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Everything Action Commentary: Road House (1989)
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To celebrate the release of the new Road House on Amazon this week, Chris, along with special guests Justin and Addam watched the original 1989 Road House for the latest Everything Action Commentary.
Starring Patrick Swayze as America's greatest bouncer, Dalton, he's hired to try and clean up the Double Deuce, a bar where "they sweep up the eyeballs at the end of the night". While training a crew of bouncers to make the bar safer, Dalton runs afoul of local businessman Brad Wesley (Ben Gazzara), who is terrorizing businesses like the Double Deuce to try and drive them out of business so he can build a massive shopping complex.
While watching the movie, the guys talk about what it's like for Justin to see the movie for the first time, what genre the movie should fall into, how Dalton's NYU philosophy degree helps him fight, it's similarities to Footloose, Dalton's ridiculous barn loft and more.
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Transcript
Introduction and Setup
00:00:30
Speaker
Hello and welcome to another Everything Action commentary for March 2024. I'm your host, Chris, and joining us tonight is Justin. It's me. And Adam. Yo, what's good? So we're watching this movie in celebration of the new 2024 Roadhouse and
00:00:55
Speaker
You know, it's always good to throw on a Patrick Swayze movie now and then.
First Impressions of Roadhouse
00:00:59
Speaker
Uh, but months ago, Justin mentioned to me that he's never seen the original Roadhouse before. I didn't even know that this is your first time seeing this movie. I've like, I think I had a conversation with Chris and I'm like, I haven't, I haven't seen like any Swayze movies. I haven't seen like any Jean-Claude Van Damme movies or size like Expendables two or whatever one he was in. Damn, dude.
00:01:27
Speaker
Patrick Swayze movies.
Roadhouse's Cultural Impact
00:01:30
Speaker
Patrick Swayze isn't the typical action hero, but Roadhouse is one of those movies that a lot of people reference, a lot of pop culture comes around it. And then when you see where it comes from, like where all the memes of it or kind of like what our parents were swooning about, about Swayze and just sort of like dive bars, you're just left confused because it's still worth the hype, but it's just like,
00:01:56
Speaker
a nonsensical comedy action movie. Yeah.
00:02:00
Speaker
And a lot of people don't. There's this like weird thing like that happens, like the James Dean type thing, like where Patrick Swayze in this movie is a loser. Like, don't get it right. He's he's pretty much a loser that like keeps getting fired from jobs. He's like really good at like being a like a bouncer. That's like his claim to fame is being a bouncer.
00:02:27
Speaker
And he just keeps moving from town to town beating people up. Yeah, at least in the remake, they show that. Yeah, I mean, it's a totally 80s thing that that's just a career is I'm a traveling faster. It's that it's that mindset of like Desperado or whatever. They're trying to go for like this dude's like in the old west. He's very like clean cut and proper proper in a cert but still has like a kind of edge to him.
00:02:55
Speaker
And he works out shirtless a lot in this movie. There's a lot of shirtless shit going on in this movie. It's crazy. So mind you, Patrick Swayze did not have any martial arts skills. It's one of those things where he has a dance background first. And so you'll notice his fight style is what I call dance karate. It's going to be like Michael Jackson's scary movie. No, I think more like Footloose.
00:03:26
Speaker
If you take the same plot of Footloose and this, they are very similar. Another movie I haven't seen. Well don't worry, we're going to reference Footloose a lot, but you'll see what we mean. So we've got the movie queued up right before the MGM logo appears. You can catch this movie on Amazon Prime, and you can catch this movie on HBO Max, and probably 2B in the future. But for our copy, we're seeing this ad-free.
00:03:56
Speaker
We'll get started. So on my count, we'll start the movie. Three, two, one, play. Back when the line was practical.
00:04:36
Speaker
You know, based on that Neon logo, you think that's like the coolest like jazz bar or something? Yeah. Night one, the first bar. It's crazy to think this is like back in the day when people got dressed up just to go to the bar and now like, oh, oh yeah. And now the dressed up is like.
00:05:05
Speaker
baggy pants and oversized t-shirts like 90s like casual wear. There is something about like the late 80s early 90s adult wear that is just like it definitely ages them like it's just like oh are you 20 when you look like a 30 wear this like art piece cocktail guy got a lariat is that what you call that?
00:05:32
Speaker
Like, these are people probably in their mid-twenties. They all look like they're 50. Yeah, I know. That dude's definitely in his 50s. Oh my gosh, dude.
00:05:59
Speaker
Keith Davis? Oh shit. Yeah. You'll be surprised. Back when they didn't need to have smoke machines. Boobs.
00:06:20
Speaker
She's always dropping like $300 at a bar. What are you buying back then? Beer was like two bucks. Sam Elliott. Hell yeah. Yeah, buddy. This is a dude who's going to fight Patrick Squazy right away. The old, the guy's going to get his ass kicked. Nope. That's not what you think. Look how fake this money looks. It's so crazy.
00:06:52
Speaker
We've told you, Glenn Howard, you gotta go. I don't know, was he in the wrong? This woman stabbed his hundredth.
00:07:27
Speaker
Here it comes! Patrick Swayze's pants look super comfortable bro.
00:08:12
Speaker
You get one performance by Jeff Healy Band. Do you guys know what Jeff Healy was? Sounds familiar. He's a blank guitarist, but in this movie, it's kind of canonical that he knows Dalton for some reason.
Diversity in Portrayal
00:08:49
Speaker
Double deuce. As before, with turd deuce got a little more, I guess gentrified. I don't do janitorial work, sir.
