Flashdance

Rating:
Summary: Plot was slightly weak but passion and emotion exceptional
Review: Don't get this wrong, for I loved Flashdance. I just noticed that the story didn't ever get a whole lot of substance to it. There should have been a stronger personal plot and more setbacks. Still, when you consider the love which this movie was made with and how Beals overcame her problems through determination.

Basically, a young girl who works steel by day and dances in bars at night aspires to become a ballet professional. She doesn't, however, have formal training. But can she do it just through willpower alone? You'll have to see.

It's too bad that Flashdance didn't do better than it did, especially when Footloose was much more successful. Films like this were just a bit out of synch with the big sellers at the time. I don't know what was with this one. Maybe it was a more mainstream soundtrack, maybe the better plot development, or maybe Kevin Bacon himself, although Jennifer Beals is plenty convincing to me...

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Summary: DVD???
Review: I am wondering how a person can see if a movie is scheduled for a DVD release, or if there is a place where people can make requests. I know this is a "little" movie and totally hokey, but it's a pop culture piece, and with the resurgence of 80s schlock out there, this is a must to be released on DVD.

Anyone have any info??

Thanks!

Rating:
Summary: What Can I Say????
Review: Okay, I've read some of the negative reviews on Flashdance, and all I can say is they make me feel sick! "Flashdance" is a cultural icon that started so much that we commonly see today in film. I was 2 years old when this movie came out...My mother took me to see it, for reasons that are unknown. However, since that day back in 1983, this movie has been a part of my life in every way. Jennifer Beals is an angel that is extremely under-appreciated. I am an avid collector of Flashdance memoribilia, which most people find odd for a 21 year old guy. But Hey! It touched me in a weird way, and it really affected me with its serious and powerful meaning. "Take your passion and make it happen" Is there a better phrase for inspirational motivation? No, I dont think so!

Rating:
Summary: 1 star for music, 1 for dancing . . . 0 for sense
Review: Some friends and I watched this now-18-year-old flick last weekend, and all I can say is . . . what a feeling.

The plot concerns 18 year-old Alex, welder by day, dancer by night, who lives in a converted Pittsburgh warehouse loft and dreams of becoming a ballerina as her grandmother once was. (How Alex has managed to acquire exceptional dance AND blowtorch skills by her 18th birthday is never explained.)

As Alex "chases" her dream (she can't even work up the nerve to take an application to the local dance school from its frosty secretary), things happen. What happens and why is also largely unexplained, but the main sub-plot concerns the blossoming relationship between Alex and the owner of her construction company (who is perhaps twice her age but owns a Porsche). One minute Alex is shy and reluctant to date the boss; the next she's slipping off her bra while asking him if he's ever "seen" the music. On a later date, she's seductively sucking crab legs in a chic restaurant when his ex-wife (looking like some lost tsarina in her enormous fur hat) comes out of nowhere and provokes a verbal cat-fight, provoking Alex to reveal her revealing "tuxedo vest." And when Alex finds out that her man has used his influence to get her a dance audition at the school, she transforms into a wild-eyed, chain-smoking, trenchcoat-wearing hellion. (There's also a sub-plot about rescuing a friend from the "bad" nude dance club--as opposed to the good one where Alex dances--that is little more than melodramatic filler . . . well, there's a lot of filler, and still the movie barely makes 90 minutes. Not that that's really a bad thing.)

The soundtrack is engaging; some of the dancing is exhilarating (even though Jennifer Beals didn't do most of it!). However, this movie is neither a romance nor a drama: it's a long, warped music video. Taken as such, it can be fun. Enjoy for some '80's nostalgia--what a feeling indeed.

Rating:
Summary: Great Cinematography and directing
Review: This movie has some good music and dancing, in a sappy plot. But the music and dancing are not integral to the plot development; they do not carry the film in the way dancing carries "Dirty Dancing" or "The Turning Point" (both of which have better dancing, by the way.)

But it's one of my favorite movies. Why? The director, Adrian Lyne, got his experience directing TV commercials, where the entire message has to be conveyed in 60 seconds, and in Flashdance every moment is contributing something. The key is the cinematography. Leonard Maltin calls Lyne a "visual stylist", and he is, but he's more. He takes Roman Polanski's cinematographic innovations and pushes them to new limits; the camera tells the story.

When you watch "Flashdance", watch how light and camera angle are used. Light: Pittsburgh light, hazy, smoky, dull, reflecting off puddles, blazing from lamps, dim, bright, strobe, whatever; lighting carries the mood of each scene. As for camera angle, in most movies we are observers, outside the movie, watching the actors. In some of "Flashdance" that is also true, but then in many places the camera angle shifts so we are inside the movie, seeing what one of the actors, or several of the actors, see at that moment. It just pulls you in. If you're not familiar with the film, the first time you watch it wait for the final "audition" scene, and watch how the camera is first an observer, before the dancer enters the audition room, then sees from the dancer's view as the audition begins, and then shifts to show us what the judges see, as the dancing becomes compelling. I don't know about you, but this grabs me and pulls me in; I could watch that scene five times running. And there are many other scenes in which camera angle is used similarly but not quite as obviously. I give this movie four stars; I would give it five if the music and dancing were as well integrated with the plot as in some other movies.

Rating:
Summary: a magnificent portrail of a young transitional danser.
Review: this movie is a great example of peolpe who have talents and then go and put them to use,in a way,so that you let the world know that you can do alot with your life.i found that this movie was a bit motivational,i suggest that if you're looking for a great movie to watch,that you might conscider this movie.

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Summary: Great movie to put you in a good mood
Review: If you are feeling low, watch this movie. It will leave you feeling terrific. I wish it was available on DVD, I would purchase it again. It is also a very SEXY movie but done it good taste. Flashdance is so much better than Dirty Dancing.

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Summary: The dog sells out.
Review: Flash -- yes. Dance -- well, only if it's still the 80's. It's all about selling yourself -- on the job; in the audition. The only character with any integrity is the dog. And, in the end, even he ends up with the greaseball. What's with that ribbon? MADD?

Rating:
Summary: average
Review: not much of a film now.very slick&shallow.very much a 80's film.the music was catchy.but the film is very dated now.it was average at the time.and hasn't changed.

Rating:
Summary: musical inspiration
Review: I remember when a group of friends went to see this film.... our lives changes (musicaly speaking)... Please realise it in DVD format! (excuse my english...I dont speak english everyday)