One calls it a better, more colorful film than the original, while another says it never finds its rhythm. Quotes from movie footloose 1984 film finest quotes. Sadly, the new movie has a lot of teenage rebellion and lewd content that taints the uplifting, positive ending. Learn vocabulary, terms, and more with flashcards, games, and other study tools. To preserve these articles as they originally appeared, the times does. Footloose is a 1984 film about a city teenager who moves to a small town where rock music and dancing have been banned, and his rebellious spirit shakes up the populace. Government enforced morality the hit 1984 film footloose was remade in 2011, not to quite the same acclaim but it has much the same spirit and both films are excellent allegories in government enforced morality. Footloose is the musical drama film, which raises a number of important problems, among which the problem of generation gaps and relationships between representatives of different generations is one of the major problems. The producers had to convince bacon that turning down a sure role in christine for a part he might not even get in footloose was the wiser choice. The film focuses on a teen played by kevin bacon who moves to a small religious community who. Suffering through flatlining romantic and dramatic interludes isnt any less painful now than it was in 84, but when this musical occasionally kicks off its sunday shoes, the dynamic memorylane trip actually approaches kevin help us. To optimize your experience with your screen reading software, please use our website, which has the same tickets as our fandango. Footloose is about a teen who is against a law that bans dancing in an overprotective small town run by an overprotective preacher. Its a superior movie to the original, while still using 90% of the same scenes and dialogue.
See what the critics had to say and watch the trailer. The story opens with a terrible car crash in a small georgia town that kills five teenagers driving home from an impromptu dance party on a nearby farm. A teenager kevin bacon from the big city moves to a small town where rock music and dancing have. Find all 12 songs in footloose soundtrack, with scene descriptions. Cook county has become an 80s movie villain in its attempt to tax small music venues to death. All in all i think its a good movie that definitely deserves a watch, a great summer film or something to watch at a sleepover with friends. Oct 14, 2011 other wellknown footloose songs are given modern country makeovers. Other actors include dianne wiest, chris penn, sarah. Roger ebert was the film critic of the chicago suntimes from 1967. The movies differ in such tiny details the hero now moves to tennessee. Whether thats a good thing or a bad one might depend on how you feel about the first footloose. The unenthusiastic critic needs a hero, and she doesnt find one in 1984 s footloose.
So, while the rest of this 1984 teen drama can seem quite silly at times and somewhat dated thanks in large part, of course, to its speciallydesigned soundtrack the film s emotional center thankfully does not feel hamfisted or awkwardly strained. This page is dedicated to the 1984 footloose movie. Footloose is also one of the earliest movies to be clearly inspired by mtv, with its episodic narrative structure and songs staged as miniature emotional operas. Footloose launched in 1984 and received awards for the music, accolade by audiences, but the critics penned it trash high powered fodder for the teen market the only person to come out of the film better off is the smoothcheeked, pugnosed kevin bacon, who gives a. Footloose is a seriously confused movie that tries to do three things, and does all of them badly. The other two, of course, were flashdance and staying alive, which critics. Footloose was the last of the early80s trilogy of major mtvdance movie hits, and id say its the best. Footloose written by kenny loggins and dean pitchford performed by kenny loggins. Enter your location to see which movie theaters are playing footloose 1984 near you. Footloose jumps with spirit, dazzling dance numbers and an electrifying musical score.
Kevin bacon was offered the leading role for the stephen king movie christine 1983, at the same time that he was asked to do a screentest for footloose 1984. Footloose was the kind of song to get me ready for anything the day could bring even the consequences for doing a lameass job on my homework the night before by the time i arrived at school i usually felt like a champion. Footloose 1984 dvd footloose jumps with spirit, dazzling dance numbers and an electrifying musical score. The soundtrack was also rereleased on cd for the 15th anniversary of the film in 1999.
