And much, much more, including a lot of stuff we talked about while we watched it.The original cut was three hours long.
Swamp Quarantine Movie Night - Roadhouse (1989), 9 p.m. ET 3/26
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A tribute to Road House...
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And an interview with director Rowdy Herrington that was used as source material for that article.
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I hope this attempt at a re-make falls apart like the Ronda Rousey one did about five years ago.
Jake Gyllenhall? GTFO.
And I say this as someone who sat through "Road House 2: Last Call" out of curiosity.
Jake Gyllenhall? GTFO.
And I say this as someone who sat through "Road House 2: Last Call" out of curiosity.
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Jake Gyllenhall strikes me as a guy who has never thrown a punch in his life. I can’t picture him as a tough guy.
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Not like Patrick "The Bruiser" Swayze?
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Swayze seemed realistic to me as a tough kid in The Outsiders, so I was prepared to accept him in Roadhouse.
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And don't sleep on Jed in Red Dawn.
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It's the angular face.
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He grew up on the mean streets of Houston, TX, y'all. No Swayze trash talk, please.
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Holding my tongue because I'm Team RayJay until I die, but Swayze and Rudd forever!
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My wife turned this on the other night. The monster truck scene comes on shortly after, and who is there, to my surprise?
In the blue shirt, taking his sunglasses off at :12 seconds into this clip... Felix LaPoubelle, also known as (It is I...) "Sidney Feldman". He is listed on IMDB as the character "Laughing Henchman" (uncredited), as well as a fight trainer (uncredited) and stunts.
Once again, Swamp Movie Night crosses the streams.
In the blue shirt, taking his sunglasses off at :12 seconds into this clip... Felix LaPoubelle, also known as (It is I...) "Sidney Feldman". He is listed on IMDB as the character "Laughing Henchman" (uncredited), as well as a fight trainer (uncredited) and stunts.
Once again, Swamp Movie Night crosses the streams.
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Went pro with a stunning debut aboard an elite Caribbean cruise line.DSafetyGuy wrote: ↑Wed Nov 17, 2021 3:30 pm My wife turned this on the other night. The monster truck scene comes on shortly after, and who is there, to my surprise?
In the blue shirt, taking his sunglasses off at :12 seconds into this clip... Felix LaPoubelle, also known as (It is I...) "Sidney Feldman". He is listed on IMDB as the character "Laughing Henchman" (uncredited), as well as a fight trainer (uncredited) and stunts.
Once again, Swamp Movie Night crosses the streams.
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In case you needed another reason not to watch what will likely be a horrible remake, Conor McGregor is involved.
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AThis remake sounds bad. And, I have a difficult time seeing Jake Gyllenhall as a tough guy.
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DSafetyGuy wrote: ↑Fri Nov 12, 2021 12:35 pmI hope this attempt at a re-make falls apart like the Ronda Rousey one did about five years ago.
Jake Gyllenhall? GTFO.
brian wrote: ↑Wed Aug 03, 2022 2:21 pmIn case you needed another reason not to watch what will likely be a horrible remake, Conor McGregor is involved.
Nope.
It's worse.
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I bet 40 year old sancarlos said the same thing about Swayze back in 1989.
But seriously I think Gyllenhall is the right type for this. And the director has made some entertaining films. McGregor seems to be an awful dude but I'd otherwise watch this?
But seriously I think Gyllenhall is the right type for this. And the director has made some entertaining films. McGregor seems to be an awful dude but I'd otherwise watch this?
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No way. Swayze was athletic and a believable tough kid in The Outsiders. Gyllenhall has a pencil neck and doesn’t seem like a guy who has ever been in a dust up.
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Having watched the trailer, I respectfully disagree on Gyllenhaal. Liman has done some very good stuff, but that trailer looks like garbage engineered to bring in a very distinct audience.
From the A/V Club:
Also, who hates Patrick Swayze so much, they're engineering shitty remakes of his entire catalog? "Red Dawn, "Point Break", and now this.Yesterday, director Doug Liman penned an op-ed in Deadline explaining why he was boycotting the premiere of Road House. Liman says Road House may be his best movie, with Gyllenhaal delivering a “career-defining performance.” However, he “signed up to make a theatrical motion picture for MGM,” which was later purchased by Amazon. In Liman’s words:
Contrary to their public statements, Amazon has no interest in supporting cinemas. Amazon will exclusively stream Road House on Amazon Prime. Amazon asked me and the film community to trust them and their public statements about supporting cinemas, and then they turned around and are using Road House to sell plumbing fixtures.
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Put another way, though, the fact that the remakes are pretty much garbage is affirmation of Swayze's (at the time, unrecognized by many) brilliance.
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Yeah, those originals were cinematic masterpieces.
Totally Kafkaesque
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Gyllenhall worked with Swayze in Donnie Darko. He shoulda known better.
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Didn't Jake also get kind of buff for that hero movie he was in?
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Youngest has a gyllenhal (?) crush and we’re doing this. I reserved the right to stop if there’s a close game.
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First couple of fights are brutal. I’m enjoying myself.
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The reviews so far have been….not bad?
The Point Break re-make was horrible. Think I might get my Roadhouse on tomorrow.
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The review at the A/V Club was pretty rough.
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I think I disagree with the first 2/3 of that. Unfortunately on the first third, and vigorously on the second third. Totally agree with the last bit.
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I'm going to a friend's place in Connecticut for the weekend, as is another of our college friends (host's wife is out of town). I may get to watch it whether I want to or not.
And are we going to watch "Ambulance" at some point?
And are we going to watch "Ambulance" at some point?
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Watched this last night… I will say how they shot the fight scenes with the camera work/angles seemed unique and made them more fun.
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DSafetyGuy wrote: ↑Wed Nov 17, 2021 3:30 pm My wife turned this on the other night. The monster truck scene comes on shortly after, and who is there, to my surprise?
In the blue shirt, taking his sunglasses off at :12 seconds into this clip... Felix LaPoubelle, also known as (It is I...) "Sidney Feldman". He is listed on IMDB as the character "Laughing Henchman" (uncredited), as well as a fight trainer (uncredited) and stunts.
Once again, Swamp Movie Night crosses the streams.
“The running, the jumping... a celebration of life.”