IT'S A SWAYZ-OFF
― HI DERE, Tuesday, 9 October 2007 17:22 (sixteen years ago) link
Dirty Dancing wins because it was years before I figured out that anyone in it was Jewish. I mean, huh? This is what happens when you grow up in Whitehall. But the point is that when I realized it was rly about religion & class it suddenly seemed so much DEEPR, MAN. Therefore win.
― Laurel, Tuesday, 9 October 2007 17:24 (sixteen years ago) link
"Dirty Dancing" would win if Jennifer Grey tore out someone's throat at a pivotal moment.
― HI DERE, Tuesday, 9 October 2007 17:24 (sixteen years ago) link
These are the bullet items under "Subjects" in the NY Public Library online catalog for the Road House DVD:
Bouncers -- Drama. Bars (Drinking establishments) -- Drama. Crime -- Drama. Male friendship -- Drama. Man-woman relationships -- Drama. Feature films. Video recordings for the hearing impaired.
― Dr Morbius, Tuesday, 9 October 2007 17:28 (sixteen years ago) link
The best part is when you click on "Bouncers -- Drama," RH is the only title that comes up.
― Dr Morbius, Tuesday, 9 October 2007 17:30 (sixteen years ago) link
lolololol
― HI DERE, Tuesday, 9 October 2007 17:30 (sixteen years ago) link
"Cocktail" beats both movies.
― snoball, Tuesday, 9 October 2007 17:31 (sixteen years ago) link
it's really sad that films like these can't get made nowadays.
― latebloomer, Tuesday, 9 October 2007 17:33 (sixteen years ago) link
I HAVE seen the good Road House, tho:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0040740/
― Dr Morbius, Tuesday, 9 October 2007 17:34 (sixteen years ago) link
But have you seen Road House 2?
― Oilyrags, Tuesday, 25 December 2007 00:29 (sixteen years ago) link
LOL the glory of old-school ILX in this exchange:
roadhouse has bloooze - fuck that!
-- cinniblount (James Blount), Wednesday, November 12, 2003 10:47 AM (4 years ago) Bookmark Link Late eighties bloooze at that. The music NOBODY likes.
-- Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, November 12, 2003 10:55 AM (4 years ago) Bookmark Link micheloeb liked it
-- cinniblount (James Blount), Wednesday, November 12, 2003 10:57 AM (4 years ago) Bookmark Link Nobody likes Micheloeb either.
-- Alex in NYC (vassifer), Wednesday, November 12, 2003 10:58 AM (4 years ago) Bookmark Link that's the truth!
-- cinniblount (James Blount), Wednesday, November 12, 2003 10:59 AM (4 years ago) Bookmark Link Wisdom has been achieved!
-- Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, November 12, 2003 11:01 AM (4 years ago) Bookmark Link
― Eisbaer, Tuesday, 25 December 2007 00:56 (sixteen years ago) link
I'm addicted to Roadhouse. I've watched it about once a week for the last month.
Also, Michelob is better than a lot of overpriced, overhoppy bullshit microbrew stuff (the brown bottle regular michelob not MGD)
― M@tt He1ges0n, Monday, 24 March 2008 20:36 (sixteen years ago) link
ugh no
― HI DERE, Monday, 24 March 2008 20:38 (sixteen years ago) link
roadhouse or michelob??? they are both great!!!!
― M@tt He1ges0n, Monday, 24 March 2008 22:46 (sixteen years ago) link
Roadhouse is awesome! Michelob... is not.
― HI DERE, Monday, 24 March 2008 22:52 (sixteen years ago) link
BULLROAR DAN!!! okay....I've converted many to the Michelob...when --- BE HONEST --- was the last time you had some brown bottle michelob????
― M@tt He1ges0n, Monday, 24 March 2008 22:56 (sixteen years ago) link
1994. It was cheap and I wanted beer. I later decided that, for the price point, Meister Brau has better flavor per cent.
― HI DERE, Monday, 24 March 2008 22:57 (sixteen years ago) link
(Then again I really genuinely like overly-hoppy microbrews, usually the hoppier the better.)