00:09:23
Speaker
Oh, it's a romance movie now. We should, we should keep track of how many times Patrick Swayze is shirtless in this movie. This is crazy. I mean, it bounds up the nudity of like the women. You just get Swayze nude. You get a lot, you get a lot of nudity. Did he's flying him out?
00:09:50
Speaker
He doesn't fly. All right, Justin.
What If Swayze Was Batman?
00:09:52
Speaker
Okay. He's too cool to fly. Here's the thing. This guy is like, I need help my business stop buying like airplane tickets for people. And if Patrick Swayze watch Superman, he'd know statistically speaking, like flying is the safest way to travel. Well, I think this is one of the movies that like might have made him Batman or was like in the running because like
00:10:18
Speaker
In 1988, they were deciding like it was going to be Michael Keaton or Pat Swayze as Batman. I think Pat Swayze would have done a good job as Batman. Oh, you would have been a fun Bruce Wayne. I'm not sure about Batman, but I get him as Bruce Wayne. Like 80s Batman? Yeah, that makes sense. I'm in sleep.
00:10:58
Speaker
I don't want a car. I mean, that's entrapment. That guy was just like, oh yeah, here's your car. Like you've definitely murdered someone in that car and you're driving around a crime evidence. Oh dude, the headlights with their own windshield wipers. Hell yeah.
00:11:32
Speaker
I have a Seth Thomas clock.
Roadhouse as a Bar Concept
00:11:44
Speaker
You know, should have spent the money on making a better looking sign than airfare. Yeah, it's all this money flying mountain at the bars. It's like in like Poe Dunk US. Oh yeah. No, it is.
00:12:03
Speaker
I think Roadhouse is actually a type of bar. So, like, you get a more Midwest in the south. Yeah, we're still in the credits. What the fuck? It's still going. A lot of people made this movie.
00:12:30
Speaker
Yeah, meanwhile, that's Jeff Healy right there. Like, Jeff Healy was pretty popular in, like, the music industry, and he's at this- this place playing. Thank God.
00:13:08
Speaker
Does that work? I guess here it does.
Fashion Reflections of the 80s and 90s
00:13:37
Speaker
Oh?
00:13:41
Speaker
It's doing a little undercover boss action. One shirtless guy bopping with his jeans. This is a weird crowd, right? Look at the women who dress like they're from the other bar and then all the guys look like they just got off like third shift at a factory. Yeah. They're all like dressed up like hella fancy. And most of them have a sleeveless shirts.
00:14:17
Speaker
What? The guys in this town have no shame. She can only do that because she's a really bad pressure. He caused more issues than solving them right there. He's the anti Dalton. If you're not drunk, then you're out of here. That's.
00:14:55
Speaker
I didn't ask. Roadhouse.
00:15:50
Speaker
That solves it. Okay. Like, Hey, get this guy out of here. Meanwhile, the wall behind him is falling apart. No, this looks like a war zone happened, right? If you told me this bar is in the middle of the East, you're like, yeah, this makes sense. There was this guy that, um,
00:16:20
Speaker
He was a bouncer for a venue, I was at a reverb, if you guys have ever been over there. And dude looked straight up like Patrick Swayze and everyone called him Roadhouse. Did he appreciate it or he just didn't get it? I appreciate it, but dude would literally go to every venue like reverb, Crocodile Rock, literally with sleeveless shirts on all the time, looking like Swayze with the long hair. I mean, this inspired that tough guy attitude. It's like dad tough.
00:17:18
Speaker
I mean, how, how tough is it with, uh, hip.
00:17:35
Speaker
I like how you just throw a bottle at the van. You're just, that's okay at these places. He's got like the little squiggy. Oh, see, Justin, you hear this important detail? Yep. Ripped to start out. Yep. It's foreshadow.
00:18:07
Speaker
attitudes. Something's up with the drinking water. I mean, how desperate you gotta be dog. It gets crazy.
00:18:35
Speaker
Look at the people behind them. They're just joining in to watch. Hey, wait a minute. I'll have the money.
00:18:57
Speaker
You think a dude that's like offering his, his girl up like that wouldn't get so angry about that. I love the domino physics in this movie so much. So we're still within the first like 12 minutes of the movie. Like this is pretty much the same plot for almost every scene now. I'm about that.
00:19:40
Speaker
Oh, crap. Bunk. Dude.
00:20:13
Speaker
This isn't the only bar in town. It's not like this is everyone's first choice. Every night ends in a WrestleMania match. I'm surprised there's chairs left.
00:21:00
Speaker
Coming in a lot of dump trucks, please.
Comparing Characters in Film
00:21:23
Speaker
Big T.
00:21:38
Speaker
I'm just getting flashbacks to Bernie Mac and Transformers. It's kind of that. Every car salesman in shady places were just that. Please tell me he's going to pay in cash.
00:22:13
Speaker
So Adam is right that basically this guy is just like a drifter trying to settle like the West or in this case the Southwest. Cause I'm pretty sure Dalton doesn't have like a social security number. Yeah. Oh yeah. I just need to buy a car, straight cash and a couple of tires. Don't ask any questions. Live off the river.
00:22:43
Speaker
Imagine buying a super nice car and then this driving on the like most rough dirt road you can think of. I mean, that's just like, it's okay. But it's like a rusted out car. That's the point of why he bought it. It's just, it just has like a nice thing. But like, if you look at it, it's all beat up and shit. You'll see why later, but
00:23:09
Speaker
with this guy. Dude, he knows a lot. He's got a plan. This is not his first time doing this. I think this is one of those movies that everybody loves so much because they think that it's the same reason why if you're on the road or something like that and you go to a diner by yourself, you're sitting at the bar at the counter. You're like, oh, dude, I feel cool. I'm like a drifter in this town. Everybody idolizes this dude because he's like a...
