FAME remake- Page 2

[Jane2]

Posted: 9/17/09 at 3:50pm

Sometimes films let you use your imagination. I didn't think that scene was such a cliff-hanger.

[Phyllis Rogers Stone]

Posted: 9/17/09 at 3:53pm

Nobody gets any real resolution. I think that was sort of the point.

[EVIE]

Posted: 9/30/09 at 3:12pm

The best part of the movie for me was the jazz/broadway dance Kherington (I know I probably butchered her name) and her friends perform in class. The characters are all, I don't know, very shallow and generic...maybe shallow isn't the right word, but they're just not likable. Atleast not to me and my friends. But yes, Miss Naughton can SANG!!

[Phyllis Rogers Stone]

Posted: 9/30/09 at 3:13pm

Is it better than Center Stage, because to me THAT was the Fame for a new generation?

[songanddanceman2]

Posted: 9/30/09 at 3:16pm

I agree
This was one hell of a bad film.
It was Fame for tweens, the edge and grit of the original were gone, sex, sexuality were gone, the real challenges were gone

And just before the credits rolled...i was gone

[spiderdj82]

Posted: 9/30/09 at 3:56pm

Yeah, not a big fan. As soon as I got out of it, I was all "I LOVED IT!" But, on the way home I started thinking about what I just watched and started to like it less and less. The dancing is INCREDIBLE!! I also loved the voices of the two main singers. Other than that, it is no different than all of the other dance movies that have come out recently.

Phyllis - I like Centre Stage better.

[toanythingtaboo 2]

Posted: 9/30/09 at 6:44pm

Well, it wasn't as bad as I was expecting...but in no way was it anywhere near as good as it could have been.

I think the modernized and urban sound of the film worked (especially the Santigold Halloween scene), but you definitely got the impression that the singers in this top arts school were generally pretty awful.

The (unsaid gay) ballet dancer was quite a redeeming character but was barely acknowledged (didn't even get in the initial credits) in favour of that annoying main girl, angry black kid and the smug grinning 'stud' (who, I agree, sounded like a Hanson).

It was kind of a Step Up/High School Musical crossover with occasional swearing but barely any 'proper' situations, just tweeny squabbles. I mean...Naturi Naughton's character's main issue was her dad not wanting her to play Jazz piano for the show...! It really should have been a mid teens+ target audience, dealing with real life struggle in an Arts School in NYC. Ah well, maybe one day they'll try and succeed again.
Updated On: 9/30/09 at 06:44 PM

[Biff AKA Levi]

Posted: 9/30/09 at 11:45pm

"Oh, and what was with that tribal dance in the graduation scene? It looked like a Julie Taymor nightmare."

Now I HAVE to see it!

[husk_charmer]

Posted: 10/1/09 at 1:02am

I saw the film today, and I can't be an objective observer. I was Paul McGill's character (minus the subway/New York thing, but similar situation and almost verbatim the scenes between he and Bebe).

I don't think it's one that can be compared to the original. They are good films in their own right. But, again, I can't be objective.