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I just found out Zac Efron will be replacing Kevin Bacon as the new Footloosed White man dance king. while I liked Zac Efron in Hairspray. Laughed considerably at him. He is no kevin bacon. and just like im pissed they're remaking halloween, Nightmare, and Friday. Remaking footloose is somehow worse. Just like the above mentioned Footloose is a classic I grew up watching. Now they're remaking it. Why. Why I ask you. What the hell was wrong with the first one. For any of these movies for that matter. Why remake them when they were awesome movies to begin with. What does these pencil pushing greedy bastards think they can do better than the Movie Biz couldn't twenty some odd years ago. Nothing. Absolutely nothing. Besides millions of dollars in digital graphics and things of that nature. Cause it sure ain't the acting and music they're going to best in the remakes.
Please tell me I'm not the only one who feels this whole remake every movie made before the 90's thing is complete BS and wish it would stop.

I vote 'Other.'

When I hear 'remake' and 'Zach Efron' ... well I've gotta cut loose, foot loose, put on my Sunday shoose...

Wow. This forum got over looked. Which sucks because I could've swore footloose was a classic everyone enjoyed.

Meh.

Footloose is one of my wife's very favorite films, which puts it right up there with Grease, The Phantom of the Opera, Stick It, Save the Last Dance, Step Up, Dirty Dancing and... God help me... Bring It On. Me? I never cared much for it (and still don't). Give me Killer Klowns from Outer Space, instead.

(Though, I have to admit a certain affection for Stick It... Oh, Hell, nevermind. When you get married to a sorority chick / cheerleader who has difficulty telling Star Wars and Star Trek apart, you'll understand, too.)

[Sigh] I remain, as always...

Nico.

Nico, so you found one of those girls too? While my wife isn't as deep into the typical chick flick as most, when she gets a chick flick craving, that is when the real love shows. Some of her more intolerable selections for me are Nine Months, Up Close and Personal, The Perfect Man, and Raising Helen. She is also a sucker for near every teen dance movie ever made (or so it can feel). She does like Stick It and Ella Enchanted, and has a tendency towards Bruckheimeresque action movies, and that part isn't too bad (except for Bad Company- don't ask, I don't understand why).

But shre is fun to bring into movies with- I don't have to look for a stranger to hold my hand while I watch the movie. 'Cuz that would be ackward to ask some random unkown guy if i could rub his hand while I watch the movie.

Up Close and Personal... [blargh] Michelle Pfeiffer hasn't shot a single, solitary frame of film worth my time since The Age of Innocence... and she was by far the weakest element in that otherwise excellent picture. Before that you have to go all the way back to 1988-89, the pinnacle of her career, when she starred in The Fabulous Baker Boys, Married to the Mob, Dangerous Liaisons and, of course, Tequila Sunrise within about eighteen months of each other. (And, no, 1998's The Prince of Egypt doesn't count.)

Personally, however, I feel her low point was the one-two punch of Up Close... and Dangerous Minds, which really and sincerely ought to have ended her career, for everybody's sake. (And don't get me started on Grease 2, which shat forth Adrian [bleep]in' Zmed on an unsuspecting, undeserving world...)

...On the other claw, I don't mind Raising Helen or How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days or Legally Blonde so much... good eye candy, anyway.

I remain, as always...

Nico.

Nico, I definitely agree with you that Legally Blonde is one of the better chick flicks, and dare I say films I have seen ever. It is hard to watch the film and not smile a little ninety minutes later. Robert Luketic, the director of LB, second feature makes me smile too, though it isn't as good as Blonde. Win a Date with Tad Hamilton is enjoyable for guys because taunts the chick flick formula and its watchers without ever devolving into malice towards the chicks we love.

I don't know. I pretty much can't stand the chick flicks and I really enjoyed How to lose a guy in ten days. Actually, for a pretty boy I tend to like most of Matthews movies. Especially Reign of Fire. Loved it.

p.s. If they remake grease I'm moving to canada and never watching another movie or tv show ever again. Same goes for Top Gun and Robocop

"...I really enjoyed How to lose a guy in ten days. Actually, for a pretty boy I tend to like most of Matthews movies. Especially Reign of Fire. Loved it."

Now, there, I'm with you, cRAzY, I'm your wingman, partner.

(Are you really a "pretty boy," too? ...Hey, we do have something in common! [ignoring incredulous and disgusted look from wife, as well as an especially heavy frying pan])

"p.s. If they remake grease I'm moving to canada and never watching another movie or tv show ever again. " If you need help packing, let me know, dude... I can friggin' guarantee it.

