Grease 2 (1982)

Clip joint: Bowling

Hollywood leads a wholesome, family activity down a dark, twisted alley as we pin down five of the best bowling clipsBowling is as much of a wholesome, all-American past-time as going to the cinema and Hollywood often combines the two. The bowling lane is packed with cinema-friendly iconography – for every sugary evocation of the bowling alley (like this musical number from Grease 2 , surely the bowling alley at its fluffiest), there's a dark manipulation of the squeaky-clean image – preachers getting bludgeoned to death with bowling pins, families being stalked to the lanes, or a militia using bowling paraphernalia for target practice. Here's a half-frame's worth of great bowling moments:1) Well, that's one way to use the alley. After uttering There Will Be Blood 's immortal "milkshake" line, Daniel unleashes his rage on Eli in one of the most memorable final scenes for years.2) Sick of feeling incompetent every time a slick,
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