Great point Devindra about trauma becoming an essential movie trope in 2024
@phunkysai
5 ай бұрын
Road House should have been a streaming series where we get to see this bouncer's exploits at a crappy bar in a small town each week...
@thisisspartacus
5 ай бұрын
Loved Conor, smiling ear to ear like a maniac and carrying two invisible tree trunks under each arm the entire movie. I wish that’s the film the whole cast was in. Conor and Jake buddy copy movie please.
@williammahaffey354
5 ай бұрын
The way his body is postured could not be described better.
@Henry_Smith_862
5 ай бұрын
Top Tier Limerick.
@gordoncutter9241
5 ай бұрын
Good discussion. Although who titled this episode? It seems like the punch landed for 2 out of the 3 reviewers here? I'd actually go a step further than Geoff here, in that I am convinced that this movie started off as completely original spec script that had nothing to do with Road House; that script most likely dealt with a PTSD-addled war vet, who takes a job in a small town and then gets involved in unraveling a criminal conspiracy of some sort - something involving a crooked real estate deal. And then, like Devindra touched on, they probably got a hold of that script and reworked it into a Roadhouse remake for the IP clout. It makes sense when you think about it. Like you all mentioned, none of the stuff involving the actual Roadhouse or the world of bouncing/door keeping makes any sense here. The bad guys' plan involving getting a hold of the Road House doesn't make any sense; The fact that you'd hire an ex UFC champion to be your head bouncer doesn't even make any intuitive sense - and the fact that Dalton in this version is a terrible bouncer is a testament to this. Say what you want about the original Roadhouse, but at least Swayze's Dalton in that version espoused a 'bouncing ethos' of some kind; he had a philosophy about how best to do the job - as tenuous as we can say that was. Gyllenhaal's Dalton here doesn't do anything of the kind - he just subcontracts the job to a couple of young guys, with no to very basic training, and then he seemingly spends the rest of his time drinking at the bar; and then when things get heated and its obvious his deputies can't handle it, he lets things escalate way past the point where he should be getting involved in the first place. Just terrible at his job. Why anyone would pay him 20k a month, like the owner does here, is baffling quite frankly. My theory makes additional sense when you also consider what Dave brought up as perking his interest, with the seeming 'turn' Dalton's character takes in the 2nd act. I agree - I had the exact same reaction: I thought for sure this movie was going in a "Drive" or "Sicario" direction, where you think you're rooting for this nice guy but he's actually a low-key psychopath the whole time. I was all in on it. And as brief as it was here, I am convinced that it was fully fleshed out in the original spec version - with my theoretical PTSD protag vet. But obviously they couldn't go there in an official Roadhouse remake; too dark, as you guys say. Last thing I'll say in support of my theory is that this approach is not new for Joel Silver, the lead producer of this film. He did the same thing with Die Hard 2. That film was based on a Walter Wager novel, 58 minutes, which had a terrorist group take over an airport. There's a lead character who's also a detective and who has to stop them, but he's nothing much like John McClane; so when they optioned it, they reworked it for the final film. One very last thing I'll say, which I just thought was interesting, is that the movie plays up the fact that it's a modern western. But it actually has more in common with the genre of private eye or detective pulp fiction; the movie is actually structured more like a detective story. Especially the sub-genre of the 'beach bum' detective, like in the works of John MacDonald's Travis McGee or Don Winslow's Neal Carey series. The bookstore in the film that first welcomes him into town, The Glass Key, is an obvious homage to Dashiell Hammet, who's own Red Harvest was the basis for both Kurosawa's Yojimbo and Leone's Fistful of Dollars. Overall though I did find the movie on the whole disappointing, mostly because I found the fight choreography weak. We live in an age of MMA and John Wick, where a former UFC champion is the main antagonist, so we know what's possible now both in real life and in movie fight choreography. So then forgive me if I'm going going into this expecting more from the fight scenes than the standard punch/kick choreography and quick cut editing as show in this film. I didn't think it would be possible going into the remake, but after having now seen it I actually prefer the fight scenes in the original. The CGI hit effects were also hit and miss, but there's definitely potential there with that technology - there I do agree.
@Alx.king1
3 ай бұрын
Connor was snowing ❄️😂
@roneteus
5 ай бұрын
I really enjoyed the high highs
@williammahaffey354
5 ай бұрын
100% agree with Dave on this. The tone is all over the place and the script is terrible. When there's no action on-screen the movie feels confused and aimless. Though I actually thought Conor McGregor as a Looney Tunes villain was the most entertaining part.
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