Its not the best movie ever made , the first one is 100 times better than this one
but i think its a good film !!!
I dont know why Travolta only got back to the top after Pulp Fiction ?
Peaple say that this movie killed him , I just dont know why
Its a regular film from the 80ts
Great music , great dancing etc ...
if anybody else thinks the same please tell me
thanks a lot !!!!
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I have never seen it but I was looking at the box office for it on this page and if it is correct it made 100 million dollars after rentals. Even if the movie stunk that is quite an achivement. i have always really wanted to see this film but just have yet to get around to it. The first rocked.
At least its so much better than the original.
shareI think people gripe about three main points:
1. There's no Stephanie in this one.
(Personally, I hated her with a passion. Not only did the actress have zero dancing skills, but the character was more self- involved than Tony in some ways).
2. The direction.
(how much cocaine was snorted before the studio actually announced that Sly Stallone was going to direct a movie about dancing. Sure, I can see the underdog aspects of the story as perhaps the logic behind the choice, but that was only a speck what the filn should have addressed. The story should have focused more heavily and bluntly on how hard making it on Broadway is.
3. The Ending.
I find it so sad that a character like Tony Minero has made so little strides in gaining more maturity than seen. He had seven years, from age 19 to 26 to grow as a person. His growth in this movie was so shallow it left me kind of bombed when I first saw this movie as an adult. So the movie ending in the way the first begun was a bad idea to me. At the end, he has everything; the perfect woman, the beginning of a great career, yet he turns to "the strut" rather than to her for validation. He is in effect as self-involved as ever.
Stallone was probably at his most popular when he directed this, so I can understand his failure to relate what the character should have been. Unfortunately the film suffered for it.
I personally love this film with all of its flaws. Travolta's talent and amazing charisma, not to mention that amazing incredible body as well as the same qualities Cynthia Rhodes, and of course, the soundtrack, made this movie unforgetable in my opinion. That why in spite of what's wrong with the film, I still give it praise and merit. It is one of the crowning jewels from my movie experience as a child, and ultimately, no matter how many movies Travolta makes, it is among one of my favorites of his work.
Good points, kiramischka. I agree with you on all of them. I loved this movie, too. I am probably one of the few who loved the Broadway show in this movie. I thought John's dancing was amazing.
shareGreat comments, kiramischka and dawnm. I agree with all of them. I personally love this movie and frankly, the Beegees music is the only reason I would ever sit through Saturday Night Fever again. As the years go by, the profanity, the repulsiveness of most of the characters in the movie (including the former priest, who has no advice or support for his baby brother; yeah, he's going through his own probs, but well....)and the general yecch! factors in the plot line just turn me off. I too loathed Stephanie and was relieved that she wasn't in Staying Alive. What a b......!
And dawnm, I love your comments about Satan's Alley. I thought it was great for the movie, gave you the idea of what Broadway's all about, and--I would buy a ticket to see Satan's Alley!
I love this film. In my circles, this film has brought joy and laughter to many throughout the 80's, 90's, and even today. Trust me, it's a cult classic to many that just "get it"..I mean this flick is so outrageous and over the top that it doesn't dull for even a second. And the script is pure gold. And with a little gange you'll cry from laughing so hard while watching it.
Don't forget to pause and give those dance numbers a try when you get the chance. DANCE!!!! FIRE!!! BURN!!!!!
"Saturday Night Fever" was a gritty and electrifying film. a great American film. Everytime I watch it, my appreciation for the film - and just how dark the film really is - deepens and deepens.
"Staylng Alive" is brain-dead, decadent, silly and artistically bankrupt. The film is so underwritten and empty it's unbelievable.
But...there is a certain morbid fascination in watching it, which I admit I've done more than once.
Interesting that "Staying Alive" was one of the top grossing films of 1983, a big moneymaker, but it was perceived, and still is, as a flop, and it derailed Travolta's career big-time. Talk about the power of perception.
My mum always talked about this movie and how much she loved it and when she finally showed it to me after I bought it for her I LOVED it! I love the dancing, the plot meh i've seen better but seen much much worse.
Then I went on here and saw that everyone hated it compared to "Saturday nigh fever" so naturallyI wanted to see it, but at the time I was about 14 and my dad banned me from it due to its content. Finally I saw it and I reallty didn't like it at all. Now don't flame me it's not that its a bad film I just don't like all the sex swearing and drugs, again I say don't flame me it's just not my thing.
I can see why if you liked Saturday Night Fever you won't like this, they're just very different movies. What they should have done was made this a seperate movie and not a sequal. People will hate it on the grounds that its not like SNF which is fair enough because if you see a movie and love it and the sequal is completley dif then your gonna be pissed.
And well, I never seen anything that Sly Stallone has worked on or starred it so no comment there.
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