Tuesday, May 30, 2006
Guilty Secret #1
Or Roadhouse, how I love thee.
Of course, if you look at my list of favorite movies, you won't find it mentioned. That's because I never think about it until my old friend TBS or a movie channel like Encore decides to serve it up for my viewing pleasure.
But once I see it, like a plane hitting a train wreck, I can't look away. Sure, it has more cheese in it than the state of Wisconsin. Don't bother telling me that the characters are more thin than the toilet paper at a state park. I already know all that. If it only had a robot in it, it would be perfect MSTK3 fodder. But how I love it so.
Truly, this is a movie astronomically above the sum of its parts. You add one part bad dialogue, one part over-the-top acting, one part far too much melodrama in the directing, and you have a soup-de-jour of cinematic greatness.
If you can't stomach the whole thing, at least treat yourself to the few minutes surrounding the scene where Dalton rips out the guy's throat. The part where the guy stops his dirt bike to laugh at all the destruction he's caused is cinematic gold. As his his line "Prepare to die." when Dalton catches him. Did Patrick Swayze kill this guy's father and I missed it?
Or Roadhouse, how I love thee.
Of course, if you look at my list of favorite movies, you won't find it mentioned. That's because I never think about it until my old friend TBS or a movie channel like Encore decides to serve it up for my viewing pleasure.
But once I see it, like a plane hitting a train wreck, I can't look away. Sure, it has more cheese in it than the state of Wisconsin. Don't bother telling me that the characters are more thin than the toilet paper at a state park. I already know all that. If it only had a robot in it, it would be perfect MSTK3 fodder. But how I love it so.
Truly, this is a movie astronomically above the sum of its parts. You add one part bad dialogue, one part over-the-top acting, one part far too much melodrama in the directing, and you have a soup-de-jour of cinematic greatness.
If you can't stomach the whole thing, at least treat yourself to the few minutes surrounding the scene where Dalton rips out the guy's throat. The part where the guy stops his dirt bike to laugh at all the destruction he's caused is cinematic gold. As his his line "Prepare to die." when Dalton catches him. Did Patrick Swayze kill this guy's father and I missed it?
# posted by Crisman @ 9:05 PM 