00:23:37
Speaker
he's a cool guy he comes in he's about to live in like a loft apartment with a huge like look at this this is just this guy's barn this is above this guy's barn does the farmer live in this level too like i this has got like friends logic or some shit like that we're like he's in the middle of nowhere but he has this huge nicely furnished place
00:24:01
Speaker
Dude, above that barn would cost like two grand in my area or more. Like look at how nice it is up there. Why would you have like a kitchen in a sink? Oh, she's got the aluminum roof, but it sounds awesome when it rains. I think there's also a pool table in there from, if I'm mistaken, it's like so nice for no reason.
00:24:51
Speaker
So I forgot that that rich guy is the same type of rich guy that's in Big Lebowski. Play him by the same actor, too. We're just like an impossibly rich person who lives in this town. Yeah, they just flying a helicopter everywhere. It's inconveniencing everyone.
00:25:22
Speaker
Man, I just wish I could flex money all day.
00:25:47
Speaker
It's 3000 a month. Just if you understand, it's so crazy. Like I told you, this is a fantasy world that this man lives in. I pay a thousand a month for that place.
00:26:06
Speaker
See this guy in real life, in our universe, he lives in a single efficiency apartment above the bar that he's working at. This is the same attire you see like a jazz instructor would have. Yeah.
00:26:57
Speaker
It's a cool comedy. Yo, Swayze didn't blink once until he walked away. Damn.
00:27:27
Speaker
So many weird, tough people have tried to quote this. Wait, is that where the quote comes from? My Way of the Highway? No, exactly. But people saw Roadhouse and then are quoted unironically.
00:27:56
Speaker
Power drinkers. What the hell is a power drinker? You are. It's hard to realize you're in the shit when you're in the shit. That was two rules.
00:28:28
Speaker
I got a place had spare furniture to restock the whole floor again. All their furniture's in the basement of the. I have never been to a like,
00:28:58
Speaker
a bar or a club and the bouncers have been nice. I mean, that's because you're always drunk out of your mind, cursing at them. I don't know. I've always had a good time with bouncers. I'm always throwing the last, you know, I'm always offered to touch random women's boobs. It's just like, what happens?
00:29:24
Speaker
Dude, when we saw Steve Aoki, they were like dropping beer bottles from the second floor balcony. And I told the bartender about it. He's like, yeah, man, that just happens here. I'm like, what? You went to a modern day row house. Yeah.
00:29:47
Speaker
The way he's describing a road house is like a military operation. Like it's that kind of intensity that kind of built up. And it's the same people from the night before. Yeah, right. Yeah, man. They're regulars. Hey, how's high school?
00:30:28
Speaker
skimming off the top.
00:30:55
Speaker
Yeah, I thought he was going to hit him with that. What are you queer or something like that? Still breaking tables. That guy needs to go to the hospital. He's concussed.
00:31:25
Speaker
All right, now your turn. He slams her on the table. I'll shake it down. He breaks the other half. Wait, that's my name.
00:32:14
Speaker
He might as well finish at that point. Yeah, I know right. It's still the most romantic place in this bar. Damn.
00:33:12
Speaker
like gauge usually have a casualty once a month but yeah I need a t-shirt with every one of Swayze's one-liners on it pretty sure they exist somewhere again Roadhouse was like a phenomenal movie like it's one those like it's crossed like different cultures and it really made Swayze like
Swayze's Transition to Action Star
00:33:42
Speaker
I think it was before or after point break. I think it was before point break. I think it was like this then point break. It was just like, Hey, Swayze is an action star. He's a tough guy now. Cause I think in a year or two before it was, uh, I just love the dynamic. There's such a modern like rich house.
00:34:11
Speaker
right over the river from the Podunk farm. But Swayze is also, Dalton is also like a voyeur. Ah. Yeah. This is two years after Dirty Dancing. So it's another like Swayze is a tough guy, but now he's an action star tough guy.
00:34:40
Speaker
He's across a river. How is he able to like see all this? He's got eagle vision. Eyes of a hawk. Bitch, why you eat? Did that farmer and tear decorate this barn? Like it just doesn't make sense for this guy to have this nice of a place. I told you it's nice as shit. This is a fantasy world that he lives in.
00:35:11
Speaker
Like, this is a bed and breakfast he's staying in. This is something you'd see on, like, Airbnb as, like, an experience. Got the Marlboroughs on the 9th stand, 9th. Of course. Small town.
00:35:42
Speaker
We heard there was a guy beating off on the roof of the barn last night. I thought it's got to be dumb. Look at these fucking windows. That's awesome. How many bugs are getting in there?
00:36:29
Speaker
Like a breakfast and then a casual threat oh look the villain Yeah, this is the villain this guy who was just swerving and karaoking his car
00:36:53
Speaker
He does really play a good rich jackass. Not gonna lie. But he's like a cartoon villain. I didn't get his car back. He didn't even like repair everything. Oh, is that what it was? Well, he put tires in his trunk.
00:37:19
Speaker
Oh, that's right. Foreshadow. Yeah. Because he knew this would happen. Because Dalton is the man.
00:37:48
Speaker
But he's going to be seeing that guy a lot in this movie.
Dance and Martial Arts Fusion
00:38:27
Speaker
Damn.
