I love the portrayal of the Reverend in this film. He’s the antagonist, but he isn’t a bad guy. He doesn’t hate kids, or fun. He’s a father in pain who’s trying to figure out how to protect people and how to be everything to everyone. And he’s wrong about some things but he also has good intentions, and he kinda figures a few things out eventually.
Some of the worst decisions in the world were made with best intentions !!! Other then that very well said !!! Homeland security ??? Best intentions ??? When you give up your rights for security you lose them both !!! A quote by Benjamin Franklin !!! The speech you gave was honorable and we'll thought out !!! If only more people like you would follow the solid truth with your compassion it would be a much better world !!!! Hate and men fuel this world , the love of God and his son can save it only !!! God will always win , but wicked men will always lose !!! Sorry if I have offended you but I speak what I believe or I am just a liar like the world !!!!!
@@carlpeterson8182 the pastor is awful and definitely the antagonist. It’s nice that he realizes later, but if you take away everyone’s freedom, it’s not that weird if people rebel against that. Imagine living in a place where they ban lots of great classic books from schools…oh wait no need to imagine
Dianne Wiest (Ariel's mom) might be the "quietest" multiple Academy Award winner in modern history. One of a select few and somehow rarely mentioned as one of the best.
"Hey, Hey! What's this I see? I thought this was a party. LET'S DANCE!" Fun Fact: The movie is loosely based on events that took place in the small, rural and extremely religious farming town of Elmore City, Oklahoma in 1978. Dancing had been banned for nearly ninety years, until a group of high school teenagers challenged it. Also, Kevin Bacon did MOST of his own dancing, there were a couple acrobatic scenes he had a stunt double, but he did everything else.
@@tremorsfan The dude abides, bowling is sacred. Also, Burt Gummer approves your name handle. When you need it, and don't have it, you sing a different tune.
My mom went to Rush Springs High school prom in the late 70's. It was the same there. They went to prom and had a dinner but weren't allowed to dance. Rush Springs isn't too far from Elmore City where the movie is based. There is actually a mural the the yellow Vokswagen in Elmore City now lol
Chris was terrifying in “Reservoir Dogs.” Other end of the universe from sweet, lovable Willard. Chris deserves much more credit than he gets. Great actor.
When I was in high school in the late 80s in southern Missouri, there were a few small towns that wouldn't allow the school to have dances or prom. This movie was very real to us back then.
Frequency is one of my all-time favorites! I know Cassie would love it. Btw, Dennis Quaid is also in one of my all-time favorite baseball movies, “The Rookie”, and since Cassie seems to like baseball movies I think she’d love that one too!
@@maximumeffort5182 innerspace is awesome too, though I’m not sure Cassie and Carly would like it as much? Well who knows, ol’Tuck Pendleton is a classic!
John Lithgow is a powerhouse in this film and is very aptly supported by Dianne Wiest. For me, their characters and their relationship are the most compelling part of the story.
My mom's ATF movie. My late dad NEVER could resist making fun of Bacon's angry dance scene just to mess with her. Him telling 4 year old me that's how he blows off steam at work still makes me laugh today.
Woody (the third guy) should've gotten more screen time. He was a really underrated character. Supported Ren the whole time, and had no prejudice whatsoever.
As a father/grandfather who grew up in the eighties, seeing the two of you smile, watching our movies... I love it. You two must have been the cutest little toe heads in your whole town
I live in the small town where the majority of this movie was filmed. The old granary/flour mill where his character works in the movie is still there. It’s called the Lehi Roller Mills in Lehi, UT. They still operate to a degree and sell really good baking mixes, flour, etc. Also, the actor Julianne Hough (Ariel in the 2011 film) and her family are from a small town near here called Orem, UT if I’m not mistaken.
As a kid, my siblings and I only had 3 movies on vhs. Footloose, Top Gun, and Marry Poppins. To this day, 30+ years later, I can recite this movie word for word.
The soundtrack to the movie was awesome, but one of the best songs is one that doesn’t get enough credit. “I’m Free” from Kenny Loggins was my favorite!
Willard was played by Chris Penn, younger brother of Sean Penn. Other movies he was known for was Rumble Fish(Matt Dillon, Mickey Rourke, Diane Lane, Nicolas Cage and Dennis Hopper), Pale Rider(Clint Eastwood), At Close Range(Sean Penn, Christopher Walken, Mary Stuart Masterson, Crispin Glover and Kiefer Sutherland) and Reservoir Dogs(Harvey Keitel, Tim Roth, Steve Buscemi and Michael Madsen). Unfortunately, he passed away in 2006 at age 40. RIP
When this movie first hit premium cable in 1986 (Premiered on The Movie Channel [a Showtime subsidiary], I believe), my little sis loved it so much that my mom stayed up until 3AM to VCR record it on the replay; even though she had to be at work the next day. This was before you could set a VCR to record a future airing of specific TV programming, Back then, TV scheduling was tight. If a movie premiered at 7PM the previous night on a premium cable channel, it was almost guaranteed to be replay at 3AM because the schedule cycle would start over from the previous day until 5AM. This way, you didn't always have to consult a TV Guide or the TV schedule for the week from the Sunday paper to know when something you wanted to see again would air. Such an obscure thing to remember just from watching you two react to a film that brought my family a lot of joy back in the day.
It's strange how even though every song was muted for copyright reasons but yet I heard every one in my head on account of how many times I've seen this over the last 39 years 😆
My mom was never a huge fan of Kevin Bacon movies but Footloose was always the exception, she used to watch it all the time whenever it was on re-runs.
Your reference to a lack of high school dances reminded me of the Friday Night Mt Carmel, a Catholic boys high school, Dances on Chicago’s South Side, 1959 - 1963. On Sunday night, it was St Sabina’s high school dance, aka a sock hop. Good times we’re had by all.
I say this when I was in the 6th grade with a bunch of my friends. We all went to the same walk in theater and basically had the place to ourselves. It was just fun. Music back then was just part of every day conversation with the kids in my neighborhood. So footloose was just that movie that hit at the right time that all of us could relate to. Especially since even though alot of us were in to music could not dance. After we saw this movie some of the kids who knew how to tried to teach us which was just laughable. Of course that was in the days when every kid in the neighborhood knew each other and we hung out in large groups. The fact this movie had several popular songs of the time it was just a big hit for us kids. So yes 80s movies just had something about them.