A site that allows users to express their feelings about the latest movies in hollywood. When you watch footloose, however, it all comes back, and the film itself is an odd. While the dramatic material throughout the film is over the top and some of the acting is a bit cheesy, footloose has a strong message in standing what you think is right and the soundtrack is awesome. With extended dance sequences that are only tangentially related to the plot, the movie plays, in parts, like an early rock video. Moving in from chicago, newcomer ren mccormack kevin bacon is in shock when he discovers the small midwestern town he now calls home has made dancing and rock music illegal. It portrays the timeless struggle between inn ocent pleas ure and rigid morality, when cityboy ren mccormick kevin bacon finds himself in an uptight midwestern town where danci ng has been banned. The other two, of course, were flashdance and staying alive, which critics made fun of even back in 1983. Its possible that no movie with this many agendas can be good. Footloose is a 1984 american musical drama film directed by herbert ross. On this weeks episode, michael and nakea are talking about movie soundtracks, before sitting down for nakeas first viewing of an inexplicable cultural phenomenon that sold 9 million albums, made kevin bacon a star, and taught a generation of white people how to dance badly. Rens mother has died of leukemia in boston and his aunt and uncle agree to take him in. Footloose dances its way onto home video september 27, 2011, just before the remake hits theaters on october 14, 2011. Dancing in the sheets music by bill wolfer lyrics by dean pitchford performed by shalamar. And in that, footloose is an odd kettle of flouncing fish.
What do thrs critics have to say about the new films opening friday. It wants to tell the story of a conflict in a town, it wants to introduce some flashy teenage. Whats the difference between footloose the movie original. Theres one thing to be said for a remake of a 1984 movie that uses the originals screenplay. The acting in it is amazing and to hear people talking about this movie without knowing what it was to now loving this movie, its quite a transformaion and i agree 100% with all the footloose fans out there. Ren maccormack is transplanted from boston to the small southern town of bomont where he experiences a heavy dose of culture shock. The producers had to convince bacon that turning down a sure role in christine for a part he might not even get in footloose. One of our favorite art movies here, but so refreshing to read a critic brave. It portrays the timeless struggle between innocent pleasure and rigid morality, when cityboy ren mccormick kevin bacon finds himself in an uptight midwestern town where dancing has been banned. As a transplant from boston, teenager ren maccormack kenny wormald gets a big dose of culture shock when he moves to a small southern town called bomont. A teenager kevin bacon from the big city moves to a small town where rock music and dancing have been banned, and his rebellious spirit shakes up the town. The remake of the 1984 footloose, which will open in theaters on friday, has been. Jun 17, 2015 personally i am a really big fan of 80s pop, so i loved the soundtrack, but they do play footloose like 3 times throughout the course of the movie, so i can see where someone would get tired of it. This page contains quotes from the movie footloose 1984 film.
The toetapping credit sequence immediately suggests that this movie is. Rent footloose 1984 starring kevin bacon and lori singer on dvd and bluray. Footloose is an entertaining drama starring kevin bacon, and is one of the defining films of the 80s. Theres one thing to be said for a remake of a 1984 movie. Footloose is a 2011 american musical comedydrama romantic dance film directed by craig brewer. After 27 years, the 1984 hit movie footloose got its remake, this time starring julianne hough as ariel moore, the preacher. Theres a lot to like here but even more not to like. It is a remake of the 1984 film of the same name and stars kenny wormald, julianne hough, miles teller, andie macdowell and dennis quaid.
Find out where footloose 1984 is streaming, if footloose 1984 is on netflix, and get news and updates, on decider. Footloose is a fun and very lighthearted motion picture that promises a good time and delivers. Herbert ross directed this odd but reasonably effective blend of. Critics cant help but compare the kenny wormald dance flick to kevin bacons 1984 original. Footloose shows familiar steps and missteps, critics. Footloose is a seriously confused movie that tries to do three things. Footloose is a remake of the 1984 dance musical starring kevin bacon. Footloose is a teen drama that was dated even before it was released, but it has a kitschy charm nonetheless it marked kevin bacons first major starring role, as newkidintown ren, who finds that the place where he and his mum have moved is a bit too straitlaced for his liking especially when he discovers the local reverend lithgow has banned rock music.
Footloose has so many musical hits that i had no idea came from the movie. With the help of his new friend, willard hewitt christopher penn, and defiant teen ariel moore lori singer, he might loosen up this conservative. Footloose kevin bacon teaches chris penn how to dance original is always the best. But, really, those are superficial considerations in a film that attempts to grapple with some fairly weighty topics. This is a digitized version of an article from the timess print archive, before the start of online publication in 1996. It wants to tell the story of a conflict in a town, it wants to introduce some flashy teenage characters, and part of the time it wants to be a music video. Kevin bacon ren and chris penn willard footloose directed by herbert ross by myrna kevin bacon and chris penn in footloose lets hear it for the boy. The most recent home video release of footloose 1984 movie is september 27, 2011. Streetsmart but gentle teenager ren maccormackkevin bacon arrives from the big city with his mother in the backwater town of bomont.
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