Eric’s Bad Movies: ‘Staying Alive’ (1983)
Two discs from Netflix sat on my desk, “Staying Alive” and “Speed 2.” I had planned to do “Speed 2″ for this week’s Bad Movie and “Staying Alive” next week. Then it came time to watch one or the other, and I went with “Staying Alive.” Why? Because — and this was literally the reason — it was a half-hour shorter than “Speed 2.” So thank you, “Staying Alive,” for only being 96 minutes long.
Anyway, here it is at Film.com, my treatise on “Staying Alive.” (Spoiler: It’s not a very good movie.)
May 22nd, 2008 at 11:12 am
I must say, Eric, I’m a little confused–in your review of “Hairspray” you have nothing but positive things to say about Travolta’s performance. But here you call him a joke for doing it?
Good job otherwise–funny as always.
May 22nd, 2008 at 1:16 pm
Wow, the big Broadway show sounds like a giant kiddie dance recital with the big numbers and the long pauses. Come to think of it, “Satan’s Alley” is an apt description of those too.
May 22nd, 2008 at 1:49 pm
“Imagine Cats, only without the complex storyline, and with more suicides among audience members.”
You are going to get me in trouble at work if you keep writing lines like that.
May 22nd, 2008 at 3:56 pm
I loves it!
I laughed several times.
May 22nd, 2008 at 4:18 pm
“Speed 2″ got two thumbs up from Ebert and Roeper. (It might have been Siskel and Ebert back then.) I know this because my college roommate had the DVD, even though she swore it was her brother’s. And no, he did not live with us.
May 22nd, 2008 at 10:49 pm
This review was hilarious.
May 23rd, 2008 at 10:07 am
So Eric, when are we going to get a review of “Young Frankenstein,” which you mention you saw on Broadway? (Or any of your other adventures in NYC?)
May 23rd, 2008 at 10:14 am
I love the BeeGees. How dare you. What’s next? My beloved The Carpenters?
May 23rd, 2008 at 10:16 am
Steve: As soon as someone starts paying me to write theater reviews again, I guess.
May 23rd, 2008 at 11:14 pm
I remember my sister loved this movie, because she was going to be a famous dancer one day & immediately worshipped any movie that had dancing in it!! Needless to say, about 15, she decided she was going to be a writer instead & therefore saved the world from having to see what she loosely called “dancing”……