i be a sophomore in college when this movie come out and i have never actually see it until last night . i finally decide to watch it because i like good dancing and because the movie have such cultural impact . after see the movie i be completely baffle by how it have any effect other than put people to sleep . the story be pretty preposterous when you think about it . do anyone actually buy the idea that that beer joint full of gnarly old steel worker and teamster could keep their clientèle with the high concept dance that those girl be do . they would have all be over to zanzibar fast than you can say performance art . can you imagine the reaction of the real life version of that audience to that bizarre tv watch no theater dance thing that she do . please . it seem plausible to me that there could be a woman that work in a steel yard and be also a dancer after all both be physically demand job . but i do not buy for a second that that girl work in a steel yard . and i do not buy for a second that i be look at a real steel yard . steel work be dangerous . you do not keep your work area look like a junk yard and not end up loose a limb . i love some of the inane shot like when two welder be sit in the big corrugated tube weld . what the hell be they do in there . or when she be cut six inch off of a rusty steel bar with a cut torch . she be obviously board and just start cut random thing up . but story hole like that can be overlook if the movie be fun or at least stimulate in some way . flashdance doesn not offer anything to balance it and however . the dance horrible . it be the spastic twitch and pose style that ruin american musical until . well be we really over it yet . the sensuality that the movie try for be ruin by jennifer beal complete lack of personality . i mean i be a 42 year old male and when she be suppose to be eat lobster my only reaction be to think that she should get a lobster bib . you can not really get behind alex and her dream because her character be so stupid and shallow . the dog have more go on than she do . the love affair be flat . it come across a nothing more than a bos with the hots for one of his worker . zero passion . even the final scene where she dance for orville redenbacher and some other stiff be unsatisfying because the panel reaction be so unbelievable . what serious dancer wouldn not roll their eye at alex lame cheerleader routine . in short the movie have nothing but leg warmer and large sweatshirt . oh and yeah and there be a good chunk of nudity when alex rescue her friend from be a useless erotic dancer ( a laughable bit of hypocrisy ) . other than that the movie be a waste of time . i wish that the mst3k crew be still in business . this would make good fodder for them .