Footloose remake?! NOOOOOO!

[Sawyer]

I would.

 

[terry78]

I would.

I mean normal people that don't know what musicals are.

 

[Sawyer]

Would these even be considered musicals? They're more dancing than singing. Shouldn't they be called dance-icals?

That's not better.

 

[Wheels]

And yet, no one would chastise me for not knowing that.

I guess I watch too many movies and TV shows. I know alot of pop culture stuff.

 

[danoyse]

Footloose and Dirty Dancing aren't musicals. If they were, the characters would actually do the singing. They're just stories that involve dance to a soundtrack.

Footloose and Dirty Dancing have both been turned into musicals. I saw Footloose on Broadway and it was terrible. Dirty Dancing was playing when I was in London, but I saw Billy Elliot instead. Which was originally a movie that was turned into a pretty damn good musical.

 

[Superark]

Is that JCVD?

Yessir!

 

[Ultimatehero]

Having seen the movie, and the original yesterday:

1) The original is still the best overall.
2) The movie has some hiccups when it tries to change things and comes off as odd instead -- using monster busses instead of the tractor scene. Among a couple others.
3) Some of the changes are for the better. The beginning of the remake is definitely improved dramatically. You see/understand why the community would ban dancing.
3) Some of the same scenes in the remake are actually leagues better somehow. The "bang your head!" scene beyond rocked. So did teaching Willard how to dance.
4) The prom scene made you want to get up and dance, they really pulled it off.
5) The acting was great, despite some hiccups - the warehouse scene was better in the original and seemed to have more emotion to it. Screaming "I'm not a virgin" elicited a couple laughs in the audience whereas it seemed more realistic in the original, perhaps due to the times perhaps due to the acting unsure.
6) Most of the scenes, however, recapture the magic of the original that you feel like you're seeing it for the first time. With this said, there are enough changes that I can say it was not a carbon copy -- having saw the original so close behind, it's only close in basic story structure and some of the scenes being similar. Only one noticeable word-for-word scene: Vi confronting her husband about how he may be a good preacher but needs to work on becoming a better father.
7) The music, where it was important, was the same as the original. There was only two hip-hop song beats, the rest was western music which I'm not that familiar with but I don't think the songs were that new either. Thus to those worrying about updated music, it's all classic - they kept Quiet Riot even.
8) The audience seemed to like it too. There was applause at the very end. Everyone was laughing and cheering and attentive the whole way through.

Overall, I'd rank the original 9/10 while the remake would be 8/10. It's still a good film. Entertaining. Very well made. Just unable to completely stand up to it's former, despite having some better scenes than the original, due to a couple of hiccups.

 

[Sawyer]

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A little too much going on with it, but I liked it.

 

[Ultra Lantern]

I plan to see it when it comes out.

 

[Sawyer]

Oh God, Blake Shelton's cover of Footloose is ****ing terrible.

 

[SuperSoldier985]

Wow...this is so typical in remakes..

According to many of the reviews on this new movie, the complaints are pretty much directly related to the flaws in the original and yet people hold the original up to such high praise...

It's like there's no winning when a remake goes out of their way to stick to the original so closely, only to get slammed by repeating a lot of the same things that not only could've made the originals so special but for one reason or another, just doesn't carry over too well in today's culture.

I just saw the original Footloose for the first time ever today and I can clearly see a ton of things in that movie that, while at its time, most people felt were charming, fun, and enjoyable, just wouldn't hold up to the audiences of today. Footloose was a movie of its time and even though it wasn't a GREAT movie, I don't think remaking it note for note for today's audience was the best way to go.

So, I'll still be going out to see the remake myself tomorrow, but that's the impression I get right now.

 

[danoyse]

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.

 

[SuperSoldier985]

But danoyse, you don't skip remakes because you already have seen or enjoyed the original(s)...

You're supposed to watch them to remind of of how much you enjoy and appreciate the original and at the same time, understand how it compares and contrasts to today's culture and society. It also allows the viewer to embrace any other unique elements or style that another creator has allowed to impose on the story and its characters and see it brought to life in a new way.

At least that's how I look at remakes...

 

[Prison Mike]

I saw the original the other day for the first time. Meh...I don't see what they hype is all about.

 

[danoyse]

But danoyse, you don't skip remakes because you already have seen or enjoyed the original(s)...

You're supposed to watch them to remind of of how much you enjoy and appreciate the original and at the same time, understand how it compares and contrasts to today's culture and society. It also allows the viewer to embrace any other unique elements or style that another creator has allowed to impose on the story and its characters and see it brought to life in a new way.

At least that's how I look at remakes...

No, I'm skipping this remake because I don't want to see it.

If I want to be reminded how much I enjoyed the original, I will watch the original. It was fine for its time, I still enjoy it, and since this basically looks like the same film with a new soundtrack...I don't need or want to see this. All there is to it.

 

[Duke]

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.

Amen. I don't plan on seeing it either because for the most part I don't like remakes. Most of them are replicas of the originals & usually don't offer nothing new. Lastly, I hate the new Footloose song for this movie. Ugh!

 

[jacobed]

I never thought the original was good, thought it was a silly premise and pretty ridiculous throughout. This movie was also silly and ridiculous although it wasn't bad. I'd say more or less they're on the same level

 

[Mace Dolex]

I was initially skeptical about this remake most importantly since they were going to be remaking a few songs but it turns out the movie was quite good, Blake Shelton's Footloose remake isn't quite up to par with Kenny Loggins' version but what can you do about it.

At least they kept the original "Let's Hear It For The Boy" dance montage but totally ruined Bonnie Tyler's "Holding Out For A Hero", the new version sucked.

Julliane Hough is just so pretty that I didn't mind her acting but she makes up for it by shaking some booty, this new guy taking over Kevin Bacon's role was ok but I don't see his career taking off with this movie, different times, different attitude in Hollywood.

 

[ComicChick]

i haven't seen the first one, i think i've seen clips but that's it.

i saw this one and while it's not an amazing stellar film, it's fun and wasn't completely terrible. The guy playing Willard stole the show for me, he was by far my favorite.

it was weird seeing Julianne Hough acting like a B in the earlier parts of the film cuz she was so nice and polite when I met her a couple years ago.