Footloose was never high on my must-watch list, I gotta admit.
I saw In A Lonely Place this past weekend, which was a difficult and desperate little movie. I've never seen Bogey look uglier or creeper, which is mostly the point.
I wanna hurt you, but I can't resist the sinister attraction of your cold and muscular body!
Buffybot ,'Dirty Girls'
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Hayden - Jul 25, 2005 8:00:20 am PDT #6016 of 10002
aka "The artist formerly known as Corwood Industries."
§ ita § - Jul 25, 2005 8:01:45 am PDT #6017 of 10002
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I bought my first TV when I realised that Footloose might be showing somewhere and I was missing it.
JZ - Jul 25, 2005 8:03:30 am PDT #6018 of 10002
See? I gave everybody here an opportunity to tell me what a bad person I am and nobody did, because I fuckin' rule.
Ohhh, In A Lonely Place just breaks me in so many places. I now feel a deep masochistic need to see it again and be broken some more.
Hayden - Jul 25, 2005 8:06:30 am PDT #6019 of 10002
aka "The artist formerly known as Corwood Industries."
Yeah, it's a person-breaker for sure.
Bogey reminds me a lot of my wife's best friend's soon-to-be-ex, who's an emotionally damaged guy, anyway, but has been infinitely more fish than man since returning from a stint on Gitmo as an army nurse.
Scrappy - Jul 25, 2005 8:09:46 am PDT #6020 of 10002
Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.
Well, I LOVE dancing, and still bop around to music at least once a day. Sometimes it's at my office.sometimes at home, but I loves shaking my booty, so Footloose was right up my alley. Oddly, although I was working as an "exotic dancer" at the exact time Flashdance came out, you'd think it would somehow mean something more to me that a morality tale about a hot teen guy in the boonies, but the suckiness was too much.
In a Lonely Place is brilliant, isn't it? And Bogie and Grahame work amazingly well together.
Lee - Jul 25, 2005 8:10:54 am PDT #6021 of 10002
The feeling you get when your brain finally lets your heart get in its pants.
I think I need to rent Footloose now. Maybe Fame too.
Jesse, how young are you? Also, keep off the lawn.
There are people posting in this very thread who were barely alive when Footloose came out.
They should keep off the lawn too.
Notice I didn't say
Christ. Another person younger than my sister. You must all die.
That's because I'm nicer than ita.
Kathy A - Jul 25, 2005 8:22:20 am PDT #6022 of 10002
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil
Ah, Flashdance. Where art thou, Michael Nouri?
Speaking of, I'll have to start looking for the DVD of The Hidden. Lovelovelove that movie--so 1980s over-the-top, but with a quirky sense of humor and "WTF?"-ness.
DavidS - Jul 25, 2005 8:28:44 am PDT #6023 of 10002
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Maybe Fame too.
The new Judd Winick cartoon (with a very Buffy-like premise) Juniper Lee had an episode recently where the characters played a rocked up version of "I Sing The Body Electric."
Cashmere - Jul 25, 2005 8:28:51 am PDT #6024 of 10002
Now tagless for your comfort.
I went to see Footlooose 7 times in the theatre. I was 13. It may have had an effect on me.
Jesse - Jul 25, 2005 8:33:57 am PDT #6025 of 10002
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Total Footloose flashback: I saw it with my mother, and there's a scene where John Lithgow's family (I'm pretty sure) is eating dinner, and some character says, "I think he's a fox," and there's some significant reaction, so my mother turns to me and says, "Did she say 'fuck' or [now I can't remember the other vulgar F word -- fart??]?" Har.