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You Gotta Cut Loose...FOOTLOOSE??
Merrick here...
The long-simmering FOOTLOOSE remake has been revved up and placed on the fast track after HIGH SCHOOL MUSICAL 3's big opening over the weekend.
Zack Efron, announced for Kevin Bacon's role back in July, is still the lead. Kenny Ortega, director and/or choreographer of all HIGH SCHOOL MUSICALs to date, will direct & presumably choreograph FOOTLOOSE as well.
Unlike "HSM3," "Footloose" will aim for an older teen and adult demo. Efron is just about set in a deal that will pay him a mid-seven-figure salary and give him script approval.
...THIS PIECE IN VARIETY.
Who should play the nutty preacher man? Kurtwood Smith? Dan Aykroyd?
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But on the other hand I don'T really care for that movie and I never even saw more of the original than the opening credits (They were the dancing feet, right?), so...whatever.
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He could pull that role off great
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Bring back Lithgow, dammit! The world needs more Lithgow!!!!
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...Edward James Olmos? Or Lance Henriksen?
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Goonies? Rainman? You Got Served? or worse yet... You've Got Mail (On your iPhone)
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Steven Seagal!
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Jesus Christ.
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Oh hell yeah! That's freakin brilliant. I would actually see it if Kevin Bacon were the preacher.
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He can do anything. He should reprise his role.
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This is one of the most pussified things I have ever heard.
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i need some help, how do i change my screen-name to something else??? im not trying to mess around and have a bunch of em...i just wanna change THIS one. sorry, i'm relatively NEW here.
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...who among us hasn't danced through some rage from time to time.
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Same thing.
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You can't. It's a pretty limited interface, i believe. Just create a new one.
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Really! NO ONE WILL WATCH THIS!
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Bleah bleah bleah. Or as Robert Kline said in "How to lose a guy in 10 days" "Horse shit, horse shit, horse shit. Come on people!"
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I know most movies are always bad, but what is with the shlock revival? A "spiritual sequel" to The Towering Inferno and now a remake of Footloose? Did anybody ask for this? You know that things are bad in Hollywood when they have to resort to remaking '80s films (or thereabouts) in order to cannibalize themselves.
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Its the death of Hollywood folks. Never mind, 14 months til Avatar.
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..is that someone (likely several people) is likely getting paid good money to be on the idea side of it.
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Good marketing idea, but I'd rather eat my own shit than watch this.
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It's the only way this thing works. Like Depp playing Freddy Kruger.
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I'm sure the "re-imagining" of this "classic" property will include some inter-racial action anyways, so how about Eddie as a semi-dramatic preacher?
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okay...this is gonna sound stupid, i started my current account a while back, i can't remember where to go to create a new account...can't find a "sign up" for a new account, somebody wanna provide some directions???...
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1) This movie is not being made for the AICN audience/readership. Why it's being posted here, who knows? 2) How, in a town where dancing was forbidden, were all the teenagers such great dancers after 90 minutes? 3) I'll watch this only if it's a shot for shot remake.
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...but seems even more unbelievable now. A small town that has outlawed dancing? I can see possibly outlawing video games or R-Rated films being played in the area, but dancing? I don't see how this will work if it takes place in the present day. And if they set this back in another decade then how will they get older teenagers, who probably don't like dance music from other decades, into the audience?
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Demented Preacher cuts off the legs of teenagers who dare to dance.
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You CANNOT deny the truth of it.
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or the cover by some band i never heard of
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I am tired of hearing about Zac Efron and this whole "High School Musical" thing. And now, "Footloose" is getting remade with this guy? Fuck that. I'd rather take my razor blade, cut shallow lines in my buttcrack and asshole, carve horizontal lines across the bias of my dick, and then jump in lemon juice and salt than see this remake. Fuck this remake shit.
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No, because i fucking hate the original (Sorry Kev!) and so a remake with Zac Efron might send me postal.
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Are you the same guy that posts that shit in every TB in the last 5 years? FUCK. Who thinks that shits funny anymore?!!!! You're a Seth Rogen fan. I can smell it.
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Were the 80's so incredible that we must constantly relive them? Frankly, I'm constantly saddened our generation provides so little that is new and original.
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I find it odd that we're seeing movies turned into musicals and then turned back into movies. Granted I liked Hairspray but there's something wrong about paying over $100 for something I saw in the eighties and then a few years later paying and extra $12.
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Come on guys---a dancing musical targeted to teenage girls? How is this movie news in any way 'cool'?
