Thanks for the memories!

Excellent characters with emotional depth. My wife, daughter and granddaughter all enjoyed it...and me, too! Very good movie! You won't be disappointed.

This movie feels like it was made purely to piss off people who want good shows

If you're interested in the topic at hand, you should just watch it and judge yourself because the reviews have gone very biased by people that didn't even watch it and just hate (or love) the creator. I liked it, it was well written, narrated, and directed and it was about a topic that interests me.

I got much more out of this movie than I thought I would. It was funny, romantic and had the right amount of drama. I decided to watch it because it was on my "to watch" list. This list was constructed through a number of years. So, I find myself losing interest in some of the movies on there as time goes on. As was the case of this movie. The Get Down is what reminded me to watch the movie because I hadn't watched anything by Baz Luhrmann. I wanted to do so before watching the show because for me, that usually adds to the experience of watching something. After watching it, I am motivated to go on and watch all his other films because this was a great movie. 9/10

I had never heard of this film and started watching it just after the intro credits ran by. I immediately thought this was a John Waters film. I thought this until a commercial came on and they mentioned the name of the director. I was surprised. The female lead character in this film is introduced. She has stained, crooked teeth. Her hair looks like the Bride of Frankenstein's... only worn in a ponytail. And on her face she's got the worst case of pimples I've ever seen in my life. She is clumsy too and is dressed essentially in one of Andre the Giant's old dirty T shirts. As the movie progresses she gradually becomes quite attractive and nimble on her feet. I don't understand that. Is she still ugly, but we are seeing her looks improve by viewing her through the eyes of her dance partner, who is falling in love with her? A love is blind sort of thing? Or does her growing self confidence miraculously transform her teeth, hair, complexion and wardrobe? Discounting those questions that I kept asking myself, I though this was a pleasant film. No violence to speak of. No foul language. No sex. Just a nice little film where dancers with lots of talent have the opportunity to showcase their craft. There's no heavy plot to follow and get you thinking. Purely for the entertainment value of the dancers. I certainly DO NOT think this was an amazingly wonderful, great, 10 star movie. I wonder if everybody else saw the same film as me. Honestly it was better than average, but not by a whole lot.

Absolutely brilliant; by the writer and the director and the actors. Shirley Hastings is one of the most important and true characters in any Art form. She is to be studied by students in psychology, psychiatry, and social work. As is her husband. Unfortunately the theme is all too common. The future is the youth. To stifle them is so wrong on so many levels. Narcissism abounds. It is epidemic and crippling to happiness and creativity. The hen-pecked husband is all too common in marriages. His realization of this is awaited by the audience throughout the movie...Does he ever break-away from the narcissistic dominating wife? How does one do this and keep a marriage together? How does a son break away from a mother? From a father? From both?

Strictly Ballroom (1992)A campy, glossy, colorful, surprising fairy tale, total romance, lots of dancing, and inventive through and through. No, director Baz Luhmann has not pulled off another Moulin Rouge, which is a whole other order of invention and beauty, but this is his first movie, and it's filled with idealism. And some people to root for and to hiss against--you know, heroes and villains.It could have been tightened up, no doubt--there are times when I was a little impatient even though they were dancing away. But mostly I was happy to watch and wait for the next step toward the big climax.The two young leads, interestingly, came from nowhere (the perfectly named Paul Mercurio and the understated Tara Morice both in their first films). They've gone on to largely television careers, and in part you appreciate how much Luhmann gets from them. The highly stylized approach helps avoid a need for real acting, per se, but Mercurio in particular really rises to the occasion. The whole affair is Australian, and it feels bright and original the way some of fellow Aussie Peter Weir's films do, or in another sense, Peter Jackson.If you can summon up any innocence and romance and go for what really clicks here, be swept up and love it.