10 Terrible Movies Everybody Loves
2. Road House
Roger Ebert said it best when he said that Road House was a “not a good movie” but “not a boring one” either. Depending on how much disbelief you are willing to suspend, Road House is a riotous action film which is as funny as it is overblown.
After all, it takes place in a fictionalised America where club bouncers can be so good at their jobs that they become scouted celebrities and small towns do not have police forces, they merely have men with money and monster trucks to rule them.
Patrick Swayze plays Dalton, a child’s drawing of what is cool and a loveable badass both proficient in martial arts and psychology (for some reason). In the first 15 minutes he gives away his fancy car to a stranger, gets stabbed and sows up his own wound without even flinching. Road House drips with machismo which caused critics to, quite understandably, see it as less of a coherent film and more of a power fantasy.
Later scenes amount to a clipshow of explosions, the villain destroying a car dealership by driving his monster truck through it and Dalton nonchalantly pulling a man’s throat out with his bare hands so… yes, it is more of a power fantasy than a film but my God is it awesome.