Not enough mythical creatures and CGI.
There was also fag-bashing in it as well.
“We learned that the system was hopelessly stacked against us, that dreams rarely come true, that people are flawed and life will wear you down. “
Yeah. So therefore vote Democrat so the government will save, protect and take care of you.
probably because Disco music sucks!
Say what you want, but the dancing Bee-gees made Saturday Night Fever a classic
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5WXVaChA3Q0
People also now expect better gas mileage out of their cars.
Times change.
It would have to be remade with Idris Elba and he could teach us how to love again and sustainable fishing going toward for the children
One of the interesting things about SNF is that the movie is very much NOT the movie that was advertised. It was advertised as this disco fun time fluff piece, but it’s actually a pretty deep and dark movie. Usually advertising a completely different movie fails, but somehow it succeeded.
***In 2016, each of the top 13 films at the box office was either a superhero fantasy or a cartoon,***
I’ve been saying this for years that today’s young people live in a world of fantasy.
Our six-plex movie theater often has six fantasy superhero si-fi shows on at the same time.
The only time I have been there is when the remake of True Grit came out.
In the olden days a superhero movie would be filmed cheaply in black and white, cheap special effects and be shown on the bottom half of a drive in double feature with Hercules and the Mars Maidens.
Now they are made with 150 million dollar budgets.
I wanna strut..............
What NR misses, but was an important point is that stayin’ alive suffices. The author almost seems to wish for defeatism, which is merely a failure in his writing, I’m sure. There’s a reason this was PARTY music; it made people feel good to know everyone has it tough, but we’re all surviving:
Well, you can tell by the way I use my walk
I’m a woman’s man: no time to talk
Music loud and women warm,
I’ve been kicked around since I was born
And now it’s all right, it’s okay
And you may look the other way
We can try to understand The New York Times’ effect on man
Whether you’re a brother or whether you’re a mother you’re stayin’ alive, stayin’ alive
Feel the city breakin’ and everybody shakin’ and we’re stayin’ alive, stayin’ alive
My wife and I enjoy movie diner-dates, but is increasingly difficult to find suitable movies.
We want adult films, and most of today’s offerings are juvenile.
I often joke they are for children, often even in their 30s and 40s.
IOW a cross-section of today’s society.
I think many of us would like to be the guy who can look in the face of (reasonably) certain death, recognize it as such, and come off with a jocular remark rather than crying and wetting his pants.
Of course, it does help to have the screenwriters on your side...and if the shooting schedule means you performed the ending in a studio before going out on location to perform the "gonna die now" stuff, that's just gravy!
We still blast the soundtrack!!!!!!!!!!!!! Those were the fun days.
1970’s:
Abortion was legalized by judges, judges had already removed prayer from public schools, Nixon was hounded out of office, Hollywood turned on America.
A turning point!
If “Saturday Night Fever” is too triggering for today’s snowflakes, what would “Blazing Saddles” do to them?
I saw it years later and don’t see what all the fuss was about. It seemed like something to promote abortion as usual, like Dirty Dancing.