Road House (2024) - Review
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 2 ต.ค. 2024
- Jake Gyllenhaal takes on rowdy bar patrons in Amazon Prime's remake of the cheesy 1989 Patrick Swayze cult classic. Does the new Road House play nice?
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Conor McGregor looks and acts like a cartoonish character straight out of GTA Vice City, complete with PS2 animation and all...
100%. He walks around with a weird swagger that I have to wonder if he uses in real life? Maybe it's just how he *has* to walk because of his musculature? He looks like my He-Man action figure I had in the 80s, only not nearly as manly. 🤣😂
The fact that there's so many people that saw this movie without seeing the original makes me feel old and grumpy.
😂😂😂
The remake was no where near as good as the original
I'm sorry but I'm one of them (although I’m 40 already).
I didn’t hate the remake, I too thought it was fine. And there were a couple laughs out loud moments (for me).
@@soulwarrior u need to see the original
@@russlogan181 I'll try to, I promise! 🙂
Roadhouse was the "Big Mac" of 80's movies... Enjoyable, but it doesn't contain anything good for us. I love it!!!
Not even a Mc Rib buddie
@@joergzabbee3921 The McRib is junk food perfection. I'd say "Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure" was the McRib of 1989's movies. 👍
@@FatNorthernBigot that's fair to say
I disagree, the original is good for you. It's a lot better than this 2024 trash.
@@BrandonNinja I'm not saying it's not a fun watch. It is, but there are better movies from that year.
Point Break. Red Dawn. Road House. Dirty Dancing: Havana Nights (even if Swayze was in that one)..I think we have enough evidence that you can’t recapture what Patrick Swayze brought to the table. That mix of athleticism, goofiness, attractiveness, sensitivity and charm is hard to replicate. Only maybe Kurt Russell and Keanu can bring those kinds of combinations, but not all at the same time like Swayze. He was the right actor at the right time for a particular kind of movie, I don’t think we can quite recapture
You are correct. Looks like he had a particular set of skills...
Can we expect a Ghost remake?
You need to consider the all-important cultural moment those movies were released in. They wouldn't work well today if they were released for the first time as-is, either.
While i agree, about Swazey and his skillset, I think the advent of the internet has largely nerfed the enjoyment of "the b movie" (unintentionally wild and silly, but dumb and charming)
because we'd rather nitpick a movie now than just acknowledge its silly from the jump and have fun with it.
@@Weaponator18 Point Break and Dirty Dancing are not B movies.
This Road House is pure Live Action Florida Man Anime and I accept I will die alone on this hill of madness.🙃 A bonkers masterpiece worthy of the cult classic treatment 😅 Always a pleasure to get your take on films, Dan 🙂
Because of action or melodrama
There was not one single believeable Florida man in this movie......
Didn't think this Roadhouse film would be so strange.
Watched it last night and quite enjoyed it but i like mindless chessy action films, so it was right up my alley.
You can also enjoy Indian action masala
If Connor McGregor's character in this movie and Elizabeth bank's Rita Repulsa had a baby that baby would be the most absurd villan of all time.
The Double Deuce makes a cameo in this movie. It's the name of the restaurant next to the book store.
I think there's a big problem with movies today that doesn't get talked about enough. Most movies today are made for critics first. The og Roadhouse (along with other 80s classics like Commando, Bloodsport, the Troma movies et ) was made for it's audience, criticism be damned. In fact, a lot of movies were unapologetic f' you's to movie critics. We need more of that. People with a vision to make movies for likeminded individuals instead of trying to satisfy the legion of online movie "experts". (Dan is a dope reviewer so I don't include him in that.)
the movie was not taking itself to serious. And Conor was really fun
Jake Gyllenhaal is my favorite actor for exactly the reasons you give early in the review. He's all-in in pretty much every role he's ever taken and he does a lot of work. I'm gonna check this out this weekend, I don't expect it to be great but I always enjoy a Gyllenhaal performance.
Great review Dan :)
You won’t regret it. 😊
Watched this last night and thought it was a fun movie. I agree they took some things a bit too serious, but overall had a good time.
Fun popcorn movie! Not every movie needs to be Oscar worthy
I wasn’t expecting this to be an Oscar worthy film. I find it amusing that one of the most common defenses I’ve seen for the movie is “Hey, it was fine if you just lower your expectations!”