One thing that I've always appreciated with this movie is that, while there are many challenges for the main characters, the preacher isn't a "bad guy". Chuck and his cronies are minor hindrances, but there isn't really a "villain" in this movie...just two points of view, based in the intent of doing good and bad occurrences, and then a compromise and understanding.
I think “dances” have now become formals/semi-formals, which is sad because you can have a dance after a football/basketball game wearing jeans and school clothes and they can be a lot of fun!
I was in a sacred dance group at our church in the 70's. We performed at church services. Our church also held an annual fundraising event called "Spring Fling" and one year our group danced the Cancan on the stage in the social hall. (We were all adolescent girls.) Another year my mom and some other ladies of the congregation got together and learned a hula dance to perform. Southern California! 🌴🌴🌴
There are some movies that do not need to be remade. The reason that this version is so great is the supporting cast. John Lithgow and Dianne Wiest are incredibly good. They give nuanced complex performances. You end up understanding them and liking them. Personally, I think that when people try to remake movies like this they tend to concentrate on the leads and the dancing and forget how really important the supporting cast was. I just can't rave enough aout how good the two of them were.
I am convinced the villains from Bill and Ted are real, and in the late 00’s and early 10’s came back in time to try and ruin the 80’s by making bad remakes of all the greatest films of that decade. Footloose, Red Dawn, Robocop, others I know I have forgotten.
The only remake I can think of that's better than the original is The Thomas Crowne Affair, remake directed by John McTiernan. Remaking Footloose or The Parent Trap or Miracle on 34th St is a travesty.
@@robland6804 The 1980s version of The Thing by John Carpenter is a remake of a 1950s movie and is, for my money, the best remake ever made. Most remakes are awful.
THE THING about the 80's movies is the fact that the young characters began being written AS PEOPLE not cutesy brats or mini adults with attitudes. They genuinely were fully well developed characters AND sometimes very flawed as much as the adults surrounding them. The focus was a lot on how the world was impacting US. WE were the FREE ROAMING generation. WE regeneration of kids whose mothers had gone back to work. So many of us we used to coming home to empty houses after school. WE were the first generation of latchkey kids. WE were the first generation for some of us to have to deal with divorce and also remarriage so that's dealt with in our movies. WE were expected to go to school, get her homework done, and lot of us have to cook food... OR at the very least get something ready in the way of prepping the food for dinner ready. So that way when our mothers who usually came home first we just have to put it into the oven to finish it up. WE were the first ones who learned how to do cooking to some extent AND definitely did our own laundry. WE were expected for the most part to clean the house cleaning... NOT JUST our rooms. My friend Diane had 3 younger siblings...WE PICKED THEM UP from elementary school a 1/2 HOUR after we got home ok? WE'D walk home and drop off bags at her house...them walk up the block to mine. I'd be inside MY house letting the dog out while she was inside her house letting THEIRS out. Then She come up the block past my house and we go another block of two and go pick up the kids. Then we'd all go back to HER house usually and she'd start pulling out everything for dinner. If we get it organized it started with sit down and have a dining room table and do homework. Her brothers and her sister had to sit there and start their homework as soon as they came home. They have to start right away because her parents knew we'd have to help them when WE got done with ours. Her Dad worked in NYC and her Mom was a plumbers HELPER while she was finishing up school to become a LICENSED PLUMBER 🪠 Yeah no kidding! My Dad was an engineer way out on the East End of Long Island in the next county. The company he worked for had military contracts and also dealt with NASA. My Mom USUALLY was either sleeping or just getting ready to go to work. She was a registered nurse and USUALLY worked nights or 7 TO 7 shift or 3 TO 11's. BUT but my mother went back to school to become a nurse? Believe me it we all learned how to run that house but then my brothers moved out soon afterwards cuz they were much older than me. So it was between ME and my Dad mostly. I learned how to cook from my DAD and from cookbooks and something for my family like my aunt and grandmothers when they were alive. I WAS baking 7 layer torte cakes by the time I was 12 yo from scratch and with homemade frosting. Diane's married and has two kids and she STILL cooks most nights. ANYONE who was born during this era really pretty much does. I've got another little news flash for you ladies~I didn't have a dryer... WE as a family just never owned one. MOST of my friends families had them but we just never did. YUP! 😂 So there's a difference in realism on how the younger people well-written and their language was dealt with when it came to these movies. THAT'S WHY you'll always say yeah I can relate to this or that or I can imagine me saying that in HS or I'd be thinking the same thing even if I didn't say it. The difference was is that when they had young actors they asked THEM for their input a lot of times when it came to the dialogue to make it realistic. That's a lot of what's missing since then. 😉💜😎 #NYGenXBIKERLady
The term "errand girl" is based on the term "errand boy", which is defined as one who's employed in a shop or office to make deliveries. But, it also became a saying. When someone was asked to do a random task they didn't want to do, they would say, "I'm not your errand boy!'
Popcorn in Bed. Hi. This was my late mother's favorite movie. Also her first cousin played in many movies before his passing in 1989 such as Raising Arizona, Bull Durham & more.
Classic 80's. Feel like some of these movies could only fully work in that decade. Glad we still have these artifacts...and the acid wash jeans. Good times. Not sure if this was ever a play on Broadway...but it should be. 🕺💃🎊
I saw this in the theater in 1984, the year I graduated high school. The entire theater was rocking and dancing. It was magical! Thank you so much for this beautiful reaction and bringing back fond memories.
Love you two!!!! So happy you finally reacted to this movie. I remember watching it in fifth grade class and we all reacted to the “ only assholes used the word panzy” remark and we all thought that we were hearing swearing for the first time. So glad you watched the original.
Yup, this was filmed all over Utah County. The near car crash was filmed just north of Santaquin, the church is located in down town American Fork, the school is Payson high school, the angsty dance and train scene is filmed at Geneva steel and of course Ren works at Lehi Roller Mills. There are more locations that I'm forgetting but you get the idea.
Your joy by the end was my favorite part of your reaction to this classic gem! What I remember most of this film is an instant lifetime crush on Kevin Bacon, having to get another cassette tape of this soundtrack because I'd worn out the first one, and the title song ALWAYS packed a dance floor. Never considered this a romcom though, it's always just been an 80s movie to me.