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...or ungreatness of the 80's...it's just the 80's turn for the old Pop Culture Retread Nostalgia Dance of Death. Hang in there little buddy, before you know it your kids will be complaining about 00's remakes. It's the Great Circle of Life.
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of total unnecessary gayness. The original Footloose was a good movie that came at the right time. This remake is another example of forced marketing.
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Who will take the Chris Penn and Sarah Jessica Parker roles?
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Sound plausible.
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And will Zac Efron and the bad guy race tractors at each other?
And will the dumb girlfriend climb from a car into a truck going 50 mph? -
Cool, I guess.
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It's called Chocolat. Substitute chocolate for dancing and Johnny Depp for Lori Singer...same movie.
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I mean give me a fucking break... The title of the site is aint it COOL, not aint it TOO GAY FOR WORDS
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...gotta happen! Still, you know this will be lamer than the original Footloose... which was the pinnacle of lameness in the 80s. Aiming at the lame market never ceases to generate huge piles of Benjamins!
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What in God's name is going wrong with the entertainment industry. How is he qualified to have script approval, because he's popular with girls who don't realise he's homosexual? This someone means he is the be-all and end-all of filmmaking? Jesus Christ!
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The only way to make this movie any good! Fuck Efron! Bacon as the preacher and LITHGOW as the dancer! Now we got a fucking movie!!!
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and the F*cking establishment!! I will DANCE, and then they will know my rage!
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instead of a Walkman. The whole movie will play like an Apple commercial. It will be really bad.
How's this for a better idea: Footloose Fight Club. -
and Mike Reno and Kenny Loggins and Denise Williams, pronto! And get Lindsey Buckingham in here, just be sure we've got the coolest soundtrack! Gonna DANCE DANCE DANCE into the NIIIEEEGHT of our LIIi-EEEVES!! Because we're YOUNG YOUNG YOUNG and we got to Fi-EEEEGHTTT! Yeah it's HOT TONIEEEEEGHT!!
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I say Recast Lithgow as well!
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Everybody cut Everybody cut...FartLoose!
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he can handle this role, he's got to grow a five o'clock shadow. Even if Bacon didn't have one, Efron needs one to prove he's a MAN, baby. Then he's got to bust moves like George Michael in "Faith" and bash a guitar over the preacher's head, then go pop some cherries at the drive-in.
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...off so much rage!...I could get dangerously dehydrated. I better start tanking up on electrolytes now. Just in case.
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as the cop who scrapes the credit card on Ren's chin.
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This summer, you'll be touching cloth in a town where brown tails are forbidden. In a community where pinching loaves is worse than punching grandmothers, you will shake a turd until it breaks FREEEE
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...is Flight of the Conchords' 'Brett's Angry Dance'. 'Nuff Said.
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Horror Movie A Day.
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Yes a sequel, where the town mayor is against town dances. This mayor would be played by Kevn Bacon, and his wife, his lady love from the first movie. Anyway, when Efron comes to town, he goes on Bacon's old course of rebelling against the town's dancing ban, unaware of the city's past history...just 25 years prior, in fact none of the town's people mention it. Anyway, the new kid in town begins to influence secret and building illegal dances, defying the ban...something that angers Bacon to no end...and causes him to attempt a crackdown.Meanwhile, Efron meets Bacon's daughter, and they become romantically involved as he begins to teach her how to dance against her father's wishes and behind his back...making the new boy in town the mayor's main target for his allegations of immorality as represented by the those who violate the standing ban against dancing and listening to hip-hop and other sinful music!!! Forbidding their daughter from dating, Efron, Bacon and wife...hope to quell their daughter's sudden rebelious streak stirred-up by the new boy in town. This leads to rising family tentions and a riff between father and daughter.Ignoring her dad, and unable to stay away from the boy of her dreams, the daughter openly defies her father and takes up with her boyfriend again. Further angered, Bacon strengthens his ban in a wider crackdown. This causes greater tensions in the family, and even disagreement between husband and wife. The wife even accusing him of being a hypocrite, and that they have all been hypocrites, just like her father, the town's preacher, 25 years before. Bacon doesn't want to hear it and shuns her.We soon learn about Bacon's past, he was once in the shoes of Efron's character, and defied a similar ban, one put into place by the man who is now his father in-law. Why the change??? Bacon's eldest daughter was in a drunk driving accident after a dance...and now is in a coma...and has been so for 8 years, an accident that also claimed the life of his friend, who was played by Chris Pen. Blaming himself for the accident by having caused the lifting of the dancing ban just years before, Bacon has taken on the ways of his father in-law, now seeing wisdom in his words. None of the young people in town know this history, but Bacon's wife, and his father in in-law, now a changed man himself, inform the youngest