@@DanMurrellMovies -- It goes into the same category as any Fast and Furious movie. A turn-your-brain-off-and-enjoy-it movie, which is nice to see every now and again.
@@DanMurrellMovies Is it possible you're taking this movie far too seriously than it intended to be?
Jake Gyllenhaal carried it. And he had a little help at times from the technical team. A little bit.
This movie SUCKS! Poor acting all around. If you think it's good you don't expect much. Cheers 🍻
Honestly, Patrick Wilson would have better matched the Dalton character that Patrick Swayze portrayed.
Patrick Wilson is a gentleman that occasionally casts out demons… can’t imagine him knocking anyone out…😂
I thought this too, or Bradley Cooper. Both have charisma, charm and athleticism (think A-Team, Limitless etc). I think they would have been a better choice than Jake in that role personally.
So since I had never seen the original Roadhouse, we did a double header starting with the new Road House 1st and then the OG - the new one was fun, but then watching the OG it was unbelievable how different and how superior it was. Jake is a great actor, and very charismatic, but he couldn’t come close to the charm and sexiness of Swayze, and the new Road House was completely undone by whatever cartoon Conor McGregor was in.
And I actually disagree with Dan that the OG Road House wasn’t to be taken seriously - the villain is the poster child for Violent Greed, and the sadness Swayze felt at his best friends demise was palpable. I absolutely loved it….the OG one, that is. The new one? Eh, it was ok.
I haven't seen either but I just watched some clips of both. What I noticed was how much better the direction, lines and acting were in the first one. The remake honestly looks like amateur hour from the clips I saw in comparison.
Be sure to watch the end credits... to the end.
Yeah that was funny
Bullshit
I wonder if Jake Gyllenhaal getting his real breakout role in a film with Patrick Swayze had anything to do with this film.
It was fun and awesome! The scene where Connor was holding onto the boat underwater was 🔥🔥
I just watched this last night and found it quite awful. The action was horribly digital looking. Strange cuts, dizzying camera work, and hits that clearly do not make impact. The one thing this movie had to deliver on was done so poorly. I thought Gyllenhaal was actually pretty one-note in this. I didn’t like his character or find him charismatic at all, he actually verges on psychotic near the end, almost channeling his Nightcrawler persona. He delivers some Marvel level one liners at the end that felt so tonally jarring. All the characters are paper thin, and it doesn’t feel self aware the way the original did with how over the top it was. Conor McGregor feels entirely pointless in this film, and his performance is probably one of the worst I’ve ever seen in a film. I finished the movie and forgot nearly all of it. It lacked entertainment value and the only enjoyment my friend and I got out of it was laughing at how bad the action and dialogue was. No idea why Gyllenhaal signed on to this garbage
The only review on this movie I completely agree with! Also, so many little things didn't make sense to me. Most of the characters in this film are just too young. Like the owner of the Road House.. haha I'm sure dude. Idk.. My fav thing you said that just really resonated with me was, "It's not to be taken seriously.." "..the worst possible thing you can do, is ask us to take it seriously." I 100% agree.
I thought the truck attack on the bridge seen was a dream sequence because the CGI came out of a Fast & Furious physics text book. Did they retrofit the truck with the engine from a Tesla Plaid?
I actually thought the opposite, Connor McGregor injected more life into the movie as I was dying from boredom and Gyllenhaal’s tired performance. He wasn’t Zen like Swayze, nor did he try to give it his own spin. It was dull and so was the action, but I appreciate your take.
script and dialog very sloppy, they hire Doug Liman but can't have a decent writer
i like Conor but this is first time he act, they should teach him act more nature its seem very overact and he only have few dialog he are showman should let him talk more
and they dumb down all the villain which is annoying
the fight scenes were pretty good. Very brutal and real looking when the camera was trying to be "tricky", and Jack Gyllenhaal does a great job, but overall, it wasn't over the top in the right ways and it was too over the top in the wrong ways, so... I'll just watch the original again if I am looking for a cheesy 80's style action movie.