My "One Degree" from Kevin Bacon.: I was in a project with the girl who played "Edna" - Kim Jensen. She was the one driving the car and said: "You'll notice the incredible barf mobile."
If you love Sarah Jessica Parker, dance movies, and 80’s romcoms, you HAVE to watch Girls Just Want to Have Fun from 1985. One of my favorite childhood movies!
Disney's Flight of the Navigator! SJP is like 15 or 16. Hilarious movie: especially the McDonalds Reference...Diet Coke, Caffeine Free Coke, Coke Classic, etc. Twisted Sister..who's she? It's a him or more like a them! Anyways Great Movie.
My wife and I had a lousy band at our wedding reception. The band played a version of "Footloose" that sounded like a polka. It's been mocked by lots of our friends ever since.
Looks like it's time for SATURDAY NIGHT FEVER. That movie made John Travolta a movie star. And I can't wait to see your reaction to his dance moves. And then, maybe a viewing of AMERICAN GRAFFITI would be in order. After all, it stars a young Harrison Ford before his Star Wars fame. You two are such girls. It's the best part of the channel. Although, sometimes ....
As a child of a 2,000 pop. town in upstate NY, this movie gets EVERYTHING right about small town life. Especially the restless & reckless frustration of teenagers. Here it was snowmobiles, dirt bikes and drunk driving. Teenagers throwing keggers was the only socialization outside of sports, basically. A lot of kids had drunks as parents, latchkey kids, or worked every morning and evening on their farm. It's a place without resources or opportunity and even before you're teen you feel an anxious need for the wider world, for your own development and exploration, and when that's stymied, you get all sorts of negative coping mechanisms.
Movies (and music) of the 80’s and 90’s were classics. The culture back then was also all about going to the movies and video stores were huge back in those days. I think there’s was a cheesiness that also made the movies fun. But yes, now we have so many options through streaming. But back in those days not everything was at your fingertips so you really had to pick and choose what movies to watch.
True story: these days whenever Kevin Bacon attends a wedding reception, he pays the DJ NOT to play any of the Footloose music, especially the title song. He wants the reception to be about the bride and groom, and not him. Apparently this (requests for the Footloose song and the expectation he would do the dance) happened a lot before he started bribing the DJs.
Loved watching you two getting a chance to see this movie for the 1st time... although I have to admit it's sometimes pretty comical to see you watching movies "in reverse order" and recognizing (and sometimes overlooking) huge stars in their early roles. As for this movie, in '84 in was a shiny, new 21 y.o. when I saw this in a theater! Loved the music by Kenny Loggins. And, of course he repeated his feat 2 years later when Top Gun came out. When you two ladies are in the mood for more dancing-themed movies, try two of my favorites: 1. Shall We Dance? (2004 - Richard Gere, Jennifer Lopez) 2. Take The Lead (2006 - Antonio Banderas, Alfre Woodard, Jenna Dewan)
I always thought the same. Growing up I always thought having great dance moves was something everyone secretly had except me, and it was because of this movie.
“This is sooooo Utah!” 😅 Thanks to pop culture I knew a lot about this movie before I ever saw it, and yet it still surprised me. I thought that John Lithgow’s character would be pretty one-dimensional and an obvious villain, but he had so much depth and I found myself really feeling for him and his struggles - and his wife too. As for 80s film like this, yes, they’re better than most stuff that we get these days! I think film made back then had less of a market-researched feel about them, like they were being made because it was thought that they’d be entertaining, and had pretty small budgets so they could take more risks. The good ol’ days… ❤️
Great reaction to another "old school" movie. I'd like to mention the iconic music of Kenny Loggins not only in this movie but: Top Gun - Danger Zone; Caddyshack - I'm Alright; and Over the Top (Sylvester Stallone) - Meet me Half Way. There are others but these standout to me. Keep up the great channel ladies.
Ariel seriously lacked a lot of character background and development, both in the original and remake. I believe she should have had a small backstory where she worked as a babysitter for Ren's cousins, Sarah and Amy before the beginning of the story, such as during the summers and while in school on occasion before Ren moved to Bomont from Chicago (Boston in the remake) all the while was paid for her services and had secretly taught Sarah and Amy how to dance during her babysitting gigs. Another thing about Ariel is that she should've been a cheerleader as well.
Kenny Loggins had Footloose, Danger Zone and Playing With Boys (both from Top Gun) in a short span. Also House At Pooh Corner which I sang to my daughter (13) til she got "too old."
Their timelines are slightly off. Not many people know that Olivia Newton John was 28 when Grease was filmed, and 29 by the time it was released in theaters. Kevin back was 10 years younger than her. So Kevin was 26 playing a high schooler when Footloose came out. Olivia would have been 36 years old, so it would have been a bit of a stretch, even though she was ageless.
Good reaction guys!! This movie really brings me back to my childhood 🙂🙂 Another great dancing film with an incredible soundtrack is "Flashdance" with Jennifer Beals which came out in 1983. That film introduced everyone to leg warmers and Irene Cara (RIP) won an Oscar for the title song.. Cassie, I really hope you and your sister watch this movie. It's definitely a great reflection of the time period with some great music and dancing. You guys would love watching it!!!!
Man, I was shocked to hear that Irene Cara died. I really liked her in the role as Coco in the Fame movie. Lori Singer btw was in the Fame tv series too. Time to play 'Six degrees of Kevin Bacon' 😄
I was 13 when this came out. This soundtrack was everything in the summer of ‘84. One reason these ‘80’s movie are so great and memorable is the music. They literally don’t make music like this anymore.
this movie was really pivotal for us as kids in the 80s. not sure about every kid but the 80s really was about dancing- its kindve what everyone liked to do ! girls especially but dancing was a skill to cultivate!
I agree with Carly at the end when she said a lot of these 80’s types of films are kind of where a lot of genres were first invented. They’re not always as refined because they were breaking new ground.
Back in 1984, my 12 year old brain really thought it was Kevin Bacon that was singing the song Footloose 🤣. Great reaction as always ladies. I'm glad you liked the movie. I'm currently listening to the Footloose soundtrack after watching your reactions.
Footloose, Days Of Thunder, and Too Gun and a couple others are the movies I had in constant play in the early 90’s when I was in elementary school. I wanted to be just like the main characters, I’m sure it contributed to my personality in some way or another.
