One Sentence Movie Reviews: “Flashdance”
Flashdance (1983): “I can’t wait until get up there so I can disappear.” –Line from the movie.
Notes: “What a Feeling!” is the 6th most popular song on my iTunes and my alltime favorite running song. And yet I’ve never seen this movie. Luckily, my friend Lora loaned me a copy and my friend Joe, whom I had dinner with this evening, is almost as big a cheeseball as I.
This is not a good movie any more than Streets of Fire or Iron Eagle, two of my other favorites from the period are good movies. It’s basically a series of rock videos hanging off the thinist of plots. But it’s so resolutely of its time (early 80s) and place (Pittburgh in the early 80s) that its fun simply by hindsight. You can look at it now and know that when MTV was young, when going to the gym was hip and sleeping with your boss wasn’t considered sexual harassment that Flashdance was slopping around right in the middle of it.