Yeah the part with the speedboats and people being catapulted from one boat to the other was too much. I accepted the first hour and enjoyed it and then it just went too far
Casting Conor McGregor for this was a huge mistage 😞 The dude has lots of talents, but acting is not one of them.
Plus all the CGI, fake one shots and over designed actions scenes are soooo out of place here 😞 And it’s a shame because character building, relationships and some of the fight choreography and cinematography is interesting.
Unfortunately it’s the same problem, as with most US action movies nowadays- they are making action scenes waaay to big and spectacular which in a small story like this makes it all unbelievable and dumber than it has to be.
I dug this way more than I should have tbh. It lost me at times when it goes “serious tone,” but overall I had a blast with it and imo it heightened a lot of the crazy stuff I loved about the OG. Gylenhaal is magic! And Conor’s big dumb idiot assassin persona was seriously a trip and I ate it up lol
I’ll steal a comment I saw on IG, “It’s not the worst movie ever made. It’s close but not the worst.”
it wouldn't surprise me in the slightest if it came out that some executive at Amazon, who'd never saw Roadhouse but new the basic plot, came across a generic action movie storyline about a guy hired to protect a Bar and decided to change a few names and call it a remake.
they story is a basic ripoff of about a hundred Westerns (which they even reference in the movie), as well as about a thousand different action movies, especially the whole "Fighter who accidentally killed someone and regrets it" thing which has been used relatively recently in Hard Target 2 & Undisputed 4.
it's an enjoyable movie, but calling it Roadhouse does nothing but get it unfavourably compared to a much better film.
The fights (in this movie), especially the speed of the strikes, are too slow for mma/bjj fans. You can tell the writers hadn't had a history of watching mma fights, boxing matches, kickboxing, muay thai, & even wrestling, to realize the importance of integrating the speed of realistic strikes (& feints), (& grappling techniques), as well as the extraordinary athleticism [and fight strategy], of the fighters in those arts (anybody remember "Little Evil's" 12-6 elbow to the top of skull knockout?) Izzy/Anderson Silva/Rampage/Chael/Chuck Liddel/Jon Bones Jones/Wonderboy/Korean Zombie/Bisping/GSP/Mighty Mouse/ Khabib/Cormier/Miocic/Usman/Hughes/BJ Penn/Randy Couture/Ngannou/Tito Ortiz, the list of extraordinary fighters & incredible fights just goes on, and on, and on, there's so much to draw from, and they used so little of all of that for the fight scenes, that it was disappointing.
The new Roadhouse is a different "it's so bad it's good." This movie is almost Crank 2 levels of insanity. Nothing makes sense in this movie. It's just go. It's amazingly bad...ass.
There's a certain cache that people often over look when it comes to certain eras of entertainment... the 80s/early 90s have that "this is ridiculous but damn im having a good time" cache when it comes to action movies.
48 hours, lethal weapon, Rambo, Beverly hills cop... making them today would just end up coming of as generic simply because the era CALLED for the style of film. Roadhouse is one of those movies. Like sure you could remake it but I didn't watch road house because it was simply a good movie, it wasn't, I watched it because it was just a lot of fun to watch
I agree,I left a similar comment! People are incredibly cynical about movies now. The OG stuff is cheesy and the modern stuff is a “ripoff”.
i watched it. sucks. it’s way off. it needs way more styling, way more energy, way more comedy. the florida location was kind of cool looking, but where’s the neon soaked bar haze, the bad boy biker leather fits, the piece of chain as a weapon eighties glory? don’t need to make it a period piece, but we live in a period where anything goes, so bring some era feels back. dalton should have been doing karate kicks in cowboy boots, instead he was dressed plain. the bad guys had polo shirts, and vans shoes on wtf!!! mcgregors character is approaching the right style, but it barely cuts it. his acting is atrocious too… they needed more bikini chicks walking around too. could still be all-gender inclusive and all that nowadays stuff, but seriously who doesn’t love bikini babes!? also the music was totally forgettable and had no punch. it should have been hardcore dirty south rap mixed with like eddie money or something. gtfo with this weak sauce.
Dan is too nice. It was bad. You'd think that a movie with Conor McGregor would at least have great fighting, but no. And Conor is a bit of a villain these days in real life, but the real life villain Conor is much better than what he is acting in this movie. The plot is forgettable. They try to make the fights interesting by using ultra wide lenses, but nope.
