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www.the-watercooler.net - : Hardly the sort of deep wisdom to truly live life by yet by the same token, a film like Flashdance is hardly the sort of production you’d expect would inspire any sort of life-changing philosophy. Clearly a product of the emerging MTV culture, Flashdance is as trite, superficial, and downright vacuous as one would expect yet it will have you toe tapping despite your best efforts to resist its infectious synth-beat. more...
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goatdog.com - : That this film is not very good is something I remember quite clearly from the various times I have seen some or all of it in the years since its release. That it is sexist and racist is something I didn't understand before, since the film came out when I was all of eight years old and didn't know much about such things. That it is an utterly preposterous piece of Reagan-era bootstrapping propaganda was the real surprise for me. A bunch of my friends got together recently for ''80s Night,'' where we rented bad 80s movies that some or all of us had actually not seen before. more...
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1.5/
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rogerebert.suntimes.com - : I have a friend who has a simple test for a movie: Is this movie as interesting as the same things would be, happening in real life? A lot of movies aren't, and ''Flashdance'' sure isn't. If this movie had spent just a little more effort getting to know the heroine of its story, and a little less time trying to rip off ''Saturday Night Fever,'' it might have been a much better film. more...
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