FUN FACT: Kevin recreated this dance as he was introduced on Jimmy Fallon in 2016. He admitted he had to rent the movie just so he could remember the moves.
Info trivia tidbit: Kevin Bacon's dance double was married to Jennifer Beal's ("Flashdance") dance double when these movies came out. The dance doubles performed the gymnastic and more difficult dance moves, for the stars.
About six years ago John Lithgow came back to the area he was born and partially raised during his childhood, which also happens to be my hometown (Rochester, NY). He and Blythe Danner filmed a Sundance movie called The Tomorrow Man, and one of the scenes they shot for this movie was inside one of the grocery stores I normally shop at.
Now THAT'S a movie you should react to..."Rebel Without a Cause" 1955 starring the LEGENDARY James Dean, Natalie Wood and Sal Mineo...AND a very young Dennis Hopper (bomber from "Speed".
My wife and I once sat about 5 feet in front of John Lithgow during a Symphony performance in which he read letters to and from Mozart between sections of the orchestra playing Mozart's requiem (the final piece Mozart composed in "Amadeus" on his death bed). To say that Lithgow was a commanding presence would be an understatement!
I used to live right next to the Lehi roller mills. Utah is covered in Footloose filming locations south of Salt Lake City and it was always fun randomly discovering them.
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I love the portrayal of the Reverend in this film. He’s the antagonist, but he isn’t a bad guy. He doesn’t hate kids, or fun. He’s a father in pain who’s trying to figure out how to protect people and how to be everything to everyone. And he’s wrong about some things but he also has good intentions, and he kinda figures a few things out eventually.
Relatable. Everyone trying to figure out constantly what to be uptight about and what and when to let go.
As I have grown older the pastor is not so much the antagonist. I can understand him much more than his daughter. Ariel seems so awful.
Some of the worst decisions in the world were made with best intentions !!! Other then that very well said !!! Homeland security ??? Best intentions ??? When you give up your rights for security you lose them both !!! A quote by Benjamin Franklin !!! The speech you gave was honorable and we'll thought out !!! If only more people like you would follow the solid truth with your compassion it would be a much better world !!!! Hate and men fuel this world , the love of God and his son can save it only !!! God will always win , but wicked men will always lose !!! Sorry if I have offended you but I speak what I believe or I am just a liar like the world !!!!!
It's true, by the end you just want to give him a hug and tell him everything's okay
@@carlpeterson8182 the pastor is awful and definitely the antagonist. It’s nice that he realizes later, but if you take away everyone’s freedom, it’s not that weird if people rebel against that. Imagine living in a place where they ban lots of great classic books from schools…oh wait no need to imagine
That is extremely quote worthy; "I hope every girl that thinks they love a Chuck, gets to know a Ren"
Best quote in PIB history.
So is it "Footloose" or "Screw-loose" ? 😙
This comment should have 100K likes.
I first saw Footloose at the theater in 1984. Most of the songs in this film were huge hits.
Soundtrack is awesome too bad when doing reactions to these music movies the music is copyrighted so we can’t heard it 😟
The first music I owned was a copy (onto a blank tape) of the Footloose soundtrack on a tape haha
Seeing that movie at that time, along with others great 80s movies, was just different. Miss those days!
Same here.
The first time I saw it, was a Footloose + Flashdance double feature. Great soundtrack... I remember buying the cassette.
Dianne Wiest (Ariel's mom) might be the "quietest" multiple Academy Award winner in modern history. One of a select few and somehow rarely mentioned as one of the best.
No idea she won an Academy Award. Always mix her up with Diane Keaton.
Did she get an Oscar for The Lost Boys?!
@@st0n3p0ny
No.
Hannah and Her Sisters, and Bullets Over Broadway.
“Don’t speak. Don’t speak.”
@@artdeco64 that was a joke. 😉
Lost Boys is just one of my favorite movies. She was great in Smokey And The Bandit too.
@@st0n3p0ny Sadly, no. The fact her and Nanook🐶 weren't even nominated still pisses me off.
"Hey, Hey! What's this I see? I thought this was a party. LET'S DANCE!"
Fun Fact: The movie is loosely based on events that took place in the small, rural and extremely religious farming town of Elmore City, Oklahoma in 1978. Dancing had been banned for nearly ninety years, until a group of high school teenagers challenged it.
Also, Kevin Bacon did MOST of his own dancing, there were a couple acrobatic scenes he had a stunt double, but he did everything else.
Oklahoma? Let me be shocked!
They went to a dinner followed by bowling. Although I really don't understand how dancing can be a sin but not bowling.
@@tremorsfan The dude abides, bowling is sacred. Also, Burt Gummer approves your name handle. When you need it, and don't have it, you sing a different tune.
My mom went to Rush Springs High school prom in the late 70's. It was the same there. They went to prom and had a dinner but weren't allowed to dance. Rush Springs isn't too far from Elmore City where the movie is based. There is actually a mural the the yellow Vokswagen in Elmore City now lol
They shot the prom in Lehi, UT
Fun fact, Willard is played by Chris Penn, the younger brother of Sean Penn. He unfortunately died in 2006 at age 40.
He was an incredible actor. Saw him play many types of roles, and he always nailed every performance.
Miami vice, couldn't place him cheers.
Chris was terrifying in “Reservoir Dogs.” Other end of the universe from sweet, lovable Willard. Chris deserves much more credit than he gets. Great actor.
Reservoir Dogs, Best of the Best, and his small role in Rush Hour are what I mainly remember him from.
He was too wong foo as the sheriff lol get of my dick buddy 😂😂😂
When I was in high school in the late 80s in southern Missouri, there were a few small towns that wouldn't allow the school to have dances or prom. This movie was very real to us back then.
The dad from the Footloose remake (Dennis Quaid) is in a criminally underrated movie called Frequency. I think you two would love it.
Frequency is one of my all-time favorites! I know Cassie would love it. Btw, Dennis Quaid is also in one of my all-time favorite baseball movies, “The Rookie”, and since Cassie seems to like baseball movies I think she’d love that one too!
You two would like "wilder napalm"
One word, "Innerspace'
@@maximumeffort5182 innerspace is awesome too, though I’m not sure Cassie and Carly would like it as much? Well who knows, ol’Tuck Pendleton is a classic!