00:39:01
Speaker
Is that an ascot or something else? Yeah, it definitely looks like an ascot. Maybe just some sort of silk scarf or something. The way he discovered that look, he's like,
00:39:32
Speaker
Like it's almost, he found like a gun, you know, he just like, look at the guy's license plate. Mercedes is this guy in one of them Nazis. I guess I could alternate like timeline is he's just like, he's just a Nazi that has escaped. He's escaped Germany and has taken a life on the road as a traveling bouncer that
00:39:59
Speaker
can't get caught by the law or else we'll find out he's actually had Nazi. I swear he looks like he rented like Bruce Lee's be like water training video once and then returned it after a day. Thought he was excited all the moves. That's one handsome man over there. Everyone's admiring him the farmer, the rich guy on a strike. I'd sure like to buy
00:40:30
Speaker
Of course they make him glisten. They had to film Patrick Swayze at the golden hour too. Not gonna lie, John Glovett damn did it better. Is the farmer turned on? The way he like moved his hair is like he's gonna like make him move. Oh golly, I'm gonna have to sneak into his loft tonight.
00:41:36
Speaker
That's me.
00:41:54
Speaker
Dude, this man pulled out a Rambo knife on him. Needing my giant knife. What was that fist stance? He's never fought in his life. I also like how, like, the lawyer gets in on this.
00:42:28
Speaker
And like the slowest dude around got Patrick Swayze. Take it outside.
00:42:58
Speaker
Got him. Escort these gentlemen to the door. Alright guys, I'm gonna take a nap in the back.
00:43:21
Speaker
there's a weird transition i thought at first i was like there's a hospital in the back because i don't know why they have like out of all of the extras they have like an old man with a couple of his own company or yes
00:44:00
Speaker
He carries around his own medical records by the way. That's not shady. That's another tough guy quote. Damn. That's an emo quote too.
00:44:57
Speaker
So a pointless degree. Cool. It's like every modern degree. So like the modern remake at least explains that Dalton was a fighter and not a philosopher. Hmm.
00:45:27
Speaker
But we'll see what happens. We check out the new remake and it's like somehow even weirder than this. Doesn't the new one have like Conor McGregor and Post Malone in it or something? Conor McGregor is like the anti Dalton. He's like a tough guy for the rich guy.
00:45:51
Speaker
But you'll see the anti-dalton later on again. Like you'll see another guy that is just as mullody as Swayze. Set episode of The Simpsons where the dude's mullet comes alive and like jumps off and starts fighting people. The monster truck is so ridiculous and stupid in this movie.
00:46:19
Speaker
You know, I thought they would hype up more about the helicopter, but that's just like a one-time thing, I think. Yeah. The monster truck makes an appearance multiple times. Nice. But I think you guys are right. Like I didn't really realize how jarring the transitions are. It doesn't, it just kind of jump cuts to the next thing. It's something kind of weird happening. Oh, the anti-dalton.
00:47:17
Speaker
Sister you want to say nephew
00:47:55
Speaker
It's that hairline. He's cracking up right there. This cowboy business dude's wearing look ridiculous.
00:48:32
Speaker
But my Tommy gun don't. Call the cleaner because there's shit in my driveway. Oh shoot, they first meet. So that's Johnny Reno. They don't really introduce him.
00:49:01
Speaker
I mean, he's there, but they don't say his name. At least I don't think so. Well, I just realized I haven't seen Keith David or Sam Elliott yet. Oh yeah. It's just like a long way than they show up. I don't know. Someone found out he was getting that $5 windshield.
00:49:35
Speaker
Does it look like Sarah Connor with a hat?
00:50:05
Speaker
All right, just the same. Anyway, back to more music. Just be like, I think it does.
00:50:35
Speaker
Oh my God. It's so weird to see him with color in his hair. Yeah. Everybody's real young in this movie. Oh my God. I don't see wrinkles when he smiles. Damn. He doesn't have like the signature voice yet. Yeah, not yet.
00:51:43
Speaker
So Samuel is I guess the mentor to Dalton. Yeah. It's like the final form of what Dalton could be. Oh, they take the cage down. And they got the waitress the same. Yeah.
00:52:05
Speaker
Also, the crowd got more clothes on. Like, there's no longer that shirtless dude. I think I saw a black guy in the crowd, too. Diverse Knight, yeah. Yeah, this is a whole different bar. Yeah. That's what he does, man. He's doing bar rescues before that was a thing. Man.
00:52:39
Speaker
Good night, Denise. Yeah. Dude, it's so stupid. It's so dumb. It's so dumb. What is that, a suburban over there? Oh my gosh.
00:53:12
Speaker
It's just like so inconvenient because you have to like jump down 10 feet. Oh, we got trouble. Big hauls. Hey, you the tap dance man.
00:53:49
Speaker
Oh shh. Get out. How'd she get outside already? She was performing.
00:54:23
Speaker
I guess they all stop. They watch his fight. Yeah. He just made this dude deaf by doing the ear clap thing. You got to figure like these people in this town, this is like the shit they live for. Yeah. It's like the town tradition. It's like a nightly tradition. Everyone fights at the double dues. Hell yeah, brother.
00:54:52
Speaker
Hey, you had to say that to the biggest guy in the world right there. Yeah, that was a weird transition right there. I thought my screen went black. That is just Roadhouse.
00:55:22
Speaker
Yeah. They went to somewhere like better. They went from the bar to just like another road house. It's still crazy to think that everybody was just like smoking inside all the time. There'll be kids in the next booth over. This kind of smells so bad on that set.
00:55:52
Speaker
You remember when they'd have real fires when they would do fire pit scenes in movies? Now it's all CGI. Well, that's why that new Dune is so good. It's because they made all the sets and shit like that. It was insane. They just threw them in the desert.
00:56:29
Speaker
It's okay. He's with me. That doesn't mean he could stay here. I have to close eventually. Damn. What time is it that where did they get the stop sign for like another mile away? It's gotta be like four AM because if the bars close, it's gotta be after two, right? Two or three.