Gillenhaal is good, but he has just nothing to work with.
Was wondering about this one. Best review channel on TH-cam.
This movie was painfully fucking bad. I can’t believe people enjoy it in any capacity.
There was a bar called the Double Deuce in my city, and I just realized why.
I thought it was actually great, on point humor, well directed and super fun and entertaining
It was as stupid as The Beekeeper, only without the decent fight scenes...
Movie sucked. Tonally all over the place and wonky fight scenes
There were very few unruly patrons at this bar aside from occasional people
I thought it was f**king brilliant! Best action movie in years
I like the way it was shot. It looks crisp and clean and I really enjoyed the atmosphere, and location. Florida is gorgeous, this film has that Wild things buzz about it. Jake was incredible as usual, when he did that crazy eye thing I had to rewind like 5 times, that was excellent and hilarious. Conner was better than OK imho, not a great actor, but he had a really good on-screen presence about him. He carried himself really well. It's fine is a great way to score this imho.
It was filmed in the Dom Rep as it was cheaper than the Florida Keys
Thank you for this. I am going to look up movies filmed in Dom Rep. I dig the vibe.@@DavidMorris-yw8jg
I honestly thought this movie was utterly horrible.
This movie was terrible. I had high hopes for doug liman
I never saw the original. I enjoyed the cheese of the remake. Conor I found hamming it up too much.
I liked the "you won't like it when I'm angry". Jake is very charming and can't do wrong...
I didn't think Connor was hamming it up. He seemed just like normal Connor to me if you're familiar with his history on ufc.
The movie absolutely works.
It was.... less than mid, really. A "gritty" Scooby-Doo storyline.
1. They handled this cage fighter like he a cross between Jack Reacher and Jason Bourne.
2. The thugs and bikers act like video NPCs.
3. Why make this guy a one-man-army and give him the backstory of a cage fighter? UFC fighters aren't super heros.
4. He's a brand new bouncer and the drug lord is treating him like he's law enforcement.
5. Why is he so casual about dealing with actual drug lords? Bar fights, yea. But going up against the biggest drug lord in the state, alone, and so casually... No.
6. Felt more like 2015 action-comedy spoof at times.
7. This was a Scooby-Doo plot, basically.
8. McGregor...
9. Should've just set it in the 80s and then it would have felt like it was natural.
10. Please don't start a franchise from this...
I agree that Jake was the best part (the only good part)
Great vid.
Road House AKA
Reacher season 3.
Was definitely made for streaming.
Connor McGregor was essentially playing the Joker.
He was a chaotic person who didn’t care what happened. Which isn’t bad on paper.
But even at the end of the movie we don’t know why this particular place was that important. That someone would knowingly bring in his chaos.
Why building around the bar and taxing hiking her out was not an option like all places where gentrification happens.
But you’re right. It’s perfectly fine. He laughed out loud in some spots
In the original Dalton is a sort of warrior poet type, capable of huge violence but who prefers to avoid it. He's also a cooler - not a bouncer. This version is just some mook whose good at violence and has zero knowledge about how to keep a bar secure and does nothing to train his staff. Spoilers below.
Spoilers: Also there is no bear, no throat scene, no real relationship with the doctor, pain does hurt him, the road house itself is a rubbish set that looks silly, he doesn't meet the villain for ages, either the muscle one or the 'boss', who in this film isn't actually the boss, just his son. You never see the boss. No-one is someone's every Saturday night or on a break. The music is ok but not as iconic as the blind guy who was quite well known in that scene and actually interact with Dalton because they knew each other.
On the whole, this is a hard pass for me. Bits of it were good, it looks pretty, some of the fight scenes were okay, but overall a total waste of time and money.
I think the road house setup was really a huge misstep. It had no identity. It looked like your typical outdoor bar on the beach. In the original, watching it, one could almost imagine what it sounded and smelled like. The atmosphere was well done. I also don't get why they don't show the father that's in prison. Thought it might have a cameo of someone famous, but by the end of the film, I didn't care.
The new Road House is a good flick. I enjoyed it.
