'Objects In Space'
A place to talk about movies--old and new, good and bad, high art and high cheese. It's the place to place your kittens on the award winners, gossip about upcoming fims and discuss DVD releases and extras. Spoiler policy: White font all plot-related discussion until a movie's been in wide release two weeks, and keep the major HSQ in white font until two weeks after the video/DVD release.
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.
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.
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.
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.
I was born in 73, and was in 5th grade in 83-84.
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.
Strangely enough, St. Elmo's Fire is playing here at work. Good times.
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.
...and also people who received their college degrees while the title song and "Let's Hear It for the Boy" were on the charts....
I was around 17 when Footloose came out. I'm not a huge Kevin Bacon fangirl, but I have to admit watching him shake his ass in this movie was somewhat formative.