00:57:20
Speaker
It looks like her hair is trying to run away from her face. A little bit. I mean, she's trying to pull off like that. Like bear faucet hair that Dalton has. But she doesn't have waves. I don't know, it could just be like the town look. That's what like what's in in Jasper.
00:57:49
Speaker
I don't know why, but she just looks like the kind of woman who grew up to be an awesome mom. That's very mature on you, Jason. I know. Right? I could have said, like, much more demeaning things. Keep watching the movie. Keep watching. There's an odd thing in the movie. Did he get that windshield yet? I mean, what's the point? Like, they're just going to fuck up his car again.
00:58:24
Speaker
I've been here the whole time. Like the girl said he's not hard to find. These guys can't find him. Do this music in this. He's got the Ace Ventura headhunting room. What?
00:59:03
Speaker
Oh shit. That guy has two pool tables just to show how wealthy this guy is.
00:59:57
Speaker
who yeah looks looks like he really really came up the heart of small loan of a billion dollars for my dad I remember the hard way I inherited
01:01:16
Speaker
I got Dalton's word about his record, I guess. Like that's why he's trying to live off the grid. No, I mean, he didn't get convicted for it.
01:01:46
Speaker
I'm not for sale. Another downward pan shot. Yeah. Cause they got to show how nice it is on the outside now. Neon signs. What bar is this? It's the same bar.
01:02:10
Speaker
Dude, why does it look so different on the outside? Because Dalton's so good at being a bouncer. Don't you get it? He's also an interior decorator. Yeah, dude, didn't you know that the most important part of a bar isn't the drinks or the service or anything? It's the bouncer. Yeah.
01:02:57
Speaker
Hey, it's the Keith Davis hire. Oh, there it is. Like if you notice this movie gets is getting more progressively nineties. There's like yuppies. Yeah. Jeff Healy's like hairstyle changed like four times already.
Dalton's Role Beyond Bouncing
01:03:54
Speaker
So, I mean, pretty much he is just like a road general manager. Like he's not actually like a bouncer. He's just taking care of all the businesses. That is true. I feel like the bouncing is just sort of like a side hobby. His main passion is just bar management. It would be funny if they had like opera glasses in that giant ass truck there.
01:04:22
Speaker
Like, are they trying to be inconspicuous? Because when you're in a monster truck, everyone knows you're in a monster truck. They're just, like, following him on the road. No, man, those are what they use to spec off. Like, I think that giant monster truck is following us. They use that in spec ops for stealth missions. Oh, shoot. I'm getting Smallville vibes now, taking the girl up to the loft and shit all the time.
01:04:56
Speaker
I love that it's like 95 degrees out. A lot of shit in there. I was going to get a diving board off the balcony of the window going to the river.
01:05:52
Speaker
The automotive place.
01:06:14
Speaker
So this is the point in the movie where every like dude that's watching, that's like forcing his girlfriend to watch this movie is like, look, see, I told you it's like a romance movie. The small town doctor falls in love with the, um, man. You like it. They didn't really go on a date before now. It just like they're in love. They went to the diner.
01:06:42
Speaker
He really is handling her like he's never touched a chick in his life. Mm hmm. Just like looking at. You don't smell your woman first. Is it now feel my titties? Well, I mean. They're going straight for that. Do you even kiss yet? It doesn't matter. Who needs to kiss when you're Patrick Swayze? She doesn't do. I guess never mind.
01:07:25
Speaker
Yeah, slam her against the brick wall. You're just scraping the rear back. Dude, it's like stones and shit. Oh, dude, that's gotta hurt so much. Her dress is like all torn up. Yeah.
01:07:44
Speaker
Yeah, that's not soft rock. Yeah, I was about to say, and I feel like back then they had probably an actual rock background right there and stuff like... Look at her face. She looks so uncomfortable. She's like, can we stop this? There's no markings on her back. It's unrealistic, bro.
01:08:10
Speaker
He's sweating so much carrying her 95 degree weather. Like he said, there's actually a pretty ballsy shot. Not going to lie for the cameraman to not be in the reflection of the mirror or the window right there. Yeah. Pretty ballsy. Pretty good. Yeah.
01:08:41
Speaker
Pretty buddy. Just philosophizing. Remember when I told you I had a degree in philosophy? I didn't know you were a philosophizer. Do you mind if I sit on this hot roof with you? Oh yeah, is there roof aluminum? That's not a deck. That's just the roof. They're just out a window.
01:09:09
Speaker
just get up their asses are both like black charcoal black meanwhile the main villain is across the lake just like looking out his window like what the fuck just crank it
01:09:35
Speaker
The length you gotta go to to get a primary physician in this country, am I right guys? Oh! American health insurance sucks! Sorry, man. I'm a traveler. I don't think so, Tim. Dude, it must be nice to have your body be one skin tone.
01:10:06
Speaker
I'm jealous, man. It's winter time and I still have a farmer's tan.
01:10:18
Speaker
This shot is so funny. He's rocking in and out of frame. Just like watching them fuck on the roof. That is so hilarious too. Cause he has all the lights on and like literally anybody could see him right now. If I was Swayze, I would have literally just walked off my roof and right into my car. Like just drove it away.
01:10:46
Speaker
I figured you need a horse trough. That's a horse trough. He's not even asking how he knew. He's like, yeah. Oh yeah. I forgot that you live in the house next door and we were fucking on the roof last night. So you most likely saw us.
01:11:11
Speaker
I mean, it's a barn. It looks so much cleaner. Oh, my gosh, dude. But it's transforming to like a fifties diner. They got a grant for Johnny Rockets. But if you go to a Johnny Rockets, they wear the same colors like red and a checkerboard like it's just it's becoming a Johnny Rockets. A carpeted stage sounds so rough. Sounds so disgusting.
