Footloose the remake....Why?
I don't understand why this was made...yes I know I know it is about money but really the movie was pretty much a carbon copy of the original just with different actors and frankly the lead actor just did not have the same on screen charisma as a young Kevin Bacon did.
I thought maybe they would change it up a little more but other than the School Bus race instead of the tractor race it was pretty much the same movie.
Both movies were about the same and I guess for the youth that did not see the original they might like the new one as much as some of us might have liked the original when we were younger.
Either way if they are going to be carbon copies of each other...might as well watch the old one as at least the main character is better.
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Child44 - Just could not get into it after trying to watch it for 45-60 minutes. Sometimes my ears give me troubles when someone has a thick accent or the sound is off on some shows or movies. For instance I like the show Elementary with Johnny Lee Miller but I have to have the volume up a good deal to understand his lines due to him talking quickly and having the accent. Other shows or movies sometimes the background noise is too loud and when they talk it is hard to hear.
Child44 must have been a mix of both of those plus a very slow beginning on top of having such a dark visual quality that I just could not get past all of it. Maybe it turned into a movie that was really good but I just could not get into it due to the sound issues, dark visuals and what seemed to be a very slow and drawn out script.
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The Surface - Sean Astin
This is one of those movies that could have been much better with a better budget and some tweaks to the script.
As it was, it was kind of slow and plodding and although you wanted to feel for the characters, the way it was filmed left you with a ...Meh feeling towards them. And you still wonder what in the heck
the main character was trying to do with the liquids in different bottles. If you see it you will know what they were meant for so I won't ruin it for you but by starting off with one liquid but having the other...it just did not make sense to
have all four bottles...unless he knew he was going to run into someone who would need some of the other liquids and blah blah blah. So even with the low budget, even with the idea that some of it was silly (the liquids in teh bottles) and even though the script could have been better....still not a bad movie...just nowhere near great.