Okay, so I've always heard Flashdance referred to as a chick movie. Well one day last week I was shopping at Target and it was on sale and I said why the hell not, I like the song, chicks cute, I'll check it out. How the hell besides there being no explosions is this a chick movie? I mean it's it's about a stripper!! How can that be bad. Not only that half the movie is here wearing next to nothing doing ballet even when she isn't stripping. Yeah there is a romantic aspect to it, but I wouldn't say that makes it a chick movie. Anyway, hot chicks, good story, good music, good movie.
I saw this movie ages ago, don't remember it being a chick flick. Of course I don't really remember much of it at all. Jennifer Beals never looked better, the soundtrack was popular and there was an uncredited double for the dance scenes. Oh and I remember a lyric to one of the songs: "She's dancing like she's never danced before ..." Not clear if that's supposed to be a compliment or an insult.
Marine (Marhine ?) Jahan. She's also the dancer at the Bomber's bar Torchy's in Streets of Fire and the first physical incarnation of Gozer the Gozarian in Ghostbusters.
I remember that in some scenes, a man was the double for Jennifer, as a female just couldn't the stunts the director wanted. Or I might just be remebering something totally different.
At the risk of getting all kinds of grief, a chick flick doesn't necessarily equal bad. In the case of "Flashdance," it's a movie about a woman who wants to be a dancer, who struggles to survive, but in the end gets her dream of being a dancer and finds love along the way (I think. I haven't seen it in its entirety since it was in theaters.) That basic plot is enough for it to fall in the category of chick flick.
I actually think Jennifer Beals is just about as hot, if not hotter, in the present "L Word" phase of her life. GMTA
Do we see her tits? Do we see anyone's tits? A movie about strippers without any nudity is the definition of 'Chick Flick.'
And don't forget the shoulders! I mean, if not for that movie, my early teens would have enjoyed far less skin.
My mother fucking loves that movie. The sound track makes me want to assassinate myself. Make of that what you will.
No, he is right... In the final dance seaquence, when "she" spins on the floor like the guy she saw on the streat earler... it is the same guy. Look closely and you can see his mustach. :Vomit: inducing.
I gotta say, I forgot how hot she was in this. When I uploaded the "What a Feeling" video from YouTube, that bit where she's welding and flips up the face mask and smiles... In that shot she makes Jessica Alba look like an ugly trout. It's also in the beginning of the Maniac video.
