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Movie Reviews of Road House
Movie Review: Radhouse
Summary: 4 Stars
Good movie and quality is excellent.
shipping and handling from amazon is very fast,it took 2 days before I had it
I am living in Europe,customers from my region must be aware of the regiocode
You cannot play this DVD on most dvd players.
I used a 3rd party software to decript the code, not illegal in Europe.
Movie Review: Road House + RiffTrax = Comedy Gold
Summary: 5 Stars
Road House mania has finally hit in 2006! Not only has this movie, which has been to late night TBS what Whoopi Goldberg is to Hollywood Squares, finally been reissued in a special edition, but now Mike Nelson from MST3K has released a RiffTrax for it! Road House was long acknowledged as a target that Nelson and the 'bots wished they could skewer on MST3K and he finally got his wish.
Listen, Road House is great. Tinker, Sam Elliot (voice of the beef council) and the oh so creepy owner of the Double Deuce are some of the best characters to ever populate small town Missouri. But watching it with Nelson's RiffTrax playing in the background took the unintentional (i think?) comedy of Road House to an entirely new level. Nelson is both knowledgable and funny, the kind of guy you wish your friends were as clever as. If we are ever blessed with a 20th anniversary edition of Road House, I would hope that Nelson's riffing can be included, because I can't imagine watching this movie again without it.
Check it out: http://www.rifftrax.com
Movie Review: Dreadful movie from the big hair 80s
Summary: 1 Stars
A dreadful movie depicting men as macho s#$! and women as tarts. This was made in an era when people wore revolting tight stretch denims and hung out in pool halls and bars. It was also made to capitalise on the popularity of Patrick Swayze who had just appeared in the over-rated 80's teen musical "Dirty Dancing".
A very pointless movie is "Roadhouse". It does not deserve a bare bones DVD release let alone this new special edition. Is there really a market out there for rubbish like this, or am I the only one with taste in movies?
Movie Review: Wet g-string competition.
Summary: 5 Stars
I'm so glad that Kevin Smith talked about this movie on the Clerks DVD so that I would hear about it. This is such a ridiculous and ridiculously enjoyable movie. It's so violent, and there's sex and explosions and a monster truck running over cars. There's this one part where Dalton rips this guy's throat out with his bare hands. From the night Dalton gets hired for a new gig to the climactic scene where *EVERYBODY* shoots the evil Ben Gazzara with a shotgun, this movie is incredibly fun.
Kevin Smith and Scott Mosier's commentary is hilarious.
Movie Review: "Be Nice.. Until It's Time To Not Be Nice." ("Road House:" Special Edition)
Summary: 5 Stars
It's been said before (and over and over in all the reviews here, so I won't bore you with the details why it's been said) but I'll say it again: "Roadhouse" is a great bad movie! I do find it funny that this one has earned that type of fond recollection by so many and turned into a cult hit of sorts because of it; while there are literally tons of these type of movies that littered the action/adventure landscape throughout the 80s and early 90s. Hardly any of them are even remembered much less revered to the extent "Roadhouse" is. I guess it's just one of those things. Maybe its because the movie has (at the time) bigger stars, a bigger budget and a larger abundance of gratuitous T&A than most theatrically released action flicks that bare a general resemblance to it (of course, you could find plenty of this type of thing lining the walls of your local Blockbuster, but even though they supply the action and nudity, they don't often supply the big stars and big budgets). Maybe it was just a matter of right place, right time, right amount of exposure, etc. Who knows; but whatever the reason, I'm glad enough this film has endured.
This special edition does its legacy as a winking-joke-unto-itself proud (Swayze's character is known as "the best bouncer in the business." Where was the annual bouncer convention of '89 held and how is the winner of that title determined?). The best reason to pick this up instead of the previous, bare-bones DVD transfer is the commentary tracks. The first is by the film's director, Rowdy Herrington, which is actually rather informative considering the source material being examined. But the real treat is the other commentary track by director and professional fanboy Kevin Smith and his production partner Scott Mossier. Not only is it a great commentary, but the very idea that the producers of this DVD saw it appropriate to include a commentary from someone who has nothing to do with making this movie shows that all involved are in on the joke. They should have just gone the full nine and held contest to find the ultimate, die hard "Roadhouse" fan and let him/her do the commentary. And I'd be willing to bet, somewhere, Quentin Tarrentino is pissed he didn't get a call (he loves contributing his two cents to cult films that he has nothing to do with other than being either a huge fan or hating the movie's guts - either way, always an entertaining commentator).
Now if only studio execs would get off their butts and release perhaps the only junk-action movie more loved and clamored for than this one: "Stone Cold." (It feels like that is the only movie ever made that has not made it to DVD, yet everyone seems to want it to be released, so what gives?! Since when aren't studios egger to cash in???) Give us a "Stone Cold" special edition and slap it in a two-pack with this classic and you'll have all the craptacular entertainment this side of the old school Steven Seagal flicks you'll ever need.