Last night I saw (for the first time) Footloose and Flashdance. So fun. Flashdance is a terrible film in every way but cinematography and art direction. Footloose was fabulous and now I want to watch it again fifty bazillion times and also get up and dance during the musical numbers.
It's simple. I slap 'em around a bit, torture 'em, make their lives hell...Sure, the nice guys'll run away,but every now and then you'll find a prince like Spike who gets off on it.
Buffy ,'Get It Done'
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Scrappy - Jul 25, 2005 6:56:46 am PDT #6002 of 10002
Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.
tommyrot - Jul 25, 2005 6:59:15 am PDT #6003 of 10002
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
Footloose was fabulous and now I want to watch it again fifty bazillion times and also get up and dance during the musical numbers.
Coincedentally, I am now listening to The Police.
Flashdance is a terrible film in every way but cinematography and art direction.
My HS GF loved that flick. So I like it when others besides myself say it sucks.
Jesse - Jul 25, 2005 7:20:12 am PDT #6004 of 10002
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Robin, I'm just sad you never had the chance to be in fifth grade and do a whole routine to the song "Footloose," culminating in jumping off the coffee table.
ChiKat - Jul 25, 2005 7:23:50 am PDT #6005 of 10002
That man was going to shank me. Over an omelette. Two eggs and a slice of government cheese. Is that what my life is worth?
When I was in high school, our marching band did an entire show based on songs from Footloose. We started with the 20th Century Fox theme, moved into Footloose, then a medley of Let's Hear it for the Boy and Holding Out for a Hero. Our closer was Almost Paradise.
Even then we thought it was stupid.
§ ita § - Jul 25, 2005 7:26:44 am PDT #6006 of 10002
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
So, if Footloose came out in 84 (which, uncoincidentally, it did), and people are in fifth grade at ten (this I have less surety of), then you'd probably have to be born no earlier than 74 to have this opportunity. With adjustments for academic years, yadda yadda.
Jesse, how young are you? Also, keep off the lawn.
Jesse - Jul 25, 2005 7:30:28 am PDT #6007 of 10002
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
I was born in 73, and was in 5th grade in 83-84.
§ ita § - Jul 25, 2005 7:33:02 am PDT #6008 of 10002
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I suck at school year math.
Christ. Another person younger than my sister. You must all die.
Unless you're hot guys, in which case you can atone by dating me.
Eddie - Jul 25, 2005 7:36:18 am PDT #6009 of 10002
Your tag here.
Strangely enough, St. Elmo's Fire is playing here at work. Good times.
Jesse - Jul 25, 2005 7:36:23 am PDT #6010 of 10002
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
I'm not actually all that young, you know. I mean, younger than Jesus, but not by much.
There are people posting in this very thread who were barely alive when Footloose came out.
Fred Pete - Jul 25, 2005 7:39:29 am PDT #6011 of 10002
Ann, that's a ferret.
...and also people who received their college degrees while the title song and "Let's Hear It for the Boy" were on the charts....