01:11:38
Speaker
It's so a bar, people spill drinks and I have to smell like terrible. And they're smoking. They're nonstop smoking. The carpet's just absorbing the smell of that smoke. Monster truck? Yeah, go truck. Oh.
01:12:12
Speaker
Buddy.
01:13:11
Speaker
Alright, time for some dance karate again. Meanwhile, the one dude's job is as a freak as one dude. He literally just kicked him into that thing of bottles.
01:13:39
Speaker
land they live in where like the bouncers are famous. Meanwhile, he's like 10 years older than Sam Elliott karate.
01:14:09
Speaker
Don't you dick punches. Hey Justin, I bet you didn't have a thing seeing Sam Elliott fucking do karate moves. Nah dude. I think the most action I've ever seen him do shit in is in Ghost Rider and even then he didn't do much.
01:14:38
Speaker
Now that we've ruined all the alcohol. The black guy in the back's like, who's Wade Garrett? Am I supposed to know this guy?
01:15:07
Speaker
Next town. I want to take you to the hospital. I hope there's a 4k release of this. Sir, you can't park there. If this was a modern day, he'd have to pay like 10 bucks to park there for two hours.
01:15:39
Speaker
What are we laughing at? That's just some Sam Elliott seconds. He's going to whip it out.
01:16:27
Speaker
Nice You gonna pay for that?
01:16:43
Speaker
Yeah, they're just having a bender. Like they're just drinking all night, dancing in front of the Colt 45 son. He's living Texas. Oh yeah. Patrick's supposed to get beat up like hours ago. Yeah. He already recovered dude. It's a lot of meditation.
01:17:23
Speaker
I'm trying to tell you how great I am. Steal the girl. Do it. Sam Elliott, it's what you're dating.
01:18:04
Speaker
Hell yes.
01:18:40
Speaker
Right, this movie's about like, ethics apparently. Yeah.
01:19:11
Speaker
Yeah. There's definitely no other options. Yeah. I don't know how girls just be napping like that. I mean, she's like the town doctor. Yeah. So she could have like graveyard shifts. We don't know.
01:19:55
Speaker
Dude, what is that symbol that's like vertical? The crazy thing is it's like, Oh my God. That's so high above his head.
01:20:49
Speaker
All right, how does town have like this many like, I don't know, like, well to do people dressed up like this?
01:21:04
Speaker
It's as if the crowd from the beginning part of the movie traveled all the way here to go to this bar, too. Yeah, do they completely destroyed them? God damn. My meth factory. I mean, my tire store.
01:21:59
Speaker
Uh-oh. Oochy-coochy man.
01:23:01
Speaker
In terms of sexy dancing, I mean, I get it. Oh, not on the carpet, but it's definitely evolved since then. The smoke-infested carpet.
01:23:28
Speaker
Alright lady, you can't just hump the pillars like... Nah, six ways, like this is a no whore zone. This is a family establishment. Hey, pinball machine back there. I do like how even though the people are dress fancier now, it's still the same scumbags that come to this bar.
01:23:58
Speaker
The car, imagine the guitar player's like, guys, what's going on? She's not covering anything up. I do miss like 90s underwear. They used to be basically like a kite.
01:24:28
Speaker
It's something about it where they didn't quite figure out lingerie yet. So he's actually like an actual kickboxer. It's bizarre.
01:25:04
Speaker
That's right. Sam Elliott put like the, uh, samurai like Keanu Reeves style haircut. I feel like I would make fun of a guy if he did started doing that. He's like a pull cue as like a staff.
01:25:49
Speaker
Was that guy even part of the crew? That old guy that grabbed Sam Elliott?
01:26:14
Speaker
Oh shoot, okay! Also, the strongest pool cube ever. Is that playing reverse? That was a Bruce Lee move right there. You! But I mean, Sam Elliott karate's holding up against this dude. Yeah.
01:27:34
Speaker
Mmm.
01:28:14
Speaker
Oh yeah, like, there's no cops in this town. I've realized, like, we've never seen any police. Pretty much. It is, like, it's the Wild West and there's just no law. Besides, like, we've seen the fire department, but no police presence at all in this town. Good.
01:28:58
Speaker
Punch buggy. Dumbass. Stupid truck man. Doug Demedone mustache.
01:29:33
Speaker
No, my certified pre-owned vehicles. No. Oh, that's how they get them in there. This is all the budget right here, dude. I just feel like people think this is actually a car dealership promotion. I forgot she was in the movie.
01:30:16
Speaker
You alright, dude? The town is always everywhere. The hospital's next. I'll send my monster truck out your way.
01:30:48
Speaker
It's a really dumb idea though. He's like, I'm just gonna, Hey, you know how small this town is? I'm just going to destroy all the businesses in it. He probably fired the cops in the town earlier.
01:31:25
Speaker
What is he hitting? This is a stick in the car. Snuck up on you, buddy. He's just got to hope all his enemies are the same height as that.
01:33:03
Speaker
When they kiss. Oh, yeah, right. Now kiss. Roadhouse, a bromance movie. Dude, Swayze's hair is no volume right now. You're not my real dad.
01:33:34
Speaker
I'm still shirtless. I've lost count now. I think it was like 12th time. Definitely be a good drinking game. It's just drink every time you see him shirtless. You don't know me. That's not my purse.
01:34:04
Speaker
Whoa, whoa, his kind? Whoa. What are those pants?
01:34:33
Speaker
I don't know, man. I was just looking at him, too. Like, what's going on there? It's a Michael Bay explosion. Damn. Yes, I was hoping he would do that. I told you. So one thing I was looking forward to. Is it backflipping to the house?
