Please, Louise! Footloose and the Pop Culture Implosion

I love a lot of pop culture. There is also much pop culture that I don’t like. When I first started PopBunker.net five months ago, I chose the name to accompany the feeling I have that something is going to happen to cause the pop culture apocalypse. Our logo reflects that as well.

So, here we are in the bunker and a new year is underway. I was in the process of doing a little prep for an upcoming post on movies I’m anticipating for 2010 and eventually came to the task of weeding through the summer releases which are populated with sequels, re-makes, and re-hashed properties. Amidst the highly anticipated (Iron Man 2), the questionable but interesting (The Karate Kid), and the morose (Twilight: Eclipse ), there is a listing for…

Footloose. Mark June 18, 2010 on your calendar boys and girls. This one has already lost its star (Zac Efron) and its original director, so somebody knows what’s up. If the star of High School Musical 1 through 62 is obeying the rules and bailing on the film, then I have to think it doesn’t have much of a chance of being anything to cut loose on. Of course, one could have known that just by watching the original film. That type of crazy 80s fluff will only be accepted, even in our consumption addicted society, once every several lifetimes. This thing is buried among summer releases? Brutal.

As an aged 10 lad I saw the original atrocity that was Footloose starring Kevin Bacon in the theater. There was a scene in the movie, in truly great 80s fashion, of a bunch of men in the shower with a few brief glimpses of naked buttocks (come’on before we crack). While the hairy derrieres were on the screen, a young girl in the audience shrieked, “That looks just like your butt daddy.” Everybody cut everybody cut.

26 years later, I have to concur. Buckle down in the Bunker folks, the end is nigh.

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