Great movie
John Lithgow is a powerhouse in this film and is very aptly supported by Dianne Wiest. For me, their characters and their relationship are the most compelling part of the story.
My mom's ATF movie. My late dad NEVER could resist making fun of Bacon's angry dance scene just to mess with her. Him telling 4 year old me that's how he blows off steam at work still makes me laugh today.
Rip sorry for your loss 😢💙🙏
Thanks for reminding me of one of my pop's favorite jokes from back in the day. He used to love telling that joke too.
That would've been hilarious to catch him in the act. And you thought it was a joke. Lol. RIP.
Please excuse my ignorance, what is _ATF_ in this instance?
@@CaesiusX All-time favorite
Woody (the third guy) should've gotten more screen time. He was a really underrated character. Supported Ren the whole time, and had no prejudice whatsoever.
It did always seem like there were more scenes with him, that got cut, that he was more of a main character.
Woody was my crush ;)
I'm pretty sure that's reason Woody had more screen time in the remake.
You guys are so funny together. Cassie alone is great, but when Carly joins it goes to a different level.
Strictly Ballroom (1992). Fantastic dance movie with humor and a hearty dash of romance!
fantastic movie!
I LOVE that one! I found it on VHS at the library years ago and now I occasionally watch it on the dvd I bought.
My definite favorite dance movie!
a thousand times yes
Dianne Wiest always plays a cool mom. Another 80's classic she was in was The Lost Boys. Definitely a little darker theme than Footloose, though. 💀💀💀
Not always. Check out her role in The Tenth Kingdom......
Parenthood is another classic Dianne role
As a father/grandfather who grew up in the eighties, seeing the two of you smile, watching our movies... I love it. You two must have been the cutest little toe heads in your whole town
"tow heads" that is, blonde :)
I live in the small town where the majority of this movie was filmed. The old granary/flour mill where his character works in the movie is still there. It’s called the Lehi Roller Mills in Lehi, UT. They still operate to a degree and sell really good baking mixes, flour, etc. Also, the actor Julianne Hough (Ariel in the 2011 film) and her family are from a small town near here called Orem, UT if I’m not mistaken.
I graduated at Springville High in 1984 (The library scene). I also witnessed some of the movie being filmed.
As a kid, my siblings and I only had 3 movies on vhs. Footloose, Top Gun, and Marry Poppins. To this day, 30+ years later, I can recite this movie word for word.
No, you can't.
@Jigs Arquiza Well, maybe not the preaching scenes. We would fast forward through those.
Big Kenny Loggins fan I assume
@@alincoln25 So you CAN'T "recite this movie word for word."
Demolition Man and The Living Daylights for me...cause "You're on TV!" and "I know a good place in Karachi. We can just make dinner."
The soundtrack to the movie was awesome, but one of the best songs is one that doesn’t get enough credit. “I’m Free” from Kenny Loggins was my favorite!
I'm Free is my favorite song in the Footloose soundtrack as well.
Willard was played by Chris Penn, younger brother of Sean Penn. Other movies he was known for was Rumble Fish(Matt Dillon, Mickey Rourke, Diane Lane, Nicolas Cage and Dennis Hopper), Pale Rider(Clint Eastwood), At Close Range(Sean Penn, Christopher Walken, Mary Stuart Masterson, Crispin Glover and Kiefer Sutherland) and Reservoir Dogs(Harvey Keitel, Tim Roth, Steve Buscemi and Michael Madsen).
Unfortunately, he passed away in 2006 at age 40. RIP
When this movie first hit premium cable in 1986 (Premiered on The Movie Channel [a Showtime subsidiary], I believe), my little sis loved it so much that my mom stayed up until 3AM to VCR record it on the replay; even though she had to be at work the next day. This was before you could set a VCR to record a future airing of specific TV programming, Back then, TV scheduling was tight. If a movie premiered at 7PM the previous night on a premium cable channel, it was almost guaranteed to be replay at 3AM because the schedule cycle would start over from the previous day until 5AM. This way, you didn't always have to consult a TV Guide or the TV schedule for the week from the Sunday paper to know when something you wanted to see again would air. Such an obscure thing to remember just from watching you two react to a film that brought my family a lot of joy back in the day.
It's strange how even though every song was muted for copyright reasons but yet I heard every one in my head on account of how many times I've seen this over the last 39 years 😆
Every single song on this soundtrack is a killer. And yes, it's hard to believe next year we're celebrating the 40th anniversary of Footloose 😆
Now that you've seen "Footloose" and "Dirty Dancing" you should complete the 1980s Dance movie trilogy and watch the 1983 movie "Flashdance".
80s dance movies aren't complete without Fame and Purple Rain.
My favorite
Flashdance and Fame - Please!!! Those are my favorites!!! Along with Dirty Dancing and this Footloose.
My mom was never a huge fan of Kevin Bacon movies but Footloose was always the exception, she used to watch it all the time whenever it was on re-runs.
Your reference to a lack of high school dances reminded me of the Friday Night Mt Carmel, a Catholic boys high school, Dances on Chicago’s South Side, 1959 - 1963. On Sunday night, it was St Sabina’s high school dance, aka a sock hop. Good times we’re had by all.
I say this when I was in the 6th grade with a bunch of my friends. We all went to the same walk in theater and basically had the place to ourselves. It was just fun. Music back then was just part of every day conversation with the kids in my neighborhood. So footloose was just that movie that hit at the right time that all of us could relate to. Especially since even though alot of us were in to music could not dance. After we saw this movie some of the kids who knew how to tried to teach us which was just laughable. Of course that was in the days when every kid in the neighborhood knew each other and we hung out in large groups. The fact this movie had several popular songs of the time it was just a big hit for us kids. So yes 80s movies just had something about them.
One thing that I've always appreciated with this movie is that, while there are many challenges for the main characters, the preacher isn't a "bad guy". Chuck and his cronies are minor hindrances, but there isn't really a "villain" in this movie...just two points of view, based in the intent of doing good and bad occurrences, and then a compromise and understanding.
About broke my heart when she said her highschool didn't have dances, Friday night after the game dances were iconic back in the 80s.
In the 70s too! Added bonus, my town didn’t burn books either. 😉
I think “dances” have now become formals/semi-formals, which is sad because you can have a dance after a football/basketball game wearing jeans and school clothes and they can be a lot of fun!