"Same goes for Top Gun and Robocop..." See, there, I'm only half in-agreement. Certainly there's no need, EVER, to "update" Top Gun, which is very nearly a perfect action film, and perhaps the last, great, non-CGI aerial combat film... Top Gun holds up incredibly well, even though the F-14 Tomcat is now only flown by the Iranian Air Force, and the Miramar, California Fighter Weapons School ceased to exist over a decade ago... and circa-1985 Tom Cruise is today nearly unrecognizeable, having had more "work" done in the twenty years since its release than any celebrity this side of Michael Jackson. However, I digress. I think, however, that not only will Robocop be remade, but it should be. (Consternation! Uproar! ...Even yet still more consternation!) Yeah, I love it, too, and it's a classic -- and, look, I was IN the "original"...I think), but in a 1933 King Kong kind of way. The stop-motion stuff and even the computer graphics were brilliant for its day, but, really, they can rebuild him. They have the technology. Better than he was before. Better. Stronger. Faster.

I mean, Hell, some films were meant to be remade, time and time again, just to make sure they stay relevant to a new generation and that the underlying principle, the fundamental theme, doesn't disappear entirely from the culture. To be brutally honest, even Robie was a remake, two for the price of one, in fact: 1984, and, of course, Frankenstein. And, if you want to get really blunt, it was also a microchip-thin rip-off of I, Robot. (Perhaps the remake could be called, I, RoboCop?)

[Ducking. Again.] Hey, it was just a thought...

I remain, as always...

RoboNico. Thank you for your cooperation!

Thats funny. Yes I could see I robocop remake. And I'm sure it would be just amazing. But you see theres just one little problem. Actors don't come like they used to. And they're are nowhere near as good as the ones back in the day.
And I'm sorry but Kurtwood Smith just cannot I repeat cannot be replaced. But he is doing a fantastic job on that 70's show and perhaps if they do a remake soon he could maybe reprise his role. If not I will definatley be pissed if they remake it.

cRAzY said:

...[T]heres just one little problem. Actors don't come like they used to. And they're are nowhere near as good as the ones back in the day. And I'm sorry but Kurtwood Smith just cannot I repeat cannot be replaced.

ROTFLMAO!!!

...Oh, wait... [gradually coming to unwanted realization] You were serious, weren't you?

[Grin] Look, I'm not trying to give you crap or flame you just for the heck of it... I mean, I like Kurtwood Smith, too, in a Ronny Cox-Micheal Ironside-John Schuck-Malcolm McDowell kind of way. He's a great 'B' actor; but he's hardly irreplaceable. It's not like he's Michael Biehn or Bill Paxton or Will Patton or Steven Seagal or anything. And, I mean, it's not like anybody nominated RoboCop's nominal "star," Peter Weller for anything, either. (And, no, the Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror Films doesn't count -- I mean, they gave out a Saturn Award nomination to The Adventures of Rocky & Bullwinkle once, for the love of Arthur C. Clarke! ...To Jason Alexander, no less!)

But he is doing a fantastic job on that 70's show and perhaps if they do a remake soon he could maybe reprise his role.

Well, the seemingly interminable decade that was That 70's Show has, mercifully, ended, and it looks like he's available, so maybe you're on to something, there. Perhaps you can send Paul Verhoeven a note and convince him not to do Hollow Man III, but turn all his attention to RoboCop: The Next Generation, instead.

If not I will definatley be pissed if they remake it.

Hey, I couldn't imagine Gandhi II without Ben Kingsley, either. But, you know, they've got it all on UHF.

I remain, as always...

Nico.

Ronny Cox and Ironside in Total Recall. haha man I love that film!!!!!

me to tuan Total Recall is bad-ass

Sorry Nico. But your a Segal fan and I can't take advice from Segal fans. I'm guessing your middle aged around 30 or so. Maybe older. Just guessing off different posts. That age group seems to be the only people I know that like Segal. Maybe its cause they were the ones who went to see his "good" movies in theaters. Your talking about Smith be a B actor when Segal throws a straight to dvd on the shelf at least once a month. Usually with the same boring title to. Sorry. I really don't mean to rag on you but this has a very long on going argument between me and the ole step dad, among others. And if you ask me. Will Sasso from mad TV is a better actor than Steven Segal. And he does one hell of an impersonation too. You find one of his movies other than exit wounds that I don't yawn through and I'll shut up. And I really don't mean to hate. I mean your a segal fan. Good for you man. I don't have to watch his movies anymore so I'm happy. But I can't take that post seriously now. Besides. I tend to like my supporting actors. If it wasn't for the supporters the "Big Guys" wouldn't be crap. Nag Kurtwood all you want. But Robocop wouldn't have been "as" good without him.
P.S. Maybe they should have Segal play robocop. Oh wait. Thats right. Fans want to see Robocop do more than snap necks. Too Bad.

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