Road House (1989)

Now we have you down and you have chosen, speaking of hit him again, Roadhouse.

Do you remember when you first saw Roadhouse?

Oh, I first saw Roadhouse when I was too young to understand how terrible and great it was.

Terribly good.

Yeah.

Did you see it on home video, or did your mother, in a fit of, I'm going to show Children's Aid, they can't tell me what to do, take you to the actual movie?

No, I did see it on home video.

My stepbrother had rented it to watch with his friends, and I kind of was in the background.

Right.

He was supposed to be babysitting me, and I saw Roadhouse, which was actually the first movie that I saw that had exposed breasts.

So that was interesting.

Ah, Greg and I remember our first, I'm sure.

And I remember going to school and a teacher was asking, what did people do? I put my hand up and I'm all excited.

I'm like, I watched a movie.

I saw Roadhouse.

And she went, Roadhouse? Patrick Swayze? I said, yeah.

And she goes, ooh, Patrick Swayze.

And I didn't get it then, but I really get it now.

So what is the attraction for you here? The story, the violence, Patrick Swayze with no shirt on, for some reason doing Tai Chi?

Yeah, the Tai Chi doesn't make sense, but maybe we'll talk about that in a minute.

I think the draw is the idea of this new kind of hero.

There are all these ultra masculine, ultra macho, violent movies.

And then here we have this person who's a philosopher poet who happens to be making his money in this very physical way.

He's always in control.

He's a bright, intelligent person and he approaches what you would consider to be brute work with that.