What Swanky Things are you Watching?

[Ghoulish Delight]

Finally saw Strictly Ballroom. Pretty good. It was as if they took the script for Dirty Dancing, handed it to Christopher Guest for a complete re-write, and then handed it to Luhrmann to finalize the screenplay and direct. It suffered from music issues, as in I guess the budget wasn't big enough to have anything but kinda cheesey music for the big competition scene. For some reason that really detracted from it. Also, from a story standpoint, I thought the conflict with Fran's family was resolved way too easily. But it, of course, has those elements of art direction and story that I love from Baz, so I definitely enjoyed it.