Recent Movie slackness coincidence

[jdavidb]

I saw Bring It On yesterday. It's a Kirsten Dunst movie. It had two sections in it which were supposed to be "swing". Too bad all they could come up with was a stunt. The swing-related stunt they did was the one where the follow's entire body is sent horizontal around the leader's back. That's all there was in two different scenes.

In another Kirsten Dunst movie called The Cat's Meow, the character who owned the boat yells something like "Let's do Charleston!" to the whole dinner table. So everyone got up, jogged to the dance floor, and didn't do Charleston. One thing I did like about this movie though is that one of the characters said "Manners are for waiters and bellboys. Artists and writers are exonerated from such impractical behavior".

I haven't seen that Richard Geere movie yet. Did swing get the axe in that movie too?

 

[leftfeetnyc]

No swing in the Richard Gere movie at all.

 

[pygmalion]

Ithe character who owned the boat yells something like "Let's do Charleston!" to the whole dinner table. So everyone got up, jogged to the dance floor, and didn't do Charleston.

:lol: :lol: :lol: That is so hilarious. I haven't seen either movie, but now I have to check them out, just to see how bad the dancing is. 8)

 

[jdavidb]

Well the stuff they did in Bring it On isn't "bad" except for a part where they intentionally had to make it look bad for the movie's plot. They had very capable people in that movie, so that's why I was wishing they had given swing bigger props instead of just mention it along with one little stunt.

The Cat's Meow dance scene was a dud. It's only a few seconds on the dance floor, and none of it was anything I recognize. I have to say that I think it's a waste of money to rent it just for this purpose. I remember it as being a really boring movie overall.