i finally saw Saturday Night Fever!!!

or, at least, part of it.

and it SUCKED!!!

well, ok, that's not really a surprise. i mean, seriously, who sits down to SNF thinking, gee, this is one of the landmark movies of our time? not i. i didn't even know the "plot." i use the term VERY loosely... but really, now, did it even need a plot? i think not. i think it was a movie of a time, with a man and a woman, and lots of hideous, vomit-inducing fashion which was popular once. it's a time-capsule. and proof that john travolta should never, ever, ever been given another part ever again. ok, except in Pulp Fiction.

i gleaned all this information from approximately 15 minutes of Saturday Night Fever. that was all i could take before i could feel the bile rising in my throat.

for those of you unwilling or, more likely, unable to sit through this atrocity, the 'story' is something like this: john travolta is a paint-store clerk in brooklyn. he likes dancing. he hangs out with a group of guys and his dance partner is some chick who he likes but who doesn't like him. tony (travolta) hangs out at discos as his escape from his troubling/mundane life.

um, that's about all the plot i know, cos, like i said, i saw fifteen minutes.

i watched that much because i was waiting for the dancing. i really, truly wanted to see the awesome disco dancing i understood was in this movie. i sat through 15 minutes to see one dance scene.

it. was. awful.

see, there was a dance-off competition, and they showed like three couples dancing. one couple was fine. there was a hispanic couple who mostly tore it up -- not the best dancing i've seen but better than i could do (but i'm only half-hispanic). then there was tony and his broad. they danced to some slow-ish song, and i'm no choreographer, but it was L.A.M.E. i cannot even describe the Lameness that was.

i will be more than happy to demonstrate for anyone. just ask when you see me.

so i didn't watch any more. because Saturday Night Fever is now just another disappointment.

damn you, pop culture!