Cinepals - ROAD HOUSE (1989) Movie Review & Discussion!

Episode Date: March 23, 2024

Before watching the new 2024 Road House starring Jake Gyllenhaal and UFC fighter now actor Conor McGregor, Jaby and Achara watch the original 1989 film starring the legendary Patrick Swayze (Ghost, Dirty Dancing) and Sam Elliott (Hulk, A Star is Born). The film also stars Kelly Lynch (Charlie's Angels, Virtuosity) and Ben Gazzara (The Big Lebowski, Anatomy of a Murder). Join our Patreon https://www.Patreon.com/JabyKoay for the full lenght watchalong of our reaction or head over to our YouTube channel https://www.YouTube.com/@CinePals for the cutdown of our reaction! 

The new Roadhouse is here starring Jake Gyllenhaal, but we're not watching that. We're watching the Patrick Shwayze one, and then we're going to watch the one with Jake Jellon Hall. So check that one out when it comes out. Anyway, let's get into this one. Here we go. This is like such a movie thing. I couldn't possibly be happy in celebrating right now.

My best friend died. True. Fun movie, fun times. I think it's interesting, like just storyline-wise. I don't think I've seen too many things about a bouncer. I actually found it quite fascinating. his rules and everything about like how to be a bouncer because you know I've been in many establishments myself I've never really wondered about like what goes on behind the scenes but here

it's like oh okay that totally makes sense they are always really nice and polite they do always come up to you and they're like ma'am you need to get off the table right now and then I go okay sorry and put your clothes back on yeah no that's never happened It's just about as wild as I got Was dancing on the table He just created an interesting story About this character You know

I just feel like we don't often Have an insight into this type of character In this world Patrick Swayze I get it And Sam Elliott I get it Legend legend legend

Yes Double legend Xcel Oh my gosh I don't think I've ever seen him Looking this young And I know that he wasn't even that young In this movie But oh my God

He probably came out of the womb with that kind of colored hair. He's handsome. The hair. That gray hair and that, in that voice. Yeah, the voice, everything. Came out of the womb. Came out of the woman.

It was like, hello, mama. They had to kill him because he was going to outshine Patrick Swayze with his coolness. I'm honestly surprised they had him in the movie at all, given that everyone they surrounded Patrick Swayze with looked like half a man. Whether they were like too fat or just like not handsome or goofy teeth or what, like, none of them compared. He was like a good. God amongst men until Sam Elliott

showed up. Yeah. And then we had two gods amongst men and it was just like hard to focus. So they were like, no no, we can have him, but he's got to go. I thought this was fun. This was just a fun romp. Like at a certain point it loses any sense

of real world sense. Law enforcement comes in at the very end. Don't they always? So much death, so much destruction. No one shows up to deal like to even make a report until the rich guy dies, which I guess that's fitting, right?

If they at least tried to show us like a cop being paid or something. No, but they mentioned it. I think that was enough for them to be like... It's a visual medium. I need to see it. That aside, I still need to understand why Patrick Swayze didn't just walk up to his house. Yeah, because he hadn't received the phone call yet at that point

when he killed the dude by ripping out his throat, which was awesome, by the way, because they called it out. They mentioned it at the beginning of the movie. I really like how the movie set things up and then paid it off at the end, you know? He murdered all them bitches up in that place, in the mansion, only to stop at the last bad guy.

And I'm like, why? You had no hesitation on any of these nameless goons. And on him, you stopped. There was really no reason to not rip his throat out other than, yo, it's going to be poetic justice when all these dudes murder him. Here's how you do it. He rips his throat out.

And the guy's like, ah, and he stands up. And then all the people with the shotguns, you know, just for extra measure. Just in case. So they all got a piece of a pound of flesh. I love the music as well. I thought like the soundtrack of this, just that the live music that was being played the whole time was really, really fun. There's lots of fight scenes in the movie. Yes.

And the fight scenes have that kind of quality to them that you used to find before. And I just said this the other day because I watched another classic film from the 90s with someone. I don't want to give away what film yet. Anyway, in that film, you see some. something similar, which is the way that fight scenes were conducted before the Matrix, because the matrix kind of changed everything. People's reactions to getting hit was just different. And both are good in their own ways, right? But like here, when people get hit, if they get punched in the stomach, it's like,

it's this like first shock and then slow motion falling, right? Or for instance, they get punched in the face and they just fall over into the wall. Like, that's what we did for 90 years. And it was fine, and then the Matrix comes along and changes it all. And to be fair, and the Matrix was taking a lot of inspiration from like Hong Kong cinema. Yeah. Yeah, Hong Kong cinema, yes. This had like martial arts, but from like the Western filmmaking standpoint. And it was fun.

