Drunk on Foolish Pleasures: TOUGH GUYS DON'T DANCE
About this episode
The episode discusses the film 'Tough Guys Don't Dance' and its entertaining qualities as a 'bad' movie.
by JB “Oh, man! Oh, God! Oh, man! Oh, God! Oh, man! Oh, God! The perfect film for Junesploitation’s “Thriller Day.” NOTE: This column originally appeared in slightly different form in 2013. Now that it has been pointed out to me that the original 1972 Poseidon Adventure is actually pretty great, my favorite “bad” movie will forever be novelist/he-man Norman Mailer's 1987 crime dramedy/psycho-circus Tough Guys Don't Dance . This movie is incredibly entertaining to watch, and is as appropriate a movie as there will ever be for a column titled “Drunk on Foolish Pleasures” since most, if not all, of this film’s characters are sloppy drunk for the entire length of the movie. The screenwriter, director, and most of the actors may have also been drunk on set during filming, too. It certainly seems that way. Just ask Norman Mailer. In his considered worldview, it is drinking makes you a man… so does fighting… and so does not being gay. Tough Guys Don’t Dance is the work of a man who has had one too many testosterone injections directly into his groin. This movie’s screenwriter seems to be every boy who ever bullied me in middle school, its producer is your least favorite uncle who brags…
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