I get tired of always hearing everyone go on about the "original" this is that. I am 53, never saw the original Footloose, but did enjoy Sat Night Fever, Breakfast Club, and a few other seventies and eighties classics. I went with my 20 year old daughter and we both enjoyed this version of Footloose. Some of these posters are living in the past too much.
Dini
Just because you prefer an original version of a movie to a remake doesn't mean you're stuck in the past. Good for you and your daughter if you enjoyed the new one, but don't patronize people who like the 1984 version better.
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I didn't actually see the old one. I don't think patronize is the right word, either. I like a lot of old movies, but I don't think remakes are always inferior. That's all I meant.
Dini
The statement referring to people who prefer the original as 'living in the past' is what was patronizing. There are some instances where I think the remake is superior to the original. This is not one of them, although I didn't think it was bad. It would have been better had it been set in 1984 because this kind of story doesn't really work in the Internet age. Not to mention, the scene where the town council is banning alcoholic consumption for minors and setting a curfew for minors is kinda stupid because both of these things are already illegal for minors everywhere in this U.S.
shareBeing 53, I remember very well when beer was legal for 18 year olds, but hard liquor was not. Also the curfews of today were unheard of in the 1970s when I was growing up. The modern day setting was a mistake now that I think about it.
Dini
My thoughts exactly. I was only two years old when the original came out, but my dad told me how beer was legal for 18 year olds, so the scene in the original when the kids go to the dance club and drink works for the time period the movie came out in. Like I said, they should have just had the remake take place in 1984, but then they couldn't have put hip-hop music and grinding in it.
I have nothing against remakes per se as long as they're done right. But some movies are simply products of their time, and I think Footloose may be one of them. It was the glory days of MTV when it was still about the music, and music videos were in their infancy. The religious right was in a fervor over the "Satanic" rock musics scene. It was the perfect time for a movie like Footloose.
2011 is the era of MTV reality shows. Music videos aren't as prominent as they used to be and you can get any song, video, movie or anything else off the Internet. The remake wasn't bad, it just seemed hopelessly anachronistic.
How do you know this is better than the original when you've never seen the original? Weird & ignorant for people to criticize or make comparisons with a subject they have never seen/experienced. What makes you any different from others who bash the newer version without having seen it?
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