Just seen Dirty Dancing for the first time. Um. What? Why?

First problem was Swaze’s hair. You can tell when a historical film was made because the aesthetic of that decade colours the supposed period of the film. But Swayze’s hair wasn’t 1960s or 1980s. It got lost between the two. But it wasn’t 1979s either. How do you do that?

Second problem: people dancing to 80s synth music at a live gig in the 60s. Live band playing. Sent music coming out. No synth player. No synths because they’re not invented yet.

Third problem: the acting, the script, the direction, the production values, the casting, the sound mixing, the photography, the whitewashing of racial politics, THE FACT THAT ANYONE LIKED IT EVER.

On the plus side I now know where Catherine Tate nicked this from and love it all the more https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=KE9Rb9SKOgs">https://m.youtube.com/watch...