (I haven't seen POTC after all).
I think Depp did a good job with the character and he had really great chemistry with Cotillard. This is action-packed movie with some graphic gun violence. I think the first half of the movie is a bit boring (except for the first 20 minutes), but the last half jumps off and keeps going.
My quick problems:
a) cinematography should have been better. The film seemed grainy and didn't look good. I am sure this was all intentional, but some of the colors looked TOO washed out to me.
b) the music was way distracting. I think the music was used in "No Country for Old Men" or something and so it was distracting because I had associated it with a previous movie
c) I wanted better characterization of Dillinger. This could have been a GREAT movie if they had explored his reasons for his actions just a bit more.
I would give this movie a solid "B."