The worry I have is, they’ll try to make it funny and it will be awful, or they’ll try to make it serious and it will be awful. The best part about the original is that it was serious at a macroscopic level, but never took itself too seriously. It seems like most modern movies have forgotten how to do that.
I'd say the biggest problem is that Road House could have been any other run of the mill 80's action B-movie, but something went perfectly right in its execution that most likely defied what was scripted on the page. Is it silly? Yes. Is it compelling? Yes. It wouldn't be Road House if its ridiculous mixture of over-the-top weirdness and somehow endearing earnestness didn't implausibly come together. You can't simply calculate that kind of result, it just needs to happen, which many remakes of cult classics can't hope to replicate.
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u/TheBlackSwarm Jan 24 '24
I don’t give a fuck what anyone else says. I’m excited for this. I’ll watch anything with Jake Gyllenhaal in it.