Tonight I Gotta Cut Loose...And Tomorrow I'm Numb
Went to see the new Footloose with my sister today.
First of all, Ren was...I don't wanna say hot but pretty good looking. And of course Julianne Hough was really pretty. They started with a party with them all dancing to Kenny Loggins' Footloose, ending with the car crash that made the laws go into effect - that was one of a few differences.
- The Cranstons owned a racetrack, and the chicken-with-tractors scene became racing school buses in a figure eight pattern. It was very funny.
- Ren's aunt and uncle were very supportive of him throughout, there was no brick thrown through their window, and they never told him he was doing the wrong thing. I liked that.
- I absolutely loved how they did "Let's Hear it For the Boy." It started out with Willard, Ren, and a third boy (the people hanging out by mid-movie were Ren/Ariel, Willard/Rusty, and a football player/his girlfriend) along with four little girls in Ren's backyard, Willard was trying to dance with two of the little girls (after making them say "no one will know" and the football player whispering "everyone will know.) while Ren's two little cousins (?) stood up on the deck behind them doing karaoke for "Let's Hear it For the Boy", and after the first verse and chorus they switched to Deniece Williams' version.
I wasn't a fan of what they did with "Holdin' Out For A Hero." It was a ballad, and sung while Ren was studying, and while we knew that off-screen Ariel was losing her virginity to Chuck.
The only song they did not do was "I'm Free," and they changed a few other things - Ren did tell a made up story to Willard, but it was a different story and he told him he was making it up in a different way. Willard and Ren did insult each other when they first met, but different insults. (And Willard. Was. Awesome. Throughout the entire thing.)
It was a bit more country-themed. The bar they went to had a country line dance (which I was fine with, country fan that I am) and of course at the end they played Blake Shelton's version of Footloose. Which he did not change at all - he didn't make it his own, he just has a country-singer voice. My dad said he likes Loggins' better, because the country voice sounded a bit odd in a place or two (I played it for him on YouTube yesterday) but he said "He definitely did not botch it." So thumbs up, there! (Actually, I liked Shelton's version a lot.
The ending was really really epic. The final dance, the fight outside before that (Rusty and Ariel chased a guy off all on their own!) and playing Almost Paradise (my parent's first dance song when they married in 1985) before that. And they dressed Ren and Ariel the way they dressed in the old movie.
I really recommend it. It was a slightly modernized version that did the old one justice and you can tell the actors and dancers had so much fun doing it. There were sexual references, but small kids wouldn't understand them. And they dropped the S-bomb a few times, but they did that in the old one, too.
I got home that night to discover that there was a car accident on the highway last night, the highway my sister and I had to take for ten miles to get home (we're kinda sort in the boondocks, like the Bomont kids) and two graduates from my old high school, a year older than I, had died. One I knew as a friend of a friend. The other was on the equestrian team with me the one year I did it, and was one of two girls to make me feel at home. We had drifted apart, but still, I knew her. We found out about Rachel - the one I didn't know well - via the friend that I knew her through last night. Today I saw on Facebook the other one had died, as well.
Rest in peace, Rachel and Jenna.
First of all, Ren was...I don't wanna say hot but pretty good looking. And of course Julianne Hough was really pretty. They started with a party with them all dancing to Kenny Loggins' Footloose, ending with the car crash that made the laws go into effect - that was one of a few differences.
- The Cranstons owned a racetrack, and the chicken-with-tractors scene became racing school buses in a figure eight pattern. It was very funny.
- Ren's aunt and uncle were very supportive of him throughout, there was no brick thrown through their window, and they never told him he was doing the wrong thing. I liked that.
- I absolutely loved how they did "Let's Hear it For the Boy." It started out with Willard, Ren, and a third boy (the people hanging out by mid-movie were Ren/Ariel, Willard/Rusty, and a football player/his girlfriend) along with four little girls in Ren's backyard, Willard was trying to dance with two of the little girls (after making them say "no one will know" and the football player whispering "everyone will know.) while Ren's two little cousins (?) stood up on the deck behind them doing karaoke for "Let's Hear it For the Boy", and after the first verse and chorus they switched to Deniece Williams' version.
I wasn't a fan of what they did with "Holdin' Out For A Hero." It was a ballad, and sung while Ren was studying, and while we knew that off-screen Ariel was losing her virginity to Chuck.
The only song they did not do was "I'm Free," and they changed a few other things - Ren did tell a made up story to Willard, but it was a different story and he told him he was making it up in a different way. Willard and Ren did insult each other when they first met, but different insults. (And Willard. Was. Awesome. Throughout the entire thing.)
It was a bit more country-themed. The bar they went to had a country line dance (which I was fine with, country fan that I am) and of course at the end they played Blake Shelton's version of Footloose. Which he did not change at all - he didn't make it his own, he just has a country-singer voice. My dad said he likes Loggins' better, because the country voice sounded a bit odd in a place or two (I played it for him on YouTube yesterday) but he said "He definitely did not botch it." So thumbs up, there! (Actually, I liked Shelton's version a lot.
The ending was really really epic. The final dance, the fight outside before that (Rusty and Ariel chased a guy off all on their own!) and playing Almost Paradise (my parent's first dance song when they married in 1985) before that. And they dressed Ren and Ariel the way they dressed in the old movie.
I really recommend it. It was a slightly modernized version that did the old one justice and you can tell the actors and dancers had so much fun doing it. There were sexual references, but small kids wouldn't understand them. And they dropped the S-bomb a few times, but they did that in the old one, too.
I got home that night to discover that there was a car accident on the highway last night, the highway my sister and I had to take for ten miles to get home (we're kinda sort in the boondocks, like the Bomont kids) and two graduates from my old high school, a year older than I, had died. One I knew as a friend of a friend. The other was on the equestrian team with me the one year I did it, and was one of two girls to make me feel at home. We had drifted apart, but still, I knew her. We found out about Rachel - the one I didn't know well - via the friend that I knew her through last night. Today I saw on Facebook the other one had died, as well.
Rest in peace, Rachel and Jenna.