Wait! How Did I Miss This?: Part One: Dirty Dancing

    Hey everyone, Welcome back to Silver Screen Spectacle and the premiere of my new weekly series. Wait! How Did I Miss This?, will cover my cinema history holes. These will be classics that I have known about for years, but I have not seen until now. For my first addition to the series, I chose the 1987 Teen classic Dirty Dancing. So let’s get into it from this point on there is a SPOILER ALERT, I have warned you.

  Dirty Dancing got released in the late ‘80s and was expected to be a massive flop. They were so worried about the amount of money they were going to lose, a rumor started that they wanted to burn the reels and collect insurance. The film was a box office hit and has been a teen classic ever since. The film follows a girl named Baby who while stuck on a family vacation falls for the camp’s dance teacher.   

  Now I’ll be honest, I didn’t really find the premise of this movie that appealing. Sure, I like plenty of films in this genre and the cast, but I assumed this would be just a lot of beautiful people dancing and nothing more. So I’m pleasantly surprised to say I really enjoyed this movie. Yes, there are tons of beautiful people dancing, but they shocked me in actually having a story and characters I could get attached to. Patrick Swayze and Jennifer Grey had electric chemistry together. They both had such great individual characters that I loved them even more together. When Baby does the lift successfully at the end I was clapping, Dirty Dancing made me clap... bravo movie. The dramatic moments were incredibly effective, and I didn’t even expect any to be there. When Baby has the talk with her dad about how she’s sorry but he let her down too, oh man, I was actually getting emotional. 

   Now this movie is by no means perfect. It’s still sometimes overly cheesy, and the first act is a little slow. But man, I was just having so much fun watching this. This was a much more hot film than I would’ve expected, but that’s the 80s for you. By the time it ended, I didn’t care about the flaws, I just knew they took me to another world for 100 minutes and I enjoyed every flawed minute of it.

   So that’s it for the first edition of Wait! How Did I Miss This? I hope you all enjoyed it. This series will return for part two next week but remember no one puts Baby in a corner.