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Patrick Swayze was way too old for Baby in the original, but I enjoyed it. Didn't watch the remake. Thought it was a spoof.

That was part of the appeal for her. He was a hot, older man who oozed confidence. It's only as their relationship evolved that she found out how insecure he was around people like her dad, who looked down upon him because he could only get into a blue collar union for work.

I did not watch the remake. The second I saw who was cast as Baby I knew it wouldn't be good and I don't want to tarnish my beautiful memories. The Footloose remake was good - it was like a love letter to the original. This would have been painful to watch.   
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I never thought Johnny seemed believable as being in love with Baby. Maybe it was just me?[/quote]

He wasn't in love with her.  [b]He was having fun doing a rich, young, wide-eyed impressionable girl for the summer[/b], that's all. Then it turned out she taught him some things about the type of person he wanted to become....

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In the original?  I didn't get that impression.  Neither character were using each other.  The summer relationship was perspective changing for both of them in different ways.

I liked Patrick Swayze, but I never bought that his character was in love with Jennifer Grey's character during the movie.  The tensions of making the movie revealed after the theatrical release led me to believe that he couldn't get past his personal annoyance with Grey b/c of her inability to dance and that came across in the on screen chemistry.

Aye, there's the rub  He was  a professional dancer who was also an actor.  (He couldn’t pull off the most intellectual roles, but he had his niche.)  Jennifer Grey as an actress was a perfect choice for Baby.  She wasn’t a total clod, but she wasn’t a professional dancer.

It’s probably similar to the conflicts Gene Kelly and Debbie Reynolds faced on Singing in the Rain and probably why they included a dream sequence with he and Cyd Charisse, a professional dancer.  The only movie that I’ve ever seen where they passed off the awkward duckling turned swan dancer was Strictly Ballroom.  If a dancer is cast—they either can’t act and/or they can’t act like a novice dancer.  [/quote]

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