Like how the fuck would ppl play it?
― jeremy cmbyn (wins), Sunday, 29 July 2018 16:01 (five years ago) link
xxxpost because Kevin Bacon was the star of the movie and the teen heartthrob and also has been more successful since!you are being ridiculousFootloose is like 16 Candles etc, how were you when it came out?go on eBay now there's like Tiger Beat posters of Kevin Bacon you can buy, do you think there are of Ed Harris?
― The Desus & Mero Chain (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Sunday, 29 July 2018 16:02 (five years ago) link
i stood over an underwear-clad Kevin Bacon in an 'immersive' off-Broadway play in the '80s
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Sunday, 29 July 2018 16:05 (five years ago) link
would not have had that opportunity if he was John Stamos-level
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Sunday, 29 July 2018 16:06 (five years ago) link
I think the premise of the game was that he'd done a whole bunch of films, not that he was especially famous: "In a January 1994 interview with Premiere magazine Kevin Bacon mentioned while discussing the film The River Wild that 'he had worked with everybody in Hollywood or someone who’s worked with them.' Following this, a lengthy newsgroup thread headed 'Kevin Bacon is the Center of the Universe' appeared." It's not the Six Degrees of Marlon Brando or the Six Degrees of Marilyn Monroe--I don't think fame entered into it. There's a baseball version, and to get the shortest chains, you don't type in Babe Ruth or Willie Mays--you use guys like Bobo Newsom. (Do you have to know who Kevin Bacon is to play it? You don't even have to type in his name, which is the default setting on the Oracle site.)
I was 23 when Footloose came out; it meant nothing to me then and nothing to me now. I haven't seen it. (Are you able to argue your side without the "you're being ridiculous" stuff?)
― clemenza, Sunday, 29 July 2018 16:09 (five years ago) link
Also worth noting, I think: "They appeared on The Jon Stewart Show and The Howard Stern Show with Bacon to explain the game. Bacon admitted that he initially disliked the game because he believed it was ridiculing him, but he eventually came to enjoy it."
If the game was a celebration of Bacon's already-established fame, I doubt he would have been reacted that way.
― clemenza, Sunday, 29 July 2018 16:11 (five years ago) link
― devops mom (silby), Sunday, 29 July 2018 16:12 (five years ago) link
I’m glad this thread has moved on from “is Animal House good” to the more interesting and controversial topic “is Kevin Bacon famous”
― devops mom (silby), Sunday, 29 July 2018 16:14 (five years ago) link
Kevin Bacon is famous because Footloose was/is gigantic
― Οὖτις, Sunday, 29 July 2018 16:16 (five years ago) link
Stripes and Airplane are about 1000x better. The Jerk and Meatballs less so, let's say 100x better. In the context of the late 70s/early 80s, Animal House is way more popular than it deserves to be. Hell, the Bad News Bears is both more transgressive AND raunchy. And more funny!
― com rad erry red flag (f. hazel), Sunday, 29 July 2018 16:16 (five years ago) link
just watched Stripes for the first time in ages, didn't hold up much better imo
― The Desus & Mero Chain (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Sunday, 29 July 2018 16:18 (five years ago) link
I still like the first half of Stripes--it gets kind of draggy after that. I'd also say The Bad News Bears is the best of the bunch.
― clemenza, Sunday, 29 July 2018 16:20 (five years ago) link
also the Footloose soundtrack needs to be considered in terms of cultural impactFootloose: Original Soundtrack of the Paramount Motion Picture is the original soundtrack of the Paramount motion picture Footloose. The original nine-track album was released in 1984 and reached number one on the US Billboard 200 chart on April 21, 1984, where it stayed until June 30, 1984.The original soundtrack contained six Billboard Hot 100 Top 40 hits, three of which reached the Top 10, including two number-one hits, "Footloose" by Kenny Loggins and "Let's Hear It for the Boy" by Deniece Williams, and "Almost Paradise", a duet by Ann Wilson and Mike Reno that reached number seven.it's 9X platinum
― The Desus & Mero Chain (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Sunday, 29 July 2018 16:20 (five years ago) link
He's being doing TV adverts in the UK for EE, the shitty mobile network I have the misfortune to be signed up to, for years now. I think he's now on the verge of going from "Oh look there's Kevin Bacon in an advert" to "Oh this film has that guy from the EE adverts in it".
― Father Ted in Forkhandles (Tom D.), Sunday, 29 July 2018 16:22 (five years ago) link
Stripes becomes a bullshit military adventure at some point. John Candy utterly wasted.
I bumped a Bacon thread
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Sunday, 29 July 2018 16:24 (five years ago) link
(xposts) Okay--fair enough. I think because I'm a little older than some of you guys, the centrality of Footloose is a blind spot for me. I run into that a lot on ILX; I have a different set of a reference points. But I will hold to my view that the Six Degrees idea is an important contributor to Bacon's fame.
― clemenza, Sunday, 29 July 2018 16:26 (five years ago) link
and Kevin Bacon is famous because of Tremors, obviously
― com rad erry red flag (f. hazel), Sunday, 29 July 2018 16:33 (five years ago) link
I was 13 when Footloose came out. I knew it was big, but I didn't know it was that big. (I've never seen it. Top Gun, either.) Also, I've heard that song "Almost Paradise" about 700,000 times over the last 35 years and had no idea it was from the Footloose soundtrack.
― grawlix (unperson), Sunday, 29 July 2018 17:04 (five years ago) link
Footloose is the first movie that I remember playing non-stop on cable. I imagine that plus its hits-spawning soundtrack are the reason for its continued ubiquity, which it would not necessarily have achieved had it come out in the 50s or 60s (when its basic plot was already being done to death).
