I seriously, seriously dare you to watch the entirety of this video:
Look, I enjoy both Jamie Lee Curtis and John Travolta as performers, but sometimes people we like very much do some very wrong things in tiny and upsetting shorts. I am completely distressed I watched the first few frames* and that I then I dared myself to watch until the end, which came seemingly ages later, and by then I was a changed person, my eyes flat and despairing and my soul sucked from my body, I mean just how long did whoever that director was think we wanted to watch sweaty man-batch bouncing around in the most graphic fashion while attached to an eerily smiling perpetrator, let alone the delight this seemed to afford his yelling aerobics instructor – and yes no matter how lovely Ms. Curtis is I would rather not watch anyone in a leotard thong “presenting” to the beat of tepid Jackson has-been pop while leading a large cult of 80s fitness-Hell minions who are seemingly oblivious to all the creepy eye contact… good Lord, even typing this is sucking me back to the Darkness again…
Tonight while handsewing – painfully, my arm hurts, and the end result of 1.5 hours of my time looks too shitty to use anyway – I watched the 2008 film Defiance. Daniel Craig is total eye candy whether classed-up as Bond or super-smudgy and thyphoid-infested as in this film but he is also (as far as I can tell) a rather impressive actor as well; the film itself was devastatingly rough – not quite what I was looking for while stitching, but good nonetheless. Besides all that, Ralph’s afternoon nap was incidentally tortured by phantasms including shooting, explosions, screaming, and violently-shouted Russian (as well as an Actual Real Kitten who batted at his hair and face while he slumbered).
* How/why did I run across such a clip? Why from the rather charming video here: “Dancing at the movies” and just because you’ll probably never trust me again let me offer full disclosure: the “Dancing” video is a mixed bag: super-annoying Loggins music-action but very fun movie clips.
I just keep hearing,”CUT! Travolta, get your nutsack back in those shorts!” as I watch.
@christina
“As you watch?” Does this mean you’re watching it over and over? Because if so you can admit it. I promise I won’t judge.
Oh.my.eyes.
That was awful and awesome all at the same time.
consider my eyeball duly seared. yow!
I was laughing and cringing but I only made it to 3:28. Ay yi yi.
Re: Video Clip….
Ewe.
That is all.
Not over and over. Unfortunately I am not woman enough to take that kind of heat. I got about halfway in.
It is certainly one of those scenes where you wonder to yourself how we can ever explain the 80s.
I watched this SEVERAL times a couple months ago. No kidding. I am a glutton for eye disease. But here’s the thing that struck me the first time I watched it. The women in there? They look amazing. And they’re not stick skinny, yanno? Like anyone in a dance video similar to this today might be. That’s why I watched it again, I was so struck by that. In the 80s, healthy body image was so much more natural.
@blue milk
I lived through the 80s but I can’t really explain a lot of it.
@k8
I wonder if that’s true that in the 80s there was a healthier body image in the avg. USian. In any case watching this video I’m not looking at the bods so much as imagining the smells, which have a distinctly AquaNet / Newport Alive With Pleasure! Combo. One thing about the 80s is we were still cool with smoking. I’m thinking specifically of William Hurt in (again) tiny shorts, jogging on the pier and smoking, in Body Heat, which is a pretty excellent film for lots of other reasons too.