The butchered Footloose and so many other iconic 80's films...

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They better not touch Flashdance!!

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I'm sure they would tone it down and no titties would be shown!!

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wtf? did you not see the MTV remake a couple of years ago?

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bruce springsteen, hall and oates and meatloaf were the other bands instead of the modernaires, the time and appolonia 6

maybe Drake could play 'The Kid'?

Rihanna could play 'Apollonia'?

Chris Brown could play the Morris Day role

Only if its directed by whoever did the Twilight movies and Justin Bieber does the soundtrack.

They have to remake Graffiti Bridge first. Anything to wash away the bad memories.

errant said:

Didn't you see 8 Mile?

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errant said:

Didn't you see 8 Mile?

You guys should check out Reckless with Aidan Quinn and Darryl Hannah. I thought why does this movie remind me of Purple Rain. Then I realized Albert Magnoli was the editor. He must have borrowed some ideas.

errant said:

Didn't you see 8 Mile?

NO I did not - I hate hiphop..

(but I guess you are right, 8 mile was named PR vol. 2, wasn't it..)

8 Miles was DEFINITELY an unofficial remake of Purple Rain, it borrows SO MUCH.

Also, watch the 1984 film Reckless, it shares so many things with PR (Magnoli was involved in it and that's what got him the job for PR)

I don't think an official remake of PR is possible, though, the whole film was built around Prince's personnality and soundtrack, it wouldn't make any bloody sense to have someone else portraying the Kid and playing some other music.

There were rumors about a sequel 2 years ago but I guess they were just gossip by uninspired tabloid columnists...

lrn36 said:

You guys should check out Reckless with Aidan Quinn and Darryl Hannah. I thought why does this movie remind me of Purple Rain. Then I realized Albert Magnoli was the editor. He must have borrowed some ideas.

It's funny I first saw that movie when I was 21 and I LOVED it deeply, it embodied everything about teenage revolt to me. I had watched it on TV and could never put my hands on it after that, so it became one of these mythic movies you'll never forget.

Then I finally found it onine and watched it again last year, being 35, and I found it as dull, boring and empty as a movie can be.

I was SO disappointed, a myth from my early years had falled down

databank said:

lrn36 said:

You guys should check out Reckless with Aidan Quinn and Darryl Hannah. I thought why does this movie remind me of Purple Rain. Then I realized Albert Magnoli was the editor. He must have borrowed some ideas.

It's funny I first saw that movie when I was 21 and I LOVED it deeply, it embodied everything about teenage revolt to me. I had watched it on TV and could never put my hands on it after that, so it became one of these mythic movies you'll never forget.

Then I finally found it onine and watched it again last year, being 35, and I found it as dull, boring and empty as a movie can be.

I was SO disappointed, a myth from my early years had falled down

Yeah, its a pretty dull movie, but he best part was the spastic dance scene with Aidan and Darryl. The camera circling around them like a carousel is still pretty impressive. it was a very visual way of showing how isolated this two people felt.

OMG, Adam Baldwin's hair! hahahaha

XNY said:

Have you seen American Anthem? Also directed by Albert Magnoli. Oh...what Graffiti Bridge could have been. http://youtu.be/EswsTaTCQhw

Oh, yeah. They took the Purple Rain formula and applied it to gymnastics. All these movies were borrowing heavily from Rebel Without a Cause.

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Another reason would be the music. How could you remake Purple Rain without the music? Prince certainly wouldn't allow them the rights to use the music.

That's besides the fact that this is the dumbest thread I've seen, (unless it's a joke).