There was lots of good connects happening. There's some that obviously missed, but the thing that it kind of made me feel the least comfortable was the constant crescent kicks. It's like Van Dam already existed and he popularized the hook kick. He does a jumping spinning hook kick I mean the biggest one was in blood sport And it was awesome And here is just constant crescent kicks Crescent kick into the back

Crescent kick in the face I'm just like it's not as pretty though It was pretty enough Like I was quite impressed by it As someone who can't do that stuff I was like that looks cool It looked all right The throat pull thing was just nuts

It just shocked to me I'm like what does happen How did he do that And then he had the threat at the end of the film it's yeah i was like what is this we all knew what it was okay we saw it happen we saw it go down it went by so quickly for me i was so confused i was like wait what oh my god where i thought he like slashed his throat for a minute that's why i was like where did he get the weapon he is a he is a weapon he is a weapon he is the weapon he is the weapon okay he's a lethal weapon what i

appreciate is the instances of baited breath that they that they have in this movie like what's going to happen. You know, and it's everything. When, when, uh, they're in the car together, it's like, are they getting a kiss? And then, yes, they do. And then when they're in his house, it's like, he's kind of following around, like hunting, you know, like a deer hunter. Patrick Swayze has like pure magnetism, especially when he's looking at a woman. It's like, well, a woman he's interested in. Well, yeah. You know, when he, when he looks at the doctor, he has a type. And it's like, pow he doesn't blink he's all like I'm coming for you I'm gonna kiss you and she's just like I don't think I have a choice but I like it you know he has a type they're either married or

used to be married is this like in all the movies in this movie oh in this movie okay I thought this was like a blanket Patrick Swayzey in all movies well it is kind of poetic right because the person he killed was the woman's husband he didn't know that she was married and so the husband came after him, he had to put the guy down, right? And then here, he killed all the guy's goons first and then was like, maybe I don't want to do this again. Is that what it? Oh, that's what it was? I don't know. It just came to me right now. I guess that's what it was. That makes sense. I don't want to kill another woman's man, but they were not together anymore. So like, that's fine. Plus he's a dick. So not that I'm saying you should go around killing dickheads. But in a movie,

it's fine. He was a pretty good, bad guy. No, he was great. Yeah. Like, well, yeah, because they set him up really well. They gave you his perspective of a justification. Yeah. I thought that was interesting.

I was, the fight, the last fight scene was a little bit ropey, though. Like, I didn't know if they were going to actually do it, and they went for it. And it was just like, they gimped Patrick Swayze by him having a gunshot wound. But I'm like, we've seen him do some damage. We saw him make love to a woman with 10 stitches in his ribs. I feel like he, at that point, all bets are off. Like, he can do anything. He can do anything.

He is Superman. Yeah. Like, not only was he making love with 10 stitches in his ribs, she was against the wall. He was lifting her. Yes, he was lifting her. That required, you know, core strength. Let me tell you something. What?

Doctors recommend not lifting on the smallest of stitches. I had a, like, a growth or something once, and I had it removed by the dermatologist, and they're like, you cannot do any heavy lifting for two weeks. I'm like, two, wait, it's so tiny. It's like two stitches. They're like, no heavy lifting for two weeks. I'm like, God damn. And he's picking this bitch up and put it against the wall.

Listen, you have to do what you have to do. It would have been great if in that scene at the hospital when she was like, he's like, I don't need any Nova King or whatever the hell it is to numb the pain, right? It would have been great if when she stitched him, he just like had a tear truck. It was a good setup, though, because like, you know, at the start of the film, you're not really sure of what he's about. Like, there's an opportunity for a fight and he walks away from it. Right? And it's like he only does it when he's pushed to that limit.

And the thing is when he's like so calm and so centered, right? He's so even-handed until he's pushed to that limit. And then it's like he's crazy. Yeah, all bets are off. Yeah. Yeah. But. Then he's cussing.

Maybe it's just impatience on my part. Like I really wanted to see something to kind of indicate that he was a super badass, apart from how everybody was acting. around him and talking about him. But I guess leaving it until later and just, like, drawing it out was actually really good because, you know. Back then, it wasn't Netflix. It wasn't Amazon Prime. Right.

You were at the theater. Like, you paid the money. You found your seat because there was no assigned seating back then. And it's, you were there. Like, that was it. Yeah. So you were there for the ride. You were going to find out.

So one way or another, you were going to find, like people rarely left. I get, but I get what you're saying. No, it's just, it's different, right? Like, we're in a different time now. And so it's just interesting to kind of be like, okay, take a breath of Charra. Everything is going to reveal itself and we're going to see him be badass. I totally understand where you're coming from. And I would probably have the same opinion, but I don't.

Because I thought it was cool that they didn't give you what you expected. You know, it's like the expectation is that right out of the gate, ever since jaws, like right out of the gate, something crazy is going to happen. Jaws and Star Wars are the two films I feel like kind of set that precedent. Bam, right out of the gate. Crazy action. Something super exciting. But here it was like you got the, you got the, I don't know if it's ironic as the right word

or just the unexpected where this guy, you're expecting him to like mess them up. He's like, cool. And he walks back in. Yeah. You know, it sets up his character as this guy who's like, I'm not going to use this lethal weapon unless absolutely necessary. And speaking of his lethal weapon, his bull. body. I mean, it was also fun that everyone was always like, yeah, I thought I thought it'd be bigger. You know what I mean? And so it's kind of usurping our expectation again. That's the

word I'm looking for usurping your expectation. Yeah. Where we're just like, oh, we always expect bouncers to be these really massive guys. I mean, go to any bar these days. They're always just like, you know, six foot whatever and 250 pounds. But he, you know, he's a, you know, he's a, he's a life man and he you know he doesn't look super massive i feel like i feel like that had to be something that was said to him in the production or something and they're like yo we just got to make that part of the movie we're gonna keep that they're like i would be willing to bet five bucks that's not in the actual script okay you know what i mean yeah i'm not how are we going to you still haven't paid me the five bucks from that other bet hey this video's been over for 10 minutes

I don't know.