I'm watching the original again right now, and I still love it.
The acting is great, the film is 80s in an incredibly endearing sense, and the dialogue is fun and quick. What's funny is that the "main villain," Lithgow, is an incredibly sympathetic character, and the most unlikable character is his daughter. Even the town bully isn't as unlikable. She's such a cocktease of a ***** that it hurts.
Originally posted by Mr. Rhythmic
I'm watching the original again right now, and I still love it.
The acting is great, the film is 80s in an incredibly endearing sense, and the dialogue is fun and quick. What's funny is that the "main villain," Lithgow, is an incredibly sympathetic character, and the most unlikable character is his daughter. Even the town bully isn't as unlikable. She's such a cocktease of a ***** that it hurts.
I loaned the movie to a friend of mine who had never seen it and he really enjoyed it and i asked him if he was going to see the new one and he said-No why fix something thats not broken? yeah I agree that the town bully isnt as unlikable as Singers character and that Singers character is easily the most unlikable.
The only thing about footloose that i never liked about the movie was she was a b!tch in the movie.
she only started to like Ren AFTER he beat chuck in the tractor chickenrace.Before then,she had no interest in him.Because of that,I was thinking throughout the film-Man why does he hang out with such a stuck up b!tch like that? why does he want to have anything to do with a b!tch girl like her? he shouldnt go near her.
In that scene when he is trying to jump off the tracter but cant-you hear her saying-thats it,jump you chicken.If he had been able to jump like he wanted to,no way would she have taken to him like she did.so when she got into a fight with chuck at the end and he beat her up I was saying to myself-she deserved that,she had it coming.she really did have it coming because SHE hit him FIRST when they were having the argument.
thats why I was glad they made a play out of it making it into a musical because they fixed that problem in the play actually giving her a good valid reason to break up with him.in the play he asks her what happened to her and she says-I got into an argument with Chuck and he beat me up. a violent boyfriend that beats you up over an argument,now THAT is a good reason to break up with him. 👆
I was so glad they fixed that mistake.
this was actually posted by a moderater at another movie message board I post at.
I loved Ebert's review that said it was so close to the original that he almost re-posted his review from 1984 just to save time.
I've also read a few box office reports saying that women who grew up with the original movie really want to see this.
I was 10 in 1984. And not one of my friends who obsessed over this movie back then wants to see this. I even got a "Are they ****ing kidding me?!?!" text from my sister after one of the commercials aired last week. There's a whole thread on another forum I read (which is predominantly female) ranting about why we don't need a remake of this.
So yeah, I'll be skipping this. I already saw it in 1984, I have it on DVD, and I have the original soundtrack on my iPod. I have no need to see a do-over.
this will probably be my last post on this since everybody else who doesnt want to see this movie has pretty much come on and said so and theres nothing left to talk about.what I think is so hysterical is that the remake apologists who are claiming victory saying that it was a close number one at the box office when it opened two weeks ago raking in 16 million is that thats not such an impressive opening.the original grossed over 80 million and ran in theaters for 5 or 6 months back then.
I remember it running in theaters that long.It grossed that much because positive word of mouth got out about it and thousands of movie goers took to it so they gave it REPEAT business THE following weekend and the weekends after that.I predicted that there would be a dropoff of at least 5 million last week and I pretty much hit the nail right on the head.It had a 6 million drop off grossing only 10 million.this weekend expect its weekend gross to be only 5 million.at THIS rate,it will be lucky to make HALF of what the originals gross was. 😆 😆 🤣 😂 😆
I guarantee at least half the moviegoers that saw footloose on opening weekend,half if not most,only saw it because of the NAME alone.they had heard about the movie from the original but never saw it.Now they are finding out this movie is a remake and that there was an original and they are going home and clicking on cable tv and watching it clicking on footloose in seeing the original is far better than this pathetic remake so they are doing the wise thing thing staying home and just watching it,not going back and giving it repeat business.unlike the original,postive word of mouth is obviously not getting out about this movie and unlike the original,not getting a higher grosing weekends than the previous one.priceless,I love it. 😆 💃 😂 😆
Wow, Out of curiosity I started watching he remake last night. When the movie started with the Footloose song I got happy for a minute thinking this movie might be something. It's something all right. Something not that good.
Poor excuses for Kevin Bacon, Chris Penn, Lori Singer etc. The barn scene, which I was looking forward the most, they botched it with the poor choice of music. That was as far I could watch.
This movie is a prime example why remakes are not always a good idea.
Originally posted by Darth Vicious
Wow, Out of curiosity I started watching he remake last night. When the movie started with the Footloose song I got happy for a minute thinking this movie might be something. It's something all right. Something not that good.Poor excuses for Kevin Bacon, Chris Penn, Lori Singer etc. The barn scene, which I was looking forward the most, they botched it with the poor choice of music. That was as far I could watch.
This movie is a prime example why remakes are not always a good idea.
I didnt know that the remake was out yet.wow I cannot believe they did not even use the song NEVER for the barn scene.How stupid can you get? That was the one thing they could have used for a positive is keep the songs they had and that was the most key exciting moment of the film was the barn scene and the song had a lot to do with it. You got bad actors playing the roles,you would think they would at LEAST try and keep the good stuff in that they COULD have kept and had control over like the original songs.sheesh.
I can tell from the trailer that the acting is pathetic so you would think they would at LEAST use what made the original great as well besides the acting,the songs from the original.
Yeah you cant replace kevin Bacon.He is the one and only true Ren Mccormick.That was easily his best role ever.Same goes for John Lithgow,nobody can act as great as he did in that role and do as great a job as he did.Bacon and Lithgow were born to play those parts.
Reviews have said that the actor playing Chris Penns part is the only actor who was decent in the remake.
Knowing they kept that great song Never out,did they even include Holding out for a Hero in that stupid chicken race with Buses? something tells me the answer is no.I could not believe it when I saw the trailer that they were going to do the chicken race with Buses.How stupid can you get? I mean,Bomont is a small town,where on earth are you going to get keys to drive a bus? and in a small town like that,everybody is going to know who it was that stold those buses. 🙄
whats sad is there are actually people out there that like this remake better than the classic original.Guess some people dont appreciate good acting and only care about good dancing. 🙄 The two leads dont have any acting talent,they were chosen just because they are good dancers.
the proof is in the pudding that at least half the moviegoers who saw the original like me did not go to the theaters and see the remake.This remake did well on its opening weekend but it bombed the second weekend and had a dramatic falloff at the box office. 😆 and whats really funny is is only made half the total gross the original film did and this is a day and age where ticket prices due to inflation are far more expensive. 😆
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I totally agree with you. There was no chemistry between these characters like the original movie. Some movies should be left alone. They said that they would never do a remake of "To Kill a Mockingbird" because they will never be able to duplicate the phenomenal acting of Gregory Peck.
Waiting to see how the remake of Red Dawn turns out when it hits theaters later this year or next year.
Yeah I cant imiagine them doing a remake of To Kill A Mockinbird.But then again I could not imiagine them doing a remake of Footloose either so anythings possible with hollywood these days,they have clearly run out of ideas. another one i am pissed about is that they redid Hawaai five Oh. 😠 just like with kevin bacon,Jack Lord is the one and only true Steve Mcgarret,there is no other. Like I was asking him,I assume they didnt even use the song HOLDING OUT FOR A HERO during the chickenrace with buses?