I thought Jake G went through the whole movie like he knew the film sucked and just wanted it to be over. Also dropping the Wade character was a huge mistake. Could have had a killer cameo there. Imagine Jean Claude Van Damme as Wade
Yes tbe wade character lol jc would be good or lol Ryan Reynolds for comedy old training partner from ufc
I loved it! And I loved the original too.
Pretty much exactly what I expected to hear, still a bit disappointing.
I find Doug Liman's comments interesting in view of the lack of a theatrical release. Maybe he was expecting (or was promised by) Amazon / MGM to treat the movie something similarly to the way they treated Air about a year ago, which did pretty respectably i think in the theatrical market before going to streaming after a month or two. But since Air, i don't think any Amazon / MGM movies have had a significant wide theatrical platform (apart from American Fiction, which was always positioned as their awards contender).
So it begs the question : did Amazon / MGM rethink their overall theatrical strategy after Air, or is it just that Liman had more faith in Road House than the studio did?
Thanks for the review Dan.
I vaguely remember the original, but I kinda feel like it entered pop culture with that episode of Family Guy about 15 years ago that heavily referenced it.
I assure you that family guy has very little to do with the popularity of the original Roadhouse
@@pkdude5334 I think you're generally right but for some people who were a bit too young in the late 80's, the Family Guy episode was their first exposure and so I think it reintroduced it to a new audience.
Roadhouse! (kick sound effect) looks better than the Crow re-boot.
10 minutes and then turned off.
Never saw the original but I did really enjoy this remake. But of course I don't need every film that I watch to be the best thing I've ever seen. It was entertaining. The story is simple but effective and the fight scenes were great. Conor McGregor can't act, but let's be honest, none of us are going to say that to his face. And yes, Jake Gyllenhaal was absolutely the best part of the film.
Big disappointment 👎
It was so bad in everyway!
Just got done watching the original (finally after all these years!) and this remake and I enjoyed the original immensely, both the good and the bad aspects of it. It’s not an Oscar worthy classic but it is a fun cheesy 80’s action flick and definitely one of my personal cheesy favorites that I’ll be rewatching occasionally.
Remake on the other hand was a remake in all the bad ways. It was the same movie for most of it but it just didn’t have any of that 80’s magic. There were small changes done with the remake and all of them were things that worked less when they were changed or those changes felt just completely pointless. We didn’t even get the awesome rock that the original had. That one had great and recognizable songs while this version got barely anything. And most of the acting was very weak. Conor McGregor was really bad but at least he was bad in a funny and goofy way, unlike everyone else (except Gyllenhaal). He was one of the best things about this remake in a so bad it’s good way. It’s just too bad that his character was so insignificant to the overall story. He could and should have just been some goon that Magnussen hired.
Overall it’s much like Dan said, this is yet another one of those reboots that will probably be forgotten about in a few months while the original will still be remembered years from now as a cult classic like how it is remembered today. 80’s was a magical time for movies that shouldn’t have worked half as well as they ended up working because somehow they were elevated by the 80’s cheese and you just can’t recapture that today, no matter how you try.
P.S. Great review Dan! I felt it was very accurate and fitting, just like always.
This is a great summary. Also, the romance in this remake was lukewarm at best, camera angles confusing and terrible cgi, I guess we can't take it that seriously. You're spot on about the music. It was one of the main characters of the original that was very low key and forgettable in the remake. That and the character development and the action gave the original a gritty but slick edge. The camera shots (panning vertically) were also a lot better in the original too.
Doesn't even beat out Ricky Stanicky for a lazy weekend watch imo
This movie forgot the sexy , the original was fun exciting and SEXY! 😂
I never liked the original, not even for its silly fun.
This movie without a star like Jake had to be a no-go, but with him, I think it´s watchable.
It has some good scenes, not mindblowing but ok. It´s a Statham-movie for me, with a better main-actor and some lightness to it.
I like your review.
I like your review
I watched this remake last night [at time of comment]...and for me, I'd call it like this: As a Friday Night romp/remake...it was good, it had all the ingredients for a goodie/baddie battle...brief story history of the protagonist...and gets to the point. However!...for me, it didn't have that family-vibe built between the characters like the original did. The original with Swayze broke the mould...It was by an era...for an era. That being said, the ridiculousness of baddies getting severly beaten up/stabbed and "literally" coming back worked in this CGI-Punches version, as you know what you're getting, and it doesn't have to take itself seriously...My childhood era vis the original will never be surpassed "in terms of its enduring staying-power over the past 35+yrs] but this modern version, with fantastic physiques to aspire to/the fights/the action/a scarilly-wild Conor McGregor...It's good...I give the original 1989 version an 8.5/10...and the 2024 remake 7.5/10....
