Chuck Mayer
Senior HTF Member
The original is a classic. I’ll not hear otherwise. Remaking was a terrible idea, but Limon almost always overdelivers. So I’ll check this out.
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That depends on who "they" are. Michael De Luca and Pamela Abdy ran MGM prior to its acquisition by Amazon. Since then, they left and now run Warner Bros. film division under David Zazlav. It sounds like Doug Limen signed up to make the film as a theatrical release when they were still there. Then Amazon's executives came in and apparently decided to make Road House a streaming release instead of theatrical.If they wanted/intended this to be in theaters, it would be.
Uhm… what?!?!And Patrick Swayze did?
Swayze was a terrible actor and a flat onscreen presence.
Gyllenhaal's a radically superior actor.
I hope that you’re right in that this remake could be even better than the original. We’d all be happy with that!No. The original was as awful as awful can be.
The presence of an actual actor in the lead automatically makes it better.
Uhm… what?!?!
No one in the history of ‘80s and ‘90s cinema has accused Swayze of being uncharismatic (or flat onscreen presence)!
I refer you to all high school friends who utterly swooned over him in Ghost. And then all the 20-something dudes that had man crushes on him after Point Break in the ‘90s.
I would disagree with that because, while they weren't trying to make Citizen Kane, they set out to make a good movie and their attempt ended in a movie that is inadvertently funny. Just like great bad movies like Showgirls or Red Dawn or Plan 9 From Outer Space, it's very entertaining because it's bad.The original Road House was obviously successful at being what it was intended to be.
I disagree the original wasn’t as awful as awful can be.
Yeah right.Which means you agree it was as awful as awful can be.
Yeah right.
Yeah rightIt's what you wrote.
With one crucial fine line of distinction. Any 'bad movie' with Patrick Swayze is good by definition. This will just be another watered down attempt by Hollywood to rebottle the magic of the original. Road House can hardly be considered a classic. But it's a whole lotta fun. I can't imagine this being anything but a downer.As much as I love the original Road House having seen it in the movie theater during its theatrical run and owning the expensive Vinegar Syndrome 4K/UHD. This is a remake of a "bad" movie so it's going to be a "bad" movie too. With that said, "bad" movies are among my favorite kind of movies that can be highly entertaining which the first one was and judging by the trailer, this one will be too.
But Villeneuve didn't remake Lynch's "bad" film, he did his own adaptation of Herbert's novel. Two entirely different things.I am not attempting to castigate the original feature, which I do enjoy; merely pointing out that in the hands of a talented filmmaker like Villeneuve it is possible to present a superior version of a "bad" movie.