flashdance be one of those awful and stupid movie that you actually kind of enjoy and just because theyre so crap . i just watch it on tv and my friend and i be amaze at how dopey it be . it true that don simpson and the other producer come up with the idea of a fairly cheap and lowbrow flick with lot of sweaty body to help sell a soundtrack of ( admitedly catchy ) pop and so flashdance be an odd sort of pioneer represent the first mtv movie . adrian lyne start out in advertising and it show because flashdance be almost a commercial for itself . you have already decide to watch it but the movie have this weird and panicky undercurrent and a though it frighten that you might change your mind at any moment . it keep sell itself to you over and over and all the way through and use slick commercial style edit and glossy close ups of jiggle breast . the story be wafer thin ( i honestly can not think of another film i have see with less plot ) and it never make much sense and but it a very contrived and calculate movie and so it feel consistent . people say it date but flashdance be always rubbish . viewer in the early 80 know it be just cheesy t and a but it do work in it own silly fashion . there soppy romance for the chick flick crowd and stack of oily and writhe female body for their date and all set to a pumping disco beat . how could it fail . it help that the dialogue be pointless and so you can grab a popcorn without miss anything major and and if this sort of thing isn not your cup of tea and you can always laugh at the interpretive dance on display . the scene where a stand in for jennifer beals convulse or wouldances on stage in front of a tv with a fan in it and a face full of white clown make up have u in stitch . a genuine guilty pleasure .