Monster Dave
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Seriously, I just watched this on Netflix - still love this movie. But a remake...really???
Road House remake
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crabra comander
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Yes. Maybe they can remake Ghost...Any Patrick Swayze films will do actually.
"MGM is working with a script by Michael Stokes."
The Michael Stokes!!! Writer of such classics as:
Iron Eagle IV: While Chappy Sinclair is saddled with a bunch of misfits and delinquents for his flight school, he turns to his protégé Doug Masters to assist him in rounding them into shape for an important competition. During their training, they stumble upon a group of subversive air force officers who are dealing in toxic waste as a sideline.
Shadow Builder: A demon is summoned to take the soul of a young boy who has the potential to become a saint. By doing this he will open a doorway to hell and destroy the world.
Striking Poses: When a beautiful paparazzo for a tabloid magazine finds herself pursued by a ruthless stalker, she is determined to emerge from this deadly game alive, and independently wealthy.
I guess it's time I finally live my life long dream of writing the script for an Uncle Buck remake and move my family to easy street.
The Michael Stokes!!! Writer of such classics as:
Iron Eagle IV: While Chappy Sinclair is saddled with a bunch of misfits and delinquents for his flight school, he turns to his protégé Doug Masters to assist him in rounding them into shape for an important competition. During their training, they stumble upon a group of subversive air force officers who are dealing in toxic waste as a sideline.
Shadow Builder: A demon is summoned to take the soul of a young boy who has the potential to become a saint. By doing this he will open a doorway to hell and destroy the world.
Striking Poses: When a beautiful paparazzo for a tabloid magazine finds herself pursued by a ruthless stalker, she is determined to emerge from this deadly game alive, and independently wealthy.
I guess it's time I finally live my life long dream of writing the script for an Uncle Buck remake and move my family to easy street.
Roadhouse. Twenty years since I’ve seen that film and the only reason I remember it so well was because of my girlfriend at the time. She really had a low opinion of action movies because of the “senseless violence” and as a lit English teacher found cinema slightly inferior entertainment to the written page. Fortunately she did like Tolkien and Pratchett though.
However , when it came to good old Mr Swayze, he was allowed ( of course) to liberally beat the seven hells out of anybody in that film and she loved every minute of Roadhouse ,right down to the “poetic” execution at the end. I pointed out “Diehard”, which she hated, wasn’t that much worse.
Big mistake. A very heated discussion on the “Shakespearean revenge” quality of the plot of Roadhouse as opposed to a "brainless Hollywood actioner".
And then “Point break” came out. And yet again the film gets a huge “ pass” from her, based in no little part to Patricks “acting” , and despite the large amounts of rather “senseless violence”.
Queue the start of another discussion, which was brutally slaughtered before it could actually get going by the death sentence “oh, we are so NOT going to have this debate again!”
Which just goes to show you will never loose an argument or the right to beat people to with in an inch of their lives if you are unbearably handsome to the opposite sex, and why Loki gets all my sympathies rather than Thor these days.
PS. Also never, never ,ever mention just how stunningly good looking the actress co star ever is in which ever film that your better half loves. Better to remain sensibly silent, than face the wrath.
However , when it came to good old Mr Swayze, he was allowed ( of course) to liberally beat the seven hells out of anybody in that film and she loved every minute of Roadhouse ,right down to the “poetic” execution at the end. I pointed out “Diehard”, which she hated, wasn’t that much worse.
Big mistake. A very heated discussion on the “Shakespearean revenge” quality of the plot of Roadhouse as opposed to a "brainless Hollywood actioner".
And then “Point break” came out. And yet again the film gets a huge “ pass” from her, based in no little part to Patricks “acting” , and despite the large amounts of rather “senseless violence”.
Queue the start of another discussion, which was brutally slaughtered before it could actually get going by the death sentence “oh, we are so NOT going to have this debate again!”
Which just goes to show you will never loose an argument or the right to beat people to with in an inch of their lives if you are unbearably handsome to the opposite sex, and why Loki gets all my sympathies rather than Thor these days.
PS. Also never, never ,ever mention just how stunningly good looking the actress co star ever is in which ever film that your better half loves. Better to remain sensibly silent, than face the wrath.
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I can dig it. I enjoyed her in the Expendibles.
Last week was the first and only time I saw it.
When it first came out I thought it looked stupid and avoided it. But twenty years of nostalgia for ghost made me start to like Swayze, so I gave it a shot.
It's definitely worth seeing now for what it really is, though not for what it thought it was at the time. It thought it was a serious action movie and for that: I was right twenty years ago... It's dumb.
But if you go in looking for some good old fashioned 80s camp, you're actually in for a rare treat. Silly unbelievable fights, over the top campy dialogue, fashion choices that were idiotic even in the 80s, an absurd plot, all mixed up with fun music, cheesy one liners and even a little gratuitous nudity. Good nostalgic fun on a Sunday afternoon. I highly recommend giving it a re-watch.
As for remake? Absolutely not. There's nothing there without the nostalgia. It's why I'm glad I waited twenty years to see it. If I'd seen it then it would've sucked. Now I can remember that I actually liked Jeff Healey, and I never realized that Sam Elliott was in it. And as I said, Swayze annoyed me back then, but time has made me like him.
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robn1
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The man is an oracle.
Axlotl
Master Member
At one weird time in my life I was chumming around with this gaggle of girls, and they would have these Patrick Swayze movie nights where they would all sit on the floor and gobble buckets of ice cream and watch cheezy Patrick Swayze movies. I thought they were dumb and told them as much and laughed and made fun of them.
Then I discovered I actually enjoyed sitting on the floor gorging on ice cream and watching stupid movies with girls.
I've seen every Patrick Swayze movie ever made.
And I can't tell you which was which. They all bled together in my brain. I see Patrick Swayze and Chris Farley stripping on a surfboard and beating up guys in a bar amid a frenzy of wet clay.
Then I discovered I actually enjoyed sitting on the floor gorging on ice cream and watching stupid movies with girls.
I've seen every Patrick Swayze movie ever made.
And I can't tell you which was which. They all bled together in my brain. I see Patrick Swayze and Chris Farley stripping on a surfboard and beating up guys in a bar amid a frenzy of wet clay.
Oh there's a shocker... Damnit Rousey, if you want to be a Hollywood star, you gotta at least take some roles that don't include "tough as nails fighter" as the sole character description.
Now, if they make the character more like Swayze's and have her be a warrior poet (as it were), then I might be inclined to watch it so long as she can pull it off.
