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Post by ck100 on Oct 3, 2021 19:16:57 GMT
Wow, over a year already?
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Post by petrolino on Oct 3, 2021 20:55:24 GMT
Fun movie.
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Post by Captain Spencer on Oct 4, 2021 2:06:54 GMT
Damn, I did this thread over a year ago and I still haven't gotten around to seeing it. What's taking you so long?
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Post by Mulder and Scully on Oct 4, 2021 2:52:04 GMT
Road House is a badass 80s classic action movie. Swayze is great as Dalton the legendary bouncer. The action scenes are well shot and there are some hilarious lines.
The soundtrack really adds to the cool atomsphere of the movie.
This is what action movies are supposed to be.
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Post by darksidebeadle on Oct 5, 2021 5:25:53 GMT
It’s not good but it has something
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Post by Lux on Oct 5, 2021 7:26:46 GMT
It's okay.
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Post by Rey Kahuka on Oct 5, 2021 18:25:50 GMT
A polar bear fell on me.
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Post by politicidal on Aug 24, 2022 17:31:29 GMT
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Post by Spike Del Rey on Aug 24, 2022 17:37:43 GMT
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Post by ck100 on Aug 24, 2022 17:51:40 GMT
Well, just remember you don't have to watch it. If I'm not fond of the idea of making an unnecessary remake of a movie I like, I just skip it.
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Post by wmcclain on Aug 24, 2022 19:21:31 GMT
Road House (1948), directed by Jean Negulesco. First reviewTough cookie Ida Lupino is a singer who comes between club owner Richard Widmark and his manager Cornel Wilde. Celeste Holm is the reliable gal pal. Builds slowly. The ticking bomb is, of course, Widmark, from whom we expect a psychotic eruption at any time. It happens in the last fifteen minutes. Lupino is one of my favorite actresses from the period. Not conventionally glamorous, she still has pixie charm, intelligence, and a core of steel. She does her own singing here, and explains her non-pro performance by saying that she lost her voice when young. She did less acting after a while and became a director. Second reviewAdditional thoughts and new thumbnails from the Blu-ray. - Filmmakers tried to fit Ida Lupino into ingenue roles when she was younger but it never took. Something about her tiny frame, wide-set sharp eyes, and clear intelligence: she could never be a traditional film beauty.
- She is only 30 here but projects vast, weary experience. If this is film noir then she is the Robert Mitchum character, unattached, not looking for love, just for a job. The two men fighting for her don't stop to consider whether she has the slightest interest in either. She does fall for one eventually; it happens.
- She's smart: sarcastic to the younger men but polite and friendly to the bartender.
- That cigarette-smoke singing voice: Celeste Holm says, "She does more without a voice than anyone I've ever heard".
- The commentators seem to think Holm's is a thankless role, the reliable gal-pal who won't be getting either man. I find her immensely likable. Her quip at the end when Cornel Wilde picks her up: "I'm a little bit heavy". Well, compared to Lupino, sure. She's joking, shaking off a bullet wound, one of the boys.
- The club itself is a great fantasy locale: rustic with antlers and moose heads, near a small nowhere town (like Twin Peaks, near the Canadian border), bar and pool hall and bowling alley. You can hear bowling in the background when Lupino starts to sing.
- Widmark is still doing the psycho giggling with his teeth and tongue, his trademark from his debut in Kiss of Death (1947) the year before.
- Wilde seems proud of his club and flinches when Lupino rests a burning cigarette on the white piano. Later we see a whole row of scorch marks, so his standards slipped.
Score by Cyril J. Mockridge, cinematography by Joseph LaShelle. Available on Blu-ray from Kino. Eddie Muller and Kim Morgan's commentary track is extended Lupino worship. Always good to have a male/female team on these tracks. They don't mention: Lupino and Wilde were both actors who wanted to be directors and who turned out to be rather good at it.
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Post by mgmarshall on Aug 25, 2022 2:15:33 GMT
Feels at times like self-parody, but hey, that can be fun. A good movie to kill a six pack with.
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Post by Roberto on Apr 4, 2024 21:42:11 GMT
Just saw the original for the first time today. Lots of fun!
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Post by sdrew13163 on Apr 5, 2024 1:50:02 GMT
I don’t really like the original. The remake from a couple weeks ago I liked a decent bit though.
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Post by Captain Spencer on Apr 5, 2024 2:06:20 GMT
So kolchak92 have you seen the original Road House yet?
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Post by kolchak92 on Apr 5, 2024 2:09:14 GMT
So kolchak92 have you seen the original Road House yet? No.
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Post by Captain Spencer on Apr 5, 2024 2:12:33 GMT
So kolchak92 have you seen the original Road House yet? No. And it's been nearly 3.5 years since you started this thread.
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Post by kolchak92 on Apr 5, 2024 2:18:01 GMT
And it's been nearly 3.5 years since you started this thread. Well I don't know what to tell you.
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