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Paramount Pictures has released a trailer for Footloose, the remake of the 1984 film that launched Kevin Bacon’s career. The film, directed by Craig Brewer and starring Kenny Wormald, Julianne Hough and Dennis Quaid, will be released Oct. 14. In the trailer, I recognized many of the plot beats and scenes I remembered from the original, but 27 years later, the target isn’t fossils like me who recall these things.
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They should have cast Kevin Bacon as the preacher father. He’s been playing great bad guys as of late — in “Super” and “X-Men First Class”.
looks like a waste of time.The world was waiting for a remake of this? No. Julianne Hough looks too old to be playing a teen. I know shes 23 , but she looks older
This looks FUCKING terrible
They should call it a “shot for shot Boston remake.”
I’m originally from Boston and that accent is soooo out of place in a bad way that it pulled me right out of the trailer.
It was like they didn’t even want to show him say more than three words at a time cuz his accent was so all over the place. I kept wondering WTF is that supposed to be?
So then I looked him up on IMDB — he’s fucking from Boston — so that makes it a quadruple WTF?
The actor is a Boston native, so apparently you don’t know what a Boston accent sound like.
Moron – plenty of people from Boston don’t have Boston accents. This actor clearly does not (like Ben Affleck), and is trying to fake one. It’s horrendous (like Ben Affleck’s).
But Affleck was the bomb in Phantoms, yo.
Officially the most ridiculous, useless and unecessary remake of all time. Wow.
This is gonna bomb. SNOOZE. The only demands for musicals seems to be on TV, not on the big screen. And to be honest, I wasn’t very fond of the original to begin with.
And this girl. Julianne Hough I think is her name. Her role in musicals is really tiring. Isn’t she also doing Rock of Ages? Moving on.
It’s not a musical.
Correct, this is not a musical, and I do think that people would show up and enjoy musicals if they where well done. When is the last time that happened?
I’m so glad it has an explosion in it. Every film should have at least one explosion. The King’s Speech would have done so much better if it had had an explosion in it.
I coulda been somebody. I coulda been KABOOM!
Frankly, Scarlett I don’t give KABOOM!
You don’t come into Las Vegas and talk to Moe Green like KABOOM!!!
OMG! I’M CRYING! THAT’S HILARIOUS!
Rose KABOOM!
Play it Sam, play KABOOM!
The hills are alive, with the sound of KABOOM!
Told you! It works every time! Now let’s go get us those remake rights!
+2
Being a member of the group old enough to remember the first, I recall it being a really dumb idea for a film then, and time it seems has made it even hokier.
i have fond memories of when the original was released; i was 12 and i loved ‘footloose.’ i agree w/ mike that the demo for this re-do is not guys like me. as much as the new film looks to be a straight copy of the original, you can still see quite clearly the added layer upon layer of schlock to sex it up for today’s teens.
i have a feeling there is no room for the movie to breathe a little here and there, just a very long, mediocre music video that hopefully will direct those who have not seen the original to run out and buy the dvd immediately.
will cru$h
Much to my surprise … not bad. Not bad.
What’s next, a remake of Sixteen Candles?
Ha, I hear there is talks of a sequel for Sixteen Candles… Them all 16 years later…….
The original “Footloose” was just an AIP beach party movie with faster editing and a better score. It even had water. This one is fine. Hey, if Broadway can revive old musicals every couple of years and win Tonys, why can’t Hollywood revive old musicals and win — oh, yeah, that’s right. Okay, well, um, Broadway musical stars can sing AND dance AND act and don’t need dance doubles, and Hollywood musical stars can — oh, oops.
Good thing Zac Efron passed on this.
Damn Craig Brewer used to make some great indie films. He obviously made this movie to start making some money.
Not only would Kevin have been far better than Dennis as the preacher… how can you have “Footloose” without at least some reference to the Kenny Loggins song?
I thought this trailer sucked because I am older and fondly remember the original “Footloose”. Thanks to the other posters…now I know age has nothing to do with this…the trailer sucks all by itself.
That being said, maybe, a new generation of kids will like it unless they have seen the original.
The trailer started out with the kids dancing to a ripped up version of the title track.
The opening bit had some heavily-remixes, barely recognizable version of the Loggins song.
At least in the original the kids were dancing pretty clean that’s what made the rule set forth by the parents and the preacher unnecessary, but now they are freak dancing and she’s grinding on him like a stripper in a crowded parking lot, lol. Wow I wonder why this type of dancing was outlawed.
This actually looks pretty good. High school will eat it up.
ZERO INTEREST IN THIS REMAKE.
I think that the only thing missing here is the addition of Steven Seagal as the town’s bad-ass owner of a dancing school…”Ya wanna dance, tough guy? I’m gonna do a little tap dance on you and your friends!” Yee-haw!
Julianne Hough = tasty. Damn.
The original movie had a good score and dancing to sell it. This one doesn’t. Bomb.
Sad, really sad… and studios wonder why attendance continues to spiral downward.
Hey Gen Y – get your own damned movies!
It’s like Karaoke for movies. The same thing beat for beat. Terrible. And I’m from Boston that’s guy accent was awful.
Kenny Wormald is a Boston native, so apparently you don’t know what a real Boston accent sounds like.