Take Me Back to the 80's

Directed by Herbert Ross Released February 17th, 1984 Written by Dean Pitchford Movie Synopsis Courtesy of IMDB "A city teenager moves to a small town where rock music and dancing have been banned, and his rebellious spirit shakes up the populace." I am going to start today's entry by going on a little bit of a rant here. That is because I can't stand (for the most part) remakes! Now I have never seen the remake of Footloose, I just want to put that out there so I don't sound like a hypocrite. What is the point of remakes?! I am not just talking about this movie, I mean all remakes. These movies were such a success because of the actors, the crew, the director, and the story itself. You do a remake and pretty much everything from the original is stripped away except the story line. So that means you could never make the remake as good as the original, and very seldom they are. It is rare for someone to say the remake was better than the origina...

Directed by Amy Heckerling Released August 13th, 1982 Screenplay and Book by Cameron Crowe Movie synopsis courtesy of IMDB. "A group of Southern California high school students are enjoying their most important subjects: sex, drugs and rock n' roll." Now I am going to put this out there right away, I think that this movie is one of my least favorite 80s movies that I have seen (to date). There is something about it that doesn't click. I have thought about it and I think it is mainly the casting that went wrong. The characters were not as popular as some other actors like Tom Cruise, the Brat Pack, Johnny Depp, Jennifer Grey, etc. back in the 80s. So they had that going for them, or well not going for them. Which that isn't a bad thing, because a lot of times you find some great actors out of people you have never heard about before. The problem was that they weren't that likable or relatable, at least I didn't care for them. Like Mike Da...