I liked it too, but I didn't realize it was a reboot of the McConaughey movie. I just assumed they were "similar" themes.Originally Posted by RoyGBiv
I saw Dune II last night. Loved the movie overall, but didn't like how they rewrote Chaini.
Chris
I liked it too, but I didn't realize it was a reboot of the McConaughey movie. I just assumed they were "similar" themes.
I saw Dune II last night. Loved the movie overall, but didn't like how they rewrote Chaini.
Chris
Road House
Awful...story, acting...awful
IMHO of course
It was really bad.
“If you know the way broadly you will see it in everything." - Miyamoto Musashi
Road House with Brokeback Jake, I’ll pass.
I was going to ask, are we talking about the new one here or the old classic?
Concur about the new Road House series.
In a mild state of inebriation, cursing "Hollywood" for fucking up a good movie with a shitty series remake, it occurred to me why my Grandfather was always watching the old classics - shows with messages that had value/meaning/influence pertinent to his day. As time goes on, more shows are made, but the messages change.
The wife and I tried to watch a remake of a movie from our childhood. I don't remember which, but somehow the folks at the movie-making industry had to insert an annoyingly gay couple into the script whereas the original movie did not have gay people in it. They took a good thing from the past and muddled it to fit a message they want to portray, frankly I don't care for their message. And now, I'm like my grandpa, watching the old Roadhouse instead of the remake that these kids are watching now.
Anyway, rant over.
"Well you know, it's a toolbox. You put the tools in for the job." Sam
I'm gonna buck the trend here. I enjoyed the New Road House movie. Stupid? Ridiculous? Badly acted? Yes. Fun? Also yes. Conor McGregor was clearly having a blast. A couple of beers probably helped but, I liked it.
Conor McGregor was obviously enjoying himself, I'll give you that.
But I just wish Hollywood would quit it!
I'm an admitted curmudgeon (Hell, I've lived long enough to earn the title)...but the Original Road House and the Original Red Dawn just need to be left out of such blasphemous endeavors. <sigh>
Got about half way through the Roadhouse remake (Jake Gyllenhall and Connor McGregor) before bailing out and going to bed. I'll probably finish it sometime (equal parts morbid curiosity, interested to see McGregor's acting, insomnia), but I'm not in a rush.
2.5 out of 5 so far.
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In a sort of ghastly simplicity we remove the organ and demand the function. We make men without chests and expect of them virtue and enterprise. We laugh at honour and are shocked to find traitors in our midst. We castrate and bid the geldings be fruitful.” ― C.S. Lewis, The Abolition of Man
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