They took the Batman films that dwindled popularity in the 90s and remade them.

And Battlestar was a remake that was great. There is nothing wrong with remakes. And no reason not to revisit a story.

In nearly every film you know who is going to win. The guy gets the girl, the team wins the championship, they get away from the killer, he wins the race, etc. In rare cases they don’t but for the most part that’s exactly what happens.

If you are becoming that bitter about movies, perhaps you need a new entertainment outlet. Like olympic knitting.

The Departed is so far the only remake I loved. Others have been very poor or just terrible. Hollywood needs to start remaking bad films. Now Alexander, that shit should be remade. Not great films.

For example, the amazing horror film [REC] was remade into Quarantine. I didn’t hate Quarantine, but what was the point of remaking it? Also, we got Let The Right One In (amazing film by the way) getting remade too. Why?

As Spanish director J.A. Bayona said, “The Americans have all the money in the world but can’t do anything, while we can do whatever we want but don’t have the money.”

My two cents.

One the one hand, I’m doing a little jig of my own, knowing that they are not going to do the remake of Footloose like High School Musical. In essence, that what it would have been- just set in another location. Nothing really against the HSM, but that’s just what it is. Studio (who pays the bills) wants more focus on story and the characters (!); director Ortega wants more HSM and is running up the budget with no middle ground between them.

A replacement director should be announced soon if the studio still wants this for next year. Either that or….

Well, that’s the other side to my coin. The film remake for now is KILLED. The plug is pulled. Disaster may have been diverted. I wasn’t the biggest fan of the original (although I loved the soundtrack, just like any other 80′s kid) but yes, Rodney, I agree. Footloose was good in it’s day but the concept of it does not entirely fit with the current times. (I even thought it was on shaky ground THEN)

When I think about the film and why dancing-listening to rock (or should I say pop?) music was banned in the town to begin with there was a tragic accident that happened in the film’s narrative backstory where some teens were killed in a car accident; they had just gotten back from a dance and snuck in a few drinks, got behind the wheel. Being a strong Bible Belt community, the Reverend had some influence over the local politicians who attended his church, a law was passed.

But the “kids” still found ways to bend those laws, or go outside of town to get a groove on, so it was a slight deterrent but not entirely effective. Despite not being a fan of the film, I liked the fact that they didn’t demonize the Reverend; you understood where some people were coming from.

But then after caving in, after finding common ground with the desire for the kids to have a dance, after getting a small victory? What do the kids do? They violate such contract and put everything they fought for in jeopardy and get away with it! It was then, I looked back on what I just witnessed on the screen and said to myself, where’s the nearest record bonfire? Can all prints of this film be added to the flame?

The soundtrack was fairly decent though.

Still, Footloose remake RIP.
Good riddance!

“Hollywood must live, but refuses to do so”

“Hollywood must die”

I would say it again but I don’t wanna sound like a broken record.