The Genius that is Patrick Swayze

http://i27.tinypic.com/2vi5gzm.jpg

haven't seen many of the clas[sic]s, but vaya con Dios

also I hope your life as a ghost blows away that garbage movie

NIGGA I'M GHOST LIKE SWAYZE

holy shit that roller disco trailer on neds blog is like ?!

rip

(oh, the trailer is ^^^ also)

http://www.maryellenmark.com/text/magazines/us%20weekly/images/222H-013-009.jpg

RIP James Dalton, I hope you rode that once-in-a-lifetime wave into infinity.

My girlfriend, who had a bit of a (ostensibly ironic, but really, I think, real) passion for Swayze, once informed me that his favorite color was "faded black."

Make of that what you will.

Wish this were a YT so I could post it directly, but still classic nonetheless.

http://ladynwavsone.com/sheslikethewind.html

Sheesh. Let's remember the good times.

I blame Dan Brown.

http://www.collider.com/uploads/imageGallery/Point_Break/point_break_movie_image_patrick_swayze.jpg

RIP,
King-like Bodhisattva.
Suffer no more.

Thanks for the good times.

the day the feather hair died.

really, I'm sorry he's gone, but his interview on the Road House DVD ... not the brightest bulb on the marquee,

So you rented it eh.

hell no! Library.

but still you WATCHED it

We're all just fools to believe that we have anything Morbs needs.

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

also, I used to fuck guys like you in prison.

Well now I'm imagining Morbz with a mullet.

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.

he is a doctor and he is thorough

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..."

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!"

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.

I don't know who these "film geeks" would be. Sound more like Gen Y shitheads.

(watching anything that comes on basic cable does not confer some cineaste cred upon an individual)

imo gazzara is way better in road house than in anything by cassavetes

but i like judd apatow so what do i know

imo gazzara is way better in road house than in anything by cassavetes

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.

"Sh-boom!"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QwunAssLQ4I

yes, that is his best scene.

I first think of Gazzara in Anatomy of a Murder

"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!"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tdGrB3Za4_o

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, 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.

True. He fully commits to the ride.