Does anyone know whos body was in the ice cooler in the old houseboat.
The first hour I enjoyed, it was fun but the second part when they're at sea and crashing speedboats into each other and flying from one boat to the next and then I am sure a truck gets involved in this I just checked out completely. Getting run over by speeding cars in this movie does absolutely nothing but catapult you to a new location . Everyone was raving about how great Connor was but all he seemed to do was swagger about with a dumb smile on his face. I did enjoy his two fights with Jake though
One of the worst movies I’ve seen in my life. Why were the fights cgi like that? The direction felt like a fever dream all the cuts and camerawork was insane.
Jake the Snake.
I like how you say remakes of silly movies shouldn't ask us to take them seriously. That's kind of how I felt about Ghostbusters: Afterlife but I wasn't quite sure how to say it before, just a totally different tone than Ghostbusters (1984).
It really wasn't a silly movie for the time period. I know it seems that way now especially if you are Gen Z or later.
Dan's right some concepts are designed for parody. Look at 80s classics such as Airplane! or the Monty Python movies. They wouldn't be such well-made stories if they took themselves so seriously.
I don't really understand this comment at all. There is a non-parody version of Airplane! It's called Zero Hour. As for Monty Python, funny? Yes, but a good story? No, it's just sketches stuck together.
You're being too kind. This movie was absolute garbage. The script is atrocious. I completely disagree with the idea of remaking Road House. The original was far superior.
I never for a single moment thought that the film ever tried to take itself seriously. It actually leaned into hamming it up and jumping the shark.
Dan Murrell- nice till it’s time not to be nice.
It’s a rewatchable movie with a few highs and a few lows…
I loved the OG. WAS looking forward to this one. Not so much now
Roadhouse 2024 definitely didn't take itself seriously.
1989 is now considered classic...I feel old lol
I didn't know about this until two days ago, when I saw a TV ad. It's incredible how much faith executives have in titles. This was never going to go far enough to NOT be unfavorably compared to the Road House name.
But the plot sounds like the "fake curse on Rick's club" episode of Magnum, P.I., except with Conor McGregor in place of a curse. How about making a few Magnum movies with an unexpectedly jacked Rick?
It was shit 😂😂😂 Connor's voice sounds dubbed 😂😂😂 Jake plays like a junkie 😂😂😂😂
clearly movie was set up for a sequel . Where modern movies fall short is that they set up franchises instead of leaving everything on the table. for example if thr original was made today the sequal would be set up as daltons revenge for his friend dying and behind the bad guy would a more evil bad guy. the original was made with no intention of a sequal. they made a cult classic. that tension in the original with jimmy and dalton was amazing you knew the fight was going to be epic. this movie was decent it was a good movie but the final fight scene imo was mid at best
This movie was just
awful. Cant believe they evn released on amazon. Looks like it was made for TBS or TNT. Just plain god awful. Bad cgi and stunts, fight scenes looked absolut stupid with the cgi stitching to make the "one cut camera shot" from a flys view buzzing around. And an completely ridiculous story.
It’s was still fun. Not as hilarious as the original but I didn’t not enjoy it.
The new Road House sucks compared to the Swayze version. With the new B movie looking Road House, the plot sucks, the music sucks, and the characters suck. Even the bad guys suck.
Goin' to the roadhouse, gonna have a real ... or perhaps not.
I watched the first 18 minutes before turning it because, aside from the acting being TERRIBLE, I noticed that the owner of the Road House AND Father and daughter of the bookstore next door were really out of place for the Florida Keys and sounded really corny. And OF COURSE the "Real Estate" guy is some stereotypical vision of an "oppressor."
I realized yesterday that Jake Gyllenhaal is my favorite actor. By far.