01:35:06
Speaker
The whole house. He's in his red underoos. Please tell me he's got an ass flap in the back. Oh yeah, he's an old school farmer, which is a onesie pajama underwear. He's such a good villain, dude. He's such a hateable guy. That's great. He's in this mess with an old dude who's got a farm, man. Wow.
01:35:38
Speaker
Just like evil for evil's sake. It'd be funny if this didn't have to do anything with the bad guy. Like, this was just like the farmer's drunk accident. Now it's personal. Just so they can catch him.
01:36:10
Speaker
Well.
01:36:47
Speaker
Nice dude. Nice dance kick. I feel like Swayze did more fall damage with that kick, like the dropping leg strike or something. Probably hurt his own knee. That's the roundhouse. Swayze looks like a burnt turkey, man.
01:37:15
Speaker
We got a lot of sunburns in the bar. In the barn he's in doing barn karate. Well he's shirtless all the time. No sunscreen. Yup, another tough guy in line that just sounds weird.
01:37:49
Speaker
You used to eat shit for breakfast? Mm-hmm. Oh! Some dirty dancing moves.
01:38:24
Speaker
Nice dude. Oh yeah, where the hell did she go? The throat ripped. There you go.
01:38:56
Speaker
Dude, it's soaking. He's not breathing. He should have said like, by the way, Doc, my philosophy is death. Was there ever like a shitty sequel made to this movie? Yeah. Wait, really? Yeah. Oh my God. Yes. It has nothing to do with this at all. That's exactly what I expect.
01:39:27
Speaker
It came out in 2006. It was one of those like, why? They just wanted to cash in on it. It sounds like it would have been straight to DVD then, too. I think so. I think it was straight to DVD. Oh, that's great. We got to watch that next. It does not capture how insane this movie is. Look, if you saw the first five minutes of the movie and were going for it, how did we see this? This just goes out of nowhere.
01:39:54
Speaker
He murdered a man by ripping his throat out, threw him in the pond. It's a pond. It's not like a river is going to go down. He's not going to go downstream, but the cops are going to fight him later in a different town. You know what? The double juice keeps getting bigger and bigger. Yeah, I know.
01:41:17
Speaker
That was quick. Oh, no, not Sam.
01:42:07
Speaker
Just keep running from your problems.
01:42:58
Speaker
Listen, we love our crop town. No one wants to leave. Everyone wants to run a business here. It's fine.
01:43:27
Speaker
It's so quiet. No.
01:43:57
Speaker
Patrick Swayze needs to set fire to his entire mansion. Please. I'm too cool to cry. I don't know. It's getting a little wet in beneath the islands right there. Nope, nope, nope, nope. There it is. Yeah. Nope. That's evidence. Don't do that.
01:44:26
Speaker
Oh that shot though. That was a good shot. You know, they killed the big bad henchmen really early because like, who did that? Who killed Sam Elliott? Was it one of these guys? Yeah, probably. Probably like ganged up on him. He was already beaten up whenever like he limped in there. He's pretty weak.
01:44:57
Speaker
Oh, this is a great scene. The best weapon to shoot long range, don't you know? Oh my God, dude, that's hilarious.
01:45:30
Speaker
A waste of a car. That's right, he has seven more. What do you mean he's not in there? That's not really how that works, but all right.
01:45:56
Speaker
The guy just, he was still wearing it without the knife in it. Like this should have been the big bad guy left, right? Like, I feel like.
01:46:25
Speaker
No, they did it at a decent time because it kind of like motivated this bad guy to kill one of his friends. I guess I guess they killed that one guy. So it's like revenge for killing, you know, Johnny Jimmy Reno. A plant get it.
01:46:59
Speaker
I thought he was going to throw that knife at first. Awesome. Here's the thrown knife. It's definitely how you'd die from that.
01:47:26
Speaker
I like how he shot a shock on maybe like two inches to the left and completely miss Patrick's raise. He like no spray involved. Say what you will, but this dude definitely dresses real comfortable. This guy, the biggest dude is trying to sneak around.
01:47:59
Speaker
Meanwhile, he's over here like Darth Vader breathing. Was that a curly thing?
01:48:33
Speaker
What does that even mean? I guess they're both bears. Because they're big bears. Yeah. That was such a progressive joke. Dude, look at all the heads in there, and then there's a little teeny tiny coffee table where he brags to people about how much shit he's killed.
01:49:33
Speaker
You guys got all the pictures, too? Such a flex. It's a whole wall. God damn. I want to see what's more about this house, because it's like the two pool halls, the trophy room, photos of him, private celebrities. Dude, if I was like the props guy in this movie, I would sneak like a pterodactyl head and put it on the wall or something. It's in the same arm in the same area he got cut.
01:50:03
Speaker
for the beginning of the movie. Keep these African spears just handy. I knew I'd use them for something. But the main villain uses a spear like a broom handle. I think he got all those animals here.
01:50:35
Speaker
He's one of those guys, he's like, each spear tells a story. Yeah, he wasn't like, remember he said like, even the biggest guy, you hit him in the knee. Yeah, oh, damn, you're right. But that's not the biggest guy, like he was just like an older rich guy.
01:51:02
Speaker
Yeah, everyone's got like a little midget cricket gun. Well, that's why it's kind of crazy how everyone in this town is willing to brawl, but no one is just like loose with the gun laws. Killed every one of your minions, but I'm gonna just stop at you.
01:51:36
Speaker
He blends in with the couch. Nice. Go all RoboCop on him. Just sit down, man.
01:52:07
Speaker
Nice. Now we're all going to keep quiet about this, right? Because we all team murdered this man. So there's the cops finally. The cops were just scared the whole movie.
01:52:44
Speaker
There's a sheriff.
