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The Road House Remake Is Actually a Great Time
Jacobin ^ | March 2024 | EILEEN JONES

Posted on 03/30/2024 11:54:50 PM PDT by where's_the_Outrage?

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To: where's_the_Outrage?

It was ok.


21 posted on 03/31/2024 5:29:27 AM PDT by Road Warrior ‘04 (BOYCOTT Anheuser Busch, the NFL, MLB, NBA, NASCAR & Faux Snooze! Molon Labe! Oathkeeper! )
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To: where's_the_Outrage?

Leftist takes on American culture are subversive.


22 posted on 03/31/2024 5:37:36 AM PDT by mac_truck (aide toi et dieu t'aidera)
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To: where's_the_Outrage?

It’s hot garbage. Turned it off after 20 minutes. For one thing, at least a third of the dialog is the f word. And predictably, it’s like the rest of script seems to have been written by a 12 year old.


23 posted on 03/31/2024 5:48:06 AM PDT by hopespringseternal
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To: where's_the_Outrage?

Women using the f word is probably one of the biggest turn offs.
The PC casting is kinda stupid.
But the stupidest thing about this movie (which is basically one giant fight) is the main character saying “no one wins a fight” and then proceeds to dominate by ………….winning fights…….


24 posted on 03/31/2024 5:59:50 AM PDT by Romans Nine
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To: FreedomForce

Actually, I thought it was a wise choice to not have a specific house band through the whole movie. Someone with brains realized that trying to replicate that for the movie would be a big fail, so they just used an assortment of bands that fit the locale. I also liked how they went over the top with the bad guys. It kept to the camp bad guys in the original. If it would have been too slick with the action, it wouldn’t have any of the flavor of the original. Still not as good, but a worthy effort. At least they didn’t try and make it an insulting remake that pokes fun of the era of the original, like the 21 jump Street reboot or Starsky and Hutch.


25 posted on 03/31/2024 6:22:24 AM PDT by cport (How can political capital be spent on a bunch of ingrates)
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To: MikelTackNailer

The Drinker’s review was good. The story seems so bad and the acting just as bad. The original Road House was a ridiculous movie to begin with.


26 posted on 03/31/2024 6:27:33 AM PDT by frogjerk (More people have died trusting the government than not trusting the government.)
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To: where's_the_Outrage?

Stop giving your money to Hollywood box checkers.


27 posted on 03/31/2024 6:29:15 AM PDT by frogjerk (More people have died trusting the government than not trusting the government.)
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To: where's_the_Outrage?

movie sucked, cast sucked not a beautiful women in the whole movie. jake sucked at being Dalton. Dalton the philosopher bouncer “Man’s search for faith. That sort of shit.” The new doc instead of being the hottest woman on the planet is a PC fembot with the usual haircut and dresses and talks like a man. Other than the names this is not a roadhouse movie. It is the usual PC/girl power racist crap. I wouldnt waste my time watching it again and I recommend you dont waste yours too.


28 posted on 03/31/2024 6:48:19 AM PDT by frakster
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To: where's_the_Outrage?

Not likely I would ever watch it.

The original is “ICONIC”.

For some movies like Titanic, remakes are great! I don’t see it with Roadhouse.


29 posted on 03/31/2024 6:51:01 AM PDT by faucetman (Just the facts, ma'am, Just the facts )
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Conor McGregor's acting and mannerisms are so overblown they're cartoon-like. He even sounds like he's doing a fake Irish accent (when he is Irish).

I imagine Patrick Swayze looking down from that great cinema theater in the sky, smiling and saying, "Not as easy as it looks, is it?"

30 posted on 03/31/2024 7:11:00 AM PDT by Paal Gulli
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Jake Gyllenhaal has given some powerful performances in some very high-quality movies. I can’t imagine what possessed him to stoop so low as to be associated with a film this corny.


31 posted on 03/31/2024 7:14:32 AM PDT by Paal Gulli
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Jake Gyllenhaal has given some powerful performances in some very high-quality movies. I can’t imagine what possessed him to stoop so low as to be associated with a film this corny.

"It was a really big check!"

32 posted on 03/31/2024 7:15:26 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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Would be better as an animated superhero children’s movie. Then I would have not watched it. Worst—I mean worst—movie that I ever wasted 2 hours of my time on.


33 posted on 03/31/2024 7:35:43 AM PDT by yetidog
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To: where's_the_Outrage?

I’ll stick with the Critical Drinker’s review: “Road House - Just... Why?”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cYnUbzAoaB8


34 posted on 03/31/2024 7:39:50 AM PDT by Mr Rogers (We're a nation of feelings, not thoughts.)
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"Jake Gyllenhaal has given some powerful performances in some very high-quality movies. I can’t imagine what possessed him to stoop so low as to be associated with a film this corny."

I only watched it because of Gyllenhaal. Swayze pulled it off...Gyllenhaal not. It is absolute crap.

35 posted on 03/31/2024 8:45:58 AM PDT by A Navy Vet (USA Birth Certificate - 1787. Death Certificate - 2021? )
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To: where's_the_Outrage?

The original Roadhouse is basically an A-Team episode... with profanity, death and boobs. But the plot is straight out of A-Team... and the Hulk... also Kung Fu. It’s a tried and true plot.


36 posted on 03/31/2024 8:48:04 AM PDT by discostu (like a dog being shown a card trick)
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To: where's_the_Outrage?

I was a victim.

Firkin wee Todd it.

The first one was almost tongue in cheek in that 80s “ya we’re playing this as serious but you know we are all just having fun”. This one pretends that such an idiotic story is possible and takes itself far too serious.


37 posted on 03/31/2024 8:53:07 AM PDT by gnarledmaw (Hivemind liberals worship leaders, sovereign conservatives select servants.)
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Pretty good movie even with crazy Connor McGregor in it. It’s a good fight movie.


38 posted on 03/31/2024 8:53:30 AM PDT by Rappini ("No man is entitled to the blessings of freedom unless he be vigilant in it's preservation" MacArthr)
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To: where's_the_Outrage?

“Roadhouse!”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bR_Yqn1D00w


39 posted on 03/31/2024 9:00:38 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: Candor7

Sounds pretty good. Perhaps it shouldn’t be compared with the original Road House.
I sure didn’t agree with the author’s opinion of that movie at all. It’s a classic.

How do you beat Patrick Swayze and Sam Elliot kicking ass with Jeff Healey playing his awesome licks?

I’ll keep my eye open for the new Road House though.


40 posted on 03/31/2024 9:22:38 PM PDT by TigersEye (Our Republic is under seige by globalist Marxists. Hold fast!)
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