Just Finished Watching "Staying Alive" on Cable. What a Hilarious Shit Show!

I actually love Finola Hughes in it. She is beautiful and I actually think a good dancer. Everyone else is embarrassing.

Frank Stallone “singing” wth Cynthia Rhodes is the low point of a very shitty movie.

The dance show at the end is something I honestly can’t imagine anyone ever paying to see. It’s such camp.

[Quote] Cynthia Rhodes played yet another mousey, non-descript also-ran dancer.

She didn't seem so mousey in Dirty Dancing.

R1 If it wasn't for Sylvester directing the movie, the world would never have known Frank Stallone. Thanks a lot, Sly. Not only did you make a shitty movie, but you foisted your deplorable sibling on us.

Yeah Finola is the best part about it! but that's not saying much.

As a Travolta loving teen I actually went to see this at the cinema in the UK. It was bloody awful, even to my JT lusting eyes.

Travolta never looked better in it which was the films one of two good things. There shouldn’t have been a sequel to SNF. The ending of the original was perfect. Finola got better over the years, but you can tell how new to acting she was in this. Gorney and a few of the guys that played Tony’s friends have said they initially had small roles in SA, but Stallone chose to write them out of the film which was a mistake.

The film and the soundtrack did well so it wasn’t a total disaster, The Bee Gees songs were in fact really good in this film so that’s two things that were good. No comment on Frank Stallone. Ugh.

"This is bullshit"

R7 The hair! The tights! The drama!

I loved the exercise clothes dancers wore in the 80s. So tacky! Lavender Lycra.

Fin Hughes was fresh from the London cast of "Cats" , actually, OP.

Spandex Ballet!!!

I thought "Satan's Alley" looked very classy!

R10 Based on her performance in this movie, I'd say she was fired from "Cats."

I did extra work on this crummy film. Three nights in CBGB's with Cynthia Rhodes lip syncing. Ugh.

But Travolta was there, too. And he was far more beautiful and charismatic in person than he has ever been on film. Sure, he was pumped up, but he was also fully dressed in that scene. I have no explanation for it, but at that moment in time, he was riveting. All eyes drifted back to him, every time Stallone called 'cut.'

R14 any more gossip? Was Stallone an asshole like I’ve always suspected?

No gossip. Sorry. The club was small and packed with people, movie equipment, and a smoke machine. Everyone just did what they had to do to finish and move on to something more pleasant.

What is it about dance belts that make a guys junk look huge?

Cantilever uplift I would assume....

R17 Whatever it is i'm not complaining.

It was trash-tastic though lacking the self-awareness of Can’t Stop the Music. A reminder of how awful the 80s were compared to the 70s - music, dancing, dialogue, filming were all worse than the original SNF which I loved with every fiber of my 10 year old gayling self. It summarizes my disappointment at finally hitting puberty and being ready to hit the disco floor - but having it replaced with aerobicizing tackiness - and the momentary death of gayness.

this shit movie begat the rumor that Travolta and Stallone were hooking up during filming. I was in junior high at the time and it's hysterical in retrospect that we were so ON that gossip.

[Quote] but having it replaced with aerobicizing tackiness

I saw this in the movie theatre. Even as a kid, I knew it was shit

Hysterical mess of a movie, probably the best, or highest-budget, example of unintentional camp from the 1980s! And that finale - it's a laugh a minute!

But the main reason I find this movie weirdly enthralling is the glimpse it gives into the tiny mind of writer-director Sylvester Stallone, NEVER has a director misunderstood his source material so badly!

I mean, just his decision to make Tony Manero a dancer - the whole thing about Manero in "SNF" was that he enjoyed dancing and was better at it than the rest of the clowns in his neighborhood, and if it was a big part of his self-image it was because he had nothing else going for him and never would. So there's no way in hell Tony could do the kind of athletic jazz dance featured in the movie, both because he had no training and wouldn't see any need for training, and because the idiot director had his lead actor bulk up to the point that he had zero flexibility and couldn't do any of a pro dancer's moves! But that doesn't matter to Stallone, because he thinks that "ANGER" is more important than training or physical ability, which also shows that he didn't understand the character of Tony Manero in the movie he was making a sequel to. The original Tony wasn't nearly as angry as the average young urban tough, in fact he was hiding a certain sweetness and thoughtfulness under his bravado.

John Travolta looks even gayer in this video snippet than in any scene in Saturday Night Fever.

This much it true, R11.

Still a jam.

R17 I know!

The choreography is so spectacularly bad it's worth a watch just for that. Though I feel really sorry for these trained dancers having to slog that shit day after day.

I still remember that final impossible leap up to the rising podium. Hilarious.

It was obvious that Bway show they were performing would be an absolute, unmitigated flop.

And who can forget this moment:

who the flip needs a fucking ginormus house like this????? seriously....

Charles Ward, rest in peace.

I had a blast watching it with my cousin years ago. We commented on it all the way through. Yentl was the other POS that we watched.

Not knowing Finola Hughes prior to seeing it, friend I remarked that was one of the worst British accents we had heard.

Also seem to remember an hysterical moment, doesn’t Tony at one point have her up off the floor, spinning her in a circle manically while she panicky repeats his name? And then he slings her to the ground?

[quote] So there's no way in hell Tony could do the kind of athletic jazz dance featured in the movie, both because he had no training and wouldn't see any need for training

Actually I think in the original movie Tony Manero was very into practicing his moves at the dance studio and had a keen appreciation of training. That, of course, doesn't make it logical for him to end up doing the kind of crap the sequel had him doing.