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Fame 2009 - or should i say Step up to the Last Dance Honey 3 grrrr
#50re: Fame 2009 - or should i say Step up to the Last Dance Honey 3 grrrr
Posted: 8/26/09 at 11:34amI think gritty is the wrong word here. I don't know why I didn't mention that at all. Mean Streets was gritty, not Fame.
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#51re: Fame 2009 - or should i say Step up to the Last Dance Honey 3 grrrr
Posted: 8/26/09 at 11:36am
I think i said gritty
I guess i meant it in the way that it felt dirty/real/unpolished and sometimes pretty brutal
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#52re: Fame 2009 - or should i say Step up to the Last Dance Honey 3 grrrr
Posted: 8/26/09 at 11:38am
"I guess i meant it in the way that it felt dirty/real/unpolished and sometimes pretty brutal"
I can't totally agree with that ^ though. Perhaps "meaningful" for lack of a better word, is more like it. More substantive than a piece of laughable fluff. 
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#53re: Fame 2009 - or should i say Step up to the Last Dance Honey 3 grrrr
Posted: 8/26/09 at 11:39am
Oh, well that changes everything.
I agree that gritty is more fitting to Mean Streets etc.
And I also agree that Fame deals with some heavy subject matter.
So I think we are all on the same page, just caught up in semantics.
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#54re: Fame 2009 - or should i say Step up to the Last Dance Honey 3 grrrr
Posted: 8/26/09 at 11:45am
Yeah, and probably my fault. 
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#55re: Fame 2009 - or should i say Step up to the Last Dance Honey 3 grrrr
Posted: 8/26/09 at 12:07pm
"The critical consensus in the US was that it was a fairly cheesy schlockfest and was received with the same level of dismissiveness as High School Musical nowadays."
This new version is going to make it look like TAXI DRIVER. And yes, I do remember the reviews at the time to be very very mixed.
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#56re: Fame 2009 - or should i say Step up to the Last Dance Honey 3 grrrr
Posted: 8/26/09 at 12:17pm
Yes but one of the substantial difference between this Fame and the "new" Fame is the images of young people that are presented. In general, teen films of the 70s and 80s were inherently more authentic in that the teens represented looked like actual kids. Often times they were not wearing make-up, had real bodies-whther it be scrawny or chubby, real breasts, often filmed with bad skin. There was a gravity to the young actors that just does not exist today in American cinema.
Look at Meatballs, Little Darlings, Fame, My Bodyguard, etc for examples of real looking teens.
Teens in film today really do a number onm "regular teens". It is no wonder teens seek out unflattering photos of stars on the internet. To give the actor some humanity.
I mean, gosh even in TeenBeat and TigerBeat, there would be unretouched photos of young actors. They looked like real people, zits and all.
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#57re: Fame 2009 - or should i say Step up to the Last Dance Honey 3 grrrr
Posted: 8/26/09 at 6:50pmI thought the "kids" in the original looked AT LEAST 25. The ones in the new movie look more age appropriate. I haven't seen the original in so long but I remember that by the time they hit their senior year, I was like, "Is this movie not over YET?" It just seemed forever long. Now, that I am older I will probably enjoy it a lot more.
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#58re: Fame 2009 - or should i say Step up to the Last Dance Honey 3 grrrr
Posted: 8/26/09 at 8:17pmI think teenagers did look older in the 70s. Maybe it was because I was a kid, but I remember teenagers, including my cousins appearing older and more looking more mature. They had an edge that teens today do not have.
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"I want to meet him after and bang him!"-random woman who exposed her breasts at Rock of Ages, referring to James Carpinello
#59re: Fame 2009 - or should i say Step up to the Last Dance Honey 3 grrrr
Posted: 8/26/09 at 9:54pmA little unrelated but Boyd Gaines' character has always been a standout for me in the film. Jerk take the scholarship!
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