Babbling Old Man: Saturday Night Fever & Dirty Dancing

I finally watched the hottest new film Saturday Night Fever! Huh? It came out when?! Whaaaa…?! So yeah, I got to see this movie for the first time. With this movie I had seen so many spoofs and clips that it felt like I had seen it but it turns out that even what I thought was the premise turned out to be wrong. For one, John Travolta as Tony Manero was a total dick. He walked around with his pack of asshole friends making racist limericks and getting drunk, high, and banging random ass broads all the time. Its pretty much my life but in 1977.

Getting high and drunk in cars is cool...when you're 15.

So Tony is 19 and lives at home with his loud ass family. He has a brother that’s a priest that wants to quit and does much to the dismay of his mother and loser father. He spends his money on getting new clothes for the disco club and there’s this chick named Annette played by the mom from Out Of This World who wants Tony and is super desperate about it. Shit is not cute. She dances well with him and he tells her she will be his partner for the dance competition. Then he meets another girl and dumps Annette for her.

DVDiculous: Taking of Pelham 123

So for whatever reason I decided to watch Taking Of Pelham 123. Maybe I’m on some whole kick of watching just how damned dangerous the state of New York is or something seeing as how I just viewed The Brave One. So I sat down to see what would happen when Denzel Washington and John Travolta felt like playing tag.

All hands, report to bridge!

Denzel is working at a train station making sure shit goes smoothly. Travolta is running a group of psychos hellbent on taking a subway car hostage and getting a cool $10,000,000 in the process. Travolta calls Denzel and is like “Yo. Got a train full of hostages. Get me cash in an hour or I kill one for every minute you’re late.” Denzel is like “Okay. I’ll see what I can do.”