daughter that her dad was not always such a stern and unbending man, he is just reacting to a tragedy as best he knows how...and so are the other parents in the town. He is trying to protect his youngest daughter, having felt that he failed his eldest little girl.With a protest dance planned for that night, all the kids in the city plan to come out and defy the law, even if it means they will be kicked out of school, as promised by Bacon and other parents. Learning of this, Bacon is ready with a squad of police. Arriving at the site of the illegal dance, Bacon and cops, enter the celebration, and stop the music. Intervening, Bacon's wife tells him off and reminds him of the days when he first came to town and changed things, just like the new boy in town. She tells him that the accident that left their eldest daughter in a coma, was just an accident...having nothing to do with dancing, rather...having everything to do with a drunk driver. Realizing the wrong of his ways and faced with losing another daughter, this time to his own hypocrisy, Bacon takes his wife's hand and leads her to the center of the dance floor and has the DJ play the song Footloose. Bacon hits his old trademark dance moves, blowing away the crowd of teens who join in...as Bacon and wife become like kids again on the dance floor of life, just like 25 years before. And even Grandpa joins in the dancing!!! Epilogue: Months later, the eldest daughter awakens from her coma, and we are delivered a happy ending on two accounts as the music still plays. Fade To Black---Roll Credits!!!The EndIt just seems to me, as a continuity purist, this would play better on screen and lure the original generation of Footloose fans back to the theaters to join a new generation of fans, their kids, and grand kids in some cases, in the enjoyment of this new film...strengths that a remake will not have!!!
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International star of stage and screen.
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Whoah dude, you thought about that a lot.
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what the fuck is that effron looks like he'd have trouble coming up 10 word paragraph on himselfdoes he want it just to omit any subtle homosexual hints..cause heaven forbid people suspect that he's gay. Imean a manly man like Zach effron has an image to uphold
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Just sayin'.
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Your DANCING makes you strong young Efron.. STRIKE ME DOWN WITH ALL YOUR DANCING ABILITY!
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she would be perfect for the book burning scene , she has enough experience just sayin'
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Just "stream of consciousness" thinking. I wrote it, the story, and posted it last night, I think here on Aint't It Cool News.com, but it was gone early this morning (???), so I re-wrote my original post...yes, my story is all original, and I re-posted it here!!!It would be fun to see the parallels between the two films, and how parents often attempt to protect their kids from the very same things they did when they were young...sometimes with good reason, based upon an experience or fear born of an old tragedy. Reminds me of the Song "Old Man" by Neil Young, a song that would be great in this movie sequel I am proposing!!!
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....is the amount of people complaining about why AICN posted this. If they hadn't, another TB would have people in it complaining that they didn't post it.
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you go girl
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Was the original if you were a female.
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Maybe they'll put a remake of "Vallet Girls" on the fast track too.
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Hey Merrick...
Will this be a remake of the original film, or a new film based on the Broadway musical flop from a few years back? -
A kid comes to this small town where dancing is outlawed. The preacher is the hero and this punk starts to teach the kids to dance and think for themselves. The kids of the town start to have fun and rebel. uBut the preacher saves the day with the power of Christ and in the end the punk is stoned to death and everyone lives happily ever after.
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How can you do any better?
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Always wanted to do that.
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...unless you can promise me there will be squid.
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...in his acting debut, by Beanie Wells' toe. While undergoing injury treatments earlier this season, the beleaguered appendage admits to taking acting classes. Sources close to the smelly extremity say Wells' toe is excited about the opportunity to pursue acting as a possible follow-up to an NFL career, and would welcome other show business opportunities. The remainder of Wells' foot could not be reached for comment.
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Malkovich, no contest.
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maybe this time they'll shoot a realistic ending where Swayze's character gets put in jail for child molestation
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Better be the only words out of Kurtwood Smith's mouth the whole movie.
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IM LOOKING OUT FOR A HERO UNTIL THE MORNING LIGHT...and its not a footloose remake.Im calling FINO and zac efron is raping my childhood.
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Just for that one scene set to "Never", where Bacon dances through his rage - DANCES THROUGH HIS RAAAAAAAAAAAAAAGE, PEOPLE!!! - Kevin Bacon accrued more machismo in those five glorious minutes than Efron ever will in his entire, pampered, metrosexual, bland and purposeless existence. Efron is the new LeBoeuf, which is to say, the new tween screen Antichrist. fuck him and EVERYTHING he stands for, the vanilla bland soulless corporate whore that he is.
