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Top 10 Macho Dancer Movies Ever Made

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The Bakla Review once again wows Migs the Manila Gay Guy with his Ten Best Macho Dancer Movies Ever. Here’s a snippet, and don’t miss reading the entire post by clicking on the link provided below.

If the Western has the Wild West with its cowboys, the Macho Dancer Movie nestles within the dark walls of the Gay Bar with its cast of gyrating, undressing male performers. Macho dancers are not to be confused with the callboy/common prostitute or the torero/live sex performer, although they can be those too. The Macho Dancer’s weapon is his particular brand of striptease. And just as the Western is American and the Samurai film Japanese, the Macho Dancer Movie is quintessentially Filipino. Is there any country other than the Philippines that can fill a top ten list of macho dancer movies with a few extra to spare? In these films, the plight of a people are played out via intermittent seductive numbers, like a musical, but hotter, where the thongs usually come off. Herewith, the zarzuelas of our time.

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  1. #6  Cy

    I agree with rustcell and dita, all the foreign film entry ng Pilipinas  na napansin ko eh puro kabaklaan at kaputahan.  Hindi totoo na mas maganda ang mga pelikulang gawa ng mga Pilipino today, mas magaganda ang mga Pelikula noong kapanahunan ng mga studio[  LVN, Sampaquita, Premier at isa pang malaking studio na 4get kuna] noong mga 1940’s to early 60’s  Na mentioned ang Rashomon n Seven Samurai na very Japanese in identity kaya very succsessful ang mga ito, there are movies produced at LVN back then na  niremade sa hollywood na katulad ng Seven Samurai as Magnificent Seven, kaso hindi ko lang matandaan, and one of these Pilipino Director and the only Pilipino is registered as who’s who among Hollywood personality,  He made movies which are quintessentially [ tama ba spelling ko? ] Pilipino kaya they were recognized by hollywood and movie afficionados.  I believe someday someone will produce a great Pilipino  movie that we can be proud of again.

    08/10/26 11:05

  2. #5  rustcell

    You have a point in saying that maybe macho dancer films will improve in time but tingnan naman natin ‘to: “Macho Dancer” was done in 1988, “Twilight Dancers” in 2006–if anything, the sub-genre got WORSE. Philippine cinema isn’t known for anything, really, and if the industry will have a claim to fame eventually or a signature of some kind, I SURELY don’t want it to be macho dancer films. Why not? It promotes Filipinos as cheap commodities willing to sell their principles, dignity, and, yes, their bodies for the Almighty Dollar. Transleyshun: Ayokong magmukhang cheap ang Pinoy na madali lang bilhin ng pera. (O ‘di ba, may translation pa! LOL) If these films promote the Filipino image as such, it’s not only irresponsible, it’s dangerous considering there are a lot of OFWs abroad who are exposed to foreigners whose image of the Filipino is either wala or limited to what they see in, yup, the media. Whether Westerns and samurai films elevate American and Japanese cinema, respectively, we only have to look at classics like “Rashomon” and, yes, both “Seven Samurai” and its American film remake “The Magnificent Seven” to know that despite the hundreds of shitty Westerns and samurai films out there, there are great examples which improve the images of the respective national cinema they belong to. Sa ‘tin “Macho Dancer” lang ang closest, arguable pa kung maganda nga ‘to.

    08/10/18 10:57

  3. #4  the bakla review

    haha, there’s so much hate for macho dancer movies. i guess that’s also why i wrote about it.
    i didn’t know there were this many macho dancer movies before i started listing. we make a lot of it, and we watch it, so obviously something can be learned from it. it’s not for us to decide if it’s philippine cinema or not. it’s already been decided! i didn’t say it was the be-all of pinoy cinema, but i did say we should own up to it as ours. (i’m not the first one to say so.) the americans and japanese produced a lot of same old-same old western and samurai genre fare before they got to the revisionist stuff, before john wayne, before kurosawa got famous. i don’t think the genre “elevates” their cinema. it’s just that it’s theirs. something about their culture allowed it to be born. clearly there’s a notion that macho dancer movies are purely for the flesh. and if they are, clearly there’s a stigma around sex in movies. or maybe it’s hard for us to accept that sex trade or prostitution has played a huge part in our national consciousness and that it’s always a topic of deep concern or interest to filipinos. maybe we’re embarassed by it. obviously i like the sexy aspect of macho dancer movies. there also seems to be a stigma around the name of my blog, like “bakla review” is only about sex, maybe it is, i don’t know, haha, or maybe it’s my choice to wax about gay movies, even the trashy ones that no one takes seriously. i’ve realized it’s not a popular point of view. thanks for taking an interest, migs. :-)

    08/10/16 00:46

  4. #3  Dita

    I’m sorry but movies with macho dancers do not define Philippine Cinema. Mababaw masyado at parang ano, puro malilibog na Pilipino lang nakatira dito? Malilibog na bakla pwede pa. But then again, kaya nga sa Baklareview nakita ang post na ito…  

    08/10/15 20:06

  5. #2  ef

    no comment…

    08/10/15 11:46

  6. #1  rustcell

    Sori, pero if ‘macho dancer’ films define in any way Filipino cinema then I resign as a Filipino! OK, medyo OA LOL pero I’m really serious. Macho dancer films are not the worst at all but come on now. Westerns elevate American cinema, ditto with samurai films and Japan but you CANNOT say the same about this sub-genre and Pinoy cinema. “Twilight Dancers” is one of the worst films I’ve seen and, yes, let’s face it “Macho Dancer” is overrated (except for the soaping/macho dancer scene). Lino Brocka crafted much better films, esp. “Maynila: Sa Mga Kuko ng Liwanag”, “Orapronobis”, “Ina, Kapatid, Anak” just to mention my faves.

    08/10/14 11:35

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