Road House
by Rowdy Herrington
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Actor: Ben Gazzara, Kelly Lynch, Marshall R. Teague, Patrick Swayze, Sam ElliottDirector: Rowdy Herrington
Brand: SWAYZE,PATRICK
Cinematographer: Dean Cundey
Editor: Frank J. Urioste
Producer: Joel Silver
Producer: Steve Perry
Producer: Tim Moore
Writer: David Lee Henry
Writer: Hilary Henkin
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Subtitled); French (Subtitled); Portuguese (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled); English (Original Language); French (Dubbed); Spanish (Dubbed)
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dubbed, DVD, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
Picture Format: 2.35:1
Running Time: 114 minutes
Published: 2003-02-01
DVD Release Date: 2003-02-04
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Studio: MGM (Video & DVD)
Movie Reviews of Road House
Movie Review: "Pain Don't Hurt."
Summary: 5 Stars
This movie is so bad, so stupid, so mindless and so gay that it has become an instant classic. Their is so much mano 'a mano action, machismo, testosterone and blind mindless stupidity, violence and bad hair that you wonder why a female is even in the film. This movie is possibly one of the dumbest movies I have ever seen. It is bad and stupid that it has actually become a classic.
Let me try to break down the reason that I love/hate this movie so much. First... SWAYZE. Good god, for christ sake he looks like somebody from a ballet/break dancing/gay porn movie and he is picked to be some badass 'legendary' bouncer... with a degree in PHILOSOPHY! This moron is supposedly a college grad who actually has a brain and is intelligent but his job and career path and lifes ambition is to be a journey man bouncer in stinky smelly redneck bars. This goof is so famous for being a bouncer that he is known through out the country for his moronic stupid skills and profession. SWAYZE also has the most horrible mullet of all time. He looks like he gets up every morning and spends 3 hours to get his mullet "just right". For god sake he has the same hair style as his leading lady in the movie!!!! Also his fighting style looks like something out of West Side Story. It is more ballet than martial arts. And when he actually fights his nemesis, the right hand man of evil Ben Gazarra they look more like they are doing a primal ritualistic mating dance and when they are threatening each other and trying to intimidate each other they appear like they may start pounding each other vigorously and I don't mean in combat. Then you have the great dialogue like "pain don't hurt" and the repetitive unfunny running joke, "I thought you'd be taller". Good god! Who wrote this crap! The fact that they have females in the movie is a total joke because Dalton appears to be interested in only one thing truely and that is dominating and engaging in man on man physical contact. Oh and don't let me forget his shirtless tai chi as the evil villian watches the every move of his oiled pecs. And the fact that he finishes off his main nemesis in a fight, near a lake with grey cotten sweat pants on and that he has an obvious boner as he pummels the bad guy submission is one of the most unitentionally funny things ever filmed.
I can't go on. This movie is so bad and is so unintentionally gay or homoerotic (I think... but who knows what was in the mind of the writer and director) that it is a must see and a 5 star movie. It confuses me because it IS so bad and so moronic and so macho and so completely dumb from head to toe that it is great.
What the hell Sam Elliot and Ben Gazarra are doing in something this dumb is beyond me. I can't even figure out why Red West, legendary best friend, high school buddy and body guard of Elvis is doing in this stupid movie. Swayze is perfect because he is a hack actor and just what an 80's action star should be: 1)gay 2)feminine 3)stupid 4) a bad actor 5)able to deliver the dumbest of lines with all the believability in his soul can muster.
JESUS THIS MOVIE IS STUPID!
Summary of Road House
Patrick Swayze stars in this sexy, "violent tough-guy thriller" (Fort Worth Star-Telegram) from the producer of Die Hard and The Matrix. Co-starring Ben Gazzara (The Thomas Crown Affair), Kelly Lynch (Charlie's Angels) and Sam Elliott (We Were Soldiers), Road House delivers no-holds-barred action that pushes the envelope for high-octane thrills! Swayze is Dalton, a legendary bouncer who comes to Jasper, Missouri, for a special purpose: to restore order at the notorious Double Deuce bar. In one spectacular fight after another, Dalton rids the bar of thugs and henchmen. But when he runs afoul of a ruthless crime boss (Gazzara) who controls the town, the stage is set for a blistering showdown that'll leave only one man standing!One of those movies that helped usher out the era of action films that had plots that made any sense (and also helped reverse the direction of Patrick Swayze's career arc), Road House concerns a handsome, existential bouncer in a rinky-dink honky-tonk who owns both a degree in philosophy and a Mercedes. And that's perhaps the most believable aspect of the whole movie. Swayze stars as Dalton, "the best bouncer in the business," who runs afoul of Wesley (Ben Gazzara), the meanest SOB round these parts, by taking up with his former girlfriend, Doc (Kelly Lynch)--the only woman in town with an IQ approaching double digits, even if she had unfathomably hooked up with such a lowlife. Swayze had complained about being typecast as beefcake when this was made, but that didn't stop him from revealing as much skin as possible--even guys like him, as revealed in a luridly seedy scene in which one of Wesley's goons tells Dalton that he reminds him of the kind of boyfriend he had in prison (albeit in much saltier terms). It's so insulting to its audience that it's nice to be able to turn the tables and laugh at the filmmakers. --David Kronke
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