I've never seen the film so I'm not commenting on its merits (or lack thereof), but for such a critically reviled film, its $64 million box office take is very impressive, especially considering that it was released over 20 years ago.
shareThis film was a hit, you know, that's what some half-wits still don't realize. And yes, to me it's a classic as much as the first one was.
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it was probably the "long awaited" sequel to a movie that was already a classic by then. Boy was everyone disappointed! My big disappointment is that Stephanie didnt show up in the sequel and get severely beaten.
shareThis film was a hit, you know, that's what some half-wits still don't realize.
When this movie was released my dad was working on a movie in Arizona (it was O.C. and Stiggs) so we lived there for about three months in the summer heat. We couldn't play outside because it was something like 107 degrees so we spent alot of time at indoor activities such as the movies. When my mom would ask my sister and I which movie we wanted to see, we'd always yell,"Stayin' Alive!!" I think we went to see it about 8 times when it was out in the theaters. There was just something about it. Easy to watch. Fun. Amazing dancing, especially Cynthia Rhodes. Great lines (Extend!...Go to hell, Manero!) How happy was I that when I got to college my dance teachers were Dennon and Saber Rawles, the choreographers and featured dancers of Staying Alive! Needless to say I own the dvd and have watched it thousands of times. it's good to see that there are others who enjoy it as much!
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$64,892,670.00 in 1983 had the same buying power as $154,950,531.26 in 2014.
Annual inflation over this period was 2.85%.
Staying Alive was the 8th highest grossing movie of 1983, just behind Sudden Impact and a little ahead of Mr. Mom. Staying Alive made $65 million to the $22 million budget, compared to the Saturday Night Fever's $139 million to the $3.5 million budget
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1983_in_film
It wasn't a financial flop. People just throw around that word w/o proper context.
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