Exactly How Many Movies Do We Need About Step Dancing?

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Exactly How Many Movies Do We Need About Step Dancing?

Posted: 1/14/08 at 7:59pm

Recent ones that come to mind are:

- Step Up
- Step Up 2
- Stomp The Yard

And I just saw a preview for another one called "How She Move."

I'm sure there's more!

I'm just so tired of these dumb movies with ridiculous plots centered around a stupid concept. They almost always revolve around a group of underdogs who band together and form a step dancing group so that they can go to some underground step competition and miraculously beat every team and...I don't know...better themselves?

I just don't get it.

#2

re: Exactly How Many Movies Do We Need About Step Dancing?

Posted: 1/14/08 at 8:03pm

My favorite part about "Step Up" was the ending. Because they did the whole dance around that guy, then he quit, so for at least a month they practiced a whole different dance. Then at the last moment he's all "I want to DANCE" and they're like "WOOT ORIGINAL FORMATION" and they did it as though they had been practicing that for the last month.
Oh and the whole "Wow. Good dancer girl! Audition for my company!"
Call me ignorant, but I was under the impression that people are not ASKED to audition for companies, they just...audition. I mean, I could be wrong...

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#3

re: Exactly How Many Movies Do We Need About Step Dancing?

Posted: 1/14/08 at 8:04pm

Well, both STOMP THE YARD and STEP UP made over $60,000,000 domestically on substantially smaller budgets. So as long as they remain profitable, they'll be made.

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Posted: 1/14/08 at 8:20pm

Don't forget the mother of them all, Urban Cowboy!

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Posted: 1/15/08 at 8:13am

Whatever makes money!

That's Hollywood for you.

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Posted: 1/15/08 at 8:15am

not just Hollywood, any business.

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Posted: 1/15/08 at 8:23am

Yeah, like Broadway isn't the least bit mercenary.

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Posted: 1/15/08 at 8:23am

Not with non-profit art production companies, such as public access television, or not-for-profit theatre.

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#9

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Posted: 1/15/08 at 8:37am

How many movies do we need about any subject really? Football? Baseball? High School?

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Posted: 1/15/08 at 8:55am

HOW SHE MOVE???


Bad grammar is the opiate of the masses.

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Posted: 1/15/08 at 10:16am

Say what you like, those guys are HOT! Wait for the DVD and watch it in the uh, privacy of your own home.

#12

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Posted: 1/15/08 at 11:40am

Step dancing = what white guys did in Urban Cowboy.

What they do in "Stomp the Yard" is called "Stepping".

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Posted: 1/15/08 at 12:28pm

Step dancing=what Irish people do ... at least that's what I thought when I saw the thread title ...

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Posted: 1/15/08 at 12:40pm

I'm holding out for even more:

DAMN SHE FINE

MOVE DIS THANG

STEP IT DEEP

And then the SQUARE dance trilogy of:

ALAMANDE LOVE

HONOR YOUR CORNER

THE VIRGINIA REEL THING

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Posted: 1/15/08 at 12:42pm

All these films about inner city kids who can dance!


Why not make a film about inner city kids....who CAN'T dance??


BITCHES BE CRAZY...coming to a theater near you!

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Posted: 1/15/08 at 12:59pm

Thank you, Jon, I was going to correct that myself. I thought this was referring to Michael Flatley.

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Posted: 1/15/08 at 1:10pm

Thanks Jon!

That's why I posted Urban Cowboy.

Ay least I was laughing inside, a little.

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Posted: 1/15/08 at 1:18pm

I thought what they did in Urban Cowboy was "line dancing."

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Posted: 1/15/08 at 1:19pm

Aw, that URBAN COWBOY....Debra Winger on the mechanical bull would have turned me straight if it wasn't for the later scene with Scott Glenn with his shirt off.

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#20

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Posted: 1/15/08 at 1:38pm

Urban Cowboy is two-stepping.

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#21

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Posted: 1/15/08 at 2:20pm

You all forget one....YOU GOT SERVED.

These probably aren't going away anytime soon because of all the kids and people who listen to hip hop and who are into the hip hop lifestyle and stuff like that.

#22

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Posted: 1/15/08 at 2:50pm

Hey, where's all that stuff about "well, if it gets kids interested in movies/theatre/making an idiot of themselves..." that we usually get when someone has an especially juvenile show like HSM?

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Posted: 1/15/08 at 2:55pm

I read some ridiculous magazine article after Honey came out about how "these sorts of movies" show under-privelaged youth that they don't need to sucumb to the drugs and such of "that world". Not that I don't think dancing is a great way to express yourself and what not, but I always prefered the movies that show how under-privelaged youth can succeed and escape their world by working hard in school.

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#24

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Posted: 1/15/08 at 3:50pm

Thank, you Jon. I was just about to mention that.

no "Step Dancing" in these films.

and Worrell- you got served is Hip-Hop, Pop-Lock, and Breakdancing.

Even though the plots of the movies are exactly the same, there is no Steppin' in You Got Served.

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#25

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Posted: 1/15/08 at 4:39pm

I wouldn't say they really did stepping in Step Up either.