We're all just fools to believe that we have anything Morbs needs.
― The ever dapper nicolars (Nicole), Thursday, 8 October 2009 14:41 (fourteen years ago) link
I did, to the degree it can be watched. Sam Elliott can almost redeem anything.
Funny how Keith David gets billing and is left with about one line!
xp
― A Patch on Blazing Saddles (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 8 October 2009 14:42 (fourteen years ago) link
also, I used to fuck guys like you in prison.
― A Patch on Blazing Saddles (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 8 October 2009 14:43 (fourteen years ago) link
Well now I'm imagining Morbz with a mullet.
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 8 October 2009 14:45 (fourteen years ago) link
there's something very charmingly morbz-ian about him scanning through the DVD to find a swayze interview, even in a movie that is kind of beneath his standards and all.
― Aspergeratus (Eisbaer), Friday, 9 October 2009 08:29 (fourteen years ago) link
he is a doctor and he is thorough
― latebloomer, Friday, 9 October 2009 08:30 (fourteen years ago) link
Kelly Lynch makes it clear in her interview what a thoroughly shitty movie it is, while PS is "It's the story of two lost souls..."
― Your Favorite Saturday Night Thing (Dr Morbius), Friday, 9 October 2009 08:34 (fourteen years ago) link
Reminds me of something Denise Richards says on the extras from the Starship Troopers DVD:
"it's about life and love, and this and that....and the war!"
― latebloomer, Friday, 9 October 2009 08:44 (fourteen years ago) link
does it bother you, morbz, that ben gazzara is infinitely better known to everyone (even film geeks) as brad wesley in road house than for anything he ever did w/ cassavetes (or anything else, for that matter)?
shit, i wonder what gazzara himself thinks of this distinction -- and if anyone ever asked him.
― crack?!? wow, maybe they can have china white later! (Eisbaer), Saturday, 10 October 2009 17:53 (fourteen years ago) link
I don't know who these "film geeks" would be. Sound more like Gen Y shitheads.
― Your Favorite Saturday Night Thing (Dr Morbius), Saturday, 10 October 2009 20:24 (fourteen years ago) link
(watching anything that comes on basic cable does not confer some cineaste cred upon an individual)
― Your Favorite Saturday Night Thing (Dr Morbius), Saturday, 10 October 2009 20:25 (fourteen years ago) link
imo gazzara is way better in road house than in anything by cassavetes
but i like judd apatow so what do i know
― fleetwood (max), Saturday, 10 October 2009 20:37 (fourteen years ago) link
yeah -- in fact, my favorite scene in road house is the one where gazzara is driving down the road in his convertible singing along to some old doo-wop song and swerving all over the damn place.
― crack?!? wow, maybe they can have china white later! (Eisbaer), Sunday, 11 October 2009 14:31 (fourteen years ago) link
"Sh-boom!"
― Ned Raggett, Sunday, 11 October 2009 15:50 (fourteen years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QwunAssLQ4I
― crack?!? wow, maybe they can have china white later! (Eisbaer), Sunday, 11 October 2009 19:49 (fourteen years ago) link
yes, that is his best scene.
I first think of Gazzara in Anatomy of a Murder
― Your Favorite Saturday Night Thing (Dr Morbius), Sunday, 11 October 2009 19:52 (fourteen years ago) link
"rescreening" Road House. Forgot the part with the monster truck, the bit where he rips the guy's throat open with his bare hands, and "Tails again!"
― Times New Excels At (jim in glasgow), Friday, 7 May 2010 21:55 (fourteen years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tdGrB3Za4_o
― Spleen of Hearts (kingfish), Tuesday, 21 February 2012 05:39 (twelve years ago) link
― Your Favorite Saturday Night Thing (Dr Morbius), Friday, October 9, 2009 1:34 AM (nine years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
i've been thinking about an ex-ILXor's recent tweet a lot, in that the power of Swayze in Point Break but also Road House is the ^^^^deep sincerity with which he plays the roles. A lesser actor would have winked his way through them. the roles aren't devoid of humor but they're not jokes.
― omar little, Wednesday, 1 May 2019 23:49 (five years ago) link
True. He fully commits to the ride.
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 2 May 2019 00:28 (five years ago) link