01:53:28
Speaker
See it ends on a comedy note even though it's like everybody's dead everyone just keeping dark secrets Did did this movie become Miami Vice what's going on now? I see him back there
01:54:00
Speaker
Did Patrick Swayze just get the dude's property now too? Did he inherit the property? No, he's still living in the barn. Is this still the murder pool? Like the murder pod? Yup. The dude is literally sitting like on the embankment right there while she's like butt ass naked.
01:54:41
Speaker
Okay, that was actually better than I thought it'd be. Yeah, Roadhouse is like that. Like, the cover, the mystique about it, you think it's gonna be this, like, action-packed throw ride, but it's not. It's like, it's got breaks for comedy. It's got, like, romance in shoehorning in there. Oh, shoot, Chino Fats Williams is the derelict.
01:55:09
Speaker
Yeah, I think overall I was just expecting it to be like glorified action movie, but it was just like there were so many like classic one-liners and like just I don't know. I had this weird charm to it. That's what Roadhouse is. I mean, it's a charming movie and it's like it holds up for just like a point in nostalgia. I just don't think it holds up as like an action classic. Yeah.
01:55:39
Speaker
I guess there's a, there's got to be a vinyl soundtrack to this movie. Soundtracks pretty good. Like it's country. It's got that, like, I dunno, uh, not pop, but like almost like classic rock. Oh yeah. And it starts with music. You would hear in an actual Roadhouse bar and then just transforms into more modern 90s stuff.
01:56:08
Speaker
I was surprised there wasn't like an early rap song or something that started in this movie. Yeah, no, this is this is definitely like a movie of an error that kind of it has that. I don't know that that feeling to it like back when this movie came out, there's like a lot of other older movies that were similar to it with this style, like I said before, of like this.
01:56:34
Speaker
kind of renegade dude that comes from town to town nobody really knows what he is kind of like that old western shooter like spaghetti western type thing where a guy like nobody knows his name but like everybody underestimates him and he kicks everybody's ass and he's he's just cool as shit for no reason whatsoever and it's like this kind of like
01:56:56
Speaker
I don't know. There's fantasy that like everybody wants to live out in their, that everybody wants to live out in their mind. And I mean, that's what I want to do. Yeah. And it's, and it's, and it's funny because it's not like, like Chris said, it's not like a, an action movie in the action movie sense. Like in comparison to like the other movies that are like in the same genre as this, this has like a very, I don't even, I would say like, uh,
01:57:26
Speaker
more emotional side to it, I guess, because it's trying to. Like Sam Elliott's character in this movie is is literally just like a projection of himself in the future. Like it's who he sees himself becoming if he doesn't stop this lifestyle of continually going from bar to bar stopping. So they they give him this like alternate ending where it's like, yeah, he's just going to die.
01:57:54
Speaker
You know what I mean? So that's why it becomes like, oh, well, I'm going to stay in this town and like live with some roots. Yeah. Did you see it? The end credits, it said the soundtrack is on compact discs. This is from 1989. Yeah. CDs weren't just a thing yet. I mean, I know they were invented, but like, I don't remember people having CDs like commonly in their houses until like mid to late 90s. Yeah. Well, they were all
01:58:23
Speaker
CDs back then were still like as expensive. And then when mass production of them, then they started getting like, I don't know, $20, like in that price range.
Vinyl Records and Collectible Culture
01:58:34
Speaker
Yeah, I remember like I would scroll through a CD like if I got like Britney Spears or something like that, you know, I'd like open, turn each page because they all had full lyrics to every song on there. Yeah, I do miss lyric stuff.
01:58:50
Speaker
Yeah, that's why I buy vinyl records now because they come with all the collectible shit. You know, I'm not surprised there isn't like a Roadhouse reprinting on vinyl or something because like there's definitely a niche crowd for Roadhouse. You know, there's if you if you like Google Roadhouse memes and references, you'll see like it is like what some people think is like a tough guy movie and
01:59:16
Speaker
At times it is because it is like a new Western. I think that's like the right term because it is like a Western where a guy is a drifter, shows up in a town, takes up the garbage. But in terms of like, I don't know how it falls in a real job, it's just like, yeah, you're just a bar manager. And I'm not sure you could just do that.
01:59:41
Speaker
But yeah, it's just a huge fantasy movie where you can do dance karate and rip throats out and get away with murder. Like a lot of murder by the end. And I totally forgot the philosophy part of this movie. It just like slips my mind where he was a philosopher and his whole thing was being a life. And then I guess at the end he throws it out because then he's just murdering people.
02:00:09
Speaker
He was probably like a hit man at some point. And then he went to the philosophy class and feel like he didn't have to do that. So he's just going to live his life as a bouncer. We'll live a little bit more low profile. Yeah. No, I think he's more like.
02:00:24
Speaker
that that's kind of also playing into like the stereotype of like he's just like a very everybody kind of underestimates him and doesn't don't know how like intelligent he is and like he has this weird like zenness to him that nobody really understands and
02:00:49
Speaker
Oh, I always thought that was so funny. Like they'd say, like, he's like, Oh, he doesn't look like he can fight. But meanwhile, the guy looks like he's like six, five and like works out. Yeah. Well, I'm out do it for us for roadhouse. Uh, and, uh, Justin, where can people see more of you?
02:01:12
Speaker
I am on Instagram pretty much just posting about my adventures, cons and movie reviews and stuff like that. This is JJ Lomas entertainment with the at sign in front of it, of course. And Adam, where can people see more of you if
Social Media Handles
02:01:30
Speaker
they like. It's on Instagram as well. Uh, I don't know. I suppose pictures of my cats. Yeah. Two, three, one, five. We'll post links attached to this content.
02:01:43
Speaker
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