This movie is a HUMONGOUS block of cheddar. It is so cheesy that I spent 97% of it rolling my eyes at its stupidity. MacGregor ( to be expected ) was super cringe, and the rest of the cast except, Billie and Jake were dreadful. Even the music sucked.
A high tech turkey from the GG.
There are more one liners from the original roadhouse still blowing around today,
‘ I’ll get all the sleep I need when I’m dead’ And the original launched Patrick Swayze and Made, Wade Garrett household name.
This one is terrible smell of a film.
Jake Gyllenhaal props up this movie ,
Without him and the goofy guy with a broken arm , I would’ve turned it off after about 10 minutes .
Conor McGregor was just awful . If you could understand what he was saying, he didn’t actually add anything to his performance, and frankly, I think he paid somebody to be in that film. Please please, please don’t anybody else give him a job, at least until he’s had an acting lesson or six.
*Spoiler*
The moment where the bar patron screams "BAR FIGHT," like a kid screaming food fight in a 90's show, will live in my mind, heart, and soul for much longer than 35 minutes after it ended.
The remake was just... something. A big bag of nothing, really. No personality, no edge, none of the ridiculousness, absolutely no chemistry in the love story and a forgettable love interest. Kelly Lynch was not forgettable!
Yes, the original is dumb and ridiculous. And that's why it's great
The original "Road House" was *nasty* ; the real bad guys in the original scared the shit out of you (who has a knife blade in their boot toe?). Even the boss, Ben Gazzara, in the original, you felt he was depraved, debauched. This movie didn't have people like that.
Was bad. Noticed CGI in the first fight. Thought the movie was opening with someone playing a video game. I thought (oh, that's kinda new) but then I realized it wasn't a video game. Then the speed ups and badly executed editing to make fights look seamless. This was just not a good movie. Then you've got Arturo Castro..wasted. He should have been a bouncer for the Road House. His character being a sort of protégé to Dalton would have been interesting. The same with Joaqim de Almeida. He was wasted in his role as the Sheriff. It would have been better if he had been either the owner of the Road House or a bartender inside it.
I also agree about about what Dan said about Billy Magnussen. He usually brings a lot of energy and quirkiness to the roles I've seen him in and steals scenes, easily. I thought he was awesome, until he became the typical boss bad guy. The scene of him getting the shave...you could almost feel the anxiety and fear of his character increasing (could see it as well). I was waiting to see what was going to happen, and what he would do..but after that scene, it was like his character just petered out. You could have replaced him with anyone and it would wouldn't have made a difference..
Yeah thats what I said. Meh its fine. Could have been way better if they just made some small adjustments to some of the characters. Like McGregor could actually have worked perfect, if you cut him down to 2 - 3 smaller scenes. And correct, Jake was the only thing that saved it. They needed more backstory with him and less dumb Connor scenes. He is just so over the top in every scene, and gets annoying very quickly. But, I get it, that's just the downside of using a non actor. You have to write him one dimensionally. The love interest is pretty forgettable, but better than the one in the original, who was also pretty dull. The villain, not the actor, character was completely wrong. Not intimidating, nor menacing, and honestly just basically a whiney trust fund kid wanting daddys approval by playing gangster with his friends. I really loved how they filmed the action scenes. Good risk to take there technically speaking. And with all that said though, yeah, it was fine. And a fun watch and worth your time. Only once probably on this one.
I liked the first Road House more and I'm not a fan of this movie anyway. First, the remake was way too goofy and campy. The girlfriend and Dalton had no chemistry or buildup. Alot of the story just felt flat. The main villian fizzles out when Connor show up and that character seems amped up with no direction. Alot of the bad guys felt like out of place cartoon characters. Too much comedy and not enough tension. I like the girl at the bookstore and Jake's character. Also, you never see the bar build up to a better looking bar.
Being a Gen X’er, and a fan of the original movie, I watched this movie expecting the worst, But surprisingly I was mostly entertained & satisfied considering it was a modern movie, Of course the original is still much better.
what total nonsense, the cast including the lead, are wooden and uncharismatic - its like they didn't really know what it was they were going for. The script is terrible. Imagine all the cut scenes of a mid 2000's game playing out as movie - thats how it feels. A pot plant could do better job than the lead actor. Bizarrely, out of sheer spectacle, Mcgregor is the highlight of the movie.