Originally Posted by Stryker:
Road House 1989 is also available on Prime as well - go see this one FIRST before you see this 2024 reboot - then feel free to weep! :-)
Why would anyone weep?
You do understand that this film in no way erases or replaces the 1989 film, right?
Anyone not having seen the 89 version needs to be forewarned that it's mostly nostalgia forcing the recommendation, because it's easily as ridiculous as this film was. [Reply]
Originally Posted by Wallcrawler:
Why would anyone weep?
You do understand that this film in no way erases or replaces the 1989 film, right?
Anyone not having seen the 89 version needs to be forewarned that it's mostly nostalgia forcing the recommendation, because it's easily as ridiculous as this film was.
Originally Posted by Wallcrawler:
Why would anyone weep?
You do understand that this film in no way erases or replaces the 1989 film, right?
Anyone not having seen the 89 version needs to be forewarned that it's mostly nostalgia forcing the recommendation, because it's easily as ridiculous as this film was.
I've never understood this take (not yours but people crying about a remake).
If you don't want to watch it and keep the original sacred then by all means....go ahead. Who gives a shit though? There have been remakes that blew the original out of the water and some that haven't. [Reply]
Originally Posted by Buehler445:
NOTE: I haven’t seen the original.
I didn’t hate it. I came for the violence and it was good. It didn’t belabor anything. Just got to the punching. Decent little mystery about how it was going to work out. I didn’t hate the idea of him being scared to lose control. It didn’t take itself too seriously.
I thought McGregor was a good psycho. You know. Because psycho.
Meh. Mindless violence but at least it did it well.
This is the review that we need. Someone who has not seen the real one.
Still surprises me you have not seen the original. [Reply]
Originally Posted by displacedinMN:
Again, I will state I think the scene where the bad dude is shot by everyone and no one knows about it, is a nod to Stanberry, Mo.
Originally Posted by displacedinMN:
oops, skidmore.
yep. but am I right?
I'm sure that at least inspired it.
One of my friends was a deputy sheriff in Nodaway County about 30 years ago. He said Skidmore was a creepy place and he didn't like to go there. The locals really kept to themselves and massively distrusted outsiders. As far as I know to this day nobody was ever charged. Which is good, because that fucker definitely needed killin'. :-) [Reply]
Originally Posted by displacedinMN:
Again, I will state I think the scene where the bad dude is shot by everyone and no one knows about it, is a nod to Stanberry, Mo.
Ken Rex McElroy.
Never been solved. No one talks.
That was Skidmore, Mo. My best buddy and hunting bud has a farm near Quitman MO and near neighbors to Ken Mcelroy within a few miles. I know the few times running into him left a bad impression. He had little use for that dick as most around Nodaway County who encountered him. [Reply]
