im usually repulsed by men but the hypermasculinity of shit like road house and john woo and michael mann is endlessly fascinating and good
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they revel in the homosexuality of peak masculinity while keeping the movies out of the LGBTQ category in movie stores, it seems like a delicate balance
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a better tomorrow rules because it’s both ultra gay and an incredibly positive depiction of masculinity
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All this Mann talk and no love for The Keep?
No, not really, sorry. lol. It’s a neat idea though, nazis getting killed by a satan.
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The Keep is cool conceptually but it got butchered and it shows
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my next watches will be dance of reality (which ive seen but i lost my reaction screencaps of) and cats
gotta download a cook a thief his wife and her lover oh oh and maybe ZOO
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powell and pressburger forever
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Road house is incredible as an exploration of the swayze psyche. The soft focus scenes of patrick doing tai chi in front of a barn while a beardy farmer looks on from a distance with an expression of both lust and confusion. The greatest line in film, “pain don’t hurt”, The sudden swerve to disturbing violence in the finale… Its so good
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This is actually the best quote from Road House.
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the character of Dalton as depicted in road house is the ideal man
“I used to fuck guys like you in prison” as a combat taunt always came across as being totally incoherent to me until I got into a fight and the other guy yelled “Shut up or I’ll suck your dick!!”
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after seeing road house i understood what jon blow was going for with his tai chi in the park, but unfortunately he missed the muscle dude that everyone loves part of the message
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I think about Swayze saying “pain don’t hurt” in a way that can only be described as a pickup line every single day
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i have heard pain dont hurt as a pickup line more than once
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Roadhouse is a helpful context clue to be able to better understand how David Lynch was able to be like a relatively mainstream-ish director in the 80s
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The 80s really was the golden age of goofy incredible action movies huh
a decade that gave us over the top
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