I don't want to violate DU rules, but I am SORRY. If you do not LOVE "Road House," you're dead to me

[Miles Archer]

I mean, REALLY.

[pinboy3niner]

1. Sounds like Dalton: "My way... or the highway."

[Miles Archer]

18. You got it, bro. I'm just being nice until the time comes to not be nice.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

2. My dear Miles Archer!

Well, I'm glad to hear I'm not dead to you!

My husband and I love Road House! Our favorite line is: "Pain don't hurt."

Oh sure it don't! lol

That line is just classic.

[pinboy3niner]

3. Doc: Do you always carry your medical record around with you?

Dalton: Saves time.

[Miles Archer]

19. It's not me saving them from Brad Wesley, CP...

...it's a matter of who's gonna save them from me.

[smokey775]

45. There's always barber college.

My favorite line in the movie.

[Prisoner_Number_Six]

4. You're not as big as I thought you'd be.

[pinboy3niner]

5. This place has a sign hangin' over the urinal that says, "Don't eat the big white mint".

[LynneSin]

6. Like Dalton would say - Pain don't hurt

And maybe you need to give some hurt to get people to see the wonder that is this movie. How Patrick Swayze didn't get a best Oscar for his performance of Dalton still baffles to me this day! I'm sure there are fans of Daniel Day-Lewis out there who did an amazing job playing a man with Cerebral Palsy who could only do things with his left foot. But Patrick Swayze had Lewis beat as the Harvard education bar bouncer & cooler who comes to Jasper to fix up not just the Double Deuce Bar but the good people of Jasper Wyoming.

[lastlib]

10. (uh, that was Jasper, Missouri....)

a town that actually exists....just north of Joplin

[jmowreader]

39. I was wondering...

Roy DeSoto told Dalton his bar was "just outside Kansas City." A hundred and thirty miles is not "just outside KC."

[Brother Buzz]

7. Benghazi!

[pinboy3niner]

8. LOL!

[baldguy]

9. Now, say it in STERLING Archer's voice

Or Bob Belcher's

[patricia92243]

11. If I've never seen it - or even heard of it - does that mean I'm dead???

[pinboy3niner]

12. Yes

R.I.P.

[Miles Archer]

20. YEAH! What HE said!

Go watch it! Right now!

[Earth_First]

13. SWAYZE!

"Holy fuck, boys!"

[hibbing]

14. How's a guy like you end up a bouncer?

I'm off to do some light reading like Kant.

Peace

[Aristus]

15. No need to send flowers. But have a wake in my honor.

Cause of death: Not liking one of the stupidest movies ever made. Exacerbated by cancer of the critical faculties.

[hibbing]

16. heheheh..party pooper

[Aristus]

17. I'm sorry.

Patrick Swayze was a very appealing actor. Sam Elliott still is.

But that movie is awful...

[Miles Archer]

21. YES...but it is one of the BEST awful movies EVER MADE...that's its charm.

It's like a stupid onion...layer after layer after layer of stupidity. A script filled with "groaners." Acting that stretches the definition of "acting"...

...it's a beautiful mess, and that's why I love it. When I want to watch a "good" movie I'll watch "Key Largo" or "Goodfelllas."

[Rhythm]

22. OMG, i am going to wake the house with my laughing...

It's like a stupid onion...layer after layer after layer of stupidity.

But to be fair, it's a 'favorite' bad movie for me, too...
Especially since Jeff Healey is in it, too...

[LynneSin]

35. But that's the beauty of the movie is just how awful it really is

Somehow Dalton is capable of turning a shithole of a bar where total hicksville-mentality anarchy rules and turn it into an hip downtown NYC-style night club.

Only in the really bad movielands could a plot like this actually work!

[Iggo]

23. Take the train.

[Katashi_itto]

24. Whats Road House?

[smokey775]

46. A movie starring Patrick Swayze.

The Jeff Healy Band is featured prominently in the movie.

[Katashi_itto]

49. Cool, thanks!

Was thinking it was a band

[LeftofObama]

25. I was going to post the YouTube video of the Peter Griffin/Family Guy episode

where he starts kicking everything and saying, "Road House", but it would no doubt be alerted on and I don't want to have a post hidden.

[OriginalGeek]

32. Roadhouse.

[davidpdx]

26. I'm dead to you

[Inkfreak]

27. I stand with you!! And I rec'ed it.

[Le Taz Hot]

28. Part of that was filmed up at Shaver Lake

near Yosemite. That was back when Patrick was in his drinkin' days and locals said he was no stranger to the bars up there. Otoh,, they all said he was just a normal kinda dude without pretention.

[Chan790]

29. I actually hate Road House. n/t

[panader0]

30. Yeah, but mostly for Jeff Healey--

[Miles Archer]

43. Jeff Healey, criminally underrated and overlooked

Yeah, he had his moment in the sun...Road House and some MTV "heavy rotation"...but his career went on LONG after the mainstream gave him a thought.

[Xyzse]

31. Road House?

Patrick Swayze?

I sadly never got to watch it. It came out when I was just 10 and in a different country.
I haven't actually heard about it till recently, it is on my list of things to watch one day.

[MicaelS]

33. Really. Roadhouse is a great film.

I watch it every time it comes on.

[LynneSin]

36. We use to have Roadhouse alerts on DU

anytime Roadhouse was on TNT, Spike or some other cable channel we'd post so everyone call all watch at once.

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

34. Road House is on the AMC movie channel this evening at 7:30 pm Pacific time

Personally, I don't understand the fascination. It's not a terrible movie although it is a bit blood thirsty.

[LynneSin]

37. I think the fascination is due to the fact that the plotline is beyond impossible to fathom in RL

that's why

[Miles Archer]

42. I think you nailed it, Lynne...

...in "real life," Brad Wesley would have had Dalton snuffed after the first night. Dalton would have been walking to his car and either taken a knife in the back or a bullet in the head. The film presents him as a mysterious, conflicted, tortured Tai Chi / martial arts guy with Zen wisdom to spare but he was just another meat suit, vulnerable to any attack on his way to the car after closing time. OR They could have just blown up his house, as they did with his landlord or Red's auto shop.

Yeah, it was all about a game of "cat and mouse," and Wesley DOES tell Doc that she needs to "get rid of him." In REAL life, Wesley would have seen Dalton as a threat to his milking the town dry (which he was), and his amusement would have run thin in VERY short order.

In moments like this I think of a TV Guide article that came out during the second season of "The Sopranos." They sat down with a few "real-life New Jersey Wise Guys" and asked them if the show reflected reality.

The ONLY thing they said was NOT realistic was the Christoper Molitssante character. Tony's nephew or not, they called him "one for the trunk" (think "Goodfellas&quot and said that he never would have survived the first season without getting whacked.

[Boom Sound 416]

38. Yeah and I thought you'd be taller

[valerief]

40. What is Road House? Is it some kind of game? nt

[smokey775]

47. See post #46.

[DFW]

41. On my epitaph, please write:

He never even heard of "Road House"

Of course, if you've never heard of Jitterbug Perfume, you risk a similar fate.

[Brigid]

44. I prefer "Next of Kin" myself.

Patrick Swayze and Liam Neeson!

[smokey775]

48. Next of Kin,

One of my favorites.
"Taken" is great also.