You think you're bad-ass?

[shaftogigsville]

You think you're bad-ass, huh? You think you eat iron and sh*t angry packs of hungry wolves?

Well see if you can out-tough THIS!

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(Yes, it's safe for work, but is it safe for your soul?)

Comments

[antoniusrex]

Oh, you BASTARD. That's worse than being Rick-Rolled, thank you. I mean, yes, I've sat through this movie more than once (by choice)...and yeah, I own it--but still. That's like kicking a guy in the junk when he's not looking.

Seriously, why the hell was Gene Kelly in that movie?

[shaftogigsville]

And more to the point, what the hell was he doing on roller skates?!

I don't know.

I just don't know.

[shaftogigsville]

I forgot to add, yes, I too sat through this movie more than once. Why?

- I was a child. I didn't know any better.
- It was the early days of HBO when they showed the same movie about twenty-right times in a month.
- I would watch anything back then to drown out the sound of my family.
- My sister liked it.
- My dad was never around to slap some sense into me.
- At that age, I was kind of a special FX junkie, no matter how shitty they were, and Olivia Newton-John did have magical orange star-trails shooting behind her. Shitty magical orange star-trails, but I was too young to recognize it.

Looking back, I consider running this movie when children could see it particularly irresponsible on HBO's part, and I intend to sue them back to the stone age.

[shaftogigsville]

You were mouth-raped by faeries.

I should have warned you.

[clynne]

Dammit, people used to know how to put on a show!

P. S. I tried to sing that once at karaoke on rollerskates and I totally ended up landing on my ass when XTC spun me. I'm not tough enough to handle Olivia at her peak, apparently. BUT AT LEAST I TRIED.

[shaftogigsville]

You only got what was karmically coming to you!

Seriously, looking at this made me realize a few things.

1. Olivia Newton-John was an obvious anorexic.
2. The late 70's sucked.
3. No matter how cool the actual counter-culture may or may not have been then, anything that got put through the Hollywood Bullshit Grinder at that time was doomed.
4. We can only pray we don't look this ridiculous to our children thirty years from now.
5. Even Gene Kelly sometimes needs to pay the bills.

[psybergenie]

That is AWESOME!! I loved that movie, BTW and I especially liked the music by ELO.

[shaftogigsville]

You were a child. You didn't know any better.

:)

[psybergenie]

Yes I was, but I LOVE nostalgia.

[rkeil]

28 seconds.

[shaftogigsville]

At least you went down fighting.