I found out a horrible piece of information about my husband: He's never seen Flashdance. Being the caring wife that I am, I pulled up youtube last night and searched "Flashdance". The ensuing video:
http://youtu.be/ILWSp0m9G2U
Yep, this is amazing. The song rules (obviously), and the clips really make you want to see the movie. Right?
Not so much for my husband. He starts on some rant about "Why does all the music in the movies from the 80's suck? What's up with this video?" Boy, he's got this all wrong. Flashdance RULES and he must see it.
Using my best persuasion skills, I hit him with the following argument:
Me: Well, just look at how great she is! She dances! She skates! She welds! She has so many talents!
Husband: Hmn.
No dice. Ok, I go for a different tactic:
Me: Hear where the song says "Dancing for our lives"? What if we are... um... sailing around the world on our... uh... yacht and we get... boarded(?) by pirates and they say they will filet us like tuna unless we dance for our lives and since you've never seen Flashdance, you don't know the moves??
Husband: Mn. Nope.
What the hell? I think I burned myself last month when I used similarly intelligent and well thought out arguments to force him to watch "Footloose" (He hadn't seen that one either!!). Turns out, he has a slightly different perception of what makes a "great" movie.
Hmm.
I really hope that pirate situation doesn't come up.
Just tell him she's half naked in many scenes...although I've found that doesn't always make up for a cheesy movie.
ReplyDeleteOr say that she's fully naked and then when he noticed no nudity that the copy you got must have been censored. I've seen too many foreign films with this ploy.
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