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Posted: **Thu May 21, 2020 2:59 pm**

The original cut was three hours long.

And much, much more, including a lot of stuff we talked about while we watched it.

Posted: **Fri May 22, 2020 1:56 pm**

And an interview with director Rowdy Herrington that was used as source material for that article.

Posted: **Fri Nov 12, 2021 12:35 pm**

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.

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Posted: **Fri Nov 12, 2021 12:57 pm**

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.

Posted: **Fri Nov 12, 2021 1:46 pm**

sancarlos wrote: ↑Fri Nov 12, 2021 12:57 pm 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.

Not like Patrick "The Bruiser" Swayze?

Posted: **Fri Nov 12, 2021 2:10 pm**

pruitt2 wrote: ↑Fri Nov 12, 2021 1:46 pm
sancarlos wrote: ↑Fri Nov 12, 2021 12:57 pm 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.
Not like Patrick "The Bruiser" Swayze?

Swayze seemed realistic to me as a tough kid in The Outsiders, so I was prepared to accept him in Roadhouse.

Posted: **Fri Nov 12, 2021 2:13 pm**

sancarlos wrote: ↑Fri Nov 12, 2021 2:10 pm
pruitt2 wrote: ↑Fri Nov 12, 2021 1:46 pm
sancarlos wrote: ↑Fri Nov 12, 2021 12:57 pm 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.
Not like Patrick "The Bruiser" Swayze?
Swayze seemed realistic to me as a tough kid in The Outsiders, so I was prepared to accept him in Roadhouse.

And don't sleep on Jed in Red Dawn.

Posted: **Fri Nov 12, 2021 2:15 pm**

duff wrote: ↑Fri Nov 12, 2021 2:13 pm
sancarlos wrote: ↑Fri Nov 12, 2021 2:10 pm
pruitt2 wrote: ↑Fri Nov 12, 2021 1:46 pm
sancarlos wrote: ↑Fri Nov 12, 2021 12:57 pm 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.
Not like Patrick "The Bruiser" Swayze?
Swayze seemed realistic to me as a tough kid in The Outsiders, so I was prepared to accept him in Roadhouse.
And don't sleep on Jed in Red Dawn.

It's the angular face.

Posted: **Fri Nov 12, 2021 4:56 pm**

He grew up on the mean streets of Houston, TX, y'all. No Swayze trash talk, please.

Posted: **Fri Nov 12, 2021 5:12 pm**

Holding my tongue because I'm Team RayJay until I die, but Swayze and Rudd forever!

Posted: **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.

Posted: **Wed Nov 17, 2021 3:40 pm**

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.

Went pro with a stunning debut aboard an elite Caribbean cruise line.

Posted: **Wed Aug 03, 2022 2:21 pm**

In case you needed another reason not to watch what will likely be a horrible remake, Conor McGregor is involved.

Posted: **Wed Aug 03, 2022 3:42 pm**

AThis remake sounds bad. And, I have a difficult time seeing Jake Gyllenhall as a tough guy.

Posted: **Wed Aug 17, 2022 5:12 pm**

2005.

Posted: **Thu Jan 25, 2024 12:00 pm**

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.

sancarlos wrote: ↑Wed Aug 03, 2022 3:42 pmThis remake sounds bad. And, I have a difficult time seeing Jake Gyllenhall as a tough guy.

Nope.

It's worse.

Posted: **Thu Jan 25, 2024 12:17 pm**

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?

Posted: **Thu Jan 25, 2024 12:33 pm**

rass wrote: ↑Thu Jan 25, 2024 12:17 pm 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?

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.

Posted: **Thu Jan 25, 2024 1:42 pm**

rass wrote: ↑Thu Jan 25, 2024 12:17 pmBut 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?

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:

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.

Also, who hates Patrick Swayze so much, they're engineering shitty remakes of his entire catalog? "Red Dawn, "Point Break", and now this.

Posted: **Thu Jan 25, 2024 1:57 pm**

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.

Posted: **Thu Jan 25, 2024 5:15 pm**

Yeah, those originals were cinematic masterpieces.

Posted: **Thu Jan 25, 2024 9:55 pm**

Gyllenhall worked with Swayze in Donnie Darko. He shoulda known better.

Posted: **Fri Jan 26, 2024 2:05 pm**

The ‘Road House’ Remake Trailer Stars Jake Gyllenhaal as a Ripped, MMA-Fighting Dalton

Posted: **Fri Jan 26, 2024 4:23 pm**

Didn't Jake also get kind of buff for that hero movie he was in?

ETA - Mysterio... But you can't tell if it's just the suit.

Posted: **Thu Mar 21, 2024 6:38 pm**

Youngest has a gyllenhal (?) crush and we’re doing this. I reserved the right to stop if there’s a close game.

Posted: **Thu Mar 21, 2024 7:10 pm**

First couple of fights are brutal. I’m enjoying myself.

Posted: **Thu Mar 21, 2024 7:21 pm**

rass wrote: ↑Thu Mar 21, 2024 7:10 pm First couple of fights are brutal. I’m enjoying myself.

The reviews so far have been….not bad?

The Point Break re-make was horrible. Think I might get my Roadhouse on tomorrow.

Posted: **Thu Mar 21, 2024 8:37 pm**

Fights were great.

Film had too much fun with McGregor for him being such an asshole.

[+] spoiler: Boat scenes were a bit too much.

And no throat rip, but there was a throat kill.

Posted: **Fri Mar 22, 2024 8:23 am**

brian wrote: ↑Thu Mar 21, 2024 7:21 pmThe reviews so far have been….not bad?

The review at the A/V Club was pretty rough.

[+] spoiler: The gist is McGregor is (unsurprisingly) terrible, Gyllenhall can't carry the movie, the plot is unnecessarily complicated.

Posted: **Fri Mar 22, 2024 8:36 am**

DSafetyGuy wrote: ↑Fri Mar 22, 2024 8:23 am
brian wrote: ↑Thu Mar 21, 2024 7:21 pmThe reviews so far have been….not bad?
The review at the A/V Club was pretty rough.

[+] spoiler
The gist is McGregor is (unsurprisingly) terrible, Gyllenhall can't carry the movie, the plot is unnecessarily complicated.

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.

Posted: **Fri Mar 22, 2024 8:41 am**

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?

Posted: **Sat Mar 23, 2024 8:22 pm**

rass wrote: ↑Thu Mar 21, 2024 8:37 pm Fights were great.

Film had too much fun with McGregor for him being such an asshole.

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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