I just watched "Road House" by choice and unironically...and I loved it!

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How the hell did I miss this? I love cheesy '80s action movies, but for whatever reason, I just never got around to seeing this until tonight. Classic example of a movie that’s so bad it’s good.

Anyway, my wife checked the DVD out from the library the other day, and I figured, what the hell, I’ll give it a shot.

I loved how it started out making you think this was going to be a run-of-the-mill tale of a good ol’ boy taming a wild place and falling in love, and then ends up turning into a classic martial arts revenge flick.

Also loved Ben Gazzarra as the fiendishly over-the-top villain who uses (among other things) a monster truck to dispense his wrath.

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Pain don’t hurt.

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“Don’t eat the big white mint”

Good flick.

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Best use of a stuffed polar bear in a fight scene, ever.

“A polar bear fell on me.”

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Guys, I want the reviews in this thread to be nice untill it’s time NOT to be nice.
/Jr. Mod-house

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Fuckin’ love that line.

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It’s my regular Saturday night thing.

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Hot chicks, Terry Funk, and Ben Gazzara, how could it go wrong? Oh yeah, that other guy.

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I thought you’d be bigger.

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Yeah, I didn’t hate it. Bad acting, but mostly IMO, bad writing. Even good actors would have had trouble delivering those lines…

But it was fun enough for what it was, even if predictable.

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It doesn’t pretend to be something it’s not. It’s a good diversion.

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Patrick Swayze, more Patrick Swayze, an additional dose of Patrick Swayze’s back… who, me, a Patrick Swayze crush? No, never!

It always leaves me with the impression that the people making it enjoyed themselves, which is always a good one. And I loved the soundtrack too.

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And how can you not love a movie that contains the following line, delivered by Ben Gazzarra to Patrick Swayze:

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What I love about the movie is that there’s world out there that we non-bar-circuit types just don’t know about. A world where a bouncer is know throughout the land, and only by his first name. And he’s only about as widely-known this other bouncer.

“Oh my god, that guy at the end of the bar, that’s Dalton!”
“Gentlemen … Wade Garrett” – ooh gasp wonder gee –

Like there are bouncer/cooler trading card sets that we’re just not hip to.

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I’m on my break!

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The ultimate marketing combo–bar fights for the guys, and Patrick Swayze for the girls.

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There’s one shot of naked Patrick from the back that always makes a girlfriend of mine gasp out loud.

The thing I remember most about that movie is the fabulous place that Patrick lived-- that big barn-like place with the great deck.

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And what great quotes we have from this movie!

“No one ever wins a fight.”

“That girl’s got entirely too many brains to have an ass like that.”

“JCPenny is coming here because of me!!”

Oh and let’s not forget the brilliant Family Guy “Roadhouse” tribute:

Family Guy Roadhouse Part 1

Family Guy Roadhouse Part 2

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Just watch out for people with razor blades in the toe of their boots.

I love this movie. My daughter considers herself lucky because (I’m now embarrassed to say) if she was a boy her name would have been Dalton. :eek:

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Jeff Healey really did play pretty good for a blind white boy.