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 (sixteen 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
It's always a good time to revive this thread. It was up for 5 Razzies, including the totally bizarre Worst Supporting Actor for Gazzara which proves, if proof were needed, that they are a complete pile of do-do.
― Ned Trifle II, Saturday, 23 August 2008 00:23 (fifteen years ago) link
which proves, if proof were needed
Surely 'which proves, if proof be need be'
― Ned Raggett, Saturday, 23 August 2008 00:43 (fifteen years ago) link
Road House 2 has my favorite JAKE Busey performance:
http://www.spoonyexperiment.com/rants/RoadHouse2/RoadHouse2-Busey3.jpg
― BigLurks, Saturday, 23 August 2008 03:51 (fifteen years ago) link
no neon fiddle no cred
― latebloomer, Saturday, 23 August 2008 03:54 (fifteen years ago) link
Last month at the AVClub, Scott Tobias considered one, then the other.
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 27 August 2008 15:51 (fifteen years ago) link
???
by Preparation Heche
Is there anyone here who thinks this is just an awful, stupid movie?
5:50 AM Thurs July 10, 2008
heheh, some people...
― Ned Trifle II, Wednesday, 27 August 2008 19:39 (fifteen years ago) link
There's no justifying Road House as a good film, exactly, but it's so entertaining that it provokes philosophical musings about how "good" even applies sometimes
Erm, so it is a good film then?
― Ned Trifle II, Wednesday, 27 August 2008 19:42 (fifteen years ago) link
av club goes way too far in rationalizing reasons to like these flicks.
― latebloomer, Wednesday, 27 August 2008 19:52 (fifteen years ago) link
This is actually interesting:
It's a shame that Verhoeven wasn't allowed to explain himself on the DVD, since he gives bar-none the best commentaries in the business
I can't say I've heard any of his commentaries, so is this claim accurate?
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 27 August 2008 20:08 (fifteen years ago) link
well i guess I'M going to be up until 4:05 a.m. est.
― strongohulkingtonsghost, Sunday, 13 September 2009 06:43 (fourteen years ago) link
thanks, hbo.
Still haven't seen Showgirls, totally love Road House obv.
― if I don't see more dissent, I'm going to have to check myself in (Matos W.K.), Sunday, 13 September 2009 07:27 (fourteen years ago) link
really need to sit and watch it. i've only seen the edited-for-tv version.
― i've eaten steaks rarer than you in prison (latebloomer), Sunday, 13 September 2009 07:42 (fourteen years ago) link
Showgoilz that is
― i've eaten steaks rarer than you in prison (latebloomer), Sunday, 13 September 2009 08:33 (fourteen years ago) link
how long was that one, an hour?
― we like cars, we like cartoons (dyao), Sunday, 13 September 2009 08:45 (fourteen years ago) link
like an hour plus 8+ additional hours of ads
― i've eaten steaks rarer than you in prison (latebloomer), Sunday, 13 September 2009 09:30 (fourteen years ago) link