Yaaaaay, Street Dancer 3D!!!! The movie I left work early to see opening day and regret NOTHING. It is everything I could want from a dance themed story of diaspora identity struggle. Okay, not everything, there could be a little more romance.
Crippling dance battle injuries! Dramatic bad one liner declarations! Body make-up! Shirtless dance of torment! Really, not to be missed.
You can watch it on Prime, and probably other places too. Hit “play” at 3pm Chicago time and join me here.
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OH OH! It’s the INDIAN FLAG COLORS!!!!!! And also Pakistan
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Aparshakti has got to stop it with the pitiful crying face, it just makes me laugh more with every reaction shot.
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So are these real people? All of that was way too fast for me to read.
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I think the two old guys were based on two real life people, but everyone else was fictional.
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And now the real movie starts, about the Varun-Shraddha romance that started with teh dance battle! Oh wiat, it’s over?
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Sequel sequel sequel! With real romance!
I did have an idea for a sequel of sorts where the group decides to hold a dance showcase to raise money, and since Varun and Shraddha are the “leaders” they begrudgingly agree to do a dance duet, and the close proximity of rehearsals all day every day lead them to fall in love, with big realizations during the performance and love confessions afterwards, a la RNBDJ.
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I am all committed now to the idea of an elopement, and then marital strife and pregnancy and stuff. Maybe Shraddha goes into labor during Varun’s big break dance performance? And hides her pain so he won’t see? And then the happy ending is him giving her the trophy as she hands him the baby, because she is the one who really accomplished something tonight?
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I feel like we need to flush this out about everything that happened before pregnancy and final dance battle, haha.
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Come back tomorrow morning for the Silly Sunday!
On Sat, Jun 6, 2020 at 4:36 PM dontcallitbollywood wrote:
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SWAT doesn’t mean the same thing in America – 11 year old
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True!
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I actually don’t know what the U.S. SWAT teams letters stand for in the U.S. I refuse to look it up and am making my militaristic 8 year old come up with something.
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I just did because I was also curious. Special Weapons and Tactics. Could be way worse.
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Since when does AND get to be included in acronyms?
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Any time you need a vowel!
On Fri, Jun 5, 2020 at 5:29 PM dontcallitbollywood wrote:
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Strategic something something Team, I’m gonna say.
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This really is the most out of left field ending for a movie.
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The text goes by too quickly to read, they needed at least 5 seconds more
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I think they had two or three of their fictional people go home, and another one stay and train as a chef. And then the characters based on real people (the Sri Lankan and Pakistani old guys) got their real life ending of finally returning home after 17 years.
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Well, it is kind of a terrible movie, but at least it was fun to snark! Thanks Margaret!!
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Thank you Margaret for this! This was so happy to snark at!
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I never would have finished that movie without you guys, and I did love all the dancing. Thank you Margaret!
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Thanks for watching!
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