Road House
1989 Directed by Rowdy Herrington
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Dalton lives like a loner, fights like a professional. And loves like there's no tomorrow.
When it becomes too violent at the Double Deuce road house, the club owner hires Dalton, a professional "cooler" (head bouncer) to clean it up. But Dalton's early successes and budding romance with the local doctor enrages Wesley, the town crime boss. When Dalton continues to defy him, the stage is set for a dramatic confrontation that will test Dalton's limits and decide the fate of the town.
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Should be a guilty pleasure yet I have no guilt in loving this film. It also has hilariously bad lines like "I used to fuck guys like you in prison" Classic!! The Jeff Healey Band is great also. The perfect midnight movie.
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Money can't buy you the love of the beautiful town doctor, but money can buy you a big house, where you can sit on the deck in a rocking chair, smoking a cigar, creepily watching the town doctor having sex with a bouncer named Dalton on the roof of a barn.
The only bad thing about this movie is that there isn't enough Keith David in it. Cast KD and don't give him a big roll, that's a mortal sin. Other than this, Road House is pretty much amazing. Here is a movie in which the bad guy owns a monster truck, and it is no way ironic. Can't help but love it.
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What is the single most important thing in a film about a bouncer? The fights of course. And they deliver in spades. You feel every blow to the body, every cracked rib and every cut accross the arm. And you get a rocking soundtrack on top of that.
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Patrick Swayze owned the eighties and this was his cross over film that brought some man-love his way. A cheesy and corny action film with plenty of typical eighties excess from the big hair and cocaine to the monster trucks and tight jeans. Swayze may well be the star of the show but as every woman of a certain age will tell you Sam Elliott is one of the sexiest men alive.
A silly plot that involves Swayze playing a bouncer in a Missouri bar and a corrupt businessman's attempt to control the whole town. Featuring a Kelly Lynch at the height of her undoubted beauty, she made the most of that gingham tablecloth dress to stunning effect. Fist-fights, corny… -
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Complete and utter garbage. Great, entertaining,over the top, ridiculous, best kind of garbage!
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While talking to a friend one day I casually mentioned a couple of films I had never seen....which left him stunned and he told me he was "taking me down to Swayzetown!"
First up was Roadhouse.
Now the 80s were a time when all my action needs were met by the likes of Stallone, Schwarzenegger, Van Damme...even Dudikoff and so many others, why would I have concerned myself with films starring old soppy bollocks from Dirty Dancing??Roadhouse has done nothing to alter that attitude.
Maybe time just hasn't been kind to it but it's all so cheesy and painfully 80s....I was either cringing or laughing at it for the whole runtime.Swayze doing the solo karate scene...his high waisted…
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Cheesy, over-the-top dialog. Situations and style (and clothes) that could only come from a Joel Silver produced flick from the late 1980s. Decent tunes from the Jeff Healey band. Logic that could only come in this kind of high concept (Philosopher Zen bouncer cowboy comes into small town and cleans it up, starting with it's Road House) venture. They don't make them like this anymore. In some ways that's good (this is not, by any standard of sense, a "good" movie) but in others it's bad (there's a kind of breathless madness here that has been replaced by cookie cutter comic book/sci-fi CG effects showcases). Sure, this film is style over substance and cliche driven, but so are those films.
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The best movie or the best movie?
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Dalton (played by Patrick Swayze) is hired to travel to Missouri act as a bouncer and clean up a bar. Upon arrival he finds that the town's corruption is mostly down to one crooked businessman, and sets about putting things right. This is an awful film that is so bad it's kind of good; Swayze is unconvincing in his role, he enters into an unconvincing relationship with his doctor, has unconvincing sex with her (and I imagine that that kind of thing is a no no even in the rural American states). To counter all the bad, the show is stolen by Dalton's friend Wade (played brilliantly by Sam Elliott) who isn't in the film for nearly long enough and there are some great lines along the way.
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Terrible. One star for Sam Elliot, one star for the throat rip. Time has not been kind to this one....
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"Right boot."
My emulation of Dalton's situational awareness has saved my life on more than one occasion.
R.I.P. Swayze (frowny face)
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Its Swayze as a bouncer.... Can it get any better.... Yes.... Slam and Swayze as bouncers. Maybe in Heaven
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This review reportedly contains spoilers. I can handle the truth.