― HI DERE, Monday, 24 March 2008 22:58 (sixteen years ago) link
Dude, Michelob has really come into it's own! : )
also, you must have been in heaven given how much SUMMIT flows around here.
― M@tt He1ges0n, Monday, 24 March 2008 22:59 (sixteen years ago) link
That was also the period of time when I drank tons and tons of malt liquor by choice, even when I could afford more expensive booze.
― HI DERE, Monday, 24 March 2008 23:01 (sixteen years ago) link
Dan and his Mickey's Big Mouths, I'm telling ya.
Ever since Phil/unperson observed that Road House is as much of a fantasy film as The Lord of the Rings my appreciation for its inanities has grown stronger. But even I still can't answer the exact question I originally posed.
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 25 March 2008 01:03 (sixteen years ago) link
Watching RH for a nth time again right now. So good. Just coming up to the big love scene.
― Ned Trifle II, Tuesday, 29 April 2008 21:13 (sixteen years ago) link
roadhouse is amazing i could watch it everyday
― M@tt He1ges0n, Tuesday, 29 April 2008 22:41 (sixteen years ago) link
"You're too stupid to have a good time!"
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 29 April 2008 22:44 (sixteen years ago) link
"what if he calls my mother a whore"
"IS she?"
― M@tt He1ges0n, Tuesday, 29 April 2008 22:52 (sixteen years ago) link
"I used to fuck men like you in prison"
But, more importantly, at the end when our hero jumps (nude?) into the lake he runs past someone sitting by the side of the lake. Who is that supposed to be?
― Ned Trifle II, Tuesday, 29 April 2008 23:04 (sixteen years ago) link
CRISTAL I like nice tits. I always have. How about you?
NOMI I like having nice tits.
CRISTAL How do you like having them?
― Tracer Hand, Sunday, 4 May 2008 23:29 (sixteen years ago) link
"It must be weird, not having anybody cum on you"
― Tracer Hand, Sunday, 4 May 2008 23:36 (sixteen years ago) link
pain don't hurt
― latebloomer, Monday, 5 May 2008 05:39 (sixteen years ago) link
-- latebloomer, Sunday, May 4, 2008 10:39 PM (9 minutes ago) Bookmark Link
― chaki, Monday, 5 May 2008 05:50 (sixteen years ago) link
Gina Gershon, yesterday (second from right):
http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2008/05/05/theater/Boeing1650.jpg
Context.
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 5 May 2008 05:56 (sixteen years ago) link
i am watching road house right now
― latebloomer, Monday, 5 May 2008 07:18 (sixteen years ago) link
nobody ever wins a fight
― M@tt He1ges0n, Wednesday, 7 May 2008 20:23 (sixteen years ago) link
patrick s has cancer :-((((((
― stevienixed, Wednesday, 7 May 2008 20:26 (sixteen years ago) link
^^ i know that's super sad :(
i saw him on the cover of people in the grocery store, i had no idea he was sick.
― M@tt He1ges0n, Wednesday, 7 May 2008 20:37 (sixteen years ago) link
patrick swayze's going to die. you're going to die and i'm going to die. everyone's going to die.
BUT THESE TWO MOVIES WILL LIVE FOREVER
― Tracer Hand, Wednesday, 7 May 2008 22:06 (sixteen years ago) link
i can't stop thinking about showgirls, i actually think it is a great film, not "so bad it's good" at all. everything about it is great. the acting is fantastic, the casting is perfect, there's a million little details, a million little rhymes and "grace notes", the ending is ambiguous, berkeley's character is totally compromised yet winsome, and if you think about it the whole thing is a backstage story, the underside of the glitz, the division of labour that keeps the dream factory alive; it's about the workers. that creepy scene with gina gershon and her fingernails. the fantasy of re-invention. sex as everything - exhibition, leverage, status - everything except tenderness. i don't quite buy berkeley pulling the switch blade at the beginning though. you know who would have made a great nomi? leonardo dicaprio.
