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I hate the musical/movie "Grease" with a fiery passion.

I saw it as a teenager and just despised it. I hated how she had to change
for him to like her (and by "change" it meant have sex with him). Yeah,
that relationship was doomed, except you know he probably got her
preggers...

Ugh, just no.

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Date: 2013-09-09 06:33 pm (UTC)
From: [personal profile] impalalove
I'm with you -- I don't hate it, but I don't see why it's popular, either.

I don't like "Napoleon Dynamite", either.

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Date: 2013-09-10 02:59 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] orangerful.livejournal.com
I liked "Napoleon Dynamite" on it's initial release but I've found that it's not as rewatchable as I had thought. I think I saw it at that time in high school/college when I knew too many guys like that so it was hilarious to me. Now I'm just sorta like...meh.

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Date: 2013-09-09 06:54 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] rogueslayer452.livejournal.com
I never saw the movie, I only know that it's considered a highly popular classic. But as I've learned what actually happens in it, and what the ending implies, I'm quite puzzled myself as to why people like it so much.

Perhaps it's mostly due to the musical numbers than the actual story/message being sent. But other than that, idk.

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Date: 2013-09-10 03:04 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] orangerful.livejournal.com
Yeah, I love musicals, don't get me wrong. I have a large collection of Sondheim, Rogers and Hammerstein, Gilbert and Sullivan, and Andrew Lloyd Weber in my iTunes. But something about "Grease" has never set right with me...

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Date: 2013-09-09 07:01 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] sunnytyler001.livejournal.com
THANK YOU!!! I always thought so too!!!

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Date: 2013-09-10 03:05 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] orangerful.livejournal.com
LOL THANK YOU! This is what comes of having to go through all of the DVDs that were mislabeled as "FAMILY" by the vendor. My brain was fried by 5pm and I hated all the movies ever.

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Date: 2013-09-09 07:05 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] http://users.livejournal.com/unnecessary_/
I thought it was cute how they both did things they were uncomfortable with to sort of experiment with each other's lifestyles. BUT I'm too optimistic most days. lol.

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Date: 2013-09-10 03:06 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] orangerful.livejournal.com
I think the part that bugged me was *his* lifestyle "won". Just never set right with me. But to each their own.

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Date: 2013-09-10 08:29 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] http://users.livejournal.com/unnecessary_/
That makes sense. I always just assumed that she went back to being herself after the end credits.

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Date: 2013-09-09 07:23 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] geekslave.livejournal.com
I first saw it when I was really young and enjoyed it. I never really thought about it too hard. Though even now, I'm not the greatest feminist ever. I haven't watched it in ages just because like "The Wizard of Oz" and "Willy Wonka" it's a movie I don't have a burning desire to see it now. But I never really took anything really negative away from the ending. I just thought Sandy was playing dress-up to show Danny a different side of herself. Not that it was some permanent change. Besides, he did like her before that "change" at the end.

Stacey

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Date: 2013-09-10 03:08 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] orangerful.livejournal.com
God, "Wizard of Oz" left me so confused last time I rewatched it with the moral about not looking beyond your own back yard for adventure! I still love the original "Willy Wonka" though...but I haven't bought the blu-ray yet because I would eat a LOT of chocolate watching that.

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Date: 2013-09-14 11:37 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] geekslave.livejournal.com
I've never been the biggest chocolate lover. But I do love Everlasting Gobstoppers. I haven't had one in a while, but i I watched Willy Wonka again, I'd be craving those.

Stacey

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Date: 2013-09-09 09:48 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] dotty.livejournal.com
ME TOO, OMG ME TOO SO MUCH. Always hated it from the moment I saw it and everytime anyone gush about it I cringe. It's one of the most overrated movies/musicals ever.

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Date: 2013-09-10 03:09 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] orangerful.livejournal.com
YES! **HIGH FIVES** I love musicals and movie musicals, even overrated ones, but Grease just never sat right with me. I just felt like Sandy was bullied into changing for a guy, and a high school guy at that, SO not worth it!

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Date: 2013-09-09 10:47 pm (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] gillo
When I was in charge of drama at my last school, kids pestered me to do "Grease" I always refused - because the happy ending is that the "bad girl" is not pregnant and the "good girl" turns "bad". Or any other judgemental terminology you choose. Just not a message I wanted to endorse.

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Date: 2013-09-10 03:10 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] orangerful.livejournal.com
Exactly. Which is odd because I LOVE 'A Funny Things Happened on the way to the Forum' and we did that in high school..but no one really changes to get their love in that musical. The two airheads end up together LOL.

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Date: 2013-09-10 01:31 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] rhoda-rants.livejournal.com
Heh. I think the Nostalgia Chick shares your opinion. Although I have to say, I like the movie not for its message or themes, but for the music. It is SO fun to sing along to.

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Date: 2013-09-10 03:11 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] orangerful.livejournal.com
I watched a LOT of musicals as a kid so by the time I saw Grease, I had enough of a back catalog that the songs did not make an impression on me. I like my Sondheim and Pirates of Penzance and Disney scores!:-)

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Date: 2013-09-10 01:38 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] ekaterin24.livejournal.com
I'm ambivalent about the musical--I saw it mainly because a friend was the Teen Angel in our college production. I'm not into 1950s clothing/music/esthetics, unless you count Rodgers and Hammerstein.

Some of the songs in Grease were fun, like "Beauty School Dropout" and "Summer Days, Summer Nights" (I love how the guy is bragging about the hot times they had and the girl is talking about a much more innocent romance (evidently the truth.)

But yeah, I thought the ending was annoying too (would've been more fun if, say, he joined the chess team and dressed like a "good boy".)

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Date: 2013-09-10 03:16 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] orangerful.livejournal.com
I was pretty sensitive as a teen and really hated anything that portrayed my age group in the usual stereotypical way so I think that was it's first strike. Plus, I was already well versed (pun intended) in Sondheim, R&H, G&S and Andrew Lloyd Weber, not to mention the Ashman/Menken Disney years, by the time I finally saw Grease so the music did not impress me.

And, of course, being a geeky girl, seeing a movie that was telling me to be less of that and more girly-girl did not endear it to me either. I've only seen the movie once and then I saw it at a dinner theater. Two strikes...okay, I was never big into sports metaphors anyway.

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Date: 2013-09-10 02:30 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] elizalavelle.livejournal.com
I like Grease when I don't think about it. It's fun because the music is fun. But if you stop to think about the plot for more than two seconds it is rage inducing indeed.

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Date: 2013-09-10 03:13 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] orangerful.livejournal.com
OMG YOUR ICON KILLED ME!!!!!!! Now every time I see a Bob the Builder DVD at work I'm going to cackle wildly.

Yeah, and it's odd because I have plenty of other movies that are probably the same, but something about Grease just sits in my brain the wrong way and makes it intolerable. Maybe it was all the annoying drama kids in high school belting out the songs in the hallway...

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Date: 2013-09-13 04:53 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] toothlesshag.livejournal.com
I hate it too. Paul told me how bad it was when he was in it, and then I saw.

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