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I like Grease 2

It's been a while so I'm not even certain how much I'd like Grease today, but I can still remember where I was sitting when I was watching the opening credits when I was just 7. Grease was a big deal for quite a while and I kind of grew up with it. Then the songs came back into my life with all the blousers and nimrods singing them on karaoke night. I also associated it with one of my favorite films, Saturday Night Fever, even though they are very different. I always liked Travolta and ONJ.

1. The Blues Brothers (#19)
3. Umbrellas of Cherbourg (#11)
5. Charlotte's Web (#79)
7. Stingray Sam (#46)
8. Grease (#9)
9. Hedwig and the Angry Inch (#15)
10. The Lure (#51)
11. Yankee Doodle Dandy (#32)
13. Dancer in the Dark (#20)
14. A Star is Born 2018 (#43)
15. Sing Street (#40)
16. Once (#25)
17. Calamity Jane (#84)
20. Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (#66)
21. A Star is Born 1954 (#67)
22. La La Land (#13)
23. Pink Floyd - The Wall (#41)
24. The Young Girls of Rochefort (#36)
25. 42nd Street (#76)

So do I.
It's not good.
But I like it anyway.

Huh, I did not see Grease coming. It's fine, I guess?

Here's some interesting Grease trivia that adds some perspective.
It was the highest-grossing movie of 1978.
It was the second highest-grossing film in Paramount history and when it was re-released in '79 it passed The Godfather for No.1
But perhaps more impressively, the Grease Soundtrack had four songs chart in the Top Five of the Billboard Hot 100.
And two of them hit No.1.

Grease was #59 on the MoFo Top 100 of the 1970s.

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I didn't but Maxwell Caulfield is much better looking than Travolta, so it at least had that going for it.

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I want a Grease-less film. It has the same characters, only they're now in their 80s or 90s, hanging out at the long term care residential facility. They still form cliques and now they play Bingo and shuffle around in dances, the pink shawl ladies and knitted argyle sweatered boys, and by now they're well into their golden years having saved millions of dollars and they now try to escape the facility in their Tesla grease-less lightning electric vehicles after their kids forcefully plopped them there in the old folks home, reliving the glory days of old, while battling the rival younger generations who are trying to ensure their spot in the inheritance and will. Their bones aren't as greased up as they used to be with arthritis and osteoporosis, but they still know how to rock out and gum out an old tune! Make it happen, make it happen!

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My favorite song. It's funny and kind of dirty. Perfect for me as a teenagers.

You know the funny thing about that song is Sandra Dee did drink and smoke IRL.

Maybe an outdoor production on a British isle with a life-size wicker man they burn down at the end. Indoor stage play feels inappropriate for a folk horror adaptation.

Here's my argument for Grease (1978) look at the year it came out

https://www.flickchart.com/Charts.as...78&perpage=100

It should have won the Oscar for Best Picture. Great musicals to me work as different genres and Grease is a great romance, and period piece. And if this were nostalgia for today it would take place in the 2000's when you talk about time frame. Which should make everyone feel old and terrible.

1. Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story (2007) (74)
2. Purple Rain (1984) (81)
3. Black Orpheus (1959) (obviously isn't going to show up)
4. Still to come
5. The Rocky Horror Picture Show (1975) (14)
6. Little Shop of Horrors (1986) (18)
7. Still to come
8. Still to come
9. Grease (1978)
10. This Is Spinal Tap (1984) (55)

Too many songs, not enough character development. It might be a musical, but musicals are still stories.

I remember when I first started to watch Grease, when I saw John Travolta singing and dancing for the first time, I just shut the movie off it felt weird seeing him sing and dance lol, I'm just used to seeing him in action type movies that's all.

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I like your style.

BETTER YET the audience all stands up at that part of the performance, walks to where the giant Wicker Man is, and plays the rest of the villagers, all joining in the song and dance as it burns.

Now try and imagine for those of us older than you how silly it is seeing somebody we first knew as a sitcom character and singing/dancing movie star who is supposed to be taken seriously in a John Woo flick.

Never seen Grease. Big blind spot for me.


Anyway, here's where I stand...

SEEN: 32/92
MY BALLOT: 14/25

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It has character development but rather than do the three act structure you get the big ensemble that deals with the larger themes. It's the same thing that was done with American Graffiti, and Dazed and Confused you speaking of generalities and giving a snapshot of this time/place/people. The film is less than 2 hours long...pacing matters.

You kidding? The side characters all practically blend in with each other to the point where I could've had difficulty telling the guys from the girls. None of that Scooby-Doo gang stuff, it was empty as hell! I went back on it once just to see if I could more easily differentiate the groups and it was no different! Rizzo was a practical clique leader so she didn't count as a side to me, but damn, I've seen more develkoped sidekicks and gangsters on The Fairly Oddparents.