― Tracer Hand, Wednesday, 7 May 2008 22:18 (sixteen years ago) link
You are secretly Paul Verhoven.
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 7 May 2008 22:19 (sixteen years ago) link
i think i may be! this is a good interview with him, in which he says, "If you don’t exaggerate, then there’s nothing to life."
http://www.cinema-scope.com/cs30/int_koehler_verhoeven.html
― Tracer Hand, Wednesday, 7 May 2008 22:46 (sixteen years ago) link
"Showgirls" is pretty much full-on astonishing.
― HI DERE, Thursday, 8 May 2008 21:12 (sixteen years ago) link
We're all long past the point of pretending that Showgirls is a bad movie. These are enlightened times.
― Eric H., Thursday, 8 May 2008 21:20 (sixteen years ago) link
Back up a bit, folks. Eszterhas is forever the stumbling block.
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 8 May 2008 21:23 (sixteen years ago) link
oh c'mon ned: "I have a problem with pussy. I always have, and I'm always gonna."
the real problem is Berkley. She acts like she's in a bad movie. That and the wtf contrived scene where her friend gets beat up.
― Cosmo Vitelli, Thursday, 8 May 2008 21:41 (sixteen years ago) link
It was actually that wtf contrived scene that prompted my comment!
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 8 May 2008 21:43 (sixteen years ago) link
yeah as I recall it wasn't even necessary for the plot mechanics.
― Cosmo Vitelli, Thursday, 8 May 2008 21:47 (sixteen years ago) link
that scene kills off the camp fans - i'm glad it's there because of that; you don't get to just giggle at implications of forced blowjobs and coerced whoredom at the hands of millionaire boat show enthusiasts
― Tracer Hand, Friday, 9 May 2008 00:10 (sixteen years ago) link
i mean, you giggle, but the rape scene retroactively de-gigglefies you, which i think is pretty key
― Tracer Hand, Friday, 9 May 2008 00:21 (sixteen years ago) link
http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/screengrab/archive/2008/06/12/girl-disempowering-nine-films-that-didn-t-do-feminism-any-favors-part-two.aspx
“Do you know what they call that useless piece of skin around a twat? A woman!” And that hilarious quip from strip club “comedienne” Henrietta “Mama” Bazoom pretty much sums up the philosophy towards women in this abortion of a cult classic by screenwriter Joe Eszterhas and director Paul Verhoeven. Sure, I get it...this campy, overwrought drag show bitch-fest about amoral sex worker Nomi Malone (Elizabeth Berkley) is so bad it’s good! And we can all just laugh through the parts where Gina Ravera’s Molly (the only vaguely redeemable or recognizably human character in the movie, and a black woman to boot) gets brutally raped by a loathsome white rock star. (I love it when they act out that part in the drag queen version of the show at my favorite hipster bar!) Garish, ridiculous and aggressively stupid, Showgirls is hard for me to enjoy ironically, since it so clearly embraces and truly believes in its own fetid realpolitik Hollywood philosophy that love is a lie, “art” is whatever makes money, winning is everything, men are scumbags, women are worthless (especially if they’re not hot, naked and young), the world is a shithole, if you’re not clawing your way to the top every single minute (and/or don’t know how to properly pronounce the most expensive status symbol brand names) you’re a fool and a loser and deserve what you get. Yeccch. Showgirls ain't just misogynistic: it pretty much hates everyone. And the feeling is mutual.
Contributors to this article, btw, are "Andrew Osborne, Phil Nugent, Leonard Pierce"
― caek, Sunday, 15 June 2008 02:04 (fifteen years ago) link
Roadhouse on again last night. When oh when oh when will it get the Criterion double dvd treatment it so richly deserves?
― Ned Trifle II, Friday, 22 August 2008 23:59 (fifteen years ago) link
Hahah, I was thinking of reviving this thread today for some reason. Great Neds think alike.
― Ned Raggett, Saturday, 23 August 2008 00:11 (fifteen years ago) link