1 post tagged “camp”

I have a weird thing about the movie Roadhouse. I thought I was alone, but when some friends and I decided to have a Roadhouse Night, all the copies in ALL of the library branches and videos stores in Greater Cleveland had been stolen. Yes, stolen! I am not joking, we spent a month trying to track a copy down until finally my friend had to just buy it online. I also found out there was once a stage production of Roadhouse, I wish I could have seen that!

When it was discovered that Roadhouse 2 had been made last year, well, we just had to see it. This was supposed to be the Patrick Swayze character's son and his story -- also involving a redneck bar and fighting coolers gone bad. There are evil villans and a hot blond who we find out not only is a school teacher and was in the army, but she knows martial arts and doesn't drink alcohol or...know how to change a tire. And everyone actually knows martial arts at redneck bars in the South, that is just a given.

(forgive the screen capture quality, my camera sucks)
It doesn't matter that the movie stars that actor dude who is married to Christina Applegate and was in the movie Doom Generation; it doesn't matter that Will Patton is also in it -- and knows martial arts; it doesn't matter about the weak plot or predictable tie-ins with the original movie, what matters is that it has Jake Busey!

He plays a silly drug dealer ex-cooler, martial arts bad guy who hangs out in hot tubs with bi-sexual girls and can't dress to save his life. Hey, anything with Jake Busey is gold, and you know it. Just look at the opening credits that establish there are some drug dealers out in the swamps by day...

And you can't have opening credits without showing some tits at night...

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Yeah, thought so. But what you really need to look out for is the Pelican itself. Will Patton likes to talk to it about the guys he kicks out of his bar ...

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And look, you can even purchse the Pelican itself and have your very own! But the Black Pelican has a very sharp head we soon find out, because this is how evil Jake Busey dies (mirroring slightly the taxidermy death on the bad guy in the original)

Yeah who knew pelicans had such pointy heads huh? I tried to pet one on a dock once as a kid, damn thing neary took my hand off. But at least he didn't try to head-butt me, right? Roadhouse 2 is a stupid stupid movie, but if you love the camp value of the first one, you have to watch the sequel. It is no classic, but it does leave you feeling complete in an odd way.

The same night, after eating a meat loaded pizza and drinking way too much beer, the Dirty Harry movie Death Pool was then popped in. This stars very young Liam Neeson, Patricia Clarkson and even a little known Jim Carrey as the rock star junky, Johnny Squares. I enjoyed Death Pool quite a bit, and look even when he plays a loser junky, Jim's face can be as expressive and elastic as ever...