How are you supposed to know Stairway to Heaven closes out all 80s dances?
@@jeffreywettig5302 at my junior high, it was always “Freebird.”
I was in a sacred dance group at our church in the 70's. We performed at church services. Our church also held an annual fundraising event called "Spring Fling" and one year our group danced the Cancan on the stage in the social hall. (We were all adolescent girls.) Another year my mom and some other ladies of the congregation got together and learned a hula dance to perform. Southern California! 🌴🌴🌴
There are some movies that do not need to be remade. The reason that this version is so great is the supporting cast. John Lithgow and Dianne Wiest are incredibly good. They give nuanced complex performances. You end up understanding them and liking them. Personally, I think that when people try to remake movies like this they tend to concentrate on the leads and the dancing and forget how really important the supporting cast was. I just can't rave enough aout how good the two of them were.
I am convinced the villains from Bill and Ted are real, and in the late 00’s and early 10’s came back in time to try and ruin the 80’s by making bad remakes of all the greatest films of that decade. Footloose, Red Dawn, Robocop, others I know I have forgotten.
The only remake I can think of that's better than the original is The Thomas Crowne Affair, remake directed by John McTiernan. Remaking Footloose or The Parent Trap or Miracle on 34th St is a travesty.
@@robland6804 The 1980s version of The Thing by John Carpenter is a remake of a 1950s movie and is, for my money, the best remake ever made. Most remakes are awful.
@@robland6804 Don't forget Father of the Bride and Stephen Spielberg's West Side Story
Well I don't know if I can say anything, because I never saw the Original, but I absolutely loved the Remake of Man On Fire with Denzel Washington...
I was an usher at a theater here in Dallas in 84. I was 17. Every girl and their mother went crazy for this flick. It was an awesome summer.
THE THING about the 80's movies is the fact that the young characters began being written AS PEOPLE not cutesy brats or mini adults with attitudes. They genuinely were fully well developed characters AND sometimes very flawed as much as the adults surrounding them. The focus was a lot on how the world was impacting US. WE were the FREE ROAMING generation. WE regeneration of kids whose mothers had gone back to work. So many of us we used to coming home to empty houses after school. WE were the first generation of latchkey kids. WE were the first generation for some of us to have to deal with divorce and also remarriage so that's dealt with in our movies. WE were expected to go to school, get her homework done, and lot of us have to cook food... OR at the very least get something ready in the way of prepping the food for dinner ready. So that way when our mothers who usually came home first we just have to put it into the oven to finish it up. WE were the first ones who learned how to do cooking to some extent AND definitely did our own laundry. WE were expected for the most part to clean the house cleaning... NOT JUST our rooms. My friend Diane had 3 younger siblings...WE PICKED THEM UP from elementary school a 1/2 HOUR after we got home ok? WE'D walk home and drop off bags at her house...them walk up the block to mine. I'd be inside MY house letting the dog out while she was inside her house letting THEIRS out. Then She come up the block past my house and we go another block of two and go pick up the kids. Then we'd all go back to HER house usually and she'd start pulling out everything for dinner. If we get it organized it started with sit down and have a dining room table and do homework. Her brothers and her sister had to sit there and start their homework as soon as they came home. They have to start right away because her parents knew we'd have to help them when WE got done with ours. Her Dad worked in NYC and her Mom was a plumbers HELPER while she was finishing up school to become a LICENSED PLUMBER 🪠 Yeah no kidding! My Dad was an engineer way out on the East End of Long Island in the next county. The company he worked for had military contracts and also dealt with NASA. My Mom USUALLY was either sleeping or just getting ready to go to work. She was a registered nurse and USUALLY worked nights or 7 TO 7 shift or 3 TO 11's. BUT but my mother went back to school to become a nurse? Believe me it we all learned how to run that house but then my brothers moved out soon afterwards cuz they were much older than me. So it was between ME and my Dad mostly. I learned how to cook from my DAD and from cookbooks and something for my family like my aunt and grandmothers when they were alive. I WAS baking 7 layer torte cakes by the time I was 12 yo from scratch and with homemade frosting. Diane's married and has two kids and she STILL cooks most nights. ANYONE who was born during this era really pretty much does. I've got another little news flash for you ladies~I didn't have a dryer... WE as a family just never owned one. MOST of my friends families had them but we just never did. YUP! 😂 So there's a difference in realism on how the younger people well-written and their language was dealt with when it came to these movies. THAT'S WHY you'll always say yeah I can relate to this or that or I can imagine me saying that in HS or I'd be thinking the same thing even if I didn't say it. The difference was is that when they had young actors they asked THEM for their input a lot of times when it came to the dialogue to make it realistic. That's a lot of what's missing since then. 😉💜😎 #NYGenXBIKERLady
Remember in the Guardian of the Galaxy Kevin Bacon was called a great hero for removing the stick from their butts in that town.
Lol 🤣😂😂
This is a good pick and I'm glad Carly is watching it too. She's so sweet and funny 🤗
I love Cassie’s solo vids but they are so much better together!
It's so hard to believe that it has been 39 years since I saw this in the theater back in 84, I was a young 23, where did the time go .
The term "errand girl" is based on the term "errand boy", which is defined as one who's employed in a shop or office to make deliveries. But, it also became a saying. When someone was asked to do a random task they didn't want to do, they would say, "I'm not your errand boy!'
After my wife and I had our first dance for our wedding, we had the DJ play Footloose and it got everyone on the dancefloor. Good times
I saw this movie first came out. When it was literally nothing but it kept getting bigger and bigger and along with the soundtrack it became huge
I saw this in the theater when I as in junior high. Brings back memories. I had the soundtrack on cassette to play on the boombox.
Popcorn in Bed. Hi. This was my late mother's favorite movie. Also her first cousin played in many movies before his passing in 1989 such as Raising Arizona, Bull Durham & more.
The angst! LOL
I watched Footloose pretty late too, and was really surprised by it. This movie is so cool.
Classic 80's. Feel like some of these movies could only fully work in that decade. Glad we still have these artifacts...and the acid wash jeans. Good times. Not sure if this was ever a play on Broadway...but it should be. 🕺💃🎊
I saw this in the theater in 1984, the year I graduated high school. The entire theater was rocking and dancing. It was magical! Thank you so much for this beautiful reaction and bringing back fond memories.