And fuck the HSM series. The antithesis of everything teenage years and decent cinema stand for. -
Kurtwood Smith is a worthy successor for Lithgow, but... why not just go with Lithgow? And we need Dianne Wiest back as his missus, too.
"I DON'T WANT! TO BE MISSIIIIIIIING! FROM YOUR LIIIIIIIVES! PRAISE THE LORD."
Lithgow was one scary fundamentalist son-of-a-bitch in that movie. I mean, he had his reasons, but daaaaaamn... -
I heard the squid will be playing Chuck in this remake. Which will make the tractor chicken race that much more interesting...
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Ironic don't ya think
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about as much as I'm anticipating Joss Whedon's next failure, I mean, project.
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a Footloose remake with Zac Efron? shiiiiiiiiiiiit
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I'm 34 and when Footloose came out everybody was into this film. Everybody had to have the soundtrack on record. Wasn't "Holding out for a hero" song playing when they raced in their trucks for the local girl? Or "Almost Paradise" duet from the dude from Loverboy and some other chick. Or the great "Lets here it for the boy" by Deniece Williams? I listened to that song probably a hundred times in my room by in circa '84'85. Lori Singer was a hot piece of ass. Back when Sara J. Parker was w/o all that plastic surgery and who can forget the great Chris Penn letting himself go and learning how to get down properly on the dance floor, while being tutored by Kevin Bacon?
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w/ the cat from Loverboy.
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Oct 28, 2008 6:51:57 PM CDT
POOR KEVIN BACON, HE DOESN'T NEED TO BE REMINDED OF THIS MOVIE
by bringingsexyback
Although Zac is perfect for this role. And you gotta admit, parts of America are exponentially more close-minded than before. Who knew that 25 years later, Footloose's message would be even more relevant. Loosen up Jesus Campers!!! Cut loose!!
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Update this movie with some witchcraft!!
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and I'll definitely be joining them on the picket lines. Vote NO to Dancing!!!
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LOL, man. LOL
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No way could Zach Efron punch dance out his rage
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{People whose nuts haven't dropped or never will or retarded or those who are still reliving when Unkie Herbert stuck his thumb up their Wazoo.
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Grease! Tootsie! Pretty Woman! The Breakfast Club! Weird Science! Class of 1984! Goonies!
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The movie was loosely based on events that took place in the tiny, rural farming community of Elmore City, Oklahoma. So sometimes truth is stranger than fiction.
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the Trek remake/reboot. this is the AWFUL IDEA in a long time. The original was a PIECE OF CRAP THEN and still is now.
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...William Fichtner as the nutjob preacher. Wait, I'll bet they'll change this part - this ain't the '80s and Disney will not want to alienate their conservative fanbase in the "pro-America" parts of the country. So how will they change the preacher role - turn him into an overprotective dad? A power-hungry politician? What? I also want to see how they handle the slutty Lori Singer character - she can no longer be a slut (unless of course she keeps her baby). Heh, this should be interesting.
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my god!
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He could also direct, to show everyone he does have a lighter side!
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MY MOTHER THE CAR!
CAR 54, WHERE ARE YOU?
F-TROOP!
THE MUNSTERS!
I DREAM OF JEANIE!
AND THUS, I'VE STARTED IT, YOU FINISH IT! DATOMAN, THE DISGUSTED BLOGGER! -
John Travolta doesn't need a fat suit for this movie.
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The ACLU would tell the town to go to hell, and rightfully so.
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He better get one hell of a dance double, if he tried to pull off the moves from the original he'll surely hurt his vagina.
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R. Lee Ermey would rock in that role.
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Are you fucking kidding me?!? Everyone knows that Kevin Bacon is the center of the Hollywood universe. Everything revolves around him. Any actor or actress can be linked to him in 3 moves or less. Zack Efron is not worthy to take the role that made Bacon a Hollywood legend. He isn't worthy to sniff Bacon's soiled underwear! How dare you, Efron?!? How dare you assume that you have the talent to star in a remake of Footloose?!? You don't have the talent to star in a remake of Breakin' 2: Electric Boogaloo!!! Vanessa Anne Hudgens deserves a real man, Efron, not some girlie man who wears more makeup than she does.
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Crap like this ain't going to bring me back.
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Oct 29, 2008 3:53:45 PM CDT
Efron? Why not make the preacher black and add a race element?
by finky089
Samuel L. says NO DANCING AT SCHOOL, MUTHERFUCKERS!
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