Tag: Footloose

• The 20 Best Songs From ’80s Movie Soundtracks Like, Ever

  I’m not good at writing about music (do I know how to sell the hell out of blog post, or what?). For one thing, I know next to nothing about the intricacies of the art form, comparing an artist’s work to others, divining the meaning behind lyrics, blah, blah, blah. As the old saying goes,…

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  2016-09-21

  ’80s, ’80s music, Entertainment, Movies, Pop Culture

  After All, Against All Odds, Against All Odds (Take a Look at Me Now), Arthur’s Theme, Back To The Future, Berlin, Beverly Hills Cop II, Bonnie Tyler, Caddyshack 2, Central Park, Chances Are, Cher, Christopher Cross, Cyndi Lauper, Dan Hartman, Danger Zone, David Foster, Don’t You (Forget About Me), Dudley Moore, Fame, Flashdance, Flashdance…What a Feeling, Footloose, For Your Eyes Only, Giorgio Moroder, Good Enuf, Holding Out For a Hero, Huey Lewis & The News, I Can Dream About You, Irene Cara, Is It Love, It Might Be You, John Parr, Keith Forsey, Kenny Loggins, Love Theme From St. Elmo’s Fire, Madonna, Michael McDonald, Mr. Mister, Nobody’s Fool, Peter Cetera, Randy Quaid, Richard Marx, Robert Stack, Rock ‘N Roll Hall of Fame, Rocky IV, Running Scared, Sheena Easton, Simple Minds, St. Elmo’s Fire, Stakeout, Stephen Bishop, Sweet Freedom, Take My Breath Away, The Breakfast Club, The Goonies, To Live and Die in LA, Tootsie, Top Gun, Toto, Triple Crown, Wang Chung, Welcome To The Real World, Who’s That Girl

• Remake These Movies (?)

  You don’t have to be a cinephile to realize that Hollywood has run out of ideas — at least the original ones. Studios churn out the remakes with reckless abandon these days- sorry, actually, their versions are reimagined. That’s fancy talk for taking the barest plot outlines, characters and, most importantly, the title and updating them for…

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  2012-12-17

  ’80s, Entertainment, Movies, Pop Culture

  1987, 1995, 2005, 2010s, 3 Men and A Baby, Bad Boy, Ben Vereen, Christian Bale, Donald Glover, Footloose, George Clooney, Hollywood, James Franco, Jim Carrey, Kicking and Screaming, Leonard Nimoy, Miami Sound Machine, Noah Baumbach, North Koreans, Ocean’s 11, Paul Newman, Red Dawn, Sandra Bullock, Seth Rogen, St. Elmo’s Fire, Steve McQueen, The Karate Kid, The Poseidon Adventure, The Towering Inferno, Will Ferrell