Love you two!!!! So happy you finally reacted to this movie. I remember watching it in fifth grade class and we all reacted to the “ only assholes used the word panzy” remark and we all thought that we were hearing swearing for the first time. So glad you watched the original.
Yup, this was filmed all over Utah County. The near car crash was filmed just north of Santaquin, the church is located in down town American Fork, the school is Payson high school, the angsty dance and train scene is filmed at Geneva steel and of course Ren works at Lehi Roller Mills. There are more locations that I'm forgetting but you get the idea.
This was a MUST HAVE soundtrack. I remember having this one, Purple Rain and Top Gun on constant rotation.
#50isthenew50
Kenny Loggins doesn't get enough credit as a singer. My babysitter would blast Danger Zone, Footloose etc to no end lol.
It did.
This soundtrack was in everyone's car cassette player all year in 1984!
Your joy by the end was my favorite part of your reaction to this classic gem!
What I remember most of this film is an instant lifetime crush on Kevin Bacon, having to get another cassette tape of this soundtrack because I'd worn out the first one, and the title song ALWAYS packed a dance floor. Never considered this a romcom though, it's always just been an 80s movie to me.
My "One Degree" from Kevin Bacon.: I was in a project with the girl who played "Edna" - Kim Jensen. She was the one driving the car and said: "You'll notice the incredible barf mobile."
If you love Sarah Jessica Parker, dance movies, and 80’s romcoms, you HAVE to watch Girls Just Want to Have Fun from 1985. One of my favorite childhood movies!
SJP is also awesome in one of my favorite 80’s movies; “Flight of the Navigator”!
Square Pegs, nuff said.
Disney's Flight of the Navigator! SJP is like 15 or 16. Hilarious movie: especially the McDonalds Reference...Diet Coke, Caffeine Free Coke, Coke Classic, etc. Twisted Sister..who's she? It's a him or more like a them! Anyways Great Movie.
My wife and I had a lousy band at our wedding reception. The band played a version of "Footloose" that sounded like a polka. It's been mocked by lots of our friends ever since.
Perhaps the next one should be "Flashdance". It's a classic that I'm sure you both would love.
Wow when the kids finally had to opportunity to dance so glad that they were all on a professional level
Looks like it's time for SATURDAY NIGHT FEVER. That movie made John Travolta a movie star. And I can't wait to see your reaction to his dance moves.
And then, maybe a viewing of AMERICAN GRAFFITI would be in order. After all, it stars a young Harrison Ford before his Star Wars fame. You two are such girls. It's the best part of the channel. Although, sometimes ....
Dianne Wiest's performance is the soul of this film. Shows what a great actress can do with an excellently written character.
They are going to have so much anxiety when she straddles the two cars going down the highway 😂
As a child of a 2,000 pop. town in upstate NY, this movie gets EVERYTHING right about small town life. Especially the restless & reckless frustration of teenagers. Here it was snowmobiles, dirt bikes and drunk driving. Teenagers throwing keggers was the only socialization outside of sports, basically. A lot of kids had drunks as parents, latchkey kids, or worked every morning and evening on their farm. It's a place without resources or opportunity and even before you're teen you feel an anxious need for the wider world, for your own development and exploration, and when that's stymied, you get all sorts of negative coping mechanisms.
You guys should do Flashdance, awesome dance flick, with a great story!
The body double for Kevin Bacon in the dancing scenes, was actually married to the body double for Jennifer Beales in the dancing scenes in Flasdance.
Movies (and music) of the 80’s and 90’s were classics. The culture back then was also all about going to the movies and video stores were huge back in those days. I think there’s was a cheesiness that also made the movies fun. But yes, now we have so many options through streaming. But back in those days not everything was at your fingertips so you really had to pick and choose what movies to watch.
True story: these days whenever Kevin Bacon attends a wedding reception, he pays the DJ NOT to play any of the Footloose music, especially the title song. He wants the reception to be about the bride and groom, and not him. Apparently this (requests for the Footloose song and the expectation he would do the dance) happened a lot before he started bribing the DJs.
Thanks Ladies, Great Movie and an amazing soundtrack! Have fun and enjoy!
Loved watching you two getting a chance to see this movie for the 1st time... although I have to admit it's sometimes pretty comical to see you watching movies "in reverse order" and recognizing (and sometimes overlooking) huge stars in their early roles. As for this movie, in '84 in was a shiny, new 21 y.o. when I saw this in a theater! Loved the music by Kenny Loggins. And, of course he repeated his feat 2 years later when Top Gun came out.
When you two ladies are in the mood for more dancing-themed movies, try two of my favorites:
1. Shall We Dance? (2004 - Richard Gere, Jennifer Lopez)
2. Take The Lead (2006 - Antonio Banderas, Alfre Woodard, Jenna Dewan)
My goodness, how!? How have you two NOT seen this one before? Such a fun film. As Starlord says, it's the greatest movie of all time.
There is no way that they haven't seen this one. Not buying it.
@@donpults948 Sometimes hard to understand but it's a question of age. These two are simply another generation.
I do love that these kids never have been allowed to dance and yet they are experts on all the newest dance moves (from the 80's).
I always thought the same. Growing up I always thought having great dance moves was something everyone secretly had except me, and it was because of this movie.
They played to that trope "everyone being expert dancers" in Not Another Teen Movie, and it was hilarious!
You can never go wrong with Cassie and Carly!
Nah, it's not a good soundtrack, it's a GREAT soundtrack!!! Best to you- ♥︎
Yes, a great soundtrack. What a shame the producers didn't see fit to pay the Australian band Moving Pictures a cent for their performance on it.
One of the few cassettes I owned. Played it all the time.
“This is sooooo Utah!” 😅
Thanks to pop culture I knew a lot about this movie before I ever saw it, and yet it still surprised me. I thought that John Lithgow’s character would be pretty one-dimensional and an obvious villain, but he had so much depth and I found myself really feeling for him and his struggles - and his wife too.
As for 80s film like this, yes, they’re better than most stuff that we get these days! I think film made back then had less of a market-researched feel about them, like they were being made because it was thought that they’d be entertaining, and had pretty small budgets so they could take more risks. The good ol’ days… ❤️
Great reaction to another "old school" movie. I'd like to mention the iconic music of Kenny Loggins not only in this movie but: Top Gun - Danger Zone; Caddyshack - I'm Alright; and Over the Top (Sylvester Stallone) - Meet me Half Way. There are others but these standout to me. Keep up the great channel ladies.