― Police, Academy (cryptosicko), Sunday, 29 July 2018 17:18 (five years ago) link
bacon has baconed
but having hit movies over three or four decades cant be handwaved away by referencing whoever lori singer is
― dele alli my bookmarks (darraghmac), Sunday, 29 July 2018 17:53 (five years ago) link
like, tremors ffs
his invisible man launched sony movies
he is the skinny liotta
he plays second man and steals shows
he is maybe the greatest living canadian
― dele alli my bookmarks (darraghmac), Sunday, 29 July 2018 17:54 (five years ago) link
he's from Philadelphia
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Sunday, 29 July 2018 18:05 (five years ago) link
did u mean clemenza
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Sunday, 29 July 2018 18:10 (five years ago) link
canadianism is more than just geography cmon guys
― dele alli my bookmarks (darraghmac), Sunday, 29 July 2018 18:34 (five years ago) link
Canadian Bacon
― Scape: Goat-fired like a dog! (Myonga Vön Bontee), Sunday, 29 July 2018 18:35 (five years ago) link
if anythings going to make sense in this crazy world any more you cant hold kevin bacon up as a yank
xp boom
― dele alli my bookmarks (darraghmac), Sunday, 29 July 2018 18:35 (five years ago) link
I think we’re missing a demographic here in the Bacon stakes. The people I know who really loved Footloose had it on their VHS shelf next to Mystic Pizza and a few others of that era that belong to a different canon. They’re... not dudes on message boards
― mh, Sunday, 29 July 2018 18:36 (five years ago) link
Ah, and Dirty Dancing! how’d I miss that one
― mh, Sunday, 29 July 2018 18:37 (five years ago) link
flashdance
― dele alli my bookmarks (darraghmac), Sunday, 29 July 2018 18:38 (five years ago) link
fame
maybe
and lookit i say maybe but rly its not maybe
maybe you have a very fixed notion about dudes on message boards
― dele alli my bookmarks (darraghmac), Sunday, 29 July 2018 18:39 (five years ago) link
kevin bacon wasnt in tap but he couldve done a job holding the walking sticks in that one scene imo
yeah maybe I mean dudes posting on this thread, tbf
― mh, Sunday, 29 July 2018 18:44 (five years ago) link
present company and actual lovers of these films excluded
Because I had about 30 seconds in Alan Zweig's record-collector documentary Vinyl, I actually have a Bacon number of 2 if you go through Don McKellar, 3 if you go through Harvey Pekar.
I think I'll take another look at Animal House within the next few days. Thinking about it a bit more, I don't think Bad News Bears fits that well with AH and all those other films.
― clemenza, Sunday, 29 July 2018 18:47 (five years ago) link
The director of Bad News Bears also directed the Golden Child and Fletch, and has the story credit on Cool Runnings... he's the real Kevin Bacon here.
― com rad erry red flag (f. hazel), Sunday, 29 July 2018 19:02 (five years ago) link
kevin is the reduced fat bacon
― dele alli my bookmarks (darraghmac), Sunday, 29 July 2018 19:12 (five years ago) link
harsh to call him streaky tho
Thinking about it a bit more, I don't think Bad News Bears fits that well with AH and all those other films.
Agreed, and glad you pointed it out. The "curmudgeon has to take care of a bunch of unruly children" genre is not really part of the "snobs vs. slobs" cycle, though there are overlaps (Meatballs, most obviously).
― Police, Academy (cryptosicko), Sunday, 29 July 2018 19:43 (five years ago) link
yeah except the movie is about a team of slobs playing a team of snobs
― com rad erry red flag (f. hazel), Sunday, 29 July 2018 19:44 (five years ago) link
True. I was more just thinking that Animal House invented/popularized the "slobs vs. snobs" genre while The Bad News Bears was drawing upon a tradition of older comedians having to deal with children (I'm sure there is some W.C. Fields precedent here, but I can't think of the specific example).
― Police, Academy (cryptosicko), Sunday, 29 July 2018 19:46 (five years ago) link
Comedy at the expense of snobs has been popular forever. Animal House was a particular variant on a very old theme.
― A is for (Aimless), Sunday, 29 July 2018 19:49 (five years ago) link
I think in general, whether you think it gets there or not (I loved it the one time I belatedly watched it a few years ago), The Bad News Bears aims higher than the other films--specifically, how horribly adults can behave when it comes to kids' sports.
― clemenza, Sunday, 29 July 2018 20:06 (five years ago) link
karen allen was v. cuet
― mookieproof, Sunday, 29 July 2018 20:11 (five years ago) link
The director of Bad News Bears also directed the Golden Child and Fletch, and has the story credit on Cool Runnings...
That's Michael Ritchie of The Candidate, Smile, and Downhill Racer. Please take a course on New Hollywood, f. hazel.
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Sunday, 29 July 2018 20:17 (five years ago) link
Pretty sure I saw The Golden Child twice in theaters, for some reason. More recently I found it unwatchable, for good reason.
― Josh in Chicago, Sunday, 29 July 2018 20:47 (five years ago) link
yes he had a rough start but eventually was able to realize his vision: not one but two Fletch movies
― com rad erry red flag (f. hazel), Sunday, 29 July 2018 21:20 (five years ago) link
The Bad News Bears, now yer talkin'.
― Father Ted in Forkhandles (Tom D.), Sunday, 29 July 2018 21:51 (five years ago) link
look i've been out all day, has somebody done a "is famous movie star Kevin Bacon famous?" poll yet?
i mean thanks to UK advertising i hate the cunt but please
― the Joao looked at Jonny (Noodle Vague), Sunday, 29 July 2018 23:17 (five years ago) link
Is bacon star famous movie
― Οὖτις, Monday, 30 July 2018 00:12 (five years ago) link