Ariel seriously lacked a lot of character background and development, both in the original and remake.
I believe she should have had a small backstory where she worked as a babysitter for Ren's cousins, Sarah and Amy before the beginning of the story, such as during the summers and while in school on occasion before Ren moved to Bomont from Chicago (Boston in the remake) all the while was paid for her services and had secretly taught Sarah and Amy how to dance during her babysitting gigs.
Another thing about Ariel is that she should've been a cheerleader as well.
Kenny Loggins had Footloose, Danger Zone and Playing With Boys (both from Top Gun) in a short span. Also House At Pooh Corner which I sang to my daughter (13) til she got "too old."
Don't forget I'm Alright from Caddyshack.
Their timelines are slightly off. Not many people know that Olivia Newton John was 28 when Grease was filmed, and 29 by the time it was released in theaters. Kevin back was 10 years younger than her. So Kevin was 26 playing a high schooler when Footloose came out. Olivia would have been 36 years old, so it would have been a bit of a stretch, even though she was ageless.
Good reaction guys!! This movie really brings me back to my childhood 🙂🙂 Another great dancing film with an incredible soundtrack is "Flashdance" with Jennifer Beals which came out in 1983. That film introduced everyone to leg warmers and Irene Cara (RIP) won an Oscar for the title song.. Cassie, I really hope you and your sister watch this movie. It's definitely a great reflection of the time period with some great music and dancing. You guys would love watching it!!!!
Man, I was shocked to hear that Irene Cara died. I really liked her in the role as Coco in the Fame movie. Lori Singer btw was in the Fame tv series too. Time to play 'Six degrees of Kevin Bacon' 😄
I was 13 when this came out. This soundtrack was everything in the summer of ‘84. One reason these ‘80’s movie are so great and memorable is the music. They literally don’t make music like this anymore.
and there is more of a subconscious believability of its a "different time" so tropy characters come of realistic
Some movies just shouldn't ever be remade... this is one of 'em. Cheers to another great reaction!
We saw this in theaters when i was a kid.. everyone was screaming and yelling when the music played and at the end, kids stood up and danced.
Such a great movie with an AMAZING soundtrack! And according to Starlord, this is the greatest movie ever!
"It never was" - Spider-Man
@@GreenFalcon926 That young punk barely knows Star Wars and Alien...so he doesn't get a vote! =)
@@GreenFalcon926 *Spiderman's opinion doesn't matter if his existence is obliterated with a finger snap while Footloose lives on...*
this movie was really pivotal for us as kids in the 80s. not sure about every kid but the 80s really was about dancing- its kindve what everyone liked to do ! girls especially but dancing was a skill to cultivate!
Always loved this movie, and the soundtrack too, Kevin Bacon is awesome in this one.
I agree with Carly at the end when she said a lot of these 80’s types of films are kind of where a lot of genres were first invented. They’re not always as refined because they were breaking new ground.
“All That Jazz”
“Flashdance”
Are both very good dance films
Back in 1984, my 12 year old brain really thought it was Kevin Bacon that was singing the song Footloose 🤣. Great reaction as always ladies. I'm glad you liked the movie. I'm currently listening to the Footloose soundtrack after watching your reactions.
I'm sure you both would absolutely love Ever After from 1998. Drew Barrymore in a Cinderella remake!
YES! They need to watch that one and watch it TOGETHER!
@popcorn in bed YESSSSS!
yes! I really hope they watch this some time
same mamma from "the lost boys", damn i'm so glad to be a founding member of GenX!
Grease came out in 1978. Olivia Newton-John was 36 when Footloose came out.
“Like Kevin Bacon?”, Thor: “He may be on the team. I don't know. I haven't been there in a while.”
There is always our time to dance . Fighting for something you believe in.
My grandpa lived in Lehi Utah close to the roller mills that they have the dance at. So many wonderful memories of staying at his small farm.
SINGING IN THE RAIN!!!!! Perhaps the best dancing movie in Hollywood History!!!! Must watch! Add it to your list!
Dignity, always dignity.
In our house, this is the most wanted movie reaction for this channel.
Footloose, Days Of Thunder, and Too Gun and a couple others are the movies I had in constant play in the early 90’s when I was in elementary school. I wanted to be just like the main characters, I’m sure it contributed to my personality in some way or another.
Great movie. And great soundtrack as well
Peter Quill would be so happy you're watching this.
Flashdance is the Superbowl of dance movies!!!
Wholesome defiance! There is no movie like this anymore . . . . . I saw this in theaters opening weekend and nobody left that show unjazzed!
FUN FACT: Kevin recreated this dance as he was introduced on Jimmy Fallon in 2016. He admitted he had to rent the movie just so he could remember the moves.
Info trivia tidbit: Kevin Bacon's dance double was married to Jennifer Beal's ("Flashdance") dance double when these movies came out. The dance doubles performed the gymnastic and more difficult dance moves, for the stars.
Preacher is John Lithgow-
Do NOT miss
“Harry And The Hendersons”
He’s in that
You’ll love it
One of the best soundtracks of all time.
No, it's THE best.
About six years ago John Lithgow came back to the area he was born and partially raised during his childhood, which also happens to be my hometown (Rochester, NY). He and Blythe Danner filmed a Sundance movie called The Tomorrow Man, and one of the scenes they shot for this movie was inside one of the grocery stores I normally shop at.
Now THAT'S a movie you should react to..."Rebel Without a Cause" 1955 starring the LEGENDARY James Dean, Natalie Wood and Sal Mineo...AND a very young Dennis Hopper (bomber from "Speed".
My wife and I once sat about 5 feet in front of John Lithgow during a Symphony performance in which he read letters to and from Mozart between sections of the orchestra playing Mozart's requiem (the final piece Mozart composed in "Amadeus" on his death bed). To say that Lithgow was a commanding presence would be an understatement!
Okay ladies!!! I'm glad your sister is here for the ride 🎉 I know you're going to love this! #NYGenXBIKERLady
I used to live right next to the Lehi roller mills. Utah is covered in Footloose filming locations south of Salt Lake City and it was always fun randomly discovering them.